The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-11
"They all return together-except

"They all return together-except
Nora"
"Who remains to comfort youi
hope you may be comforted-thati is all.
Don't be too particular. Let her choose
her own friends, and 60 her own gait,
and have her own way, and do you be
blind and deaf and dumb and properly
submissive; and it may be that she'll
give you Your breakfast and dinner in
your own house-so long as your hours
don't interfere with her pleasures. II
she should even urge you beside yourself
by her vanity, folly, and disobedience-
so that at last you are driven to express
your feeling-no doubt she will come to
you after while and tell you with the
sweetest condescension that she forgives
You. When she has been out OF your
house for twelvemonth or more, sne
will offer to come back to you, ana 10
forget everthing-on condition that you
will do exactly as she bids you tor 'ne
future"
This attempt at satire, so fatueus, 30
plain, SO false, together with the wouia-
be iaunty manner of the speaker, Wns'
however. failed repeatedly in his utter
ances from sheer physical exhaustion,
was excessively painful to Stanoury.
What can one do at any time with
madamf ~ mentioned my marriage,
said he, "to prove my right to have an
additional interest in your wlfes happl-
ness"
"You are quite welcome, whether
Won marry the other one or not-wel-
come to take any interest you please. l
have got beyond all that, StanburyC
yes, by Jove, long way beyond all
that
"You have not got beyond loving your
wife, and your child, TrevelyanW
"Upon my word, yes-I think have.
There may be a grain of weakness left,
YOU know. But what have you to do
with ny love for my wife"
81 was thinking more just now of her
love for you. There she is at Sisna. You
cannot mean that she should remain
therei"
Certainly not. What the deuce is
there to keep her theref'
"Come with her then to England"
"Why should l go to England with
her' Because you bid me, or because
she wishes it--er simply because Eng,
land is the most damnable, puritanical,
God forgotten, and stupid country on
the face of the globef l know no other
reason for going to England. Will you
take glass of wine, Stanbury 7" Hugh
declined the offer. "You will excuse
me-" continued Trevelyan; 81 always
take glass of wine3 at this hour"
Then he rose from his chair, and helped
himself from a cupboard that was near
at hand. Stanbury, watching him as he
fill led his glass, could see that his legs
were hardly strong enough to carry him
And Stanbury saw, moreover, that the
unfortunate man took two glasses out
of the bottle. $50 to England indeed.
do not think much of this country;
but it is, ut any rate, better than Eng
land"
Hugh perceived that he could no moth
ing more on the present occasion. HAY
ing heard so much of Trevelyan's de-
bility, he had been astonished to hear
the man speak with so much volubility
and attempts at bigh-fown spirit. Be-
fore he had taken the wine he had al
most sunk into his chair, but still he had
continued TO speak with the same fluent
would-be cynicism. II will come ard
see you again." said Hugh, getting up
to take his departure.
"You might as we'll save your trouble,
Stanbury; but you can come If yon
please, you know. If you should lind
yourself locked, cut you won't be angry.
A hermit such Us am must assume priv
ileges."
II won't be angry" said Hugh, good
humoredly.
81 can smell what you are come
about" said Trevelyan. "You and my
wife want to take me away from here
among you, and | think it best to stay
here. / don't want much for myself,
and why should not live heref My
wife can remain at Siena if she pleases,
or she can go to England if she pleases.
She must give me the same liberty-the
same liberty-the same liberty" After
this he fell a-coughlng violently, and
Stanbury thought it better to leave him,
He had been at Casalunga about two
hours, and did not seem as yet TO have
done any good. He had been astonished
both by Trevelyan's weakness, and by
his strength; by his folly, and by his
sharpness. Hitherto he could see no
way for his future sister-iu-law out OF
her troubles.
When he was with her ut Siena, he
described what had taken place with all
the accuracy in his power. "He has
intermittent days." said Emily. "To'
morrow he will be in quite another
frame of mnd-melancholy, silent per.
haps, and 'self-reproachiul. We will
both 20 to morrow, and we shall find
probably that he has forgotten altogeth-
er what has passed to-day between you
and him."
So their plans for the morrow we're
formed.
To be Continued.