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 Or, "You may stand at the window if you will. You won't be in the way, I believe; and I shall want you presently."

Or, if she feared that any one of the party had failed to remark this augmentation of her household and of her power, she would retard the willing departure by some frivolous and vexatious commission; as, "Stop, Miss Ellis; do pray tie this string a little tighter." Or, "Draw up my gloves a little higher: but be so good as not to pinch me; unless you have a particular fancy for it!"

If, drily, though respectfully, Juliet ever proposed to wait in her own room, the answer was, "In your own room? O,—ay—well,—that may be better! I beg your pardon for having proposed that you should wait in one of mine! I beg your pardon, a thousand times! I really did not think of what I was saying! I hope you'll forgive my inattention!"