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TALES OF THE CASTLE.
respect they owe you, be careful always to treat
them with gentleness and humanity.
Madame Stein then untied Maria’s hands, who
heard with surprise a language so new to her.
Though more humbled than instructed by this
lesson, she yet felt its justice; but, spoiled by
flattery and education, she was not at present
capable of comprehending truth and reason in
their full force. Madame Stein presented her
daughter to Maria, who received her coldly
enough, and presently afterwards supper was
served. At ten o’clock, the sorrowful Maria
was helped into the mattress bed, where, being
heartily fatigued, she found it possible to sleep
very soundly, though on a hard couch and in a
cow-house.
The next morning the doctor came to see her
when she awakened, and ordered her to walk
an hour and a half before breakfast. This she
thought exceedingly severe, and at first refused,
but she was soon obliged to obey. She was
brought back to her cow-house exceedingly hun¬
gry, and for the first time within a year, at least,
eat with a good appetite.
After breakfast she opened her casket which
contained her jewels, supposing that, by dis¬
playing her riches before Madame Stein and
Henrietta, she should soon obtain a greater de-