Being, as we were, the only two idle persons on board that ship, we were thrown upon each other’s company day after day, and in the long talks we had together she gave me her account of the injuries which she had suffered at the hands of my cousin Gurney. And what pleased me most in these conversations was not to hear her kind and loving professions towards myself, so much as that bitterness which she now manifested against Rupert, for whom, she told me, she cherished a hatred7 as strong as her former liking8 and attachment9.
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“You are not to think,” she said, “that I ever held your cousin in that regard which he was vain enough to believe and boast of. It is true we were good friends, and had been such before I had yet made your acquaintance. But he was a man for whom I had a strong distrust, and that in spite of his swaggering airs and gallant10 speeches, fit to turn the head of some silly, vain girl who knew nothing of the world.”
“How came you to put yourself in that villain11’s hands,” I asked, with some reproachfulness, “by venturing on board the Fair Maid?”
“I own that was a wrong, foolish act,” she answered, “of which the wrongs I have suffered in consequence are sufficient proof. But when I first yielded to Rupert Gurney’s solicitations to take my passage in that ship, I looked to the fact that Captain Sims was her commander, and it was him I relied on to afford me protection. Can you not understand how tired I was of my life in Yarmouth, in that old, dreary13 inn; and how I wished to be abroad and see the great world, and also to embrace my own parents, from whom I have been separated these twelve years?”
Thus she made her defence. Nor was I like to gainsay14 it, loving her as I did, with the same folly15 and blindness as of old, and ready to see and to hear just as she bade me, so that I might only be let hug myself in the belief that I had her affection in return.
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“For the first part of our voyage,” she told me further, “all went well enough, until your cousin recovered of those wounds you had given him. Then he began to take a tone with me which I could ill brook16; and you may imagine my uneasiness when I perceived that he had greater interest with the men than Mr. Sims, and that I was fairly in his power. As soon as we had got out in these seas he threw off all pretence17 of taking me to Fort William; and when I implored18 him at least to set me ashore19 in Bombay, where I might find another ship, he flatly refused, and told me plainly that I was nothing more than his prisoner. I applied20 to Mr. Sims for protection, but he answered that it was none of his business, and since I had come aboard freely there was nothing penal21 in detaining me. This man, I could see, was afraid of Gurney, who shortly after raised a mutiny against him, put him in irons, and carried him into Gheriah.”
I had forgotten to say that when we took the pirates’ castle, Captain Sims was found among the prisoners, who, producing his papers, and making out a long tale about his being an innocent merchant skipper, fallen into the hands of the Moors22, not only got his freedom, but a handsome compensation out of the plunder23 of the place, with which he took passage home to England.
Marian told me that her complaints and anger at last drove Rupert to put her ashore, where he gave her, like Sims, into Angria’s custody24.
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“And the horrors of that prison,” she said, “are not to be described, nor even conceived by one who has not had experience of it. I was locked into a small cell, with scarce room to move or breathe, and the insufferable heat was such that I was forced to strip naked and lie on the floor, with scarce a rag to cover me. What would have happened to me if the fort had not been taken I dare not think. I must have gone mad or died.”
“Do not let us speak of it,” I said, soothing25 her. “All those horrors are passed, and not likely to return. Where we are going, in Calcutta, you will find friends and English customs; and your faithful servant, if you will have him as such, Athelstane Ford12, will stand guard over you with his life.”
This was the nearest approach which I made to a declaration of my love, choosing rather to drift by force of circumstances into the position of Marian’s accepted lover than hazard all I had gained by seeking to pluck the fruit before it was ripe. It was sufficient for me in the meantime to elicit26 from her those expressions of abhorrence27 towards my cousin (and late rival), which assured me that she was effectually cured of her unhappy tenderness for that villain.
“Thank heaven, you are not likely to be troubled with any further sight of him,” I said, to clinch28 the matter. “After these events Master Rupert will be no such fool as to endanger his neck by trespassing29 on the Company’s territories.”
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“I wish never to see him, nor so much as to hear of him again,” Marian answered warmly.
With such assurances she satisfied me. Perhaps my hopes played me false, and made me take gratitude30 for something dearer; or it may be that Marian, who knew well enough what were my feelings towards her, did return me some fondness at this time, and was resigned to accept my suit. Even if I deceived myself, I will not repent31 it. For I know that this life of ours is but a series of illusions, where we stand like children at a peepshow in a fair, beholding32 pictures which we mistake for real things. So that I say that he who falsely thinks himself beloved is just as well off for that time as he who really is beloved. Yet so far as I was concerned, if any man had said to me then that Marian did not love me, I should have scorned him.
Of my love for her I must not speak at all, or I shall never have done. Long before we reached the Hooghley she had recovered from the ill effects of her imprisonment33, and moved about the ship with that command which her beauty gave to her. Her charm was such as I have never seen in any other woman: compared with them she seemed like a bright child among old, sleeping men, almost like a living body among the withered34 tenants35 of the tombs. And before we had been upon our voyage above a fortnight the commander and both lieutenants36 of the Thetis were at her beck and call, [Pg 101]while as for the little midshipmen, down to one youngster of twelve, they swore by her as if she were a goddess, and fought duels37 about her in the cockpit with their dirks.
Before we arrived in Bengal she talked to me much about her parents, who had been settled at Fort William for nearly twenty years. It was a long time since she had had news of them, she told me, but when she last heard her father was prospering38 in his business, which was that of a drug factor, not in the civil service of the East Indian Company, but trading under their licence, and shipping39 his merchandise in their bottoms. So much she knew, but nothing besides, and it was with as much curiosity as myself that she saw the Sunderbunds drawing near, and our sloop40 anchoring off Falta to wait for a pilot up the river.
The Hooghley, famous as it is, is only one of the mouths of that great river the Ganges, sacred and renowned41 throughout Indostan. Yet it is upwards42 of forty miles long, for so great was the distance which separated us from our destination. By means of a fair wind we accomplished43 this difficult navigation, dangerous on account of the numerous shoals, in a very few hours, passing on our way the fort of Budge-Budge, where the Company kept a small garrison44.
The scene along the banks of the river was most strange to me at this time, and made an impression not easy to be effaced45. The trees which overhung [Pg 102]the most part of the banks, of a character quite unlike those we have in Norfolk, were gloomy and forbidding in the extreme; but when we came to one of the people of the country’s villages, and saw the men dressed in gay turbans, the women walking about with curious earthen vessels46 on their heads, and the stark47 naked black children playing in the water, I was altogether bewildered, and could scarcely credit that I, who saw these things and had come to dwell amongst them, was the same boy who had been bred up so peacefully in that English village among the flat meadows bordered by the shallow broad.
However, we came at last to that place since so celebrated48, though then considered only as the third among the Company’s settlements in the East; I mean Fort William. The fort itself was at this date of no great size or consequence; but in the neighbourhood along the river bank were many fine warehouses49 erected50 by the English. In the rear of these was built the native town, which the Moors call Calcutta. Here the houses are generally mean and dirty; but some of the rich Indians lived in very noble style, having fine gardens round their houses, ornamented51 with fountains and groves52 of tulip trees and mangoes.
Marian and I were put ashore in the ship’s gig, having first bid adieu to the officers, and set about inquiring the way to Mr. Rising’s house. In this at first we were unsuccessful, but at last I found an [Pg 103]obliging person on the quay53 who directed his native servant to guide us to it.
This man, to whom I gave a handful of pice, conducted us through some narrow streets of the town, very ill-paved, and full of a most evil smell, to a lonely neighbourhood on the side of the river further up, where there was a house built in the Moorish54 fashion, and enclosed in a wild garden much overrun with weeds. All round this garden was a high wall, conformable to the jealous disposition55 of these people. The entrance was by a narrow gate, and there was a miserable56 dwelling57 crouched58 against the wall inside, the door of which stood open. Some black children were playing in front of this hovel, who cried out when they saw us, and ran indoors. An Indian came out, very gaunt and fierce, who demanded in English what we did there.
“We are come to see Mr. Rising,” I told him, using his own language which Mr. Scrafton had taught me. “Is this his house?”
“It is, my lord,” says the fellow, much surprised, and giving a low bow, which they call a salawm.
With that I dismissed our conductor, and Mr. Rising’s gardener—for such he was—brought us to the house. We now saw that though originally a fine mansion59 it was sadly decayed. The walls should have been white, but excessive heat had cracked and blistered60 them, and turned everything to a yellowish hue61. The Indian brought us inside, [Pg 104]and into a long, low-ceilinged room with a great window opening on to the river. This room had no furniture except two small tables; but all round the walls was a covered settee, very broad, such as the Moors are used to sit on with their legs tucked up beneath them. To a European it is uncomfortable at first, but by degrees I grew accustomed to it. In this room presently Marian’s father came to us.
The first sight of Mr. Rising gave me a shock, and must, I think, have given a worse one to my companion. He was, as I knew, a man of middle age, yet he looked very, very old, being bent62 down and much wrinkled, with his hair nearly white. Moreover, his eyes wandered as if he were uncertain which way to look, and while he spoke63 his fingers worked strangely up and down his bosom64, as if groping over the strings65 of some musical instrument.
“Well, sir,” he said in a thin, halting voice, seeming to find each word an effort, “what is your pleasure with me?”
“I have come here, sir,” I said, “with one whom you will rejoice to see. This is Mistress Marian Rising, your daughter, who has come out from England in my company.”
For at Marian’s prayer I had strictly66 promised to say nothing about the manner of her voyage, which might have done her some discredit67 with the Calcutta folk.
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As I pronounced the above words the girl herself sprang forward and cast her arms about her father’s neck.
“Father!” she said. “Don’t you know me—your little Marian, who has come home!” And she wept on his bosom.
Then it was a pity to see that ancient, stricken man wakening, as it seemed, out of his trance, and gradually making sure who it was that embraced him.
“My child! My child! Why have you come here?” he said presently. And then shed some tears himself, and clasped her to him, and kissed her.
“Where is my mother?” asked Marian, as soon as she had raised her head.
“Poor child! Your mother has been dead these eighteen months,” he answered sadly. “I should have written to tell you of it, but I was preparing for my passage home—indeed, I don’t know why I have not started before this.”
He gazed round him as he spoke, so as to convince me that indeed he did not know, and had lost the power—poor man!—to understand his circumstances or to take any resolution whatsoever68.
I came away from that strange scene terrified, not so much by what I saw, as by an instinct I had that this man’s dreadful wreck69 was only a sign of that great and abiding70 horror which lay like a shadow all over the land; just as in the fable71 the glimpse of one monstrous72 foot was sufficient to warn the spectator [Pg 106]that a giant came along. Which feeling in my mind was rather confirmed than dispelled73 when I came to learn, as I soon did, that Mr. Rising’s sad condition was brought about by the drug called opium74, a staple75 of this country, the magical properties of which herb seemed to me then of a piece with the frightful76 sorceries and dark secret practices of the people, as I afterwards came to know them, and which, with their abominable77 idolatrous superstitions78, used often to make me wonder that the Almighty79 did not destroy them with His plagues of fire and brimstone, like those wicked Cities of the Plain. Yet one good result of my observance of these people’s horrid80 customs was to inspire me with a becoming and devout81 gratitude that I had been born a citizen of Christian82 England, a blessing83 which we should the more prize since Providence84 has seen fit to deny it to so many millions of His creatures, and to bestow85 it upon a few. Sad it is that even among those few there should be found multitudes unmindful of their opportunities, who give themselves up to dissolute lives, or who turn away from the blessed truths of Scripture86 to hanker after liturgies87 and Romish inventions.
And now, having arrived safe in Calcutta, I looked forward to a period of rest and security not only for Marian, but myself, after the rough taste we had both had of fortune in her cantankerous88 mood. As soon as I had seen Marian lodged89 in her father’s [Pg 107]house, I sought out Mr. Holwell, one of the principal Company’s servants in Calcutta, and commissioner90 over the police of the town. To this gentleman I brought a letter from Mr. Scrafton, to recommend me to his good offices, and having read it he at once received me very civilly and promised me his friendship.
He asked me many questions about the taking of Gheriah, and also about Mr Robert Clive, whose character stood high in the estimation of every one in Bengal, even the Moors having bestowed91 on him the name of Sabat Jung, signifying the daring in war.
“We had heard of this affair before you came,” Mr. Holwell told me. “The man Angria was famous in these parts, and supposed to be invincible92, so that his sudden destruction by our armament has given the natives here an altogether new idea of the English power. It will be well if this doesn’t do us more harm than good, for the Moors are a jealous, suspicious race. Our agent in the neighbourhood of Moorshedabad, the Nabob’s capital, has warned us that the English have many enemies at the Court, who seek to poison the Nabob’s mind against us. I believe there are some spies come down here to examine our defences and the strength of our garrison.”
“What!” I said. “Do you think the Nabob intends anything against us?”
“No, I don’t say that,” Mr. Holwell answered. [Pg 108]“The present Nabob, Allaverdy Khan, has always been our good friend. But he is old and sick, and his nephew, who is likely to succeed him, is a dangerous young man, puffed93 up with pride and conceit94. If he should come to the throne he is only too likely to find some pretext95 for harassing96 the Company.”
To these forebodings I paid but little attention at the time, though I was soon to learn that they were not idle fears. Mr. Holwell, after having ascertained97 that I was acquainted with the Gentoo language, offered to procure98 me employment under the Company in one of their counting-houses, as interpreter, which offer I gladly accepted for the time. I was to receive a salary of 200 rupees by the month, in addition to which Mr. Holwell undertook to procure me a dustuck from the Governor, enabling any merchandise I chose to trade in to pass through the province of Bengal free of taxes or duties to the Nabob’s government.
I soon found out that this privilege of trading on their own account proved, together with the presents they received from native merchants who did business with the Company, the most valuable part of the livelihood100 of the Company’s servants. Their salaries were so wretchedly small as to be insufficient101 for the necessities of life in this climate, where the poorest European is obliged to keep half a dozen black servants in his pay. For my part, I did not embark102 in trade myself, having no capital, but I accepted the offer of a Gentoo merchant to lend him [Pg 109]the use of my dustuck to cover his goods, for which he paid me handsomely.
These Gentoos, as they are called in that part of India, are the original natives of the country, who follow the idolatrous religion taught by their Bramins, practising human sacrifices and other rites103 too vile99 for description. Over them the Moors have established their empire by force, but being a military race, incapable104 of business, they commit the details of their government to certain of the Gentoos, who collect their revenues, and amass105 great fortunes. They are very dishonest scoundrels, as I discovered, and at first, finding me new to the Company’s business, I have no doubt they overreached me. At the same time I received many handsome gratifications from them, so that I came to consider myself ill-used when I did not pocket a hundred or two rupees over a transaction involving some thousands. But in the course of a few weeks, as I began to understand the trade better, and to cut down their exorbitant106 demands, these men marvellously abated107 their complaisance108. Some of them, even, who had professed109 to know no English, suddenly showed themselves to be conversant110 with it, and chose to conduct their negotiations111 with some other servant of the Company.
During this time I was lodged, upon Mr. Holwell’s recommendation, in the house of a respectable, God-fearing widow, Mrs. Bligh, whose son had recently gone up country to our factory at Cossimbuzar. [Pg 110]Every day I attended at the counting-house, where I was placed under the orders of the Honourable112 Robert Byng, brother of the ill-fated admiral of the same name, and who managed the business of the Company’s investment in rice, one of the principal branches of their trade. The Gentoo merchants came to us there to make contracts for the provision of such quantities as we required, after which they travelled about Bengal, purchasing the crops, and sending the grain down the river in barges113, to be shipped at Calcutta for England.
Another staple of the Company’s commerce, and the most valuable of all, is silk. The Bengalee Indians are renowned for this manufacture, yet they have no regular places set apart for it, but in their villages scattered114 up and down the country, every man works for himself in his own hut, doing no more—such is the natural laziness of this people—than just sufficient to support him. The merchants are consequently obliged to travel about from place to place, collecting the stuff, which they do chiefly at the country fairs, where the peasantry assemble once a year, bringing their work to be disposed of. It is these customs of the people which have made it necessary for us to set up an establishment in their country, like the Dutch at Chinsurah and the French at Chander Nugger; for unless there were some English on the spot to collect this merchandise and have it ready against the arrival of the Company’s fleet, the ships would often return empty, or [Pg 111]be obliged to pay extravagant115 prices to the native monopolists of the trade.
While I was thus employed in the daytime, I seldom allowed an evening to pass without visiting Marian at her father’s house. Here I was most kindly116 received, and for a time my hopes ran high. But, I cannot tell how it was, I began presently to discover a change in Marian for which I could not account. While her friendship towards me was in no way lessened117, but if possible increased, I gradually became aware that I did not possess her entire confidence. She would sometimes look up disturbed, I had nearly said frightened, at my entrance. At other times when we were in the midst of conversation her attention seemed to wander, and her expression became troubled, as if she had some secret anxiety preying118 on her mind. I cannot say how unhappy I was made by these symptoms, though I was far indeed from guessing at their cause.
Suddenly, in the midst of these private disquietudes, an event happened which cast a shadow over the whole community of Calcutta. Intelligence arrived that Allaverdy Khan was dead, and his nephew Surajah Dowlah proclaimed Nabob of Bengal.
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