The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-18
HEKNEW he WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
CHAPTER LXIY
Continual

+ Continued
When he left the room, he again met
Mrs. French on the landing-place. She
hesitated a moment, waiting to see
whether the door would be shut; but the
door could not be shut, as Camilla was
standing in the entrance. "Mr. Gibson"
said Mrs. French, in a voice that was
scarcely whisper, "would yon mind
stepping in and seeing poor Bella for a
momentf
"Why. she is in bed" said Camilla.
eyes, she is in bed, but she thinks it
would be o comfort to her. She has
seen nobody these four days except Mr..
Martin, and she thinks it would comfort
her to have a word or two with Mr.. Glib |
son." Now Mr.. Gibson was not only
going to be Bella's brother-iu-law, but
he was also clergyman. Camilla in
her heart believed that the half-clerical
aspect which her mother had given to
the request was false and hypOcritical.
There were special reasons why Bella
should not have wished to see Dir. Glib
SON in her bedroom, at any rate TIL Mr..
Gibson had become her brother-ln-law.
The expression of such wish at the
present moment was almost indecent
lOu IL HDo HJhCIO WIN NuShi oNAN
Camilla. Mr.. Gibson blushed up to
his ears as he heard the suggestion.
"Of course you'll be there with them,
mamIsa."
"No, my dear, think not. l fancy
she wishes him to read to her,--or some
thing Of that SORT" Then Mr.. Gibson,
without speaking a word, but still
blushing up to his ears, was taken to
Arabella's room; and Camilla, tlounciDg
into the drawing-room, banged the door
behind her. She had hitherto fought her
battle with considerable skill and with
great courage; but her very success had
made her imprudent. She had become
so imperious in the great position which
she had reached, that she could not con-
troll her temper or wait till her power
was confirmed The banging of that
door was heard through the whole house,
and every one knew why it was banged.
She threw herself on to a sofa, and then,
instantly rising again, paced the room
with quick step. Could it be possible
that there was treacheryf Was it on
the cards that that weak, poor creature,
Bella, was intriguing once again to de-
fraud her of ner husband. There were
different things that she now remembe
ed. Arabella, in that moment OF bliss
in which she had conceived herself to
be engaged to Mr.. Gibson, bad discard
ed her ChigROR. Then she had resumed
it,-in all its monstrous proportions
Since that il had been lessened by de
grees, aud brought down, through varl
GUS interesting but abnormal shapes, tC
size which would hardly have drawn
forth any anathema from Miss Stan
bury. And now on this very morning
Arabella had put on clean night-cap
with muslin frills.
1t is perhaps not unnatural thata sick
lady, preparing TO receive clergyman
in her bedroom, should put on clean
nightcap,-but to suspicious eyes sma II
causes suffice to create alarm. And il
there were any such hideous wickedness
in the wind, had Arabella any colleague
in her villainyf Could il be that the
mother was plotting against her daugh-
ter's happiness and responsibility :
Camilla was we'll aware that her NAM
ma would at first have preferred TO give
Arabella to Mr.. Gibson, had the choice
in the matter been left to her. But now
when the thing had been settled before
all the world, would not such treat
ment on o mothers part be equal to in
fanticidef And then as to MIR. Gibson
himself! Camilla was not prone to
think little of her own charms, but she
had been unable not to perceive that
her lover had become negligent IN his
personal attentions to her An accepted
lover who deserve to have been accepted,
SHOULD devote every hour at his CON-
mand to his mistress, But Mr.. Gibson
had of late been so chary of his presence
at Heavitree, that Camilla could not but
have known that he took no delight in
coming thither. She had acknowledged
this to herself; but she had consoled her.
self with the reflection that marriage
would make this all right. Mr.. Gibson
was not the man to stray from his wife,
and she could trust herself to obtain a
sufficient hold upon her husband here
after partly by the strength of her
tongue, partly 10y the ascendency of her
spirit, and partly, also, by the comforts
which she would provide for him. She
had not doubted but that il would be all
Wen when they should be married.
out now II, even now, there should be
no marriage for herr Camilla Fnench
nao never heard of Creusa aud of Jason.
out as sac paced her mothers DRAWING.
room Inat morning she was a Medea in
- any plot of that kind should
DC III t1e vino, she would do such tbinUs
Inse vi he'onsnlre should hear of her
wrongs and ofsher revenge! VI nei
IN the mean time Mr.. 6ihso,, -.
ting by Arabella's bedside, Mbue S ST
French was trying to make herself bnsr
in her own chamber, next door. Tbany
had been reading of some 0hapter ~
the Bible,-of some portion of a cbanter
And Mr.. Gibson, as he read, and Ara
bella, as she listened, had endeavore,
to take to their hearts and to make us
of the Word which they heard. Tn
poor young woman, when she begge,
ner mother to send to her the man VIII
vas SO dear to her, did so with som
uniformed condition that it would b
so09 Ior her to hear clergyman rea,
been nT Ts.a But now the chapter ha,
Gibson's pocket, ana ha "S oacA IN AL
with his hand on the bed. "sbe Si Is :