“Oh!” he jerked out at sight of her — which she had to content herself with as a parental8 greeting after separation, his next words doing little to qualify its dryness. “I take it for granted that you know I’m within a couple of hours of leaving England under a necessity of health.” And then as drawing nearer, she signified without speaking her possession of this fact: “I’ve thought accordingly that before I go I should — on this first possible occasion since that odious9 occurrence at Dedborough — like to leave you a little more food for meditation, in my absence, on the painfully false position in which you there placed me.” He carried himself restlessly even perhaps with a shade of awkwardness, to which her stillness was a contrast; she just waited, wholly passive — possibly indeed a trifle portentous11. “If you had plotted and planned it in advance,” he none the less firmly pursued, “if you had acted from some uncanny or malignant12 motive13, you couldn’t have arranged more perfectly14 to incommode, to disconcert and, to all intents and purposes, make light of me and insult me.” Even before this charge she made no sign; with her eyes now attached to the ground she let him proceed. “I had practically guaranteed to our excellent, our charming friend, your favourable15 view of his appeal — which you yourself too, remember, had left him in so little doubt of! — so that, having by your performance so egregiously16 failed him, I have the pleasure of their coming down on me for explanations, for compensations, and for God knows what besides.”
Lady Grace, looking up at last, left him in no doubt of the rigour of her attention. “I’m sorry indeed, father, to have done you any wrong; but may I ask whom, in such a connection, you refer to as ‘they’?”
“‘They’?” he echoed in the manner of a man who has had handed back to his more careful eye, across the counter, some questionable17 coin that he has tried to pass. “Why, your own sister to begin with — whose interest in what may make for your happiness I suppose you decently recognise; and his people, one and all, the delightful18 old Duchess in particular, who only wanted to be charming to you, and who are as good people, and as pleasant and as clever, damn it, when all’s said and done, as any others that are likely to come your way.” It clearly did his lordship good to work out thus his case, which grew more and more coherent to him and glowed with irresistible19 colour. “Letting alone gallant20 John himself, most amiable21 of men, about whose merits and whose claims you appear to have pretended to agree with me just that you might, when he presumed, poor chap, ardently23 to urge them, deal him with the more cruel effect that calculated blow on the mouth!”
It was clear that in the girl’s great gravity embarrassment24 had no share. “They so come down on you I understand then, father, that you’re obliged to come down on me?”
“Assuredly — for some better satisfaction than your just moping here without a sign!”
“But a sign of what, father?” she asked — as helpless as a lone1 islander scanning the horizon for a sail.
“Of your appreciating, of your in some degree dutifully considering, the predicament into which you’ve put me!”
“Hasn’t it occurred to you in the least that you’ve rather put me into one?”
He threw back his head as from exasperated25 nerves. “I put you certainly in the predicament of your receiving by my care a handsome settlement in life — which all the elements that would make for your enjoying it had every appearance of successfully commending to you.” The perfect readiness of which on his lips had, like a higher wave, the virtue26 of lifting and dropping him to still more tangible27 ground. “And if I understand you aright as wishing to know whether I apologise for that zeal28, why you take a most preposterous29 view of our relation as father and daughter.”
“You understand me no better than I fear I understand you,” Lady Grace returned, “if what you expect of me is really to take back my words to Lord John.” And then as he didn’t answer, while their breach30 gaped32 like a jostled wound, “Have you seriously come to propose — and from him again,” she added —“that I shall reconsider my resolute33 act and lend myself to your beautiful arrangement?”
It had so the sound of unmixed ridicule that he could only, for his dignity, not give way to passion. “I’ve come, above all, for this, I may say, Grace: to remind you of whom you’re addressing when you jibe34 at me, and to make of you assuredly a plain demand — exactly as to whether you judged us to have actively35 incurred36 your treatment of our unhappy friend, to have brought it upon us, he and I, by my refusal to discuss with you at such a crisis the question of my disposition37 of a particular item of my property. I’ve only to look at you, for that matter,” Lord Theign continued — always with a finer point and a higher consistency38 as his rehearsal39 of his wrongs broadened —“to have my inquiry40, as it seems to me, eloquently41 answered. You flounced away from poor John, you took, as he tells me, ‘his head off,’ just to repay me for what you chose to regard as my snub on the score of your challenging my entertainment of a possible purchaser; a rebuke42 launched at me, practically, in the presence of a most inferior person, a stranger and an intruder, from whom you had all the air of taking your cue for naming me the great condition on which you’d gratify my hope. Am I to understand, in other words,”— and his lordship mounted to a climax43 —“that you sent us about our business because I failed to gratify your hope: that of my knocking under to your sudden monstrous44 pretension45 to lay down the law for my choice of ways and means of raising, to my best convenience, a considerable sum of money? You’ll be so good as to understand, once for all, that I recognise there no right of interference from any quarter — and also to let that knowledge govern your behaviour in my absence.”
Lady Grace had thus for some minutes waited on his words — waited even as almost with anxiety for the safe conduct he might look to from some of the more extravagant46 of them. But he at least felt at the end — if it was an end — all he owed them; so that there was nothing for her but to accept as achieved his dreadful felicity. “You’re very angry with me, and I hope you won’t feel me simply ‘aggravating’ if I say that, thinking everything over, I’ve done my best to allow for that. But I can answer your question if I do answer it by saying that my discovery of your possible sacrifice of one of our most beautiful things didn’t predispose me to decide in favour of a person — however ‘backed’ by you — for whose benefit the sacrifice was to take place. Frankly47,” the girl pushed on, “I did quite hate, for the moment, everything that might make for such a mistake; and took the darkest view, let me also confess, of every one, without exception, connected with it I interceded48 with you, earnestly, for our precious picture, and you wouldn’t on any terms have my intercession. On top of that Lord John blundered in, without timeliness or tact49 — and I’m afraid that, as I hadn’t been the least in love with him even before, he did have to take the consequence.”
Lord Theign, with an elated swing of his person, greeted this as all he could possibly want. “You recognise then that your reception of him was purely50 vindictive51! — the meaning of which is that unless my conduct of my private interests, of which you know nothing whatever, happens to square with your superior wisdom you’ll put me under boycott52 all round! While you chatter53 about mistakes and blunders, and about our charming friend’s lack of the discretion54 of which you yourself set so grand an example, what account have you to offer of the scene you made me there before that fellow — your confederate, as he had all the air of being! — by giving it me with such effrontery55 that, if I had eminently56 done with him after his remarkable57 display, you at least were but the more determined58 to see him keep it up?”
The girl’s justification59, clearly, was very present to her, and not less obviously the truth that to make it strong she must, avoiding every side-issue, keep it very simple, “The only account I can give you, I think, is that I could but speak at such a moment as I felt, and that I felt — well, how can I say how deeply? If you can really bear to know, I feel so still I care in fact more than ever that we shouldn’t do such things. I care, if you like, to indiscretion — I care, if you like, to offence, to arrogance60, to folly61. But even as my last word to you before you leave England on the conclusion of such a step, I’m ready to cry out to you that you oughtn’t, you oughtn’t, you oughtn’t!”
Her father, with wonder-moved, elevated brows and high commanding hand, checked her as in an act really of violence — save that, like an inflamed62 young priestess, she had already, in essence, delivered her message. “Hallo, hallo, hallo, my distracted daughter — no ‘crying out,’ if you please!” After which, while arrested but unabashed, she still kept her lighted eyes on him, he gave back her conscious stare for a minute, inwardly and rapidly turning things over, making connections, taking, as after some long and lamentable63 lapse64 of observation, a new strange measure of her: all to the upshot of his then speaking with a difference of tone, a recognition of still more of the odious than he had supposed, so that the case might really call for some coolness. “You keep bad company, Grace — it pays the devil with your sense of proportion. If you make this row when I sell a picture, what will be left to you when I forge a cheque?”
“If you had arrived at the necessity of forging a cheque,” she answered, “I should then resign myself to that of your selling a picture.”
“But not short of that!”
“Not short of that. Not one of ours.”
“But I couldn’t,” said his lordship with his best and coldest amusement, “sell one of somebody else’s!”
She was, however, not disconcerted. “Other people do other things — they appear to have done them, and to be doing them, all about us. But we have been so decently different — always and ever. We’ve never done anything disloyal.”
“‘Disloyal’?”— he was more largely amazed and even interested now.
Lady Grace stuck to her word. “That’s what it seems to me!”
“It seems to you”— and his sarcasm65 here was easy —“more disloyal to sell a picture than to buy one? Because we didn’t paint ’em all ourselves, you know!”
She threw up impatient hands. “I don’t ask you either to paint or to buy ——!”
“Oh, that’s a mercy!” he interrupted, riding his irony66 hard; “and I’m glad to hear you at least let me off such efforts! However, if it strikes you as gracefully67 filial to apply to your father’s conduct so invidious a word,” he went on less scathingly, “you must take from him, in your turn, his quite other view of what makes disloyalty — understanding distinctly, by the same token, that he enjoins68 on you not to give an odious illustration of it, while he’s away, by discussing and deploring69 with any one of your extraordinary friends any aspect or feature whatever of his walk and conversation. That — pressed as I am for time,” he went on with a glance at his watch while she remained silent —“is the main sense of what I have to say to you; so that I count on your perfect conformity70. When you have told me that I may so count”— and casting about for his hat he espied71 it and went to take it up —“I shall more cordially bid you good-bye.”
His daughter looked as if she had been for some time expecting the law thus imposed upon her — had been seeing where he must come out; but in spite of this preparation she made him wait for his reply in such tension as he had himself created. “To Kitty I’ve practically said nothing — and she herself can tell you why: I’ve in fact scarcely seen her this fortnight. Putting aside then Amy Sandgate, the only person to whom I’ve spoken — of your ‘sacrifice,’ as I suppose you’ll let me call it? — is Mr. Hugh Crimble, whom you talk of as my ‘confederate’ at Dedborough.”
Lord Theign recovered the name with relief. “Mr. Hugh Crimble — that’s it! — whom you so amazingly caused to be present, and apparently73 invited to be active, at a business that so little concerned him.”
“He certainly took upon himself to be interested, as I had hoped he would. But it was because I had taken upon my self —”
“To act, yes,” Lord Theign broke in, “with the grossest want of delicacy74! Well, it’s from that exactly that you’ll now forbear; and ‘interested’ as he may be-for which I’m deucedly obliged to him! — you’ll not speak to Mr. Crimble again.”
“Never again?”— the girl put it as for full certitude.
“Never of the question that I thus exclude. You may chatter your fill,” said his lordship curtly75, “about any others.”
“Why, the particular question you forbid,” Grace returned with great force, but as if saying something very reasonable —“that question is the question we care about: it’s our very ground of conversation.”
“Then,” her father decreed, “your conversation will please to dispense76 with a ground; or you’ll perhaps, better still — if that’s the only way! — dispense with your conversation.”
Lady Grace took a moment as if to examine this more closely. “You require of me not to communicate with Mr. Crimble at all?”
“Most assuredly I require it — since it’s to that you insist on reducing me.” He didn’t look reduced, the master of Dedborough, as he spoke72 — which was doubtless precisely77 because he held his head so high to affirm what he suffered. “Is it so essential to your comfort,” he demanded, “to hear him, or to make him, abuse me?”
“‘Abusing’ you, father dear, has nothing whatever to do with it!”— his daughter had fairly lapsed78, with a despairing gesture, to the tenderness involved in her compassion79 for his perversity80. “We look at the thing in a much larger way,” she pursued, not heeding81 that she drew from him a sound of scorn for her “larger.” “It’s of our Treasure itself we talk — and of what can be done in such cases; though with a close application, I admit, to the case that you embody82.”
“Ah,” Lord Theign asked as with absurd curiosity, “I embody a case?”
“Wonderfully, father — as you do everything; and it’s the fact of its being exceptional,” she explained, “that makes it so difficult to deal with.”
His lordship had a gape31 for it. “‘To deal with’? You’re undertaking83 to ‘deal’ with me?”
She smiled more frankly now, as for a rift84 in the gloom. “Well, how can we help it if you will be a case?” And then as her tone but visibly darkened his wonder: “What we’ve set our hearts on is saving the picture.”
“What you’ve set your hearts on, in other words, is working straight against me?”
But she persisted without heat. “What we’ve set our hearts on is working for England.”
“And pray who in the world’s ‘England,’” he cried in his stupefaction, “unless I am?”
“Dear, dear father,” she pleaded, “that’s all we want you to be! I mean”— she didn’t fear firmly to force it home —“in the real, the right, the grand sense; the sense that, you see, is so intensely ours.”
“‘Ours’?”— he couldn’t but again throw back her word at her. “Isn’t it, damn you, just in ours —?”
“No, no,” she interrupted —“not in ours!” She smiled at him still, though it was strained, as if he really ought to perceive.
But he glared as at a senseless juggle85. “What and who the devil are you talking about? What are ‘we,’ the whole blest lot of us, pray, but the best and most English thing in the country: people walking — and riding! — straight; doing, disinterestedly86, most of the difficult and all the thankless jobs; minding their own business, above all, and expecting others to mind theirs?” So he let her “have” the stout87 sound truth, as it were — and so the direct force of it clearly might, by his view, have made her reel. “You and I, my lady, and your two decent brothers, God be thanked for them, and mine into the bargain, and all the rest, the jolly lot of us, take us together — make us numerous enough without any foreign aid or mixture: if that’s what I understand you to mean!”
“You don’t understand me at all — evidently; and above all I see you don’t want to!” she had the bravery to add, “By ‘our’ sense of what’s due to the nation in such a case I mean Mr. Crimble’s and mine — and nobody’s else at all; since, as I tell you, it’s only with him I’ve talked.”
It gave him then, every inch of him showed, the full, the grotesque88 measure of the scandal he faced. “So that ‘you and Mr. Crimble’ represent the standard, for me, in your opinion, of the proprieties89 and duties of our house?”
Well, she was too earnest — as she clearly wished to let him see — to mind his perversion90 of it. “I express to you the way we feel.”
“It’s most striking to hear, certainly, what you express”— he had positively91 to laugh for it; “and you speak of him, with your insufferable ‘we,’ as if you were presenting him as your — God knows what! You’ve enjoyed a large exchange of ideas, I gather, to have arrived at such unanimity92.” And then, as if to fall into no trap he might somehow be laying for her, she dropped all eagerness and rebutted93 nothing: “You must see a great deal of your fellow-critic not to be able to speak of yourself without him!”
“Yes, we’re fellow-critics, father”— she accepted this opening. “I perfectly adopt your term.” But it took her a minute to go further. “I saw Mr. Crim-ble here half an hour ago.”
“Saw him ‘here’?” Lord Theign amazedly asked. “He comes to you here — and Amy Sandgate has been silent?”
“It wasn’t her business to tell you — since, you see, she could leave it to me. And I quite expect,” Lady Grace then produced, “that he’ll come again.”
It brought down with a bang all her father’s authority. “Then I simply exact of you that you don’t see him.”
The pause of which she paid it the deference94 was charged like a brimming cup. “Is that what you really meant by your condition just now — that when I do see him I shall not speak to him?”
“What I ‘really meant’ is what I really mean — that you bow to the law I lay upon you and drop the man altogether.”
“Have nothing to do with him at all?”
“Have nothing to do with him at all.”
“In fact”— she took it in-“give him wholly up.”
He had an impatient gesture. “You sound as if I asked you to give up a fortune!” And then, though she had phrased his idea without consternation95 — verily as if it had been in the balance for her — he might have been moved by something that gathered in her eyes. “You’re so wrapped up in him that the precious sacrifice is like that sort of thing?”
Lady Grace took her time — but showed, as her eyes continued to hold him, what had gathered. “I like Mr. Crimble exceedingly, father — I think him clever, intelligent, good; I want what he wants — I want it, I think, really, as much; and I don’t at all deny that he has helped to make me so want it. But that doesn’t matter. I’ll wholly cease to see him, I’ll give him up forever, if — if —!” She faltered96, however, she hung fire with a smile that anxiously, intensely appealed. Then she began and stopped again, “If — if —!” while her father caught her up with irritation97.
“‘If,’ my lady? If what, please?”
“If you’ll withdraw the offer of our picture to Mr. Bender — and never make another to any one else!”
He stood staring as at the size of it — then translated it into his own terms. “If I’ll obligingly announce to the world that I’ve made an ass10 of myself you’ll kindly98 forbear from your united effort — the charming pair of you — to show me up for one?”
Lady Grace, as if consciously not caring or attempting to answer this, simply gave the first flare99 of his criticism time to drop. It wasn’t till a minute passed that she said: “You don’t agree to my compromise?”
Ah, the question but fatally sharpened at a stroke the stiffness of his spirit. “Good God, I’m to ‘compromise’ on top of everything? — I’m to let you browbeat100 me, haggle101 and bargain with me, over a thing that I’m entitled to settle with you as things have ever been settled among us, by uttering to you my last parental word?”
“You don’t care enough then for what you name?”— she took it up as scarce heeding now what he said.
“For putting an end to your odious commerce —? I give you the measure, on the contrary,” said Lord Theign, “of how much I care: as you give me, very strangely indeed, it strikes me, that of what it costs you —!” But his other words were lost in the hard long look at her from which he broke off in turn as for disgust.
It was with an effect of decently shielding herself — the unuttered meaning came so straight — that she substituted words of her own. “Of what it costs me to redeem102 the picture?”
“To lose your tenth-rate friend”— he spoke without scruple103 now.
She instantly broke into ardent22 deprecation, pleading at once and warning. “Father, father, oh —! You hold the thing in your hands.”
He pulled up before her again as to thrust the responsibility straight back. “My orders then are so much rubbish to you?”
Lady Grace held her ground, and they remained face to face in opposition104 and accusation105, neither making the other the sign of peace. But the girl at least had, in her way, held out the olive-branch, while Lord Theign had but reaffirmed his will. It was for her acceptance of this that he searched her, her last word not having yet come. Before it had done so, however, the door from the lobby opened and Mr. Gotch had regained106 their presence. This appeared to determine in Lady Grace a view of the importance of delay, which she signified to her companion in a “Well — I must think!” For the butler positively resounded107, and Hugh was there.
“Mr. Crimble!” Mr. Gotch proclaimed — with the further extravagance of projecting the visitor straight upon his lordship.
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