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And fortunately the light from that one shaded bulb was almost lost in the great dining-room. Subconsciously Mrs. De Peyster recalled Matilda's injunction to "be humble," and she let her manner slump though at that moment she had no particular excess of dignity to discard. Jack sighted the food Matilda had left upon the table. With a swoop he was upon it. "Oh, joy! Squabs! Asparagus!"
The Welfs, ignorant of Matilda's gift of her lands to the Papacy, eagerly accepted the bait; but soon discovering that they were being used as tools, they ceased to give any help, and in fact became reconciled to the Emperor. But meanwhile the Pope had discovered other more deadly weapons with which to wound the Emperor.
It does not depend on us to burst the bonds that unite us. If the Church shall approve the dissolution of our marriage, be it so I have but few years, and those of sorrow, to pass. Where can they be worn away so well as at the foot of this altar, in prayers for thine and Matilda's safety?" "But thou shalt not remain here until then," said Manfred.
High-handed Henry the Fifth, claiming power over the Church, being refused full coronation by Pope Paschal till he yields, seizes Pope and College of Cardinals then and there, and imprisons them till he has starved them to submission, and half requites the Church for Gregory's humiliation of the father whom he himself thrust from the throne of that Henry whom the strong Hildebrand made to do penance barefoot on the snow in the courtyard of Matilda's Castle at Canossa.
De Peyster rose up and clutched Matilda's arm, and stood in rigid terror. "Tha that key?" chattered Matilda. "Can can it fit?" "There were only two keys," breathed Mrs. De Peyster. "Mine here, and the one I gave to Olivetta." "Then it can't fit, since Miss Olivetta's " But the key gave Matilda the lie direct by slipping into the lock.
The drawl had become sacred to Matilda's ears. "Yes, my child. I have come from your old home just to see you." A faint colour stole into the whiteness of the fair face. "From Lost Mountain?" Oh! if Sandy could have heard her say that word how it would have rested his soul! "From Lost Mountain?" "Yes, my dear. Come and sit here beside me." Matilda could not stand longer.
Such a fact hardly seems consistent with the same chronicler's record of the excuse of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, for violating his oath; but if it occurred, as this repetition of the fealty was after Matilda's marriage with Geoffrey and immediately after a decision of the baronage that she should return to him, it would make the bishop's argument a mere subterfuge or, at best, an exception applying to himself alone.
It will be readily supposed that, with the hopes now entertained of Matilda's conduct, Mrs. Harewood did not hesitate to provide the governess we have spoken of, and accordingly Miss Campbell was soon established in the family.
Gotobed, taking care first to ascertain that the certificates as to the poor child's death were genuine, accepted Jasper's final release of all claim on Mr. Darrell's estate. There still, however, remained the L200 a year which Jasper had received during Matilda's life, on the tacit condition of remaining Mr. Hammond, and not personally addressing Mr. Darrell.
"To be sure I do," said Ellen "always." "So do I; but Marianne Gillespie won't even put on her shoes and stockings for herself." "Who does it, then?" said Ellen. "Why, Lester aunt Matilda's maid. Mamma sent away her maid when we came here, and she says if she had fifty she would like me to do everything I can for myself.
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