The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-13
CHAPTER xxxvI.
MISS srANpuRY,s WRATH.

had been driven into a corner by the |
pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French.
de never for moment thought of being
false to Miss Stanbury the elder. False
ness of that nature would have been
ruinous to him,-would have made him
marked man in the city all his days,
and would probably have reached even
to the bishops ears. He was neither
bad enough, nor audacious enough, nor
foolish enough for such perjury as that.
And, moreover, though the wiles of Ara
bella had been potent with him, he very
much preferred Dorothy Stanbury.
Seven years Of Irritation with young
lady is more trying to the affection than
any duration of matrimony. Ara6ella
had managed to awaken something OF
the old glow, but Mr.. Gibson; as soon as |
he was alone, turned from her mentally
in disgust. Mo- Whatever little
trouble there might be in his way, IL
was clearly his duty to marry Dorotny
Stanbury. She had the sweetest tenn
per in the world, and blushed with the
nrettiest blush! She would have, more
over. three thousand pounds on the day
she married, and there was no saying
what other and greater pecunlary al
yantages might follow. His mind was
quite made up; and during the whole
morning he had been endeavoring to
drive all disagreeable "reminiscences OF
Miss French from his memory, and TO
arrange the words with which he would
make his offer to Dorothy. He was
aware that he need net be very parsieu-
lar about his words, as Dorothy, IRON
the bashfulneSs of her nature, would DC
no Judge of eloquence at such a time:
But still, for his own sake, there should
be some form of expression, some pro-
priety of diction. Before eleven O'Clock
he had it all by heart, and had nearly
freed himself from the uneasiness OF his
falsehood to Arabella. He had given
much serious thought to the matter, and
had quite resolved that he was right IN
his purpose, and that he could marry
Dorothy with a pure conscience and
with true promise of husbands love.
"Dear Dolly ~ he said to himself, with
something of enthusiasm as he walked
across the Close. And he looked up to
| the house as he came to it. There was
! to be his future home. There was not
one of the prebends who had a better
house. And there was dove-like soft
ness about Dorothy's eyes, and a win
ming obedience in her manner, that
were charming. His lines had fallen to
him in very pleasant places. Yes,-he
would 90 up to her and take her at once
by the hand, and ask her whether she
would be his now and forever. de
would not let go her hand till he had
brought her so close to him that she
could hide her bushes on his shoulder
The whole thing bad been 81 well con
ceived, had become so clear TO his mind,
that he felt no hesiI alton or embarrass-
uent as he knocked at the door. Ara
bella French would, no doubt, hear of It
soon. Well,-she must hear of 1T. Alter
all, she could do him no injury.
He was shown up at once into the
drawing. room, and there be found
Miss SIanbury the elder. 80, Mr.. Glib
SOU !" she said at once.
DIS anything the matter with-dear
Dorothy ~
"She is the most obstinate, pig-head-
ed young woman l ever camaacross since
the world began" =,
"You don't say So! But what is it,
Miss StanburyP
"What is itl Why just this. Moth
ing on earth that can say to her will
induce her to come down and speak 10
you"
Have offened herip
"Offended fiddlestick ! Offence in
deed, An offer from An honest man, with
her friends approval, and a fortune at
her back as though she had been born
with a gold spoon in her mouth And
she tells me that she can't, and won't,
and wouldn't, and shouldn't, as though
were asking her to walk the streets,
| I declare | don't know what has come
to the Young women,-Or what 1t Is
| tbey want. One weuld have thought
that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth,
and there she is as pig-headed and
wrong headed as though she had been
born to have her own will IN every
thing"
"But what is the reason, Miss STAN
bury :"
so, reason! You don't suppose pco-
pie give reasons in these days. What
reason have they when they dress them
selves up with band6oxes on their
seonces' Just simply the old reasSn-
Il do not like thee, DR.. Fell,--why /
cannot tell"
"May l not see her myself Miss stan
buryi'
81 can't make her come down stairs to
YOU. Eve been at her the whole morn
ing, Mr.. Gibson, ever since daylight
pretty nearly. She came into my room
before was up and told me she'd made
M her mind. I've coaNed, and scolded,
and threatened, and ed,-but if she'd
been a milestone it couldn't have been OF
less use. / told her she might go back to
Nuncombe, and she just went of to pack
up"
,"But she's not to goP
"How can l say what such young
woman will dol Pm never allowed u
way of my own for moment. There's
Brooke Burgess been scolding me at that
rate | didn't know whether | stood on
my head or my heels. And l don't know
now"
Then there was pause, while Mr.. Glib
son was endeavoring to decide what
! would now be his best corse of action.
Don't you think she'll ever come round,
Miss Stanburyp
IL don't think she'll ever come any
way that ANYBODY wants her to come, MIR.
Gisson."
al didn't think she was at all like
that" said Mr.. Gibson almost in tears.
"No,-nor anybody else. have been
seeing it come all the same. It's just
the Stanbury perversity. If I'd wanted
to keep her by herself, to take care of
me, and set my back up at her if she
spoke to a man, and made her under
stand that she wasn't to think of get
ting married, she'd have been making
eyes at every man that came into the
house. It's just what one gets fer going
out of ones way. did think she'd
be so happy, Mr.. Gibson, living here
as your wife. She and / between US
could have managed for you so nicely"