The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-20
HEKNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER LXXVII.

THE FUTURE LADY PETERBOROUGH.
"If you have not sold yourself for
British gold, and for British acres, and
for British rank, have nothing to say
against it," said Miss Wallachia Petrie
that same evening to her friend Caroline
Spalding.
'.You know that | have not sold my
self, as you call it" said Caroline. There
had been q long friendship between
these two ladies, and the younger one
knew that il beloved her to bear good
deal from the elder. Miss Petrie was
honest, clever, and in earnest. We in
England are not usually favOrably dis
posed to women who take pride in q
certain antagenism to men in general,
and who are anxious to show the world
that they can get on very well without
male assistance; but there are many such
in America, who have noble aspirations,
good intellecrs much energy, and who
are by no means unworthy of friendship.
The hope in regard to all such women,
the hope entertained not by them
selves, but by those who are solicitous
for them,-is, that they will be cured at
last by a husband and half dozen chill
dren. In regard to Wallachia Petrie,
such hope. She was 80 positively welded
TO women's rights in general, and to her
own rights in particular, that 1t was i'm
probabl 10 that she should ever succumb
TO any man. And where would be the
man brave enough to make the effort )
From circumstances Caroline Spalding
had been the beloved of her heart since
Caroline Spalding was very little girl;
4. L. Il l.,f ltt,A In
through life have borne arms along with
her in that cOatest which she was de-
termiued TO wage against man, ana
which she always waged with the great
est animosity against men OF the British
race. She hated rank; she hated riches;
she hated mouaTch;-and with true
woman's instinct III battle, felt that she
had specially strong point againt Eng
lishmeu, in that they submitted them
selves to dominion from woman mon
arch. Aud now the chosen friend of her
yOuth,-the friend who had copied out
all her poetry, wis had learned by heart
all her sennets, who had, as she thought,
reGiprOcated all her ideas, was going to
be married, and to be married to an
English lord! She had seen that it was
coming for some time, and had spoken
out very plainly, hoping that she might
still save the brand from the burning.
Now the evil was done; and Caroline
Spalding, when she told her news, knew
we'll that she would have to bear some
heavy reproaches.
"How many of us are there who never
know whether we sell ourselves or not,
said Wallachia. 1.-The dsenator, who
longs for office, and who votes this way
instead of that III order that he may get
it, thinks that he is voting honestly.
The minister, who calls himself teacher
of Gods word, thinks that 1t Is Gods
word that he breaches when he strains
his lungs to Till his church. The ques-
tion is this, Caroliue,-wOuld you have
loved the same man, had he come to you
with a woodlands axe in his hand or Il
clerks quill behind his carr | guess
not"
Gas to the woodlands axe, Wally, it is
very well in theory; but"
Things good in theory, Caroline, will
be good also when practised. You
may be sure of that We dislike theory
simply because oar intelligenceS are
higher than our wills. But we will let
that pass"
Pray let it pass, Wally. Do not
preach me sermons tonight. l am 50
happy, ard you ought to wish me JOY"
"lt wishing you Joy would get you
Joy, would wish it you while lived.
cannot be happy that you should be
taken from us whittier | shall never see
you again.
But you are TO come to us. i have
told him SO, and il is settled"
NO, dear; | shall not do that. What
should be in glittering halls of an Eng
glish baroni Could there be any visit
ing less fitting, any admixture less ap-
propriatef Could who have held mn
my voice in the Music Hall of Laceda
monia, amidst the flowers of the West,
in the great and free State of Illinois,
against the corruption of sn English
arIstocracy,-could /, who have been
listened TO by two thousand of my
country women,-and en,-while
spurned the unmanly, inhuman errors
of primogeniture,-coHld /, think You,
hold my tongue beneath the roof of a
feudal lord I" Caroline Spalding knew
that her friend could not hold her tongue,
and hesitated to answer. There had
been that fatal triumph of lecture on
the joint rights of men and women, and
It had rendered poor Wallachia Petrie
untit for ordinary society.
'lon might come there without tals-
ing politics, Wally," said Caroline.
mo, Caroline,-no. | will go into the
honse OF no man in which the free eX-
preston OF my opinion is declared me.
win not sit even at your table with a
nuALieu tongue. When YOU are gone,
Caroline, shall devote myself to What,
al or ali, must be the work of nv life,
and shall finish the biosraubic5I his,
tory OF our great hero in verse.-whicb
hope may at least b. not enb.,"araI
From month TO mouth shall Sol 20, 90,
what do, and You will not refnss NV n,a
your friendly criticism and, perhamS
some slight need of approbation,-be'
cause you are dwelling beneath thu
shade of q throne. 0, Caroline, let il
not be upas tree"
The Miss Petries of the world hsv,
this advsDtage,-an advantage which
rarely if ever. falls to the lot of a man.
that they are never convinced OF error
Men, let them keep their work ever 81
closely yelled from public scrutiny, still
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