Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3)

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CLARA VAUGHAN
A NOVEL
IN THREE VOLUMES VOL II.
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 II. ( continued ).
CHAPTER XVII.
Late in the evening of that same day, I sat in my room by the firelight only (for I could not work) and tried to look into myself, and find out the cause of my strange attraction or rather impulsion towards Isola. Somehow or other I did not wonder so much that she should be drawn quite as strongly towards me, although an impartial observer would perhaps have wondered far more. Alter puzzling myself in vain with this inquiry, my thoughts began to move, in their usual gloomy train.