The two young couples will set up house-keeping on the day they return from their honey-moon tour. The houses are taken, and Aunt Leth will be very busy while they are away setting everything in order for her dear ones. Tom Barley will live with Phœbe and Fred as gardener—that is, unless he and 'Melia Jane decide to set up a separate establishment of their own. Tom is in a position to do this. He has received the five hundred pounds offered as a reward for the recovery of the diamond bracelet, and at least another five hundred subscribed by an admiring public for his gallant conduct.
"How do you do, Mrs. Cornwall?" whispered Fanny to Phœbe.
"How do you do, Mrs. Garden?" whispered Phœbe to Fanny.
Then they stepped aside and kissed and embraced, with faces like an April day—one of the brightest and most beautiful of April days.
Their last kisses, their last embraces, are for Aunt Leth. She stands at the door gazing after the carriages with sweet and wistful eyes. And so the young people commence their happy wedded life.
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