Chapter 40: Restored

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌⁠Clara Talboys returned to Dorsetshire, to tell her father that his only son had sailed for Australia upon the 9th of September, and that it was most probable he yet lived, and would return to claim the forgiveness of the father he had never very particularly injured; except in the matter of having made that terrible matrimonial mistake which had exercised so fatal an influence upon his youth.

Mr. H