The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-26
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPR.
Continued
CHAPTERXL.

The Miss Spaldlngs wero met at the
station at Florence by their uncle, the
American minister, by their cousin, the
American secretary of legation, and by
three or four other dear friends and re-
lstiOns, who were there to welcome the |
newcomers to sunny Italy. Mr.. Glas- |
cock, therefore, who ten minutes since |
had been, and had felt himself to be,
quite indispensable to their comfort, |
suddenly became as though he were
nothing and nobody.
Who is there that has not felt these |
sudden descriptions to the intimaCies |
and friendships of a long Journey Hel
bowed TO them, and they to him, and
then they were whirled away in their
grandeur. He put himself into II small
open hackney carriage, aud lad himself
driven to the York Hotel, feeling him
self TO be deserted and deSoiate. The
two Miss Spaldings were the daugh-
tiers of a very respectable lawyer at
Boston, whereas Mr.. Glascock was heir
to a peerage, 10 an enormous fortune,
and to enc of the finest places in Eng
land. But he thought nething of this
at the time. AS he went he was medita-
ting which young woman was the most
attractive, Nora Rowley or Caroline
Spalding. He had no doubt but that
Nora was the prettieT, the pleasanter in
manner, the better dressed, the more
engaging n all that concerned the out
er woman; but he thought that he had
never met any lady who talked better
than Caroline Spslding. Aud what was
Nora ROwiey's beauty to himH Had she
not told him that she was the property
of some one else; or, for the matter of
that, what was Miss Spalding to him
They had parted and he was going Oh to
Naples in two days. He had said some
halfdefned word as TO calling at the
American Embassy, but it had lot been
taken up by either of the ladies. He
had not pressed it and so they had part
ed without an understanding as to fu-
ture meeting.
The double journey, from Turin to
Bologna aud from Bologna to Florence
is very long, aud forms ample time for a
considerable intimacy. There had, too,
been lsng days journeying together
before that; and with no women is a
speedy intimacy SO possible, or indeed
so profitable, as with Americans. They
fear nothing,-neither you nor them
selves; and talk with as much freedom
as though they were men. 1t may, per
haps, be assumed To be true as Il rule,
that women'S society II always more
agreeable TO men than that of other
men,-except for the lack OF ease. 1t
undoubtedly is SO when the women be
young and pretty. There is u feeling
however, among pretty women in Eu-
rope, that such freedom is dangerous, and
- - - Il
and more or less of such withholding is
expSdient; but the American woman
does not recognize the danger; and i'll
she withhold the grace of her counten-
aHce and the pearls of her speech, it is
because she is not DESTROYS OF the society
which is protfered to her. These two
American sisters had not withholden
their pearls from Mr.. GlaEcOck. He was
much their senior in age; he was gentle
in his manners, and they probably re-
cognized him to be safe companion. |
They had no idea whe he was, and Rad |
not heard his name when they parted |
from him. But it was not probable that |
they should have been with him so long, |
and that they should leave him With |
out further thought of him, without |
curiosity, or a desire to know more of
him. They had seen &c. G." in large
letters, on his dressing-bag, aud that
was all they had learned rs to his iden-
tity. He had known their names well.
and had once called Olivia by hers, in
the hurry of speaking to her sister. He
had apologized, aud there had been a
little laugh, and discussion about the
use of Christian names such as is very
conducive TO intimacy between gentle
men and ladies. When you can talk to
o young lady about her own Christian
name, you are almost entitled fer the
nonce to use 1t.
Mr.. GlascOck went 10 his hotel, and
was very moody aud deso!ate. His name
was very soon known there, and he re-
ceived the hOnors due to his rank and
station. Il should like TO travel in
America" he said to himself, eli could
be sure that no ONE would lind ont who 1
l was" He had received letters ut
Turin stating that his father was better,
aud therefore he intended TO remain two |
days at Florence. The weather was
stil very hot, and Florence in the mid |
Nle Oh september is much preferable to |
That night when the two Miss Spald- !
- "'O'c together, they discussed !
their leI,o@' Ii thoroughly. Some
tnlng, OF course, had been said about
nun 10 'ne't usclC the minister, to their
aunt the minister's wife, and ~ 80
cousin the secretary OF legation r.
travellers will always observe that ~
dear new friends they have made ON
their journey are not interesting to the
dear old friends whom they meet after /
wards. There may be some touch of
jealousy in this; and then, though you,
the travellers, are fully aware that there
has been something special in the case
which has made this new friendship
more peculiar than others that have
sprung up in similar circumstances,
fathers and brothers and wives and sis
tiers 30 not see it ia that light. They
suspect, perhaps that the new friend
was pagman, or an onera-dancar and