The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-24
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLOPE.
CHAPTER I.

BY ANTHONY TR0LL0PE.
CHAPTER /.
SHOWING HOW WRATH BEGAN.
WHEN Louis Trevelyan was twenty
four years old, he had all the world be-
fore him where to choose; and, among
other things, he chose to 60 to
the Mandarin islands, and there
fell in love with Emily Row
ley, the daughter of Sir Marina
duke, the governor. Sir Marmaduke
Rowley, at this period of his life,
was respectable mlddle-aged public
servant, in good repute, who had, how
ever, as yet achieved for himself neither
an exalted position nor large fortune.
He had been governor of many islands,
and had never lacked employment; and
now, at the age of fifty, found himself
at the Mandarins, with a salary of
$4,000 a year, living in temperature
at which 80 degrees in the shade is
considered to be cool, with eight daugh-
ters and not shilling saved. A COVER
nor at the Mandarins who is social by
nature and hospitable on principle eau
not save money in the islands, even on
$4,000 year, when he has eight
daughters. At the Mandarins, though
hospitality is a duty, the gentlemen
who ate Sir Rowley's dinners were not
exactly the men whom he or Lady
Rowley desired to welcome to their
bosoms as sons.in-law. Nor when
Mr.. Trcvelyan came that way,
desirous of seeing everything in
the somewhat indefinite course of
his travels, had Emily Rowley the eld-
est of the flock, then twenty years of
age, seen as yet any Mandariner who
exactly came up to her fancy. And, as
Louis Trevelyan was a remarkably
handsome young man, who was well
connected, who had been ninth wrang-
Ter at Cambridge, who had already pub
lished q volume of poems, and who pos
sessed $4,000 year of his own, arising
from various perfectly secure invest
ments, he was not forced to sigh long
in vain. Indeed, the Rowleys, one and
all, felt that Providence had been very
good to them In sending young Trevel-
van on his travels in that direction, for
he seemed to be very great pearl
among men. Both Sir Marmaduke and
Lady Rowley felt that there might be
objections to such marriage as that
proposed to them raised by the Trevel-
van family. Lady Rowley would not
have liked her daughter to 60 to Eng
land to be received with cold looks by
strangers. But it soon appeared that
there was no one to make objections.
Louis, the lover, had no living relative
nearer than cousins. His father, bar
rister of repute, had died q widower,
and had left the money which he had
made to an only child. The head OF
the family was a first cousin who
lived in CORVALLIS on moderate
property,-a very good sort of stupid
| fellow, as Louis said, who would be
quito Indifferent as to any marriage
that his cousin might make. No man
could be more independent or more
clearly justified in pleasing himself
than was this lover. And then he him,
self proposed that the second daughter
Nora, should come and live with them
in London. What a lover to fall sud
denly from the heavens into such q
dove-cote!
81 havn't penny-piece to give tC
either of them," said Sir Rowley.
"It is my idea that girls should not
have fortunes" said Trevelyan. I" Al
any rate, am quite sure that mel
should never look for money. A man
must be more comfortable, and, / think
is likely to be more affectionate, wheu
the money has belonged to himself"
10. iryh- n1n na m a
man, who would have liked to have
handed over a few thousand pound:
on giving up his daughters; but, hav
ing no thousands of pounds to hand
over, he could not but admire the prin
cipes of his proposed son-in-law. As il
was about time for him to have his
leave of absence, he and sundry of the
girls went to England with Mr.. Trevel'
yan, and the wedding was celebrated
in London by the Rev. OliphaHt Out
house, of Saint Diddulph- int the East
who had married Sir Rowley's sister
Then a small house was taken and fur
nshed in Curzon street, Mayfair; and
the Rowleys went back to the seat o.
their government, leaving Nora, the
second girl, in charge of her elder
sister
The Rowleys had found, on reaching
London, that they had lighted upon {
pearl indeed. Louis Treyelyan was G
man of whom all people said all goot
things He might have been a fellow
of his college had he not been a man O.
fortune. He might already-so SiI
Rowley was told-have been in Parlia
ment had he not thought it to be wisel
to wait awhile. Iadeed, he was very
wise in many things He had gone on
on his travels thus young,-not il
search of excitement, to kill beasts, o.
to encounter he knew not what novelty
and amusement,-but that he might Sc,
men and know the world He haC
been on his travels for more thar
a wear when the winds blew hin
to the Maudarins. o, how blessed
were the winds. And, more
over, Sir Rowley found that his son-in
law was well spoken of at the clubs b,
those who had known him during hi
university career as a man popular a
we'll as wise, not book-worm, or
dry philosopher, or a prig. He coulC
talk on all subjects, was very generous
a man sure to be honored and respected
and then such handsome, manly fel
low, with short brown hair, nos
divinely chiseled, an Apollo mouth
six feet high, with shoulders and leg
and arms in proportion,-a pearl o
pearls! Only, as Lady Rowley was tn
!, first to find out, he liked to have hi
own way.
"But his way is such good way,
said Sir Marmaduke. "He will be sue
a coed guide for the girls"
, "But Emily likes her way too," sal
/ Lady Rowley
Sir Marmaduke argued the matte
no further, bat thought, no doubt, tha
such husband as Louis Trevelyan wa
entitled to have his own way. II
probably had not observed his daugh
, ter's temper so accurately as his viii
had done. With eight of them comm
up around him, how should he hav