The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Bride from the Bush, by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Title: A Bride from the Bush

Author: E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Release Date: December 23, 2011 [eBook #38388]

Language: English

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A Bride
from
The Bush

Ernest Wm. Hornung

Collins’ Clear-Type Press
London & Glasgow

B.B.

Chap. 4.

‘She looked very fresh and buoyant in the summer morning.’

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

A LETTER FROM ALFRED

There was consternation in the domestic camp of Mr Justice Bligh on the banks of the Thames. It was a Sunday morning in early summer. Three-fourths of the family sat in ominous silence before the mockery of a well-spread breakfast-table: Sir James and Lady Bligh and their second son, Granville. The eldest son—the missing complement of this family of four—was abroad. For many months back, and, in fact, down to this very minute, it had been pretty confidently believed that the young man was somewhere in the wilds of Australia; no one had quite known where, for the young man, like most vagabond young men, was a terribly meagre corespondent; nor had it ever been clear why