Mrs. Doria was outraged7. She maintained that her child had seen ——. Not to believe in it was almost to rob her of her personal property. After satisfactorily studying his old state of mind in her, Sir Austin, moved by pity, took her aside one day and showed her that her Ghost could write words in the flesh. It was a letter from the unhappy lady who had given Richard birth — brief cold lines, simply telling him his house would be disturbed by her no more. Cold lines, but penned by what heart-broken abnegation, and underlying9 them with what anguish10 of soul! Like most who dealt with him, Lady Feverel thought her husband a man fatally stern and implacable, and she acted as silly creatures will act when they fancy they see a fate against them: she neither petitioned for her right nor claimed it: she tried to ease her heart’s yearning11 by stealth, and now she renounced12 all. Mrs. Doria, not wanting in the family tenderness and softness, shuddered13 at him for accepting the sacrifice so composedly: but he bade her to think how distracting to this boy would be the sight of such relations between mother and father. A few years, and as man he should know, and judge, and love her. “Let this be her penance15, not inflicted16 by me!” Mrs. Doria bowed to the System for another, not opining when it would be her turn to bow for herself.
Further behind the scenes we observe Rizzio and Mary grown older, much disenchanted: she discrowned, dishevelled — he with gouty fingers on a greasy17 guitar. The Diaper Sandoe of promise lends his pen for small hires. His fame has sunk; his bodily girth has sensibly increased. What he can do, and will do, is still his theme; meantime the juice of the juniper is in requisition, and it seems that those small hires cannot be performed without it. Returning from her wretched journey to her wretcheder home, the lady had to listen to a mild reproof18 from easy-going Diaper — a reproof so mild that he couched it in blank verse: for, seldom writing metrically now, he took to talking it. With a fluent sympathetic tear, he explained to her that she was damaging her interests by these proceedings19; nor did he shrink from undertaking20 to elucidate22 wherefore. Pluming23 a smile upon his succulent mouth, he told her that the poverty she lived in was utterly24 unbefitting her gentle nurture25, and that he had reason to believe — could assure her — that an annuity26 was on the point of being granted her by her husband. And Diaper broke his bud of a smile into full flower as he delivered this information. She learnt that he had applied27 to her husband for money. It is hard to have one’s prop8 of self-respect cut away just when we are suffering a martyr’s agony at the stake. There was a five minutes tragic28 colloquy29 in the recesses30 behind the scenes — totally tragic to Diaper, who had fondly hoped to bask32 in the warm sun of that annuity, and reemerge from his state of grub. The lady then wrote the letter Sir Austin held open to his sister. The atmosphere behind the scenes is not wholesome33, so, having laid the Ghost, we will return and face the curtain.
That infinitesimal dose of THE WORLD which Master Ripton Thompson had furnished to the System with such instantaneous and surprising effect was considered by Sir Austin to have worked well, and to be for the time quite sufficient, so that Ripton did not receive a second invitation to Raynham, and Richard had no special intimate of his own age to rub his excessive vitality34 against, and wanted none. His hands were full enough with Tom Bakewell. Moreover, his father and he were heart in heart. The boy’s mind was opening, and turned to his father affectionately reverent35. At this period, when the young savage36 grows into higher influences, the faculty37 of worship is foremost in him. At this period Jesuits will stamp the future of their chargeling flocks; and all who bring up youth by a System, and watch it, know that it is the malleable38 moment. Boys possessing any mental or moral force to give them a tendency, then predestinate their careers; or, if under supervision39, take the impress that is given them: not often to cast it off, and seldom to cast it off altogether.
In Sir Austin’s Note-book was written: “Between Simple Boyhood and Adolescence40 — The Blossoming Season — on the threshold of Puberty, there is one Unselfish Hour — say, Spiritual Seed-time.”
He took care that good seed should be planted in Richard, and that the most fruitful seed for a youth, namely, Example, should be of a kind to germinate41 in him the love of every form of nobleness.
“I am only striving to make my son a Christian42,” he said, answering them who persisted in expostulating with the System. And to these instructions he gave an aim: “First be virtuous43,” he told his son, “and then serve your country with heart and soul.” The youth was instructed to cherish an ambition for statesmanship, and he and his father read history and the speeches of British orators44 to some purpose; for one day Sir Austin found him leaning cross-legged, and with his hand to his chin, against a pedestal supporting the bust45 of Chatham, contemplating46 the hero of our Parliament, his eyes streaming with tears.
People said the baronet carried the principle of Example so far that he only retained his boozing dyspeptic brother Hippias at Raynham in order to exhibit to his son the woeful retribution nature wreaked47 upon a life of indulgence; poor Hippias having now become a walking complaint. This was unjust, but there is no doubt he made use of every illustration to disgust or encourage his son that his neighbourhood afforded him, and did not spare his brother, for whom Richard entertained a contempt in proportion to his admiration48 of his father, and was for flying into penitential extremes which Sir Austin had to soften49.
The boy prayed with his father morning and night.
“How is it, sir,” he said one night, “I can’t get Tom Bakewell to pray?”
“Does he refuse?” Sir Austin asked.
“He seems to be ashamed to,” Richard replied. “He wants to know what is the good? and I don’t know what to tell him.”
“I’m afraid it has gone too far with him,” said Sir Austin, “and until he has had some deep sorrows he will not find the divine want of Prayer. Strive, my son, when you represent the people, to provide for their education. He feels everything now through a dull impenetrable rind. Culture is half-way to heaven. Tell him, my son, should he ever be brought to ask how he may know the efficacy of Prayer, and that his prayer will be answered, tell him (he quoted THE PILGRIM’S SCRIP):
“‘Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.’”
“I will, sir,” said Richard, and went to sleep happy.
Happy in his father and in himself, the youth now lived. Conscience was beginning to inhabit him, and he carried some of the freightage known to men; though in so crude a form that it overweighed him, now on this side, now on that.
The wise youth Adrian observed these further progressionary developments in his pupil, soberly cynical50. He was under Sir Austin’s interdict51 not to banter52 him, and eased his acrid53 humours inspired by the sight of a felonious young rick-burner turning saint, by grave affectations of sympathy and extreme accuracy in marking the not widely-distant dates of his various changes. The Bread-and-water phase lasted a fortnight: the Vegetarian54 (an imitation of his cousin Austin), a little better than a month: the religious, somewhat longer: the religious-propagandist (when he was for converting the heathen of Lobourne and Bursley, and the domestics of the Abbey, including Tom Bakewell), longer still, and hard to bear — he tried to convert Adrian! All the while Tom was being exercised like a raw recruit. Richard had a drill-sergeant from the nearest barracks down for him, to give him a proper pride in himself, and marched him to and fro with immense satisfaction, and nearly broke his heart trying to get the round-shouldered rustic55 to take in the rudiments56 of letters: for the boy had unbounded hopes for Tom, as a hero in grain.
Richard’s pride also was cast aside. He affected58 to be, and really thought he was, humble59. Whereupon Adrian, as by accident, imparted to him the fact that men were animals, and he an animal with the rest of them.
“I an animal!” cried Richard in scorn, and for weeks he was as troubled by this rudiment57 of self-knowledge as Tom by his letters. Sir Austin had him instructed in the wonders of anatomy60, to restore his self-respect.
SEED-TIME passed thus smoothly61, and adolescence came on, and his cousin Clare felt what it was to be of an opposite sex to him. She too was growing, but nobody cared how she grew. Outwardly even her mother seemed absorbed in the sprouting63 of the green off-shoot of the Feverel tree, and Clare was his handmaiden, little marked by him.
Lady Blandish honestly loved the boy. She would tell him: “If I had been a girl, I would have had you for my husband.” And he with the frankness of his years would reply: “And how do you know I would have had you?” causing her to laugh and call him a silly boy, for had he not heard her say she would have had him? Terrible words, he knew not then the meaning of!
“You don’t read your father’s Book,” she said. Her own copy was bound in purple velvet64, gilt-edged, as decorative65 ladies like to have holier books, and she carried it about with her, and quoted it, and (Adrian remarked to Mrs. Doria) hunted a noble quarry66, and deliberately67 aimed at him therewith, which Mrs. Doria chose to believe, and regretted her brother would not be on his guard.
“See here,” said Lady Blandish, pressing an almondy finger-nail to one of the Aphorisms68, which instanced how age and adversity must clay-enclose us ere we can effectually resist the magnetism69 of any human creature in our path. “Can you understand it, child?”
Richard informed her that when she read he could.
“Well, then, my squire,” she touched his cheek and ran her fingers through his hair, “learn as quick as you can not to be all hither and yon with a hundred different attractions, as I was before I met a wise man to guide me.”
“Is my father very wise?” Richard asked.
“I think so,” the lady emphasized her individual judgment70.
“Do you ——” Richard broke forth71, and was stopped by a beating of his heart.
“Do I— what?” she calmly queried72.
“I was going to say, do you — I mean, I love him so much.”
Lady Blandish smiled and slightly coloured.
They frequently approached this theme, and always retreated from it; always with the same beating of heart to Richard, accompanied by the sense of a growing mystery, which, however, did not as yet generally disturb him.
Life was made very pleasant to him at Raynham, as it was part of Sir Austin’s principle of education that his boy should be thoroughly joyous73 and happy; and whenever Adrian sent in a satisfactory report of his pupil’s advancement74, which he did pretty liberally, diversions were planned, just as prizes are given to diligent75 schoolboys, and Richard was supposed to have all his desires gratified while he attended to his studies. The System flourished. Tall, strong, bloomingly healthy, he took the lead of his companions on land and water, and had more than one bondsman in his service besides Ripton Thompson — the boy without a Destiny! Perhaps the boy with a Destiny was growing up a trifle too conscious of it. His generosity76 to his occasional companions was princely, but was exercised something too much in the manner of a prince; and, notwithstanding his contempt for baseness, he would overlook that more easily than an offence to his pride, which demanded an utter servility when it had once been rendered susceptible78. If Richard had his followers79 he had also his feuds80. The Papworths were as subservient81 as Ripton, but young Ralph Morton, the nephew of Mr. Morton, and a match for Richard in numerous promising82 qualities, comprising the noble science of fisticuffs, this youth spoke83 his mind too openly, and moreover would not be snubbed. There was no middle course for Richard’s comrades between high friendship or absolute slavery. He was deficient84 in those cosmopolite habits and feelings which enable boys and men to hold together without caring much for each other; and, like every insulated mortal, he attributed the deficiency, of which he was quite aware, to the fact of his possessing a superior nature. Young Ralph was a lively talker: therefore, argued Richard’s vanity, he had no intellect. He was affable: therefore he was frivolous85. The women liked him: therefore he was a butterfly. In fine, young Ralph was popular, and our superb prince, denied the privilege of despising, ended by detesting86 him.
Early in the days of their contention87 for leadership, Richard saw the absurdity88 of affecting to scorn his rival. Ralph was an Eton boy, and hence, being robust89, a swimmer and a cricketer. A swimmer and a cricketer is nowhere to be scorned in youth’s republic. Finding that manoeuvre90 would not do, Richard was prompted once or twice to entrench91 himself behind his greater wealth and his position; but he soon abandoned that also, partly because his chilliness92 to ridicule93 told him he was exposing himself, and chiefly that his heart was too chivalrous94. And so he was dragged into the lists by Ralph, and experienced the luck of champions. For cricket, and for diving, Ralph bore away the belt: Richard’s middle-stump tottered95 before his ball, and he could seldom pick up more than three eggs under water to Ralph’s half-dozen. He was beaten, too, in jumping and running. Why will silly mortals strive to the painful pinnacles96 of championship? Or why, once having reached them, not have the magnanimity and circumspection97 to retire into private life immediately? Stung by his defeats, Richard sent one of his dependent Papworths to Poer Hall, with a challenge to Ralph Barthrop Morton; matching himself to swim across the Thames and back, once, twice, or thrice, within a less time than he, Ralph Barthrop Morton, would require for the undertaking. It was accepted, and a reply returned, equally formal in the trumpeting98 of Christian names, wherein Ralph Barthrop Morton acknowledged the challenge of Richard Doria Feverel, and was his man. The match came off on a midsummer morning, under the direction of Captain Algernon. Sir Austin was a spectator from the cover of a plantation99 by the river-side, unknown to his son, and, to the scandal of her sex, Lady Blandish accompanied the baronet. He had invited her attendance, and she, obeying her frank nature, and knowing what THE PILGRIM’S SCRIP said about prudes, at once agreed to view the match, pleasing him mightily100. For was not here a woman worthy101 the Golden Ages of the world? one who could look upon man as a creature divinely made, and look with a mind neither tempted102, nor taunted103, by the Serpent! Such a woman was rare. Sir Austin did not discompose her by uttering his praises. She was conscious of his approval only in an increased gentleness of manner, and something in his voice and communications, as if he were speaking to a familiar, a very high compliment from him. While the lads were standing77 ready for the signal to plunge104 from the steep decline of greensward into the shining water, Sir Austin called upon her to admire their beauty, and she did, and even advanced her head above his shoulder delicately. In so doing, and just as the start was given, a bonnet105 became visible to Richard. Young Ralph was heels in air before he moved, and then he dropped like lead. He was beaten by several lengths.
The result of the match was unaccountable to all present, and Richard’s friends unanimously pressed him to plead a false start. But though the youth, with full confidence in his better style and equal strength, had backed himself heavily against his rival, and had lost his little river-yacht to Ralph, he would do nothing of the sort. It was the Bonnet had beaten him, not Ralph. The Bonnet, typical of the mystery that caused his heart those violent palpitations, was his dear, detestable enemy.
And now, as he progressed from mood to mood, his ambition turned towards a field where Ralph could not rival him, and where the Bonnet was etherealized, and reigned106 glorious mistress. A check to the pride of a boy will frequently divert him to the path where lie his subtlest powers. Richard gave up his companions, servile or antagonistic107: he relinquished108 the material world to young Ralph, and retired109 into himself, where he was growing to be lord of kingdoms: where Beauty was his handmaid, and History his minister, and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bride; where he walked in a realm vaster and more gorgeous than the great Orient, peopled with the heroes that have been. For there is no princely wealth, and no loftiest heritage, to equal this early one that is made bountifully common to so many, when the ripening110 blood has put a spark to the imagination, and the earth is seen through rosy111 mists of a thousand fresh-awakened nameless and aimless desires; panting for bliss112 and taking it as it comes; making of any sight or sound, perforce of the enchantment113 they carry with them, a key to infinite, because innocent, pleasure. The passions then are gambolling114 cubs115; not the ravaging116 gluttons117 they grow to. They have their teeth and their talons118, but they neither tear nor bite. They are in counsel and fellowship with the quickened heart and brain. The whole sweet system moves to music.
Something akin21 to the indications of a change in the spirit of his son, which were now seen, Sir Austin had marked down to be expected, as due to his plan. The blushes of the youth, his long vigils, his clinging to solitude119, his abstraction, and downcast but not melancholy120 air, were matters for rejoicing to the prescient gentleman. “For it comes,” said he to Dr. Clifford of Lobourne, after consulting him medically on the youth’s behalf and being assured of his soundness, “it comes of a thoroughly sane121 condition. The blood is healthy, the mind virtuous: neither instigates122 the other to evil, and both are perfecting toward the flower of manhood. If he reach that pure — in the untainted fulness and perfection of his natural powers — I am indeed a happy father! But one thing he will owe to me: that at one period of his life he knew paradise, and could read God’s handwriting on the earth! Now those abominations whom you call precocious123 boys — your little pet monsters, doctor! — and who can wonder that the world is what it is? when it is full of them — as they will have no divine time to look back upon in their own lives, how can they believe in innocence124 and goodness, or be other than sons of selfishness and the Devil? But my boy,” and the baronet dropped his voice to a key that was touching125 to hear, “my boy, if he fall, will fall from an actual region of purity. He dare not be a sceptic as to that. Whatever his darkness, he will have the guiding light of a memory behind him. So much is secure.”
To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity126, and to enunciate127 solemn discordances with received opinion so seriously as to convey the impression of a spiritual insight, is the peculiar128 gift by which monomaniacs, having first persuaded themselves, to contrive129 to influence their neighbours, and through them to make conquest of a good half of the world, for good or for ill. Sir Austin had this gift. He spoke as if he saw the truth, and, persisting in it so long, he was accredited130 by those who did not understand him, and silenced them that did.
“We shall see,” was all the argument left to Dr. Clifford, and other unbelievers.
So far certainly the experiment had succeeded. A comelier131, braver, better boy was nowhere to be met. His promise was undeniable. The vessel132, too, though it lay now in harbour and had not yet been proved by the buffets133 of the elements on the great ocean, had made a good trial trip, and got well through stormy weather, as the records of the Bakewell Comedy witnessed to at Raynham. No augury134 could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal135 severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring! But, bright as it was, the baronet relaxed nothing of his vigilant136 supervision. He said to his intimates: “Every act, every fostered inclination137, almost every thought in this Blossoming Season, bears its seed for the Future. The living Tree now requires incessant138 watchfulness139.” And, acting14 up to his light, Sir Austin did watch. The youth submitted to an examination every night before he sought his bed; professedly to give an account of his studies, but really to recapitulate140 his moral experiences of the day. He could do so, for he was pure. Any wildness in him that his father noted141, any remoteness or richness of fancy in his expressions, was set down as incidental to the Blossoming Season. There is nothing like a theory for binding142 the wise. Sir Austin, despite his rigid143 watch and ward62, knew less of his son than the servant of his household. And he was deaf, as well as blind. Adrian thought it his duty to tell him that the youth was consuming paper. Lady Blandish likewise hinted at his mooning propensities144. Sir Austin from his lofty watch-tower of the System had foreseen it, he said. But when he came to hear that the youth was writing poetry, his wounded heart had its reasons for being much disturbed.
“Surely,” said Lady Blandish, “you knew he scribbled145?”
“A very different thing from writing poetry,” said the baronet. “No Feverel has ever written poetry.”
“I don’t think it’s a sign of degeneracy,” the lady remarked. “He rhymes very prettily146 to me.”
A London phrenologist, and a friendly Oxford147 Professor of poetry, quieted Sir Austin’s fears.
The phrenologist said he was totally deficient in the imitative faculty; and the Professor, that he was equally so in the rhythmic148, and instanced several consoling false quantities in a few effusions submitted to him. Added to this, Sir Austin told Lady Blandish that Richard had, at his best, done what no poet had ever been known to be capable of doing: he had, with his own hands, and in cold blood, committed his virgin149 manuscript to the flames: which made Lady Blandish sigh forth, “Poor boy!”
Killing150 one’s darling child is a painful imposition. For a youth in his Blossoming Season, who fancies himself a poet, to be requested to destroy his first-born, without a reason (though to pretend a reason cogent151 enough to justify152 the request were a mockery), is a piece of abhorrent153 despotism, and Richard’s blossoms withered154 under it. A strange man had been introduced to him, who traversed and bisected his skull155 with sagacious stiff fingers, and crushed his soul while, in an infallible voice, declaring him the animal he was: making him feel such an animal! Not only his blossoms withered, his being seemed to draw in its shoots and twigs156. And when, coupled thereunto (the strange man having departed, his work done), his father, in his tenderest manner, stated that it would give him pleasure to see those same precocious, utterly valueless, scribblings among the cinders157, the last remaining mental blossom spontaneously fell away. Richard’s spirit stood bare. He protested not. Enough that it could be wished! He would not delay a minute in doing it. Desiring his father to follow him, he went to a drawer in his room, and from a clean-linen recess31, never suspected by Sir Austin, the secretive youth drew out bundle after bundle: each neatly158 tied, named, and numbered: and pitched them into flames. And so Farewell my young Ambition! and with it farewell all true confidence between Father and Son.
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