Sir Austin entered the great city with a sad mind. The memory of his misfortune came upon him vividly9, as if no years had intervened, and it were but yesterday that he found the letter telling him that he had no wife and his son no mother. He wandered on foot through the streets the first night of his arrival, looking strangely at the shops and shows and bustle10 of the world from which he had divorced himself; feeling as destitute11 as the poorest vagrant12. He had almost forgotten how to find his way about, and came across his old mansion13 in his efforts to regain14 his hotel. The windows were alight — signs of merry life within. He stared at it from the shadow of the opposite side. It seemed to him he was a ghost gazing upon his living past. And then the phantom15 which had stood there mocking while he felt as other men — the phantom, now flesh and blood reality, seized and convulsed his heart, and filled its unforgiving crevices16 with bitter ironic17 venom18. He remembered by the time reflection returned to him that it was Algernon, who had the house at his disposal, probably giving a card-party, or something of the sort. In the morning, too, he remembered that he had divorced the world to wed19 a System, and must be faithful to that exacting20 Spouse21, who, now alone of things on earth, could fortify22 and recompense him.
Mr. Thompson received his client with the dignity and emotion due to such a rent-roll and the unexpectedness of the honour. He was a thin stately man of law, garbed23 as one who gave audience to sacred bishops24, and carrying on his countenance25 the stamp of paternity to the parchment-skins, and of a virtuous26 attachment27 to Port wine sufficient to increase his respectability in the eyes of moral Britain. After congratulating Sir Austin on the fortunate issue of two or three suits, and being assured that the baronet’s business in town had no concern therewith, Mr. Thompson ventured to hope that the young heir was all his father could desire him to be, and heard with satisfaction that he was a pattern to the youth of the Age.
“A difficult time of life, Sir Austin!” said the old lawyer, shaking his head. “We must keep our eyes on them — keep awake! The mischief28 is done in a minute.”
“We must take care to have seen where we planted, and that the root was sound, or the mischief will do itself in spite of, or under the very spectacles of, supervision,” said the baronet.
His legal adviser29 murmured “Exactly,” as if that were his own idea, adding, “It is my plan with Ripton, who has had the honour of an introduction to you, and a very pleasant time he spent with my young friend, whom he does not forget. Ripton follows the Law. He is articled to me, and will, I trust, succeed me worthily30 in your confidence. I bring him into town in the morning; I take him back at night. I think I may say that I am quite content with him.”
“Do you think,” said Sir Austin, fixing his brows, “that you can trace every act of his to its motive31?”
The old lawyer bent32 forward and humbly33 requested that this might be repeated.
“Do you”— Sir Austin held the same searching expression —“do you establish yourself in a radiating centre of intuition: do you base your watchfulness34 on so thorough an acquaintance with his character, so perfect a knowledge of the instrument, that all its movements — even the eccentric ones — are anticipated by you, and provided for?”
The explanation was a little too long for the old lawyer to entreat35 another repetition. Winking36 with the painful deprecation of a deaf man, Mr. Thompson smiled urbanely37, coughed conciliatingly, and said he was afraid he could not affirm that much, though he was happily enabled to say that Ripton had borne an extremely good character at school.
“I find,” Sir Austin remarked, as sardonically38 he relaxed his inspecting pose and mien39, “there are fathers who are content to be simply obeyed. Now I require not only that my son should obey; I would have him guiltless of the impulse to gainsay40 my wishes — feeling me in him stronger than his undeveloped nature, up to a certain period, where my responsibility ends and his commences. Man is a self-acting machine. He cannot cease to be a machine; but, though self-acting, he may lose the powers of self-guidance, and in a wrong course his very vitalities hurry him to perdition. Young, he is an organism ripening41 to the set mechanic diurnal42 round, and while so he needs all the angels to hold watch over him that he grow straight and healthy, and fit for what machinal duties he may have to perform.” . . .
Mr. Thompson agitated43 his eyebrows44 dreadfully. He was utterly45 lost. He respected Sir Austin’s estates too much to believe for a moment he was listening to downright folly46. Yet how otherwise explain the fact of his excellent client being incomprehensible to him? For a middle-aged47 gentleman, and one who has been in the habit of advising and managing, will rarely have a notion of accusing his understanding; and Mr. Thompson had not the slightest notion of accusing his. But the baronet’s condescension48 in coming thus to him, and speaking on the subject nearest his heart, might well affect him, and he quickly settled the case in favour of both parties, pronouncing mentally that his honoured client had a meaning, and so deep it was, so subtle, that no wonder he experienced difficulty in giving it fitly significant words.
Sir Austin elaborated his theory of the Organism and the Mechanism49, for his lawyer’s edification. At a recurrence50 of the world “healthy” Mr. Thompson caught him up —
“I apprehended51 you! Oh, I agree with you, Sir Austin! entirely52! Allow me to ring for my son Ripton. I think, if you condescend53 to examine him, you will say that regular habits, and a diet of nothing but law-reading — for other forms of literature I strictly54 interdict55 — have made him all that you instance.”
Mr. Thompson’s hand was on the bell. Sir Austin arrested him.
“Permit me to see the lad at his occupation,” said he.
Our old friend Ripton sat in a room apart with the confidential56 clerk, Mr. Beazley, a veteran of law, now little better than a document, looking already signed and sealed, and shortly to be delivered, who enjoined57 nothing from his pupil and companion save absolute silence, and sounded his praises to his father at the close of days when it had been rigidly58 observed — not caring, or considering, the finished dry old document that he was, under what kind of spell a turbulent commonplace youth could be charmed into stillness for six hours of the day. Ripton was supposed to be devoted59 to the study of Blackstone. A tome of the classic legal commentator60 lay extended outside his desk, under the partially61 lifted lid of which nestled the assiduous student’s head — law being thus brought into direct contact with his brainpan. The office-door opened, and he heard not; his name was called, and he remained equally moveless. His method of taking in Blackstone seemed absorbing as it was novel.
“Comparing notes, I daresay,” whispered Mr. Thompson to Sir Austin. “I call that study!”
The confidential clerk rose, and bowed obsequious62 senility.
“Is it like this every day, Beazley?” Mr. Thompson asked with parental63 pride.
“Ahem!” the old clerk replied, “he is like this every day, sir. I could not ask more of a mouse.”
Sir Austin stepped forward to the desk. His proximity64 roused one of Ripton’s senses, which blew a call to the others. Down went the lid of the desk. Dismay, and the ardours of study, flashed together in Ripton’s face. He slouched from his perch65 with the air of one who means rather to defend his position than welcome a superior, the right hand in his waistcoat pocket fumbling66 a key, the left catching67 at his vacant stool.
Sir Austin put two fingers on the youth’s shoulder, and said, leaning his head a little on one side, in a way habitual68 to him, “I am glad to find my son’s old comrade thus profitably occupied. I know what study is myself. But beware of prosecuting69 it too excitedly! Come! you must not be offended at our interruption; you will soon take up the thread again. Besides, you know, you must get accustomed to the visits of your client.”
So condescending70 and kindly71 did this speech sound to Mr. Thompson, that, seeing Ripton still preserve his appearance of disorder72 and sneaking73 defiance74, he thought fit to nod and frown at the youth, and desired him to inform the baronet what particular part of Blackstone he was absorbed in mastering at that moment.
Ripton hesitated an instant, and blundered out, with dubious75 articulation76, “The Law of Gravelkind.”
“What Law?” said Sir Austin, perplexed77.
“Gravelkind,” again rumbled78 Ripton’s voice.
Sir Austin turned to Mr. Thompson for an explanation. The old lawyer was shaking his law-box.
“Singular!” he exclaimed. “He will make that mistake! What law, sir?”
Ripton read his error in the sternly painful expression of his father’s face, and corrected himself. “Gavelkind, sir.”
“Ah!” said Mr. Thompson, with a sigh of relief. “Gravelkind, indeed! Gavelkind! An old Kentish”—— He was going to expound79, but Sir Austin assured him he knew it, and a very absurd law it was, adding, “I should like to look at your son’s notes, or remarks on the judiciousness80 of that family arrangement, if he has any.”
“You were making notes, or referring to them, as we entered,” said Mr. Thompson to the sucking lawyer; “a very good plan, which I have always enjoined on you. Were you not?”
Ripton stammered81 that he was afraid he had not any notes to show, worth seeing.
“What were you doing then, sir?”
“Making notes,” muttered Ripton, looking incarnate82 subterfuge83.
“Exhibit!”
Ripton glanced at his desk and then at his father; at Sir Austin, and at the confidential clerk. He took out his key. It would not fit the hole.
“Exhibit!” was peremptorily84 called again.
In his praiseworthy efforts to accommodate the keyhole, Ripton discovered that the desk was already unlocked. Mr. Thompson marched to it, and held the lid aloft. A book was lying open within, which Ripton immediately hustled85 among a mass of papers and tossed into a dark corner, not before the glimpse of a coloured frontispiece was caught by Sir Austin’s eye.
The baronet smiled, and said, “You study Heraldry, too? Are you fond of the science?”
Ripton replied that he was very fond of it — extremely attached, and threw a further pile of papers into the dark corner.
The notes had been less conspicuously86 placed, and the search for them was tedious and vain. Papers, not legal, or the fruits of study, were found, that made Mr. Thompson more intimate with the condition of his son’s exchequer87; nothing in the shape of a remark on the Law of Gavelkind.
Mr. Thompson suggested to his son that they might be among those scraps88 he had thrown carelessly into the dark corner. Ripton, though he consented to inspect them, was positive they were not there.
“What have we here?” said Mr. Thompson, seizing a neatly89 folded paper addressed to the Editor of a law publication, as Ripton brought them forth90, one by one. Forthwith Mr. Thompson fixed91 his spectacles and read aloud:
“To the Editor of the ‘Jurist.‘
“Sir — In your recent observations on the great case of Crim”——
Mr. Thompson hem’d! and stopped short, like a man who comes unexpectedly upon a snake in his path. Mr. Beazley’s feet shuffled92. Sir Austin changed the position of an arm.
“It’s on the other side, I think,” gasped93 Ripton.
Mr. Thompson confidently turned over, and intoned with emphasis.
“To Absalom, the son of David, the little Jew usurer of Bond Court, Whitecross Gutters94, for his introduction to Venus, I O U Five pounds, when I can pay.
“Signed: RIPTON THOMPSON.”
Underneath95 this fictitious96 legal instrument was discreetly97 appended:
“(Mem. Document not binding98.)”
There was a pause: an awful under-breath of sanctified wonderment and reproach passed round the office. Sir Austin assumed an attitude. Mr. Thompson shed a glance of severity on his confidential clerk, who parried by throwing up his hands.
Ripton, now fairly bewildered, stuffed another paper under his father’s nose, hoping the outside perhaps would satisfy him: it was marked “Legal Considerations.” Mr. Thompson had no idea of sparing or shielding his son. In fact, like many men whose self-love is wounded by their offspring, he felt vindictive99, and was ready to sacrifice him up to a certain point, for the good of both. He therefore opened the paper, expecting something worse than what he had hitherto seen, despite its formal heading, and he was not disappointed.
The “Legal Considerations” related to the Case regarding which Ripton had conceived it imperative100 upon him to address a letter to the Editor of the “Jurist,” and was indeed a great case, and an ancient; revived apparently101 for the special purpose of displaying the forensic102 abilities of the Junior Counsel for the Plaintiff, Mr. Ripton Thompson, whose assistance the Attorney–General, in his opening statement, congratulated himself on securing, a rather unusual thing, due probably to the eminence103 and renown104 of that youthful gentleman at the Bar of his country. So much was seen from the copy of a report purporting105 to be extracted from a newspaper, and prefixed to the Junior Counsel’s remarks, or Legal Considerations, on the conduct of the Case, the admissibility and non-admissibility of certain evidence, and the ultimate decision of the judges.
Mr. Thompson, senior, lifted the paper high, with the spirit of one prepared to do execution on the criminal, and in the voice of a town-crier, varied106 by a bitter accentuation and satiric107 sing-song tone, deliberately108 read:
“Vulcan v. Mars.
“The Attorney–General, assisted by Mr. Ripton Thompson, appeared on behalf of the Plaintiff. Mr. Serjeant Cupid, Q.C., and Mr. Capital Opportunity, for the Defendant109.”
“Oh!” snapped Mr. Thompson, senior, peering venom at the unfortunate Ripton over his spectacles, “your notes are on that issue, sir! Thus you employ your time, sir!”
With another side-shot at the confidential clerk, who retired110 immediately behind a strong entrenchment111 of shrugs112, Mr. Thompson was pushed by the devil of his rancour to continue reading:
“This Case is too well known to require more than a partial summary of particulars”. . . .
“Ahem! we will skip the particulars, however partial,” said Mr. Thompson. “Ah! — what do you mean here, sir — but enough! I think we may be excused your Legal Considerations on such a Case. This is how you employ your law-studies, sir! You put them to this purpose? Mr. Beazley! you will henceforward sit alone. I must have this young man under my own eye. Sir Austin! permit me to apologize to you for subjecting you to a scene so disagreeable. It was a father’s duty not to spare him.”
Mr. Thompson wiped his forehead, as Brutus might have done after passing judgment113 on the scion114 of his house.
“These papers,” he went on, fluttering Ripton’s precious lucubrations in a waving judicial115 hand, “I shall retain. The day will come when he will regard them with shame. And it shall be his penance116, his punishment, to do so! Stop!” he cried, as Ripton was noiselessly shutting his desk, “have you more of them, sir; of a similar description? Rout117 them out! Let us know you at your worst. What have you there — in that corner?”
Ripton was understood to say he devoted that corner to old briefs on important cases.
Mr. Thompson thrust his trembling fingers among the old briefs, and turned over the volume Sir Austin had observed, but without much remarking it, for his suspicions had not risen to print.
“A Manual of Heraldry?” the baronet politely, and it may be ironically, inquired, before it could well escape.
“I like it very much,” said Ripton, clutching the book in dreadful torment118.
“Allow me to see that you have our arms and crest119 correct.” The baronet proffered120 a hand for the book.
“A Griffin between two Wheatsheaves,” cried Ripton, still clutching it nervously121.
Mr. Thompson, without any notion of what he was doing, drew the book from Ripton’s hold; whereupon the two seniors laid their grey heads together over the title-page. It set forth in attractive characters beside a coloured frontispiece, which embodied122 the promise displayed there, the entrancing adventures of Miss Random123, a strange young lady.
Had there been a Black Hole within the area of those law regions to consign124 Ripton to there and then, or an Iron Rod handy to mortify125 his sinful flesh, Mr. Thompson would have used them. As it was, he contented126 himself by looking Black Holes and Iron Rods at the detected youth, who sat on his perch insensible to what might happen next, collapsed127.
Mr. Thompson cast the wicked creature down with a “Pah!” He, however, took her up again, and strode away with her. Sir Austin gave Ripton a forefinger128, and kindly touched his head, saying, “Good-bye, boy! At some future date Richard will be happy to see you at Raynham.”
Undoubtedly129 this was a great triumph to the System!
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