The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-28
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT,
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
CHAPTER VIII.


"She's going to come" said Miss Stan
bury to Martha, holding letter IN he'
hand.
~ never doubted her coming, ma'am,
said Martha.
And l mean her to stay, unless it,
her own fault. She'll have the small
room up stairs looking out front next &c
mine. And you must goand fetch her.
$50 and fetch her, ma'am"
eyes. Ifyou won't, must"
"She amt a child, ma'am. She's
twenty-five years old, and surely she
can come to Exeter by herself, with 4
railroad all the way from LeesbOro'."
"There's no place young woman is
insulted so bad as in those railway car
riages, aud won't have her come by
herself. If she is to live with me, she
shall begin decently at any rate
Martha argued the matter, but was OF
course beaten, and on the day fixed
started early in the morning for Nun
combe Putney, and returned to the Close
with her charge. By the time that she
had reached the house she had in some
degree reconciled herself to the danger
ons step that her mistress had taken
thy StanburY was very like her brothe
Hugh, and partly, perhaps, by finding
that the Young wOman's manner to her
self was both gentle and Sprightly. She
knew we'll that geHtlcness alone, with
out some backbone of strength under
it, would not long succeed with Miss
Stanbury. GAS far rs | can judge,
ma'am, she's sweet young lady," said
Martha, when she reported her arrival
to her mistress, who had retired up
stairs to her own room, in order that she
might thus hear a word of tidingS from
her lieutenant before she showed herself
on the field of action.
Sweet! l hate your Sweets" said
Miss Stanbury.
"Then why did you send for her,
ma'am?"
because l was an old fool. But |
must 90 down ard receive her, sup,
pose"
Then Miss Stanbury went down, al
most trembling as she went. The mat
ter to her was one of vital Importance.
She was going to change the whole ten
or of her life for the Sakc-aS she told
herself-ef doing her duty by a relative
whom she did not even know. But we
may fairly suppose that there had in
truth been feeling beyond that which
taught her TO desire to have some one
near her to whom she might not only
do her duty as guardian but whom she
might also love. She had tried this
with her nephew; but her nephew haC
been too strong for her, too far from
her, too unlike to herself. When hi
came to see her, he had smoked shor
pipe,-which had been shocking to her
and he had spoken of Reform an(
Trades Unions, and meetings in the
parks, as though they had not beer
Devils ordinances. And he was very
shy of going to church ,-utterly retuS
ing to be takeN there twice on the
same Sunday. And he had told his
aunt that, owing to a peculiar and I'M
fortunate weakness in his constitution,
he could not listen to the reading OF
sermons. Aud then she was almost GER
tain that he had once kissed one of the
maids, She had found it impossible to
manage him in any way; aud when be
positively declared himself as perma-
nently devoted to the iuiquities of pen
II
to cast him off alto5e her. Now, thus
late in life, she was going to make an
other adventure, to try an altogether
new mode of living,-in order, as she
said to herself, that she might be of
some use to somebody no doubt,
WIN further uneXpressCd hope in her
bosom that the solitude of lif. migl t be
relieved by the companionship of some
one whom she might love. Sne had ar
rayed herself IN clean can and her
evening gown, and She went down stoirs
looking sternly, with fully deveIonaJ
idea that she must initiate Der new dr
ties by assuming a mastery al once
But inwardy she tremhled, and was in.
tensely anxious as to the first appear.
ance of her niece. OF course there
would be little morSel of n bonnet
She hated these vile patches,-dirty Hat
daubs of millinery, rs she called them;
but they had become too general tol
her to refuse admittance for such a
thing within her doors. But cbignon
"a handbook behind the nOddle-she
would net endure. Aud then there were
other details of feminine gear which
shall not be specified, as to which she
was painfully anNlous,-almOSt forget
ting in her anxiety that the dress of
this young woman whom she was about
to see must have ever been regulated
by the closest possible economy.
!, The first thing she saw, on entering
tne room, was a dark straw hat,-a
s1ia . nat with strong pent. house flap
W ~ a5o her heart was immediately
you" al" Id" 10 sec
Dorothy, who, on her mart WAC tram
bling also, whose position WV" "' omo -
justify most intense anxiety, mn Un0 "
ed some reply. III ~
, "Take off your hat" said the orx+
Wand let me give you kiss" y
1.-THE hat was taken off and the kiss
las given. There was certainly uc
chignOn there. Dorothy Stanbury wa,
elight-haired, with almost tlaxen ring
lets, worn after the old fashioned way