It was about a month after the foregoing conversation took place, that Melbourne society was fluttered by a rumour that the engagement between Mr. Kingston and Miss Fetherstonhaugh, which had been unaccountably broken off, was "on" again, and that the long-delayed wedding was to take place immediately. Rumour for once in the way, was perfectly correct. People went to call at Toorak, and found the aunt serene and radiant, and the bride-elect wearing all the honours of her position--not shyly as of yore, but with a quiet candour and dignified self-possession that was not generally considered becoming under the circumstances.…
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