A Domestic Tale.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

COLBURN & CO., PUBLISHED

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1852.

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CLARA HARRINGTON.

CHAPTER I.

"Then, said she, I am very dreary.
He will not come ; she said.

She wept. I am aweary, aweary,
Oh! God, that I were dead!"

TENNYSON.

IN the immediate neighbourhood of London there are numerous dwellings, which, though though without splendour, or any pretension to fashion, yet abound with accommodation, are capable of much elegance and beauty, and are full of those

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