AY, verbena and mignonette scented1 the languid July day. Large strawberries, crimsoning2 through sprigs of mint, floated in a bowl of pale yellow cup on the verandah table: an old Georgian bowl, with complex reflections on polygonal3 flanks, engraved4 with the Raycie arms between lions’ heads. Now and again the gentlemen, warned by a menacing hum, slapped their cheeks, their brows or their bald crowns; but they did so as furtively5 as possible, for Mr. Halston Raycie, on whose verandah they sat,
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would not admit that there were mosquitoes at High Point.
The strawberries came from Mr. Raycie’s kitchen garden; the Georgian bowl came from his great-grandfather (father of the Signer); the verandah was that of his country-house, which stood on a height above the Sound, at a convenient driving distance from his town house in Canal Street.
“Another glass, Commodore,” said Mr. Raycie, shaking out a cambric handkerchief the size of a table-cloth, and applying a corner of it to his steaming brow.
Mr. Jameson Ledgely smiled and took another glass. He was known as “the Commodore” among his intimates because of having been in the Navy in his youth, and having taken part, as a midshipman under Admiral Porter, in the war of 1812. This jolly sunburnt bachelor, whose face
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resembled that of one of the bronze idols7 he might have brought back with him, had kept his naval8 air, though long retired9 from the service; and his white duck trousers, his gold-braided cap and shining teeth, still made him look as if he might be in command of a frigate10. Instead of that, he had just sailed over a party of friends from his own place on the Long Island shore; and his trim white sloop11 was now lying in the bay below the point.
The Halston Raycie house overlooked a lawn sloping to the Sound. The lawn was Mr. Raycie’s pride: it was mown with a scythe12 once a fortnight, and rolled in the spring by an old white horse specially13 shod for the purpose. Below the verandah the turf was broken by three round beds of rose-geranium, heliotrope14 and Bengal roses, which Mrs. Raycie tended in gauntlet gloves, under a small
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hinged sunshade that folded back on its carved ivory handle. The house, remodelled15 and enlarged by Mr. Raycie on his marriage, had played a part in the Revolutionary war as the settler’s cottage where Benedict Arnold had had his headquarters. A contemporary print of it hung in Mr. Raycie’s study; but no one could have detected the humble16 outline of the old house in the majestic17 stone-coloured dwelling18 built of tongued-and-grooved boards, with an angle tower, tall narrow windows, and a verandah on chamfered posts, that figured so confidently as a “Tuscan Villa” in Downing’s “Landscape Gardening in America.” There was the same difference between the rude lithograph19 of the earlier house and the fine steel engraving20 of its successor (with a “specimen” weeping beech21 on the lawn) as between the buildings themselves. Mr.
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Raycie had reason to think well of his architect.
He thought well of most things related to himself by ties of blood or interest. No one had ever been quite sure that he made Mrs. Raycie happy, but he was known to have the highest opinion of her. So it was with his daughters, Sarah Anne and Mary Adeline, fresher replicas22 of the lymphatic Mrs. Raycie; no one would have sworn that they were quite at ease with their genial23 parent, yet every one knew how loud he was in their praises. But the most remarkable24 object within the range of Mr. Raycie’s self-approval was his son Lewis. And yet, as Jameson Ledgely, who was given to speaking his mind, had once observed, you wouldn’t have supposed young Lewis was exactly the kind of craft Halston would have
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turned out if he’d had the designing of his son and heir.
Mr. Raycie was a monumental man. His extent in height, width and thickness was so nearly the same that whichever way he was turned one had an almost equally broad view of him; and every inch of that mighty25 circumference26 was so exquisitely27 cared for that to a farmer’s eye he might have suggested a great agricultural estate of which not an acre is untilled. Even his baldness, which was in proportion to the rest, looked as if it received a special daily polish; and on a hot day his whole person was like some wonderful example of the costliest28 irrigation. There was so much of him, and he had so many planes, that it was fascinating to watch each runnel of moisture follow its own particular watershed29. Even on his large fresh-looking hands the
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drops divided, trickling30 in different ways from the ridges31 of the fingers; and as for his forehead and temples, and the raised cushion of cheek beneath each of his lower lids, every one of these slopes had its own particular stream, its hollow pools and sudden cataracts32; and the sight was never unpleasant, because his whole vast bubbling surface was of such a clean and hearty33 pink, and the exuding34 moisture so perceptibly flavoured with expensive eau de Cologne and the best French soap.
Mrs. Raycie, though built on a less heroic scale, had a pale amplitude35 which, when she put on her best watered silk (the kind that stood alone), and framed her countenance36 in the innumerable blonde lace ruffles37 and clustered purple grapes of her newest Paris cap, almost balanced her husband’s bulk. Yet from this full-
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rigged pair, as the Commodore would have put it, had issued the lean little runt of a Lewis, a shrimp38 of a baby, a shaver of a boy, and now a youth as scant39 as an ordinary man’s midday shadow.
All these things, Lewis himself mused40, dangling41 his legs from the verandah rail, were undoubtedly42 passing through the minds of the four gentlemen grouped about his father’s bowl of cup.
Mr. Robert Huzzard, the banker, a tall broad man, who looked big in any company but Mr. Raycie’s, leaned back, lifted his glass, and bowed to Lewis.
“Here’s to the Grand Tour!”
“Don’t perch43 on that rail like a sparrow, my boy,” Mr. Raycie said reprovingly; and Lewis dropped to his feet, and returned Mr. Huzzard’s bow.
“I wasn’t thinking,” he stammered44. It was his too frequent excuse.
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Mr. Ambrose Huzzard, the banker’s younger brother, Mr. Ledgely and Mr. Donaldson Kent, all raised their glasses and cheerily echoed: “The Grand Tour!”
Lewis bowed again, and put his lips to the glass he had forgotten. In reality, he had eyes only for Mr. Donaldson Kent, his father’s cousin, a silent man with a lean hawk-like profile, who looked like a retired Revolutionary hero, and lived in daily fear of the most trifling45 risk or responsibility.
To this prudent46 and circumspect47 citizen had come, some years earlier, the unexpected and altogether inexcusable demand that he should look after the daughter of his only brother, Julius Kent. Julius had died in Italy—well, that was his own business, if he chose to live there. But to let his wife die before him, and to leave a minor48 daughter, and a will entrusting49 her
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to the guardianship52 of his esteemed53 elder brother, Donaldson Kent Esquire, of Kent’s Point, Long Island, and Great Jones Street, New York—well, as Mr. Kent himself said, and as his wife said for him, there had never been anything, anything whatever, in Mr. Kent’s attitude or behaviour, to justify54 the ungrateful Julius (whose debts he had more than once paid) in laying on him this final burden.
The girl came. She was fourteen, she was considered plain, she was small and black and skinny. Her name was Beatrice, which was bad enough, and made worse by the fact that it had been shortened by ignorant foreigners to Treeshy. But she was eager, serviceable and good-tempered, and as Mr. and Mrs. Kent’s friends pointed55 out, her plainness made everything easy. There were two Kent boys growing up, Bill and Donald; and
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if this penniless cousin had been compounded of cream and roses—well, she would have taken more watching, and might have rewarded the kindness of her uncle and aunt by some act of wicked ingratitude56. But this risk being obviated57 by her appearance, they could be goodnatured to her without afterthought, and to be goodnatured was natural to them. So, as the years passed, she gradually became the guardian51 of her guardians50; since it was equally natural to Mr. and Mrs. Kent to throw themselves in helpless reliance on every one whom they did not nervously58 fear or mistrust.
“Yes, he’s off on Monday,” Mr. Raycie said, nodding sharply at Lewis, who had set down his glass after one sip59. “Empty it, you shirk!” the nod commanded; and Lewis, throwing back his head, gulped60 down the draught61, though it almost stuck
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in his lean throat. He had already had to take two glasses, and even this scant conviviality62 was too much for him, and likely to result in a mood of excited volubility, followed by a morose63 evening and a head the next morning. And he wanted to keep his mind clear that day, and to think steadily64 and lucidly65 of Treeshy Kent.
Of course he couldn’t marry her—yet. He was twenty-one that very day, and still entirely66 dependent on his father. And he wasn’t altogether sorry to be going first on this Grand Tour. It was what he had always dreamed of, pined for, from the moment when his infant eyes had first been drawn67 to the prints of European cities in the long upper passage that smelt68 of matting. And all that Treeshy had told him about Italy had confirmed and intensified69 the longing70.
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Oh, to have been going there with her—with her as his guide, his Beatrice! (For she had given him a little Dante of her father’s, with a steel-engraved frontispiece of Beatrice; and his sister Mary Adeline, who had been taught Italian by one of the romantic Milanese exiles, had helped her brother out with the grammar.)
The thought of going to Italy with Treeshy was only a dream; but later, as man and wife, they would return there, and by that time, perhaps, it was Lewis who would be her guide, and reveal to her the historic marvels71 of her birthplace, of which after all she knew so little, except in minor domestic ways that were quaint72 but unimportant.
The prospect73 swelled74 her suitor’s bosom75, and reconciled him to the idea of their separation. After all, he secretly
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felt himself to be still a boy, and it was as a man that he would return: he meant to tell her that when they met the next day. When he came back his character would be formed, his knowledge of life (which he already thought considerable) would be complete; and then no one could keep them apart. He smiled in advance to think how little his father’s shouting and booming would impress a man on his return from the Grand Tour....
The gentlemen were telling anecdotes76 about their own early experiences in Europe. None of them—not even Mr. Raycie—had travelled as extensively as it was intended that Lewis should; but the two Huzzards had been twice to England on banking77 matters, and Commodore Ledgely, a bold man, to France and Belgium as well—not to speak of his early experiences in the Far East. All three
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had kept a vivid and amused recollection, slightly tinged78 with disapprobation, of what they had seen—“Oh, those French wenches,” the Commodore chuckled79 through his white teeth—but poor Mr. Kent, who had gone abroad on his honeymoon80, had been caught in Paris by the revolution of 1830, had had the fever in Florence, and had nearly been arrested as a spy in Vienna; and the only satisfactory episode in this disastrous81, and never repeated, adventure, had been the fact of his having been mistaken for the Duke of Wellington (as he was trying to slip out of a Viennese hotel in his courier’s blue surtout) by a crowd who had been—“Well, very gratifying in their enthusiasm,” Mr. Kent admitted.
“How my poor brother Julius could have lived in Europe! Well, look at the consequences—” he used to say, as if poor
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Treeshy’s plainness gave an awful point to his moral.
“There’s one thing in Paris, my boy, that you must be warned against: those gambling-hells in the Pally Royle,” Mr. Kent insisted. “I never set foot in the places myself; but a glance at the outside was enough.”
“I knew a feller that was fleeced of a fortune there,” Mr. Henry Huzzard confirmed; while the Commodore, at his tenth glass, chuckled with moist eyes: “The trollops, oh, the trollops—”
“As for Vienna—” said Mr. Kent.
“Even in London,” said Mr. Ambrose Huzzard, “a young man must be on his look-out against gamblers. Every form of swindling is practised, and the touts82 are always on the look-out for greenhorns; a term,” he added apologetically, “which
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they apply to any traveller new to the country.”
“In Paris,” said Mr. Kent, “I was once within an ace6 of being challenged to fight a duel83.” He fetched a sigh of horror and relief, and glanced reassuredly down the Sound in the direction of his own peaceful roof-tree.
“Oh, a duel,” laughed the Commodore. “A man can fight duels84 here. I fought a dozen when I was a young feller in New Erleens.” The Commodore’s mother had been a southern lady, and after his father’s death had spent some years with her parents in Louisiana, so that her son’s varied85 experiences had begun early. “’Bout women,” he smiled confidentially86, holding out his empty glass to Mr. Raycie.
“The ladies—!” exclaimed Mr. Kent in a voice of warning.
The gentlemen rose to their feet, the
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Commodore quite as promptly87 and steadily as the others. The drawing-room window opened, and from it emerged Mrs. Raycie, in a ruffled88 sarsenet dress and Point de Paris cap, followed by her two daughters in starched89 organdy with pink spencers. Mr. Raycie looked with proud approval at his womenkind.
“Gentlemen,” said Mrs. Raycie, in a perfectly90 even voice, “supper is on the table, and if you will do Mr. Raycie and myself the favour—”
“The favour, ma’am,” said Mr. Ambrose Huzzard, “is on your side, in so amiably91 inviting92 us.”
Mrs. Raycie curtsied, the gentlemen bowed, and Mr. Raycie said: “Your arm to Mrs. Raycie, Huzzard. This little farewell party is a family affair, and the other gentlemen must content themselves
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with my two daughters. Sarah Anne, Mary Adeline—”
The Commodore and Mr. John Huzzard advanced ceremoniously toward the two girls, and Mr. Kent, being a cousin, closed the procession between Mr. Raycie and Lewis.
Oh, that supper-table! The vision of it used sometimes to rise before Lewis Raycie’s eyes in outlandish foreign places; for though not a large or fastidious eater when he was at home, he was afterward93, in lands of chestnut-flour and garlic and queer bearded sea-things, to suffer many pangs94 of hunger at the thought of that opulent board. In the centre stood the Raycie épergne of pierced silver, holding aloft a bunch of June roses surrounded by dangling baskets of sugared almonds and striped peppermints95; and grouped about this decorative96 “motif” were Lowestoft
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platters heavy with piles of raspberries, strawberries and the first Delaware peaches. An outer flanking of heaped-up cookies, crullers, strawberry short-cake, piping hot corn-bread and deep golden butter in moist blocks still bedewed from the muslin swathings of the dairy, led the eye to the Virginia ham in front of Mr. Raycie, and the twin dishes of scrambled97 eggs on toast and broiled98 blue-fish over which his wife presided. Lewis could never afterward fit into this intricate pattern the “side-dishes” of devilled turkey-legs and creamed chicken hash, the sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, the heavy silver jugs99 of butter-coloured cream, the floating-island, “slips” and lemon jellies that were somehow interwoven with the solider elements of the design; but they were all there, either together or successively, and so were the towering piles of waffles reel
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ing on their foundations, and the slender silver jugs of maple100 syrup101 perpetually escorting them about the table as black Dinah replenished102 the supply.
They ate—oh, how they all ate!—though the ladies were supposed only to nibble103; but the good things on Lewis’s plate remained untouched until, ever and again, an admonishing104 glance from Mr. Raycie, or an entreating105 one from Mary Adeline, made him insert a languid fork into the heap.
And all the while Mr. Raycie continued to hold forth106.
“A young man, in my opinion, before setting up for himself, must see the world; form his taste; fortify107 his judgment108. He must study the most famous monuments, examine the organization of foreign societies, and the habits and customs of those older civilizations whose yoke109 it has been
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our glory to cast off. Though he may see in them much to deplore110 and to reprove—” (“Some of the gals111, though,” Commodore Ledgely was heard to interject)—“much that will make him give thanks for the privilege of having been born and brought up under our own Free Institutions, yet I believe he will also”—Mr. Raycie conceded it with magnanimity—“be able to learn much.”
“The Sundays, though,” Mr. Kent hazarded warningly; and Mrs. Raycie breathed across to her son: “Ah, that’s what I say!”
Mr. Raycie did not like interruption; and he met it by growing visibly larger. His huge bulk hung a moment, like an avalanche112, above the silence which followed Mr. Kent’s interjection and Mrs. Raycie’s murmur113; then he crashed down on both.
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“The Sundays—the Sundays? Well, what of the Sundays? What is there to frighten a good Episcopalian in what we call the Continental114 Sunday? I presume that we’re all Churchmen here, eh? No puling Methodists or atheistical115 Unitarians at my table tonight, that I’m aware of? Nor will I offend the ladies of my household by assuming that they have secretly lent an ear to the Baptist ranter in the chapel116 at the foot of our lane. No? I thought not! Well, then, I say, what’s all this flutter about the Papists? Far be it from me to approve of their heathenish doctrines—but, damn it, they go to church, don’t they? And they have a real service, as we do, don’t they? And real clergy117, and not a lot of nondescripts dressed like laymen118, and damned badly at that, who chat familiarly with the Almighty119 in their own vulgar lingo120? No,
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sir”—he swung about on the shrinking Mr. Kent—“it’s not the Church I’m afraid of in foreign countries, it’s the sewers121, sir!”
Mrs. Raycie had grown very pale: Lewis knew that she too was deeply perturbed122 about the sewers. “And the night-air,” she scarce-audibly sighed.
But Mr. Raycie had taken up his main theme again. “In my opinion, if a young man travels at all, he must travel as extensively as his—er—means permit; must see as much of the world as he can. Those are my son’s sailing orders, Commodore; and here’s to his carrying them out to the best of his powers!”
Black Dinah, removing the Virginia ham, or rather such of its bony structure as alone remained on the dish, had managed to make room for a bowl of punch from which Mr. Raycie poured deep
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ladlefuls of perfumed fire into the glasses ranged before him on a silver tray. The gentlemen rose, the ladies smiled and wept, and Lewis’s health and the success of the Grand Tour were toasted with an eloquence123 which caused Mrs. Raycie, with a hasty nod to her daughters, and a covering rustle124 of starched flounces, to shepherd them softly from the room.
“After all,” Lewis heard her murmur to them on the threshold, “your father’s using such language shows that he’s in the best of humour with dear Lewis.”
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