The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-05
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Continued

But the arguments on the other side
are equally cOgent, and so much more
alluring! And they are used by the
same man with reference to the same
passion, and are intended by him to put
himself right in his conduct in refer
ence to the same dear girl. Only the
former line of thoughts occurred to him
on a Saturday, when he was ending his
week rather gloomily, and this other
way of thinking on tho same subject has
come upon him on Monday, as he is
beginning his week with renewed hope.
Does this young girl of his heart love
hint And if so, their affection for each
other being thus reciprocal, is she not
entitled to an expression of her opinion
and her wishes on this difficult subjecti
And if she be willing to run the risk
and to encounter the dangers,-to do so
on his behalf, because she is willing to
share everything with him,-is it be-
coming in him. a man, to fear what she
does not fears If she be not willing, let
her say so. fthere be any speaking, he
must speak first; but she is entitled, as
much as he is, to her own ideas respect
ing their great outlook into the affairs
of the world. And then is it not mani
testify Gods ordinance that man should
live together with womanf How
poor creature does the man become
who has shirked his duty in this re-
spect, who has done nothing to keep
the world going, who has been willing
to ignore all affection so that he might
avoid all burdens, and who has put into
his own belly every good thing that has
come to him, either by the earning of
his own hands or from the bounty and
industry of others! OF course there
is risk; but what excitement is there
in anything in which there is monet So
on the Tuesday he speaks his mind to
the young lady, and tells her candidly
that there will be potatoes, for the two
ofthem,-sufficient, as he hopes, of po-
tatoes, but no more. AS a matter of
course the young lady replies that she,
fer her part, will be quite content to
take the parings for her own eating.
Then they rush deliciously into each
others arms and the matter is settled.
For, though the convictions arising
from the former line of argument may
be set aside as often as need be, those
reached from the latter are generally
conclusive. That such a settlement
will always be better for the young
gentleman and the young lady concern
ed than one founded on sterner pru-
deuce is more than one may dare to say;
but we do feel sure that that country
will be most prosperous in which such
leaps in the dark are mads with the
greatest freedom.
Our friend Hugh, as he sat smoking
on the knife-board of the omnibus, de.
termined that he would risk everything
If it were ordained that prudence
should prevail, the prudence should be
hers. Why should he take upon him
self to have prudence enough for two,
seeing that she was so very discreet in
all her bearingsi Then he remember
the touch of her hand, which he still
felt upon his palm as he sat handling
his pipe, and he told himself that after
that he was bound TO say word more.
And moreover he confessed to himself
that he was compelled by a feeling that
mastered him altogether. He could n OF
get through an hours work without
throwing down his pen and thinking of
Nora Rowley. 1t was his destiny to love
her,-and there was to his mind a mean,
pettifogging secrecy, amounting almost
TO daily lying, in his thus loving her /,
and not telling her that he loved her.
1t might we'll be that she should re =
buke him; but he thought that he could
bear that. 1t might we'll be that he
had altogether mistaken that touch of
her hand. After all, it had been the
slightest possible motion of no more
than one finger. But he would at any
rate know the truth. If she would tell
him at once that she did not care for
him, he thought that he could get over
il; but life was not worth having while
he lived in this shifty, dubious and I'M
comfortable state. So he made up his
mind that he would go to ST. Diddulphs
with his heart in his hand.
In the mean time, Mr.. Bozzle had
been twice 10 st. Diddulphs; and now
he made a third journey there, two
DAYS after Stanbury's visit. Trevelyan,
who, in truth, hated the sight of the
man, and who suffered agonies in his
presence, had, nevertheless, taught him
self to believe that he could not live
without his assistance. That it should
be so was a part of the cruelty of his
lot. Who else was there that he could
trusti His wife had renewed her in
timacy with Colonel Osborne the mo-
ment that she had left him. Mrs. Stan
oury' who had been represented to him
as the most correct.o of matrons, had at
once been false to him aud to her trust
IN allowing Colonel Osborne 10 enter
her house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clubhouse, with whom
his wife had now located harso,f No,
by MS orders, were, OF course, his enc
mics. His old friend, Hugh Stanbnrv
had gone over to the other side, and ho6
quarrelled with him purposeiy, with
malice prepense, because he would not
submit himself to the caprices of the
wife who had injured him. His own
lawyer had refused to act for him; and
his fast and oldest ally, the very person
who had sounded in his ear the earliest
warning note against that odious vii
lain, whose daily work it was to de-
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