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 press, as he looked at the child and the dog.

Mrs. Ireton herself, though her restless eye roved incessantly from object to object, in search of various food for her spleen, was ostensibly occupied in examining, and decrying, the goods of a Mercer; but when Juliet, finding herself unnoticed, was retreating, she called out, "O, you are there, are you? I did not see you, I protest. But come this way, if you please. I can't possibly speak so far off."

The authoritative tone in which this was uttered, joined to what Juliet observed of the general tyranny exercised around her, intimidated and shocked her; and she stood still, and nearly confounded.

Mrs. Ireton, holding her hand above her eyes, as if to aid her sight, and stretching forward her head, said, "Who is that?—pray who's there?—I imagined it had been a person I had sent for; but I must certainly be mistaken,