The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-27


not know where the seven oaks are. Do
you rsmombsr telling me of tho seven
oaks ?"
'Of course do. They are five miles
off,-at Citation farm, Garry. I don't
thfnl, you have been near Clatton yet.
We will ride there tomorrow" And
thus Nora Rowley was made at home at
Monkh&ms.
She was made at home, and efter a
week eE TWO abe vas very happy. She
soon perceived that Ter Lost vas per
feet gentleman, aud as such, q man TO
be much loved. She had probably new
er questioned the fact, whether Dir.
Glascock was gentleman or not, and
now she did not snalyze it. 1t proba-
bly, never occurred to her, even at the
present time, to say to herself that he
was certainly that thing, so Impossible
OF definition, and so capable OF recos'
milton; but she knew that she had 10 40
with one whose presence was S-Na!s
pleasant 20 her, whose words ana aCS
toward Ter extOIJoi her fppTcpatl"n'
whose thoughts seemed 20 nor to DC a.
yavs rood and manly. Ci course SIZE
hai not loved him, because enc mad Irc-
vianslv known Hugh Stanburv. ihere
corII he no comparison between the
tyro mon. Therewas brigh tDess abeut
HIGH which Lord Peterborough could
NOT rival. Otherwise. except for this
reason, 1T seemed to her 10 be lmpossl-
bic that any yOUng woman should fait
TO love Lord Peterborough when asked
to do SO.
About the middle Of September there
came very happy time for her, when
Hugh was asked down To shoot part
ridges,-in the doing Of which, howev-
or, al his brightness did not bring him
near II excellence 10 his host. Lord
Peterborough had been shooting part
ridges all his life, and shot them with
precision which excited Hugh's envy.
To own the truth, Stanbury did not
shoot well, and was treated rather with
scorn by the gamekeeper; but in other
respects he spent three or four of the
happiest days of his life. He had lis
work to do, and after the second day
over the stubbles, declared that the ex-
igencies of the ID. Il. were to severe too
enable him;to 90 out with his gun again;
but those rambles about the park with
Nora, for which, among the exigencies
OF the ID. K. he did find opportunity,
were never to be forgotten.
"Of course / remember that it might
have been mine," she said, sitting with
him under an old hollow, withered,
sloping stump of an oak, which still,
however, had sufficient of head grow
ing from one edge of the trunk to give
them the shade they wanted; land
if you wish me to own to regrets, l
will"
sit would kill me, l think, if you did;
and yet l cannot get it out of my head
that if it had not been for me your rank
and posistion in life might have been so
so suitable to you"
mo, Hugh; there you're wrong. /
have thought about it good deal, too;
and l know very well that the cold
beefsteak in the cupboard is the thing
for me. Caroline will do very we'll here.
She looks like a peeress, and bears her
honors grandly; but they will never
hard en- her. !, too, could have been
magnificent with fine feathers. Most
birds are equal to so much as that. l
fancy that could have looked the part
of the fine English lady, and could have
patronized clergymen's wives III the
country, could have beid my own
among my p3erg in Lo1dOn, and could
have hardened me, and should have
learned to think that 10 be lady OF
fashion was every thing"
al do not believe bit of it,"
at is better as it is, Hugh,-for me,iat
least. / had alwaysa sort of conviction
that it would be better, though | had
longing to play the other part. Then
came, anu you have saved mo. Never
thsless, it is very nice, Hugh, to have
the oaks 10 sit under" SJanbury de-
Glazed that il was very nice.
Bn' still nothing was settled about
ill., w,dd!u-. lTuvcly ans condition
Was so oacerUatu thai IL WAS very diff
cult to settle any thing. Though moth
ing was said on the subject between
StanDury aud Mrs. Treveiyan, and
nothing written between Nora and her
sister, it could not but be remembered
that, should Trevelyan die, his widow
would require home with them. They
were deferred from choosing house by
this reflection, and were deferred from
naming day also by the consideration
that. we're hey 10 30 IA, Trovelyan'5
stare mirhL still Nrohrblv prevent i.
Gn- i IS was arranged that i Ircvel
yam lived through the winter, u even
II he should not live their marriage
skonld not be postponed beyond tie end
Of m@Ich III that time Lord "etcc-
borough would remain a5 Monk cams,
and II was understood thai Nora's invi
tation extended to that period.
"If my wife does not get tired of you,
l shall not" Lord Peterborough had
said to Nora. The thing is that when
you do go We shall miss you SO terribly"
In September, too, there happened an.
other event which took Stanbury to
Exc or, ali nccGfGi particulars as to that
event shan he narrated Ill the next
chapter.
To be Continued