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 as plain as could be, 'twas nothing but make believe?"

Juliet, without offering any apology, answered, that she had invited Mrs. Hart to make her a visit.

"Why, now, what can you be thinking of?" cried Flora, angrily: "Why, you know, as well as can be, that I want to see nobody! Why, have you forgot all I told you, already, about you know who? Why I never knew the like! Why he'll be fit to kill himself! I'll never tell you any thing again, if you beg me on your knees so there's the end to your knowing any more of my secrets! and you've nobody but yourself to thank, if it vexes you never so!"

Mrs. Hart interrupted this murmuring, by enquiring who was the Sir that Miss Pierson expected; adding that, if it were the shop-man, it would be more proper Miss Pierson should go down stairs, than that she should let him come up to her room.

"The shop-man?" repeated Flora,