The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-19
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
By ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
CHAPTER LXNV1,
Continued

There were but few people in Mrs.
Standings dTawing-room when they
were announced; and Mr.. Glascock was
not among them. Miss Wallachia Petrie
was there, and ia the confusion OF the
introduction was presumed by Lady
Rowley to he one of the nieces intro
duced. She had been distinctly told that
Mr.. Glascock was to marry the eldest,
and this lady was certainly older than
the other two. In this way Lady Row
lev decided that Miss Wallachia Petrle
was her daughters hated rival, and she
certainly was much surprised at the
.entleman's taste. But there is nothing
nothing in the way of an absurd mat
rimOnial engagement-into which man
will not allow himself TO be entrapped
by piQue. Nora would have a great deal
to answer for, Lady Rowley thought, If
the unfortunate man should be driven
by her cruelty to marry such woman
rs this one now before her.
1t happened that Lady Rowley seon
found herself seated by Miss Petrie, and
she at once commenced her questionings.
She intended to be very discreet, but
the subject was too near her heart to
allow her to he altogether silent. II
believe YOU know Mr.. Glascock," she
said.
Eyes" said Wallachia, 81 do know
him. Now the peculiar nasal twang
which our cousins over the water have
learned to use, and which has grown out
of q certain national instinct to express
themselves with selt-asSertiOn;-let the
reader go into his closet and talk
through his nose for while with steady
attention TO tho effect which his own
voice will have, and he will find that
this theory is correct;-this intonation,
which is so peculiar among intelligent
Americans, had been adopted con GmOre,
and, rs it were, taken to her bosom Miss
Petrie. Her ears had taught themselves
to feel that there could be no vitality in
speech without it, and that all utterancs
unsustained by such tOno was etfeminate,
vapid, unless, uuPersuasive, unmusical,
and English. 1t was complaint fire.
quently made by her against her friends
Caroline aud Olivia that they debaSed
their voices, and taught themselves the
British mode of speech. II do know
the gentleman" said Wallachia; and
Lady Rowley shuddercd. Could 1T be
that such woman as this was to reign
over Monkhams, and become Lady Pet
eTboroughi
"le told me that he is acquainted with
the family" said Lady Rowley. "He is
staying at our hotel, and my daughter
knew him very well when he was living
in London"
al dare say so. / believe that in Loa.
don the titled aristocrats do hang pretty
much together" 1t had never occurred
to poor Lady Rowley, since the day in
which her husband had been made a
knight at the advice of the Colonial
Minister, in order that the inhabitants
of some island might be gratitied by the
opportunity of using the title, that she
and her children had thereby become
aristocrats. Were her daughter Nora to
marry Mr.. GlaScock, Nora would become
an aristocrat,-or would, rather, be en-
nOblcd, all which Lady Rowley under
stood perfectly.
Il don't know that London society is
very exclusive in that respect" said
Lady Rowley.
said Miss Petrie, "and it seems to me
you don't have much regard to intellect
OF erndition, but fix things up straight
according to birth and money"
nope We are not quite so bad as
iNONltN. 10 not
know London we'll myself, as have
passed nay life in very distant places D
"The distant places are, in nv estima.
ton, the best. The further the mind i
removed from the contamination ;nc;0
dental to the centres of loug-establishaa
luxury, the more chance it has of do,
veloping itselfaccording to the Intention
of the Creator, when he bestowed hi.
gifts of intellect upon us" Lady Row
ley, when she heard this elequence
could hardly believe that such man a
Mr.. Glascock should really be intent up
on marrying such lady as this who wa
sitting next to her.
In the mean time, Nora and the rea
rival were together, and they also wer
talking of Mr.. Glascock. Carolin,
Spalding had said that Mr. Glascock hat
spoken to her of Nora Rowley, and Nori
acknowledged that there had beer
some acquaintance between them in Lon