The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-09
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
Continued
CHAPTER LXIII.
SIR MARMADUKE AT HOME,

Nora Rowley had told her lover that
there was to be no further cemmunlca-
tion between them TIL her father and
mother should he in England; but IN
telling him so, had so frankly confessed
her own affection for him and had so
sturdily promised to be true to him,
that no lover could have been reasOna-
bly aggrieved by such an Introduction.
Nora was quite conscious of this, and
was aware that Hugh Stanbury had re-
ceived such encouragement as ought at
any rate to bring him to the new Row
lev establishment as soon as he should
learn where it had fixed itself. But
when at the end of ten days he bad not
shown himself, she began tofeel doubts.
Could it be that he had changed his
mind, that he was unwilling TO encoun-
ter refusal from her father,or that he had
found, on looking into his own affairs
more closely, that it would be absurd for
him to propose to take wife TO himself
while his means were so poor and so
precariousi Sir Marmaduke during
this time had been so unhappy, so fret
full, 81 indignant, and so much worried,
that Nora herself had become almost
afraid of him; and, without much rea-
soninp on the matter, had taught her
self TO believe that Hugh might be act
mated by similar fears. She had intend
ed TO tell her mother of what had Oc-
curred between her aud Stanbury the
first moment that she and Lady Rowley
were together; but then there had fallen
upon them that terrible incident of the
loss of the child, and the family had be-
come ut once so wrapped up in the agony
of the bereaved mOther, and so full OF
rage against the unreasonable father,
that there seemed to Nora 10 be no pos
sible opportunity for telling of her own
love. story. Emily herself appeared to
have forgotten it in the midst of her
own misery, and had not mentioned
Hugh Staubury's name since they had
been in Manchester Street. We have all
felt how on occasions our own hopes ana
fears, nay, almost our own Individuality,
become absorbed in and obNterated by
the more pressing cares and louder voices
of those around us. Nora hardly dared
TO allude to herself whllU her sisters
grief was still so prominent, aud while
her father was daily complaining OF his
own personal annoyauces at the Colonial
Office. 1t seemed to her that at such a
moment she could not Introduce new
matter for dispute, and perhaps new
subject of dismay.
Nevertheless. as the days passed by,
aud AS she saw nothing OF Hugh stan
hurv. her heart became sore and her
spirit veXed. L. seemed to her that II
she were now deserted by him, all the
world would be over tor her. The
Glascock episode in her life had passed
a
been her history, which might have
been a history so prosperous, so maSnl-
fcent, and probably 50 happy. AS she
thought of herself and of circumstances
as they had happened to her, of the res
olutions which she had made as to her
own career when she first came to Lon
don, aud of the way In which she had
thrown all those resolutions away IN
spite of the wonderful success which had
csme in her path, she could not refrain
from thinking that she had brought her
self to shipwreck by her own INDIGESTION.
1t must not be imagined that she re-
GREETED what she had done. She knew
very well that to have acted otherwise
than she did when MIR. GlascOCk came
TO her ut Nuncombe Putney would have
proved her to be heartlcsS, selfish, and
unwomaniy. Long before that time she
had determined THAT it was her duty to
marry a rich MAINLAND, if possible, II
man in high position. Such one had
come to heroine endowed with all the
good things of the world beyond her
most sanguine expectation, and she
had rejected him! She knew that she
had been right because she had allowed
herself to love the other man; but she
regretted that she had been so soft in
heart. SO susceptible of the weakness OF
love. so little able TO do rs she pleased
With herself OF what use to her was il
that she loved this mau with all heI
strength of affection when he never
came to her, although the time al
which he had been told that he NIGH;
come was now ten days past
She was sitting one afternoon In the
drawing-room listleSsly reading or pre-
tending to read novel, when on SUD
den. Hugh Stanbury was announced.
Tbecircumstances of the moment were
most unfortunate for such a visit. 81
Marmaduke, who had been down NJ
Whitehall in the morning, and from
thence had made journey to 81. Did-
dulph's-in-the East and back, was eX-
ceediugly cross and ont OF temper. they
had told him at his office that they
feared he would not suffice to carry
through the purpose for which he had
been brought home. And his brother
in-law, the parson, had expressed to him
an opinion that he was in great part res
ponsible for the misfortune of his daugh-
ter, by the encouragement which he had
given to such n man as Colonel Osborne.
Sir Marmaduke had in consequence
6uarreled both with the chief clerk and
with Mr.. Clubhouse, and had come home
surIy aud discontented. Lady Rowley
and her eldest daughter were away
closeted Mt the moment with Lady Nil
borough, with whom they we're eudeav
oriag to arrange some plan by which tn
boy might at amy rate be given back
Poor Emily Trevelyan was humbl
enough now to Lady MilbOrough,-wa
prepared to be humble to any one, ant
An ANY circumstances, SO that she shoul'
not be required to acknowledge tha
she had named Colonel Osborne as be
lever. The two younger girls, Soph!
and Lucy, were in the room when Stan
bury was announced, as was also 81
Narnadpke, who ut that very momen