The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-21

any sacrifice to bring the TWO young
people together;-would have willingly
given her time, her money, her labor in
the cause;-would probably herself have
gone to the little town in the west oil
France, had her going been of any SER
vice. But, nevertheless, after her own
fashion, she extracted no small enjoy
ment ont of the circumstances of this
miserable quarrel, The Lady Milbor-
oughs of the day hate the Colonel
Osbornes from the very bottoms of their
warm hearts and pure souls; but they
respect the Colonel Osbornes almost as
much as they hate them, and find it to
be an inestimable privilege to DC
brought into some contact with tnese
roaring lions. ,,.,,
But there arose to dear Lady Mlloor
ouph great trouble out of this quarrel,
irrespectiye of tie absolute horror OF
the separation of a young husband from
his vonnq wife. And the excess OF her
tronb}e on this head was great PROOF OF
real goodness of her heart. For, In this
matter the welfare of Trevelyan was
not concerned; but rather that of the
Rowley family. Now the Rowleys had
not gwen Lauy -hiioolOuSh any opcSial
reason for loving them, When she had
first heard that her dear young friend
Louis was going to marry girl from
the Mandarins, she had been almost in
despair. 1t was her opinion that, had
he properly understood his own posi-
ton, he would have promoted his well
fare by falling in love with the daugh-
ter of some English country gentleman,
or some English peer, to which honor,
with his advantages, Lady Milborough
thought that he might have aspired.
when the girl from the
Mandarins had been brought home as
Mrs. Trcvelyan, Lady Milborough had
received her with open arms,-had re-
eeived even the sister-in-law with arms
partly open. Had either of them shown
any tendency to regard her as mother,
she would have showered motherly
cares upon them. For Lady Milborough
was like an old hen, in her capacity for
taking many under her wings. The two
sisters had hardly done more than bear
with her,-Nora, indeed, bearing with
her more gracieusly than Mrs. Trevel-
van; and in return, even for this, the
old dowager was full of motherly re-
gard. Now she knew well Mr.. Glascock
was over head and ears in love with No
"a Rewley. 1t only wanted the slight
est management and the easiest discre-
ton to bring him on his knees, with an
offer OF his hand. And then, how much
that hand contained how much, in
deed as compared with that other hand,
which was to be given in return, and
which waste speak the truth-com-
pletely empty! Mr.. Glascock was the
heir to a peer, was the heir to q rich
peer, was the heir to very, very old
peer. He was IN Parliament. The
world spoke well of him. He was not,
so to say, by any means an old man
himself. He was good-tempered, reason
able, easily led, and yet by no means
despicable. On all subjects connected
with land, he held an opinion that was
very much respected, and was supposed
to be a thoroughly good specimen of
an upper-class Englishman. Here was
a sutton. But it was not to be supposed
that such o man as Mr., Glascock would
be so violently in love as to propose to
% girl whose nearest known friend and
ltudlt ISiutiOu N0o hlopSdaNibS ASA
self?
Only they who have closely watched
the natural uneasiness of human hens
can understand how great was Lady
Milborough's anxiety on this occasion.
Marriage to her was thing always de-
lightful to contemplate. Though she
had never been sOrdidly a matchmaker,
the course of the world around her had
taught her 10 regard men as fish to be
caught, and girls as the anglers who
ought to catch them. Or, rather, could
her mind have been accurately aualys.
ed, it would have been found that the
girl was regarded as half angler and
half bait. Any girl that angled visibly
with her own hook, with manitestly
expressed desire to catch fish, was
odious 10 her. And she was very geptle
hearted in regard to the fishes, thinking
that every fish in the river should have
the hook and bait presented to him IN
the mildest, pleasantest form. But
still, when the trout was well in the
basket, her joy was great; and then
came across her unlaborious mind some
half formed idea that great ordinance
of Eature was being accomplished in the
teeth of difficulties. FOr-as she well
knew-there is difficulty in the catch
ing of fish.
In he EOBtiyHed