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He Knew He Was Right

Chapter 6 SHEWING HOW RECONCILIATION WAS MADE.

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r, and then asked her sister what she meant to do. "I have written to Mrs. Peacock. I don't know what else I can do. It is ve

lse will yo

There is nothing else that a woman can do. If he chooses to dine at his club every day

oo terrible to think that the

do? Have I

ng or right. If it's right, it ought to be done

d it sounds logical; but you

should do it. And what will be the harm? You don't mean to see Colonel

him that any special gentleman is not to be admitted to see me? Oh dear! oh dear! have I done anything to deserve it? W

hich he had expected in her surrender. "Tell him to come," Nora had urged. "Of course he can come if he pleases," Emily had replied. Then Nora had told Louis to come, and Louis had demanded whether, if he did so, the promise which he had exacted would be given. It is to

" said the husband, walking up to his wife i

reconciliati

to E

t two days," said she, very gravely,-returnin

ve,-as an act on her part which she had fully consented to perform. But she stood silent, with one hand on the dressing-table, looking away from him, very beautiful, a

s, how you can want s

ght to ask it;

r you to tell the servant. I do not know how I can do that. But, as a matter of course, I will encourage no

all tha

quest in the matter. Your word was quite sufficient. That you should find cause

fferent thi

do not understand them. My own self-respect prevents me from suppos

I never have,"

I regard as a matter of

ly, the way in whi

do you regard th

, I believe, spo

ord that may be injurious to your honour." This she said very quietly, with much dignity, and he felt that he had better not answer her. She had given him the promise which he had demanded, and he began to fear that if he pushed the

the order in the most indifferent tone of voice which he could assume; but as he gave it he felt thoroughly ashamed of it. Richard, who, with the oth

it, put it down by her plate. Trevelyan knew immediately from whom the letter had come, and understood how impossible it was for his wife to give it up in the servant's presence. Th

, "how can you allow words so horrible

to the room, and the remainder of the dinner passed off almost in silence. It was their custom when they dined without company to leave the dining-room together, but on this evening Trevelyan remai

Commons,

Emi

his, cursed Colonel Osb

r E

et him do what he would, till the end of July. They hope to have the session over by that time, and therefore the committee is to be put off till next session. They mean to have Lord Bowles home from Canada, and they think that Bowles would like to be here in the winter. Sir Marmaduke will

s al

.

e letter, but the very telling of it would be a renewing of the soreness of his wound. And then what was to be done in reference to the threatened visit for the Sunday morning? Trevelyan knew very well that were his wife denied at that hour, Colonel Osborne would understand the whole matter. He had doubtless in his anger intended that Colonel Osborne should understand the

rather not," she

d it. It concerns

ter and read it. "They are not to come a

?" asked Mrs

he session. I don'

Louis, "and they think he would prefer bein

s that to do

st both be here to

hard indeed," sa

r husband. "His coming at all is so muc

, and nobody can know more of the service than papa does. But as the other man

said Trevelyan, who was desirous that his

ay I should have thought that Colonel Osborne's letters were as innocent as an old ne

uld utter. Nora now closed the letter and handed it back to her brother-in-law. He laid it down on the table beside him, and sat for a while with his eyes fixed upon his book. At l

he room if he be admitte

than before. Then he rose from his chair and walked round to the sofa on which his wife was

any subject in my life. My wishes at present are confined to a desire to save you as

er had any

tters. A husband without suspicions does not call in the aid o

y, "how can you say such thin

to provoke me,"

n has chosen to talk scandal about me, I am placed in a position in my own house which is disgraceful to you and insupportable to myself. This man has been in the

come in and go away, ju

was exacted, and it shall be kept." Having so spoken, she swept out of the room, and went up-stairs to the nursery. Trevelyan sat for an hour with his book before him, reading or pretend

rath with her after the church service which they had just heard together. But he was softer-hearted than was she, and knowing this, was almost afraid to say anything that would again br

ouis," she answered. "I cannot f

elf to believe that I have

ent. But it has hurt me to find that you should

ess of that "Dear Emily;" but he had to reconcile himself even to that, telling himself that, after all, Colonel Osborne was an old man,-a man older even than his wife's father. If she would only have met him with gentleness, he w

in this way that things were allowed to arrange themselves. Richard was told that Colonel Osborne was coming to lunch, and when he came something was muttered to him about Mrs. Trevelyan being not quite well. It was Nora who told the innoc

to him to have been mean, and almost false and cowardly. As the order for the exclusion of this hated man from his house had been given, he should at any rate have stuck to the order. At the moment of his vacillation he had simply intended to make things easy for his wife; but she had ta

bout Colonel Osborne. She would avoid that gentleman, never receiving him in Curzon Street, and having as little to say to him as possible elsewhere; but she would not throw his name in her husband's teeth, or make any reference to the injury which had so manifestly been done to her. Unless Louis should be indiscreet, it should be as though it had been forgott

y worked very hard at her mission of forgiveness, and hardly ceased in her efforts at conciliatory conversation. Women can work so much harder in this way than men find it possible to do! She never flagged, but cont

ou are able to be ou

almost as much due to baby as to anything else

rateful mistress, but somewhat exacting. I am allowed a couple of hou

ry unpl

a man wants wages, he must earn them. The Christian philosophers have a theory abo

ligion. I hope that doesn't come

does that with us, and does it excellently. It was he who touched up the Ritualists, and then the

n, that the Dail

ed to Miss Rowley, and they two were soon walking on together, each manifestly interested

s, she had made a little mute appeal to her husband to take her away from the spot, to give her his arm and return with her, to save her in some way from remaining in company with

road path together, and th

satisfactory,-about

Osborne. I felt a little disappointed when I foun

er then, you know, t

time comes we shall all

that a little pudding to-day

urned his face down close to her face, and had almost whispered them. And then, too, he had again called her by her Christian name. Trevelyan had not heard the words. He had walked on, making the distance between him and the other man greater than was necessary, anxiou

back, if you please." Then she took her husband's arm, and

not perceive that he had been left in anger. When Trevelyan and his wife had gone bac

Emily," he said, "that yo

ave made it almost impossible f

m everything now,

worthy of a moment's conversation. And she by her step, and gait, and every movement of her body showed to him that she was not his wife now in any sense that could bring to him a feeling of domestic happiness. Her compliance with his command was of no use to him unless

s to pa

hat is the world to us unless we can love one

bt my love?

ertain

ke us so. There must be trust, and there must also be forbearance. My feeling of annoyanc

ned nothing by the interview. She was still hard and cold, and still assumed

ents on the spot, and then with a whistle, a shake of the he

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1 Chapter 1 SHEWING HOW WRATH BEGAN.2 Chapter 2 COLONEL OSBORNE.3 Chapter 3 LADY MILBOROUGH'S DINNER PARTY.4 Chapter 4 HUGH STANBURY.5 Chapter 5 SHEWING HOW THE QUARREL PROGRESSED.6 Chapter 6 SHEWING HOW RECONCILIATION WAS MADE.7 Chapter 7 MISS JEMIMA STANBURY, OF EXETER.8 Chapter 8 I KNOW IT WILL DO. 9 Chapter 9 SHEWING HOW THE QUARREL PROGRESSED AGAIN.10 Chapter 10 HARD WORDS.11 Chapter 11 LADY MILBOROUGH AS AMBASSADOR.12 Chapter 12 MISS STANBURY'S GENEROSITY.13 Chapter 13 THE HONOURABLE MR. GLASCOCK.14 Chapter 14 THE CLOCK HOUSE AT NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.15 Chapter 15 WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT IT IN THE CLOSE.16 Chapter 16 DARTMOOR.17 Chapter 17 A GENTLEMAN COMES TO NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.18 Chapter 18 THE STANBURY CORRESPONDENCE.19 Chapter 19 BOZZLE, THE EX-POLICEMAN.20 Chapter 20 SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE21 Chapter 21 SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE No.2122 Chapter 22 SHEWING HOW MISS STANBURY BEHAVED23 Chapter 23 COLONEL OSBORNE AND MR. BOZZLE24 Chapter 24 NIDDON PARK.25 Chapter 25 HUGH STANBURY SMOKES HIS PIPE.26 Chapter 26 A THIRD PARTY IS SO OBJECTIONABLE.27 Chapter 27 MR. TREVELYAN'S LETTER TO HIS WIFE.28 Chapter 28 GREAT TRIBULATION.29 Chapter 29 MR. AND MRS. OUTHOUSE.30 Chapter 30 DOROTHY MAKES UP HER MIND.31 Chapter 31 MR. BROOKE BURGESS.32 Chapter 32 THE FULL MOON AT ST. DIDDULPH'S.33 Chapter 33 HUGH STANBURY SMOKES ANOTHER PIPE.34 Chapter 34 PRISCILLA'S WISDOM.35 Chapter 35 MR. GIBSON'S GOOD FORTUNE.36 Chapter 36 MISS STANBURY'S WRATH.37 Chapter 37 MONT CENIS.38 Chapter 38 VERDICT OF THE JURY- MAD, MY LORD. 39 Chapter 39 MISS NORA ROWLEY IS MALTREATED.40 Chapter 40 C. G. 41 Chapter 41 SHEWING WHAT TOOK PLACE AT ST. DIDDULPH'S.42 Chapter 42 MISS STANBURY AND MR. GIBSON BECOME TWO.43 Chapter 43 LABURNUM COTTAGE.44 Chapter 44 BROOKE BURGESS TAKES LEAVE OF EXETER.45 Chapter 45 TREVELYAN AT VENICE.46 Chapter 46 THE AMERICAN MINISTER.47 Chapter 47 ABOUT FISHING, AND NAVIGATION, AND HEAD-DRESSES.48 Chapter 48 MR. GIBSON IS PUNISHED.49 Chapter 49 MR. BROOKE BURGESS AFTER SUPPER.50 Chapter 50 CAMILLA TRIUMPHANT.51 Chapter 51 SHEWING WHAT HAPPENED52 Chapter 52 MR. OUTHOUSE COMPLAINS THAT IT'S HARD.53 Chapter 53 HUGH STANBURY IS SHEWN TO BE NO CONJUROR.54 Chapter 54 MR. GIBSON'S THREAT.55 Chapter 55 THE REPUBLICAN BROWNING.56 Chapter 56 WITHERED GRASS.57 Chapter 57 DOROTHY'S FATE.58 Chapter 58 DOROTHY AT HOME.59 Chapter 59 MR. BOZZLE AT HOME.60 Chapter 60 ANOTHER STRUGGLE.61 Chapter 61 PARKER'S HOTEL, MOWBRAY STREET.62 Chapter 62 LADY ROWLEY MAKES AN ATTEMPT.63 Chapter 63 SIR MARMADUKE AT HOME.64 Chapter 64 SIR MARMADUKE AT HIS CLUB.65 Chapter 65 MYSTERIOUS AGENCIES.66 Chapter 66 OF A QUARTER OF LAMB.67 Chapter 67 RIVER'S COTTAGE.68 Chapter 68 MAJOR MAGRUDER'S COMMITTEE.69 Chapter 69 SIR MARMADUKE AT WILLESDEN.70 Chapter 70 SHEWING WHAT NORA ROWLEY71 Chapter 71 SHEWING WHAT HUGH STANBURY THOUGHT72 Chapter 72 THE DELIVERY OF THE LAMB.73 Chapter 73 DOROTHY RETURNS TO EXETER.74 Chapter 74 THE LIONESS AROUSED.75 Chapter 75 THE ROWLEYS GO OVER THE ALPS.76 Chapter 76 WE SHALL BE SO POOR. 77 Chapter 77 THE FUTURE LADY PETERBOROUGH.78 Chapter 78 CASALUNGA.79 Chapter 79 I CAN SLEEP ON THE BOARDS. 80 Chapter 80 WILL THEY DESPISE HIM 81 Chapter 81 MR. GLASCOCK IS MASTER.82 Chapter 82 MRS. FRENCH'S CARVING KNIFE.83 Chapter 83 BELLA VICTRIX.84 Chapter 84 SELF-SACRIFICE.85 Chapter 85 THE BATHS OF LUCCA.86 Chapter 86 MR. GLASCOCK AS NURSE.87 Chapter 87 MR. GLASCOCK'S MARRIAGE COMPLETED.88 Chapter 88 CROPPER AND BURGESS.89 Chapter 89 I WOULDN'T DO IT, IF I WAS YOU. 90 Chapter 90 LADY ROWLEY CONQUERED.91 Chapter 91 FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.92 Chapter 92 TREVELYAN DISCOURSES ON LIFE.93 Chapter 93 SAY THAT YOU FORGIVE ME. 94 Chapter 94 A REAL CHRISTIAN.95 Chapter 95 TREVELYAN BACK IN ENGLAND.96 Chapter 96 MONKHAMS.97 Chapter 97 MRS. BROOKE BURGESS.98 Chapter 98 ACQUITTED.99 Chapter 99 CONCLUSION.