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speak, I will stop & speak do it myself." was the Adml .'sAdmiral's reply. answer. — "Very wellSir, very well Sir," followed with some impa::tience —followed, from his Companion, who openeding1 opening the door as he spoke. — "Youwill then — you promise you will?" met replied the Admiral met her eye ear,2 in all the power strengthof his natural the Adml .'sAdmiral's voice, unbroken evenby one thin door. — "Yes — Sir — Yes." And the Adml .Admiral washastily left, & the door was closed, and the moment arrived in which Anne was alone with Capt.Captain WWentworth. She could not attempt to see how he looked; but he walked immediately to a window, as if irreso::lute & embarraſsed.;3and Ffor4 about the space of 5 seconds, she repented whatshe had done — censured it as unwise,blushed over it as indelicate. — She longed to be able to speak of theweather or the Concert & sought but shebut could only compaſs the could only secure releif inof5 taking a Newspaper in her hand. — The anxious, the distreſsing pause was soon over however; he turned round in half a minute, & coming towards the Table where she sat, said, in a thevoice of effort & constraint a Man who would speak whether he could or no[.],"Youmust have heard too much alreadyMadam, already, to be in any

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