THE REPRIEVE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
MATRIMONY AND HAPPINESS.
Dame Worthington was delighted—Sir Richard Warbeck was delighted—every one in fact was delighted to hear it whispered that Charley and Clara Haylark were engaged.
Mistress Haylark was indignant!
She would not listen to any such proposition, and moved to and fro with an air of offended majesty!
Dame Worthington tried to console the proud woman, but she would listen to no words of solace.
She had “made up her mind against the match,” and the only one living fit to be Clara’s husband, she said, was that nice young man Mr. Augustus Fumbleton.
Since her mother was extremely angry, Clara’s life was anything but agreeable to her.