Tales of My Landlord : New Series, Containing Pontefract Castle 1
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Spenser. The room which Matilda Cottrell ge- nerally occupied was small, and had been fitted up by her as a library. Hav- ing intimated his business to an attend- ant, the Colonel was ushered into the room with a cold formality which shewed the altered feeling of its mistress : she appeared now more calm and settled ; but curtsying coldly, without speaking, she pointed to a chair. * " I thought," said Morrice, rather em- barrassed, — " I expected — perhaps Miss Cottrell will think it proper tha...t I should 104 PONTEFRACT CAeTLE. offer some explanation of the new circum- stances under which I appear before her." Her cold and sarcastic bow appeared to mark with malicious emphasis, as far as gesture could, the equivocal preamble he had employed. " I need not inform you, Madam, that my real political sentiments are different from what have been imputed to me ; I am no longer Colonel Morrice the inde- pendant," — Matilda smiled bitterly, '' but Colonel Morrice, the" — she eagerly fi- nished the sentence — '' the malignant — an enemy to the malignant foes of his king." '^ Madam," he said haughtily ; but soon resuming a humbler tone, '^ lam afraid — I cannot but perceive that to iNIiss Cottrell, this change of character is no advantage." He paused, but she was silent ; her con- temptuous eyes looked daggers, though she used none.
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