The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-28
HE KNEW he WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
Continued.
CHAPTER Tx.
ANnrHER STRUGGLE.

ANOTHER STRUGGLE.
Sir Marmaduke and Lady ROwley
were to reach England about the end OF
March or the beginning of April, and
both Mrs. Trevelyan and Nora Rowley
were almost sick for their arrival. Both
their uncle and aunt had done very
much for them, had been true to them
in their need, and had Submitted to end
less discOmfortS in order that thelrnlecCS
might have respectable shelter in their
great need; but nevertheless their con-
Juct had not been of kind TO produce
either love or friendship. Each of the
sisters felt that she had been much bet |
ter off at Nuncombe Putney, and that
either the weakness of Mrs, Stanbury,
or the hardness of Priscilla, was pretera-
BILE to the repulsive forbearaGce OF their
clerical host. He did not scOld them.
He never threw it in Mrs. Trevelyan's
teeth that she had been separated from
her husband by her own fault; he did not
tell them of his own discomfort. But he
showed il in every gesture, and spoke
of il in every tone of his vOiCe;-sO that
Mrs. TrevelyanycOuld not refrain from
apologizing for the misfortune of her
presence.
"My DEAR" he said, things can't be
pleasant aud unpleasant at the same
time. You were quite right to come
here. am glad for all our sakcs that
Sir Marmaduke will be with us 50
soOn.'
She had almost given up in her mind
the hope that she had long cherished,
that she might some day be able to live
again with her husband. Every step
which hc now took in reference TO her
seemed to be prompted by so bitter a
hostility, that she could not but believe
that she was hateful to him. How was
it possible that a husband and his wife
should again come together, when there
had been between them such an ennis
sary as a detective policeman Mrs.
Trevelyan had gradually come to learn
that BozZle had been at Nuncombe Put
ney, watching her, and to be aware that
she was still under the surveillance of
his eye. For some months past now she
had neither seen Colonel Osborne, nor
heard from Kim. He had certainly by
his folly done much to produce the ruin
which had fallen upon her; but it never
occurred to her to blame him. Indeed,
she did not know that he was liable to
Dldulos MI OulNOuoO oPNNO ~
him with indignant sCorn, andNora had
learned to think that much of their
misery was due to his imprudenCe. But
Mrs. Trevelyan would not see, and, not
seeing it, was more widely separated
from her husband than she would have
been had she acknowledged that any
excuse for misconduct had been afford
ed by the vanity aud folly of the Other
man.
Lady Rowley had written TO have u
furnished house taken for them from the
first of April, and house had been
secured in Manchester Street. The stu
alton in question is not one which is OF
itself very charming, nor is it supposed
to be in high degree fashionable; but
Nora looked forward to her escape from
St. Diddulph's TO Manchester Street as
though Paradise were to be reopened to
her as sOOn as she should he there with
her father and mother. She was quite
clear now as to her course about Hugh
Stanbury. She did not doubt but she
could so argue the matter as to get the
consent of her father and mother. She
felt herself to be altogether altered in
her views of life, since experience had
come upon her, first at Nuncombe Put
ney, and after that much more heavily
and seriously, at st. Diddulphs. She
looked back as though to childish
dream to the ideas which had prevailed
with her when she had told herself, a
she used TO do SO frequently, that sht
was unit to be poor mans wife. Why
should she bemore unit for such a posi-
ton than another! OF course Their,
were many thoughts in her mind, mucl
of memory if nothing of regret, in re
gard to Mr.. Glascock and the splendo
that had been offered to hsg, She ha
had her chance of being a rich man
wife, and had rejected it,-had rejec;e
il twice, with her eyes open. Reader
willsay that if she loved Hugh Stanbur
with all her heart there could be moth
ing OF regret in her reflections. But W
are perhaps accustomed in Judging TO
ourselves and of others to draw the line
too sharply, and to say that on this sid
lie vice, folly, heartleSsneSS, and greed
and on the other honor, love, truth
and wiSdom,-the good and the ba,
each in its own domain. But the goo,
and the bad mix themselves SO thorough
ly IN orr thoughts, even in our aSpira
tons, that We must look for excellenc
rather IN overcoming evil than in free
ing ourselves from its influence. Their
Rad been many moments of regret viii
Nora, Ont none of remor,s. AT the Yer,
moment IN which she had semi MI
Glascook away from her, and had f,I
that he had now been sont away for al
ways, she had been fun of r,.gra,
Since that there had been many hon
in which she had thought OF her ow
self-lesson, of that teaching by whic
she had striven to convince herself tbs
she could never ftly become a po,
mans wife. But the upShot of il q
was healthy pride in what she Ia
done, and a strong resolution that 81
would make shirts and hem towels f
her husband if he required it. 1t BIS
been given her TO choose, and she hI
chosen. She had found herself unab
TO tell man that she loved him wht
she did not love him,-and equally n
able to conceal the love which she d
feel IF he wheeled barrow of tn