The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-15
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
Continued
CHAPTER XXVX.
MR.. AND MRS. CLUBHOUSE.

Both Mr.. Clubhouse and his wife were
especially timid in taking upon them
selves the cares of other people. No
on that account is it to be supposed tha
thew wero bad or selfish. They were
both given much to charity; and be
slowed both in time and money more
than is ordinarily considered necessary
even from persons in their positions
But, what they gave, they gave away
from their own quiet hearth. Had mon
ev heen wanting to the daughters of his
wif.,s brother, Mr.. Clubhouse would
have opened such small Golfer as ne had
with free hand. But he would have
much preferred that his benevolence
sbould be ussd in way that would
hiring upon him no further responsible
~ and no questionings from people
whom he did not know and could not
understand.
The Rev. Oliphaut Clubhouse had been
rector of st. Dlddulphsin -the-East for
the last fifteen years, having married
the sister of Sir Marmaduke Rowley-
then simply Mr. Rowley, with a colo,
NAL appointment in Jamaica OF tl2U
per annum-twelve years before his
promotion, while he was curate IN
one of the pOpulous borough parishes.
He had thus been a London clergy man
all his life; but he knew almost as little
of London society as though he had
held cure in a WestmOreland valley.
He had worked hard, but his work had
been altogether among the poor. lie
had no gilt of preaching, and had &C
auired neither reputation nor POPULAR
ty. But he could work; and having
been transferred because of that capa'
bility 70 the temporary curacy OF st.
Diddulphs,-Out of one diocese into an
other,-he had received the living from
the bishops hands when it became va
cant.
A dreary place was tho parsonage of
st. Dlddulphs-in-the-Ea East Tor the abode
of a gentleman. ar. Clubhouse had not
in HIS whole parish parishioner with
whom he could consOrt. The greatest
men aroEud him were the publlcanS,
and the most numerous were men EN-
ployed in and around the DICKS. Dredg-
ers of mud, navvies employed on su-
burban canals, eXCavatOrs, leaders and
unloaders of cargo, cattle-drlyers,-
whose driving, however, was done
mostly on board ship,-such and such
like were the men who were the fathers
of the families of S.. Dlddulphs in.the
East. And there was there, not far re-
moved from the muddy estuary of a lit
tie stream that makes It's black way
from the Essex marshes among the
houses of the poorest of the poor into
the Thames, large commercial cstab-
lishment for turning the CarcasscS of
horses into manure. MessrS FlOwsem
and Burt were in truth the great peo-
pie of st. Diddulphs-in. the East: but
the closeness of their establishment was
not an additional attraction to the par
sonage. They were liberal, however
with their money, and Mr.. Clubhouse
was disposed to think,-CustOm perhaps
having made the establishment less Oh
iectionable to him than it was at first,
that st. Diddulphs-in-th the East would
be more of a Pandewonium than it now
was if by any sanitary law MeSsrs.
Flowsem and Blurt were compelled to
close their doors. "NOR Olf," he would
say with a grim smile when the Chart
able check of the firm would came
punciually to hand oA the first Saturday
after Christmas.
But such house as his would be, as
he knew, but a poor residences for his
wife's nieces. Indeed, without posi-
lively saying that he was unwilling to
receive them, he had, when he first
heard of the breaking up of the house in
Curzon Street, shown that he would
rather not take upon his shoulders so
great responsibility. He aud his wife
had discussed the matter between them,
and had come to the conclusion that
they did not know what kind of things
might have been done in CuTzon Street.
They would think no evil, they said;
but the very idea OF married woman
with a lover was dreadful TO them. 1t
might be that their niece was free from
. blame. They hopsd so. And even
though her sin had been of ever so deep
q dye, they would take her inf it
were indeed necessary. But they
hoped that such help from them might
not be needed. They both knew how to
give counsel 70 poor woman, how 10
rebuke a poor man,-how TO comfort,
encourage, or to upbraid the poor. Prac-
tice had old them how far obey might
go with some hope of doing good: aud
NJ what stage of decentralization no
good from their hands was any longer
within the scope OF fair eXpectatioa.
But all this was among the poor. With
what words to encourage such one as
'heiT niece MIS-. Ireyeiyau-tO encOur-
age her or 10 rebuke her, as her conduct
might seem 10 make nrce. s,rv-tbsv
boIh felt that they were al,or,tbcr i9.
nOrant. TO them Mrs. TrevelTan VS.,
line lady. To Mr.. Clubhouse Sir Marma
duke had ever been a fine gentlema%
given much to worldly things, Who
cared more for whist and a glass of
wine than for anything else, and who
thought that lie had Il good excuse for
never geing to church in England be-
cause he was called upon, as h. said, to
show himself in the governors pew al
ways once on Sundays aud frequently
twice when be was at the seat of his
government. Sir Marmadnke manifest
ly looked upon church as q thing in it.