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He Knew He Was Right

Chapter 8 I KNOW IT WILL DO.

Word Count: 3145    |    Released on: 29/11/2017

established in different parts of the city. As for the iron pillar boxes which had been erected of late years for the receipt of letters, one of which,-a most hat

-as she called it,-out in the middle of the street with nobody to look after it. Positive orders had been given that no letter from her house sh

xeter, 22nd

Sister S

an. Should you agree to this, she will be welcome to receive you or her sister,-not her brother,-in my house any Wednesday morning between half-past nine and half-past twelve. I will endeavour to make my house pleasant to

ower of closing it if, and when, I shall see fit. Its permanence must be co

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a Sta

y does not have any

ts way to Nuncombe Putney out of the coffers of the "D. R.;" but the ladies there were most unwilling to be so relieved, thinking that their brother's career was of infinitely more importance than their comforts or even than their living. They were very poor, but they were accustomed to poverty. The elder sister was older than Hugh, but Dorothy, the younger, to whom this strange invitation was now made, was two years younger than her brother, and

e first to express an opinion. Nothing could be more natural than the proposed arrangement, had it not been made unnatural by a quarrel existing nearly throughout the whole life of the person most nearly concerned

said Mrs. Stanb

try," sai

't know that woma

on't know her,

very good to Hugh,"

s been good to him at

d Dorothy. "And I could send home half of

" said Priscilla, "because s

ore the morning was over,-"if you and

ere demanded. It was very evident to Hugh that his mother and Dorothy were for compliance, and that Priscilla was for refusal. But he never doubted for a moment. "Of course she will go," he said in his answer to Priscilla; "and she must understand that Aunt Stanbury is a most excellent woman, as true a

of the man of the family. Dorothy was greatly gratified by the excitement of the proposed change in her

utney, 1st

Sister S

ld. She will endeavour to comply with your wishes in all things reasonable. She, of course, understands that should the arrangement not suit, she will come back home on the expression of your wish that it should be so. And she will, of course, do th

me to

tionate si

tanb

Miss Stanbury to Martha, hol

her coming, ma'

She'll have the small room up-stairs, looking out

fetch he

you won't

rs old, and surely she can come to Exeter by her

e railway carriages, and I won't have her come by herself. If

ess had taken, partly by perceiving that in face Dorothy Stanbury was very like her brother Hugh, and partly, perhaps, by finding that the young woman's manner to herself was both gentle and sprightly. She knew well that gentleness alone, without some back-bone of strength under it, would not long succe

our sweets," sai

you send for

l. But I must go down and

fusing to be taken there twice on the same Sunday. And he had told his aunt that owing to a peculiar and unfortunate weakness in his constitution he could not listen to the reading of sermons. And then she was almost certain that he had once kissed one of the maids! She had found it impossible to manage him in any way; and when he positively declared himself as permanently devoted to the degrading iniquities of penny newspapers, she had thought it best to cast him off altogether. Now, thus late in life, she was going to make another venture, to try an altogether new mode of living,-in order, as she said to herself, that she might be of some use to somebody,-but, no doubt, with a further unexpressed hope in her bosom, that the solitude of her life might be relieved by the companionship of some one whom she might love. She had arrayed he

dark straw hat, a straw hat with a strong penthouse

said, "I am g

also, whose position was one to justify m

said the aunt, "and l

uth was a beseeching mouth. There are women who, even amidst their strongest efforts at giving assistance to others, always look as though they were asking aid themselves, and such a one was Dorothy Stanbury. Her complexion was pale, but there was always present in it a tint of pink running here and there, changing with every word she spoke, cha

her aunt, taking hold of the curls, "a

, when the aunt and niece sat down to dinner together Dorothy had hardly spoke

st chicken, my dear?

thank

ane, I do hope the

gnorant of Miss Stanbury's character. When Miss Stanbury gave her niece the liver-wing, and picked out from the at

s, I don't know what has become of them. They tell me I may have green peas from Fra

his,-as she always did on such occasions, l

u like it,

ng is so

ng as we don't take more than our share, and give away something to those who haven't a fair share of their own, I for one th

; but Jane knew Miss Stanbury better, and bo

e a glass of port wine. It will

e never did drink any wine, but her

ny harm, and as there is port wine, it must

at with her toes on the fender, and her silk dress folded up above her knees. She sat quite silent in this position for a quarter of an hou

do," said Miss

what would do, she coul

nother short interval. "You're as like my poor sis

e was not ordinarily

m. I know what headaches mean. How is a woman not to have a headache, when she carries a thing on the back of her poll as big as a ga

to go to the Cathedral service on the morning of every week-day, and on Sundays in the afternoon. On Sunday mornings she was to attend the little church of St. Margaret. On Sunday evenings it was the practice of Miss Stanbury to read a sermon in the dining-room

o to attend the Lord's house," sai

ot to make the be

"I beg your pardon, heartily. I'm a thoughtless

er niece a candlestick to go to bed,

t'll do. But if you read in bed either n

o much energy, that Dorothy gave a l

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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.