The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-19
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
ContiRued.l
CHAPTER xxx.
DOROTHY MAKES Up HER MIND.

DOROlh1 MAhEo u iCAs -"A+N''
II was true that most ill-natured
things had been said at Lissbore' and
at Nuncombe Putney about Mrs. Stan
bury and the visitors at the Clock
House, and that these ill-nstured things
had spread themselves to Exeter. Mrs.
Ellison of Lissboro', who was not the
most good woman in the world,
had told Mrs. Merton of Nuncombe that
she had been told that the ColonePs
visit TO the lady had been made by ex-
press arrangement between the Colonel
and Mrs. Stanbdry. Mrs. Merton, who
was very good-natured, but not the
wisest woman in the world, had declar-
ed that any such conduct on the part OF
Mrs. Stanbury was quite impossible.
"What does il matter which 1T Is, Prls-
ella or her motherW Mrs. Ellison had
said. "These are the facts. Mrs IRE
yelyan has been sent there to be out
of the way of this Colonel: and the
Colonel Immediately comes down and
sees her at the Clock House. But when
people are very poor, they do get driven
to do almost anything"
Mrs. Merton, not being very wise,
had conceived it TO be her duty to re-
peat this to Priscilla; ard Mrs. Ellison,
not being very good-natured, had con-
ceived iJ to be hers to repeat it to Mrs.
MacHugh at Exeter. Aud then Bozzle's
coming had become known.
ayes, Mrs. MacHugh, Il policeman in
mufti down at NunCOmbe L wonder
what our friend in the Close here will
think about it! | have always said,
You know, that, if she wanted TO keep
things straight atNuncombe, she should
have opened her purse-strings-
Frsm all which it may be understood
that Priscilla Stanbury's desire TO go
back to their old way of living had not
been without reason.
1t NAV be imagined that Miss Stan
bury of the Close did not receive with
eouanimity the reports which reached
her. And, of course, when she discus
sed the matter either with Martha or
with Dorothy, she fell back upon her
own early appreciation of the folly OF the
Clock House arrangement. Neverthe-
less she had called Mrs. Ellison very bad
names, when she learned from her
friend Mrs. MacHugh what reports
were being spread by the lady from
Lissboro'.
Mrs. Ellison. Yes, we all know Mrs.
Ellison! The bitterest tongue in De-
yonshire, and the fals"st, There are
some people at Lissboro' who would be
we'll pleased if she paid her way there
us we'll as those poor women do at Nun
combe. | don't think much of what
Mrs. Ellison says.
"iInt it is bad about the policeman"
said Mrs. MacHugh.
"Of course. it's bad. It's ali bad. Pm
not saying that it's not bad. I'm glad
Pve got this other Young woman out OF
it. It's all that yeung mans doing.
If had son of my own, I'd sooner fol-
low him TO the grave than hear him call
himself a Radical
Then, on a sudden, there came to the
Close news that Mrs. Treyelyan and her
sister were gone. On the very Monday
on which they went, Priscilla sent
note on to her sister, in which no
special allusiOn was made TO Aunt
Stanbury, but which was no doubt writ
ten with the intention that the news
should be communicated.
"Gene, are they! AS it is past wish
ing that they had MT come, it's the best
thing they could do now. And who
is to pay the rent of the house now
they have gonei' AS this was point
on which Dorothy was not prepared to
trouble herself at present, she made no
answer to the question.
Dorothy at this time was in state of
very great perturbation on her own nc.
count. The reader may perhaps remem-
Der that she had been much startled by
a proposition that had beeu made to her
in reference to her future life. Her
aunt had suggested TO Der that she
should become-Mrs. Gibson. She had
not as yet given any answer to that pro-
position, and had, indeed, found 1t to
be quite impossible to speak about it at
all. But there can be no doubt that
the suggestion had opened ont to her
altogether new views IF litG. Up tOthe
moment of her aunt's speech 10
her, the idea of her becoming
a married woman had never pre-.
scented itselftO her. In her humility, 1t
had not occurred to her that she should
be counted as one among the candidates
for matrimony. Priscilla had taught
her to regard herself-indeed they had
both so regarded themselves-as born
to eat and drink as little as might be,
and then to die. Now, when she was
told that she could, if she pleased, be-
come Mrs. Gibson, she was almost lost
in whirl of new and confused ideas.
Since her aunt had spoken, Mr.. Gibson
himself had dropped hint or two
which seemed to her to Indicate that he
also must be in the secret. There had
been party with supper at Mrs.
Crumbie's, at which both the Miss
Trenches had been present. B.t Mr.
Gibson had taken her, Doro,hv So
bury, out to supper, leaving both Cam.
lila and Arabella behind him in the
drawing room! During the quarter of
an hour afterwards in which the ladies'
were alone while he gentlemen were
eating and drinking, both Camilla and
Arabella continued to wreak their VEN
geance. They asked questions about
Mrs. TrevelyaD, and suggested that Nj.
Gibson might be seut over to put things
eight. But Miss Stanbury had heard
them, and had fallen upon them with
heavy hand.
There's q good deal expected of Mr..