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 them that the day was fast wearing, away.

Lady Aurora reluctantly obeyed the call; and in thanksgiving, pious and delighted, Juliet spent the interval of her absence.

It was not long; she returned precipitately; but colourless, trembling, and altered, though making an effort to smile: but the struggle against her feelings ended in a burst of tears; and, again falling upon the neck of Juliet; "Oh my sweet sister!" she cried, "is your persecution never to end?"

Juliet, though quickly alarmed, fondly answered, "It is over already! While that precious appellation comes from your lips,—sweet title of tenderness and affection!—I feel above every danger!"

Lady Aurora, bitterly weeping, was compelled, then, to acknowledge that she had been hurried away by Mrs. Howel, to be told that a foreigner, ill dressed, and just arrived from the Continent, was demanding, in broken