The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-30
He KNEW HE WASRIGHT
~ ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER LINN.
lCOntinned.

Every thing around her was pleasant
till there came to her touch OF sus-
piciou that the marriage which MIR.
Glascock was going TO make would be
detrimental to her intended husband In
his own country. There were many In
Florence who were saying this besides
the wife of the English Minister and
Lady Rowley. OF course Caroline Spal-
ding herself was the last TO hear it, and
to her the idea was brought by Walla.
CHA Petrie.
81 wish could think you would make
yourself happy-or him, Wallachia had
said, croaking.
"Why should l fail to make him hap
pyp
because you are not of the same
blood, or race, or manners as himself.
They say that he is very wealthy in his
own country, and that those who live
around him will look coldly Oh you"
$50 that he does not look coldly, do
not care how others may look" SAID
Caroline proudly.
"Bnt when he finds that he has in.
iured himself by such marriage IN the
estimation of all his friends-how Will
il be then = .,,.
ThlS set CarOUne opdIuluS VhlhhihS
of what she WAS doing. She began TO
realize the feeling that perhaps she
might not be fit bride for al English
lords son, and in her agony she came to
Nora Rowley for counsel. After all,
how little was il that she knew of the
home and the country to which she vas
10 be carried She might not, perhaps.
Get adequate advice from Nora, but she
would probably learn something on
which she could act. There was no one
else among the English at Florence to
whom she could speak with freedom
When she mentioned her fears to her
aunt, her aunt of course laughed at her.
Mrs. Spalding told her that Mr.. Glas-
cock might be presumed to know his
own business best, and that che, as an
American lady of high standing-the
niece of minister.-w fitting match
for any Englishman, lot him be over so
much lord. But Caroline was not
comforted by this, and in her suspense
she went to Nora Rowley. She wrote
line to Nora, and when she called at
hotel, was taken up to her friends bed
room. She found great difficulty in
telling her story, but che did tell it.
Miss Rowley," she said, ''if this is y
silly thing that he is going TO do, l am
bound TO save him from his own folly.
You know your own country better than
do. Will they think that he has dis
graced himselff"
Certainly not that said Nora.
"Shan l be load round his neck 7
Miss Rowley, for my own sake l would
not endure such position as that, not
even though l love him. But for his
sake! Think Of that. If find that PEG.
ple think i'll of him-because of me-
mo one will think i'll of him."
at is esteemed needful that such a
one as he should marry woman of his
own rank. can bear TO end it all now
but shall not be able to bear. his hu
initiation, and my own despair, If tinC
that have injured him. Tell me PLAIN
ly-is il marriage that he should moi
make y
Nora paused for a while before sh'
answered, and as she sat silent the othel
girl watched her face carefully. Nora
on being thus consulted, was very care
ful that her tongue shoald utter moth
ing that was not her true opinion as
best she knew how to express it. Hell
sympathy would have prompted her &c
give such an answer as would at once
nav Sase made Caroline happy in her. mind
She would have been delighted to have
peen aoie TO declare that these doubts
We're utterly groundless, and this hest
tation needless. But she Conceived that
she owed IL as DUTY from Que woman
to another to speak the truth as oh.
conceived it on so momentous an ocra,
sion, and she was not sure but that Mr.
Glascock would be considered by hi,
friends in England to be dong badly il
marrying an American girl. What sh,
did not remember was this-that he
very hesitation was in fact an answer
and such an answer as she was most IN
willing to give. &
81 see that it would beso," said Care
line.
mo; not that"
"What theni Win they despise hill
and mop HNg ~-'.'1
No one who knows you can despis
you. No one who sees you can fail