The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-22
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TR0LLoPE.
CHAPTER XXXYIII.
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VERDICT OF THE JURY,-"MAD, NY

VERDICT OF THE JURY,-"MAD, MY
LORD"
Treyelyan was left alone at Turin
when Mr.. GlascOck went on to Flor
ence with his fair American friends. 1t
was imperativelJ necessary that he
should remain at Turin, though he had
no business there Of any kind whatever,
and did not know single person IN the
CITY. And of all the towns in Italy
Turin has perhaps less of attraction to
offer to the solitary visitor than any
othe.. 1t is new and parailelogranmatls
as an American town, is very cold IN
cold weather, very hot in hot weather,
and, now that il has been robbed of its
life as q capital, is a. dull and uninter-
esting as though it were German or
English. There is the ArmOry, and the
river Pc, and good hotel. But what
are these things to man who is forced
to live alone in place for four days, or
perhaps q week Trevelyan was
bound to remain a. Turin till he should
hear from Bozzle. No one but Bozzle
knew his address; aud he could do moth
ing till Bozzle should have communi-
Gated to him tidings of what was being
done at st. Diddulph's.
There is, perhaps, no great social
question so impeTfeotly understood
among US at the present day as that
which refers to the line which divides
sanity from insanity. That this man is
sane and that other unfortunately mad
we do know well enough; aud we know
also that one man may be subject 10
various MISUNDERSTANDING fancy
himself to be teapot, or what not,
yet be in such condition of mind as TO
call for no Intervention either on behalf
of his friends or of the law; while anOth-
or may be in possession of intellectual
faculties capable Of lucid exertiOn for
the highest purposes and yet be so mad
that bodily restraint upon him is indis-
pensSble. We know that the sane man
is responsible tor what he does, and that
the insane man is Irresponsible; but We
do not know,-we only guess wildly at
the state of mind of those who now and
again act like madmen, though no court
or council of experts has declared them
to be mad. The bias of the public
mind is to press heavily on such men
till the law attempts to touch them, as
though they were thoroughly response
BILE; and then, when the law interferes,
to screen them as though they were al
together irresponsible. The same jury
man who would find q nah mad who
has murdered young woman, would in
private life express a desire that the
same young man should be hung, cruel
fed, or skinned alive, if he had moodily
and without reason broken his faith To
the young woman in lieu of killing her.
Now Trevelyap was, in truth, mad on the
subject Of his wife's alleged intidelity. He
had abandoned everything that he valu
cd in the world, aud had made himself
wretched in every affair of life, because
he could not submit 10 acknowledge to
himself the possibility of error on his |
own part. For that, in truth, was the |
condition of his mind. He had never |
hitherto believed that she had been |
false to her vow, and had sinned against |
him lrredeemably; but be had thought |
that In Ter regard for another man she !
had sighted him; and, SO thinking. he |
had subjected her TO severity of rebuke |
which no high-spirlted woman could |
have borne. His wife had not tried to |
bear It,-in her Indignation had NOT
striven to cure the evil. Then had |
come his resolution that she should sub !
NIT, OF part from him; and, having so
resoIvedi. nothing could shake him !
ThOugDt&Sery friend he possessed was
now against him,-includin even Lady |
Electromagnetic was certain that he vas |
right. Had not his wife sworn to obey |
him, and was not her whole conduct |
one tissue of disobedience Would not
the man who submitted to this find
himself driven to submit to things
worse Let her own her fault, let her
submit, and then she should come back
to him.
He had not considered, when his
resolutions to this effect were first form /
ing themselves, that a separation be-
tween man aud his wife once effected .
cannot be aunulIed, and as it were
curea, SO as to leave no clcatrice behind.
GEAGually, as be spent day after day in
thinking on this one subject, he came to
feel that, even were his wife IN snbmit
to own her fault humbly. and I'm come 4
back to him, this very coming Lack 4
would in itself be a new wound CorTd
he 60 out again with his wife ON his arm,
TO the houses of those who knew H.
be had repudiated her because of bar
friendship with another mani COMA
he open again that house in CuTzon
Street, and lee things 60 on quietly as
they had gone befOrei He told himself
that it was impossible; that he and she
were incffably disgraced; that, if re-
united, they must live burisd out of
sight in some remote distance. And he
told himself, also, that he could never
be with her again night or day without
thinking of the separation. His happi |
Vess mad been shipwrecked.
linen se had put himselfints the hands
OF Ar. Bozzls, and Mr.. Bozzle had taught
MIN that women very often do 90
astray' Mr. Bozzle's idea of female viz.