‘Left an infant by my parents, at an early age,’ said Mr Swiveller, bewailing his hard lot, ‘cast upon the world in my tenderest period, and thrown upon the mercies of a deluding13 dwarf, who can wonder at my weakness! Here’s a miserable14 orphan for you. Here,’ said Mr Swiveller raising his voice to a high pitch, and looking sleepily round, ‘is a miserable orphan!’
‘Then,’ said somebody hard by, ‘let me be a father to you.’
Mr Swiveller swayed himself to and fro to preserve his balance, and, looking into a kind of haze15 which seemed to surround him, at last perceived two eyes dimly twinkling through the mist, which he observed after a short time were in the neighbourhood of a nose and mouth. Casting his eyes down towards that quarter in which, with reference to a man’s face, his legs are usually to be found, he observed that the face had a body attached; and when he looked more intently he was satisfied that the person was Mr Quilp, who indeed had been in his company all the time, but whom he had some vague idea of having left a mile or two behind.
‘You have deceived an orphan, Sir,’ said Mr Swiveller solemnly.’
‘I! I’m a second father to you,’ replied Quilp.
‘You my father, Sir!’ retorted Dick. ‘Being all right myself, Sir, I request to be left alone — instantly, Sir.’
‘What a funny fellow you are!’ cried Quilp.
‘Go, Sir,’ returned Dick, leaning against a post and waving his hand. ‘Go, deceiver, go, some day, Sir, p’r’aps you’ll waken, from pleasure’s dream to know, the grief of orphans17 forsaken18. Will you go, Sir?’
The dwarf taking no heed19 of this adjuration20, Mr Swiveller advanced with the view of inflicting21 upon him condign22 chastisement23. But forgetting his purpose or changing his mind before he came close to him, he seized his hand and vowed24 eternal friendship, declaring with an agreeable frankness that from that time forth25 they were brothers in everything but personal appearance. Then he told his secret over again, with the addition of being pathetic on the subject of Miss Wackles, who, he gave Mr Quilp to understand, was the occasion of any slight incoherency he might observe in his speech at that moment, which was attributable solely26 to the strength of his affection and not to rosy27 wine or other fermented28 liquor. And then they went on arm-in-arm, very lovingly together.
‘I’m as sharp,’ said Quilp to him, at parting, ‘as sharp as a ferret, and as cunning as a weazel. You bring Trent to me; assure him that I’m his friend though i fear he a little distrusts me (I don’t know why, I have not deserved it); and you’ve both of you made your fortunes — in perspective.’
‘That’s the worst of it,’ returned Dick. ‘These fortunes in perspective look such a long way off.’
‘But they look smaller than they really are, on that account,’ said Quilp, pressing his arm. ‘You’ll have no conception of the value of your prize until you draw close to it. Mark that.’
‘D’ye think not?’ said Dick.
‘Aye, I do; and I am certain of what I say, that’s better,’ returned the dwarf. ‘You bring Trent to me. Tell him I am his friend and yours — why shouldn’t I be?’
‘There’s no reason why you shouldn’t, certainly,’ replied Dick, ‘and perhaps there are a great many why you should — at least there would be nothing strange in your wanting to be my friend, if you were a choice spirit, but then you know you’re not a choice spirit.’
‘I not a choice spirit?’ cried Quilp.
‘Devil a bit,sir,’ returned Dick. ‘A man of your appearance couldn’t be. If you’re any spirit at all,sir, you’re an evil spirit. Choice spirits,’ added Dick, smiting29 himself on the breast, ‘are quite a different looking sort of people, you may take your oath of that,sir.’
Quilp glanced at his free-spoken friend with a mingled31 expression of cunning and dislike, and wringing32 his hand almost at the same moment, declared that he was an uncommon33 character and had his warmest esteem34. With that they parted; Mr Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp to cogitate35 upon the discovery he had made, and exult36 in the prospect37 of the rich field of enjoyment38 and reprisal39 it opened to him.
It was not without great reluctance40 and misgiving41 that Mr Swiveller, next morning, his head racked by the fumes42 of the renowned43 Schiedam, repaired to the lodging44 of his friend Trent (which was in the roof of an old house in an old ghostly inn), and recounted by very slow degrees what had yesterday taken place between him and Quilp. Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation45 on Quilp’s probable motives46, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller’s folly47, that his friend received the tale.
‘I don’t defend myself, Fred,’ said the penitent48 Richard; ‘but the fellow has such a queer way with him and is such an artful dog, that first of all he set me upon thinking whether there was any harm in telling him, and while I was thinking, screwed it out of me. If you had seen him drink and smoke, as I did, you couldn’t have kept anything from him. He’s a Salamander you know, that’s what he is.’
Without inquiring whether Salamanders were of necessity good confidential49 agents, or whether a fire-proof man was as a matter of course trustworthy, Frederick Trent threw himself into a chair, and, burying his head in his hands, endeavoured to fathom51 the motives which had led Quilp to insinuate52 himself into Richard Swiveller’s confidence; — for that the disclosure was of his seeking, and had not been spontaneously revealed by Dick, was sufficiently53 plain from Quilp’s seeking his company and enticing54 him away.
The dwarf had twice encountered him when he was endeavouring to obtain intelligence of the fugitives55. This, perhaps, as he had not shown any previous anxiety about them, was enough to awaken56 suspicion in the breast of a creature so jealous and distrustful by nature, setting aside any additional impulse to curiosity that he might have derived57 from Dick’s incautious manner. But knowing the scheme they had planned, why should he offer to assist it? This was a question more difficult of solution; but as knaves58 generally overreach themselves by imputing59 their own designs to others, the idea immediately presented itself that some circumstances of irritation60 between Quilp and the old man, arising out of their secret transactions and not unconnected perhaps with his sudden disappearance61, now rendered the former desirous of revenging himself upon him by seeking to entrap62 the sole object of his love and anxiety into a connexion of which he knew he had a dread63 and hatred64. As Frederick Trent himself, utterly65 regardless of his sister, had this object at heart, only second to the hope of gain, it seemed to him the more likely to be Quilp’s main principle of action. Once investing the dwarf with a design of his own in abetting66 them, which the attainment67 of their purpose would serve, it was easy to believe him sincere and hearty68 in the cause; and as there could be no doubt of his proving a powerful and useful auxiliary69, Trent determined70 to accept his invitation and go to his house that night, and if what he said and did confirmed him in the impression he had formed, to let him share the labour of their plan, but not the profit.
Having revolved71 these things in his mind and arrived at this conclusion, he communicated to Mr Swiveller as much of his meditations72 as he thought proper (Dick would have been perfectly73 satisfied with less), and giving him the day to recover himself from his late salamandering, accompanied him at evening to Mr Quilp’s house.
Mighty74 glad Mr Quilp was to see them, or mightily75 glad he seemed to be; and fearfully polite Mr Quilp was to Mrs Quilp and Mrs jiniwin; and very sharp was the look he cast on his wife to observe how she was affected77 by the recognition of young Trent. Mrs Quilp was as innocent as her own mother of any emotion, painful or pleasant, which the sight of him awakened78, but as her husband’s glance made her timid and confused, and uncertain what to do or what was required of her, Mr Quilp did not fail to assign her embarrassment79 to the cause he had in his mind, and while he chuckled80 at his penetration81 was secretly exasperated82 by his jealousy83.
Nothing of this appeared, however. On the contrary, Mr Quilp was all blandness84 and suavity85, and presided over the case-bottle of rum with extraordinary open-heartedness.
‘Why, let me see,’ said Quilp. ‘It must be a matter of nearly two years since we were first acquainted.’
‘Nearer three, I think,’ said Trent.
‘Nearer three!’ cried Quilp. ‘How fast time flies. Does it seem as long as that to you, Mrs Quilp?’
‘Yes, I think it seems full three years, Quilp,’ was the unfortunate reply.
‘Oh indeed, ma’am,’ thought Quilp, ‘you have been pining, have you? Very good, ma’am.’
‘It seems to me but yesterday that you went out to Demerara in the Mary Anne,’ said Quilp; ‘but yesterday, I declare. Well, I like a little wildness. I was wild myself once.’
Mr Quilp accompanied this admission with such an awful wink16, indicative of old rovings and backslidings, that Mrs Jiniwin was indignant, and could not forbear from remarking under her breath that he might at least put off his confessions86 until his wife was absent; for which act of boldness and insubordination Mr Quilp first stared her out of countenance87 and then drank her health ceremoniously.
‘I thought you’d come back directly, Fred. I always thought that,’ said Quilp setting down his glass. ‘And when the Mary Anne returned with you on board, instead of a letter to say what a contrite88 heart you had, and how happy you were in the situation that had been provided for you, I was amused — exceedingly amused. Ha ha ha!’
The young man smiled, but not as though the theme was the most agreeable one that could have been selected for his entertainment; and for that reason Quilp pursued it.
‘I always will say,’ he resumed, ‘that when a rich relation having two young people — sisters or brothers, or brother and sister — dependent on him, attaches himself exclusively to one, and casts off the other, he does wrong.’
The young man made a movement of impatience89, but Quilp went on as calmly as if he were discussing some abstract question in which nobody present had the slightest personal interest.
‘It’s very true,’ said Quilp, ‘that your grandfather urged repeated forgiveness, ingratitude90, riot, and extravagance, and all that; but as I told him “these are common faults.” “But he’s a scoundrel,” said he. “Granting that,” said I (for the sake of argument of course), “a great many young noblemen and gentlemen are scoundrels too!” But he wouldn’t be convinced.’
‘I wonder at that, Mr Quilp,’ said the young man sarcastically92.
‘Well, so did I at the time,’ returned Quilp, ‘but he was always obstinate93. He was in a manner a friend of mine, but he was always obstinate and wrong-headed. Little Nell is a nice girl, a charming girl, but you’re her brother, Frederick. You’re her brother after all; as you told him the last time you met, he can’t alter that.’
‘He would if he could, confound him for that and all other kindnesses,’ said the young man impatiently. ‘But nothing can come of this subject now, and let us have done with it in the Devil’s name.’
‘Agreed,’ returned Quilp, ‘agreed on my part readily. Why have I alluded94 to it? Just to show you, Frederick, that I have always stood your friend. You little knew who was your friend, and who your foe95; now did you? You thought I was against you, and so there has been a coolness between us; but it was all on your side, entirely96 on your side. Let’s shake hands again, Fred.’
With his head sunk down between his shoulders, and a hideous97 grin over-spreading his face, the dwarf stood up and stretched his short arm across the table. After a moment’s hesitation98, the young man stretched out his to meet it; Quilp clutched his fingers in a grip that for the moment stopped the current of the blood within them, and pressing his other hand upon his lip and frowning towards the unsuspicious Richard, released them and sat down.
This action was not lost upon Trent, who, knowing that Richard Swiveller was a mere99 tool in his hands and knew no more of his designs than he thought proper to communicate, saw that the dwarf perfectly understood their relative position, and fully76 entered into the character of his friend. It is something to be appreciated, even in knavery100. This silent homage101 to his superior abilities, no less than a sense of the power with which the dwarf’s quick perception had already invested him, inclined the young man towards that ugly worthy50, and determined him to profit by his aid.
It being now Mr Quilp’s cue to change the subject with all convenient expedition, lest Richard Swiveller in his heedlessness should reveal anything which it was inexpedient for the women to know, he proposed a game at four-handed cribbage, and partners being cut for, Mrs Quilp fell to Frederick Trent, and Dick himself to Quilp. Mrs Jiniwin being very fond of cards was carefully excluded by her son-in-law from any participation102 in the game, and had assigned to her the duty of occasionally replenishing the glasses from the case-bottle; Mr Quilp from that moment keeping one eye constantly upon her, lest she should by any means procure103 a taste of the same, and thereby104 tantalising the wretched old lady (who was as much attached to the case-bottle as the cards) in a double degree and most ingenious manner.
But it was not to Mrs Jiniwin alone that Mr Quilp’s attention was restricted, as several other matters required his constant vigilance. Among his various eccentric habits he had a humorous one of always cheating at cards, which rendered necessary on his part, not only a close observance of the game, and a sleight-of-hand in counting and scoring, but also involved the constant correction, by looks, and frowns, and kicks under the table, of Richard Swiveller, who being bewildered by the rapidity with which his cards were told, and the rate at which the pegs106 travelled down the board, could not be prevented from sometimes expressing his surprise and incredulity. Mrs Quilp too was the partner of young Trent, and for every look that passed between them, and every word they spoke30, and every card they played, the dwarf had eyes and ears; not occupied alone with what was passing above the table, but with signals that might be exchanging beneath it, which he laid all kinds of traps to detect; besides often treading on his wife’s toes to see whether she cried out or remained silent under the infliction107, in which latter case it would have been quite clear that Trent had been treading on her toes before. Yet, in the most of all these distractions108, the one eye was upon the old lady always, and if she so much as stealthily advanced a tea-spoon towards a neighbouring glass (which she often did), for the purpose of abstracting but one sup of its sweet contents, Quilp’s hand would overset it in the very moment of her triumph, and Quilp’s mocking voice implore109 her to regard her precious health. And in any one of these his many cares, from first to last, Quilp never flagged nor faltered110.
At length, when they had played a great many rubbers and drawn111 pretty freely upon the case-bottle, Mr Quilp warned his lady to retire to rest, and that submissive wife complying, and being followed by her indignant mother, Mr Swiveller fell asleep. The dwarf beckoning112 his remaining companion to the other end of the room, held a short conference with him in whispers.
‘It’s as well not to say more than one can help before our worthy friend,’ said Quilp, making a grimace113 towards the slumbering114 Dick. ‘Is it a bargain between us, Fred? Shall he marry little rosy Nell by-and-by?’
‘You have some end of your own to answer, of course,’ returned the other.
‘Of course I have, dear Fred,’ said Quilp, grinning to think how little he suspected what the real end was. ‘It’s retaliation115 perhaps; perhaps whim116. I have influence, Fred, to help or oppose. Which way shall I use it? There are a pair of scales, and it goes into one.’
‘Throw it into mine then,’ said Trent.
‘It’s done, Fred,’ rejoined Quilp, stretching out his clenched117 hand and opening it as if he had let some weight fall out. ‘It’s in the scale from this time, and turns it, Fred. Mind that.’
‘Where have they gone?’ asked Trent.
Quilp shook his head, and said that point remained to be discovered, which it might be, easily. When it was, they would begin their preliminary advances. He would visit the old man, or even Richard Swiveller might visit him, and by affecting a deep concern in his behalf, and imploring118 him to settle in some worthy home, lead to the child’s remembering him with gratitude91 and favour. Once impressed to this extent, it would be easy, he said, to win her in a year or two, for she supposed the old man to be poor, as it was a part of his jealous policy (in common with many other misers) to feign119 to be so, to those about him.
‘He has feigned120 it often enough to me, of late,’ said Trent.
‘Oh! and to me too!’ replied the dwarf. ‘Which is more extraordinary, as I know how rich he really is.’
‘I suppose you should,’ said Trent.
‘I think I should indeed,’ rejoined the dwarf; and in that, at least, he spoke the truth.
After a few more whispered words, they returned to the table, and the young man rousing Richard Swiveller informed him that he was waiting to depart. This was welcome news to Dick, who started up directly. After a few words of confidence in the result of their project had been exchanged, they bade the grinning Quilp good night.
Quilp crept to the window as they passed in the street below, and listened. Trent was pronouncing an encomium121 upon his wife, and they were both wondering by what enchantment122 she had been brought to marry such a misshapen wretch105 as he. The dwarf after watching their retreating shadows with a wider grin than his face had yet displayed, stole softly in the dark to bed.
In this hatching of their scheme, neither Trent nor Quilp had had one thought about the happiness or misery123 of poor innocent Nell. It would have been strange if the careless profligate124, who was the butt125 of both, had been harassed126 by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would — being a brute127 only in the gratification of his appetites — have soothed128 his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
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