Clara Vaughan, Volume 1 (of 3)

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CLARA VAUGHAN
A NOVEL
IN THREE VOLUMES VOL I.
R. D. Blackmore
London and Cambridge: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1864.
The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.
LONDON: R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL.
CLARA VAUGHAN
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
I do not mean to describe myself. Already I feel that the personal pronoun will appear too often in these pages. Knowing the faults of my character almost as well as my best friends know them, I shall attempt to hide them no more than would those beloved ones. Enough of this: the story I have to tell is strange, and short as my own its preamble.