The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-25
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
ContiRned.l
CHAPTER XIV.
THE CLOCK HoUsEAT NUNCOMBE
PI-TSEY,

1t was not till fortnight had passed
after the transaction recorded in the
last chapter, that Mrs. TreVelyan and
Nora Rowley first heard the proposition
that they should 60 to live at Nuncombe
Putney. From bad to worse the quarrel
between the husband and the wife had
gone on, till Treyelyan had at last told
Els friend Lady Milborough thaV nV n"u
made up his mind that they mus! I'VE
apart. "She is so self-willed,-and per-
haps | am the same,"-he had sara,
Chat il is impossible that we should
live together" Lady Milhorough had
implored and called to witness all testi-
monies, profane aud sacred, against s9ch
n step.-had almost gone down on her
knees. Go TO Naples, why not Naplesi
Or To the quiet town in the west OF
France. which was 80 dull that a
wicked rearing lion, fond of cities and
gambling, AID eating and drinking,
could not live in such place U,
why not go TO the quiet town IN the
west of Fraucei Was not anything bot,
ter than this flying in the face OF goa
and mani Perhaps Trevelyan ala NOT
himself like the idea OF tue qulet, duIl
French town. Perhaps he thought that
the flyiug in the face of God and man
was all done by his wife, not by him;
and that it was right that his wife
should feel the consequences. After
many such entreaties, many such argu-
ments, il was at last decided that the
house in Curzon Street should be given
up, and that he and his wife live apart.
"And what about Nora Rowley !"
asked Lady Milborough, who had be-
come aware by this time of Nora's ln-
sane folly in having refused Dir. Glas-
cock.
"She will go with her sister, sup
pose"
"And who will maintain her q; Dear,
dear, dear, 1t does seem as though
some young people were bent upon cut
ting their own threats and all their fam.
ly's."
Poor Lady Milborough just ut this
time went as near TO disliking the Row
leys as was compatible with her nature.
1t was not possible 10 her to hate any
body. She thought that she hated
the Colonel OsbOrDes; but even that
was mistake. She was very angry,
however, with both Mrs. .Trevelyan and
her sister. and was disposed to speak of
them as though they had been born to
create trouble aud yexatiOn.
Trevelyan had not given any direct
answer to that question about Nora Row
le'ys maintenance bat he was quite
prepared to bear all necessary expense
in that direction, at any rate till Sir
Marmaduke should have arrived. At
first there had been an idea that the !
two sisters should go TO the house of
their aunt, Mrs. Clubhouse. Mrs. Out !
house was the wife-as the reader may
perhaps remember-of clergyman liv-
ing in the east of London st. Did !
dulphs-in-the East was very much in |
the east indeed. 1t was parish out !
side the city, lying near the river, very
populons, very poor, very low in char
acter, ana very uncomfortable. There
was rectory house, quserly situated at
the end OF htne blind lane, with a gate
of its own, and a so-called garden about
twenty yards square. Bnt the rectory
of st. Diddulphs cannot he said 70 bavs |
been a comfOrtable!a bode. The na;gb- |
borhood was certainly rot anutiug or
visiting society within a distaSc. Of
three or four miles there was none Nut
what was afforded by the families OF,
other East-e end clergymeO. And then,
Mr.. Clubhouse himself was u somewhat
singular man. He was very religious,
devoted to his work, most kind to the
poor but he was unfortunately a
strongly biased man, and at the same
time very obstinate withal. He had
never allied himself very cordially with
his wife's' brother, Sir MarmadHke. al
lowing himself TO be carried away by
hot NJ ha
West.eud, who frequented clubs and
were connected in any way with fash
ion, could not be- appropriate compan-
ions for himself. The very title which
Sir Marmaduke had acquired was re-
pulsire to him, aud had induced him TO
tell his wife moro than once that Sir This
or Sir That could not be fitting associates
for poor East-end clergyman. Then his
wife's niece had married man of fash
IONA man supposed at st. Diddulphs
to be very closely allied 10 fashion; and
Mr.. Clubhouse had never been induced
even TO due in the house in CurZon
Street. When, therefore, be heard that
Mr.. and Mrs. TTevelyan were TO be sep
arated within two years of their mar
rage, it could not be expected that he
should be very eager t. lend 20 two sis
tiers the use of his rectory.
There had been interviews between
Mr.. Outheuse ard TrevelyaA; aud be.
tween Mrs. Clubhouse and her niece; and
then there was an interview between
Mr.. Clubhouse and Emily, in which it
was decided that Mrs. Trevelyan would
not go to the parsonage of st. Did
dulphs. She had been very outspoken
to her uncle, declaring that she by no