A witch hunt! Both the wording and the general implication alarms Norrell, and he frowns in confusion then deeper in anger.
"I have done what is best for English magic! For witches! I have made London a safer place, helped to drive out the fae threat! Everything I have done has been to make magic respectable! To make witches respectable, to stamp out the --" and here his anger turns to sneering contempt, "the mystical nonsense surrounding it, to get rid of the shameful reputation surrounding witches as crones cursing people on the street! And now, now you turn on me! Now even the people I trust most show themselves to be sympathisers!"
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"I have done what is best for English magic! For witches! I have made London a safer place, helped to drive out the fae threat! Everything I have done has been to make magic respectable! To make witches respectable, to stamp out the --" and here his anger turns to sneering contempt, "the mystical nonsense surrounding it, to get rid of the shameful reputation surrounding witches as crones cursing people on the street! And now, now you turn on me! Now even the people I trust most show themselves to be sympathisers!"