The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-15
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
[Continued.
CHAPTER LNY.
MYSTERIOUS AGENCIES.

When the thirty-first of March ar
rived, Exeter had not as yet been made
CAV with the marriage festivities of Mr..
Gibson and Camilla French. And this
DELAY had not bsen the fault of Camilla.
Camilla had been ready, and when,
about the middle of the mouth, it was
limited to her that some postpOnement
was necessary, she spoke her mind out
plainly, and declared that she was not
going to stand that kind Of thing. The
Communication had not been made to
her by Mr.. Gibson in person. For some
days previously he had not been seen at
Heavltree, and Camilla had from day
To day become more black, gloomy, and
harsh in her manners, both 10 her moth
or aud her sister. Little notes had
come and little notes had gone, but no
one in the house, except Camilla herself,
knew what those notes contained. She
would not eondescend to complain to
Arabella; nor did she say much in con-
domination of her lover TO Mrs. French
till the blow came. With unremitting
attention she pursued the great business
of her wedding garments, and eXacted
from the unfortunate Arabella an
amount of work equal to her Own,-ot
thankless work, as is the custom OF
embryo brides with their unmarried
sisters. And she drew with great auda.
city on the somewhat slender means OF
the family for the amount of feminine
gear necessary to enable her To go into
Mr.. Gibson's house with something OF
the cellar of well-provided bride. When
Mrs. French hesitated, and then expos
tulatcd, Camilla replied that she did not
expect TO he married above once, and
that in no cheaper or more productive
way than this could her mother allow
her to consume her share of the family
resources. "What matter, mamma, If
you do have to borrow little money
Mr.. Burgess will let you have it when
he knows why. And as l sha'n't be
eating and drinking at home any more,
nor yet getting my things here, | have q
right to expect it," Aud she ended by
expressing an opinion, in Arabella's ear
ing. that any daughter of q house who
proves herselfto be capable of getting a
husband for herself is entitled to expect
that those left at home shall pinch
themselves for time, in order that
she may 20 forth to the world in q res,
pectable way, and be a credit to the
family.
Then came the blow. Mr.. Gibson hat
not been at the house for some days, but
the notes had been going and coming.
AT last Mr.. Gibson came, himself; but
"A II happened, when he came, Camilla
was out shopping. In these days sht
often did 90 out shopping between
eleven and one, carrying her sister will
her. 1t must have been but poo
pleasure for Arabella, this witoess
ing the purchases made, the seeing
pleasant draperies, and handling th'
real linens aud admiriug the fine cam
brics spread out before them on the shOE
counters by obsequious attendants
And the questions asked of her by bel
sister, whether this was good enough
for so august an occasion, or that suf
hciently handsome, must have been
haraSsing. She could not have failed
to remember that it ought all to have
been done tor her,-that, had she not
been treated with monstrous Injustice
with most Husisterly cruelty, all these
good things would have been spread on
her behoof. But she went on and en-.
dured it, and worked diligently with
her needle, and folded and 9nfoiaed a,
she was desired, anu became as il Wsr.
quite younger sister in the house.
creeping out by herself now aud agar
into the purlieus of the city, to ind suci
consolation as she might receive from
her solitary thoughts.
But Ara6ella and Camilla were bot
away when Mr.. Gibson called to te
his altered plans. And as he asked, nc
for his lady .love, butfor Mrs. Freno
herself, it is probable that he watche
his opportunity and that he knew
what cares his Camilla was then devOt
ing herself. perhaps it is quite as we
that should find you alone" he sale
after sundry preludes. to his futur
mother-in-law, "because you can max
Camilla understand this better than
can. must put off the day for abou
three weeks"