"Hugon! Hugon, half Monacan and half Frenchman, is bartering skins with a Quaker.

Begone, child, and when you are transformed return to us." When the door had closed he turned upon his wife.

"The girl has been cared for," he said.

"She has been fed,--if not with cates and dainties, then with bread and meat; she has been clothed,--if not in silk and lace, then in good blue linen and penistone.

She is young and of the springtime, hath more learning than had many a princess of old times, is innocent and good to look at.