A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3

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Ada Cambridge. A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3

CHAPTER I. A PARABLE

CHAPTER II "WHEN YULE IS COLD."

CHAPTER III. A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER IV "TO MEET MR. AND MRS. KINGSTON."

CHAPTER V. A CRISIS

CHAPTER VI. MRS. READE MEETS HER MATCH

CHAPTER VII. GOOD-BYE

CHAPTER VIII. CONSOLATION

CHAPTER IX. REPARATION

CHAPTER X. FULFILMENT

CHAPTER XI. CONCLUSION

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RACHEL, when she did at last get married, had a very stately wedding, if that was any comfort to her. The weather was beautiful, to begin with; a lovelier autumn morning even Australia could not have furnished, to be an omen of good luck for the future years.

Each of the eight young Melbourne belles who had been invited to assist at the interesting ceremony took care to point out the significance of sunshine and a cloudless sky when offering their congratulations to the bride and to the bridegroom also.

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"Yes, dear; yes. I am going to do all I can. But to-day I can only feel that I have lost —quite lost – Roden. I feel now as if he were dead. Even the memory of him I must not comfort myself with any more. That is what I feel hard. But I am trying to get over it. I have promised Mr. Kingston – Graham – all those solemn promises, and I must keep them – I will. It is only at first that I don't know how to bear it; but it will be easier by-and-bye. We must not talk about it, Beatrice; it is wrong to talk about it now. And, oh! I do so dread that I shall break down."

She did break down at last. When she descended the staircase into the hall she found all the company awaiting her, the front door open, and the carriage that was to take her away being packed with her travelling bags and wraps.

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