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"Till you were an inmate of the same house! till I saw her strange consternation, when she found me conversing with you; her rising injustice when, with the respect and admiration which you inspired, I mentioned you; her restless vigilance to interrupt whatever communication I attempted to have with you; her sudden fits of profound yet watchful taciturnity, when I saw you in her presence;—"
"I may tell her," interrupted Juliet, disturbed, "that you will wait upon her according to her request?"
"When you," cried he, smiling, "are her messenger, she must not expect quite so quick, quite so categorical an answer! I must first—"
"On the contrary, her impatience will be insupportable if I do not relieve it immediately."
She would have opened the door, but, preventing her, "Can you indeed believe," he cried, with vivacity; "is it possible you can believe, that, having
