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Juliet, colouring at this unqualified order, hesitated what to answer; while Ireton, turning round, and pretending not to have heard what was said, maliciously made the man repeat, "My lady, Sir, bid me tell Miss Ellis, that she must come to play and sing to the company."

"Play and sing?" repeated Ireton. "O the devil! Must we be bored with playing and singing too? But I did not know breakfast was ready, and I am half starved."

He then sauntered from the building; but the moment that the footman was out of sight, turned back, to say, "How devilish provoking to be interrupted in this manner! How can we contrive to meet again, my dear?"

The answer of Juliet was shutting and bolting the door.

His impertinence, however, occupied her mind only while she was under its influence; the insignificance of his character, notwithstanding the malice of

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