The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-16
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
CHAPTER II.
Continued.

al will not say so 70 You, Lady Mill
borough. 1t IS not to you that ought
TO say il. Bnt as he has chosen to send
Won here, ! will explain 10 you that
have never disObeyed him. When
was free, IN accordance with Mrs. Ire
yelyan's wishes, TO have what inter
course | pleased with ColOncl Osborne,
received note from that gentleman
on most trivial matter. | answered
il as trivially. Ny husband saw my let
ter, closed, and questioned me about 1t.
| told him the letter was still there, and
that If he chose to be spy upon my &C
tions he could open it and read IT,
"My dear, how could you bring your
self 10 use the word spy TO yosr huS-
band -
GLOW could he bring himself to accuse
me as he did, If he cares for me, let
him come aud beg INV pardon for the In
sult he has offered me-
go Mrs TTevelyan,'-
''Yrs; that seems very vrOng To You,
who have not had 10 bcarIf. IL is very
easy for a stranger to take a husband
part, aud help Il pat down poor NO
man who has been i'll used. have done
nothing wrong, nothing 10 be ashamed
of; aud | will not say that L have
never have spoken word to Colonel
Osborne that all the world mIGht NOT
hear
"Nobedy has accused You, my d"ar.
ayes, he has accused me, andyou nave
accused me, and you will make all the
world accuse me. He may put me cut
of his mouse if he likes, but he shall not
make me say that have been wrong,
when | know | have been right. He
cannot take my child from me-
But he will
"No," shouted Mrs Treyelyan, jump
ing up from her char, enc; he shall
never do that. | will cling to him so
that he cannot separate us, He will
never be so wicked, such monster as
that. | would go about the world say !
ing what a monsterhe had been TO me-
The passion of the interview was be |
coming too great for Lady Milborough's /
power of undertaking IL, and she was be- I
ginning To feel herself to be in Difficult |.
ty.
Lady Milborough," continued Mrs. |
Trevelyan, tell him from Pre- that
will bear anything but that. That
will not bear"
Dear Mrs Trevlyan, do not let us
talk aboHt it,"
"Who wants to talk about iti Why
do YOU come here and threaten me with
a thing SO horriblei | do not believe
you. He would not dare to separate me
and my-child."
81 have submitted myself tn him, and
I will submit no further What does
he wantf Why does be send YOU herrR
Il 4 l.. l. ~
has made himself miserable by an all
sud idea, and he wants every body 10
tell him that he has been right. He has
been very wrong: and If he desires to be
wise now, he will come back TO bis
home, and say nothing further about il.
He will gain nothing by sending mes
sengers here"
Lady Milborough, who had undertake
en- a most disagreeable task from the
Pnrest motives of old friendship, did not
ike nelug called messenger; but the
woman oetore her was so strong in her
WORDS, SO eager and so passionate. that
she ala not Know how to resent the in
jury: Auu tueIe was coming over her
an idea, OF which she herself was hardly
conscious, that after an, p,rbans ,ha
husband wa not in the right s. k ,a'T
come there with the general i'd, 10,
wives, and especially young NV
should be submissive. She had na,ur,
ally taken the husbands part; and, hav.
ing a preconceived dislike to Colonel
Osborse, she had been willing enough to
think that precautionary measures were
necessary in reference TO so eminent
and notorious, aul experienced LO-
thario. She had never altogether loved
Mrs. Trevelyar, and had always been a
little in dread of her. Bat she bad
thought that the authority with which
she would be Invested on this occasion,
the manifest right on her side, and the
undeniable truth Of hcr grand argu-
ment, that wife should obey. would
carry her, if not easily still successfully,
through AL difficulties. Ii was prOIa-
bly, the case that Lady MIlborOugh,
when preparing for her visit, had ante
ipated a triumph. Bat when she had
been eloseted an hour with Mrs. Trevel.
van, she found that she was not trium-
phant. Sle was told that she was mes
senger, aHd an nnwc.comr messenger,
and she began TO fee! that she did not
know how she was 10 take herself away.
II an sure have done everything
for the bet" she Saif, getting mp from
her chair.
The b st viii be to send lin back,
and max him feel the tIul L."
The 6sst for yol, my dear, will he to
con 'lder well wSat should be the duty
of a wife"
81 have considered, Lady Milborough. I.
1t cannot be a wifr's duty TO ackuowi- /,
edge that she has heen wrong in suck a .
matter as this"
Then Lady Milborough made her
courtesy aud got herself away in some
manner that was sufficiently awkward,
and Mrs. Trevelyan eourtesied also as