One of Gervase Norgate's oldest neighbours, a fussy6 but good-natured, middle-aged7 baronet, pronounced this judgment8.
There was nothing left for Diana but to resign Gervase to his fate, and gather up the gains which were left her. The most impartial9 authorities decided10 so. The gains would have sufficed for many a woman. Mrs. Gervase Norgate had comparative riches, after the cash scramble11 in which she had been brought up. Gervase had not succeeded in wasting above one-third of his fortune, and would doubtless end his career before he made away with the whole. Mrs. Gervase was the mistress of Ashpound, and most people would have valued it as what newspapers describe as a most desirable residence, a most eligible12 investment. If she ever had a child—a son, though she shuddered13 at the idea,—he would be the young Squire14, the heir of Ashpound. In the meantime, Gervase Norgate was not a churl15: he did not dream of stinting16 his wife in her perquisites17, though he was not fond of her, and they now no longer lived comfortably together. She might h[Page 325]ave out his mother's carriage every day, or she might have another built for her, and drive it with a pair of ponies18 if she chose; she had a well-bred, fine-mounted, thin-legged, glossy-coated saddle-horse kept for her sole use, and she might have a second bred and broken for her any year she liked. She could even employ her own discretion19 in the income to be spent in the housekeeping. Ready money was becoming short with him; but his sense of her rights, and his faith in her prudence20, had not failed. She had only to draw on his banker or agent to have her draught21 honoured. Whatever sums she might devote to her personal pleasures, her prodigal22 husband would not call in question. She might indulge in fine clothes, recherché jewellery, embellishments and ornaments23 for her rooms; she might take up art or literature, or heaths, or melons, or poultry24, or flannel25 petticoating and soup-making for the poor (Sunday-schools and district visiting were hardly in fashion), and pursue one, or other, or all, for occupation and amusement, without impairing26 her resources; and she claimed a very respectable circle of friends as Mrs. Gervase Norgate, though she had been friendless, and getting always more friendless, as Miss Baring. The world had put its veto on the risk of her marriage with Gervase Norgate, in so far as its excusable element—the reformation of Gervase Norgate—was concerned; but with commendable27 elasticity28 it had allowed itself to be considerably29 influenced by the advantages which the marriage had obtained and secured for Diana, as well as by her conduct in their possession, and had awarded her the diploma of its esteem30. A handsome, ladylike, sensible, [Page 326]well-disposed, sufficiently-agreeable, though quiet young matron, almost too wise and forbearing for her years, was its verdict. It was wonderful how well she had turned out, considering how she had been exposed; for every one knew John Fitzwilliam Baring, and how little fitted he was for the care of a motherless daughter. The more tender-hearted and sentimental31 world began to look upon Mrs. Gervase Norgate's bad husband, whom she had married in the face of his offence, as one of her merits,—a chief merit, to make of her a popular victim and martyr32, no matter that she was not naturally constituted for the rôle, was not frank enough for popularity, not meek33 enough for martyrdom.
Even Miss Tabitha, who had still a friendly feeling for the culprit, had nothing to say against Mrs. Gervase, except that she was too good for him. Poor Miles listened wistfully for his master's reeling step, and went out in the night air, risking his rheumatism34, for which Mr. Gervase had always cared, making sure that the old boy had a screen to his pantry, and shutters35 to his garret. He watched lest his master should make his bed of the cold ground and catch a deadly chill; caring for the besotted man, when he found him, with reverence36 and tenderness, as for the chubby37 boy who had bidden so fair to be a good and happy man, worthy38 of all honour, when Miles had first known him as his young master. Miles resented feebly the perishing of the forlorn hope of a rescue, and muttered fatuously39 the cart had been put before the horse, and the reins40 taken out of the whip hand, and that'd never do. What could come of the unnatural41 process but a crashing spill?
[Page 327]Diana could not accept the solution. Nineteen women out of twenty, who had acted as she had done, would have taken the compensations, perhaps been content with the indemnifications of her lot; but Diana was the twentieth. Whether the cost of his mercenary marriage was far beyond what she had estimated it, she lost heart and hope and heed42 of the world's opinion, and was on the high road to loss of conscience, from the moment she was convinced that Gervase Norgate was lost.
Diana gave up going into the society which was so willing to welcome her, which thought so well of her. She relinquished43 all pride in personal dignity and propriety44, as she had never done when she had locked her doors to shut out the jingling45 rattle46 of the bones, and, occasionally, the curses, not loud but deep, which broke in upon the repose47 of the long nights at Newton-le-Moor. She ceased to exert herself to regulate the expenditure48 of the house, to preserve its respectability, to wipe out the signs of its master's ruin. Old Miles might strive to keep up appearances, but his mistress no longer aided and abetted49 him. It had become a matter of indifference50 to Mrs. Gervase whether the dragged carpet, the wrenched-down curtain, the shattered chair, were removed or repaired, or not: she took no notice.
By the time Ashpound was budding in spring, Mrs. Gervase Norgate had fallen away, and changed rapidly for the worse, to the disappointment and with the condemnation51 of her acquaintances. She lay in bed half the morning, dawdled52 over her breakfast, and trailed her way from place to place, ageing too, with marvellous celerity.
[Page 328]Sunk in the mire53 as Gervase was, he noted54 the transformation55 in his wife with discomposure and vexation. It fretted56 him always, and infuriated him at times, to discover that she was likely to justify57 his contempt by proving a poor wife after all. Her rule ended, her energy exhausted58, given over to an unprincipled, destructive listlessness and, carelessness, such a prospect59 did not make Gervase amend60 the error of his ways: but it caused his road to ruin to be harder to tread, it caused the fruits of his vice61 to be more bitter between his teeth, it drove him at times to reflect when it was madness to reflect. She would not take the luxuries which she had bought dearly, which he wanted her to take. Her person, drawing-room, flower-garden were fast showing neglect and cheerlessness, in spite of him, or to spite him, as he vowed62 savagely63. Here was his sin cropping out and meeting him in the life of another, and that other a woman. She was going to ruin with him as truly and faithfully as if they had been a pair of fond lovers. The shy goodwill64 of Gervase Norgate's early married life had waned65 into discontent and dislike, and was fast settling into rooted hatred66.
"Lawk!" Dolly the dairymaid reflected indignantly, "Madam is become as careless and trolloping-like as master is wild. If we don't take care, no one will continue to call on us and hinvite us with our equals. For that matter, the mistress has denied herself to every morning caller this spring, and it is my opingen she never so much as sends hapologies to them dinner cards as she twists into matches. If it were me, now, wouldn't I cut a dash of myself? She didn't care a bit of cheese-curd for him, [Page 329]folks say, when she had him to begin with, so why she should pine for his misdeeds now, is more than I can compass."
It was on a clear, fragrant67 evening in June, when the world was all in flower, that a whispering, and pulling of skirts and sleeves, and throwing up of hands and eyes, arose among the servants at Ashpound, at a sight that was seen there. The servants' hall were gathered secretly at a side-door and a lobby-window, and were watching Mrs. Gervase Norgate feeling her way, like a blind woman, her tall figure bent68 down, crouched69 together, swaying, along the pleached alley70 from the garden.
One or two of the more sensitive of the women covered their faces and wrung71 their hands. Old Miles tugged72 at his tufts of red hair and smote73 his hands together distractedly. The new shame was too open for concealment74; he could only cry, "God ha' mercy; there is not one to mend another; what will we do?"
As living among men and women given up to delusions75 begets76 delusions in rational minds with a dire77 infectiousness, so living with Gervase Norgate, and day by day regarding the evil which could not be stayed, Diana had caught the fell disease.
A whisper of the culminating misfortunes of Ashpound spread abroad like wild-fire, soon ceased to be a whisper, and became a loud scandal; and Diana lost her credit as summarily as she had acquired it. It was—"That wretched Mrs. Gervase Norgate came of an evil stock, though drinking was not Mr. Baring's vice. They were an ill-fated race, these Barings, with a curse—[Page 330]the curse of ruined men—upon them. Who knew, indeed, but if poor Gervase Norgate, come of honest people at least, had gone into another family—one which he could have respected, which could have shown him a good example and remonstrated78 with him with authority—he might have been reclaimed79?"
About the middle of summer there came a seasonably rainy period, such as frequently precedes a fine harvest. But Gervase Norgate was so ailing80 that he could not go out and look at his fields, where the corn in the ear was filling rarely, and the growth of second clover was knee-deep. He was forced to keep the house. He loathed81 food, and his sleep had become a horror to him. He had fits of deadly sickness and of shaking like an aspen. His only resource, all the life that was left to him, was to be found in his cellar; and even Miles, seeing his master's extremity82, brought out and piteously pressed the brandy upon him.
Gervase's cronies had never come about his house since his marriage. There had been something in Diana which had held them at arm's length; and although they had heard and scoffed83 at her fall, they had not the wit to discern that it clean removed the obstacle to their harbouring about the place as they had done before her reign84 and abdication85. They might come and go now by day and night without feeling themselves too much for Mrs. Gervase Norgate, or being compelled to regard her as a being apart from them. But they did not comprehend the bearing of the common degradation86, and they had not returned to their haunt as they might have done.
[Page 331]Gervase had declined into such a state of fractiousness and sullenness87, that he was very poor company even for illiterate88 country-bred men like himself. He was something of a ghastly spectacle, as he sat there, with his glass three-fourths empty, and part of its contents spilt around him, trying to smoke, trying to warm himself, with the soles of his boots burnt from being pressed on the top of the wood fire, his teeth chattering89, at intervals90, notwithstanding, as he cast furtive91, dark glances behind him.
Gervase was alone. Mrs. Gervase was dozing92 on a drawing-room couch, not troubling to order a fire, though the room was on the ground-floor,—a pleasant room in sunshine, but looking dull and dismal93 in wet and gloom. She had lain there all the evening, with her hair, tumbled by the posture94, fallen down and straying in dim tresses on her shoulders.
Overcome by illness, Gervase at last defied his shrinking from his room and bed, and retired95 for the night. His uneven96 footsteps and the closing of his door had not long sounded through the house, which might have been so cheery and was so dreary97 and silent, when Mrs. Gervase, cold and comfortless, rose and proceeded to the study. She was drawn98 by the fire and the light, but she was drawn more irresistibly99 by the subtle, potent100 odour in the air. She came on like a sleep-walker. She sank down in the chair which her husband had occupied, and stretched out her fine white hand to the decanters which Miles had not removed. She had raised one, and was about to pour its contents into a glass, when a noise at the door startled her, and caused her to hold her arm suspended. Ger[Page 332]vase, returning for the bottle she grasped, stood in the doorway101.
Ruined husband and ruined wife confronted each other on their stained hearthstone. His weakness, replaced by failing strength, gathered up and increased tenfold by horror and rage. Her eyes glared defiance102, and her presence there, in her white dress, with the crimson103 spots on each cheek, and the fair hair scattered104 around her, was a presence of ominous105 beauty, the hectic106 beauty of the fall. A feather's weight might have turned the scale whether Gervase should totter107 forward and deal Diana a deadly blow which should finish the misfortunes of that generation at Ashpound, and brand Ashpound itself with the inhuman108 mark of an awful crime; or whether he should melt in his misery109, weep a man's scalding tears, and bemoan110 their misery together. Diana's words were the feather's weight: she broke God's unbearable111 silence, and by God's power and mercy saved both. She cried out, not so much in self-defence, for she was a daring, intrepid112 woman, as in righteous accusation113, "You dare not blame me, for you taught me, you brought me to it."
Through his undone114 condition he owned the truth of the accusation, and the old spring of manliness115 in him welled up to protect the woman who spoke116 the truth and impeached117 him justly of her ruin as well as his own.
"No, I dare not blame you. We are two miserable118 sinners, Die." And he let his arms fall on the table and bowed his head over them.
He had spared her, he had not taunted119 her, and he had not called her Die for many a day before. She put down [Page 333]the decanter and cowered120 back with a sense of guilt121 which made her glowing beauty pale, fade, wither122, like the sere123 leaf washed by the heavy tears of a November night's rain.
When Gervase Norgate lifted up his bent head again, all the generosity124 that had ever looked out of his comely125 face reappeared in its changed features for a moment. "I have smitten126 you when you came and tried to cure me, Die. And I cannot cure myself. I believe, before God, if I can get no more drink, I shall go to-night; but I shall go soon, anyhow, no mistake, and I ought to do something to save you, when I brought you to it. So, do you see, Die? here go the drink and me together." And with that he took up the decanters and dashed them, one after the other, on the hearthstone, the wine and brandy running like life-blood in bubbling red streams across the floor. He summoned Miles, and demanded his keys—all the keys of closet and cellar in the house. And when the old man, flustered127 and scared, did not venture to dispute his will, he caught up the keys, cast them into the white core of the wood-fire, piled the blazing logs upon them, and stamped them down, sending showers flying up the wide chimney.
Then the blaze of passion died away from Gervase's brow, the force of self-devotion ebbed128 out of him, his unfastened vest and shirt collar did not allow him air enough, and he fell back, gasping129 and quaking and calling the devils were upon him.
Old Miles wrung his hands, and shouted "Help," and cried the Master was dying, was dead.
[Page 334]But Diana pushed the old servant aside, put her arms round Gervase, and raised him on her breast, telling him, "Do not think of dying for me, Gervase; I am not worthy. You must not die, I will not have you die. Oh, God! spare him till I kneel at his feet and beg him to forgive all my disdainful pity, and we repent130 together."
Gervase Norgate did not die that night: it might have been easier for him if he had, for he lay, sat, walked in the sunshine deadly sick for months. When men like him are saved, it is only as by fire, by letting a part of the penal131 fire pass over them, and enduring, as David did, the pains of hell.
But all the time Die did not leave him. Night and day she stood by him, renouncing132 her own sin for ever. She shared vicariously its revolting anguish133 and agonizing134 fruits, in his pangs135. And the woman learned to love the man as she would have learned to love a child whom she had tended every hour for what looked like a lifetime, whom she had brought back from a horrible disease and from the brink136 of the grave, to whose recovery she had given herself body and soul, in a way she had never dreamt of when she first undertook the task. She had lulled137 him to sleep as with cradle songs, she had fed him with her hands, ministered to him with her spirit. She learned to love him exceedingly.
Other summer suns shone on Ashpound. Gervase and Diana had come back from a lengthened138 sojourn139 abroad. Gervase, going on a visit to his faithful old Aunt Tabby, looked behind him, to say, half-shamefacedly, half-yearningly, "I wish you would come with me, Die; I do not [Page 335]think I can pay the visit without you." And she exclaimed, with a little laugh, beneath which ran an undercurrent of feeling, still and deep, "Ah! you see you cannot do without me, sir." And he rejoined, laughing too, but a little wistfully, "I wish I could flatter myself that you could not do without me, madam."
She assured him, with a sudden sedateness140 which hid itself shyly on his breast, "Of course I could not do without you to save me from being a pillar of salt, to make me a loving, happy woman."
"God help you, happy Die!"
"Yes, Gervase; it is those who have been tried that can be trusted, and I have been in the deep pit, and all clogged141 with the mire along with you, and He who brought us out will not suffer us to fall back and be lost after all."
The neighbours about Ashpound were slow to discover, as erring142 men and women are always slow to discover, that God is more merciful than they, and that he can bring good out of evil, light out of darkness; but they discovered it at last, and, after a probation143, took Mr. and Mrs. Gervase Norgate back into society and its esteem and regard, and the family at Ashpound became eventually as well considered, and as much sought after in friendship and marriage, as any family among the southern moors144, long after John Fitzwilliam Baring had dressed for dinner, and taken a fit with a cue in his hand.
As for Aunt Tabby and old Miles, they said, "All's well that ends well." But old Miles stood out stubbornly, "That it is not a many carts afore the horses as comes in [Page 336]at the journey's end, and it ain't dootiful-like in them when they does do it, though I'm content." And Aunt Tabby argued, "It is shockingly against morality to conclude that her fall—and who'd have thought a strong woman like her would fall?—has been for his rising again."
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