` Let us wait a little . Perhaps his heart may be softened . ' So they waited for one month , for two , for six , for a year . The spinner spun no more . The Count had ceased to persecute her , but he still refused his consent to the marriage . Guilbert became impatient . The poor girl loved him with her whole soul , and she was more unhappy than she had been before , when Burchard was only tormenting her body . ` Let us have done with it , ' said Guilbert . ` Wait a little still , ' pleaded Renelde . But the young man grew weary . He came more rarely to Locquignol , and very soon he did not come at all . Renelde felt as if her heart would break , but she held firm . One day she met the Count . She clasped her hands as if in prayer , and cried : ` My lord , have mercy ! ' Burchard the Wolf turned away his head and passed on . She might have humbled his pride had she gone to her spinning-wheel again , but she did nothing of the sort . Not long after she learnt that Guilbert had left the country . He did not even come to say good-bye to her , but , all the same , she knew the day and hour of his departure , and hid herself on the road to see him once more . When she came in she put her silent wheel into a corner , and cried for three days and three nights . VII So another year went by .
Then the Count fell ill , and the Countess supposed XXXXX Renelde , weary of waiting , had begun her spinning anew ; but when she came to the cottage to see , she found the wheel silent .
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