At Saltire that night the panelled dining-room was lit by lamps hung with crimson6 lace. The table was scintillant7 with silver, decorated with luxurious8 flowers and broad-leafed palms.
Dinner-tables often resemble a suburban9 street where every person prays to be preserved from his neighbor. And Gabriel Strong was in no mood for word-fencing that evening. Preoccupied10 with his own thoughts, he surveyed his partner with a melancholy11 reserve that was eminently12 Byronic.
“Sherry, please,” said the Honorable Miss Gusset, crumbling13 bread with her plump pink fingers and casting an amused smile at the reticent14 being at her elbow. “I had always heard, Mr. Strong, that you were such a garrulous15 and enlightened person!”
Gabriel looked into the woman’s brown eyes.
“Apparently16 my reputation has been assailed,” he said; “consider me a dullard; I deserve the taunt17.”
Miss Blanche Gusset reprimanded him with playful scorn.
“Young man,” she said, “have you reflected that it is rude to seem bored over the soup? I must ask you to consider my reputation.”
The rebuked18 one smiled.
“Who could imperil the treasure?” he asked.
“You forget, sir, that Mrs. Marjoy, with her quince-jelly eyes and her peony complexion20, considers herself the one fascinating woman in Saltire. When I tell you that she has been squinting21 at us venomously through her spectacles you should be able to foresee the future.”
“Need you dread23 the lady?”
“My dear Gabriel, Mrs. Marjoy will relate to all her friends how bored you were by me at your father’s dinner-table. Remember that I am still in the marriage market and must defend myself against the calumnies24 of my fellow-shes.”
“Hence my responsibility.”
“To aid me in maintaining an eligible25 exterior26.”
Blanche Gusset, Gabriel’s neighbor, was a pert, plump, and slangy young person, very rubicund27 and very pushful. Her vitality28 was phenomenal, her vigor29 Amazonian. She feared neither sun nor freckles30, frumps nor fashions. Moreover, she was the one woman in the neighborhood who could attack and rout31 the redoubtable32 Mrs. Marjoy, that most Christian33 Medusa, who attended the eucharist fasting and concocted34 malignities an hour later over the breakfast-table.
Her sister Ophelia, who faced her over the silver and the flowers, proffered35 a contrast that was peculiar36 and piquant37. The elder sister, a tall and supersensuous blonde, listened with languid frigidity39 to the banalities of the Reverend Jacob Mince40. She was a large woman with eyes of a brilliant blue, supercilious41 yet pleasurable lips, and a Circassian countenance42. A chain of amethysts43 glittered over the fulness of her broad bosom44. Her fair hair was coiled in masses above her forehead, overshadowing her eyes and throwing into evidence the somewhat heavy sensuousness45 of her face. She talked little, and with an air of luxurious slothfulness that seemed in keeping with her expression of delectable46 and Lilith-like torpor47.
Above the blaze of hot-house flowers the eyes of this complacent48 beauty met those of Gabriel Strong. The pair had seen much of each other that winter in an incidental and desultory49 fashion. Castle Gabingly had been something of a hermitage, and a Greek-faced youth such as Gabriel had more vivid interest for the lady Ophelia than monotonous50 novels and the society of Lord Gerald her father. Gabriel Strong had fine eyes, a quick tongue, and a certain cynical51 quaintness52 in his attitude towards women.
Miss Blanche Gusset reverted54 to the silent being at her elbow.
“Are you asleep yet, Moses?”
“Why a Semitic title?”
“I often call people by the name that slips first off my tongue.”
“A dangerous habit.”
“Explain.”
“For instance, you might greet Mr. Mince as Beelzebub.”
“And not a bad thrust either. Gabriel, you are waking up. Please continue to preserve me from Mrs. Marjoy.”
“Ophelia is looking well to-night,” said the man.
Miss Blanche Gusset’s brown eyes sparkled. She popped an olive between her lips and descended55 once more to personal topics.
“What an arrant56 humbug57 you are,” she said. “If I had Mrs. Marjoy’s temper I should conceive some diabolical58 revenge. Must I apologize for not being my sister?”
“On the contrary, I am excellently placed.”
“An ambiguous compliment, my dear archangel.”
“Flattery is always ambiguous, Miss Gusset. I feel in a sympathetic mood. Please tell me how those fox cubs59 of yours are progressing.”
His neighbor retorted with an ironical60 twinkle.
“You may continue your meditations,” she said; “I shall reserve my remarks on cubs till Mrs. Marjoy begins gabbling in the drawing-room about that dear child of hers.”
When the more spiritual element had departed Gabriel discovered himself partnered by that inestimable worthy61 Jacob Mince. The churchman, unctuously62 freighted, smacked63 his lips over a fat Havana. Mr. Mince was a tall and complacent person, with a bald pate64, a watery65 eye, and a receding66 chin. He was a species of petty pope in his own parish, dogmatizing over pond and pigsty67, ploughed fields, and the village pump. There was no imaginative or expansive breadth in Mr. Mince’s opinions. Yet he was nothing of an ascetic68, and was wholly Christian towards his own stomach.
Gabriel, by way of bestirring the churchman’s ardor69, referred to certain political questions that were agitating70 the country. Sectarian squabbles amused Gabriel as a philosopher; they did not inspire him as a partisan71. Dissent72 was an infallible red rag wherewith to inspire Mr. Mince’s temper. Like many sectarians, he was utterly73 intolerant of adverse74 criticism.
“My dear sir,” he said, in his consequential75 and litanical tenor76, “you will hardly credit it, but I am being bothered most abominably77 in my own village by a certain vagrant78 tub-thumper, who has had the insolence79 to hold open-air services under my very nose.”
Gabriel professed82 a somewhat cynical sympathy.
“Such a reflection on your ministrations,” he observed; “as though you neglected your parish! I suppose the man is an agnostic.”
Mr. Mince frowned and puffed83 irritably84 at his cigar. He did not appreciate such suggestive sympathy.
“Not a bit of it,” he retorted; “the fellow is a mere85 ignorant mechanic who comes over every Sunday from Rilchester to instruct ignorant people in Christian ethics86. The fellow has even had the insolence to choose the very hour of even-song for his bawling87. I was discussing the matter with your father before dinner.”
Apparently Mr. Mince would have preferred rank infidelity in such a rival to the honest profession of Christian principles. In such competition a fellow-believer was more nauseous to him than the blackest atheist88 who ever blasphemed the Trinity. There was a certain element of personal glory in combating the malignities of a spiritual opponent. Mr. Mince desired to propound89 the Bible to his own credit.
“I suppose it does not matter vastly,” said Gabriel, with tactless magnanimity, “what a man is so long as he preaches Christ in the right spirit.”
Mr. Mince elevated his eyebrows90.
“Not matter?”
“No.”
“My dear fellow, you do not realize the pressing peril19 of this astounding91 phenomenon of dissent. It is the most calamitous92 development arising from the abuse of this modern spirit of socialism.”
The topic interested Gabriel enough to inspire in him a mild antagonism93.
“The very movement would suggest to me,” he said, “that the laboring94 classes need a living exposition of the creed95 and that the Church has proved inadequate96 to the occasion. Am I to understand that you consider a university education essential to those who desire to be the religious instructors97 of others?”
“Most certainly education is essential.”
“That depends, sir, does it not, upon what people call education. Classics and theology are out of date; science and the study of human nature are to the fore22.”
Mr. Mince knocked the ash from his cigar and seemed displeased98.
“What is science, sir,” he said, “but a blind man grubbing in a ditch. There is no hope in science. You must really rely on me as an expert in these matters. More experience is granted to those whose studies have extended through many years. We churchmen are specialists on religious education.”
Gabriel, like many enlightened mortals, demurred99 at subjecting reason to the dogmas of a clique100. He preferred to drink of the cup of spirituality without receiving it from the hands of another. He did not believe that the Light of the World descended only upon those who knelt in a particular pew.
“I have a shrewd notion,” he said to Mr. Mince, “that these poor, as we call them, often come nearer the elemental truth than wiseacres steeped in theological learning. The nursing of a sick neighbor is a better thing than the discovering of twenty metaphorical101 meanings in a single text. A man is wise in proportion to the breadth and sincerity102 of his beliefs. Nor can I see that it requires much erudition to expound103 faithfully the philosophy contained in the Sermon on the Mount.”
“That does not satisfy the question,” retorted the clergyman. “Ask Dr. Marjoy what he thinks of quacks104 who profess81 to practise medicine. The analogy is admirable.”
“There—I cannot agree with you.”
Mr. Mince withdrew behind his ecclesiastical dignity.
“You are young yet, Mr. Strong,” he said, “and young men are zealots, youth itself too Utopian. Let me advise you not to take your notions from silly novels and superficial magazines. At all events, sir, I caught William Blunt, my gardener, attending one of these outdoor meetings. The man had been my gardener ten years.”
“I suppose you reprimanded him.”
Mr. Mince’s righteous anger kindled105.
“Reprimand him, by Jove! I pointed106 out to the fellow the outrageous107 ingratitude108 of his conduct, and discharged him promptly109 from my service.”
“A decisive protest!”
“A well-merited lesson.”
Gabriel smiled at the blooms of a pink azalea.
“Possibly this apostle preaches powerfully,” he said.
“The usual jargon110, I believe.”
“I feel inspired to hear him myself.”
Mr. Mince removed his cigar from between his lips, and stared open-mouthed.
“My dear sir, as a gentleman, and as a member of my congregation, you will not countenance such an impostor within the bounds of my parish.”
Gabriel laughed good-naturedly.
“It would be a great breach111 of etiquette112, I suppose,” he said. “Hallo, I see the others are rising. I think it is time we joined the ladies.”
In the drawing-room Judith was at the piano, accompanying herself to the quaint53 measure of an old song. After the gentleman had entered her place was usurped113 by Miss Blanche Gusset, who dashed volubly into the strenuous114 sentiment of a plantation115 ditty. In a panelled “cosey corner” Mrs. Marjoy and Mrs. Mince sat in neighborly isolation116, comparing feminine criticisms. Mrs. Marjoy was a lady who possessed117 no single talent herself and always sneered118 at the accomplishments119 of others.
Gabriel surrendered himself to Ophelia Gusset. She was seated alone on a sofa to the left of the fire. Ophelia was not a woman’s woman in the social sense; her virtues120 were egotistical and unexpansive. She found men more appreciative121, less critical, more sympathetic.
“What selfish beings you men are,” she observed.
“Why such cynicism?”
“You abandon us for tobacco. I am sure you have been talking for forty minutes.”
“Politics proved powerful.”
“I did not know you were a politician.”
“No, I am not patriotic122 with my tongue. Mr. Mince and I had an argument on street-preaching. How easy it is to offend some people.”
Gabriel seated himself on the sofa beside Ophelia Gusset.
She was shading her face from the fire with her fan, her shoulders gleaming white through a web of lace. The red flowers at her breast shone like stars to pilot desire. A mesmeric atmosphere seemed to encircle her; her large eyes were languorous123 and alluring124.
“You seem in queenly isolation,” said the man, noting almost unconsciously the white sweep of her shoulders. She smiled at him, and seemed none too sorry to surrender her solitude125 into his keeping.
“Elderly ladies are really too trying,” she said to him. “I never met such extraordinary rustics126 as Saltire produces.”
“Mrs. Mince and Mrs. Marjoy have been conversing127 for your benefit? A lecture on infant underclothing or the darning of stockings?”
“Far worse, I assure you. Missionary128 incidents from The Reaper129; a dissertation130 on pickling onions; certain remarks from Mr. Mince’s last sermon.”
“And Mrs. Marjoy?”
“What does Mrs. Marjoy usually talk about?”
“Herself and her children and the vices80 of her friends.”
“Dear creature! Blanche had a thrust at her before you joined us.”
“Your sister is a brave woman.”
“It was really quite epigrammatic. Blanche declared that a spoiled child was like a spinster’s poodle—an animal that always had the best chair, clawed the visitor’s clothes, and yelped131 eternally for cake.”
“Excellent! excellent!”
“Mrs. Marjoy glared.”
“Heaven be thanked! I am not the doctor.”
They wandered out into the conservatory132 together, where tulips, red, purple, and gold, blazoned133 the benches. Azaleas stood starred with color amid the ascetic snow of lilies. Bowls of mignonette and violet dowered the air with odors. Many rich plants were brilliant with bloom.
The girl drew her bare arm gently from Gabriel’s. Her movements were sinuous134 and graceful135, mesmeric as a Circe’s. He marked the rare curves of her neck and shoulders, her delicate coloring, the golden profusion136 of her luxurious hair. The vision of the girl bathing in the pool still burned and glimmered137 in his brain. He was susceptible138 to sensations for the moment, too prone139 to pander140 to the sensuous38 in art.
“Mrs. Marjoy is a great gardener,” he said, reverting141 to mundane142 malice143 to restrain his thoughts.
“If I were Hamlet’s Ophelia,” she answered him, “I should give her a posy of nettles144.”
The man laughed and touched her hand.
“And to me?”
She pouted145 out her lips with a mischievous146 stare.
“Laurel leaves, perhaps, to wear when you are laureate.”
“Sarcasm.”
“Retort at your leisure.”
The sound of music came to them, for Judith was playing one of Schubert’s songs. Gabriel thrust his hand into a bowl of violets and proffered them in his palm.
“To be sure, I am modest enough,” she said, setting several in her bosom.
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