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 sorbed even resentment, Juliet remained motionless, confounded, and incapable of deliberation, till the groom of Mrs. Ireton came to inform her that his lady was ready to set out.

Juliet, scarcely herself knowing her own intentions, precipitately ejaculated, "The crisis is arrived!—I must cast myself upon Lady Aurora!"

The servant said he did not understand her.

"Tell Lady Aurora—;" she cried, "or Lord Melbury,—no, Lady Aurora,—" she stopt, fearfully balancing upon which to fix.

The groom asked what he was to say.

"You will say,—I must beg you to say,—" cried Juliet, endeavouring to recollect herself, "that I desire,—that I wish,—that I take the liberty to request that Lady Aurora will have the goodness to honour me,—that I shall be eternally obliged if her ladyship will honour me with a few moment"s conversation!"