Chapter 12
"I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the
occurrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle
manners of these people, and I longed to join them, but dared not.
I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before
from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of
conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the
present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and
endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their
actions.
"The cottagers arose the next morning before the sun. The young
woman arranged the cottage and prepared the food, and the youth
departed after the first meal.
"This day was passed in the same routine as that which preceded
it. The young man was constantly employed
