Indeed, only one of them was visible at this moment—a woman, who was reading on a rustic3 bench some distance from the house, and whose back was turned to him. The poise4 of her head, however, was not unfamiliar5; also, it is not everyone who has hair that is like a nimbus of thrice-polished gold.
Colonel Musgrave threw back his shoulders, and drew a deep breath. Subsequently, with a fine air of unconcern, he inspected the view from the porch, which was, in fact, quite worthy6 of his attention. Interesting things have happened at Matocton—many events that have been preserved in the local mythology7, not always to the credit of the old Musgraves, and a few which have slipped into a modest niche8 in history. It was, perhaps, on these that Colonel Musgrave pondered so intently.
Once the farthingaled and red-heeled gentry9 came in sluggish10 barges11 to Matocton, and the broad river on which the estate faces was thick with bellying12 sails; since the days of railroads, one approaches the mansion13 through the maple-grove in the rear, and enters ignominiously14 by the back-door.
The house stands on a considerable elevation15. The main portion, with its hipped16 roof and mullioned windows, is very old, but the two wings that stretch to the east and west are comparatively modern, and date back little over a century. Time has mellowed17 them into harmony with the major part of the house, and the kindly18 Virginia creeper has done its utmost to conceal19 the fact that they are constructed of plebeian20 bricks which were baked in this country; but Matocton was Matocton long before these wings were built, and a mere21 affair of yesterday, such as the Revolution, antedates22 them. They were not standing23 when Tarleton paid his famous visit to Matocton.
In the main hall, you may still see the stairs up which he rode on horseback, and the slashes24 which his saber hacked25 upon the hand-rail.
To the front of the mansion lies a close-shaven lawn, dotted with sundry26 oaks and maples27; and thence, the formal gardens descend28 in six broad terraces. There is when summer reigns29 no lovelier spot than this bright medley30 of squares and stars and triangles and circles—all Euclid in flowerage—which glow with multitudinous colors where the sun strikes. You will find no new flowers at Matocton, though. Here are verbenas, poppies, lavender and marigolds, sweet-william, hollyhocks and columbine, phlox, and larkspur, and meadowsweet, and heart's-ease, just as they were when Thomasine Musgrave, Matocton's first châtelaine, was wont31 to tend them; and of all floral parvenus32 the gardens are innocent. Box-hedges mark the walkways.
The seventh terrace was, until lately, uncultivated, the trees having been cleared away to afford pasturage. It is now closely planted with beeches33, none of great size, and extends to a tangled34 thicket35 of fieldpines and cedar36 and sassafras and blackberry bushes, which again masks a drop of some ten feet to the river.
The beach here is narrow; at high tide, it is rarely more than fifteen feet in breadth, and is in many places completely submerged. Past this, the river lapses37 into the horizon line without a break, save on an extraordinarily38 clear day when Bigelow's Island may be seen as a dim smudge upon the west.
All these things, Rudolph Musgrave regarded with curiously39 deep interest for one who had seen them so many times before. Then, with a shrug40 of the shoulders, he sauntered forward across the lawn. He had planned several appropriate speeches, but, when it came to the point of giving them utterance41, he merely held out his hand in an awkward fashion, and said:
"Anne!"
She looked up from her reading.
She did this with two red-brown eyes that had no apparent limits to their depth. Her hand was soft; it seemed quite lost in the broad palm of a man's hand.
"Dear Rudolph," she said, as simply as though they had parted yesterday, "it's awfully42 good to see you again."
Colonel Musgrave cleared his throat, and sat down beside her.
A moment later Colonel Musgrave cleared his throat once more.
Then Mrs. Charteris laughed. It was a pleasant laugh—a clear, rippling43 carol of clean mirth that sparkled in her eyes, and dimpled in her wholesome44 cheeks.
"So! do you find it very, very awkward?"
"Awkward!" he cried. Their glances met in a flash of comprehension which seemed to purge45 the air. Musgrave was not in the least self-conscious now. He laughed, and lifted an admonitory forefinger46.
"Oh, good Cynara," he said, "I am not what I was. And so I cannot do it, my dear—I really cannot possibly live up to the requirements of being a Buried Past. In a proper story-book or play, I would have to come back from New Zealand or the Transvaal, all covered with glory and epaulets, and have found you in the last throes of consumption: instead, you have fattened47, Anne, which a Buried Past never does, and which shows a sad lack of appreciation48 for my feelings. And I—ah, my dear, I must confess that my hair is growing gray, and that my life has not been entirely49 empty without you, and that I ate and enjoyed two mutton-chops at luncheon50, though I knew I should see you to-day. I am afraid we are neither of us up to heroics, Anne. So let's be sensible and comfy, my dear."
"You brute51!" she cried—not looking irreparably angry, yet not without a real touch of vexation; "don't you know that every woman cherishes the picture of her former lovers sitting alone in the twilight52, and growing lackadaisical53 over undying memories and faded letters? And you—you approach me, after I don't dare to think how many years, as calmly as if I were an old schoolmate of your mother's, and attempt to talk to me about mutton-chops! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Rudolph Musgrave. You might, at least, have started a little at seeing me, and have clasped your hand to your heart, and have said, 'You, you!' or something of the sort. I had every right to expect it."
"And—and I want to tell you that I am sorry for the way I spoke56 to you—that night," she swiftly said. Anne did not look at him. "Women don't understand things that are perfectly57 simple to men, I suppose—I mean—that is, Jack58 said—"
"That you ought to apologize? It was very like him"—and Colonel Musgrave smiled to think how like John Charteris it was. "Jack is quite wonderful," he observed.
She looked up, saying impulsively59, "Rudolph, you don't know how happy he makes me."
"Heartless woman, and would you tempt54 me to end the tragedy of my life with a Shakesperian fifth act of poisonings and assassination60? I spurn61 you, temptress. For, after all, it was an unpleasantly long while ago we went mad for each other," Musgrave announced, and he smiled. "I fancy that the boy and girl we knew of are as dead now as Nebuchadnezzar. 'Marian's married, and I sit here alive and merry at'—well, not at forty year, unluckily—"
"If you continue in that heartless strain, I shall go into the house,"
Mrs. Charteris protested.
Her indignation was exaggerated, but it was not altogether feigned62; women cannot quite pardon a rejected suitor who marries and is content. They wish him all imaginable happiness and prosperity, of course; and they are honestly interested in his welfare; but it seems unexpectedly callous63 in him. And besides his wife is so perfectly commonplace.
Mrs. Charteris, therefore, added, with emphasis: "I am really disgracefully happy."
"Oh, Rudolph, Rudolph, you are hopeless!" she sighed. "And you used to make such a nice lover!"
Mrs. Charteris looked out over the river, which was like melting gold, and for a moment was silent.
"I was frightfully in love with you, Rudolph," she said, as half in wonder. "After—after that horrible time when my parents forced us to behave rationally, I wept—oh, I must have wept deluges65! I firmly intended to pine away to an early grave. And that second time I liked you too, but then—there was Jack, you see."
"H'm!" said Colonel Musgrave; "yes, I see."
"I want you to continue to be friends with Jack," she went on, and her face lighted up, and her voice grew tender. "He has the artistic66 temperament67, and naturally that makes him sensitive, and a trifle irritable68 at times. It takes so little to upset him, you see, for he feels so acutely what he calls the discords69 of life. I think most men are jealous of his talents; so they call him selfish and finicky and conceited70. He isn't really, you know. Only, he can't help feeling a little superior to the majority of men, and his artistic temperament leads him to magnify the lesser71 mishaps72 of life—such as the steak being overdone73, or missing a train. Oh, really, a thing like that worries him as much as the loss of a fortune, or a death in the family, would upset anyone else. Jack says there are no such things as trifles in a harmonious74 and well-proportioned life, and I suppose that's true to men of genius. Of course, I am rather a Philistine75, and I grate on him at times—that is, I used to, but he says I have improved wonderfully. And so we are ridiculously happy, Jack and I."
Musgrave cast about vainly for an appropriate speech. Then he compromised with his conscience, and said: "Your husband is a very clever man."
"Isn't he?" She had flushed for pleasure at hearing him praised. Oh, yes, Anne loved Jack Charteris! There was no questioning that; it was written in her face, was vibrant76 in her voice as she spoke of him.
"Now, really, Rudolph, aren't his books wonderful? I don't appreciate them, of course, for I'm not clever, but I know you do. I don't see why men think him selfish. I know better. You have to live with Jack to really appreciate him. And every day I discover some new side of his character that makes him dearer to me. He's so clever—and so noble. Why, I remember—Well, before Jack made his first hit with Astaroth's Lackey77, he lived with his sister. They hadn't any money, and, of course, Jack couldn't be expected to take a clerkship or anything like that, because business details make his head ache, poor boy. So, his sister taught school, and he lived with her. They were very happy—his sister simply adores him, and I am positively78 jealous of her sometimes—but, unfortunately, the bank in which she kept her money failed one day. I remember it was just before he asked me to marry him, and told me, in his dear, laughing manner, that he hadn't a penny in the world, and that we would have to live on bread and cheese and kisses. Of course, I had a plenty for us both, though, so we weren't really in danger of being reduced to that. Well, I wanted to make his sister an allowance. But Jack pointed79 out, with considerable reason, that one person could live very comfortably on an income that had formerly80 supported two. He said it wasn't right I should be burdened with the support of his family. Jack was so sensitive, you see, lest people might think he was making a mercenary marriage, and that his sister was profiting by it. Now, I call that one of the noblest things I ever heard of, for he is devotedly81 attached to his sister, and, naturally, it is a great grief to him to see her compelled to work for a living. His last book was dedicated83 to her, and the dedication84 is one of the most tender and pathetic things I ever read."
Musgrave was hardly conscious of what she was saying. She was not particularly intelligent, this handsome, cheery woman, but her voice, and the richness and sweetness of it, and the vitality85 of her laugh, contented86 his soul.
Anne was different; the knowledge came again to him quite simply that Anne was different, and in the nature of things must always be a little different from all other people—even Patricia Musgrave. He had no desire to tell Anne Charteris of this, no idea that it would affect in any way the tenor87 of his life. He merely accepted the fact that she was, after all, Anne Willoughby, and that her dear presence seemed, somehow, to strengthen and cheer and comfort and content beyond the reach of expression.
Yet Musgrave recognized her lack of cleverness, and liked and admired her none the less. A vision of Patricia arose—a vision of a dainty, shallow, Dresden-china face with a surprising quantity of vivid hair about it. Patricia was beautiful; and Patricia was clever, in her pinchbeck way. But Rudolph Musgrave doubted very much if her mocking eyes now ever softened88 into that brooding, sacred tenderness he had seen in Anne's eyes; and he likewise questioned if a hurried, happy thrill ran through Patricia's voice when Patricia spoke of her husband.
"You have unquestionably married an unusual man," Musgrave said. "I—by Jove, you know, I fancy my wife finds him almost as attractive as you do."
"Ah, Rudolph, I can't fancy anyone whom—whom you loved caring for anyone else. Don't I remember, sir, how irresistible89 you can be when you choose?"
Anne laughed, and raised plump hands to heaven.
"Really, though, women pursue him to a perfectly indecent extent. I have to watch over him carefully; not that I distrust him, of course, for—dear Jack!—he is so devoted82 to me, and cares so little for other women, that Joseph would seem in comparison only a depraved roué. But the women—why, Rudolph, there was an Italian countess at Rome—the impudent90 minx!—who actually made me believe—However, Jack explained all that, after I had made both a spectacle and a nuisance of myself, and he had behaved so nobly in the entire affair that for days afterwards I was positively limp with repentance91. Then in Paris that flighty Mrs. Hardress—but he explained that, too. Some women are shameless, Rudolph," Mrs. Charteris concluded, and sighed her pity for them.
He was feeling a thought uncomfortable. To him the place had grown portentous94. The sun was low, and the long shadows of the trees were black on the dim lawn. People were assembling for supper, and passing to and fro under low-hanging branches; and the gaily-colored gowns of the women glimmered95 through a faint blue haze96 like that with which Boucher and Watteau and Fragonard loved to veil, and thereby97 to make wistful, somehow, the antics of those fine parroquet-like manikins who figure in their fêtes galantes.
Inside the house, someone was playing an unpleasant sort of air on the piano—an air which was quite needlessly creepy and haunting and insistent98. It all seemed like a grim bit out of a play. The tenderness and pride that shone in Anne's eyes as she boasted of her happiness troubled Rudolph Musgrave. He had a perfectly unreasonable99 desire to carry her away, by force, if necessary, and to protect her from clever people, and to buy things for her.
"So, I am an old, old married woman now, and—and I think in some ways I suit Jack better than a more brilliant person might. I am glad your wife has taken a fancy to him. And I want you to profit by her example. Jack says she is one of the most attractive women he ever met. He asked me to-day why I didn't do my hair like hers. She must make you very happy, Rudolph?"
"My wife," Colonel Musgrave said, "is in my partial opinion, a very clever and very beautiful woman."
"Yes; cleverness and beauty are sufficient to make any man happy, I suppose," Anne hazarded. "Jack says, though—Are cleverness and beauty the main things in life, Rudolph?"
"Undoubtedly," he protested.
"Now, that," she said, judicially100, "shows the difference in men. Jack says a man loves a woman, not for her beauty or any other quality she possesses, but just because she is the woman he loves and can't help loving."
"Ah! I dare say that is the usual reason. Yes," said Colonel
Musgrave,—"because she is the woman he loves and cannot help loving!"
Impulsively, she laid her hand upon his arm, and spoke with earnestness.
"Dear Rudolph, I am so glad you've found the woman you can really love.
Jack says there is only one possible woman in the world for each man,
and that only in a month of Sundays does he find her."
"Yes." said Musgrave. He had risen, and was looking down in friendly fashion into her honest, lovely eyes. "Yes, there is only one possible woman. And—yes, I think I found her, Anne, some years ago."
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