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make her his kept mistress again. At least naughty people will say so."

"Who will say so, Ma'am?" cried Lord Melbury, starting up, in a rage to which he was happy to find so laudable a vent: "Who will dare say so? Name me a single human being!"

"Lord, my lord," answered Miss Bydel, a little frightened; "nobody, very likely! only it's best to be upon one's guard against evil speakers; for young lords at your time of life, a'n't apt to be quite so good as they are when they are more stricken in years. That's all I mean, my lord; for I don't mean to affront your lordship, I'm sure."

Mrs. Ireton, again beckoning to Ellis, said, "Pray, Mrs. Thing-a-mi, have you done me so much honour as to make out your bill?" And, ostentatiously, she produced her purse. "What is the amount, Ma'am, of my debt?"

Juliet paused a moment, and then answered, "'Tis an amount, Madam, much too difficult and complicate for me, just now, to calculate!"

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