Shaped in proportion fair;
And hazel was his eagle eye,
And auburn of the darkest dye
His short and curling hair.
Light was his footstep in the dance,
And firm his stirrup in the lists—
And, oh, he had that merry glance
That seldom lady's heart resists."—Scott.
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iss Jerusha's memorable2 "house-cleaning" was over, and the cottage having been polished till it shone, and everything inside and outside reduced to the frightfully clean state that characterized everything belonging to that worthy3 lady, she was prepared to sit down and enjoy the reward of her labors4, and the pleasure of an approving conscience. Fly and Betsey Periwinkle, who had been in an excessively damp and limber state for the last few days, and whom Miss Jerusha had kept tearing in and out and up and down like a couple of comets, were at last permitted to dry out, and might now safely venture to call their souls their own again.
Georgia, who rather liked a fuss than otherwise, quite enjoyed the house-cleaning, and spent an unusually large portion of her valuable time at the cottage while that domestic revolution was in full blast; now that it was over,[Pg 54] she began to resume her slightly vagabondish habit of roaming round the country, always up to her eyes in business, yet never bringing about any particular result excepting that of mischief5. When Georgia wished to enjoy the pleasures of solitude6, which was not often, she strolled off to the beach, where, perched on top of a high rock, she meditated8 on the affairs of the State, or whatever other subject happened to weigh on her mind at the moment.
One morning she started off for her favorite seat in order to have a quite read, having inveigled9 Miss Jerusha out of the "Pilgrim's Progress" for that purpose, in lieu of something more entertaining. Now this beach being so far removed from Burnfield, its solitude was rarely, if ever, disturbed; therefore, great was Georgia's surprise upon reaching it, to find a shady spot under her own favorite rock already occupied.
Miss Georgia came to a sudden halt, and, standing10 on tiptoe, gravely surveyed the new-comer, herself unseen.
Under the shadow of the overhanging rock, on the warm sands, lay a tall, slight, fashionably dressed youth, of sixteen or thereabouts, with handsome, regular features, a complexion11 of feminine fairness, a profusion12 of brown, curling hair, a high forehead, and unusually and aristocratically small hands and feet, the former as white as a lady's. The predominating expression of his face was a mixture of indolence and drollery13; and as he lay there, with his half closed eyes, he looked the very picture of the dolce far niente.
"Well, now," thought Georgia, "I wonder who you are, and where you came from. I'll just go and ask him, though[Pg 55] I do believe he's asleep. If he is, I reckon I'll wake him in double-quick time."
And Georgia, not being in the slightest degree troubled with that disease incident to youth, previous to the days of Young America, yclept bashfulness, marched up to the intruder, and planting herself before him, put her arms akimbo, and assuming a look of stern investigation14, began:
"Ahem! See here, you, where did you come from?"
The young gentleman thus addressed leisurely15 opened a pair of large, dark eyes, and quietly surveyed his interrogator16 from head to foot, without disturbing himself in the slightest degree, or betraying the smallest intention of moving.
Very properly provoked at this aggravating17 conduct, Georgia's voice rose an octave higher, as she said, authoritatively18:
"Can't you speak? Haven't you a tongue? I suppose it's the last improvement in politeness not to answer when you're spoken to."
This speech seemed to bring the young gentleman to a proper sense of his errors. Getting up on his elbow, he took off his hat and began:
"My dear young lady, I beg ten thousand pardons, but really at the moment you spoke19 I was just debating within myself whether you were a veritable fact or only an optical illusion. Having now satisfied myself on that head, I beg you will repeat your questions, which, unfortunately, in the excitement of the moment, I did not pay proper attention to, and any information regarding myself personally and privately21, or concerning the world at large, that it lies in my power to offer you, I shall be only too happy to communicate."[Pg 56]
And with this speech the young gentleman bowed once more, without rising, however, replaced his hat, and getting himself into a comfortable position, lay back on the sands, and supporting his head on his hands, composedly waited to be cross-examined.
"Humph!" said Georgia, regarding him doubtfully. "What is your name?"
"My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills—that is, it might have been Norval, only it happened to be Wildair—Charley Wildair, at your service, noted22 for nothing in particular but good-nature and idleness. And now, having satisfied your natural and laudable curiosity on that point, may I humbly23 venture to ask the name of the fascinating young lady who at this particular moment honors me with her presence?"
"Well, you may. My name's Georgia Darrell, and I live up there in that little cottage. Now, where do you live?"
"Miss Darrell, allow me to observe that it affords me the most dreadful and excruciating happiness to make the acquaintance of so charming and accomplished24 a young lady as yourself, and also to observe, that in all my wanderings through this nether25 world, it has never been my good fortune before to behold26 so perfectly27 fascinating a cottage as that to which you refer. Regarding my own place of residence, I cannot inform you positively28, being a—'in point of fact,' as my cousin Feenix has it—a wanderer and vagabond on the face of the earth, with no fixed29 place of abode30. My maternal31 ancestor resides in a place called Brooklyn, a younger sister of New York city, and when not doing up my education in the aforesaid city, I honor that venerable roof-tree with my presence. At present, if you observe, I am vegetating32 in the flourishing and intensely[Pg 57] slow town of Burnfield over yonder, with my respected and deeply venerated33 uncle, Mr. Robert Richmond, a gentleman chiefly remarkable34 for the length of his purse and the shortness of his temper."
"Squire35 Richmond's nephews! I heard they had come. Are you them?" inquired Georgia, stepping back a pace, and speaking in a slightly awed36 tone.
"Exactly, Miss Darrell. With your usual penetration37 and good genius, you have hit the right thing exactly in the middle; only, if you will allow me, I must insinuate38 that I am not his nephews—not being an editor, I have not the good fortune to be a plural39 individual; but with my Brother Richard we do, I am happy to inform you, constitute the dutiful nephews of your Burnfield magnate, Squire Richmond."
"Hum-m-m!" said Georgia, looking at him with a puzzled expression, and not exactly liking40 his indolent look and intensely ceremonious tone. "You ain't laughing at me, are you?"
"Laughing at you! Miss Darrell, if you'll just be kind enough to cast an eye on my countenance41 you'll observe it's considerably42 more serious than an undertaker's, or that of a man with a sick wife when told she is likely to recover. Allow me to observe, Miss Darrell, that I suffered through the 'principles of politeness' when I was an innocent and guileless little shaver, in checked pinafores, and I hope I know the proprieties43 better than to laugh at a lady. A fellow that would laugh at a young woman, Miss Darrell, deserves to be—to be—a—a mark for the finger of scorn to poke20 fun at! Yes, Miss Darrell, I repeat it, he deserves to be a—I don't know what he doesn't deserve to be!" said Mr. Wildair, firmly.[Pg 58]
"Well," said Georgia, rather mollified, "and what did you come up here for, anyway, eh?"
"Why, you see, Miss Darrell, the fact was, I was what you call expelled,—which being translated from the original Greek into plain slang, the chosen language of young America,—means I was politely requested to vamose."
"Oh," said Georgia, puckering44 up her lips as though she were going to whistle, "you mean they turned you out?"
"Pre-cisely! exactly! They couldn't properly appreciate me, you know. Genius never is appreciated, if you observe, but is always neglected, and snubbed, and put upon, in this world. Look at Shakespeare, and Oliver Goldsmith, and all those other old fellows that got up works of fiction, and see the hard times and tribulations45 they had of it."
"And how long are you going to stay here?" asked Georgia.
"That depends upon as long as I behave nicely, and don't endeavor to corrupt46 the minds of the rising generation of Burnfield, I suppose. I've been a perfect angel since I came, and would be at all times if they didn't aggravate47 me. My mother was very disagreeable."
"My mother was not—mamma never was disagreeable," said Georgia.
"Indeed! Wonderful old lady she must have been then! Is she living?"
"No: she's dead," said Georgia, looking down with filling eyes.
"Ah! excuse me. I didn't know," said the boy, hastily. "And your father?"
"Dead, too."
"Possible! With whom do you live?"[Pg 59]
"Miss Jerusha."
"Miss Jerusha—who?"
"Skamp. She lives up in that cottage."
"Skamp! There's a pretty name to talk about! Old-lady, is she?"
"Yes; old and ugly."
"Ah! I guess I sha'n't mind an introduction, then. And what brings you down here, Miss Darrell? It's my time to ask questions now."
"Why, I came down here to read; and now, look here, I wish you wouldn't keep on calling me Miss Darrell; it sounds as if you were laughing at me. Say Georgia."
"With all my heart. Georgia be it—on one condition."
"Well, what is it?"
"That you call me Charley."
"Of course I'll call you Charley," said Georgia, decidedly; "I intended to all along. You didn't expect I'd say mister, did you?"
"Of course I didn't; I never indulge in absurd expectations. And may I ask the name of the book so fortunate as to find favor in your eyes, Miss Georgia?"
"Well, it's the 'Pilgrim's Progress.' I don't think much of it either—all about a man going on a journey, and getting into all sorts of scrapes. I don't believe it ever happened at all, for my part. And now, as you seem to like taking things easy, I guess I will too; so here we go!" said Georgia, as, shoving the book into her pocket, she made a spring forward, and by some mysterious sleight48 of hand, only understood by cats, monkeys, sailors, and depraved youths given to mischief, she clambered up the steep side of the high, smooth rock, and perched herself in[Pg 60] triumph on the top, like a female Apollo on the apex49 of Mount Parnassus.
The young gentleman on the sands lifted himself on his elbow and stared at the little girl in a sort of indolent wonder at this energetic proceeding50.
"Eh, what? you're up there, are you? May I ask, Miss Georgia, if it is your custom to perch7 yourself up there, like Patience on a monument, whenever you wish to appreciate the beauties of literature? Oh! the amount of unnecessary trouble people put themselves to in this world! Now why—I simply ask as a matter of courtesy—what possible object can you have in risking your neck in order to be slightly elevated above your fellow-mortals, eh?"
"Just for fun," said Georgia, as standing on one toe she cut a pigeon-wing, at the imminent51 danger of tumbling off and breaking her neck.
"For fun! Well, it's singular what perverted52 notions of amusement some people have. Now I—I'm about as fond of that sort of a thing, I may safely say, as any other youth; yet you'll excuse me when I say I really cannot see the point of that joke at all."
"You couldn't do it," said Georgia, exultingly53; "bet you any thing you could not."
"Well, now, I don't know about that," said the youth, surveying the rock slowly with his large, indolent eyes; "of course, it's not polite or proper to contradict a lady, or else I should beg leave to differ from you in that opinion. There are precious few things, Miss Georgia, that I ever attempted and failed to execute, though I say it. I'm what you may call a universal genius, you know, equal to a steep rock, or any other emergency, up to anything, ancient or modern, or, to use another favorite and express[Pg 61]ive phrase of Young America, a class to which I am proud to belong—I am, in every sense of the word, 'up to snuff.'"
"Bother!" exclaimed Georgia, to whom this homily, like all the lad's speeches, was Greek, or thereabouts. "It's all very fine to lie there like a lazy old porpoise54, and talk such stuff, but you can't climb this rock, say what you like—now then."
"Can't I though!" exclaimed Master Charley, flinging away his cigar and springing up with more energy than might have been expected from his previous indolence, which, however, was more than half affected55. "By Jove! then, here goes to try. Miss Georgia, if in my efforts in your service I turn out to be a case of 'Accidentally killed,' you'll see that the coroner's inquest is held properly, and that all my goods and chattels56, consisting of a cigar-case, a clean shirt, and a jackknife, are promptly57 forwarded to my bereaved58 relative. Now then, here goes! 'Dieu et mon droit!'"
So saying, the lad, with a great deal more skill and agility59 than Georgia had given him credit for, began climbing up the high rock. It was no easy task, however, for the sides were quite perpendicular60 and almost perfectly smooth, only suited to sailors and other aquatic61 monsters used to climbing impossible places.
Georgia clapped her hands and laughed her shrill62 elfish laugh at his desperate efforts, and, taunted63 by this, the boy made a sudden spring at the top, missed his footing, and tumbled off backward on the sands below.
With a sharp exclamation64 of alarm, Georgia, with one flying leap, sprang clear off the beetling65 rock, and alighted, cat-like, on her feet by his side. The lad lay perfectly still, and Georgia, terrified beyond measure, bent66 over and[Pg 62] tried to raise him, and not succeeding in this, suddenly bethought herself of Miss Jerusha's infallible plan for all distresses67, mental and bodily, and, catching68 him by the shoulder, gave him a sound shaking.
This vigorous proceeding had the effect of completely restoring Master Charley, who had been for the moment stunned69 by the force of the fall, and, opening his eyes, he slowly raised himself and looked with a slightly bewildered glance around.
"Well, I knew you couldn't do it," cried Georgia, who, now observing that he was not killed, recovered all her aggravating love of teasing.
"Ugh! you tantalizing70 little pepper-pod! that's the sort of remorse71 you feel after nearly depriving the world of one of its brightest ornaments72. 'Pon my word, I never was so nearly extinguished in all my life. Ain't you ashamed of yourself, Miss Georgia, now that you've been and gone and done and made me put my foot in it so beautifully? And speaking of feet reminds me that I have given my ankle a twist, and must see whether it is to be relied upon or not for the journey home, two miles being no joke, even at the best times."
So saying, Mr. Wildair got on his feet and attempted to walk, an experiment which resulted in his making a very wry73 face—and uttering something like a subdued74 howl, and finally sinking back in his former position.
"Well, here's a precious go, and no mistake!" was the exclamation jerked out of him by the exigency75 of the case; "here's my ankle has thought proper to go and sprain76 itself, and now I'll leave it to society in general if I'm not in just the tallest sort of a fix. Yes, you may stare and look blank, Miss Georgia, but I'll repeat it, you've used me[Pg 63] shamefully77, Miss Georgia, yes, abominably78, Miss Georgia, and if you keep on like this, you stand a fair chance of sharing my own elevated destiny. You perceive I'm a fixture79 here, and may as well take up my quarters where I am for life, for out of this I can't go."
"Whatever will you do?" exclaimed Georgia, in dismay.
"Why, come to anchor here, of course; walking's out of the question. If you would be so obliging as to hunt me up a soft rock to sleep on, and where I could compose myself decently for death, it would be more agreeable to my feelings than to scorch80 here in the sand. Attempt to walk I positively can't and won't, traveling on one foot not being the pleasantest or speediest mode of locomotion81 in the world."
"Now, I declare, if it ain't too bad. I'm real sorry," said Georgia, whose sympathies were all aroused by the good-humor with which Master Charley bore his painful accident.
"Well, I wouldn't take it too much to heart if I were you, Miss Georgia; it might have been worse, you know—my neck, for instance."
"I'll tell you what," said Georgia, "I've got an idea."
"Pshaw! you're only joking," said Charley, incredulously.
"No, I ain't; I'll go for Miss Jerusha, and make her come here and help you up. You wait."
"Really," began Charley, but without waiting to hear him, Georgia bounded off, and clambering up the bank with two or three flying leaps reached the high road, and rushed impetuously along toward the cottage.
"There's an original for you," said the proprietor82 of[Pg 64] the sprained83 ankle, looking after Georgia. "Well, this sprained ankle is mighty84 pleasant, I must say. If the old lady comes down she'll have to carry me on her back, for walk I won't."
Georgia, meanwhile, on charitable thoughts intent, rushed along where she was going, and the consequence was that she ran with stunning85 force against some person or persons unknown advancing from the opposite direction.
"Heads up!" said a pleasant voice; and Georgia, who betrayed symptoms of an insane desire to pitch head over heels, was restored to her center of gravity. "Rather an energetic mode of doing business this, I must say."
Georgia looked up, and jerked herself from the grasp of the stranger, a young man, dressed in a student's plain suit of black, who stood looking at her with a smile.
"What did you run against me for?" said Georgia, with one of her scowls86, instantly taking the offensive.
"Run against you! Why, you are reversing cases, madam. Allow me to insinuate that you ran against me."
"I didn't, either! I mean I shouldn't if you hadn't poked87 yourself right in my way." Then, as a sudden idea struck her, she breathlessly resumed: "Oh, yes; you'll do better than Miss Jerusha! Come along with me to the beach, and help him up!" said Georgia, gesticulating with much earnestness.
"Help who up, my impetuous little lady?" said the young man, with a smile.
"Why, him, you know! He tumbled off—I knew he would all along—and went and sprained his ankle, and now he can't get up. It hurts him, I know, though he don't make a fuss or nothing, but talks and looks droll—nice fellow, I know he is! Help him up to our house, and[Pg 65] Miss Jerusha'll fix him off, she will! Come! come along, can't you?"
All this time Georgia had stood, with sparkling eyes, gesticulating eagerly, as was her habit when excited; and now she caught him by the arm and pulled him vigorously along.
The stranger, with a laugh, allowed himself to be borne on by this breathless little whirlwind; and in less than ten minutes after she had left him, Georgia stood beside Charley Wildair on the beach.
Charley looked up as they approached, and glancing at her companion, exclaimed:
"Hallo, Rich! Well, here's a slice of good luck, anyway. How in the world did you scare him up, Miss Georgia?"
"Why he ran against me," said Georgia, "and nearly knocked my brains out. Do you know him?"
"I should think I did—rather!" said Charley, emphatically. "Here, Rich, come and help me up, there's a good fellow!"
"What have you been at now?" said Rich, as he obeyed. "Some piece of nonsense, I'll be bound."
"No, sir, I haven't been at nonsense. I was attempting to treat myself to a rise in the world by climbing up that rock, and, losing my equilibrium88, the first thing I knew I was gracefully89 extended at full length on the sands, with one limb slightly dislocated, as completely floored an individual as you ever clapped your eyes on. For further particulars, apply to Miss Georgia here. And that reminds me, you haven't been duly presented to that young woman. Allow me to repair that error before proceeding to business. Miss Darrell, let me have the pleasure of presenting to[Pg 66] your distinguished90 notice, my brother, Mr. Richmond Wildair, a young man chiefly remarkable for a rash and inordinate91 attachment92 for musty old books, and—having his own way. Mr. Wildair, Miss Georgia Darrell, a young lady whose many estimable qualities and aggravating will of her own require to be seen to be appreciated. Ahem."
And having, with great empressment and pomposity93, delivered himself of this "neat and appropriate" speech, Mr. Charles Wildair drew himself up with dignity—which, as he was obliged to stand on one foot, with the other elevated in the air, hardly made the impression it was intended to make.
Mr. Richmond Wildair held out his hand to Georgia with a smile, and, after looking at it for a moment, in evident doubt as to the propriety94 of shaking hands with him, she at last consented to do so with a grave solemnity quite irresistible95.
And thus Richmond Wildair and Georgia Darrell met for the first time. And little did either dream of what the future had in store for them, as they stood side by side on the sands in the golden light of that breezy, sunshiny May morning.
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