CLEMENCY FRANKLYN BY THE AUTHOR OF "JANET'S HOME" Nex IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. London: MACMILLAN & CO 1866 [The right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.] CLEMENCY FRANKLYN. CHAPTER I. Life quivered like a rosebud in her hand, Queen Isabel, THE fading light of a dull January afternoon is not usually considered favourable for the enjoyment of out-door scenery, yet it was under just that aspect of sky that Clemency Franklyn best liked to contemplate the prospect which the deep window of her aunt's drawing-room offered to her. In broad daylight, or on golden summer evenings the sights she saw thence did not tempt her to linger long within view of them. In this half-light they would better bear looking at, though even then it would not do to take any one feature of the prospect separately. The formal garden that divided Miss Arnays' house from the irregular street of the little manufacturing town in which it stood, could 14 VOL. I. B |