The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-21
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
CHAPTER VII.
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The Devonshire people, ut the
time had been much divided as 10 the
merits of the Stanbury quarrel There
were many who said that the brother
could not have acted otherwise than he
did: aud that Miss Stanbury, though by
force of character and force of circum-
stances. she had weathered tie storm,
had in truth been very indiScreet. The
results. however, were rs have been de-
scribed. At the time of which we
treat, Miss Stanbury was a very rlch
lady, living by herself In Exeter, al
mitted. without question, To be one OF
the county set, and still ut variance
with her brothers family. Except to
Hugh, she had never spoken word 10
ono of them since her brothers death.
When the money came into her hands,
she at that time being over forty and
her nephew being then just ten years
old, she had undertaken 10 educate him,
and to start him in the world. We
know how she had kept her word, and
how and why she had withdrawn herself
from any farther responsibility III the
matter.
And. in regard to this business, of
starting the young man, she Dau oeei
careful to let it be known that she
would do 10 more than start hlm' III
the formal document by meaDS OF
which she had made the proposal TO her
brother, she had been careful TO lct 1T De
understood that simple education was
all that she intended To 6cSt0w upon
him,-"and that only SHE had added
Gin the event of my surviving TIL MS
education be completed Aad to iingh
himself she had declared that any allow
apce which she had made him after he
was called TO the bar was only made IN
order to give him room for his foot, Il
spot of ground from whence to make MS
first lean. We know how he made that
lean. Infinitely to the disgust of bis
amt. who. when he refused obedience
10 her i'm the matter of Withdrawing
from the "DqiW Record" immediately
withdrew from him, not only her pa
tronage and assistance, but even her
friendship and acquaintance. This was
the letter which she wrote to hlm:-
81 don't think that writing radical
stuff for penny newspaper is respect
able occupation tor n gentleman, aud |
will have nothing to do with 1t. Ii you
choose to do such work, | cannot help
IT,. but il was not for such that | sent
Won to Harrow and Oxford, nor yet mp
to LoRdon, and paid El00 year to Mr..
Lambert. l think You are treating me
badly, but that is nothing TO your bad
treatment of yourself. You need not
trouble yourself to answer this, unless
YOU are prepared tn say that you Will
not write any more stuff for that penny
newspaper. Only | wish to be under
stood. Twill have no connection that l
can help, and no acquaintance at all.
with radical scribblers aud incendia-
ries.
JENNA STANBURY.
"THE CLOSE, EXETER, April 10, 1867. >
Hugh Stanbury had answered this,
thanking his aunt for past tavOrS, and
explaining to her,-or striving TO do
so,-that he felt it to be his duty Ia
earn his bread, as means OF earning 1t
had come within his reach. He might
as we'll have spared himself the trouble.
She simply wrote few words across his
own letter in red ink: THE bread OF un-
worthiness should never be earned or
eaten;" aud then sent the letter back
under blank envelope To her nephew.
She was a thorough Tory of the old
school. Had Hugh taken to writing for
newspaper that had cost siXpence, or
even threepouce for its copies, she
might perhaps have forgiven him. At
any rate the offence would not have been
so fragrant. Aud had the paper been
conservative, instead of liberal, she
would have had some eualms of con
science before she gave hun up, But 10
live by writing for newspaper, and for
a penny newspaper. and for Il penny
radical newspaper. 1t was more than
abe could endure. OF what nature
were the articles which he contributed
il was impossible that she should have
any idea; for no consideration would
have induced her to look at penny
newspaper, or to admit 1t within her
doors. She herself took in the John
Bulr' and the "HerGld,' aud daily
groaned deeply at the way i'll which
those once great organs of true British
public feeling were becoming democrat
lied and perverted. Had any reduction
been made in the price of either of them,
she would at once have stopped Der
subscription. In the matter of politics |
she had lO2g since come TO think that
everything good was over. She hated |
the Lame of Reform so much that she !
could not bring herself to believe in
MT. Disraeli aud his bill. For many
years she had believed in Lord Derby. |
She would fam believe in him still, If
she could 1t was the great desire of
ner heart 10 nave SONS one in whom !
she believed. In the bishop of her do
cese she did believe, and annually sent
him some little comforting present from
her own hand. Aud in two or three of
the clergymen around her she believed
finding in them flavor of the unascetic
godliness of ancient days which was
gratifying to her palate. But in politics
there was hardly name remaining to
which she could fix her faith, and de
clare that there should be her guide.
For a while she thought she would
cling to Mr.. Lowe; but, whea she made
inquiry, she found that there was no
base there of really well-formed conser-
yatiya pranita The three gentlemen