Chapter 23: Clara

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​⁠Robert Audley found the driver asleep upon the box of his lumbering vehicle. He had been entertained with beer of so hard a nature as to induce temporary strangulation in the daring imbiber thereof, and he was very glad to welcome the return of his fare. The old white horse, who looked as if he had been foaled in the year in which the carriage had been built, and seemed, like the carriage, to have