In all their arrangements of such nature, Mr and Mrs John Harmon derived15 much assistance from their eminent16 solicitor17, Mr Mortimer Lightwood; who laid about him professionally with such unwonted despatch18 and intention, that a piece of work was vigorously pursued as soon as cut out; whereby Young Blight20 was acted on as by that transatlantic dram which is poetically21 named An Eye-Opener, and found himself staring at real clients instead of out of window. The accessibility of Riah proving very useful as to a few hints towards the disentanglement of Eugene’s affairs, Lightwood applied22 himself with infinite zest23 to attacking and harassing24 Mr Fledgeby: who, discovering himself in danger of being blown into the air by certain explosive transactions in which he had been engaged, and having been sufficiently25 flayed26 under his beating, came to a parley27 and asked for quarter. The harmless Twemlow profited by the conditions entered into, though he little thought it. Mr Riah unaccountably melted; waited in person on him over the stable yard in Duke Street, St James’s, no longer ravening28 but mild, to inform him that payment of interest as heretofore, but henceforth at Mr Lightwood’s offices, would appease30 his Jewish rancour; and departed with the secret that Mr John Harmon had advanced the money and become the creditor31. Thus, was the sublime32 Snigsworth’s wrath33 averted34, and thus did he snort no larger amount of moral grandeur35 at the Corinthian column in the print over the fireplace, than was normally in his (and the British) constitution.
Mrs Wilfer’s first visit to the Mendicant’s bride at the new abode36 of Mendicancy37, was a grand event. Pa had been sent for into the City, on the very day of taking possession, and had been stunned38 with astonishment39, and brought-to, and led about the house by one ear, to behold40 its various treasures, and had been enraptured41 and enchanted42. Pa had also been appointed Secretary, and had been enjoined43 to give instant notice of resignation to Chicksey, Veneering, and Stobbles, for ever and ever. But Ma came later, and came, as was her due, in state.
The carriage was sent for Ma, who entered it with a bearing worthy of the occasion, accompanied, rather than supported, by Miss Lavinia, who altogether declined to recognize the maternal44 majesty45. Mr George Sampson meekly46 followed. He was received in the vehicle, by Mrs Wilfer, as if admitted to the honour of assisting at a funeral in the family, and she then issued the order, ‘Onward!’ to the Mendicant’s menial.
‘I wish to goodness, Ma,’ said Lavvy, throwing herself back among the cushions, with her arms crossed, ‘that you’d loll a little.’
‘How!’ repeated Mrs Wilfer. ‘Loll!’
‘Yes, Ma.’
‘I hope,’ said the impressive lady, ‘I am incapable47 of it.’
‘I am sure you look so, Ma. But why one should go out to dine with one’s own daughter or sister, as if one’s under-petticoat was a blackboard, I do NOT understand.’
‘Neither do I understand,’ retorted Mrs Wilfer, with deep scorn, ‘how a young lady can mention the garment in the name of which you have indulged. I blush for you.’
‘Thank you, Ma,’ said Lavvy, yawning, ‘but I can do it for myself, I am obliged to you, when there’s any occasion.’
Here, Mr Sampson, with the view of establishing harmony, which he never under any circumstances succeeded in doing, said with an agreeable smile: ‘After all, you know, ma’am, we know it’s there.’ And immediately felt that he had committed himself.
‘We know it’s there!’ said Mrs Wilfer, glaring.
‘Really, George,’ remonstrated49 Miss Lavinia, ‘I must say that I don’t understand your allusions50, and that I think you might be more delicate and less personal.’
‘Go it!’ cried Mr Sampson, becoming, on the shortest notice, a prey51 to despair. ‘Oh yes! Go it, Miss Lavinia Wilfer!’
‘What you may mean, George Sampson, by your omnibus-driving expressions, I cannot pretend to imagine. Neither,’ said Miss Lavinia, ‘Mr George Sampson, do I wish to imagine. It is enough for me to know in my own heart that I am not going to —’ having imprudently got into a sentence without providing a way out of it, Miss Lavinia was constrained52 to close with ‘going to it’. A weak conclusion which, however, derived some appearance of strength from disdain53.
‘Oh yes!’ cried Mr Sampson, with bitterness. ‘Thus it ever is. I never —’
‘If you mean to say,’ Miss Lavvy cut him short, that you never brought up a young gazelle, you may save yourself the trouble, because nobody in this carriage supposes that you ever did. We know you better.’ (As if this were a home-thrust.)
‘Lavinia,’ returned Mr Sampson, in a dismal54 vein55, I did not mean to say so. What I did mean to say,was, that I never expected to retain my favoured place in this family, after Fortune shed her beams upon it. Why do you take me,’ said Mr Sampson, ‘to the glittering halls with which I can never compete, and then taunt56 me with my moderate salary? Is it generous? Is it kind?’
The stately lady, Mrs Wilfer, perceiving her opportunity of delivering a few remarks from the throne, here took up the altercation57.
‘Mr Sampson,’ she began, ‘I cannot permit you to misrepresent the intentions of a child of mine.’
‘Let him alone, Ma,’ Miss Lavvy interposed with haughtiness58. ‘It is indifferent to me what he says or does.’
‘Nay, Lavinia,’ quoth Mrs Wilfer, ‘this touches the blood of the family. If Mr George Sampson attributes, even to my youngest daughter —’
(’I don’t see why you should use the word “even”, Ma,’ Miss Lavvy interposed, ‘because I am quite as important as any of the others.’)
‘Peace!’ said Mrs Wilfer, solemnly. ‘I repeat, if Mr George Sampson attributes, to my youngest daughter, grovelling59 motives60, he attributes them equally to the mother of my youngest daughter. That mother repudiates61 them, and demands of Mr George Sampson, as a youth of honour, what he WOULD have? I may be mistaken — nothing is more likely — but Mr George Sampson,’ proceeded Mrs Wilfer, majestically62 waving her gloves, ‘appears to me to be seated in a first-class equipage. Mr George Sampson appears to me to be on his way, by his own admission, to a residence that may be termed Palatial63. Mr George Sampson appears to me to be invited to participate in the — shall I say the — Elevation64 which has descended65 on the family with which he is ambitious, shall I say to Mingle66? Whence, then, this tone on Mr Sampson’s part?’
‘It is only, ma’am,’ Mr Sampson explained, in exceedingly low spirits, ‘because, in a pecuniary67 sense, I am painfully conscious of my unworthiness. Lavinia is now highly connected. Can I hope that she will still remain the same Lavinia as of old? And is it not pardonable if I feel sensitive, when I see a disposition68 on her part to take me up short?’
‘If you are not satisfied with your position, sir,’ observed Miss Lavinia, with much politeness, ‘we can set you down at any turning you may please to indicate to my sister’s coachman.’
‘Dearest Lavinia,’ urged Mr Sampson, pathetically, ‘I adore you.’
‘Then if you can’t do it in a more agreeable manner,’ returned the young lady, ‘I wish you wouldn’t.’
‘I also,’ pursued Mr Sampson, ‘respect you, ma’am, to an extent which must ever be below your merits, I am well aware, but still up to an uncommon69 mark. Bear with a wretch70, Lavinia, bear with a wretch, ma’am, who feels the noble sacrifices you make for him, but is goaded71 almost to madness,’ Mr Sampson slapped his forehead, ‘when he thinks of competing with the rich and influential72.’
‘When you have to compete with the rich and influential, it will probably be mentioned to you,’ said Miss Lavvy, ‘in good time. At least, it will if the case is MY case.’
Mr Sampson immediately expressed his fervent73 Opinion that this was ‘more than human’, and was brought upon his knees at Miss Lavinia’s feet.
It was the crowning addition indispensable to the full enjoyment74 of both mother and daughter, to bear Mr Sampson, a grateful captive, into the glittering halls he had mentioned, and to parade him through the same, at once a living witness of their glory, and a bright instance of their condescension75. Ascending76 the staircase, Miss Lavinia permitted him to walk at her side, with the air of saying: ‘Notwithstanding all these surroundings, I am yours as yet, George. How long it may last is another question, but I am yours as yet.’ She also benignantly intimated to him, aloud, the nature of the objects upon which he looked, and to which he was unaccustomed: as, ‘Exotics, George,’ ‘An aviary78, George,’ ‘An ormolu clock, George,’ and the like. While, through the whole of the decorations, Mrs Wilfer led the way with the bearing of a Savage79 Chief, who would feel himself compromised by manifesting the slightest token of surprise or admiration80.
Indeed, the bearing of this impressive woman, throughout the day, was a pattern to all impressive women under similar circumstances. She renewed the acquaintance of Mr and Mrs Boffin, as if Mr and Mrs Boffin had said of her what she had said of them, and as if Time alone could quite wear her injury out. She regarded every servant who approached her, as her sworn enemy, expressly intending to offer her affronts81 with the dishes, and to pour forth29 outrages82 on her moral feelings from the decanters. She sat erect83 at table, on the right hand of her son-in-law, as half suspecting poison in the viands84, and as bearing up with native force of character against other deadly ambushes85. Her carriage towards Bella was as a carriage towards a young lady of good position, whom she had met in society a few years ago. Even when, slightly thawing86 under the influence of sparkling champagne87, she related to her son-in-law some passages of domestic interest concerning her papa, she infused into the narrative88 such Arctic suggestions of her having been an unappreciated blessing89 to mankind, since her papa’s days, and also of that gentleman’s having been a frosty impersonation of a frosty race, as struck cold to the very soles of the feet of the hearers. The Inexhaustible being produced, staring, and evidently intending a weak and washy smile shortly, no sooner beheld90 her, than it was stricken spasmodic and inconsolable. When she took her leave at last, it would have been hard to say whether it was with the air of going to the scaffold herself, or of leaving the inmates91 of the house for immediate48 execution. Yet, John Harmon enjoyed it all merrily, and told his wife, when he and she were alone, that her natural ways had never seemed so dearly natural as beside this foil, and that although he did not dispute her being her father’s daughter, he should ever remain stedfast in the faith that she could not be her mother’s.
This visit was, as has been said, a grand event. Another event, not grand but deemed in the house a special one, occurred at about the same period; and this was, the first interview between Mr Sloppy92 and Miss Wren93.
The dolls’ dressmaker, being at work for the Inexhaustible upon a full-dressed doll some two sizes larger than that young person, Mr Sloppy undertook to call for it, and did so.
‘Come in, sir,’ said Miss Wren, who was working at her bench. ‘And who may you be?’
Mr Sloppy introduced himself by name and buttons.
‘Oh indeed!’ cried Jenny. ‘Ah! I have been looking forward to knowing you. I heard of your distinguishing yourself.’
‘Did you, Miss?’ grinned Sloppy. ‘I am sure I am glad to hear it, but I don’t know how.’
‘Pitching somebody into a mud-cart,’ said Miss Wren.
‘Oh! That way!’ cried Sloppy. ‘Yes, Miss.’ And threw back his head and laughed.
‘Bless us!’ exclaimed Miss Wren, with a start. ‘Don’t open your mouth as wide as that, young man, or it’ll catch so, and not shut again some day.’
Mr Sloppy opened it, if possible, wider, and kept it open until his laugh was out.
‘Why, you’re like the giant,’ said Miss Wren, ‘when he came home in the land of Beanstalk, and wanted Jack95 for supper.’
‘Was he good-looking, Miss?’ asked Sloppy.
‘No,’ said Miss Wren. ‘Ugly.’
Her visitor glanced round the room — which had many comforts in it now, that had not been in it before — and said: ‘This is a pretty place, Miss.’
‘Glad you think so, sir,’ returned Miss Wren. ‘And what do you think of Me?’
The honesty of Mr Sloppy being severely96 taxed by the question, he twisted a button, grinned, and faltered97.
‘Out with it!’ said Miss Wren, with an arch look. ‘Don’t you think me a queer little comicality?’ In shaking her head at him after asking the question, she shook her hair down.
‘Oh!’ cried Sloppy, in a burst of admiration. ‘What a lot, and what a colour!’
Miss Wren, with her usual expressive98 hitch99, went on with her work. But, left her hair as it was; not displeased100 by the effect it had made.
‘You don’t live here alone; do you, Miss?’ asked Sloppy.
‘No,’ said Miss Wren, with a chop. ‘Live here with my fairy godmother.’
‘With;’ Mr Sloppy couldn’t make it out; ‘with who did you say, Miss?’
‘Well!’ replied Miss Wren, more seriously. ‘With my second father. Or with my first, for that matter.’ And she shook her head, and drew a sigh. ‘If you had known a poor child I used to have here,’ she added, ‘you’d have understood me. But you didn’t, and you can’t. All the better!’
‘You must have been taught a long time,’ said Sloppy, glancing at the array of dolls in hand, ‘before you came to work so neatly101, Miss, and with such a pretty taste.’
‘Never was taught a stitch, young man!’ returned the dress-maker, tossing her head. ‘Just gobbled and gobbled, till I found out how to do it. Badly enough at first, but better now.’
‘And here have I,’ said Sloppy, in something of a self-reproachful tone, ‘been a learning and a learning, and here has Mr Boffin been a paying and a paying, ever so long!’
‘I have heard what your trade is,’ observed Miss Wren; ‘it’s cabinet-making.’
Mr Sloppy nodded. ‘Now that the Mounds102 is done with, it is. I’ll tell you what, Miss. I should like to make you something.’
‘Much obliged. But what?’
‘I could make you,’ said Sloppy, surveying the room, ‘I could make you a handy set of nests to lay the dolls in. Or I could make you a handy little set of drawers, to keep your silks and threads and scraps103 in. Or I could turn you a rare handle for that crutch-stick, if it belongs to him you call your father.’
‘It belongs to me,’ returned the little creature, with a quick flush of her face and neck. ‘I am lame104.’
Poor Sloppy flushed too, for there was an instinctive105 delicacy106 behind his buttons, and his own hand had struck it. He said, perhaps, the best thing in the way of amends107 that could be said. ‘I am very glad it’s yours, because I’d rather ornament108 it for you than for any one else. Please may I look at it?’
Miss Wren was in the act of handing it to him over her bench, when she paused. ‘But you had better see me use it,’ she said, sharply. ‘This is the way. Hoppetty, Kicketty, Pep-peg-peg. Not pretty; is it?’
‘It seems to me that you hardly want it at all,’ said Sloppy.
The little dressmaker sat down again, and gave it into his hand, saying, with that better look upon her, and with a smile: ‘Thank you!’
‘And as concerning the nests and the drawers,’ said Sloppy, after measuring the handle on his sleeve, and softly standing77 the stick aside against the wall, ‘why, it would be a real pleasure to me. I’ve heerd tell that you can sing most beautiful; and I should be better paid with a song than with any money, for I always loved the likes of that, and often giv’ Mrs Higden and Johnny a comic song myself, with “Spoken” in it. Though that’s not your sort, I’ll wager110.’
‘You are a very kind young man,’ returned the dressmaker; ‘a really kind young man. I accept your offer. — I suppose He won’t mind,’ she added as an afterthought, shrugging her shoulders; ‘and if he does, he may!’
‘Meaning him that you call your father, Miss,’ asked Sloppy.
‘No, no,’ replied Miss Wren. ‘Him, Him, Him!’
‘Him, him, him?’ repeated Sloppy; staring about, as if for Him.
‘Him who is coming to court and marry me,’ returned Miss Wren. ‘Dear me, how slow you are!’
‘Oh! HIM!’ said Sloppy. And seemed to turn thoughtful and a little troubled. ‘I never thought of him. When is he coming, Miss?’
‘What a question!’ cried Miss Wren. ‘How should I know!’
‘Where is he coming from, Miss?’
‘Why, good gracious, how can I tell! He is coming from somewhere or other, I suppose, and he is coming some day or other, I suppose. I don’t know any more about him, at present.’
This tickled111 Mr Sloppy as an extraordinarily112 good joke, and he threw back his head and laughed with measureless enjoyment. At the sight of him laughing in that absurd way, the dolls’ dressmaker laughed very heartily113 indeed. So they both laughed, till they were tired.
‘There, there, there!’ said Miss Wren. ‘For goodness’ sake, stop, Giant, or I shall be swallowed up alive, before I know it. And to this minute you haven’t said what you’ve come for.’
‘I have come for little Miss Harmonses doll,’ said Sloppy.
‘I thought as much,’ remarked Miss Wren, ‘and here is little Miss Harmonses doll waiting for you. She’s folded up in silver paper, you see, as if she was wrapped from head to foot in new Bank notes. Take care of her, and there’s my hand, and thank you again.’
‘I’ll take more care of her than if she was a gold image,’ said Sloppy, ‘and there’s both MY hands, Miss, and I’ll soon come back again.’
But, the greatest event of all, in the new life of Mr and Mrs John Harmon, was a visit from Mr and Mrs Eugene Wrayburn. Sadly wan94 and worn was the once gallant114 Eugene, and walked resting on his wife’s arm, and leaning heavily upon a stick. But, he was daily growing stronger and better, and it was declared by the medical attendants that he might not be much disfigured by-and-by. It was a grand event, indeed, when Mr and Mrs Eugene Wrayburn came to stay at Mr and Mrs John Harmon’s house: where, by the way, Mr and Mrs Boffin (exquisitely happy, and daily cruising about, to look at shops,) were likewise staying indefinitely.
To Mr Eugene Wrayburn, in confidence, did Mrs John Harmon impart what she had known of the state of his wife’s affections, in his reckless time. And to Mrs John Harmon, in confidence, did Mr Eugene Wrayburn impart that, please God, she should see how his wife had changed him!
‘I make no protestations,’ said Eugene; ‘— who does, who means them! — I have made a resolution.’
‘But would you believe, Bella,’ interposed his wife, coming to resume her nurse’s place at his side, for he never got on well without her: ‘that on our wedding day he told me he almost thought the best thing he could do, was to die?’
‘As I didn’t do it, Lizzie,’ said Eugene, ‘I’ll do that better thing you suggested — for your sake.’
That same afternoon, Eugene lying on his couch in his own room upstairs, Lightwood came to chat with him, while Bella took his wife out for a ride. ‘Nothing short of force will make her go, Eugene had said; so, Bella had playfully forced her.
‘Dear old fellow,’ Eugene began with Lightwood, reaching up his hand, ‘you couldn’t have come at a better time, for my mind is full, and I want to empty it. First, of my present, before I touch upon my future. M. R. F., who is a much younger cavalier than I, and a professed115 admirer of beauty, was so affable as to remark the other day (he paid us a visit of two days up the river there, and much objected to the accommodation of the hotel), that Lizzie ought to have her portrait painted. Which, coming from M. R. F., may be considered equivalent to a melodramatic blessing.’
‘You are getting well,’ said Mortimer, with a smile.
‘Really,’ said Eugene, ‘I mean it. When M. R. F. said that, and followed it up by rolling the claret (for which he called, and I paid), in his mouth, and saying, “My dear son, why do you drink this trash?” it was tantamount in him — to a paternal116 benediction117 on our union, accompanied with a gush118 of tears. The coolness of M. R. F. is not to be measured by ordinary standards.’
‘True enough,’ said Lightwood.
‘That’s all,’ pursued Eugene, ‘that I shall ever hear from M. R. F. on the subject, and he will continue to saunter through the world with his hat on one side. My marriage being thus solemnly recognized at the family altar, I have no further trouble on that score. Next, you really have done wonders for me, Mortimer, in easing my money-perplexities, and with such a guardian119 and steward120 beside me, as the preserver of my life (I am hardly strong yet, you see, for I am not man enough to refer to her without a trembling voice — she is so inexpressibly dear to me, Mortimer!), the little that I can call my own will be more than it ever has been. It need be more, for you know what it always has been in my hands. Nothing.’
‘Worse than nothing, I fancy, Eugene. My own small income (I devoutly121 wish that my grandfather had left it to the Ocean rather than to me!) has been an effective Something, in the way of preventing me from turning to at Anything. And I think yours has been much the same.’
‘There spake the voice of wisdom,’ said Eugene. ‘We are shepherds both. In turning to at last, we turn to in earnest. Let us say no more of that, for a few years to come. Now, I have had an idea, Mortimer, of taking myself and my wife to one of the colonies, and working at my vocation122 there.’
‘I should be lost without you, Eugene; but you may be right.’
‘No,’ said Eugene, emphatically. ‘Not right. Wrong!’
He said it with such a lively — almost angry — flash, that Mortimer showed himself greatly surprised.
‘You think this thumped123 head of mine is excited?’ Eugene went on, with a high look; ‘not so, believe me. I can say to you of the healthful music of my pulse what Hamlet said of his. My blood is up, but wholesomely124 up, when I think of it. Tell me! Shall I turn coward to Lizzie, and sneak125 away with her, as if I were ashamed of her! Where would your friend’s part in this world be, Mortimer, if she had turned coward to him, and on immeasurably better occasion?’
‘Honourable and stanch,’ said Lightwood. ‘And yet, Eugene —’
‘And yet what, Mortimer?’
‘And yet, are you sure that you might not feel (for her sake, I say for her sake) any slight coldness towards her on the part of — Society?’
‘O! You and I may well stumble at the word,’ returned Eugene, laughing. ‘Do we mean our Tippins?’
‘Perhaps we do,’ said Mortimer, laughing also.
‘Faith, we DO!’ returned Eugene, with great animation126. ‘We may hide behind the bush and beat about it, but we DO! Now, my wife is something nearer to my heart, Mortimer, than Tippins is, and I owe her a little more than I owe to Tippins, and I am rather prouder of her than I ever was of Tippins. Therefore, I will fight it out to the last gasp127, with her and for her, here, in the open field. When I hide her, or strike for her, faint-heartedly, in a hole or a corner, do you whom I love next best upon earth, tell me what I shall most righteously deserve to be told:— that she would have done well to turn me over with her foot that night when I lay bleeding to death, and spat19 in my dastard128 face.’
The glow that shone upon him as he spoke109 the words, so irradiated his features that he looked, for the time, as though he had never been mutilated. His friend responded as Eugene would have had him respond, and they discoursed129 of the future until Lizzie came back. After resuming her place at his side, and tenderly touching130 his hands and his head, she said:
‘Eugene, dear, you made me go out, but I ought to have stayed with you. You are more flushed than you have been for many days. What have you been doing?’
‘Nothing,’ replied Eugene, ‘but looking forward to your coming back.’
‘And talking to Mr Lightwood,’ said Lizzie, turning to him with a smile. ‘But it cannot have been Society that disturbed you.’
‘Faith, my dear love!’ retorted Eugene, in his old airy manner, as he laughed and kissed her, ‘I rather think it WAS Society though!’
The word ran so much in Mortimer Lightwood’s thoughts as he went home to the Temple that night, that he resolved to take a look at Society, which he had not seen for a considerable period.
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