The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-21
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER LXXXVlll.
CRoPPER AND BURGESS.

CHAPTER LXXXNlll.
CRoPPER AND BURGESS.
We must now 90 back to Exeter and
look after Mr.. Brooke Burgess and Miss
Dorothy Stanbury. 1t is rather hard up
on readers that they should be thus
hurried from the completion of hymene-
ais at Florence, to the preparations OF
other hymeneals in Devonshire; but II
is the nature of complex story to be
entaugled with many weddings toward
its close. In this little history there are,
we fear, three or four more to come. We
will not anticipate by abiding TO Hugh
Stanbury's treachery, or death-or the
possibility that he after all my turn out
TO be the real descendant of the true
Lord Peterborough and the actual in
heritor of the title and estate of Monk
hams, nor will we speak of NOra's GER
tain fortit ude under either of these en-
ergeucies. But the Instructed reader
must be aware that Camilla French
ought to have husband found for her;
that Colonel Osborne should be caught
in some matrimonial trap-as how 9th
erwise should he be fifty punishedi-
and that something should be- at least
attempted for Priscilla Stanbury, who
from the first has been intended to be
the real heroine of these pages. That
Martha should marry Giles Hiekbody,
and Barty Burgess run away with Mrs.
MacHugh, is of course evident to the
meanest novel cxpounding capacity;
but the fate of Brooke Burgess and Dor
othy will require to be evolved with
some delicacy and much detail.
There was considerable difficulty IN
fixing tho day. In the first place Miss
Stanbury was not very well-and she
was very iidgety. She must see Brooke
again before the day was fixed, and after
seeing Brooke she must see her lawyer.
"Te have lot of money to look after is
more plague than profit, my dear" she
said to Dorothy one day; particularly
when you don't quite know what you
ought 10 do with it," Dorothy had al
ways avoided any conversation with her
aunt about money since the first mo-
ment in which she had thought of &C
cepting Brooke Burgess as her husband.
She knew that her aunt had some feel
ing which made her averse to the idea
that any por ton of the property which
she had inherited should be enjoyed by
Stanbury after her death, and Dorothy
guided by this knowledge, had almost
convinced herself that her love fol
Brooke was treason either against him
or AGAINST her aunt. If, by engaging
herself to him, she should rob him o
his inheritance, how bitter burden tC
him would her love have been! If, or
the other hand, she should reward hel
aunt for all that had been done for hel
by forcing herself, a Stanbury, into q
position not intended for her, how bast
would be her ingratitude! These
thoughts had troubled her much had
always prevented her from answering
any of her aunt's chance illusions to
the property. For her, things had al
last one very right. She did not quite
know how it had come about, but she
was engaged to marry the man she
loved. Aud her aunt was, at any rate,
reconciled to the marriage. But when
Miss Stanbury declared that she did
not know what to do about the proper
ty, Dorothy could only hold her tongue
She had had plenty to say when it had
been suggested to her that the marriage
should be put off yet for short while
and that, in the meantime, Brooke
should come again to Exeter. She swore
that she did not care for how long il was
put of-only that she hoped it might
not be put off altogether. Aud as fol
Brooke's coming, that, for the present
would be very much nicer than being
married out of hand at once. DOROTHY
ia truth was not at all in a hurry to bI
married, but she would have liked t,
have had her love always coming ant
geing. Since the coSrtship had becom
thing permitted, she had had tn
privilege of welcoming him twice at tn
house IN the Close; and that running
down to meet him in the little from
parlor, and the getting up to make hi
breakf fast for him as he started in tn
morning, were among the happies
epochs of her life. And then as soep a
ever the breakfast was eaten, and b
was gone, she would sit down to writ
him a letter. Oh, th'se letters,
beautifully crossed, more than one c
which was copied from beginning to en-
because some word in IL was not though
to be- sweet enough; a heaven Q
happiness they were TO her, The writ
ing of the first had disturbed her great
ly, and she had almost repented of tn
privilege before it was ended; but wit
the hrst and second the difficulties ha,
disappeared; and, had she not felt some
what ashamed OF the occupation Sh
could have sat at her desk and write
him letters all day. Brooke would an
swer them, with fair regularity ,butin al
most CursOry manner-seuding seven d
eight lines IN return fol two sheets fnll
crossed; but this did not discompose he
III the least. He was worked hard q
his office, and had hundreds of othe
things to do. He, too, could says
thought Dorothy-more in eight lin,
than she could put into as many page
She was quite happy when she W.
told that the marriage could not TAI
place till August, but that Brooke mu
come again i'll July. Brooke did con
In the tirst week of July, and somewh;
norrihed Dorothy by declaring to be
t tn Miss Stanbury was uureasonsbl
IL insist upon leaving London
olten Tor day or two" said he "ho
an TO get anything like leave of a
sence when the time comes' D In q
swer' to this, Dorothy tried to make hi