The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-11
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER LXIII.
ContiRHed.l

az hope you are comfortable here"
said Hugh. ii
The house is all very WE'LL" said
Nora, "but we don't like the neighbor-
hood"
Hugh also felt that conversation was
very difficult. He had soon come to !
perc;ive-before he had been in the
room half ninute-thatS the atmos.
phere was not favorable to his mission.
There was to be no embracing or per-
mission for embracing on the present
occasion. Had he been left alone with |
Sir Marmaduke, he would probably have
told his business plainly, let Sir Mar
maduke's manner to him have been what
it might; but it was impossible for him
TO do this with three young ladies In
the room with him. Seeing that Nora
was embarrassed by her difficulties, and |
Morals father was cross and silent, he
endeavored to talk to the other girls,
and asked them concerning their journey |
and the ship in which they had cone.
But it was very uphill work. Lucy and
Sophy could talk as glibly as any young
ladies home from any cOlony,-and no
higher degree of fluency can becxpress-
ed.-but now they were cOwed. Their
elder sister was shamefully and most
undeservedly disgraced, and this man
had had something-they knew not
wbat-to do with it. as Priscilla quite
we'll 7" Nora asked at last.
"Ouite well. heard from her yPster-
day. You know they have left the Clock
House"
IL had not heard it,"
40 yes; and they are living in small
cottage just outside the village. And
what else do You think has happened 7"
Nothing bad, hope, Mr.. Stanbury."
"My sister Dorothy has left her aunt,
and is living with them again at Nun
combe."
Has there been quarrel, Mr.. Stan
bury"
"Wen, yes: after fashion there has,
| suppose. But it is u long story, and
would not interest Sir Marmaduke. The
wonder is that Dorothy should have
been able to stay so long with my aunt.
will tell it You all some day" Sir
Marmaduke could not understand why |
a long story about this mans aunt and |
sister should be told to his daughter.
lie lOrgOt-as men always do IN such |
circumstances fOrGet-that, while he
was living in the Mandarins, his daugh-
ter, living in England, would OF course
pick up new interest, aud become lhll-
mate with new histories. But he did
not forget. that pressure of the hand
which Gs had seen. aud he determined
that his daughter Nora cOuld not have
any worse lover than the friend of his
elder daughters husband.
Stanbury had just determined that
he must 90, that there was no pOSsibili
ty for him either To say or do anything
to promote his cause ut the present mo
ment. when the circumstances were all
changed by the return home Of Lady
Rowiey and Mrs rrevelyan. Lady
Rowley know, and had for some days
known, much more of Stanbury than
had come to the ears of Sir Marmaduke.
She understood in the FIRST place that
the Stauburys had been very good to her
daughter, aud she was aware that Hugh |
Staubury had thoroughly taken her
daughters part against his old friend
TrevelIan. She would therefore have |
been prepared to receive him kindly, !
had he not on this very morning been |
the subject of special conversation be-
tween her and Emily. But, as it bad |
happened, Mrs. Trevelyan had this very |
day told Lady Rowley the whole story |
of NorH's love. The elder sister had
net intended to be treacherous to the
younger; but in the thorough confidence
which mutual grief aud close conference
had created between the mother and
daughter, everything had At last come
out, aud Lady Rowley had learned the
story, not only Of Hugh Stanbury's court
shin. but of those rich offers which had
been made by tine heir TO the barony of
Peterborough.
II must be- acknowledged that Lady
Rowley was greatly grleyeS and
thoroughly dismayed. Ii was not only
that Mr.. Glascock was the eldest son of
n peer. but that he WAS represented by
the poor suffering wife of the ill.tem-
pered man to be man blessed with a
disposition sweet as an angels. And
she would "have liked him." Emily had
said, "if il had not been for this young
man." Lady Rowley was not worse than
are other methers not more msltlouS,
or more heartless, or more worldly.
She was good mother, loving her chill
dren, and thoroughly anxious for their
welfare. But she woOld have liked TO
be the mother. in Law of Lord Peter
borough, and she would have liked
dearly to see her second daughther re-
moved frem the danger Of those rocks
against which her eldest child had been
shipwrecked, And when she asked after
Hugh Stanbury, and his means of main. !
taininga wife, the statement which
Mrs. TTevelyan made was not comfort.
ing. "He writes Tor penny NEWSPAPER
and, believe, writes very we'll, > Mrs
Trevelyan had said.
"FOr penny newspaper, Is that
respectable =
His aunt, Miss Stan6ury, seemed to
think not But | suppose men OF ed
ucation do write for such things now.
He says himself that it is very precari-
Gus as an employment"
at must be precarious, Emily. And
has he got nothing ?"
Not penny of his own" said Mrs.
Treyelyan.
Then Lady Rowley had thought again