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CHAPTER XXIII.
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“And to be plain, ’tis not your person
My stomach’s set so sharp and fierce on:
But ’tis your better part, your riches.
That my enamored heart bewitches.”—Hudibras.
A month after the departure of Lord Mortimer the Roslin family left Ulster Lodge1. Amanda sighed, as she saw them pass, at the idea of the approaching meeting, which might, perhaps, soon be followed by an event that would render her fond remembrance of Lord Mortimer improper2. Many of the families about the castle were already gone to town for the winter. Those who remained in the country till after Christmas, among whom were the Kilcorbans, had so entirely3 neglected Amanda, from the time the marchioness arrived in the neighborhood, that they could not think of renewing their visits, confident as they were, from the proper dignity of her and Fitzalan’s manner, that they would be unwelcome.
The weather was now often too severe to permit Amanda to take her usual rambles4; and the solitude5 of the castle was heightened by her own melancholy6 ideas, as well as by the dreariness7 of the season. No more the magic hand of hope sketched8 scenes of flattering brightness, to dissipate the gloominess of the present ones. The prospects9 of Amanda’s heart were as dreary10, as desolate11, as those she viewed from the windows of the castle. Her usual
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attachment
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incapable
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consolation
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solicitude
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invalid
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gratitude
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frustrate
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inveterate
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snare
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affluence
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alteration
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interceding
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immediate
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remonstrance
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recoiled
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reconciliation
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distraction
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peruser
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