The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-03
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLOPE.
CHAPTER XIV.
Continued
lYou down lD said Priscilla.

"Well, yes; couIu not sleep "nen
heard you all moving. And the morn
ing is so fine, and l thought that per
haps you would go out and walk after
YOUR brother has gone" Priscilla prom
ised that she would walk, and then the
tea was made.
"Your sister and are going out for
an early walk" said Nora, when she was
yreeted by Stanbury. Priscilla said
nothing, but thought she understood II
all. -,
"I wish were going with YOU" said
Uugh. Nora, remembering how very
little he had made of his opportunity on
the evening before, did not believe him.
The eggs and fried bacon were eaten
in n hurry, and very little was said.
Then there came the moment for part
;ng The brother and sister kissed each
other, and Hugh took Nora by the hand.
~ hope you make yourself happy here"
he said.
80 yes; if it were only Tor myself
should want nothing"
81 will do the best | can with Irevel-
yam" ;,
"Tbe best will be to make him and
every one understand that the fault is
altogether his, and not Emily's."
"The best will be 10 make each think
that there has been no real fault said
Hugh. -.
"There should be no talking of faults"
said Priscilla. Let the husband take
his wife back,-as h" is bound 10 do"
These words occupied hardly min
ute in the saying, hut during that min
ute Hugh Stanbury held Nora by the
hand. lie held it fast. She would not
attempt to withdraw it, but neither
would she return his pressure by the
muscle of single finger. What right
had he to press her hand; or to make
any sign of love, any pretence OF low
ing, when he had gone out of his way |
TO tell her that she was not good enough |
for him Then he started, and Nora
and Priscilla put on their hats and left
the house.
"Let us go to Nlddon Park" said
Nora.
"To Niddon Park again :"
ayes: il is so beautiful. And / should
like to see it by the morning light.
There is plenty of time"
So they walked to Niddon Park in the
morning, as they had done on the pre-
ceding evening. Their conversation at
first regarded Trevelyan and his wife,
and the old trouble; but Nora could not
keep herself from speaking of Hugh
StanbuTy.
"He would not have come" she said,
"unless Louis had sent him -
"He would not have come now, |
think"
"Of course not;-why should he?-
before Parliament was hardly over, too ?
D.
will he y
"He says somebody must remaiu,-I
and think will be in London till near
Christmas"
How disagreeable But | suppose
he doesn't care. It's all the same to a
man like him. They don't shut the
clubs up, daresay Will he come here
at Christmas T.
"Either then or for the New Year.
Just for day or two"
ave shall be gene then, | suppose y
said Nora.
"That must depend on Mr.. Trevel-
yam ?" said Priscilla.
"What a life for two women to lead,
to depend upon the caprice of man
who must be mad Do you think that
Mr.. Trevelyan will care for what your
brother says to him "
al do not know Mr.. Trevelyan."
HE is very fond of your brother, and
| suppose men friends do listen to each
other. They never seem TO listen to
women. Don't you think that, after
all, they despise women' They look on
them as dainty foolish things
sometimes women despise men" said
Priscilla.
"Not very often,-do they' And then
women are so dependent on men. wo-
man can get nothing without man"
81 manage to get on somehow" said
Priscilla.
"No, you don't, Miss Stanbury, If you
think of it, You want mutton. And
whe kills the sheep 2"
"But who cooks :"
But the men cooks are the best, =" said /.
Nora; land the meu.tailors and the |
men to wait at table, and the men. poets.
and the men-painterS, and the men.
nurses. All the things that women da.
men do better"
"There are two things they cau't 4, -
said Priscilla.
"What are they =
"They can't suckle babies, aud they
can't forget themselves
"About the babies, of course not. As
for forgetting themselves,-l am not
quite so sure that | can forget myself.
That is just where your brother went
down last night"
They had at this moment REACHED the
top of the steep slope below which the
river ran brawling among the rocks, and
Nora seated herself exactly where she
had sat on the previous evening.
81 have been dewu scores of times,
said Priscilla.
"Let US go now"
"You wouldn't go when Hugh asked
Won Yesterday !"