The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-30
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
L Continued.
CHAPTER XIV.
WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT 1T IN
THE CLOSE.

When Miss Stanbury, i'll the Close at
Exeter. was first told of the arrange
ment that had been made at Nuncombe
Putney, she said some very hard words
as to the thing that had been done.
She was quite sure that Mrs. Trevel
van was no better than she should be.
Ladies who were separated from their
husbands never were any better than
they should be. And what was TO be
thought of any woman, who, when sep
arated from her husband, would pat her
self under the protection of such Pa
ladin as Hugh Stanbury! She heard
the tidings, of course. from ir"rethy:
and spoke her mind oven 10 DoFotny
plainly enough; but 1T was TO Martina
that she expressed herself with her full
est vohe mcnoe.
1--WE always knew" she said, that
nv brother had married an Anticipated,
silly woman, one of tho most unsuited
to be the mistress of clergyman
house that ever a man set eyes on; but
| didn't thipk she'd allow herself to be
led into sach stupid thing as this"
IL don't suppose the lady has done
anything amiss,-any more than comb
ing her husbands hair, and the like of
that" said Martha.
Don't tell me! Why, 10y their own
story, she has got 4 lover
"But he ain't tG come after her down
hare snnpose. And rs for lovers,
ma'ap,, Pm told that the most of 'em
have em up in London. But it don't
mean much, only just idle talking and
gallivanting."
"When women cannot keep them
selves from idle talking with strange
gentlemen, they are very lar gone on
the road to the devil. That's my notion.
And that was everybody's notion few
wears ago. But now, what with divorce
bills, and women'S rights, and penny pa
pers, and false hair, and married women
being Just like giggling girls, and gig
Cling girls knowing just as much as
married women, when woman has
been married year or two she begins
TO think whether she mayn't have more
fun fer her money by living apart from
her husband"
"Miss Dorothy says
go, bother what Miss Dorothy says!
Miss Dorothy only knows what it has
suited that scamp, her brother, to tell
her. | understand this woman has
come away because of lover; and If
that's so, my sister -in-law is very wrong
to receive her. The temptation OF the
Clock House has been too much lor her.
It's not my doing; that's all"
That evening Miss Stanbury and Dor
othy went cut to tea ut the house Of
Mrs. MacHugh, and there the matter
was very much discussed. The iamll y
of the Trevelyaus was known by name in
these parts, and the fact of Mrs. Ircvel-
van having been sent to live IN De-
vonshire village, with Devonshire Ia
dies who had relation in Exeter so
well esteemed rs Miss Stanbnry OF the
Close, were circumstances OF them
selves sufficient to insure considerable
amount of prestige at the city tea-table
for the tidings of this unfortunate fam
lily quarrel. Some reticence was OF
course necessary because of the pres
ence Of Miss Stanbury and of Dorothy.
To Miss stanbury herself Mrs. MacHugh
and Mrs. CfUmbie, of Cronstadt House,
did not scruple to express themselves
very plainly, ana 20 whisper a question
as to what was TO Ia done should the
lover make his appearance at Nun
combe Putuey; but they who spoke of
the matter before Dorothy weve at first
mere charitable, or, ut least, move for
bearing. Mr.. Gibson, who was one of
the minor 'canOns, and the two Miss
Trenches from Heavitree, who had the
reputation of hunting unmarried clergy
men i'm couples, seemed to have heard
all about il. Whom M;s. MaciluGh and
Miss Stanbury, with Mr.. and MIS-. Crum'
bic, had seated themselves at their
whist-table, the younger people were
able to express their opinions without
danger of interruption or of rebuke. Ii
was known to all Exeter by this time,
that Dorothy S;anbury's mother had
gone to the Clock House, and that she
had done so in order that Mrs. Trevel-
van might have home. But 1t was
not vet known whether anybody had
called upon them. There was Mrs. Mer'
ton, the wife of the present parson OF
Nuncombe. who had known the Staubu
rvs for the last twenty years; and there
was Mrs. Ellison of LeSsbero, who hae
lived oply four miles from Nuncombe
and who kept pony-carriaga.
would be a great thing to know how
these ladies had behaved in so difficult
and embarrassing a position. Mrs. Ire
velyan and her sister had now been "a
Nuncombe Putney for more than fort
night, and something in that matter o.
calling must have been donc,-or have
been left undone. In answer TO an in
geniously framed question asked by Ca
milla French, Dorothy at once set thu
matter at rest.
"Mrs. Merton" said Camilla French
"must find it great thing to have two
new ladies to come to the village, es
peeially now that she has lost you, Mis-
Stanbury I"
"Mamma tells me-" said Dorothy
"that Mrs. Trevelyan and Miss Rowle.
do not mean TO know anybody. The.