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 When then, silently, and with difficulty forbearing from shrugging her shoulders, Juliet walked away, she was again stopt by, "One moment, Miss Ellis! if it won't be requesting too great a favour. Pray, when I want you, where may I hear of your servants? For to be sure you don't mean that mine should scamper up and down all day long for you? You cannot mean that. You must have a lackey of your own, no doubt: some page, or spruce foot-boy at your command, to run upon your errands: only pray let some of my people know where he may be met with."

But if, when the purpose was answered of drawing the attention of her guests upon her new dependent, that attention were followed by any looks of approbation, or marks of civility, she hastily exclaimed, "O, pray don't disturb yourself, Sir!" or "Ma'am! 'tis only a young woman I have engaged to read to me;—a young person whom I have taken into my house out of com-