The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-24

times in which bis mind is active as
ever it was, but it is active in 90 terrible
q directionp
II cannot sit and hear it. And what
am / to say when he asks me q question
as he did Just nowi He said that you
had confessed"
e $50 l have. Do none confess but the
guiltyf What is all that we have read
about the Inquisition and the old tor
turesi / have had to learn that tortur-
ing has not gone out of the world
that is all.
~ must 60 away II he ssys the same
thing to me 80 again.
THAT Is nonsense, Nora, If / can
bear 1t, cannot you9 Would you
have me drive him into violence again
by disputing with him upon such sub
jectp .wTAn o2--rrTar-Ar
But he may recover,-and then he
will remember what you have said"
IF he RECEIVERS altogether, he wiz
suspect nothing. must take my chance
of shat. You cannot suppose tnas 4
have not thought about it. have oIten
sworn to myself that though the woria
should fall around me, nothing shoulo
make me acknowledge that had ever
been untrue to my duty as married
woman either in deed, or WORD, OF
Thought. Ihave ne doubt that the poor
wretcbes who were tortured in their
cslls nsed TO make the same resolutions
az to their confessions. But yet, when
their nails were dragged out OF them
they would own to anything. My nails
have been dragged ont, and i have been
willing to confess anything. When he
talks Of the pity of it, of course l knew
what he means. There has been some
thing, some remainder of q feeling,
which has still kept him from asking ME
that question. May God in bis mercy
continue to him that feeliDg!'
"But you would answer truly I"
"How can say what might answer
when the torturer is at my naiisf If
You knew how great was the difficulty
to get him away from that place in TIA.
ly aud bring him here; and what it was
to feel that one was bound to stay near
him, and that, yet, one was impotent,-
and to know that even that refuge must
soon cease for him, and that he might
have gone out and died on the roadside,
or have done anything which the mo-
mentary strength Of madness might
have dictated,-if you could under
stand all this, yen would not be surpris.
ed at my submitting to any degrade
ton which would help to bring him
here" ----
Stanbury was often down at the cot
tage, an MOI a could discuss the matter
better with him than with her sister.
Aud StsDbury could learn more thor
oughly from the physician who was now
attending Trevelyan what was the state
of the sick man, than Emily could do.
According to the doctors idea, there was
more ailment in the body than in the
mind. He admitted that his patient'e
thoughts bad been forced to dwell op
Jue subject till they bad become distor
ted, untrue, jauudiced, aud perhaps
but he seemed to doubt
whether there had ever been time at
which it could have been decided that
the law should interfere to take care oil
him. A man-so argurd the Doctor
need not be mad because he is jealous,
even though his jealousy be ever so
absurd. And Trevelyan, in his jealousy
bad done nothing cruel, nothiug waste
fuI, nothing Infamous. In all this
Nora was very little Inclined TO agree
with the doctor, aud thought no hing
could be more Infamous tnan Trevel
vans conduct at the present. moment
unless, indeed, he could lbs screened
from infamy by that plea of madness
But then there was more behind. IRE
velyan had been 80 wasted by the kind
IF life which he had led, and possessed
by nature stamina SO insufficient to re-
,ist such debility, that it was very
doubtful whether he would not sink
before he could be made to
begin to rise. But one thing was clear.
He should be contradicted in nothing.
Ii he chose to say that the moon was
made of green cheese, let it be conceded
to him that the moon was made ofgreen
cheese. Should he make any other
assertion equally removed from the
truth, let it not be contradicted. Who
would oppose man with one foot in
the gravel
"Then, Hugh, the sooner i am at
Monkbams the better" said Nora, who
had again been subjected to innueadoes
which had been uncomfortable to her.
This was on the 9TH of August, and is
still wanted three days to that on which
the Journey to Monkhams was to be
made.
"He never SAYS any thing to me on the
subject" said Hugh.
because you have made him afraid
of you. almost think that Emily and
the doctor are wrong in their treatment
and that il would be better to stand mp
to him and tell him the truth" But
the three days passed away, and Nora
was not driven to any such vindieation
of her sisters character toward her sis
ter's husband. -.g
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