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that, though her personal inclinations should still yield to her respect for her uncle, her sense of filial duty to the memory of her father, must bind her, openly and unreservedly, to sustain his undoubted daughter.

A waiter now interrupted them, to demand admission to Miss Ellis for a foreigner.

"She is not here!—There is no Miss Ellis here! No such person!"—precipitately cried Lady Aurora; but the foreigner himself, who stood behind the waiter, glided into the room.

Lady Aurora nearly fainted; Juliet screamed and hid her face; the foreigner called out, "Ah Mademoiselle Juliette! c'est, donc, vous! et vous ne me reconnoissez pas?"[1]

"Ah heaven!" cried Juliet, uncovering her face; "Ambroise! my good, my excellent Ambroise! is it you?—and you only?"—Turning then, enraptured,

  1. ↑ "Ah, Miss Juliet! it is you then! and you do not know me?"
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