III) ***




Produced by Al Haines.




[Illustration: Cover]




                             CLARA VAUGHAN

                               _A NOVEL_


                            IN THREE VOLUMES
                                VOL III.

                            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 IV.  (_continued_).



                               CHAPTER X.

                        STORY OF EDGAR VAUGHAN.


Child Clara, for your own dear sake, as well as mine and my sweet
love's, I will not dwell on that tempestuous time.  If you cannot
comprehend it without words, no words will enable you.  If you can, and
I fear you do, no more words are wanted; and, as an old man weary of the
world, I know not whether to envy or to pity you.

Hither and thither I was flung,