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one answer being that he was paid
already. It chanced that one night,
when Lena was asleep in bed, that
Arrighetto issued forth from the
bird and went softly to the bed
where lay her whom he loved better
than his own self, and kissed her
delicately on her fair and rosy cheek.
The damsel awoke straightway,
being mightily alarmed, and cried
out, « Salve Regina misericordiae »,
and, all in a tremble, called her
waiting-woman. Arrighetto stole
back to his hiding-place, and the
maid got up and asked the princess
what she wanted; ____

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