The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-29
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER XIV.
NTDDOS PARK.

As Hugh Stanbury went over to Less
boro', and from thence to NuncOmbe
Putney, he thought more of himself and
Nora Rowley than he did of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frevelyan. As to Mrs. Trevelyas
and Colonel Osborne, he felt that he
knew everything that it was necessary
that he should know. The man had
heen there, and seen Mrs. Trevelyan.
OF that there could be no doubt. That
Colonel Osborne had bsen wickedly III
different to the evil consequences of
such n visit, and that al the women
conceraed had been most foolish In per-
hitting him to make it, was his present
conviction. But he did not for mo
ment doubt that the visit had, in itself,
been of all things the most innocent.
Trevelyan had sworn that, II his wife
received the man at Nuncombe Putney,
he would never seehe again. She had
seen him, and this oath would be re-
membered; and there would be increas-
ed difficulties. Bat these difficulties,
whatever they might be, must be over
come. When he had told himself this,
then he allowed his mind TO settle on
Nora Rowley.
Hitherto he had known Miss ROwley
only as q fashionable girl living with
the wife of an intimate friend of his
own in London. He had never been
staying in the same house with her.
Circumstances had never given to him
the opportunity of assuming the man
ner of an intimate friend, justifying him
in giving advice, and authorizing him
to assume that semi-paternal tone !
which is by far the easiest preliminary
to Iove-making. When a man can tell
a Young lady what she ought to read,
what she ought to do, and whom she
ought to know, nothing can be easier
than to assure her that, of all her duties |
her first duty is to prefer himself to all |
the world. And any young lady who
has consented to receive lessons from
such teacher will generally be willing
to receive this special lesson among
others. But Stanbury had hitherto had
no such opportunities. In London,
Miss Rowley had been fashionable
young lady, living in May Fair, and he
had been,-well, anything but fash.
ionable young man. Nevertheless, he
had seen her often, had sat by her very !
frequently, was quite sure that he loved
her dearly, and had, perhaps, some self
flattering idea in his mind that had he
stuck to his honorable profession as
baTrister, aud were he possessed of some
comfortable little fortune of his own, he
might, perhaps, have been able, after
due siege operations, to make this
charming citadel his own. Things were
quite changed now For the present.
Miss Rowley certainly would not be re-
garded as a fashionable London young
lady. The house in which he would see
her was, in some sort, her own. He
could be sleeping under the same roof
with her, and would have all the advan-
tages which such a position would give
him. He would have no difficulty now
in asking, if he should choose to ask,
and he thought that she might DO some
what softer, somewhat more likely 10
yield at Nuneombe Putncy, than she
would have been in London. She was
at Nuncombe in weak circumstances, to
a certain degree friendless; with none
of the excitement of society around her,
with no elder sons buZzing about her
and filling her mind, if not her heart.
with the glories of Luxurious pTimogen-
iture. Hugh Stanbury certainly did not
dream that any special elder son had been
so attracted as To have made journey
to Nuncombe Putney on Nora's behalf
Bnt shOnld he on this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
she would be, as il Were, without means
of defence from his attack, should he
therefore take advantage of her weak
nessi She would, Of course, go back to
her London life, after some short alb
,ence, and would again, if free, have her
nance among the favored ones of the
,arth. What had he TO offer 20 her
He had taken the Clock House for his
mother, and it would DO quite as much /
IS he could do, when Mrs. Trevelyan
hOuld have left the village, 30 keep mp :
hat establishment and maintain him
self IN London,-quite as much as he
,ou!u do, even though the favors of the
d. u. should flow upon with their full
est tides. In such circumstances would
t be honorable in him TO ask a girl to
.ove him because lie found her defence.
less in his mothers houseP
'If there bean't another f,r MN
combe," said Mrs. Clegg's HostIer -
Mrs. Clegg's Boots, as Stankgrv v.oS
driven off in gig.
"That be young Stsnbury, a.goiug off.
whome.n
"They be all a-going for the Clock
House. Since the old 'ooman took to
;huck these house, there be folk a-comin'
and a-goin' every day loike.'
"Its along Of the madam that they
keeps there, Dick" said the Boots.
81 didn't care if thero'd be madamS al
lays. They're the best rs is going for
trade allays," said the Hostler.
What the hostler said was true.
When there comes to be feeling that
character is in any way tarn-
shed, there comes another feeling that
erybOdy on the one side may charge .
double. and that everybody on the other