CHAPTER XXV.
WEDDING PRESENTS.
Notwithstanding her crushing disappointment Matty Bell did not sink into an early grave.

That report which had got into the country with regard to her funeral and tombstone began to be very flatly contradicted.

It was now whispered on the breeze that Matty was not only in a fair state of recovery but also that a substantial means of consolation had been opportunely found her.
Not only was Gus Jenkins very much to Matty's taste, but she proved, which, perhaps, was more to the point, to suit him exactly.

This hero, who was doing a thriving trade in the oil business in London, delighted in laughing, merry, giggling girls, and surely where could he find another to equal Matty in that respect.

Whenever he looked at her she laughed, whenever he spoke to her she blushed and giggled.