"The fool, the wretched, contemptible24 idiot!" Routh said, as he looked round his dressing-room that night, and noted25 one by one the signs which would have betokened26 to a practised eye preparations for an abrupt27 departure, "it is hardly worth while to deceive him, and to rule such a creature. He was full of suspicion of me before he went away, and the first fruits of that pretty and affecting conversation of his, under the influence of his mother and the territorial28 decencies of Poynings, was what he flattered himself was a resolution to pay me off, and be free of me. He yields to my letter without the slightest difficulty, and comes here the moment he returns. He believes in Harriet as implicitly29 as ever; and if he is not as fond of me as he was, he is quite as obedient." The cynical30 nature of the man showed itself in the impatient weariness with which he thought of his success, and in the levity31 with which he dismissed, or at least tried to dismiss, the subject from his mind. There was, however, one insuperable obstacle to his getting rid of it--his wife.
Harriet had miscalculated her strength; not the strength of her intellect, but that of her nerves, and the strain had told upon them. She still loved her husband with a desperate kind of love; but all its peace, all its strength, all its frankness--and even in the evil life they had always led it had possessed32 these qualities--had vanished. She loved him now with all the old intensity33 of passion, but with an element of fierceness added to it, with a horrid34 craving35 and fear, sometimes with a sudden repulsion, which she rebelled against as physical cowardice36, causing her to shrink from him in the darkness, and to shut her ears from the sound of his breathing in his sleep. And then she would upbraid37 herself fiercely, and ask herself if she, who had given him all her life and being, who had renounced38 for him--though she denied to herself that such renunciation was any sacrifice, for did she not love him, as happy women, the caressed39 of society, do not know how to love--home, name, kindred, and God, could possibly shrink from him now? She had not played any pretty little game of self-deception; she had not persuaded herself that he was other than he really was; she did not care, she loved him, just as he was, no better and no worse. She lived for him, she believed in, she desired, she asked no other life; and if a terrible anguish40 had come into that life latterly, that was her share of it, her fair share. It was not easy, for she was a woman and weak; her nerves would thrill sometimes, and phantoms41 swarm42 about her; sleeplessness43 would wear her down, and a spell be set upon her lips, under which they strove vainly to curve with their old smile, and to utter their old words of endearment44 and protestation; for she scorned and hated herself for such weakness, and could have torn her rebellious45 flesh with rage, that sometimes it would creep and turn cold when he touched her, or even when he only spoke46. She fought this false and dastardly weakness, as she called it, with steady bravery, and with the resolve to conquer, which is always half a moral battle; but she did not conquer it, she only quelled47 it for a little while. It returned on occasions, and then it tortured and appalled48 her even more than when the foe49 had been always in position.
All such conflicts of feeling had the effect of narrowing the sphere of her life, of concentrating her whole attention on, and intensifying50 her absorption in, her husband. A lassitude which her own good sense told her was dangerous began to take possession of her. They were better off now--she did not rightly know how, or how much, for she had gradually lapsed51 from her previous customary active overseeing of Routh's affairs, and had been content to take money as he gave it, and expend52 it as he desired, skilfully53 and economically, but with an entire indifference54, very different from the cheerful, sunny household thriftiness55 which had formerly56 been so marked a feature in their Bohemian life, and had testified, perhaps more strongly than any other of its characteristics, to the utter deadness of the woman's conscience. His comforts were as scrupulously57 looked after as ever, and far more liberally provided for; but the tasteful care for her home, the indescribable something which had invested their life with the charm of a refinement58 contrasting strangely with its real degradation59, had vanished. Harriet's manner was changed--changed to a quietude unnatural60 to her, and peculiarly unpleasant to Routh, who had had a scientific appreciation61 of the charm of steady, business-like, calm judgment62 and decision brought to bear on business matters; but discarded, at a moment's notice, for sparkling liveliness and a power of enjoyment63 which never passed the bounds of refinement in its demonstrativeness. "Eat, drink, and be merry" had been their rule of life in time that seemed strangely old to them both; and if the woman alone had sometimes remarked that the precept64 had a corollary, she did not care much about it. "To-morrow ye die" was an assurance which carried little terror to one absolutely without belief in a future life, and who, in this, had realized her sole desire, and lived every hour in the fulness of its realization65. Stewart Routh had never had the capacity, either of heart or of intellect, to comprehend his wife thoroughly66; but he had loved her as much as he was capable of loving any one, in his own way, and the strength and duration of the feeling had been much increased by their perfect comradeship. His best aid in business, his shrewd, wise counsellor in difficulty, his good comrade in pleasure, his sole confidant--it must be remembered that there was no craving for respect on the one side, no possibility of rendering67 it, no power of missing it, on the other--and the most cherished wife of the most respectable and worthy68 member of society might have compared her position with that of Harriet with considerable disadvantage on many points.
Things were, however, changed of late, and Harriet had begun to feel, with something of the awfully69 helpless, feeble foreboding with which the victims of conscious madness foresee the approach of the foe, that there was some power, whose origin she did not know, whose nature she could not discern, undermining her, and conquering her unawares. Was it bodily illness? She had always had unbroken health, and was slow to detect any approach of disease. She did not think it could be that, and conscience, remorse, the presence, the truth, of the supernatural components70 of human life, she disbelieved in; therefore she refused to take the possibility of their existence and their influence into consideration. She was no longer young, and she had suffered--yes, she had certainly suffered a very great deal; no one could love as she loved and not suffer, that was all. Time would do everything for her; things were going well; all risk was at an end, with the procuring71 of George's promise and the quieting of George's scruples72 (how feeble a nature his was, she thought, but without the acrid73 scorn a similar reflection had aroused in her husband's mind); and every week of time gained without the revival74 of any inquisition, was a century of presumptive safety. Yes, now she was very weak, and certainly not quite well; it was all owing to her sleeplessness. How could any one be well who did not get oblivion in the darkness? This would pass, and time would bring rest and peace. Wholly possessed by her love for her husband, she was not conscious of the change in her manner towards him. She did not know that the strange repulsion she sometimes felt, and which she told herself was merely physical nervousness, had so told upon her, that she was absent and distant with him for the most part, and in the occasional spasmodic bursts of love which she yielded to showed such haunting and harrowing grief as sometimes nearly maddened him with anger, with disgust, with ennui--not with repentance, not with compassion--maddened him, not for her sake, but for his own.
The transition, effected by the aid of his intense selfishness, from his former state of feeling towards Harriet, to one which required only the intervention75 of any active cause to become hatred, was not a difficult matter to a man like Routh. Having lost all her former charm, and much of her previous usefulness, she soon became to him a disagreeable reminder76. Something more than that--the mental superiority of the woman, which had never before incommoded him, now became positively77 hateful to him. It carried with it, now that it was no longer his mainstay, a power which was humiliating, because it was fear-inspiring. Routh was afraid of his wife, and knew that he was afraid of her, when he had ceased to love her, after he had begun to dislike her; so much afraid of her that he kept up appearances to an extent, and for a duration of time, inexpressibly irksome to a man so callous, so egotistical, so entirely78 devoid79 of any sentiment or capacity of gratitude80.
Such was the position of affairs when George Dallas and Mr. Felton left London to join Mr. and Mrs. Carruthers at Homburg. From the time of his arrival, and even when he had yielded to the clever arguments which had been adduced to urge him to silence, there was a sense of insecurity, foreboding in Routh's mind; not a trace of the sentimental superstitious terror with which imaginary criminals are invested after the fact, but with the reasonable fear of a shrewd man, in a tremendously dangerous and difficult position, who knows he has made a false move, and looks, with moody81 perplexity, for the consequences sooner or later.
"He must have come to England, at all events, Stewart," Harriet said to her husband, when he cursed his own imprudence for the twentieth time; "he must have come home to see his uncle. Mr. Felton would have been directed here to us by the old woman at Poynings, and we must have given his address. Remember, his uncle arrived in England the same day he did."
"I should have sent him to George, not brought George to him," said Routh. "And there's that uncle of his, Felton; he is no friend of ours, Harriet; he does not like us."
"I am quite aware of that," she answered; "civil as he is, he is very honest, and has never pretended to be our friend. If he is George's friend, and George has told him anything about his life since he has known us, I think we could hardly expect him to like us."
Her husband gave her one of his darkest looks, but she did not remark it. Many things passed now without attracting her notice; even her husband's looks, and sometimes his words, which were occasionally as bitter as he dared to make them.
He was possessed with a notion that he must, for a time at least, keep a watch upon George Dallas; not near, indeed, nor apparently82 close, but constant, and as complete as the maintenance of Harriet's influence with him made possible. For himself, he felt his own influence was gone, and he was far too wise to attempt to catch at it, as it vanished, or to ignore its absence. He acquiesced83 in the tacit estrangement84; he was never in the way, but he never lost sight of George; he always knew what he was doing, and had early information of his movements, and with tolerable accuracy, considering that the spy whose services he employed was quite an amateur and novice85.
This spy was Mr. James Swain, who took to the duties of his new line of business with vigorous zeal86, and who seemed to derive87 a grim kind of amusement from their discharge. Stewart Routh had arrived with certainty at the conclusion that the young man had adhered to the promised silence up to the time of his leaving England with his uncle, and he felt assured that Mr. Felton was in entire ignorance of the circumstances which had had such terrible results for Mrs. Carruthers. It was really important to him to have George Dallas watched, and, in setting Jim Swain to watch him, he was inspired by darkly sinister88 motives, in view of certain remote contingencies--motives which had suggested themselves to him shortly after George's unhesitating recognition of the boy who had taken Routh's note to Deane, on the last day of the unhappy man's life, had solved the difficulty which had long puzzled him. Only second in importance to his keeping George Dallas in view was his not losing sight of the boy; and all this time it never occurred to Routh, as among the remote possibilities of things, that Mr. Jim Swain was quite as determined89 to keep an eye on him.
Harriet had acquiesced in her husband's proposal that they should go to Homburg readily. It happened that she was rather more cheerful than usual on the day he made it, more like, though still terribly unlike, her former self. She was in one of those intervals90 in which the tortured prisoner stoops at the stake, during a temporary suspension of the inventive industry of his executioner. The fire smouldered for a little, the pincers cooled. She was in the hands of inflexible92 tormentors, and who could tell what device of pain might attend the rousing from the brief torpor93? Nature must have its periods of rest for the mind, be the agony ever so great; and hers was of the slow and hopeless kind which has such intervals most surely, and with least efficacy. One of them had come just then, and she was placid94, drowsy95, and acquiescent96. She went with Routh to Homburg; he managed to make some hopeful, promising97, and credulous98 acquaintances on the way, and was besides accredited99 to some "business people," of perfectly100 authentic101 character, at Frankfort, in the interest of the flourishing Flinders.
The change, the novelty, the sight of gaiety in which she took no share, but which she looked on at with a partial diversion of her mind, did her good. It was something even to be out of England; not a very rational or well-founded relief, but still a relief, explicable and defensible too, on the theory to which she adhered, that all her ills were merely physical. The torpid102 interval91 prolonged itself, and the vital powers of the sufferer were recruited for the wakening.
This took place when Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge's pony-carriage passed her as she sat by the side of the broad shaded road, and the woman's splendid black eyes met hers. When her husband passed her without seeing her, absorbed in passionate103 admiration104, which any child must have recognized as such, for the beautiful woman whose pony-carriage was like a triumphal chariot, so royal and conquering of aspect was she.
Keen were the tormentors, and full of avidity, and subtle was the new device to tax the recruited strength and mock the brief repose105. It was raging, fierce, fiery106, maddening jealousy107.
It was late in the afternoon of the day on which Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge had sent her answer to Mr. Felton's note, and while George Dallas was sitting with Mrs. Routh, that the beautiful widow and her companion--this time exploring the forest glades108 in another direction, in which they met but few of the visitors to the springs--once more mentioned Mr. Felton and his son. The gray ponies109 were going slowly, and the French groom110 in attendance was considering the probable direction of the "affair" in which his mistress had so precipitately111 engaged herself, and which, being conducted in the English tongue, was interpreted to him by glances and tones only. The beauty of the face on which Stewart Routh was gazing in an intensity of admiration, with a certain desperation in it, in which a cleverer woman than this one would have seen indications of character to warn and alarm her, but which this one merely recognized as a tribute due to her, was marvellously bright and soft, as the slanting112 rays of the sun came through the tree stems, and touched it lingeringly, lovingly. Her black eyes had wonderful gleams and reflections in them, and the masses of her dark hair were daintily tinged113 and tipped with russet tints114. She was looking a little thoughtful, a little dreamy. Was she tired, for the moment, of sparkling? Was she resting herself in an array of the semblance115 of tenderness, more enchanting116 still?
"You knew him, then, in your husband's lifetime? He is not a new acquaintance?"
"What a catechist you are!" she said, with just a momentary117 glance at him, and the least flicker118 of a smile. "I did know him in my husband's lifetime, who highly disapproved119 of him, if you care for that piece of information; we were great friends and he was rather inclined to presume upon the fact afterwards."
She lingered upon the word, and gave it all the confirmatory expression Routh had expected and feared.
"And yet you make an appointment with him to meet him here, in this place, where every one is remarked and speculated upon; here, alone, where you are without even a companion--" He paused, and with a light, mocking laugh, inexpressibly provoking, she said:
"Why don't you say a 'sheep-dog'! We know the immortal120 Becky quite as well as you do. In the first place, my appointment with Arthur Felton means simply nothing. I am just as likely to break it as to keep it; to go to London, or Vienna, or Timbuctoo, to-morrow, if the fancy takes me; or to stay here, and have him told I'm not at home when he calls, only that would please his father; and Mr. Felton is about the only male creature of my acquaintance whom I don't want to please. In the second place, I don't care one straw who remarks me, or what they remark, and have no notion of allowing public opinion to take precedence of my pleasure."
She laughed again, a saucy121 laugh which he did not like, gave him another glance and another flicker of her eyelash, and said:
"Why, how extremely preposterous122 you are! You know well, if I cared what people could, would, might, or should say, I would not allow you to visit me every day, and I would not drive you out alone like this."
The perfect unconcern and freedom of the remark took Routh by surprise, and disconcerted him as completely as its undeniable truth. He kept silence; and Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge, amused at the blank expression of his countenance123, burst into a hearty124 fit of laughter this time.
"I tell you I don't care about public opinion. All the men admire me, no matter what I do; and all the women hate me, and would hate me all the same, for my beauty--which I entirely appreciate, you know--if I made my life as dull and decorous, as miserable125, squalid, and canting, as I make it pleasant, and joyous126, and 'not the thing.' Neither men nor women dare to insult me; and if they did, I should know how to meet the emergency, I assure you, though I am not at all clever. I am only courageous--'plucky,' your English ladies call it, I think, in the last new style of stable and barrack-room talk. I am that; I don't think that I could be afraid of anything or any one."
"Not of a man who really loved you with all the force and passion of his heart?" said Routh, in a hoarse127 whisper, and bending a fierce dark look upon her.
"Certainly not," she replied, lightly; but the colour rose in her cheek, and her breath came a little quicker. "I don't believe in people loving with passion and force, and all that sort of thing. It is pretty to talk about on balconies, and it looks well on paper, in a scrawly128 hand, running crookedly129 up into the corner, and with plenty of dashes, and no date--" And here she laughed again, and touched up the grays. Routh still kept silence, and still his dark look was bent130 upon her.
"No, no," she went on, as the rapid trot131 of the ponies began again to sound pleasantly on the level road, and she turned them out of the forest boundaries towards the town, "I know nothing about all that, except pour rire, as they say in Paris, about everything under the sun, I do believe. To return to Arthur Felton; he is the last person in the world with whom I could imagine any woman could get up anything more serious than the flimsiest flirtation132."
"You did 'get up' that, however, I imagine?" said Routh.
"Of course we did. We spouted133 very trite134 poetry, and he sent me bouquets--very cheap ones they were, too, and generally came late in the evening, when they may, being warranted not to keep, be had at literally135 a dead bargain; and we even exchanged photographs--I don't say portraits, you will observe. His is like enough; but that is really nothing, even among the most prudish136 of the blonde misses. I wonder the haberdashers don't send their likenesses with their bills, and I shall certainly give mine to the postman here; I am always grateful to the postman everywhere, and I like this one--he has nice eyes, his name is Hermann, and he does not smoke."
"Had---had, you mean. How can I tell where it is now?--thrown in the fire, probably, and that of the reigning139 sovereign of his affections comfortably installed in the locket which contained it, which is handsome, I confess: but he does not so much mind spending money on himself, you see. It is exactly like this."
She placed her whip across the reins140, and held all with the left hand, whilst she fumbled141 with the right among the satin and lace in which she was wrapped, and drew out a short gold chain, to which a richly-chased golden ball, as large as an egg, was attached. Turning slightly towards him, and gently checking her ponies, she touched a spring, and the golden egg opened lengthways, and disclosed two small finely-executed photographs.
One was a likeness of herself, and Routh made the usual remarks about the insufficiency of the photographic art in certain cases. He was bending closely over her hand, when she reversed the revolving142 plate, and showed him the portrait on the other side.
"That is Arthur Felton," she said.
Then she closed the locket, and let it drop down by her side amid the satin and the lace.
The French groom had in his charge a soft India shawl in readiness for his mistress, in case of need. This shawl Stewart Routh took from the servant, and wrapped very carefully round Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge as they neared the town.
"The evening has turned very cold," he said; and, indeed, though she did not seem to feel it, and rather laughed at his solicitude143, Routh shivered more than once before she set him down, near the Kursaal, and then drove homewards, past the house where his wife was watching for her, and waiting for him.
Routh ordered his dinner at the Kursaal, but, though he sat for a long time at the table, he ate nothing which was served to him. But he drank a great deal of wine, and he went home, to Harriet--drunk.
"How horribly provoking! It must have come undone144 while I was handling it to-day," said Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge to her maid, when that domestic was attiring145 her for dinner. "I had the locket, open, not an hour ago."
"Yes, ma'am," answered the maid, examining the short gold chain; "it is not broken, the swivel is open."
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