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10 JOSE. in harness. It is true, that to please Joseph, Pepita adopted the fashions of those around her, and against her will had rolled up her long, thick braids, which were so becoming to her but excited too much attention, at the back of her head. _ The girl had succeeded in changing her outward appearance, but she had not been able, at will, to remold her nature. The love she bore her young’ husband had impelled her to practice all those virtues of domestic economy which adorn a frugal housewife, which are so essential on a farm, and in which she was so sadly remiss, but no employment had charms to confine her to the house longer than an hour. She would grow restless, leap to her feet, and seek the air. Her customary path led either to the woods, whence she would return after an ab- sence of hours, as happy as a child—and people said they had seen her sit in the grass, adorning her hair with wild flowers and beguiling her work with a song which she trilled in a strange tongue—or she would run to the meadows where the two horses were grazing, chase and frighten the patient animals, lure them back to her with flattering words, stroke their nostrils, and then leap upon their backs without saddle or bridle; ride the terror- ized nags through the gate at a wild gallop, right up to the edge of the woods, leap to the ground witha wild laugh, and drive them back into the inclosure with strange exclamations. Joseph fondly hoped that time would gradually subdue her fierce spirit; but when she began to furnish food for the gossip of the neighborhood; when father and mother shook their heads in silent grief, the young man resolved to make an earnest appealto her, She burst into a passionate fit of Gomichbooks (E(0) =