The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-26
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
Continued
CHAPTER VIII.
81 KNCW IT WILL DO.n

Miss STANBURY carried her letter all
the way to the chief postoiiice in the
city, having no faith whatever in those
little subsidiary receiving houses which
are established in different parts of the
city. As for the iron pillar boxes, which
had been erected of late years for the
receipt of letters, one of which-a most
hateful thing to her-stood almost close
to her own hall door, she had not the
faintest belief that any letter put into
one of them would ever reach its desti
nation. She could not understand why
people should not walk with their let
tiers to q respectable postoilice, instead
of chucking them into an iron stump
as she called it,-out in the middle of
the street with nobody to look after it.
Positive orders had been given that no
letter from her house should ever be put
into the iron post. Her epistle TO her
sister-in-law, of whom she never spoke
otherwise than as Mrs. Stanbury, was
as fellows:
"THE CLOSE, EXETER, 22d April, 1867.
"MY DEAR SISTER STANBURY,-
"Your son Hugh has taken to courses
of which j do not approve, and there
fore have put an end to my connection
with him. / shall be happy to enter
tain your daughter Dorothy in my house
if Won and she approve Of Such plan.
Should you agre to this, she will be
welcome to receive you or her sister
not her Jrother-in my house any We'd
nesday morning between half past nine
and half past twelve. l will endeavor
to make my house pleasant tc her and
- I l. l., oil lou ntaaaA
of E25 per annum for her clothes as
long as she may remain with me. |
shall expect her to be regular at meals,
to be constant in going to church, and
not to read modern novels.
al intend the arrangement to be per-
manent, but of course | must retain the
power OF closing it if, and when, | shall
see fit. Its permanence must be con-
tingent on my life. have no power
of providing for any one after my death.
"Yours truly,
JENNA STANBURY.
81 hope the young lady does not have
any false hair abOut her."
When this note was received at Nun
eombe Putney the amazement which it
Occasioned was extreme. Mrs. Stanbu-
ry, the widow of the late vicar, lived in
little morsel of a cottage on the out
skirts of the village, with her two
daughters, Priscilla and Dorothy. Their
whole income, out of which it was nee
essary that they should pay rent for
their cottage, was less than go per an
mum. During the last few months
fve-pound note now and again had
found its way to Nuncombe Putney ont
Of the Golfers of the "D. RI; but the la
dies there were most unwilling to be so
relieved, thinking that their brothers
career was ofinfnitely more Importance
than their comforts, or even than their
living. They were very poor, but they
were accustomed to poverty. The elder
sister was older than Hugh. but Doro-
thy, the younger, to whom this strange
invitation was now made, was two
years younger than her brother, and
was now nearly twenty-siX. How they
had lived, and dressed themselves, and
had continued To be called ladies by the
inhabitants of the village was, aud is,
and will be mystery to those who
have had the spending of much larger
incomes, buthave still been always poor.
But they had lived, had gone to church
every Sunday in decent apparel, and
had kept up friendly relations with the
family of the present vicar, and with
one or two other neighborS.
W heh the letter had been read first
ny hel mother, and then aloud, and |
linen oE each oil them separately, in the !
little sitting reom in the cotr,%a ,boro
was silence among them.-for n. ;,
of them desired to be the first to aXnr.ss
an opinion. Nothing could Ina p.oro
natural than the proposed arrangement
had it not been made unnatural NV y
quarrel existing nearly throughout the
whole life of the person most nearly
concerned. Priscilla, the elder dauCh-
ter, was the one of the family who was
generally the ruler, and she at last eX-
pressed an opinion adverse to the ar
rangement. "My dear, you would new
er be able to bear it, said Priscilla.
II suppose not, said Mrs. Stahbury,
plaintiyely.
Il could try" said Dorothy.
My dear, you don't know that wo
man, said Priscilla.
"Of course l don't know her" said
Dorothy.
She has always been very good to
Hugh" said Mrs. Stanbury.
=; don't think she has been good to
MN at all said Priscilla.
ho D su; snink what saving it would
DC; sSiu Dorothy. "Aud l could send
MOI nome a maii OF what Auut Stanbury saws
"1ou must not think of tbo. -. so;s
Priscilla: "because She exSect 'n az, sn h
dressed poets you 10 Dc
81 should like to try" she sail ,..
the morning was over, ''if Won nU, oeloFe
ma don't think it would be wronS NAM
The conference that day ended :,
written request TO Aunt Stanbury thu
a week might be allowed for consldera-
tion,-the letter being written by Pris-
ella, but signed with her mothers
name,-and with a very long epistle to
Hugh, in which each of the ladies took
a part, and in which advice and deci-
sion was demanded. 1t was very owl
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