The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-22
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT,
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
[CORtiHaed.l
CHAPTER LYIII.
nnpnTuN At HOME.

Dorothy was received at home with
so much affection and such expressions
of esteem as to afford her much consola-
ton in her misery. Both her mother
and her sister approved OF her conduct.
Mrs. Staubury's approval was indeed
accompanied by many expressons OF re-
greet as to the good things lost. She was
fully alive TO the fact that life III the
Close at Exeter was better for her
daughter than life in their little cottage
at Nuucombe Putney. The outward
appearance which Dorothy bore on her
return home was proof of this. Her
clothes, the set of her hair, her very
gestures and motions had framed them
selves on town ideas. The faded wild
cred, washed-out look, the uncertain,
purposeless bearing which had come
from her secluded life and subsection TO
her sister had vanished from her. She
had lived among people, and had learn
ed something of their gait and carriage.
Money, we know, will do almost every
thing, and no doubt money had had
much to do with this. 1t is very pretty
TO talk of the alluring simplicity OF
clean calico gown; but poverty VIII
show itself to be meagre, dowdy ana
6raggled in womau'S dress, let the
woman be ever SO simple, ever so neat,
ever so Independent, and ever so high
hearted. Mrs. Stanbury was quite alive
to all that her younger daughter was
losing. Had she not received two offers
of marriage while she was at Exeter
There was no possibility that offers Of
marriage should be made in the cottage
at Nuncombe Putuey. A man within
the walls of the cottage would have
been considered as much out of place as
wild bull. 1t had been matter of deep
regret to Mrs. Stanbury that her daugh-
ter should not have found herself able
to marry Mr.. Gibson. She knew that
there was NO matter for reproach in this,
but it was misfortune,-a great mis-
fortune. And in the mothers breast
there had been u sad ,unrepressed feeling
of regret that young people should so
often lose their chances in the world
though observation-disclosures, and ignorance
as TO their own good. Now when she
heard the story of Brooke Burgess, she
could not but think that, had Dorothy
remained at Exeter, enduring patiently
such hard words as her aunt might
speak, the love affair might have been
brought at some future time to happy
conclusion. She did not say all this;
but there came on her q silent melan-
choly, made expressive by constant lit
tie shakiugs of the head aud acontinued
reprOachful sadness of demeanor, which
was quite as Ineligible 10 Priscilla as
would have been any spoken words.
But Priscilla's approval of her sisters
conduct was clear, outspoken, and salts
factory. She had been quite sure that
her sister had been right about Mr.
Gibson, and was equally sure that she
was now right about Brooke Burgess
Priscilla had in her mind an idea thai
if b. B., rs they called him, was bali as
good as her sister represented him tc
6e,-for, indeed, Dorothy endowed him
with every virtue consistent with hu
manity,-he would not be deferred from
his pursuit either by Dolly's letter or by
Aunt Stanburys commands. But OF
this she thought It wise TO say nothing
She paid Dolly the warm and hitherto
unaccuStOmed compliment of equality,
assuming to regard her sisters judgment
anu persistent independence TO be
equally strong with her own; and, as
she knew we'll, she could not have gone
inrther than this. Il never shall agree
with you about Aunt Staubury,n she
SAID. TO me she seems to De so lmperi.
Gus, so exacting, and also so unjust, as
TO be unbearable.n
But she is atfeetionate," said Dolly
$50 is the dog that bites you, and. 10,
aught know, the horse that kicks Won
But it is i'll living with biting dogs and
kicking horses. Bat all that matter,
little as you are stillyour own mistress
How strange these nine months hav,
been, with you in Exeter, while We hav
Leen at the Clock House. And here W
are. together again in the old way, jus
as though nothing had happened" Blu
Dorothy knew Well that great deal ha'
happened, and that her life could neve
be as it had been heretofore. The YER
tone ia which her sister spoke TO he
was proof of this. She had an intinitel
greater possession in herself than ha,
belonged to her before her residence a
Exeter; but that possession was 20 heay