The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-21
HEKNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
CHAPTER INNNlI.
Continued. ]

CONttNWtN'
Poor Lady Rowley had watched Miss
Petrie and MIR. GlascOck during those
moments that they had been together,
and had half believed the rumOr, and
had half doubted, thinking in the mo-
ments of her belief that Mr.. GlascOck
must be mad, and in the moments of
unbelief that the rumors had been set
adOat by the English minister's wife,
with the express intention OF turning
Mr.. Glascock into rldicule. 1t had never
occurred to her to doubt that Wallachia
was the eldest of the family of nieCes.
Could it be possible that man who had
known her Nora, who had undoubtedly
loved her ra,-whO had travelled all
the way from London tONuncombe Pat
new to ask Nora to be his wife,-shOuld,
within twelve months of that time have
resolved to marry woman whom he
must have selected simply rs being the
most opposite to Nora of any female hui
man being that he could findf 1t was
not credible to her; and if it were not
true, there might still be q hope. Nora
had met him, and spoken TO him, and 1T
had seemed that for a moment or two
they had spoken as friends. Lady Row
ley, when talking to Mrs. Spalding, had
watched them closely; and she had seen
that Morals eyes had been bright, and
that there had been something between
them which was pleasant. Suddenly she
found herself close to Wallachia, and
thought that she would trust herself to
word.
"Have you been long in Florence 7"
asked Lady Rowley, i'll her softeSt
voice.
"a pretty considerable time, ma'am,-
that is since the fall began"
What a voice, what an accent, and
what words Was there n man living
with sufficient courage to take this wo-
man to England, and show her to the
world as Lady Peterborough
care you going to remain in Italy for
the summerp continued Lady Row
ley.
81 guess l shall,-or perhaps, locate
myself in the purer atmosphere of the
Swiss mountains"
Switzerland in summer must certain
ly be much pleasanter."
Il was thinking at the moment of the
political atmosphere" said Miss Petrie;
'tOr although, certainly, much has been
done IN this country IN the way OF strik-
ing of shackles and treading sceptres
under foot, still, Lady Rowley, there re.
mains here that perniciOus thing,-a
king. The feeling of the dominion of a
single mau-and that of single wo-
man is, for aught | know, worse-with
me SO clouds the air, that the breath |
breathe fails 10 fill my lungs" Wal
lachia, rs she said this, put forth her
hand, and raised her chin, and extended
Che ,anSal fanlinf, Ia, .
iustice demanded that Lady Rowley
should have a right of reply. But Lady
Rewley had not word TO say, and Wal
lachia Petrie went on. Il cannot adapt
my body to the sweet savorS aud the
soft Injuries of the outer world with
any comfort to my inner self, while the
circumstances of the society around me
are oppressive To my spirit. When our
war was raging all around me, l was
light-splrIted as the lark that mounts
through the morning sky"
Il should have thought it was very
dreadful said Lady Rowley.
Full of dread, of awe, and of horror,
were those fiery days of indiscrimis ate
slaughter; but they were not days of
desolatisn, because hope was always
there by our side. There was u hope in
when the soul could trust, and the
ant"
II dare say it is" said Lady Rowlev.
"But apathy, and seridom, and kim.
hood, and dominion, drain the fountain
of its living springs, and the sonI hs.
comes like the plummet of lead, Whose
only tendency is to hide itself in suba.
uueous mud and unsavory slush."
Subaqueous mud and unsavory slush
Lady Rowley repeated the words to her
self as Sue made good her escape
and again expressed to herself b con
yiction that it could not possibly be so
The "subaqueous mud and unsavor!
slush," with all that had gone before /
about the soul, was altogether unintel
ligible to her; but she knew shat it wa
American Buncombe of a high order @
eloquence, and she told herself agar
and again that it could not be SO. . Sht
continued to keep her eyes upon Mr.
Glascoek, and soon saw him againg talk