The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-30

III there Is TO be HlaTrl6u couple Gnef6
should be things proper. Anyways,
ma'am, we ought to know;-oughtn't
we I"
The truth of this statement was so
evident that Miss Stanbury could not
contradict it. But she had not even
yet made up her mind. Ideas were run
ming through her head which she knew
to be very wild, but of which she could
not divest herself. Martha" she said,
after while, 81 think l shall 90 away
from this myself"
Leave the house, ms'ami" said Mar
tina, awestruck.
There are other houses in the world,
l suppose, in which an old woman can
live and die" :,
"There is houses, ma'am, of course.
"And what is the difference between
one aud another"
81 wouldn't do il, ma'am, II was you.
l wouldn't do it if it was ever SO; sur
the house is big enough for Mr.. BROOKE
and Miss Dorothy along with you. l
wnnldn't 90 and make such change as
that.-I wouldn't indeed, maan mar
tba smoke out almost with eloquence' 80
mncb EXPRESSION vas, there IN her race.
Miss Stanbury said nothing more at the
moment hey ond signifying her indlsposi-
tion TO make up her mind to anything
at the present moment. Yes;-the house.
was big enough, as far as rooms were
concerned: but low often had she heard
that An old woman must always De III
the way, If attempting to live with
nswly married cuup,ei If mother III
law be uncomfortable, how much more 8"
one whose connection would be less
near9 She could keep her ewn house,
no donbt, and let them 60 elsewhere;
but what tben would come OF her Ola
dream, that Burgess, the new banse In
the city, should live in the very house
that had been inhabited by the Bur
pesses, the bankers of old 7 There was
certainly only one way out of all these
troubles, and that way would be that
she shCuld-go from them and be at
rest.
Her will had now been drawn out and
completed for the third or fourth time,
and she had made no secret OF its con
tents either with Brooke, or Dorothy.
The whole estate she left to Brooke,
including the houses which Were to be-
come his after his uncle's death; and IN
regard to the property she bad made no
further stipulation. Il might have set
tied it on your children she said 10 him,
"but in doing so should have settled 1t
on hers. don't know why an old wo-
man should try to interfere with things
after she has gone. l hope you won't
squander it, Brooke"
II shall be a steady old man by that
time" he said.
~ hope you'll be steady at any rate.
But there il is, and God must direct you
in the use of it, if He will. IL has been
a burden to me; but then have been a
solitary old woman" Half of what she
had saved she proposed to give Dorothy
on her marriage, and for doing this ar
rangements had already been made.
There were various other legacies, and
nephew, Hugh. 81 have left him a
thousand pounds" she said to Dorothy
$50 that he may remember me kindly
at last" As to this, however, she ex-
acted pledge that no intimatioh OF the
legacy was to be made to Hugh. Then
it was that Dorothy told her aunt that
Hugh intended to marry Nora Rowley, |
one of the ladies who had been at the
Clock House during the days in which |
her mother had lived in grandeur; and
then it was also that Dorothy obtained
leave to invite Hugh to her own we'd
ding. 81 hope she will be happier than
her sister," Miss Stanbury said, when
she heard of the intended marriage.
at wasn't Mrs. Trevelyan's fault,you
know, auat."
81 say nothing about anybody's fault;
but this l do say, that it was very
great misfortune. / fought all that
battle With your sister Priscilla, and l
don't mean to fight it again, my dear.
If Hugh marries tho young lady, /
hope she will be more happy than her
sister. There can be no harm in saying
that
Dorothy's letter to her brother shall
be given, because it will inform the
reader of all the arrangements as they
were made up 20 the time, and Will con-
vey tue Exeter news respecting various
persons with whom our story Is con-
cernea.
"THE CLOSE, July, 90, $50.
DEAR HUGH,-The day for my mari
rage is now fixed, and | wish with al
my heart that it was the same with you.
Pray give my love to Nora. 1t seems
so odd that, although she was living for
"A while with mamma at Nuncombe Put
ney, never should have seen her yet.
| am very glad that Brooke has seen her,
and he declares that she is quite mag
mifcentIy beautiful. Those are his own
words.
eve are 10 be married on the 10th OF
August, q Wednesday, and now comes
NV great news. Aunt Stanbury says
that YOU are to come and stay in the
house. She bids me tell You so, with
her love: and that you can have room
as long as lou like. Of course, you most
come In the first place, you must, be
cause you are to give me away, anc
| Brooke wouldn't have me II l wasn't
gwen away properly; and Aunt Stan
bury should be friends again. You eau
stay as loug as you like, but, of course,
YOU must come the day before the we'd
dug. We are TO be married in the
| Cathedral, aud there are to be two
clergymen, but don't yet know who
they will bc;-not Mr.. Gibson Ger
tarnly, as you were good enough to sug-
gest.
French, and they have gone away some
where into Cornwall. Camilla has come
back, and l have seen her once. She
looked ever o fierce, as though she In
tended to declare that she didn't. mind
what anybody may think. They say
that she still protests that she never
will speak to her sister again.
al was introduced TO Mr. Barty Bur
CESS the other day. Brooke was here,
aud we met him in the Close. l hardly
knew what he said TO me, | was so
frightened; but Brooke said that be
meant to be civil, and that he is going
tn send me present. have got guam
tity of things already, and yesterday
Mrs. MacHugh seLJ me such beautiful
| cream-jng. If you'll come in time on
the 9th, you shall see them all before
they are putaway.
Mamma and Priscilla are to be here,
and they will come on the 9th also.
Poor, dear mamma is, know, terribly
| Hurried about it, and so is Aunt Stan
bury. 1t is so long since they have seen