The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-19
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER XXXYII.
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near to the American ladies, and were,
of course, thanked for their politeness.
American women are taught by the hab.
its of their country TO think that men
should give way to them more abso-
lutely than is in accordance with the
practices of life in Europe. A seat in
a public conveyance in the States,
when merely occupied by man, used
to be regarded by any woman as being
at her service as completely as though
it we're vacant. One woman indicating
a place to another would point with
equal freedom to a man or space. 1t
is said that this is little altered now,
and that European views on this sub
iect are spreading themselves. Our
two ladies. however, who were pretty,
clever-l ioking, and attractive, even at
ter the nights journey, were manifestly
more impressed with the villainy of the
French officials than they were with
the kindness of their English neigh
bors.
"And nothing can be done to punish
them 7" said the younger Of them to Mr.
Glascock.
Nothing, l should think" said he.
Nothing will, at any rate"
"And you will not get back your
money 7" said the elder,-who, though
the elder, was probably not much above
twenty.
"Well,-no. Time is money, they say.
1t would take thrice the value of the
time in money, and then one would pro-
badly fail. They have done very well
for us, and | suppose there are difficult
ties"
at couldn't have taken place in our
country" said the younger lady. "All
the same, we are very much obliged to
you. 1t would not have been nice
for us to have to go up into the ban
quette."
"Chey would have put you into the in
terror"
"And that would have been worse. l
hate being put anywhere, cas- if were
q sheep. 1t seems so odd to us, that
you here should be all so tame"
"Do you mean the English, or the
French, or the world in general on this
side of the Atlantici'.
ave mean Europeans" said the
younger lady, who was better after her
breakfast. "But then we think that
sation in their manners and their ways
of life, their climate, the beauty of their
cities, and their general management of
things"
"They are very great in many ways,
no doubt" said Mr.. GlascOck.
"They' do understand living better
than you do" said the elder.
Everything is so much brighter with
them, said the younger.
"They eontrive to give Ia grace 10
everyday existen ce, said the elder.
"There is such a welcome among
them for strangers" said the younger.
Particularly in reference to places
taken in the coupe" said Trevelyan,
who had hardly spoken before.
"Ah, that is an affair of honesty"
said the elder. eff We want honesty,
believe we must go back 20 the stars and
stripes"
MIR. Glascock looked up from his plate
almost aghast. He said nothing, how
ever, but called for the waiter, and paid
for his breakfast. Nevertheless, there
was considerable amount cF travelling
friendship engendered between the
ladies and our two friends before the
diligence bad left the railway yard.
They were two Miss Spaldings, going
on to Florence, at which place they had
an uncle, who was minister from the
States to the kingdom Of Italy; and they
were not at allunwilliug 10 receive such
little civilities as gentlemeu can give TO
ladies when travelling. The whole
party intended to sleep at Turin that
night, and they were altogether on good
terms with each other when they started
on the journey from St Michael.
"Clever women those said Dir. Glas-
cock, as soon as they had arranged their
legs aud arms in the banquette.
Eyes, indeed"
American women always are clever,
and are almost always pretty"
II do not like Them" said Trevelyan,
who in these days was in mood to
like nothing. "They are erigeGHt; and
then they are so hard. They want
the weakness that woman ought to
have.r
That comes from what they would
call your insular prejudice. We are &C
customed to less self-asSertiOn on the
part Oh women than is customary with
them; we prefer women to rule US by
~ ieiu' III the States, as
take 1t, the women never yield, and the |
men nave 10 night their own battles !
with other tactics"
Il don't know what ;heir tactics ar. ,,
"They keep their distance. Theman
live much by themselves, as thonSb
they knew they would not have n
chance in the presence of their wives
and daughters. Nevertheless, thew
don't manage these things badly. You
very rarely hear of an American being
separated from his wife,"
The words were nc sooner out of his
mouth, than Mr.. Glascock knew and
remembered, and felt what he had said.
There are occasions in which a man
SINS so deeply against fitness and the
circumstances Of the hour, that it be-
comes impossible for him to slur over