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will struggle to convey it safely to your chamber."
"I doubt not their dexterity," answered Juliet, "nor the benevolence of their fabricator; but I assure you, Sir, I want no help."
"If you will not accept their aerial services, deign, at least, not to refuse mine!"
He endeavoured, now, to take the gown-packet into his own hands; laughingly saying, upon her grave resistance, "Beware, fair nymph, of the dormant sensations which you may awaken, if you should make me suppose you afraid of me! Many a long day is past, alas! and gone, since I could flatter myself with the idea of exciting fear in a young breast!"
Ceasing, however, the attempt, after some courteous apologies, he respectfully let her pass.
But, upon entering her room, she heard something chink as she deposited her parcel upon a table; and, upon ex-
