The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-05

good-looking, or rich, l doubt whether
I could please myself. As it is am as
likely to be taken bodily to heaven as
to become any mans wife,"
81 suppose most wemen think SO OF
themselves at some time, and yet they
are married"
"I am not fit to marry. l am often
cross, and like my own way, and Ihave
a distaste for men. / never in my life
saw a man whom wished even to make
my intimate friend. l should think
any man an idiot WHO began to make
soft speeches to me, and L should tell
him So"
"Ah, you might find it different when
he went on with it %
"But L think" said Priscilla, "that,
when a woman is married, there Is
nothing to which she should not submit
on behalf of her husband"
"You mean that for me-"
"Of course / mean it for you. How
should not be thinking of you, living,
as you are, under the same roof with usf
And / am thinking of Louey." Louey
was the baby. "What are you to do
when after year or two his father shall
send for him to have him under his own
carei"
Nothing shall separate me from my
child," said Mrs. Trevelyan, eagerly.
"That is easily said; but / suppose the
power of doing as he pleased would be
with him."
"Why should it be with him. do
not at all know that it would be with
him. ] have not left his house. 1t is
that he has turned me out"
"There can, l think, be very little
doubt what you should do" said Priscil-
la, after a pause, during which she had
got up from her seat under the thorn
bush.
"What sheuld l do ?" asked Mrs. Ire.
velyan.
$50 back to him."
az will tomorrow if he will write and
ask me. Nay, how could help myself
| am his creature, and must go or come
as he bids me. / am here only because
he has sent me-"
"You should write and ask him TO
take you"
"Ask him to forgive me because he
has i'll treated me ~
'tNever mind about that" said Priscil-
la, standing over her companion, who
was still lying under the bush. "All
that is two-penny- half-penny pride,
which should be thrown to the winds.
The more right you have been hitherto
the better you can afford to GO on being
right. What is it that we all live upon
but self-esteemH When we want praise,
it is only because praise enables us to
think we'll of ourselves. Every one to
himself is the centre and pivot OF all the
world"
ats very poor world that goes
round on my pivot" said Mrs. Trevel-
yan.
81 don't know how this quarrel came
up" exclaimed&riscilla, "and / don't
care to know. But it seems trumpery
quarrel,-as to who should beg each
others pardon first, and all that kind of
thing. Sheer and simple nonsense !,
Ask him to let all be forgotten. sup
pose he loves your
Chow can know He did once"
"And you love him"
eyes. love him, certainly"
81 don't see how you can have a
doubt. Here is Jack with the carriage,
and if we don't mind he'll pass US by
without seeing u.s."
Then Mrs. Trevelyan got up, and when
they had succeeded in diyerting Jacks
attention for a moment from the horse,
they called TO Nora, who was still NOV
ing about from one knoll to another,
and who had showed no desire to aban-
don the contemplation in which she had
been engaged,
1t had been midday before they left
home in the morning, and they were
due to be at home in time for tea
which is an epoch in the day generally
allowed to be more elastic than some
others. When Mrs. Stanbury lived in
the cottage, her hour for tea had been
six; this had been stretched to half past
seven when she received Mrs. Trevelyan
at the Clock House; and it was half past
eight before Jack landed them at their
door. 1t was manifest to them all, as
they entered the house, that there was
an air of mystery in the face of the girl
who had opened the door for them. She
did not speak, However, till they were
all within the passage. Then she ut
tered few words very sOlemnly.
"There be a gentleman come" she said.
"a gentleman" said Mrs. Trevelyan,
thinking in the first moment of her
husband, and in the second of Colonel
Osborne.
ale be for you, miss" said the girl
bobbing her head at Nora.
Upon hearing this, Nora sank speech
less into the chair VIII ich stood in the
passage.