Mrs. Deborah was the only daughter of old Simon Thornby, of Chalcott great farm; she had had one brother, who having married the rosy7-cheeked daughter of the parish clerk, a girl with no portion except her modesty8, her good-nature, and her prettiness, had been discarded by his father, and after trying various ways to gain a living, and failing in all, had finally died broken-hearted, leaving the unfortunate clerk's daughter, rosy-cheeked no longer, and one little boy, to the tender mercy of his family. Old Simon showed none. He drove his son's widow from the door as he had before driven off his son; and when he also died, an event which occurred within a year or two, bequeathed all his property to his daughter Deborah.
This bequest10 was exceedingly agreeable to Mrs. Deborah, (for she was already of an age to assume that title,) who valued money, not certainly for the comforts and luxuries which it may be the means of procuring11, nor even for its own sake, as the phrase goes, but for that which, to a woman of her temper, was perhaps the highest that she was capable of enjoying, the power which wealth confers over all who are connected with or dependent on its possessor.
The principal subjects of her despotic dominion12 were the young widow and her boy, whom she placed in a cottage near her own house, and with whose comfort and happiness she dallied13 pretty much as a cat plays with the mouse which she has got into her clutches, and lets go only to catch again, or an angler with the trout14 which he has fairly hooked, and merely suffers to struggle in the stream until it is sufficiently15 exhausted16 to bring to land. She did not mean to be cruel, but she could not help it; so her poor mice were mocked with the semblance17 of liberty, although surrounded by restraints; and the awful paw seemingly sheathed18 in velvet19, whilst they were in reality never out of reach of the horrors of the pat.
It sometimes, however, happens that the little mouse makes her escape from madam pussy20 at the very moment when she seems to have the unlucky trembler actually within her claws; and so it occurred in the present instance.
The dwelling21 to which Mrs. Deborah retired22 after the death of her father, was exceedingly romantic and beautiful in point of situation. It was a small but picturesque23 farm-house, on the very banks of the Loddon, a small branch of which, diverging24 from the parent stream, and crossed by a pretty footbridge, swept round the homestead, the orchard25 and garden, and went winding26 along the water meadows in a thousand glittering meanders27, until it was lost in the rich woodlands which formed the back-ground of the picture. In the month of May, when the orchard was full of its rosy and pearly blossoms, a forest of lovely bloom, the meadows yellow with cowslips, and the clear brimming river, bordered by the golden tufts of the water ranunculus, and garlanded by the snowy flowers of the hawthorn28 and the wild cherry, the thin wreath of smoke curling from the tall, old-fashioned chimneys of the pretty irregular building, with its porch, and its baywindows, and gable-ends full of light and shadow,—in that month of beauty it would be difficult to imagine a more beautiful or a more English landscape.
On the other side of the narrow winding road, parted from Mrs. Deborah's demesne29 by a long low bridge of many arches, stood a little rustic mill, and its small low-browed cottage, with its own varied30 back-ground of garden and fruit trees and thickly wooded meadows, extending in long perspective, a smiling verdant31 valley of many miles.
Now Chalcott mill, reckoned by everybody else the prettiest point in her prospect32, was to Mrs. Deborah not merely an eye-sore, but a heart-sore, not on its own account; cantankerous33 as she was, she had no quarrel with the innocent buildings, but for the sake of its inhabitants.
Honest John Stokes, the miller, was her cousin-german. People did say that some forty years before there had been question of a marriage between the parlies; and really they both denied the thing with so much vehemence34 and fury, that one should almost be tempted35 to believe there was some truth in the report. Certain it is, that if they had been that wretched thing a mismatched couple, and had gone on snarling37 together all their lives, they could not have hated each other more zealously38. One shall not often meet with anything so perfect in its way as that aversion. It was none of your silent hatreds39 that never come to words; nor of your civil hatreds, that veil themselves under smooth phrases and smiling looks. Their ill-will was frank, open, and above-board. They could not afford to come to an absolute breach40, because it would have deprived them of the pleasure of quarrelling; and in spite of the frequent complaints they were wont41 to make of their near neighbourhood, I am convinced that they derived42 no small gratification from the opportunities which it afforded them of saying disagreeable things to each other.
And yet Mr. John Stokes was a well-meaning man, and Mrs. Deborah Thornby was not an ill-meaning woman. But she was, as I have said before, cross in the grain; and he—why he was one of those plain-dealing personages who will speak their whole mind, and who pique43 themselves upon that sort of sincerity44 which is comprised in telling to another all the ill that they have ever heard, or thought, or imagined concerning him, in repeating, as if it were a point of duty, all the harm that one neighbour says of another, and in denouncing, as if it were a sin, whatever the unlucky person whom they address may happen to do, or to leave undone45.
"I am none of your palavering chaps, to flummer over an old vixen for the sake of her strong-box. I hate such falseness. I speak the truth and care for no man," quoth John Stokes.
And accordingly John Stokes never saw Mrs. Deborah Thornby but he saluted46 her, pretty much as his mastiff accosted47 her favourite cat; erected48 his bristles49, looked at her with savage50 bloodshot eyes, showed his teeth, and vented51 a sound something between a snarl36 and a growl52; whilst she, (like the fourfooted tabby,) set up her back and spit at him in return.
They met often, as I have said, for the enjoyment53 of quarrelling; and as whatever he advised she was pretty sure not to do, it is probable that his remonstrances54 in favour of her friendless relations served to confirm her in the small tyranny which she exercised towards them.
Such being the state of feeling between these two jangling cousins, it may be imagined with what indignation Mrs. Deborah found John Stokes, upon the death of his wife, removing her widowed sister-in-law from the cottage in which she had placed her, and bringing her home to the mill, to officiate as his housekeeper55, and take charge of a lovely little girl, his only child. She vowed56 one of those vows57 of anger which I fear are oftener kept than the vows of love, to strike both mother and son out of her will, (by the way, she had a superstitious58 horror of that disagreeable ceremony, and even the temptation of choosing new legatees whenever the old displeased59 her, had not been sufficient to induce her to make one,—the threat did as well,) and never to speak to either of them again as long as she lived.
She proclaimed this resolution at the rate of twelve times an hour, (that is to say, once in five minutes,) every day for a fortnight; and in spite of her well-known caprice, there seemed for once in her life reason to believe that she would keep her word.
Those prudent60 and sagacious persons who are so good as to take the superintendence of other people's affairs, and to tell by the look of the foot where the shoe pinches and where it does not, all united in blaming the poor widow for withdrawing herself and her son from Mrs. Deborah's protection. But besides that no human being can adequately estimate the misery61 of leading a life of dependence62 upon one to whom scolding was as the air she breathed, without it she must die, a penurious63 dependence too, which supplied grudgingly64 the humblest wants, and yet would not permit the exertions65 by which she would joyfully66 have endeavoured to support herself;—besides the temptation to exchange Mrs. Deborah's incessant67 maundering for the Miller's rough kindness, and her scanty68 fare for the coarse plenty of his board,—besides these homely69 but natural temptations—hardly to be adequately allowed for by those who have passed their lives amidst smiling kindness and luxurious70 abundance; besides these motives71 she had a stronger and dearer in her desire to rescue her boy from the dangers of an enforced and miserable72 idleness, and to put him in the way of earning his bread by honest industry.
Through the interest of his grandfather the parish clerk, the little Edward had been early placed in the Hilton free school, where he had acquitted73 himself so much to the satisfaction of the master, that at twelve years old he was the head boy on the foundation, and took precedence of the other nine-and-twenty wearers of the full-skirted blue coats, leathern belts, and tasseled74 caps, in the various arts of reading, writing, cyphering, and mensuration. He could flourish a swan without ever taking his pen from the paper. Nay75, there is little doubt but from long habit he could have flourished it blindfold76, like the man who had so often modelled the wit of Ferney in breadcrumbs, that he could produce little busts77 of Voltaire with his hands under the table; he had not his equal in Practice or the Rule of Three, and his piece, when sent round at Christmas, was the admiration78 of the whole parish.
Unfortunately, his arrival at this pre-eminence was also the signal of his dismissal from the free school. He returned home to his mother, and as Mrs. Deborah, although hourly complaining of the expense of supporting a great lubberly boy in idleness, refused to appentice him to any trade, and even forbade his finding employment in helping79 her deaf man of all work to cultivate her garden, which the poor lad, naturally industrious80 and active, begged her permission to do, his mother, considering that no uncertain expectations of money at the death of his kinswoman could counterbalance the certain evil of dragging on his days in penury81 and indolence during her life, wisely determined82 to betake herself to the mill, and accept John Stokes's offer of sending Edward to a friend in town, for the purpose of being placed with a civil engineer:—a destination with which the boy himself—a fine intelligent youth, by the way, tall and manly83, with black eyes that talked and laughed, and curling dark hair,—was delighted in every point of view. He longed for a profession for which he had a decided84 turn; he longed to see the world as personified by the city of cities, the unparagoned London; and he longed more than either to get away from Aunt Deborah, the storm of whose vituperation seemed ringing in his ears so long as he continued within sight of her dwelling. One would think the clack of the mill and the prattle85 of his pretty cousin Cicely might have drowned it, but it did not. Nothing short of leaving the spinster fifty miles behind, and setting the great city between him and her, could efface86 the impression.
"I hope I am not ungrateful," thought Edward to himself, as he was trudging87 London-ward after taking a tender leave of all at the mill; "I hope I am not ungrateful. I do not think I am, for I would give my right arm, ay, or my life, if it would serve master John Stokes or please dear Cissy. But really I do hope never to come within hearing of Aunt Deborah again, she storms so. I wonder whether all old women are so cross. I don't think my mother will be, nor Cissy. I am sure Cissy won't. Poor Aunt Deborah! I suppose she can't help it." And with this indulgent conclusion, Edward wended on his way.
Aunt Deborah's mood was by no means so pacific. She staid at home fretting88, fuming89, and chafing90, and storming herself hoarse—which, as the people at the mill took care to keep out of earshot, was all so much good scolding thrown away. The state of things since Edward's departure had been so decisive, that even John Stokes thought it wiser to keep himself aloof91 for a time; and although they pretty well guessed that she would take measures to put in effect her threat of disinheritance, the first outward demonstration92 came in the shape of a young man (gentleman I suppose he called himself—ay, there is no doubt but he wrote himself Esquire) who attended her to church a few Sundays after, and was admitted to the honour of sitting in the same pew.
Nothing could be more unlike our friend Edward than the stranger. Fair, freckled93, light-haired, light-eyed, with invisible eye-brows and eye-lashes, insignificant94 in feature, pert and perking95 in expression, and in figure so dwarfed96 and stunted97, that though in point of age he had evidently attained98 his full growth, (if one may use the expression to such a he-doll,) Robert at fifteen would have made two of him,—such was the new favourite. So far as appearance went, for certain Mrs. Deborah had not changed for the better.
Gradually it oozed99 out, as, somehow or other, news, like water, will find a vent9, however small the cranny,—by slow degrees it came to be understood that Mrs. Deborah's visiter was a certain Mr. Adolphus Lynfield, clerk to an attorney of no great note in the good town of Belford Regis, and nearly related, as he affirmed, to the Thornby family.
Upon hearing these tidings, John Stokes, the son of old Simon Thornly's sister, marched across the road, and finding the door upon the latch100, entered unannounced into the presence of his enemy.
"I think it my duty to let you know, cousin Deborah, that this here chap's an impostor—a sham101—and that you are a fool," was his conciliatory opening. "Search the register. The Thornlys have been yeomen of this parish ever since the time of Elizabeth—more shame to you for forcing the last of the race to seek his bread elsewhere; and if you can find such a name as Lynfield amongst 'em, I'll give you leave to turn me into a pettifogging lawyer—that's all. Saunderses, and Symondses, and Stokeses, and Mays, you'll find in plenty, but never a Lynfield. Lynfield, quotha! it sounds like a made-up name in a story-book! And as for 'Dolphus, why there never was anything like it in all the generation, except my good old great aunt Dolly, and that stood for Dorothy. All our names have been christian-like and English, Toms, and Jacks102, and Jems, and Bills, and Sims, and Neds—poor fellow! None of your outlandish 'Dolphuses. Dang it, I believe the foolish woman likes the chap the better for having a name she can't speak! Remember, I warn you he's a sham!" And off strode the honest miller, leaving Mrs. Deborah too angry for reply, and confirmed both in her prejudice and prepossession by the natural effect of that spirit of contradiction which formed so large an ingredient in her composition, and was not wholly wanting in that of John Stokes.
Years passed away, and in spite of frequent ebbs103 and flows, the tide of Mrs. Deborah's favour continued to set towards Mr. Adolphus Lynfield. Once or twice indeed, report had said that he was fairly discarded, but the very appearance of the good miller, anxious to improve the opportunity for his protégé, had been sufficient to determine his cousin to reinstate Mr. Adolphus in her good graces. Whether she really liked him is doubtful. He entertained too good an opinion of himself to be very successful in gaining that of other people.
That the gentleman was not deficient104 in "left-handed wisdom," was proved pretty clearly by most of his actions; for instance, when routed by the downright miller from the position which he had taken up of a near kinsman105 by the father's side, he, like an able tactician106, wheeled about and called cousins with Mrs. Deborah's mother; and as that good lady happened to have borne the very general, almost universal, name of Smith, which is next to anonymous107, even John Stokes could not dislodge him from that entrenchment108. But he was not always so dexterous109. Cunning in him lacked the crowning perfection of hiding itself under the appearance of honesty. His art never looked like nature. It stared you in the face, and could not deceive the dullest observer. His very flattery had a tone of falseness that affronted110 the person flattered; and Mrs. Deborah, in particular, who did not want for shrewdness, found it so distasteful, that she would certainly have discarded him upon that one ground of offence, had not her love of power been unconsciously propitiated111 by the perception of the efforts which he made, and the degradation112 to which he submitted, in the vain attempt to please her. She liked the homage113 offered to "les beaux yeux de sa cassette" pretty much as a young beauty likes the devotion extorted114 by her charms, and for the sake of the incense115 tolerated the worshipper.
Nevertheless there were moments when the conceit116 which I have mentioned as the leading characteristic of Mr. Adolphus Lynfield had well nigh banished117 him from Chalcott. Piquing118 himself on the variety and extent of his knowledge, the universality of his genius, he of course paid the penalty of other universal geniuses, by being in no small degree superficial. Not content with understanding every trade better than those who had followed it all their lives, he had a most unlucky propensity119 to put his devices into execution, and as his information was, for the most part, picked up from the column headed "varieties," in the county newspaper, where of course there is some chaff120 mingled121 with the grain, and as the figments in question were generally ill understood and imperfectly recollected122, it is really surprising that the young gentleman did not occasion more mischief123 than actually occurred by the quips and quiddities which he delighted to put in practice whenever he met with any one simple enough to permit the exercise of his talents.
Some damage he did effect by his experiments, as Mrs. Deborah found to her cost. He killed a bed of old-fashioned spice cloves124, the pride of her heart, by salting the ground to get rid of the worms. Her broods of geese also, and of turkeys, fell victims to a new and infallible mode of feeding, which was to make them twice as fat in half the time. Somehow or other, they all died under the operation. So did half a score of fine apple-trees, under an improved method of grafting125; whilst a magnificent brown Bury pear, that covered one end of the house, perished of the grand discovery of severing126 the bark to increase the crop. He lamed127 Mrs. Deborah's old horse by doctoring him for a prick128 in shoeing, and ruined her favourite cow, the best milch cow in the county, by a most needless attempt to increase her milk.
Now these mischances and misdemeanors, ay, or the half of them, would undoubtedly129 have occasioned Mr. Adolphus's dismission, and the recall of poor Edward, every account of whom was in the highest degree favourable130, had the worthy131 miller been able to refrain from lecturing his cousin upon her neglect of the one, and her partiality for the other. It was really astonishing that John Stokes, a man of sagacity in all other respects, never could understand that scolding was of all devisable processes the least likely to succeed in carrying his point with one who was such a proficient132 in that accomplishment133, that if the old penalty for female scolds, the ducking-stool, had continued in fashion, she would have stood an excellent chance of attaining134 to that distinction. But so it was. The same blood coursed through their veins135, and his tempestuous136 good-will and her fiery137 anger took the same form of violence and passion.
Nothing but these lectures could have kept Mrs. Deborah constant in the train of such a trumpery138, jiggetting, fidgetty little personage as Mr. Adolphus,—the more especially as her heart was assailed139 in its better and softer parts, by the quiet respectfulness of Mrs. Thornly's demeanour, who never forgot that she had experienced her protection in the hour of need, and by the irresistible140 good-nature of Cicely, a smiling, rosy, sunny-looking creature, whose only vocation141 in this world seemed to be the trying to make everybody as happy as herself.
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miller
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bequest
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tactician
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