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 if you'd go a little abroad; for staying within doors gives one but a hippish turn. It will go nigh to make you grow quite melancholick, Ma'am."

Hopeless to get rid either of him or of the purse, Juliet, now, was moving up stairs, when the voice of Miss Bydel called out from the passage, "Why, Mr. Gooch, have you forgot I told you to send Mrs. Ellis to me?"

"That I had clean!" he answered. "I ask your pardon, I'm sure, Ma'am.—Why, Ma'am, Miss Bydel told me to tell you, when I said I was coming up to ask you to our junket, that she wanted to say a word or two to you, down in the shop, upon business."

Juliet would have descended; but Miss Bydel, desiring her to wait, mounted herself, saying, "I have a mind to see your little new room:" stopping, however, when she came to the landing-place, which was square and large, "Well-a-day!" she exclaimed: "Sir Jaspar Herrington!—who'd have thought