A few hours before the events described in the preceding chapters took place, a brougham, perfectly26 appointed, and drawn27 by a splendid horse, came dashing through the fog and driving mist, and pulled up before one of the largest houses in St. Barnabas Square. The footman jumped from the box, and was running to the door, when, in obedience28 to a sharp voice, he stopped, and the occupant of the vehicle, who had descended29, crossed the pavement with rapid strides, and opened the door with a pass-key. He strode quickly through the hall, up the staircase, and into the drawing-room, round which he took a rapid glance. The room was empty; the gas was lit, and a fire burned brightly on the hearth30; while an open piano, covered with music, on the one side of the fireplace, and a book turned down with open leaves, showed that the occupants had but recently left. The newcomer, finding himself alone, walked to the mantelpiece, and leaning his back against it, passed his hands rapidly across his forehead; then plunging31 both of them into his pockets, seemed lost in thought. The gaslight showed him to be a man of about sixty years of age, tall, wiry, well-proportioned; his head was bald, with a fringe of grayish hair, his forehead broad, his eyes deep-set, his mouth thin-lipped, and ascetic32; he wore two little strips of whisker, but his chin was closely shaved. He was dressed in high stiff shirt-collars, a blue-silk neckerchief with white dots, in which gleamed a carbuncle pin; a gray overcoat, under which was a cutaway riding-coat, high waistcoat with onyx buttons, and tight-fitting cord-trousers. This was George Brakespere, third Earl Beauport, of whom and of whose family it behoves one to speak in detail.
They were _novi homines_, the Brakesperes, though they always claimed to be sprung from ancient Norman blood. Only seventy years ago old Martin Brakespere was a wool-stapler in Uttoxeter; and though highly respected for the wealth he was reported to have amassed33, was very much jeered34 at privately35, and with bated breath, for keeping an apocryphal36 genealogical tree hanging up in his back-shop, and for invariably boasting, after his second glass of grog at the Greyhound, about his lineage. But when, after old Martin had been some score years quietly resting in Uttoxeter churchyard, his son Sir Richard Brakespere, who had been successively solicitor37 and attorney general, was raised to the peerage, and took his seat on the woolsack as Baron38 Beauport, Lord High Chancellor39 of England, the Herald's College, and all the rest of the genealogical authorities, said that the line was thoroughly made out and received the revival40 of the ancient title with the greatest laudation. A wiry, fox-headed, thin chip of a lawyer, the first Baron Beauport, as knowing as a ferret, and not unlike one in the face. He administered the laws of his country very well, and he lent some of the money he had inherited from his father to the sovereign of his country and the first gentleman in Europe at a very high rate of interest, it is said. Rumour41 reports that he did not get all his money back again, taking instead thereof an increase in rank, and dying, at an advanced age, as Earl Beauport, succeeded in his title and estates by his only son, Theodore Brakespere, by courtesy Viscount Caterham.
When his father died, Lord Caterham, the second Earl Beauport, was nearly fifty years old, a prim42 little gentleman who loved music and wore a wig43; a dried-up chip of a little man, who lived in a little house in Hans Place with an old servant, a big violoncello, and a special and peculiar44 breed of pug-dogs. To walk out with the pug-dogs in the morning, to be carefully dressed and tittivated and buckled46 and curled by the old servant in the afternoon, and either to play the violoncello in a Beethoven or Mozart selection with some other old amateur fogies, or to be present at a performance of chamber-music, or philharmonics, or oratorio-rehearsals in the evening, constituted the sole pleasure of the second Earl Beauport's life. He never married; and at his death, some fifteen years after his father's, the title and, with the exception of a few legacies47 to musical charities, the estates passed to his cousin George Brakespere, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon, and then of Little Milman Street, Bedford Row, and the Northern Circuit, briefless barrister.
Just in the very nick of time came the peerage and the estates to George Brakespere, for he was surrounded by duns, and over head and ears in love. With all his hard work at Oxford48, and he had worked hard, he had the reputation of being the best bowler49 at Bullingdon, and the hardest rider after hounds; of having the best old port and the finest cigars (it was before the days of claret and short pipes), and the best old oak furniture, library of books, and before-letter proofs in the University. All these could not be paid for out of an undergraduate's income; and the large remainder of unpaid50 bills hung round him and plagued him heavily long after he had left Oxford and been called to the bar. It was horribly up-hill work getting a connection among the attorneys; he tried writing for reviews, and succeeded, but earned very little money. And then, on circuit, at an assize-ball, he fell in love with Gertrude Carrington, a haughty51 county beauty, only daughter of Sir Joshua Carrington, Chairman of Quarter Sessions; and that nearly finished him. Gertrude Carrington was very haughty and very wilful52; she admired the clever face and the bold bearing of the young barrister; but in all probability she would have thought no more of him, had not the eminent53 Sir Joshua, who kept his eyes very sharply about him, marked the flirtation54, and immediately expressed his total disapproval55 of it. That was enough for Gertrude, and she at once went in for George Brakespere, heart and soul. She made no objection to a clandestine56 correspondence, and responded regularly and warmly to George's passionate57 letters. She gave him two or three secret meetings under an old oak in a secluded58 part of her father's park,--Homershams was a five-hours' journey from town,--and these assignations always involved George's sleeping at an inn, and put him to large expense; and when she came up to stay with her cousins in town, she let him know all the parties to which they were going, and rendered him a mendicant60 for invitations. When the change of fortune came, and George succeeded to the title, Sir Joshua succumbed61 at once, and became anxious for the match. Had George inherited money only, it is probable that from sheer wilfulness62 Gertrude would have thrown him over; but the notion of being a countess, of taking precedence and pas of all the neighbouring gentry63, had its influence, and they were married. Two sons were born to them,--Viscount Caterham and the Hon. Lionel Brakespere,--and a daughter, who only survived her birth a few weeks. As Earl Beauport, George Brakespere retained the energy and activity of mind and body, the love of exercise and field-sports, the clear brain and singleness of purpose, which had distinguished64 him as a commoner: but there was a skeleton in his house, whose bony fingers touched his heart in his gayest moments, numbed65 his energies, and warped66 his usefulness; whose dread67 presence he could not escape from, whose chilling influence nor wine, nor work, nor medicine, nor gaiety, could palliate. It was ever present in a tangible68 shape; he knew his weakness and wickedness in permitting it to conquer him,--he strove against it, but vainly; and in the dead watches of the night often he lay broad awake railing against the fate which had mingled69 so bitter an ingredient in his cup of happiness.
The door swung open and the Countess entered, a woman nearly fifty now, but not looking her age by at least eight years. A tall handsome woman, with the charms of her former beauty mellowed70 but not impaired71; the face was more full, but the firm chiselling72 of the nose and lips, the brightness of the eyes, the luxurious73 dark gloss74 of the hair, were there still. As she entered, her husband advanced to meet her; and as he touched her forehead with his lips, she laid her hand on his, and asked "What news?"
He shook his head sadly, and said, "The worst."
"The worst!" she repeated, faintly; "he's not dead? Beauport, you--you would not say it in that way--he's not dead?"
"I wish to God he were!" said Lord Beauport through his teeth. "I wish it had pleased God to take him years and years ago! No! he's not dead." Then throwing himself into a chair, and staring vacantly at the fire, he repeated, "I wish to God he were!"
"Anything but that!" said the Countess, with a sense of immense relief; "anything but that! whatever he has done may be atoned75 for, and repented76, and--But what has he done? where is he? have you seen Mr. Farquhar?"
"I have--and I know all. Gertrude, Lionel is a scoundrel and a criminal--no, don't interrupt me! I myself have prosecuted77 and transported men for less crimes than he has committed; years ago he would have been hanged. He is a forger78!"
"A forger!"
"He has forged the names of two of his friends--old brother officers; Lord Hinchenbrook is one, and young Latham the other--to bills for five thousand pounds. I've had the bills in my hands, and seen letters from the men denying their signatures to-night, and--"
"But Lionel--where is he? in prison?"
"No; he saw the crash coming, and fled from it. Farquhar showed me a blotted80 letter from him, written from Liverpool, saying in a few lines that he had disgraced us all, that he was on the point of sailing under a feigned81 name for Australia, and that we should never see him again."
"Never see him again! my boy, my own darling boy!" and Lady Beauport burst into an agony of tears.
"Gertrude," said her husband, when the first wild storm of grief had subsided82, "calm yourself for one instant."
He rang the bell, and to the servant answering it, said:
"Tell Lord Caterham I wish to speak to him, and beg Miss Maurice to be good enough to step here."
Lady Beauport was about to speak, but the Earl said coldly:
"I wish it, if you please;" and reiterated83 his commands to the servant, who left the room. "I have fully45 decided84, Gertrude, on the step I am about to take. To-morrow those forged bills will be mine. I saw young Latham at Farquhar's, and he said--" Lord Beauport's voice shook here--"said everything that was kind and noble; and Hinchenbrook has said the same to Farquhar. It--it cannot be kept quiet, of course. Every club is probably ringing with it now; but they will let me have the bills. And from this moment, Gertrude, that boy's name must never be uttered, save in our prayers--in our prayers for his forgiveness and--and repentance--by you, his mother; by me his father,--nor by any one in this house. He is dead to us for ever!"
"Beauport, for Heaven's sake--"
"I swear it, Gertrude, I swear it! and most solemnly will keep the oath. I have sent for Caterham, who must know, of course; his good sense will approve what I have done; and for Annie, she is part of our household now, and must be told. Dead to us all henceforth; dead to us all!"
He sank into a chair opposite the fire and buried his face in his hands, but roused himself at advancing footsteps. The door opened, and a servant entered, pushing before him a library-chair fitted on large wheels, in which sat a man of about thirty, of slight spare frame, with long arms and thin womanly hands--a delicately-handsome man, with a small head, soft grey eyes, and an almost feminine mouth; a man whom Nature had intended for an Apollo, whom fortune had marked for her sport, blighting85 his childhood with some mysterious disease for which the doctors could find neither name nor cure, sapping his marrow86 and causing his legs to wither87 into the shrunken and useless members which now hung loosely before him utterly88 without strength, almost without shape, incapable89 of bearing his weight, and rendering90 him maimed, crippled, blasted for life. This was Viscount Caterham, Earl Beauport's eldest91 son, and heir to his title and estates. His father cast one short, rapid glance at him as he entered, and then turned to the person who immediately followed him.
This was a tall girl of two-and-twenty, of rounded form and winning expression. Her features were by no means regular; her eyes were brown and sleepy; she had a pert inquisitive92 nose; and when she smiled, in her decidedly large mouth gleamed two rows of strong white teeth. Her dark-brown hair was simply and precisely93 arranged; for she had but a humble94 opinion of her own charms, and objected to any appearance of coquetry. She was dressed in a tight-fitting black silk, with linen95 collar and cuffs96, and her hands and feet were small and perfectly shaped. Darling Annie Maurice, orphan97 daughter of a second cousin of my lord's, transplanted from a suburban98 curacy to be companion and humble friend of my lady, the one bright bit of sunshine and reality in that palace of ghastly stucco and sham59. Even now, as she came in, Lord Beauport seemed to feel the cheering influence of her presence, and his brow relaxed for an instant as he stepped forward and offered his hand; after taking which, she, with a bow to the Countess, glided99 round and stood by Lord Caterham's chair.
Lord Caterham was the first to speak.
"You sent for us--for Annie and me, sir," he said in a low tremulous voice; "I trust you have no bad news of Lionel."
Lady Beauport hid her face in her hands; but the Earl, who had resumed his position against the mantelpiece, spoke100 firmly.
"I sent for you, Caterham, and for you, Annie, as members of my family, to tell you that Lionel Brakespere's name must never more be mentioned in this house. He has disgraced himself, and us through him; and though we cannot wipe away that disgrace, we must strive as far as possible to blot79 him out from our memories and our lives. You know, both of you--at least you, Caterham, know well enough,--what he has been to me--the love I had for him--the--yes, my God, the pride I had in him!"
His voice broke here, and he passed his hand across his eyes. In the momentary101 pause Annie Maurice glanced up at Lord Caterham, and marked his face distorted as with pain, and his head reclining on his chest. Then, gulping102 down the knot rising in his throat, the Earl continued:
"All that is over now; he has left the country, and the chances are that we shall never see nor even hear from him again." A moan from the Countess shook his voice for a second, but he proceeded: "It was to tell you this that I sent for you. You and I, Caterham, will have to enter upon this subject once more to-morrow, when some business arrangements have to be made. On all other occasions, recollect103, it is tabooed. Let his name be blotted out from our memories, and let him be as if he had never lived."
As Earl Beauport ceased speaking he gathered himself together and walked towards the door, never trusting himself to look for an instant towards where his wife sat cowering104 in grief, lest his firmness should desert him. Down the stairs he went, until entering his library he shut the door behind him, locked it, and throwing himself into his chair, leant his head on the desk, and covering it with his hands gave way to a passion of sobs105 which shook his strong frame as though he were convulsed. Then rising, he went to the book-case, and taking out a large volume, opened it, and turned to the page immediately succeeding the cover. It was a big old-fashioned Bible, bound in calf106, with a hideous107 ancient woodcut as a frontispiece representing the Adoration108 of the Wise Men; but the page to which Lord Beauport turned, yellow with age, was inscribed109 in various-coloured inks, many dim and faded, with the names of the old Brakespere family, and the dates of their births, marriages, and deaths. Old Martin Brakespere's headed the list; then came his son's, with "created Baron Beauport" in the lawyer's own skimpy little hand, in which also was entered the name of the musical-amateur peer, his son; then came George Brakespere's bold entry of his own name and his wife's, and of the names of their two sons. Over the last entry Lord Beauport paused for a few minutes, glaring at it with eyes which did not see it, but which had before them a chubby110 child, a bright handsome Eton boy, a dashing guardsman, a "swell111" loved and petted by all, a fugitive112 skulking113 in an assumed name in the cabin of a sea-tossed ship; then he took up a pen and ran it through the entry backwards114 and forwards until the name was completely blotted out; and then he fell again into his train of thought. The family dinner-hour was long since passed; the table was laid, all was ready, and the French cook and the grave butler were in despair: but Lord Beauport still sat alone in his library with old Martin Brakespere's Bible open before him.
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marrow
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