The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-10
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER XCIi.
TREvELYAN DISCoURSES on LIFE.

TREVELYAN DISCOURSES ON LIFE.
Stanbury made his journey without
pause or hindrance till he reached Flor
ence, and as the train for Siena made il
necessary that he should remain there
fer four or five hours, he went to an inn
and dressed and washed himself, and
had a meal, and was then driven TO
Spalding's house. He found the Amerl
can Minister at home, and was received
with cOrdiality; but Mr.. Spalding could
tell him little or nothing about Irevel
yam. They went up to Mrs. Spalding's
room, and Hugh was told by her that
she had seen Mrs. Trevelyan once since
her niece's marriage, and that then she
had represented her husband as being
very feeble. Hugh in the midst of his
troubles, was amused by fourth, refer
eEce to Lady Peterborough" Mrs.
Spalding's latest tidings as to the IRE
velyans had been received through
Lady Peterborough" from Nora Row
ley. Lady Peterborough" was at the
present moment at Naples, but was eX-
pected to pass north through Florence
in day or two. They, the Spaldings
themselves, were kept III Florence ID
stance. They were going up to the
Tyrolese mountains for a few weeks a'
soon as Lady Peterborough should
have left them for England, Lady
Peterborough" wOulG have been so hap
by to mako Mr. Staubury's acquaiEt
ance, and to have heard something di
rect from her friend Nora. Then Mrs
Spalding smiled urchly, showing there
by that she knew all about Hugh Stan
bury and his relation to Nora Rowley.
From all which and in accordance with
the teaching which We got-alas, now
many years agr-frOm ii great master on
the subject, We must conclude that poor,
dear Mrs. Spaldipg was Il snOb. Never
theless, with all Difference to the mem
DRY of that great master, we think that
Mrs. Spalding's allasionS TO the success
in life achieved by her niece were natural
and altogether pardonable;and that reti-
cence on the suhject-a calculated de-
termination to abstain from mention
ing triumph which must have been
very dear to her-would have betrayed
on the whole a condition of mind lower
than that which she exhibited. While
rank, wealth, and money are held TO be
good things by all around us, let them
he acknowledged rs such. 1t is natural
that mother should he rs pround when
her daughter marrics an Earl's heir as
when her son becomes Senior WraRgler;
ana when we meet lady in Mrs Snald-
ing conuuon who purposely abstains
from mentioning the name OF her titled
daughter, we shall be disposed to Judge
harshly OF the secret workings of tLrt
lady'S thoughts on the subject. W.
prefer the exhibition, which We feel IN
be natural Mr.. SpaIding got our friend
by the button hole, ana was maxine
him speech on the pcriiOus condition
in which Mrs. Trevelyan was placed:
but Stanbury, urged by the circum.
stances of his position, pulled out his
watch, pleaded the hour, and escaped
He found Mrs. Trevelyan waiting fol-
him at the station at Siena. He would
hardly have Known her-nOt from any
alteration that was physically personal
to herself, not that she had become old
er IN face, or thin, or gray, or sIckly-
but that the trouble of her life had rob-
bed her for the time of that brightness
Oh apparel, OF that pride of feminine
gear, OF that sheen of high-bred wo'
manly bearing with which our wives
anu daughters are so careful to invest
themselves. She knew herself to be a
NIe'cheu woman, whose work In life
no" was TO watch over a Door nrostrate
WRETCH and who had thrown bebind
hef ali IDEAS OF grace and benutv I,
was not quickly that this condition had
come upon her. She had bacn r1hn,
py at NuncOmbe Putnev. H.. "P
ness had not then told upon the dT.
ward woman. She had been me-
wretched still at St. Diddulph's, and ~
the outward circumstances of her If,
in her uncle's parsonage had been very
wearisome to her; but she had striveT
against it all. and the sheen and out
ward brightness had still been there
After that her child had been takel
from her, and the days which she hat
passed in Manchester Street had beer
very grieveus;-but even yet she haC
not given way. 1t was not till her chill,
naa been brought back to her, and SD,