The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-02
HEKNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE,
Continued
CHAPTER LXXI.

CHAPTER LAAl.
SHOWING WHAT HUGH STANBURY
THOUGHT ABOUT THE DUTY OF
MAN.
Tn the conference which took place
hetween Sir Marmaduke and his wife
after the interview between him and
Nora. il was his idea that nothing
further should be done at all. u don't
suppose the man will come here If he be
told not" said Sir Marmaduke, "and II
he does, Nora, of course, will not see
him." He then suggested that Nora
would of course 90 back with them to
the Mandarins, and that when once
there she would not be able to see Stan
bury any more. "There must be no
co1respondence or anything of that
sort. and so the thing will die away"
But Lady Rowley declared that this
wonld not quite suffice. Mr.. Stanbury
had made his offer in due form, and
must be held to DE entitled to an an
swer. Sir Marmaduke, therefore, wrote
the the following letter to the penny
a-liner," mitigating the asperity OF his
language in compliance with his wlte's
counsels.
"GRIGG'S HOTEL MANCHESTER ST.,
April 20, 1856. !
"MY DEAR SIR,-Lady Rowley has
told me of your proposal to my daughter
Nora; and she has told me, also, what
she learned from you as to your circum-
stances in life. | need hardly point cut
to you that no father would be justified
in giving his daughter to a gentleman
upon SO small an income, and upon AL
income so very insecure.
al am obliged to refuse my consent,
and must, therefore, ask you to abstain
from visiting and from communicating
with my daughter.
"Yours faithfully,
"MARMADUKE ROwLEY.
"HUGH STANBURY, Esq"
This letter was directed to Stanbury
at the Office of the ID. r., and Sir Mar
maduke, as he wrote the penurlous adj
dress, felt himself injured in that he
was compelled to write about his daugh-
ter to q man so cirCumstapced. Stan
bury, when he got the letter, read it
hastily and then threw it aside. He
knew what it would contain before he
opened it. He had heard enough from
Lady Rowley to be aware that Sir Mar
maduke would not welcome him as a
son-in-law. Indeed. he bad never ex-
pected such welcome. He was half
ashamed of his own suit because OF the
lowliness of his position,-half regretful
that he should have induced such aglrl
Us Nora Rowley to give up for his sake
her hopes of magniicence and splendor
But Sir Marmaduke's letter did not ado
ANYTHING to this feeling. He read II
again, and smiled as he told himself
that the father would certainly be very
weak in the hands of his daughter
Then he went to work again at hi
article with a persistent resolve that 81
small trifle rs such note should have
no effect upon his daily work. Of course
Sir Marmaduke would refuse his con
sent. OF course it would be for him
Stanbury, to marry tho girl he loved IL
opposition to her father. Her father
indeed. If Nora chose to take him.
and as to that he was very doubtful ~
to Nora's wisdsm,-but if Nora would
take him, what was any fathers opposi
ton to himf He wanted nothing from
Nora's father. He was not looking fol
money with his wife, nor fer fashion
nor countenance. Such Bohemian was
he that he would be quite satisfied if his
girl would walk ont to him and become
his wife with any morning gown on and
with any old hat that might come read.
lest to hand. He wanted neither cards
nor breakfast, nor carriages, nor fine
clothes. If his Nora should choose &c
come TO him as she was, he having haC
all previous necessary arrangement!
duly made,-such as calling OF banns OF
procuring of license, If possible,-h,
thought that fathers opposition woulC
o1p,nSt aH1 gprnathipr, 10 ha Mo
the occasion. So he pitched the lette
on one side, and went on with hi
article. And he finished his article; bu
il may be doubted whether it was com
pleted with the full strength and pit
needed for moving the pulses of tn
national mind,-as they should be move
by leading articles in the ID. II. AS h
was writing, he was thinking OF Nor;
and thinking of the letter which Nora
father had sent to him. Trivial as wa
the letter, he could not keep himse
from repeating the words OF 1t TO MN
self. "'Need hardly point out,
needn't hef Then why does hef ~
fnsing his consent! wonder what IN
old buffers think is the meaning
their consent, when they are speakin
of daughters old enough to manage fo
themselves? Abstain from visiting Q
communicating with her! But if sI
visits and communicates with me; wha
thenf | can't force my way into tn
house, but she can force her way out
Docs he imagine that she can be locke
up IN the nursery or put into the col
ner !" So he argued with himself, an
by such arguments he brought himseI
to the conviction that it would be we
for him TO answer Sir Marmaduke,s lei
ter This he did at once ,-before Icny
ing the office of the ID. X.
"703, FLEET STREET, 10Th April
"MY DEAR SIR MARMADUKE RowLx,
Il have just received your letter, an
am indeed sorry thatits contents shoul
be SO little favorable to my hopes
understand that your objection to me
simply in regard to the smallnea, al
Insecurity of my income. On the fir
point may say that / have fair hop
that it may be at once increased. As
the second. believe j may assert th
tits as sure at least rs the income
professional men, such as barTistel
merchants, and doctors. cannot prof
Use TO say that / will not nse yO