"It would make ill-feeling," said Mrs.Clavering; "and that is what your papa particularly wishes to avoid." "When you say papa particularly wishes anything, mamma, you always mean that you wish it particularly yourself," said Fanny.

"But if it must be done, it must; and then I shall know how to behave when Mary's time comes." The bells were rung lustily all the morning, and all the parish was there, round about the church, to see.

There was no record of a lord ever having been married in Clavering church before; and now this lord was going to marry my lady's sister.

It was all one as though she were a Clavering herself.

But there was no ecstatic joy in the parish.