The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-06
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
By ANTHONY TROLLOrE.
Continued
CHAPTER ~.
HUGH sTANBURY.

II has been already stated that Nora
Rowley was not quite so we'll disposed
as perhaps she ought To have been TO
fall in love with the Honorable Charles
Glascock, there having come upon her
the habit of comparing him with anoth-
or gentleman whenever this duty OF fall-
inc in love with Mr.. Glascock was ex-
acted from her. That other was one win
whom she knew that it was quite out OF
the question that she shoHld fall IN
lnye because he had not shilling IN
the world; and the other gentleman
was equally aware that it was not open
IN him to fall in love with Nora Rowley,
for the same reason. In REGARD 10
such matters Nora Rowley had seeh
properly brought up, having been u'auc
To understand by the best ana most
cautious of mothers, that in that MAJ
ter of falling in love it was absoiRteiy
necessary that bread and cheese should
be considered. "Romance Is very
pretty thing" Lady Rowley had been
wont to saw to her daughters, "ahd l
don't think life would be worth having
without a little of it. | should be very
sorry TO think that either of my girls
would marry man only because he had
money. But you can't even be romantic
without something 20 eat and drink;
Nora thoroughly understood all
this. and being we'll aware that her
fortune in the world, if it was ever to be
made at all, could only be made by mar
rage. had laid down for herself certain
hard lines,-lines intended to be as fast
as they were hard. Let what might
come to her in the way of likinSs and
dislikings, let the temptation to her be
ever an strong. she would never allow
her heart to rest on man who, II ne
sheuld ask her to be his wife, wouid not
have the means of supporting her.
There were many, she knew, who weuid
condemn such resolution as cold, sell
fish, and heartless. She heard people
saving so daily. She read In books That
it ought to be so regarded. But she de,
clared to herself that she would respect
the Judgment neither of the people nor
of the books. To be poor alone, to have
to live without husband, to look for
ward to a life in which there would be
nothing of career, almost nothing TO
do, to await the vacuity of an existence
in which she would be useful to no one,
was n destiny which she could teach her
self to endure, because it might proba-
bly, be forced upon her by necessity:
Were her father to die, there would
hardly be bread for that female flock to
eat. AS it was, she was eating the bread
of a man in whose house she was no
more than a visitor. The lot of wo-
man, as she had told herself, was
wretched, unfortunate, almost degrad-
ing. For woman snch as herself there
was no path open to her energy, other
than that of getting husband. Nora
Rowley thought of all this till she was
almost sick of the prospect of her llte,--
especially sick of it when she was told
with much authority by the Lady Mil
boroughs of her acquaintance, that 1t
was her bounden duty TO fall in love
with Mr.. Glascock. As TO falling in
love with Mr.. Glascock, she had not as
yet made up her mind. There was so
mach to be said on that side of the ques-
ton, if such falling in love could only
be made possible. But she had quite
made up her mind that she would never
fall in love with poor man. In spite,
however, of all that, she felt herself
compelled to make comparisons between
MI Glascock and one Mr.. Hugh Stan
bury, gentleman who had not shil
ling.
Mr.. Hugh Staubury had been at col
lege the most intimate friend of Louis
Trevelyan, and at Oxford had been, in
spite of Trevelyan's successes, 4 bigger
man than his friend. Stanbury had not
taken so high II degree as Trevelyau,-
indeed, had not gone ont in honors at
all. He had done little for the credit of
his college, and had never put himselfiu
the way of wrapping himself up for life
in the scanty lambswoOl of fellowship.
But he had won for himself reputation
as n clever speaker, as man who had
learned much that college tutors do not
profess to teach, as n hard-heaSed,
ready-witted fellow who, having the
world rs an oyster before him, which it
was necessary that he should open,
would certainly find either knife or q
sword with which to open it.
Immediately on leaving college he
had come to town, and had entered hun
self at LincOln's Inn. Now, ut the time
of our story, he was barriSter of four
years standing. but had never yet made
guinea. He had never made guinea
by MS work as 4 barrister, and was be-
ginning to doubt of himself whether he
ever would do SO. Not, as he knew
well, That gulneas are enerally made
with ease by barristers of four years
standing, but because. Is ho said to his
friends, he dld not see the kuack of it.
He did not know an attorney in the
world, and could not conceive how any
attorney should ever lie induced to an.
ply to him for legal aid.
He had done his work of learning his
trade about as well as other young men,
but had had no means of distinguishing
himself within his reach. lie went the
Western Circuit because his aunt, old
Miss Stanbury, lived at Exeter, but, as
he declared Of himself. had he had an
other aunt living at York, he would
have had nothing whatsoever to guide
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