The old world grinned, and said to the girls' faces that the lasses had better not be too zealous8 for the lads; they were generally fit to manage their own business, and some[Page 123]thing more into the bargain. Uncle Barnet would not care to have his niece Clary fling herself away with her tidy fortune on a walking gentleman, though he were a genius.
The result was that Dulcie "bridled9" in a twitter of wounded faith and anger. Clarissa was superb and scornful. She ordered a full-length portrait, and fixed10 the hour for the sitting within the week. Dulcie set off alone with Master Will Locke—Dulcie, who knew no more of Redwater than he should have done, if his wits had not been woolgathering—to find the meadow which was beginning to purple over with the meadow saffron.
But for all the townspeople laughed at Mistress Clary's and Mistress Dulcie's flights, they never dreamt of them as unbecoming or containing a bit of harm. Fine girls like Clary and Dulcie, especially an accomplished11 girl like Clary, who could read French and do japan, besides working to a wish in cross-stitch and tent-sketch, were not persons to be slighted. The inhabitants saw for themselves that the painters had coats which were not out at elbows, and tongues, one of which was always wagging, and the other generally at rest, but which never said a word fairly out of joint12. They needed no further introduction; the gentlemen called for the young men, the ladies curtsied to them in the bar of the "Rod and Fly," in the church-porch, in the common shop, and began conversations with them while they were chaffering at the same counter for the same red ribbons to tie up the men and the women's hair alike; and they felt that their manners were vastly polite and gracious, an opinion which was not far from the truth.
[Page 124]The Vicar lent the painters books. The Mayor invited them to supper. The nearest Justice, who was a family man, with a notable wife, had them to a domestic party, where they heard a little girl repeat a fable14, and saw the little coach which the Justice had presented to his son and heir, then in long clothes, in which he was to be drawn15 along the smooth oak boarded passages of the paternal16 mansion17 as soon as he could sit upright.
Lastly, Clarissa Gage18, under the sufficient guardianship19 of Cambridge, treated the strangers to a real piece of sport—a hop13 on the washing-green, under her mulberry-tree. It commenced at four o'clock in the afternoon, and ended with dusk and the bats, and a gipsy fire, and roasting groats and potatoes in the hot ashes, in imitation of the freakish oyster20 supper which Clary had attended in town.
Clary took care to have her six couples well assorted21, and not to be severed22 till the merry-making was over; she did not mind uniting herself to Master Sam Winnington, and Dulcie to Master Will Locke—mind! the arrangement was a courteous23 compliment to the chief guests, and it gave continual point to the entertainment. The company took a hilarious24 pleasure in associating the four two-and-two, and commented openly on the distribution: "Mistress Clary is mighty25 condescending26 to this jackanapes." "Mistress Dulcie and t'other form a genteel pair."
To be sure the two young men heard the remarks, which they might have taken as broad hints, and the girls heard them too, uttered as they were without disguise; but so healthy were our ancestors, that nobody was put out—not even soft, mooning Will Locke. Nothing came of [Page 125]it that evening, unless a way Dulcie had of pressing her red lips together, throwing back her little brown head, shaking out the powder from her curls, and shaking down the curls themselves, with a gleeful laugh, which appeared to turn her own "bridling27" into derision; and a high assertion of Clary's that she was determined28 never to wed29 a man beneath the rank of a county member or a peer. Now, really, after Clary had danced fifteen dances, and was about to dance other five, without stopping, with a portrait painter, of her own free will, this was drawing a longish and very unnecessary bow. But then Sam Winnington did not take it amiss or contradict her. He said she was right, and he had no doubt she would keep her word, and there was a quick, half-comic, half-serious gleam from the depths of his grey eyes which made Clarissa Gage look more bashful and lovelier than any man had ever yet beheld30 her. Pity the member or the peer could not have been that man!
Imagine the party after Mistress Cambridge had provided them with some of her favourite chickens, and more substantial Dutch beef, with wet fruit and dry, cold Rhenish and sugar, and mulled wine against the dew and damp feet, collecting merrily round the smoky fire, with little jets of flame shooting up and flashing out on the six couples! Sam Winnington in his silk stockings and points neatly31 trussed at the knee, was on all-fours poking32 the blue and red potatoes into the glowing holes. Another man with rough waggishness33 suddenly stirred the fire with an oak branch, and sent a shower of sparks like rockets into the dark blue sky, but so near that it [Page 126]caused the women to recoil34, screaming and hiding their faces on convenient shoulders, and lodged35 half-a-dozen instruments of ignition and combustion36 in Sam Winnington's hair, singeing37 it and scorching39 his ears. Had Sam not been the best-natured and most politic40 fellow in the world, he would have dragged the aggressor by the collar or the cuff41 over the smoking crackling wood, and made the ladies shriek42 in greater earnest.
There was the strange ruddy light now on this face, now on that—on Will Locke's as he overturned a shovel43 of groats at Dulcie's feet, and on Dulcie's, so eager to cover his blunder, that she quite forgot the circumstances of the case, and never came to herself till she had burnt all the five tips of her rosy44 fingers catching45 the miller's pearls. Then Will Locke was so sorry, stroked the fingers so daintily, hung upon Cambridge so beseechingly46, imploring47 her to prepare a cool mash48 for Mistress Dulcie's finger points, the moment they were all gone—that Dulcie could have cried for his tenderness of heart, and quickness and keenness of remorse49.
Conjure50 up the whole fourteen—the Vicar and Cambridge of the number—when the fire had sunk white in ashes, when they could scarcely see each other's faces, and only guess each other's garments, having a round at "Puss in the corner," running here and rushing there, seizing this shoulder-knot, holding tight like a child by that skirt, drawing up, pulling back, whirling round all blowsy, all panting, all faint with fun and laughter, and the roguish familiarity which yet thought no evil. Very romping51, was it not? very hoydenish52? yes certainly. [Page 127]Very improper53? by no means. It was practised by dignitaries of the Church, still more classic than the Vicar scuttling54 and ducking after Cambridge (you never saw the like), and by the pink and pride of English womanhood.
Redwater was hospitable55 to these painter lads, as we understand hospitality, unquestionably, ungrudgingly hospitable; but it was more than hospitable to them, it was profitable to them in a pecuniary56 sense, without which great test of its merits they could not long have tarried within its bounds. They were neither fools nor hypocrites to pretend to be clean indifferent to the main chance.
The Vicar fancied a likeness57 of himself in his surplice, which his parishioners might buy and engrave58, if they had a mind to preserve his lineaments when he was no longer among them. The Justice took a notion to have his big girls and his little girls, his boy and nurse, his wife, and himself as the sheltering stem of the whole young growth, in one canvas.
But the great achievement was Sam Winnington's picture of Clarissa, "not as a crazy Kate this time," she told him saucily59, "but myself in my hair and brocade, to show what a grand lady I can be." Thus Clarissa dressed herself out in one of those magnificent toilettes all in the autumn mornings, and sat there in state for hours, for the sole benefit of posterity60, unless Sam Winnington was to reap a passing advantage by the process. Clarissa in her brocade, with the stiff body and the skirt standing61 on end, her neckerchief drawn through the straps62 of her bodice, her bouquet63 pinned, "French fashion," on her side; [Page 128]surely that picture was a masterpiece. So speaking was the copy of her deep brown hair, her soft, proud cheek, the wave of her ripe red lips, that a tame white pigeon, accustomed to sit on her shoulder, flew into the window right at the canvas, and, striking against the hard, flat surface, fell fluttering and cooing in consternation64 to the ground. If that was not an acknowledgment of the limner's fidelity65, what could be?
Clary, in person, played my lady very well, reclining in her father's great chair. Her hall was roomy enough; it had its space for Sam Winnington's easel as well as Clary's harpsichord66, and, what was more useful, her spinning-wheel, besides closets and cupboards without number. Sam Winnington entertained Clarissa; he was famous in years to come for keeping his sisters in good humour. He told her of the academy and the president's parties, of the public gardens and the wild beast shows; and how the Princesses had their trains borne as they crossed the park. He asked her what quality in herself she valued the most; and owned that he was hugely indebted to his coolness. When his colours were not drying fast enough, he read her a page or two of grand heroic reading from Pope's 'Homer' about Agamemnon and Achilles, Helen and Andromache; when she tired of that he was back again to the sparkling gossip of the town, for he was a brilliant fellow, with a clear intellect and a fine taste; and he had stored up and arranged elegantly on the shelves of his memory all the knowledge that was current, and a little more besides.
When he was gone, Clary would meditate67 what powers [Page 129]of conversation he had, and consider rather glumly68 how she would miss the portrait painter when he migrated to his native air, the town; how dull Redwater would be; how another face would soon supplant69 hers on the canvas! He had shown her others in his portfolio70 quite as blooming and dignified71, though he had tumbled them carelessly over; and so he would treat hers when another's was fresh before him. Clary would be restless and cross at her own suppositions; for where is the use of being a beauty and a wit if one must submit to be either forgotten or beaten, even by a portrait painter?
In the meantime, the Vicar also wanted a facsimile of his hayfield, as it looked when the haymakers were among the tedded72 grass, or under the Redwater ash-trees, to present him with a pleasant spectacle within, now that the bleak73 autumn was coming on, and there would be nothing without but soaked or battered74 ground, dark skies, and muddy or snowy ways. The Mayor desired a pig-sty, with the most charming litter of little black and white pigs, as nice as guinea-pigs, and their considerably75 coarser grunting76 mamma, done to hand. He was a jolly, prosaic77 man, Master Mayor, very proud of his prosaicness78, as you rarely see a real man of his poetry: he maintained, though Mrs. Mayor nearly swooned at the idea, that he would sooner have a pig-sty than a batch79 of heroes. Perhaps the heroes of Master Mayor's day had sometimes wallowed in the mire80 to suggest the comparison. And Clarissa Gage would have her bower81 done—her clematis bower before the leaves were brown and shrivelled and there only remained the loving spindle-shanked stems [Page 130]clinging faithfully to the half-rotten framework which they could no longer clothe with verdure.
What a bower Will Locke made of Clary's bower! as unique as Sam Winnington's portrait of Clary herself. It was not the literal bower; and it would not have suited Master Mayor or the Justice, though it might have had a charm for the Vicar. We will go with the Vicar; although he also had his bombast82, and, when elevated by company and cheer, denominated Cambridge a goddess, and raised in the poor woman's breast expectations never to be realized. We don't altogether approve that wonderful bit of work, but we like it. There never were such deep damask roses as hung over the trellis, there never were such flaming sunflowers, or pure white lilies as looked in at the sides. Squirrels don't frequent garden bowers83 unless they are tamed and chained by the leg. Our robin84 redbreasts are in the fields in summer, and do not perch85 on boughs86 opposite speckled thrushes when they can get abundance of worms and flies among the barley87. We have not little green lizards88 at large in England; the only one ever seen at Redwater was in the apothecary's bottle. Still what a bower that is! What a blushing, fluttering bower, trilling with song, glancing and glowing with the bronze mail of beetles90 and the softened91 glory of purple emperors! What a thing it was to examine; how you could look in and discover afresh, and dwell for five minutes at a time on that hollow petal92 of a flower steeped in honey, on that mote93 of a ladybird crawling to its couch of olive moss94.
Dulcie was speechless with admiration95 before this vision [Page 131]of Clarissa's bower. Heigho! it was an enchanted96 bower to Dulcie as to Will Locke. It was veritably alive to him, and he could tell her the secrets of that life. What perfume the rose was shedding—he smelt97 it about his palette; what hour of the clock the half-closed sunflower was striking; whence the robin and the thrush had come, and what bean fields they had flown over, and what cottage doors they had passed; of what the lizard89 was dreaming in south or east as he turned over on his slimy side—all were plain to him.
Ostensibly Dulcie was taking lessons from Will Locke in flower-painting, for Dulcie had a delicate hand and a just eye for colours, and the sweetest, natural fondness for this simple, common, beautiful world. And Will Locke was a patient, indulgent teacher. He was the queerest mixture of gentleness and stubbornness, shyness and confidence, reserve and candour. He claimed little from other people, he exacted a great deal from himself. He was the most retiring lad in society, backward and out of place; he was free with Dulcie as a girl of her own stamp could be. He had the most unhesitating faith in his own ability, he relied on it as on an inspiration, he talked of it to Dulcie, he impressed it upon her until he infected her with his own credulity until she believed him to be one of the greatest painters under the sun. She credited his strangest imagination, and that quiet lad had the fancy of a prince of dreamers.
In the end Dulcie was humble98 and almost awed99 in Will Locke's presence. Now here comes the sign of Dulcie's innate100 beauty of character. Had Dulcie been a [Page 132]commonplace, coarse girl, she would have been wearied, aggrieved101, fairly disgusted by Will Locke in three days. But Dulcie was brimfull of reverence102, she was generous to the ends of her hair, she liked to feel her heart in her mouth with admiration.
The truth of the matter was, Dulcie would have been fain to lift up Will Locke's pencil as they pretend Cæsar served Titian, to clean his palette, gather flowers for him, busk them into a nosegay, preserve them in pure water, and never steal the meanest for her own use. Will Locke was her saint, Dulcie was quite ready to be absorbed in his beams. Well for her if they did not scorch38 her, poor little moth103!
Oh! Dulcie, Dulcie, your friends could not have thought it of you—not even Clary, tolerably misled on her own account, would have believed you serious in your enamourment, though you had gone down on your knees and sworn it to them. It was nothing but the obliging humour of Mistress Dulcie and the single-heartedness of the youth; still even in this mild view of the case, if their friends had paid proper attention to them, they would have counselled Dulcie to abide104 more securely by her chair covers, and my simple man to stick more closely to his card or his ivory, his hedges or his hurdles105.
Sometimes, late as the season was, Will Locke and Dulcie went out picking their steps in search of plants and animals, and it was fortunate for Dulcie that she could pull her mohair gown through her pocket-holes, and tuck her mob-cap under her chin beneath her hat, for occasionally the boisterous106 wind lifted that trifling107 appendage108 right [Page 133]into the air, and deposited it over a wall or a fence, and Will Locke was not half so quick as Dulcie in tracing the region of its flight, neither was he so active, however willing, in recovering the truant109. Why, Dulcie found his own hat for him, and put it on his head to boot one day. He had deposited it on a stone, that he might the better look in the face a dripping rock, shaded with plumes110 of fern and tufts of grass, and formed into mosaic111 by tiny sprays of geranium faded into crimson112 and gold. It was a characteristic of Will that while he was so fanciful in his interpretation113, the smallest, commonest text sufficed him. The strolls of these short autumn days were never barren of interest and advantage to him. The man carried his treasures within himself; he only needed the slightest touchstone from the outside world to draw them out. A fieldmouse's nest was nearly as good to him as an eagle's eyrie, an ox-eyed daisy as a white rose, a red hemp-nettle as a foxglove. He put down his hat and stood contemplating114 the bit of rock, until every morsel115 of leaf told him its tale, and then proceeded to fill his pockets and hands with what the poorest country boy would have deemed the veriest weeds; and at last he would have faced round, and marched home, unconscious that his fair hair, bleached116 like a child's, was undefended from a pitiless shower impending117 over his head. Dulcie lingered dutifully behind, picked up that three-cornered hat timidly, called his attention to his negligence118, and while he stooped with the greatest ease in life, she, bashfully turning her eyes another way, finally clapped the covering on his crown, as a mother bonnets119 her child.
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