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The maid answered No; her ladyship was gone away without saying any thing.

The words "gone away" extremely affected Juliet, who, in ascending to her room, wept bitterly at such a desertion; even while concluding it to have been exacted by Mrs. Howel.

She rang the bell, to enquire whether she might now have a chaise.

The chambermaid told her that she must come that very moment to speak to a lady.

"What lady?" cried Juliet, ever awake to hope; "Is Lady Aurora Granville come back?"

No, no; Lady Aurora was gone to Chudleigh.

"What lady then?"

Mrs. Howel, the maid answered, who ordered her to come that instant.

"'Tis a mistake," said Juliet, with spirit; "you must seek some other person to whom to deliver such a message!"

The maid would have asserted her

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