The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-20
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
CHAPTER xxx.
Continued

any difference to Mr.. Gibson" said Miss
Stanbury to her niece, on the morning
after the receipt of Priscilla's note stat
ing that the Trevelyans had left Nun
combe.
Dorothy always blushed when Mr.. Glib
son name was mentioned, ard she blssh-
ed now. But she did not at all under
stand her aunt's allusion. 81 don't
know what you mean, aunt" she said.
"Well, YOU know, my dear, what they
saw about Mrs. Trevelyan and the
Clock House is not very nice. 1t Mr..
Gibson were to turn round and say that
the connection wasn't pleasant, no one
would have a right to complain"
The faint customary blush on Do
rothy's cheeks which Mr.. Gibson's name
had produced now covered her whole
face. even up to the roots of her HAIR.
"If he thinks bad of mamma, I'm sure,
Asnt Stanbury, don't want to see him
again" .
man has to think ofhimself, you know"
"Of course he thinks of himself; why
shouldn't hei dare say he thinks OF
himself more than do"
dorothy, don't be a fool. A good hus-
band isn't to be caught every day"
aunt Stanbury, don't want to eaten
any man."
dorothy, don't be fool"
II must say it. / don't suppose Mr..
Gibson thinks of me the least in the
world"
"Pshaw! l tell you he does"
"But as for mamma and Priscilla, l
never could like anybody for moment
who would be ashamed of them"
She was most anxious to declare that,
as far as she knew herself and her own
wishes at present, she entertained no
partiality for Mr. Gibson, no feeling
which GOULD become partiality even NJ
Mr., Gibson was to declare himself Will
ing to accept her mother and her sister
with herself But she did not dare to
saw So There was an instinct within
her which made it almost impossi-
BILE to her to express an objection TO
q sutton before the sutton had declared
himself to be one. She could speak out
as touching her mother and her sister,
but as to her own feelings she coald ex-
press neither assent nor dissent.
~ should like to have it settled soon"
said Miss Stanbury, in a melancholy
voice. Even to this Dorothy could
make no reply. What did soon mean
Perhsps in the course of n year or two.
'If it could be arranged by the end Of
this week, it would bea great comfort
to me-" Dorothy almost fell off her
chair, and was stricken altogether dumb.
"Itold you, l think, that Brooke Burgess
is coming herei"
"You said he was to come some day"
ale is to be here on Monday. | have
MT seen him for more than twelve years,
and now he's is to be here next week
Dear, dear! When | think sometimes
of all tho hard words that have been
spoken, and the harder thoughts that
have been in peoples minGs, l often re-
greet that the money ever came to NE at
all. / could have done without 1T very
well,-very we'll"
But all the unpleasantness is over
now, aunt"
al don't know about that. Unpleas-
antness of that kind is apt to rankle
long. But wasn't going 10 give up
my rights. Nobody but a coward does
that. They talked of going to law and
trying the will, but they wouldn't have
got much by that. And then they abused
me for two years. When they had done
and got sick of it, l told them they
shonld have it all back again as soon as
1 am dead. 1t won't be. long new. This
Burgess is the elder nephew, and he
shall have it all"
sis not he grateful Z" ....
"No. Why should he be grateful 7
/ don't do it for special love of him. i
don't want his gratitude, nor anybody's
gratitude. Look at Hugh. l did love
him." Nhf
81 am grateful. Aunt Stanbury."
Are you, my deari Then show it by
being a good wife to Mr.. Gibson, and
happy wife. 1want to get everything
settled while Burgess is here. Ii he is to
have it, why should keep him ont Oft
whilst / livei | wonder whether Mr..
Gibson would mind coming and livisg
here, Dolly ~ r.l
The thing was coming so near to her
that Dorothy began to feetthat she must,
in truth, make up her mind, and let her
aunt know also how il had been made
mp. She was sensible enough to per-
ceiye that, ifshe did not prepare her
sell lot the occasion, she would lind
herself hsmpeFed by an engagement
simply because her aunt had presumed
that it was out of the question that she |
should not acquiesce. She wonid diff
into marriage with Mr.. Gibson against ,
her will. Her greatest difIicnItS was
the fact that her aunt clearly had M
doubt on the subject. And as for her
self, hitherto her feelings did not On
either side, go beyond doubts. Assured
ly it would be a very good thing for her
to become Mrs. Gibson, ii only she could
create for herself some attachment for
the man. At the present moment her
aunt said nothing more about Mr.. Glib
son, having her mind much occupied
with the coming of Mr.. Brooke Burgess.
i remember him twenty years ago
and more; as nice a boy as yOa woald
wish tosee. His father was the fourth
OF the brothers. Dear, dear! Three of
them are gone; and the only one re-
naming is old Barty, whom no one ever