“I do not object,” he added; “I hope I am too just to object to the exercise of their natural inclinations16. All I ask from them is discreetness18.”
“Ay,” said Adrian, whose discreetness was a marvel19.
“No gadding20 about in couples,” continued the baronet, “no kissing in public. Such occurrences no boy should witness. Whenever people of both sexes are thrown together, they will be silly; and where they are high-fed, uneducated, and barely occupied, it must be looked for as a matter of course. Let it be known that I only require discreetness.”
Discreetness, therefore, was instructed to reign21 at the Abbey. Under Adrian’s able tuition the fairest of its domestics acquired that virtue22.
Discreetness, too, was enjoined23 to the upper household. Sir Austin, who had not previously24 appeared to notice the case of Lobourne’s hopeless curate, now desired Mrs. Doria to interdict25, or at least discourage, his visits, for the appearance of the man was that of an embodied26 sigh and groan27.
“Really, Austin!” said Mrs. Doria, astonished to find her brother more awake than she had supposed, “I have never allowed him to hope.”
“Let him see it, then,” replied the baronet; “let him see it.”
“The man amuses me,” said Mrs. Doria. “You know, we have few amusements here, we inferior creatures. I confess I should like a barrel-organ better; that reminds one of town and the opera; and besides, it plays more than one tune28. However, since you think my society bad for him, let him stop away.”
With the self-devotion of a woman she grew patient and sweet the moment her daughter Clare was spoken of, and the business of her life in view. Mrs. Doria’s maternal30 heart had betrothed31 the two cousins, Richard and Clare; had already beheld32 them espoused33 and fruitful. For this she yielded the pleasures of town; for this she immured35 herself at Raynham; for this she bore with a thousand follies36, exactions, inconveniences, things abhorrent37 to her, and heaven knows what forms of torture and self-denial, which are smilingly endured by that greatest of voluntary martyrs38 — a mother with a daughter to marry. Mrs. Doria, an amiable39 widow, had surely married but for her daughter Clare. The lady’s hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady’s-maid — a natural aureole to her head. She was gay, witty40, still physically41 youthful enough to claim a destiny; and she sacrificed it to accomplish her daughter’s! sacrificed, as with heroic scissors, hair, wit, gaiety — let us not attempt to enumerate42 how much! more than may be said. And she was only one of thousands; thousands who have no portion of the hero’s reward; for he may reckon on applause, and condolence, and sympathy, and honour; they, poor slaves! must look for nothing but the opposition43 of their own sex and the sneers44 of ours. O, Sir Austin! had you not been so blinded, what an Aphorism45 might have sprung from this point of observation! Mrs. Doria was coolly told, between sister and brother, that during the Magnetic Age her daughter’s presence at Raynham was undesirable46. Instead of nursing offence, her sole thought was the mountain of prejudice she had to contend against. She bowed, and said, Clare wanted sea-air — she had never quite recovered the shock of that dreadful night. How long, Mrs. Doria wished to know, might the Peculiar47 Period be expected to last?
“That,” said Sir Austin, “depends. A year, perhaps, he is entering on it. I shall be most grieved to lose you, Helen. Clare is now — how old?”
“Seventeen.”
“She is marriageable.”
“Marriageable, Austin! at seventeen! don’t name such a thing. My child shall not be robbed of her youth.”
“Our women marry early, Helen.”
“My child shall not!”
The baronet reflected a moment. He did not wish to lose his sister.
“As you are of that opinion, Helen,” said he, “perhaps we may still make arrangements to retain you with us. Would you think it advisable to send Clare — she should know discipline — to some establishment for a few months?” . . .
“To an asylum48, Austin?” cried Mrs. Doria, controlling her indignation as well as she could.
“To some select superior seminary, Helen. There are such to be found.”
“Austin!” Mrs. Doria exclaimed, and had to fight with a moisture in her eyes. “Unjust! absurd!” she murmured. The baronet thought it a natural proposition that Clare should be a bride or a schoolgirl.
“I cannot leave my child.” Mrs. Doria trembled. “Where she goes, I go. I am aware that she is only one of our sex, and therefore of no value to the world, but she is my child. I will see, poor dear, that you have no cause to complain of her.”
“I thought,” Sir Austin remarked, “that you acquiesced49 in my views with regard to my son.”
“Yes — generally,” said Mrs. Doria, and felt culpable50 that she had not before, and could not then, tell her brother that he had set up an Idol51 in his house — an Idol of flesh! more retributive and abominable52 than wood or brass53 or gold. But she had bowed to the Idol too long — she had too entirely54 bound herself to gain her project by subserviency55. She had, and she dimly perceived it, committed a greater fault in tactics, in teaching her daughter to bow to the Idol also. Love of that kind Richard took for tribute. He was indifferent to Clare’s soft eyes. The parting kiss he gave her was ready and cold as his father could desire. Sir Austin now grew eloquent56 to him in laudation of manly57 pursuits: but Richard thought his eloquence58 barren, his attempts at companionship awkward, and all manly pursuits and aims, life itself, vain and worthless. To what end? sighed the blossomless youth, and cried aloud, as soon as he was relieved of his father’s society, what was the good of anything? Whatever he did — whichever path he selected, led back to Raynham. And whatever he did, however wretched and wayward he showed himself, only confirmed Sir Austin more and more in the truth of his previsions. Tom Bakewell, now the youth’s groom59, had to give the baronet a report of his young master’s proceedings60, in common with Adrian, and while there was no harm to tell, Tom spoke29 out. “He do ride like fire every day to Pig’s Snout,” naming the highest hill in the neighbourhood, “and stand there and stare, never movin’, like a mad ’un. And then hoam agin all slack as if he’d been beaten in a race by somebody.”
“There is no woman in that!” mused61 the baronet. “He would have ridden back as hard as he went,” reflected this profound scientific humanist, “had there been a woman in it. He would shun62 vast expanses, and seek shade, concealment63, solitude64. The desire for distances betokens65 emptiness and undirected hunger: when the heart is possessed66 by an image we fly to wood and forest, like the guilty.”
Adrian’s report accused his pupil of an extraordinary access of cynicism.
“Exactly,” said the baronet. “As I foresaw. At this period an insatiate appetite is accompanied by a fastidious palate. Nothing but the quintessences of existence, and those in exhaustless supplies, will satisfy this craving67, which is not to be satisfied! Hence his bitterness. Life can furnish no food fitting for him. The strength and purity of his energies have reached to an almost divine height, and roam through the Inane68. Poetry, love, and such-like, are the drugs earth has to offer to high natures, as she offers to low ones debauchery. ’Tis a sign, this sourness, that he is subject to none of the empiricisms that are afloat. Now to keep him clear of them!”
The Titans had an easier task in storming Olympus. As yet, however, it could not be said that Sir Austin’s System had failed. On the contrary, it had reared a youth, handsome, intelligent, well-bred, and, observed the ladies, with acute emphasis, innocent. Where, they asked, was such another young man to be found?
“Oh!” said Lady Blandish to Sir Austin, “if men could give their hands to women unsoiled — how different would many a marriage be! She will be a happy girl who calls Richard husband.”
“Happy, indeed!” was the baronet’s caustic69 ejaculation. “But where shall I meet one equal to him, and his match?”
“I was innocent when I was a girl,” said the lady.
Sir Austin bowed a reserved opinion.
“Do you think no girls innocent?”
Sir Austin gallantly71 thought them all so.
“No, that you know they are not,” said the lady, stamping. “But they are more innocent than boys, I am sure.”
“Because of their education, madam. You see now what a youth can be. Perhaps, when my System is published, or rather — to speak more humbly72 — when it is practised, the balance may be restored, and we shall have virtuous73 young men.”
“It’s too late for poor me to hope for a husband from one of them,” said the lady, pouting74 and laughing.
“It is never too late for beauty to waken love,” returned the baronet, and they trifled a little. They were approaching Daphne’s Bower75, which they entered, and sat there to taste the coolness of a descending76 midsummer day.
The baronet seemed in a humour for dignified77 fooling; the lady for serious converse78.
“I shall believe again in Arthur’s knights79,” she said. “When I was a girl I dreamed of one.”
“And he was in quest of the San Greal?”
“If you like.”
“And showed his good taste by turning aside for the more tangible81 San Blandish?”
“Of course you consider it would have been so,” sighed the lady, ruffling82.
“I can only judge by our generation,” said Sir Austin, with a bend of homage83.
The lady gathered her mouth. “Either we are very mighty84 or you are very weak.”
“Both, madam.”
“But whatever we are, and if we are bad, bad! we love virtue, and truth, and lofty souls, in men: and, when we meet those qualities in them, we are constant, and would die for them — die for them. Ah! you know men but not women.”
“The knights possessing such distinctions must be young, I presume?” said Sir Austin.
“Old, or young!”
“But if old, they are scarce capable of enterprise?”
“They are loved for themselves, not for their deeds.”
“Ah!”
“Yes — ah!” said the lady. “Intellect may subdue85 women — make slaves of them; and they worship beauty perhaps as much as you do. But they only love for ever and are mated when they meet a noble nature.”
Sir Austin looked at her wistfully.
“And did you encounter the knight80 of your dream?”
“Not then.” She lowered her eyelids87. It was prettily88 done.
“And how did you bear the disappointment?”
“My dream was in the nursery. The day my frock was lengthened89 to a gown I stood at the altar. I am not the only girl that has been made a woman in a day, and given to an ogre instead of a true knight.”
“Good God!” exclaimed Sir Austin, “women have much to bear.”
Here the couple changed characters. The lady became gay as the baronet grew earnest.
“You know it is our lot,” she said. “And we are allowed many amusements. If we fulfil our duty in producing children, that, like our virtue, is its own reward. Then, as a widow, I have wonderful privileges.”
“To preserve which, you remain a widow?”
“Certainly,” she responded. “I have no trouble now in patching and piecing that rag the world calls — a character. I can sit at your feet every day unquestioned. To be sure, others do the same, but they are female eccentrics, and have cast off the rag altogether.”
Sir Austin drew nearer to her. “You would have made an admirable mother, madam.”
This from Sir Austin was very like positive wooing.
“It is,” he continued, “ten thousand pities that you are not one.”
“Do you think so?” She spoke with humility90.
“I would,” he went on, “that heaven had given you a daughter.”
“Would you have thought her worthy91 of Richard?”
“Our blood, madam, should have been one!”
The lady tapped her toe with her parasol. “But I am a mother,” she said. “Richard is my son. Yes! Richard is my boy,” she reiterated92.
Sir Austin most graciously appended, “Call him ours, madam,” and held his head as if to catch the word from her lips, which, however, she chose to refuse, or defer93. They made the coloured West a common point for their eyes, and then Sir Austin said:
“As you will not say ‘ours,’ let me. And, as you have therefore an equal claim on the boy, I will confide94 to you a project I have lately conceived.”
The announcement of a project hardly savoured of a coming proposal, but for Sir Austin to confide one to a woman was almost tantamount to a declaration. So Lady Blandish thought, and so said her soft, deep-eyed smile, as she perused95 the ground while listening to the project. It concerned Richard’s nuptials96. He was now nearly eighteen. He was to marry when he was five-and-twenty. Meantime a young lady, some years his junior, was to be sought for in the homes of England, who would be every way fitted by education, instincts, and blood — on each of which qualifications Sir Austin unreservedly enlarged — to espouse34 so perfect a youth and accept the honourable97 duty of assisting in the perpetuation98 of the Feverels. The baronet went on to say that he proposed to set forth99 immediately, and devote a couple of months, to the first essay in his Coelebite search.
“I fear,” said Lady Blandish, when the project had been fully86 unfolded, “you have laid down for yourself a difficult task. You must not be too exacting100.”
“I know it.” The baronet’s shake of the head was piteous.
“Even in England she will be rare. But I confine myself to no class. If I ask for blood it is for untainted, not what you call high blood. I believe many of the middle classes are frequently more careful — more pure-blooded — than our aristocracy. Show me among them a God-fearing family who educate their children — I should prefer a girl without brothers and sisters — as a Christian damsel should be educated — say; on the model of my son, and she may be penniless, I will pledge her to Richard Feverel.”
Lady Blandish bit her lip. “And what do you do with Richard while you are absent on this expedition?”
“Oh!” said the baronet, “he accompanies his father.”
“Then give it up. His future bride is now pinafored and bread-and-buttery. She romps101, she cries, she dreams of play and pudding. How can he care for her? He thinks more at his age of old women like me. He will be certain to kick against her, and destroy your plan, believe me, Sir Austin.”
“Ay? ay? do you think that?” said the baronet.
Lady Blandish gave him a multitude of reasons.
“Ay! true,” he muttered. “Adrian said the same. He must not see her. How could I think of it! The child is naked woman. He would despise her. Naturally!”
“Naturally!” echoed the lady.
“Then, madam,” and the baronet rose, “there is one thing for me to determine upon. I must, for the first time in his life, leave him.”
“Will you, indeed?” said the lady.
“It is my duty, having thus brought him up, to see that he is properly mated — not wrecked102 upon the quicksands of marriage, as a youth so delicately trained might be; more easily than another! Betrothed, he will be safe from a thousand snares103. I may, I think, leave him for a term. My precautions have saved him from the temptations of his season.”
“And under whose charge will you leave him?” Lady Blandish inquired.
She had emerged from the temple, and stood beside Sir Austin on the upper steps, under a clear summer twilight104.
“Madam!” he took her hand, and his voice was gallant70 and tender, “under whose but yours?”
As the baronet said this, he bent105 above her hand, and raised it to his lips.
Lady Blandish felt that she had been wooed and asked in wedlock106. She did not withdraw her hand. The baronet’s salute107 was flatteringly reverent108. He deliberated over it, as one going through a grave ceremony. And he, the scorner of women, had chosen her for his homage! Lady Blandish forgot that she had taken some trouble to arrive at it. She received the exquisite109 compliment in all its unique honey-sweet: for in love we must deserve nothing or the fine bloom of fruition is gone.
The lady’s hand was still in durance, and the baronet had not recovered from his profound inclination17, when a noise from the neighbouring beechwood startled the two actors in this courtly pantomime. They turned their heads, and beheld the hope of Raynham on horseback surveying the scene. The next moment he had galloped110 away.
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