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easily believe, conversed together upon the subject! Nor shall we say a word about it, together, till I have made the tour. But I will frankly own, that we have been brought up from our very cradles, with this notion, mutually. It was the wish of my father even in our infancy.—"
"Hold it then sacred!" cried Juliet, with strong emotion. "Happy, thrice happy, in such a wish for your guide!"
She burst into tears.
"How your sorrows," said he, tenderly, "affect me! and how they interest me more deeply every moment! Tell me, then, sweet Miss Ellis!—amiable friend of my sister!—tell me why you are thus afflicted? and how, and in what manner, there is the least possibility that I may offer you my services, or procure you any consolation?"
The door here was abruptly opened by Mrs. Howel.
Red with constrained rage, yet assuming a courteous demeanour, "Your lord-
