The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-23
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
CHAPTER VII.
Continued

She believed in Exeter, thinking
there was no other provincial town IN
England in which n maiden lady could
live safely and decCutly. London to
her was an abode of sin; and though, as
we have seen, she delighted to call her
self ono of the county set, she did not
love the fields and lanes. And 10 Exc
fer the only place for lady was the
Close. Southcruhay and Nor hernhay
might be very well, and there was
doubtless a respectable neIghborhood
OH the HcavitTee side OF the town; but
for the new streets, and especially for
the suburban villas, she had no endur-
apce. She liked to deal at dear shops;
but would leave any shop, either dear or
cheap. i'll regard to which printed ad-
yertisement should reach her eye. She
paid all her bills at the end of each six
months, and almost took q delight In
high prices. She would rejoice that
bread should he cheap, and grieve that
meat should be dear, because of the
poor: but, in regard to other matters,
no reduction in the cost of an article
ever pleased her She had houses as 10
which she was told by her agent that
the rents should be raised: but she
would not raise thepi. She had others
which it was difficult to let without
lowering the rents. but she would not
lower them. All change was to her hate
full and unnecessary.
She kept three maid-Servants, and Il
man came in every day TO clean the
knives and boots. Service with her
was we'll requited, and much labor was
never exacted. But it was not every
young woman who could live with her.
A rigidity as to hours, rs TO religious
exercises, and as to dress. was eXacted,
under which many poor girls altogether
broke down; but they who cOHld stand
this rigidity came to know their places
were VERY valuable. No one belonging
to them netd want for aught. when once
the good opinion of Miss Stanbury had
been earned. When once she believed
in her servant, there was nobody like
that servant. There was not n man in
Exeter could clean boot except Giles
Kick BODY and If not in Exeter, then
where elsel And her own maid Mar
tina, who had lived with her now for
twenty years, and who had come with
her to the brick house when she first
inhabited it, was such u woman that NJ
other servant anywhere was fit to hold
a candle to her But then Martha had
great gifts;-was never i'll, and really
liked having sermons read to her.
Such was Miss Stanbury, who had
now discarded her nephew Hugh. She
had never been tenderly aifectiOnate TO
Hugh, or she would hardly have asked
him to live in London on a hundred a
year. She had never really been kind
to him since he was a boy; for although
sue had paid for him, she had been al
most penurioUs in her manner of doing
70. and had repeatedly given him TO nm
derstand, that, in the event of her
death, not shilling wsuld be left TO
him. Indeed, as to that matter of be.
queathing her money, it was understood
that it was her purpose to let it all go |
back to the Burgess family. With the
Burgess family she had kept up no sus-
tanned connection, il being quite under
stood that she was never to be asked to |
meet the only one of them left in Exc |
ter. Nor was It as yet known to any |
one now in what manner the money |
was to go back, how it was TO be divid-
ed, or no were TO be the recipients. |
Rut she had declared thas il should go |
back, explaining that she had conceived |
1t to be duty to let her own relations
know that they would not inherit her |
wealth at her death.
About week after she had sent back |
poor Hugh's letter with the iuderse-
inert on it rs TO unworthy bread. She
summoned Martha to the back parIor
in which she was accustomed to write
her letters. 1t was one of the theories
of her life that different rooms should
be used only for the purposes for which
they We're intended. She never allowed
pens and ink Hp into the bedrooms, and
had she ever heard that any guest in
her house was reading 10 bed, she would
have made an instant personal attack
upon that guest, whether male or te-
male, which wOuld have surprised that
guest. Poor Hugh would have got on
better with her had he not been dis !
covered once smoking in the garden.
Nor would she have writing materials !
in the drawing room or dlning-rOom.
There was chamber behind the din
ing-roOm in which there was All ink .
bottle, and If there was letter To he
written, let the writer 90 there aud
write 1t. In the writing of many let.
ters' however, she put no contiderce,
ana regarded penny postage as one of
the strongest evidences of the coming
ruin.
"Marba, she said. Il want to
speak to you Sitdown. Think am 90.
ing to do something" Martha sat dsWn.
but did not speak word. Their had
been no question asked of her. AM, III.
time of speaking had not come. az am
writing to Mrs. Stanbury at Nuncomhe
Putuey; and what do You think am
saying to herr
Nowthe question had been asked, and
it was Martha's duty 10 reply.
"Writing to Mrs. Staubury, ma'am :"
"Yes, to Mrs. Stanbury."
at amt possible for me to say,
ma'am, unless it's TO put Mr.. Hugh from
going on with the newspapers"
HsWhaD Won't he HnntrOl- ]