The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 17: what you’re looking at

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REYNOLDS’ WORKS CHAPTER I LETTICE RODNEY Ir was about nine o’clock in the morning following the night of which we have been speaking, that Lettice Rodney awoke in a chamber around which her eyes slowly wandered with an expression as if she were not over well satisfied with her quarters. It was a large room, furnished in an antiquated style, and of gloomy aspect, though some recent preparations had evidently been made to give it an air of comfort. The latticed windows were small, the ceiling was low, the walls were of wainscot, the chairs were of a dark wood, massive and heavy. The same might be said of the bedstead, but the bedding materials themselves were all new, and these, together with the draperies, were of a superior quality to the other appointments of the chamber. It was this circumstance which indicated how recent arrangements had been made to render the place more habitable than it would otherwise have been. Lettice Rodney awoke, as we have said, at about nine o’clock, and looking around her, she seemed smitten with ‘the gloom of her quarters. In a few minutes, however, when she grew more completely awake, a smile appeared upon her exceedingly handsome countenance, as she mur- mured to herself, ‘‘ But, after all, it is a change and a novelty, and I am to be most munificently recompensed.”’ She raised herself up in the couch, rested her elbow upon the pillow, and sustained her head with her hand. In that position she would have formed an admirable study for the 1 COL OOO) (C(O)