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"Why then, as I am a living man, and on this side t'other world, I must speak to her directly! Tell her so this instant."
Ambroise tapped, and Juliet opened the door; but, when he would have spoken, the Admiral, taking him by the shoulders, and turning him round, bid him go about his business; and, entering the room, shut the door, and flung himself upon a chair.
Rising, however, almost at the same instant, though much agitated, he made sundry bows, but tried vainly to speak; while the astonished Juliet waited gravely for some explanation of so strange an intrusion.
"Madam," he at length said, "that Frenchman there,—who, it's like enough, don't know what he says,—pretends your name is Juliet?"
"Sir!"—
"If it be so, Ma'am,—you'll do me a remarkable piece of service, if you will be so complaisant as to let me know how you came by that name?"
