The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-14
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
by ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
[Continaed.l
CHAPTER XI.
ADV MrLBoRoUGH AS AMBASSADOR.

"Of course, / know you are right"
said Nsra to her sister,-"right as far
oa Colonel Osborne is concerned; but
nevertheless you ought 10 give way"
"And be tramPled upon 7" said Mrs.
Trevelyan.
sbould trample on you; which, howeY'
er, he is the last man IN the world to
do"
"Aud to endure any insult and any
namesf Ynu yourselt-you would DO 4
Grlselda, suppose" 49,,
81 don't want TO talk about myself,
said Nora" nor about Griselda. But
know that, however unreasonable 1t
NAV seem, you had better give way to
him now, and tell him what there was
in the note to Colsnel Osborne
"Never He has ordered me not 10
see him or to write TO him or 10 open his
letters,-having mind you, ordered just
the reverse q day or two before; and |
will obey him Absurd as it is. will
obey him. But as for submitting toi
him, aud letting him suppose that
think he is rigbt-never! should oe
be lying to him then, and l will never
lie to him. He has said We must part,
and suppose it will be better so. How
can a woman live with a man that sus-
poets heri He cannot take my baby
from me-"
There were many such conversations
"a the above between the two sisters be-
fore Mrs. Trevelyan received from her
husband the communication with v Inch
she had been threatened. And Nora,
acting on her own judgement in the
la n a A IN MIR. IRE
velyaa, writing TO him pretty litte
note, aud bese- ching him to be kind to
her. But he decliued to soc her. and the
two women sat at home, with the baby
between them, holding such pleasant
COW ersations as that ab'Te naiTdtSu
When such tempests occur III fanny
a wonaB will generally suffer the least
during the thick of the tempest. Nhlc
the hurricane is at the berorst, she VII!
be susf.in ned by the most thorough con
viction that the right is on her SIDE,
that she is aggrievcd, that there Is moth
ing for her to acknowledge, and no pn'
ritiou tnat she need surrender. whereas
her husband will desire compromise,
even amidst the violence of the storm
But afterwards, when the wind has
lulled, but while the heavens around
are still all black aud murky, then the
womsn's sufi rings begin. When pas
zion gives way 10 thought and memory,
che feels the loneliness of her position,
the loneliness and possible degrade
ton. 1t is all very well for a man to
talk about his name aud his honor; but
il is the woman's honor and the wo-
mans name that are, in truth, placed
in ieouardy. Let the woman do what
she will, the NAN 0sn, in truth, show
his face. But the woman may be CON-
PEELED TO veil hers, Sither by her own
fault or by his. Mrs. Trevelyan was
now told that she was to be separated
from her husband, and she did not, at
any rate, believe ,llt she had done any
harm. But, if such separation did come,
where could she live, what could she
do. what position in the world would
she poSsessf Would not her face be, in
truth, veiied as effectually as though |
she had disgracsd herself and her has /,
band.
Aud then there was the terrible ques- |
ti9n about the child. Mrs. Trevelyau |
had said dozen times to her sister that |
her husband could not take the boy
away from hcr. n "a, however, had |
never assented TO this, partly from a
conviction of her own ignorance, not |
knowing what might be the power of a .
husband in such q matter, and partly |
thinking tsGt any argument would be
good and fair by which she could induce !
her sister to avoid catastrophe 50 ter
rlole as that which was now threatened.
II suppose 4e could take him, if he
chose" she said at last.
"I don't believe ne :; r;,l,a III
that" said Mrs. Trevelyan. "Hs would
not wish to kill me-"
"But he will say that he loves baby nc
we'll as you do"
"He will never take my child from
me. He could never be so bad as that e" .
"And you will never be SD bad as to /
leave him." said Nora, after IA pause. Il
will not believe that it can come 10 that.
You know that he is good at heart
that nobody on earth loves you Us he
does"
So they went on for two days, and Oh
the evening of the second day there
came letter from Trevelyan TO his wife. !
They bad neither Of them seen hun, al |
though he had been in aud ont OF the /
house. Aud on the afternoon OF the
Sunday new grievance, very terrible
grievance, was added To those which
Mrs. Trevelyan was made TO bear. Her
husband had told one of the serv ants in
the house that Colonel Osborne was not
to be admitted. And the servant to
whom he had given this order was the
cook. There is no reason why cook
shuald be less trustworthy in such 4
matter than any other servant; and III
Mr.. Trevelyan's household there was a
reason why she should be more so,-as
she, and she alone, was what we gener-
ally call an old family domestic. She
had lived with her masters mother, and (
had known her master when he was ]
boy. Looking about him, therefore, for !
some one in MS house TO whom he could :
speak feeling that he was bound TO +
convey the order through some medium, 4
he called TO him the ancient cook, and
impaired to her SO much of his trouble
o. waa necessary to make the order in- ,
telligible. This he did with various i'll
wordsd assurances to Mrs. Prodg gers that
there really was NOTHING amlss Rnt