CHAPTER XV.
Arthur Fletcher It may, I think, be a question whether the two old men acted wisely in having Arthur Fletcher at Wharton Hall when Emily arrived there.
The story of his love for Miss Wharton, as far as it had as yet gone, must be shortly told.

He had been the second son, as he was now the second brother, of a Herefordshire squire endowed with much larger property than that belonging to Sir Alured.

John Fletcher, Esq., of Longbarns, some twelve miles from Wharton, was a considerable man in Herefordshire.

This present squire had married Sir Alured's eldest daughter, and the younger brother had, almost since they were children together, been known to be in love with Emily Wharton.

All the Fletchers and everything belonging to them were almost worshipped at Wharton Hall.