The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-11
HE KNEW He " ASRIGHT.
ny ANTHONY It..LLOPE.
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CHAPTER Y.
HARD WORDS.
HARD WORDS.

n i. to be feared that men in general
do not regret as they should do any tenn
norarv iii feeling, or irritating jealousy
bet {. cen husbands aud wives, OF which
thew themselves have been the cause.
The author is not speaking now of actual
love-makings, of intrigues aud deViiis9
yillainy, either perpetrated or imagined;
but rather of those passing gusts OF
short-lived and unfounded suspicion TO
which, as to other accidents, very well
regulated families may occasionally be
liable. When such suspicion rises In
the bosom of wife, some woman Inter
yenipg or being believed to intervene
hetweep her AVID the man who IS her
own. that woman who has interviewed,
or been supposed to intervene, will eth
ar glory in her position or bewau 1t
bitterly, according to the circumstances
Of the case. We will charitably suppose
that in q great majority of such in
stances. she will bewsil it. But when
.noh painful Jealous doubts annoy the
hn,hand. the man who is in the way will
.lmost always feel himself justified in
extracting q slightly pleasursble sen.
cation from the transaction. He Will
saw TO himself, probably, unconsclously
indeed. and with no formed words, that
the husband is an ass, an ass If he be In
a twitter either for that which he has
kent or for that which he has been
unable to keep, that the lady has shown
a good deal of appreciation, and that ne
himself is-is-is-qulte captain ooia
of Halifax. All the while he Will not
have the slightest intention OF wrong
ING the husbands honor, aud Will nave
received no greater favor from the III
timacy accorded to him than the prIvi-
lepe of running on one day to Marshall
and Spellgrove's, the haberdaShers,
and on another to HandcOck's, the Jew
eIers. If he be allowed to buy present
or two. or to pay few shillings here or
there, he has achieved much. terrible
things now and again do occur, even
here in England; but women, with us
are slow TO burn their household Sods.
1t happens, however, occaslonall !, as
we all are aware, that the outward gar
ments of domestic deity viii be little !
scorched: and when this occurs, the
man WHO'S the interlOper will generally |
find a gentle consolation in his position,
let its interest be ever so tlaCcid and I'M !
real, and its troubles in running about. +.
and the like, ever so considerable and /
time destructive.
1t was so certainly with Colonel Os- |
borne when he became aware that his T.
intimacy with Mrs. Trcvclyan had /
caused her husband uneasinCss. He was .
not especially a vicious mar, and had |
now. as we know. reached n time Of life /
when such vice rs thatin question might !
be supposed to have lost its charm for
him. A gentleman over fifty, popular
in London, with seat in Parlilma'.
fond of good dinners, and poSses-aG
OF everything which the world has to
give, could hardly have wished 90 ran
away with his neighbour w.F,. ar to
have DESTROYED the happiuc : e las old
friends daughter. Such wi-<edness
had never come into his ho".; nut he
had a certain pleasure in being ,ae con
fid, initial friend ola very petty CONAN:
and when he heard tba' j-.a gss' y wo-
mans husband wa j-2.'Ga, tg, pleasure /
was enhanced rate: ,a1a ',uetwlSe.
On that Sunday, "s en .:N lei tue house |
in Curzon Street H. Id tod Stanbury |
that Trevely al had iv-> gone of in q /
huff, which was iIuc enough aud he had !
and walked Gom thy"CC down Charges .
across PiccRdu!y % :. jim - Street
with aiaunticr stem a.. usual, because
he was aware thar ne A,nScls had been
the occasion of that t:unnle This was
very wrong: but there IS reason to be.
lieve that many such men a. Colonel OS-
horne. who are bachelors at fifty. ale
eoually malicious.
He thought good deal about it ON
that evening, aud was still thinking
about it on the following morning. lie /
had promised to go up to Curzon Street (
On the Monday,-really on some NEST
trivial miSsien, on matter of business
which no man could have taken IN hand
whose time was OF the slightest vaine .
20 himself or any one else. But now
that mission assumed an Importance In ?
his eyes, and seemed to require either
special observance or a special excuse.
There was no real rea son why he should
rot have stayed away from Cnrzon
Street for the next fortnight: and had
le done so, he need have made no excuse
% Mrs. Trevelyan when he met her,
But the opportunity for little excite,
nent was not to be missed, and, instead
If going, he wrote TO her the following
lote:-
"ALGANY. Monday.
DEAR ExILY,-
What Tas H. ~ -,,,r' - s.aay '
), ~ % have cGgg- --. "...., ..
baf opsra, IL "ssnar- = -e,. "a ''..-
% senG =. /. T, ~ n .s,t6 ~. =. . Il
ne whether i avn b. u."s.Lo. rlysoi-
man. l Thought that our lit
lie meetings were so innOcs Ht and so
pleasant! The green-eyed monster is of
Ill monsters the most monstrouS, and
he most unreasonable. Pray, let me
rave line, if it DC not forbidden
''IOurs, always heartily.
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