The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-03
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
CHAPTER LXXX1.
CORtinued.1

1--WE have made mistake, and let us
unmske it, she continued. 81 will al.
WAYS be your friend. i will correspond
with You. | will como and see your
wife"
THAT will be very kind"
"Charles, if you laugh at me, shall
be angry with you. 1t is right that You
should look to your future life, as it is
right tha at should do so also. Do you
think that am joking' Do you sup
pose that do not mean il"
"You have taken an extra dose this
morning of Wallachia Petrie; and of
course you mean it,"
aft you think that am speaking her
mind and not my own, you do not know
me-"
"Apd what is ii you preposeP he said,
still keeping his seat and looking calm
IL up into her face.
simply that our engagement should
be over
And WHY
Because it is not a fitting one for yOu
TO have made. ! did not understand it
before, but BOW / do. 1t will not be
good for you to marry an American girr.
II will not add to your happiness, and
may destroy it. | haze learned, at last,
to know how much higher Is your posi-
ton than mine
"And | am TO be supposed to know
nothing about itF
Your fault is only this-that you have
been too generous. l can be generous
also"
Now, look here, Caroline, you must
not be angry with me if on such sub
ject l speak plainly. You must not even
be angry if l laugh little"
Pray do not laugh at me!-not
now"
al must little, Garry. Why am to
he supposed to be so ignorant of what
concerns my own happiness and my own
dutiess If you will not sit down, l
we'll get up, and We will take turn to-
gether." He rose from his seat, but they
did not leave the covered terrace. They
moved on 10 the extremity, aud then he
stood hemming her in against a marble
table in the corner. "In making this
rather wild proposition, have yeu con
sidered me at all"
81 have endeavored to consider you,
and you only"
"And how have you done It'll By the
aid of sone misty, far fetched ideas res
pecting English society, for which you
have no basis except your own dreams
and by the fantasies of rabid enthu
siast"
"She is not rabid," said Caroline
earnestly; "other people think just th'
same.n
"My dear, there is only one person
whose thinking on this subject is ofapy
I h., nf
can't drag you into church to be mar
ried, but practically you cannot help
yourself from being taken there now
As there need be no question about oul
marIiage-which is a thing as good a,
done"
at is not done at al, !" said Caroline.
al feel quite satisfied you will not jilt
ME, and as l shall insist on having the
ceremony performed, choose to regard
it as certainty. Passing that by, hen,
l will go on to the results. My uncles,
and aunts, and cousins, and the people
you talk of, were very reasonable folk
when l last saw them, and quite suffi
ciently alive TO the fact that they had
to regard me as the head of their fami.
ly. lido not doubt that we shall find
them equally reasonable when we get
home; but should they be changed
should there be any sign shown that my
choice of wife had occasioued diSpleas
ure-such displeasure would not affec
you"
"But it would affect you"
Not asall. In my own house an
master-and / mean to continue to b,
SO. You will be mistress tEere, and tn
only fear touching such position i
that it may be recognized by others to-
strongly You have nothing to fear
Garry"
ct is of you am thinking"
Nor have l. What If some old wo
men, or even some Young women, shoul'
turn up their noses at the wife / hsv
chosen, because she has not been chosen
from among their own countrywomen
is that to be a cause of suffering to US
Cannot We rise above that-lastipg as /
would do for few weeks, month o
two perhaps-say year-,ill my Caro-
line shall have made herself knownf
think that We are strong enough to liv,
down trouble so light He had com,
close to her as he was speaking, and hal
again put his arm round her waist. Sh,
tried TO escape from his embrace-no,
with peisrs euey, not with the strength
which always sn fices for woman VIE,
the embrace Is in truth a thing TO IN
avoided, hut eluIchiug at his finger
with hers, pressing them rather TIA,
loosening their grasp. mo, Carry" h
continues; 1--WE have got to 90 thropg
with 1t now, and We will try and max
the BEST of it. You may trust ME tina
we shall not find it ditficult-not, .
least, on the groaHd of your preser
fears. can bear a heavier burden tina
you will bring upon me-"
81 know that osght to prove to yo
that am right" she said, still strui
Cling with his hand.
And know that you can pro-
netting of the kind. Dearest, it is fix,
between rs DOW, and do not let Us be
silly as to raise imaginary difficulties.
course you would have to marry ID