But Granny's reception of her was the great event of the day. Granny was a picture, in her grey gown and "clean white hood9 nicely plaited," seated in her wicker seat "fronting the south, and commanding the washing-green." Here Granny was amusing herself picking gooseberries—which the notable Prissy was to convert into gooseberry-fool, one of the dishes projected to grace the town lady's supper—when Mistress Betty was led towards her.
It was always a trying moment when a stranger at Mosely was presented to old Madam Parnell. The Parnells had agreed, for one thing, that it would be most proper and judicious11, as Mistress Betty had quitted the stage—doubtless in some disappointment of its capabilities12, or condemnation13 of the mode in which it was conducted,—to be chary14 in theatrical15 illusions, to drop the theatrical sobriquet16 Lady Betty, and hail their guest with the utmost ceremony and sincerity17 as Mistress Lumley. But Granny [Page 98]turned upon her visitor a face still fresh, in its small, fine-furrowed compass, hailed her as Lady Betty on the spot, and emphatically expressed all the praise she had heard of her wonderful powers; regretting that she had not been in the way of witnessing them, and declaring that as they escaped the snares18 and resisted the temptations of her high place, they did her the utmost honour, for they served to prove that her merits and her parts were equal. Actually, Granny behaved to Lady Betty as to a person of superior station, and persisted in rising and making room for the purpose of sharing with her the wicker seat; and there they sat, the old queen and the young.
Young madam had been quite determined19 that, as Uncle Rowland was so unfortunate as to be held by the foot at Larks' Hall from his tour, he should not risk his speedy recovery by hobbling over to Mosely, when she could go herself or send Prissy every morning to let him know how the invalid20 was. But the very day after Mistress Betty's arrival old madam secretly dispatched Tim, the message-boy, to desire the squire21 to order out the old coach, and make a point of joining the family party either at dinner or at supper. Young madam was sufficiently22 chagrined23; but then the actress and the squire met so coldly, and little Fiddy was flushing up into a quiver of animation24, and Mistress Betty was such delightful25 company in the slumbrous country parsonage.
It is pleasant to think of the doings of the Parnells, the witcheries of Mistress Betty, and the despotism of old madam, during the next month. Indeed, Mistress Betty was so reverent26, so charitable, so kind, so gentle as well as [Page 99]blithe under depressing influences, and so witty27 under stagnation28, that it would have been hard to have lived in the same house with her and have been her enemy: she was so easily gratified, so easily interested; she could suit herself to so many phases of this marvellous human nature. She listened to the Vicar's "argument" with edification, and hunted up his authorities with diligence. She scoured30 young madam's lutestring, and made it up in the latest and most elegant fashion of nightgowns, with fringes and buttons, such as our own little girls could match. She made hay with Prissy and Fiddy, and not only accomplished31 a finer cock than weak Fiddy and impatient Priss, but surpassed the regular haymakers. And she looked, oh! so well in her haymaker's jacket and straw hat—though young madam was always saying that her shape was too large for the dress, and that the slight hollows in her cheeks were exaggerated by the shade from the broad-brimmed flapping straw.
Of course Mistress Betty performed in the "Traveller" and "Cross Purposes," and gave out riddles33 and sang songs round the hearth34 of a rainy evening, or about the cherrywood table in the arbour, of a cloudless twilight35, much more pat than other people—that was to be looked for; but then she also played at love after supper, loo and cribbage for a penny the game—deeds in which she could have no original superiority and supremacy—with quite as infectious an enthusiasm.
To let you into a secret, young madam was in horror at one time that Dick Ashbridge was wavering in his allegiance to her white rosebud36, Fiddy; so enthralling37 was [Page 100]this scarlet38 pomegranate, this purple vine. But one evening Mrs. Betty turned suddenly upon the mad boy, to whom she had been very soft, saying that he bore a great resemblance to her cousin's second son Jack32, and asked how old he was? and did he not think of taking another turn at college? This restored the boy to his senses in a trice, and she kissed Mistress Fiddy twice over when she bade her good night.
But old madam and Lady Betty were the chief pair of friends. Granny, with her own sway in her day, and her own delicate discrimination, acute intellect, and quick feelings, was a great enough woman not to be jealous of a younger queen, but to enjoy her exceedingly. Madam Parnell had seen the great world as well as Lady Betty, and never tired of reviving old recollections, comparing experiences, and tracing the fates of the children and grandchildren of the great men and women her contemporaries. Prissy and Fiddy vowed39 over and over again, that the stirring details were more entertaining than any story-book. For this reason, Granny took a personal pride in Lady Betty's simplest feat40, as well as in her intellectual crown, and put her through every stage of her own particular recipes for cream cheese and pickled walnuts41.
"The dickons!" cried a Somerset yeoman: "The Lon'on madam has opened the five-barred gate that beat all the other women's fingers, and gathered the finest elder-flowers, and caught the fattest chicken; and they tell me she has repeated verses to poor crazed Isaac, till she has lulled42 him into a fine sleep. 'Well done, Lon'on!' cries I; 'luck to the fine lady:' I never thought to wish [Page 101]success to such a kind." Granny, too, cried, "Well done, Lon'on! Luck to the fine lady!" If all Helens were but as pure, and true, and tender as Lady Betty!
Granny would have Lady Betty shown about among the neighbours, and maintained triumphantly43 that she read them, Sedleys, Ashbridges, and Harringtons, as if they were characters in a printed book—not that she looked down on them, or disparaged44 them in any way; she was far more tolerant than rash, inexperienced Prissy and Fiddy. And Granny ordered Lady Betty to be carried sight-seeing to Larks' Hall, and made minute arrangements for her to inspect Granny's old domain45, from garret to cellar, from the lofty usher-tree at the gate to the lowly
"Plaintain ribbed that heals the reapers46' wound"
in the herb-bed. No cursory47 inspection48 would suffice her: the pragmatical housekeeper49 and the rosy50 milkmaids had time to give up their hearts to Lady Betty like the rest. Master Rowland, as in courtesy bound, limped with the stranger over his helmets and gauntlets, his wooden carvings51, his black-letter distich; and, although she was not overflowing52 in her praises, she had seen other family pictures by Greuze, and she herself possessed53 a fan painted by Watteau, to which he was vastly welcome if he cared for such a broken toy.
She fancied the head of one of the Roman emperors to be like his Grace of Montague; she had a very lively though garbled54 familiarity with the histories of the veritable Brutus and Cassius, Coriolanus, Cato, Alexander, and other mighty55, picturesque56, cobbled-up ancients, into whose [Page 102]mouths she could put appropriate speeches; and she accepted a loan of his 'Plutarch's Lives,' "to clear up her classics," as she said merrily; altogether poor Squire Rowland felt that he had feasted at an intellectual banquet.
At last it was time to think of redeeming57 her pledge to cousin Ward10; and, to Mistress Betty's honour, the period came while Master Rowland was still too lame6 to leave Larks' Hall, except in his old coach, and while it yet wanted weeks to the softening58, gladdening, overwhelming bounty59 of the harvest-home.
Then occurred the most singular episodes of perverseness60 and reiterated61 instances of inconsistency of which Granny had been found guilty in the memory of man, either as heiress of Larks' Hall or as old madam of the vicarage. At first she would not hear of Mistress Betty's departure, and asked her to be her companion, during her son's absence, in his house of Larks' Hall, where all at once she announced that she meant to take up her temporary residence. She did not approve of its being committed entirely62 to the supervision63 of Mrs. Prue, her satellite, the schoolmaster's daughter who used so many long words in cataloguing her preserves and was so trustworthy: Mrs. Prue would feel lonesome; Mrs. Prue would take to gadding64 like the chits Prissy and Fiddy. No, she would remove herself for a year, and carry over her old man Morris along with her, and see that poor Rowley's goods were not wasted or his curiosities lost while he chose to tarry abroad.
Master Rowland stared, but made no objection to this invasion; Mrs. Betty, after much private rumination65 and [Page 103]great persuasion66, consented to the arrangement. Young madam was obliged to be ruefully acquiescent67, though secretly irate68 at so preposterous69 a scheme; the Vicar, good man, to do him justice, was always ponderously70 anxious to abet71 his mother, and had, besides, a sneaking72 kindness for Mistress Betty; the girls were privately73 charmed, and saw no end to the new element of breadth, brightness, and zest74, in their little occupations and amusements.
When again, of a sudden, after the day was fixed75 for Master Rowland's departure, and the whole family were assembled in the vicarage parlour—old madam fell a-crying and complaining that they were taking her son away from her—robbing her of him: she would never live to set eyes on him again—a poor old body of her years and trials would not survive another flitting. She had been fain to gratify some of his wishes; but see if they would not destroy them both, mother and son, by their stupid narrow-mindedness and obstinacy76.
Such a thing had never happened before. Who had ever seen Granny unreasonable77 and foolish? The Vicar slipped his hand to her wrist, in expectation that he would detect signs of hay-fever, though it was a full month too late for the complaint—there had been cases in the village—and was shaken off with sufficient energy for his pains.
"Mother," exclaimed Master Rowland, haughtily78, "I understand you; but I had a plain answer to a plain question months ago, and I will have no reversal to please you. Pity craved79 by an old woman's weakness! favours granted in answer to tears drawn80 from dim eyes! I am not such a slave!"
[Page 104]The others were all clamouring round Granny, kissing her hand, kneeling on her footstool, imploring81 her to tell them what she wanted, what she would like best, what they could go and do for her; only the squire spoke82 in indignant displeasure, and nobody attended to him but Mistress Betty.
It did appear that the squire had been too fast in repelling83 advances which did not follow his mother's appeal. Mistress Betty gave no token—she stood pulling the strings84 of her cap, and growing first very red, and then ominously85 white, like any girl.
Perhaps the squire suspected that he had been too hasty, that he had not been grateful to his old mother, or generous to the woman who, however fine, and courted, and caressed86, was susceptible87 of a simple woman's anguish88 at scorn or slight. Perhaps there flashed on his recollection a certain paper in the 'Spectator,' wherein a young lady's secret inclination89 towards a young gentleman is conclusively90 revealed, not by her advances to save his pride, but by her silence, her blushes, her disposition91 to swoon with distress92 when an opportunity is afforded her of putting herself forward to attract his notice—nay, when she is even urged to go so far as to solicit93 his regard.
Master Rowland's brow lightened as if a cloud lowering there had suddenly cleared away—Master Rowland began to look as if it were a much more agreeable experience to contemplate94 Mistress Betty nervous and glum95, than Lady Betty armed at a hundred points, and all but invulnerable—Master Rowland walked as alertly to her side as if there were no such things as sprains96 in this world. "Madam, [Page 105]forgive me if I have attributed to you a weak complacency to which you would never condescend97. Madam, if you have changed your mind, and can now tolerate my suit, and accord it the slightest return, I am at your feet."
Assuredly, the tall, vigorous, accomplished squire would have been there, not figuratively but in his imposing98 person. Family explanations were admissible a century and a half ago; public declarations were sometimes a point of honour; bodily prostration99 was by no means exploded; matter-of-fact squires100 knelt like romantic knights101; Sir Charles Grandison and Sir Roger de Coverley bent102 as low for their own purposes as fantastic gauze and tinsel troubadours.
But Mistress Betty prevented him. "I am not worth it, Master Rowland," cried Mistress Betty, sobbing103 and covering her face with her hands; and, as she could not have seen the obeisance104, the gentleman intermitted it, pulled down the hands, kissed Madam Betty oftener than the one fair salute105, and handed her across the room to receive Granny's blessing. Granny sat up and composed herself, wished them joy (though she had the grace to look a little ashamed of herself), very much as if she had obtained her end.
There is no use in denying that young madam took to bed for three days, and was very pettish106 for a fortnight; but eventually gave in to the match, and was not so much afflicted107 by it as she had expected, after the first brunt. Granny, in her age, was so absurdly set on the mésalliance, and so obliging and pleasant about everything else—the Vicar and the little lasses were so provokingly careless of [Page 106]the wrong done them and the injury to the family,—that she knew very well, when her back was turned, they formed as nonsensically hilarious108 a bridal party as if the wedding had concerned one of themselves and not the bachelor uncle, the squire of Larks' Hall. And Mistress Betty ordered down the smartest livery; and the highest gentry109 in Somersetshire would have consented to grace the ceremony, had she cared for their presence, such a prize was she in their country-houses when they could procure110 her countenance111 during their brief sojourn112 among sparkling rills and woodland shades. Altogether, young madam, in spite of her vanities and humours, loved the children, the Vicar, Granny, the bridegroom, and even (with a grudge) the bride, and was affected113 by the sweet summer season and the happy marriage-tide, and was, in the main, too good to prove a kill-joy.
Master Rowland and Mistress Betty were married by Master Rowland's own brother in the Vicar's own church, with Fiddy and Prissy and the Sedleys for bridesmaids, and Dick Ashbridge for a groom's-man. Cousin Ward, brought all the way from town to represent the bride's relations, was crying as if she were about to lose an only daughter. For Granny, she would not shed one bright, crystal tear on any account; besides, she was ever in state at Larks' Hall to welcome home, the happy couple. Ah, well, they were all happy couples in those days!
At Larks' Hall Mistress Betty bloomed during many a year; for a fine woman knows no decay; she only passes from one stage of beauty and excellence114 to another, wearing, as her rightful possession, all hearts—her sons', as their [Page 107]father's before them. And Master Rowland no longer sat lonely in his hall, in the frosty winter dusk or under the usher-oak in the balmy summer twilight, but walked through life briskly and bravely, with a perfect mate; whom he had not failed to recognize as a real diamond among the bits of glass before the footlights—a diamond which his old mother had consented to set for him.
Our squire and Lady Betty are relics115 of a former generation. We have squires as many by thousands, as accomplished by tens of thousands; but the inimitable union of simplicity116 and refinement117, downrightness and dignity, disappeared with the last faint reflection of Sir Roger de Coverley. And charming Lady Betty departed also with early hours, pillions, and cosmetics—that blending of nature and art, knowledge of the corrupt118 world and abiding119 true-heartedness, which then existed—a sort of marvel29.
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