MATILDA; A TALE OF THE DAY. "Blush I not? Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek? Is not my crime there ?" SECOND EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1825. MATILDA. CHAPTER XVIII. DAY passed after day, and week succeeded week, and still found Lord Ormsby habitually frequenting Lady Matilda's rooms in a morning, and her opera-box in an evening. Nor was there any thing in their easy intercourse calculated to excite observation in others, or uneasiness in Matilda herself. For such is the happy construction of society abroad, that between persons at |