It remains1 but to dismiss the leaders of the little crowd who have borne us company upon the road, and so to close the journey.
Foremost among them, smooth Sampson Brass2 and Sally, arm in arm, claim our polite attention.
Mr Sampson, then, being detained, as already has been shown, by the justice upon whom he called, and being so strongly pressed to protract3 his stay that he could by no means refuse, remained under his protection for a considerable time, during which the great attention of his entertainer kept him so extremely close, that he was quite lost to society, and never even went abroad for exercise saving into a small paved yard. So well, indeed, was his modest and retiring temper understood by those with whom he had to deal, and so jealous were they of his absence, that they required a kind of friendly bond to be entered into by two substantial housekeepers4, in the sum of fifteen hundred pounds a-piece, before they would suffer him to quit their hospitable5 roof — doubting, it appeared, that he would return, if once let loose, on any other terms. Mr Brass, struck with the humour of this jest, and carrying out its spirit to the utmost, sought from his wide connection a pair of friends whose joint6 possessions fell some halfpence short of fifteen pence, and proffered7 them as bail8 — for that was the merry word agreed upon both sides. These gentlemen being rejected after twenty-four hours’ pleasantry, Mr Brass consented to remain, and did remain, until a club of choice spirits called a Grand jury (who were in the joke) summoned him to a trial before twelve other wags for perjury9 and fraud, who in their turn found him guilty with a most facetious11 joy — nay12, the very populace entered into the whim13, and when Mr Brass was moving in a hackney-coach towards the building where these wags assembled, saluted14 him with rotten eggs and carcases of kittens, and feigned16 to wish to tear him into shreds17, which greatly increased the comicality of the thing, and made him relish18 it the more, no doubt.
To work this sportive vein19 still further, Mr Brass, by his counsel, moved in arrest of judgment20 that he had been led to criminate himself, by assurances of safety and promises of pardon, and claimed the leniency21 which the law extends to such confiding22 natures as are thus deluded23. After solemn argument, this point (with others of a technical nature, whose humorous extravagance it would be difficult to exaggerate) was referred to the judges for their decision, Sampson being meantime removed to his former quarters. Finally, some of the points were given in Sampson’s favour, and some against him; and the upshot was, that, instead of being desired to travel for a time in foreign parts, he was permitted to grace the mother country under certain insignificant24 restrictions25.
These were, that he should, for a term of years, reside in a spacious26 mansion27 where several other gentlemen were lodged28 and boarded at the public charge, who went clad in a sober uniform of grey turned up with yellow, had their hair cut extremely short, and chiefly lived on gruel29 and light soup. It was also required of him that he should partake of their exercise of constantly ascending30 an endless flight of stairs; and, lest his legs, unused to such exertion31, should be weakened by it, that he should wear upon one ankle an amulet32 or charm of iron. These conditions being arranged, he was removed one evening to his new abode33, and enjoyed, in common with nine other gentlemen, and two ladies, the privilege of being taken to his place of retirement34 in one of Royalty’s own carriages.
Over and above these trifling35 penalties, his name was erased36 and blotted37 out from the roll of attorneys; which erasure38 has been always held in these latter times to be a great degradation39 and reproach, and to imply the commission of some amazing villany — as indeed it would seem to be the case, when so many worthless names remain among its better records, unmolested.
Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours40 went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire41, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted42 as a private in the second regiment43 of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket44 and looking out of a sentry-box in St james’s Park, one evening. There were many such whispers as these in circulation; but the truth appears to be that, after the lapse45 of some five years (during which there is no direct evidence of her having been seen at all), two wretched people were more than once observed to crawl at dusk from the inmost recesses46 of St Giles’s, and to take their way along the streets, with shuffling47 steps and cowering48 shivering forms, looking into the roads and kennels49 as they went in search of refuse food or disregarded offal. These forms were never beheld50 but in those nights of cold and gloom, when the terrible spectres, who lie at all other times in the obscene hiding-places of London, in archways, dark vaults51 and cellars, venture to creep into the streets; the embodied52 spirits of Disease, and Vice53, and Famine. It was whispered by those who should have known, that these were Sampson and his sister Sally; and to this day, it is said, they sometimes pass, on bad nights, in the same loathsome54 guise55, close at the elbow of the shrinking passenger.
The body of Quilp being found — though not until some days had elapsed — an inquest was held on it near the spot where it had been washed ashore56. The general supposition was that he had committed suicide, and, this appearing to be favoured by all the circumstances of his death, the verdict was to that effect. He was left to be buried with a stake through his heart in the centre of four lonely roads.
It was rumoured58 afterwards that this horrible and barbarous ceremony had been dispensed59 with, and that the remains had been secretly given up to Tom Scott. But even here, opinion was divided; for some said Tom dug them up at midnight, and carried them to a place indicated to him by the widow. It is probable that both these stories may have had their origin in the simple fact of Tom’s shedding tears upon the inquest — which he certainly did, extraordinary as it may appear. He manifested, besides, a strong desire to assault the jury; and being restrained and conducted out of court, darkened its only window by standing60 on his head upon the sill, until he was dexterously61 tilted62 upon his feet again by a cautious beadle.
Being cast upon the world by his master’s death, he determined63 to go through it upon his head and hands, and accordingly began to tumble for his bread. Finding, however, his English birth an insurmountable obstacle to his advancement64 in this pursuit (notwithstanding that his art was in high repute and favour), he assumed the name of an Italian image lad, with whom he had become acquainted; and afterwards tumbled with extraordinary success, and to overflowing65 audiences. Little Mrs Quilp never quite forgave herself the one deceit that lay so heavy on her conscience, and never spoke66 or thought of it but with bitter tears. Her husband had no relations, and she was rich. He had made no will, or she would probably have been poor. Having married the first time at her mother’s instigation, she consulted in her second choice nobody but herself. It fell upon a smart young fellow enough; and as he made it a preliminary condition that Mrs Jiniwin should be thenceforth an out-pensioner, they lived together after marriage with no more than the average amount of quarrelling, and led a merry life upon the dead dwarf’s money.
Mr and Mrs Garland, and Mr Abel, went out as usual (except that there was a change in their household, as will be seen presently), and in due time the latter went into partnership68 with his friend the notary69, on which occasion there was a dinner, and a ball, and great extent of dissipation. Unto this ball there happened to be invited the most bashful young lady that was ever seen, with whom Mr Abel happened to fall in love. HOW it happened, or how they found it out, or which of them first communicated the discovery to the other, nobody knows. But certain it is that in course of time they were married; and equally certain it is that they were the happiest of the happy; and no less certain it is that they deserved to be so. And it is pleasant to write down that they reared a family; because any propagation of goodness and benevolence70 is no small addition to the aristocracy of nature, and no small subject of rejoicing for mankind at large.
The pony71 preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long one, and caused him to be looked upon, indeed, as the very Old Parr of ponies72. He often went to and fro with the little phaeton between Mr Garland’s and his son’s, and, as the old people and the young were frequently together, had a stable of his own at the new establishment, into which he would walk of himself with surprising dignity. He condescended73 to play with the children, as they grew old enough to cultivate his friendship, and would run up and down the little paddock with them like a dog; but though he relaxed so far, and allowed them such small freedoms as caresses74, or even to look at his shoes or hang on by his tail, he never permitted any one among them to mount his back or drive him; thus showing that even their familiarity must have its limits, and that there were points between them far too serious for trifling.
He was not unsusceptible of warm attachments76 in his later life, for when the good bachelor came to live with Mr Garland upon the clergyman’s decease, he conceived a great friendship for him, and amiably77 submitted to be driven by his hands without the least resistance. He did no work for two or three years before he died, but lived in clover; and his last act (like a choleric78 old gentleman) was to kick his doctor.
Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity79, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow80 he had made upon his fevered bed. After casting about for some time for a name which should be worthy81 of her, he decided82 in favour of Sophronia Sphynx, as being euphonious83 and genteel, and furthermore indicative of mystery. Under this title the Marchioness repaired, in tears, to the school of his selection, from which, as she soon distanced all competitors, she was removed before the lapse of many quarters to one of a higher grade. It is but bare justice to Mr Swiveller to say, that, although the expenses of her education kept him in straitened circumstances for half a dozen years, he never slackened in his zeal84, and always held himself sufficiently85 repaid by the accounts he heard (with great gravity) of her advancement, on his monthly visits to the governess, who looked upon him as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and of a most prodigious86 talent in quotation87.
In a word, Mr Swiveller kept the Marchioness at this establishment until she was, at a moderate guess, full nineteen years of age — good-looking, clever, and good-humoured; when he began to consider seriously what was to be done next. On one of his periodical visits, while he was revolving88 this question in his mind, the Marchioness came down to him, alone, looking more smiling and more fresh than ever. Then, it occurred to him, but not for the first time, that if she would marry him, how comfortable they might be! So Richard asked her; whatever she said, it wasn’t No; and they were married in good earnest that day week. Which gave Mr Swiveller frequent occasion to remark at divers89 subsequent periods that there had been a young lady saving up for him after all.
A little cottage at Hampstead being to let, which had in its garden a smoking-box, the envy of the civilised world, they agreed to become its tenants90, and, when the honey-moon was over, entered upon its occupation. To this retreat Mr Chuckster repaired regularly every Sunday to spend the day — usually beginning with breakfast — and here he was the great purveyor91 of general news and fashionable intelligence. For some years he continued a deadly foe92 to Kit15, protesting that he had a better opinion of him when he was supposed to have stolen the five-pound note, than when he was shown to be perfectly93 free of the crime; inasmuch as his guilt10 would have had in it something daring and bold, whereas his innocence94 was but another proof of a sneaking95 and crafty96 disposition97. By slow degrees, however, he was reconciled to him in the end; and even went so far as to honour him with his patronage98, as one who had in some measure reformed, and was therefore to be forgiven. But he never forgot or pardoned that circumstance of the shilling; holding that if he had come back to get another he would have done well enough, but that his returning to work out the former gift was a stain upon his moral character which no penitence99 or contrition100 could ever wash away.
Mr Swiveller, having always been in some measure of a philosophic101 and reflective turn, grew immensely contemplative, at times, in the smoking-box, and was accustomed at such periods to debate in his own mind the mysterious question of Sophronia’s parentage. Sophronia herself supposed she was an orphan102; but Mr Swiveller, putting various slight circumstances together, often thought Miss Brass must know better than that; and, having heard from his wife of her strange interview with Quilp, entertained sundry103 misgivings104 whether that person, in his lifetime, might not also have been able to solve the riddle105, had he chosen. These speculations106, however, gave him no uneasiness; for Sophronia was ever a most cheerful, affectionate, and provident107 wife to him; and Dick (excepting for an occasional outbreak with Mr Chuckster, which she had the good sense rather to encourage than oppose) was to her an attached and domesticated108 husband. And they played many hundred thousand games of cribbage together. And let it be added, to Dick’s honour, that, though we have called her Sophronia, he called her the Marchioness from first to last; and that upon every anniversary of the day on which he found her in his sick room, Mr Chuckster came to dinner, and there was great glorification109.
The gamblers, Isaac List and Jowl, with their trusty confederate Mr James Groves110 of unimpeachable111 memory, pursued their course with varying success, until the failure of a spirited enterprise in the way of their profession, dispersed112 them in various directions, and caused their career to receive a sudden check from the long and strong arm of the law. This defeat had its origin in the untoward113 detection of a new associate — young Frederick Trent — who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own.
For the young man himself, he rioted abroad for a brief term, living by his wits — which means by the abuse of every faculty114 that worthily115 employed raises man above the beasts, and so degraded, sinks him far below them. It was not long before his body was recognised by a stranger, who chanced to visit that hospital in Paris where the drowned are laid out to be owned; despite the bruises116 and disfigurements which were said to have been occasioned by some previous scuffle. But the stranger kept his own counsel until he returned home, and it was never claimed or cared for.
The younger brother, or the single gentleman, for that designation is more familiar, would have drawn117 the poor schoolmaster from his lone57 retreat, and made him his companion and friend. But the humble118 village teacher was timid of venturing into the noisy world, and had become fond of his dwelling119 in the old churchyard. Calmly happy in his school, and in the spot, and in the attachment75 of Her little mourner, he pursued his quiet course in peace; and was, through the righteous gratitude120 of his friend — let this brief mention suffice for that — a POOR school-master no more.
That friend — single gentleman, or younger brother, which you will — had at his heart a heavy sorrow; but it bred in him no misanthropy or monastic gloom. He went forth67 into the world, a lover of his kind. For a long, long time, it was his chief delight to travel in the steps of the old man and the child (so far as he could trace them from her last narrative), to halt where they had halted, sympathise where they had suffered, and rejoice where they had been made glad. Those who had been kind to them, did not escape his search. The sisters at the school — they who were her friends, because themselves so friendless — Mrs Jarley of the wax-work, Codlin, Short — he found them all; and trust me, the man who fed the furnace fire was not forgotten.
Kit’s story having got abroad, raised him up a host of friends, and many offers of provision for his future life. He had no idea at first of ever quitting Mr Garland’s service; but, after serious remonstrance121 and advice from that gentleman, began to contemplate122 the possibility of such a change being brought about in time. A good post was procured123 for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. Through the same kind agency, his mother was secured from want, and made quite happy. Thus, as Kit often said, his great misfortune turned out to be the source of all his subsequent prosperity.
Did Kit live a single man all his days, or did he marry? Of course he married, and who should be his wife but Barbara? And the best of it was, he married so soon that little Jacob was an uncle, before the calves124 of his legs, already mentioned in this history, had ever been encased in broadcloth pantaloons — though that was not quite the best either, for of necessity the baby was an uncle too. The delight of Kit’s mother and of Barbara’s mother upon the great occasion is past all telling; finding they agreed so well on that, and on all other subjects, they took up their abode together, and were a most harmonious125 pair of friends from that time forth. And hadn’t Astley’s cause to bless itself for their all going together once a quarter — to the pit — and didn’t Kit’s mother always say, when they painted the outside, that Kit’s last treat had helped to that, and wonder what the manager would feel if he but knew it as they passed his house!
When Kit had children six and seven years old, there was a Barbara among them, and a pretty Barbara she was. Nor was there wanting an exact facsimile and copy of little Jacob, as he appeared in those remote times when they taught him what oysters126 meant. Of course there was an Abel, own godson to the Mr Garland of that name; and there was a Dick, whom Mr Swiveller did especially favour. The little group would often gather round him of a night and beg him to tell again that story of good Miss Nell who died. This, Kit would do; and when they cried to hear it, wishing it longer too, he would teach them how she had gone to Heaven, as all good people did; and how, if they were good, like her, they might hope to be there too, one day, and to see and know her as he had done when he was quite a boy. Then, he would relate to them how needy127 he used to be, and how she had taught him what he was otherwise too poor to learn, and how the old man had been used to say ‘she always laughs at Kit;’ at which they would brush away their tears, and laugh themselves to think that she had done so, and be again quite merry.
He sometimes took them to the street where she had lived; but new improvements had altered it so much, it was not like the same. The old house had been long ago pulled down, and a fine broad road was in its place. At first he would draw with his stick a square upon the ground to show them where it used to stand. But he soon became uncertain of the spot, and could only say it was thereabouts, he thought, and these alterations128 were confusing.
Such are the changes which a few years bring about, and so do things pass away, like a tale that is told!
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