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Behold1 the seal is on them!
Tanner of Tyburn.
We must not suppose that Clifford’s manner and tone were towards Lucy Brandon such as they seemed to others. Love refines every roughness; and that truth which nurtures2 tenderness is never barren of grace. Whatever the habits and comrades of Clifford’s life, he had at heart many good and generous qualities. They were not often perceptible, it is true — first, because he was of a gay and reckless turn; secondly3, because he was not easily affected4 by any external circumstances; and thirdly, because he had the policy to affect among his comrades only such qualities as were likely to give him influence with them. Still, however, his better genius broke out whenever an opportunity presented itself. Though no “Corsair,” romantic and unreal, an Ossianic shadow becoming more vast in proportion as it recedes5 from substance; though no grandly-imagined lie to the fair proportions of human nature, but an erring7 man in a very prosaic8 and homely9 world — Clifford still mingled10 a certain generosity11 and chivalric12 spirit of enterprise even with the practices of his profession. Although the name of Lovett, by which he was chiefly known, was one peculiarly distinguished13 in the annals of the adventurous14, it had never been coupled with rumours15 of cruelty or outrage17; and it was often associated with anecdotes18 of courage, courtesy, good humour, or forbearance. He was one whom a real love was peculiarly calculated to soften19 and to redeem20. The boldness, the candour, the unselfishness of his temper, were components21 of nature upon which affection invariably takes a strong and deep hold. Besides, Clifford was of an eager and aspiring22 turn; and the same temper and abilities which had in a very few years raised him in influence and popularity far above all the chivalric band with whom he was connected, when once inflamed23 and elevated by a higher passion, were likely to arouse his ambition from the level of his present pursuits, and reform him, ere too late, into a useful, nay25, even an honourable26 member of society. We trust that the reader has already perceived that, despite his early circumstances, his manner and address were not such as to unfit him for a lady’s love. The comparative refinement27 of his exterior28 is easy of explanation, for he possessed29 a natural and inborn30 gentility, a quick turn for observation, a ready sense both of the ridiculous and the graceful31; and these are materials which are soon and lightly wrought32 from coarseness into polish. He had been thrown, too, among the leaders and heroes of his band; many not absolutely low in birth, nor debased in habit. He had associated with the Barringtons of the day — gentlemen who were admired at Ranelagh, and made speeches worthy33 of Cicero, when they were summoned to trial. He had played his part in public places; and as Tomlinson was wont34 to say after his classic fashion, “the triumphs accomplished35 in the field had been planned in the ball-room.” In short, he was one of those accomplished and elegant highwaymen of whom we yet read wonders, and by whom it would have been delightful36 to have been robbed: and the aptness of intellect which grew into wit with his friends, softened37 into sentiment with his mistress. There is something, too, in beauty (and Clifford’s person, as we have before said, was possessed of even uncommon38 attractions) which lifts a beggar into nobility; and there was a distinction in his gait and look which supplied the air of rank and the tone of courts. Men, indeed, skilled like Mauleverer in the subtleties39 of manner, might perhaps have easily detected in him the want of that indescribable essence possessed only by persons reared in good society; but that want being shared by so many persons of indisputable birth and fortune, conveyed no particular reproach. To Lucy, indeed, brought up in seclusion40, and seeing at Warlock none calculated to refine her taste in the fashion of an air or phrase to a very fastidious standard of perfection, this want was perfectly41 imperceptible; she remarked in her lover only a figure everywhere unequalled, an eye always eloquent42 with admiration43, a step from which grace could never be divorced, a voice that spoke44 in a silver key, and uttered flatteries delicate in thought and poetical45 in word; even a certain originality46 of mind, remark, and character, occasionally approaching to the bizarre, yet sometimes also to the elevated, possessed a charm for the imagination of a young and not unenthusiastic female, and contrasted favourably47, rather than the reverse, with the dull insipidity48 of those she ordinarily saw. Nor are we sure that the mystery thrown about him, irksome as it was to her, and discreditable as it appeared to others, was altogether ineffectual in increasing her love for the adventurer; and thus Fate, which transmutes50 in her magic crucible51 all opposing metals into that one which she is desirous to produce, swelled52 the wealth of an ill-placed and ominous53 passion by the very circumstances which should have counteracted54 and destroyed it.
We are willing, by what we have said, not to defend Clifford, but to redeem Lucy in the opinion of our readers for loving so unwisely; and when they remember her youth, her education, her privation of a mother, of all female friendship, even of the vigilant55 and unrelaxing care of some protector of the opposite sex, we do not think that what was so natural will be considered by any inexcusable.
Mauleverer woke the morning after the ball in better health than usual, and consequently more in love than ever. According to his resolution the night before, he sat down to write a long letter to William Brandon: it was amusing and witty56 as usual; but the wily nobleman succeeded, under the cover of wit, in conveying to Brandon’s mind a serious apprehension57 lest his cherished matrimonial project should altogether fail. The account of Lucy and of Captain Clifford contained in the epistle instilled58, indeed, a double portion of sourness into the professionally acrid59 mind of the lawyer; and as it so happened that he read the letter just before attending the court upon a case in which he was counsel to the crown, the witnesses on the opposite side of the question felt the full effects of the barrister’s ill humour. The case was one in which the defendant60 had been engaged in swindling transactions to a very large amount; and among his agents and assistants was a person of the very lowest orders, but who, seemingly enjoying large connections, and possessing natural acuteness and address, appeared to have been of great use in receiving and disposing of such goods as were fraudulently obtained. As a witness against the latter person appeared a pawnbroker61, who produced certain articles that had been pledged to him at different times by this humble62 agent. Now, Brandon, in examining the guilty go-between, became the more terribly severe in proportion as the man evinced that semblance63 of unconscious stolidity64 which the lower orders can so ingeniously assume, and which is so peculiarly adapted to enrage65 and to baffle the gentlemen of the bar. At length, Brandon entirely66 subduing67 and quelling68 the stubborn hypocrisy69 of the culprit, the man turned towards him a look between wrath70 and beseechingness, muttering —
“Aha! if so be, Counsellor Prandon, you knew vat24 I knows. You vould not go for to bully71 I so!”
“And pray, my good fellow, what is it that you know that should make me treat you as if I thought you an honest man?”
The witness had now relapsed into sullenness72, and only answered by a sort of grunt73. Brandon, who knew well how to sting a witness into communicativeness, continued his questioning till the witness, re-aroused into anger, and it may be into indiscretion, said in a low voice —
“Hax Mr. Swoppem the pawnbroker what I sold ’im on the 15th hof February, exactly twenty-three yearn75 ago.” Brandon started back, his lips grew white, he clenched76 his hands with a convulsive spasm77; and while all his features seemed distorted with an earnest yet fearful intensity78 of expectation, he poured forth79 a volley of questions, so incoherent and so irrelevant80 that he was immediately called to order by his learned brother on the opposite side. Nothing further could be extracted from the witness. The pawnbroker was resummoned: he appeared somewhat disconcerted by an appeal to his memory so far back as twenty-three years; but after taking some time to consider, during which the agitation81 of the usually cold and possessed Brandon was remarkable82 to all the court, he declared that he recollected83 no transaction whatsoever84 with the witness at that time. In vain were all Brandon’s efforts to procure85 a more elucidatory86 answer. The pawnbroker was impenetrable, and the lawyer was compelled reluctantly to dismiss him. The moment the witness left the box, Brandon sank into a gloomy abstraction — he seemed quite to forget the business and the duties of the court; and so negligently87 did he continue to conclude the case, so purposeless was the rest of his examination and cross-examination, that the cause was entirely marred88, and a verdict “Not guilty” returned by the jury.
The moment he left the court, Brandon repaired to the pawnbroker’s; and after a conversation with Mr. Swoppem, in which he satisfied that honest tradesman that his object was rather to reward than intimidate89, Swoppem confessed that twenty-three years ago the witness had met him at a public-house in Devereux Court, in company with two other men, and sold him several articles in plate, ornaments90, etc. The great bulk of these articles had, of course, long left the pawnbroker’s abode91; but he still thought a stray trinket or two, not of sufficient worth to be reset92 or remodelled93, nor of sufficient fashion to find a ready sale, lingered in his drawers. Eagerly, and with trembling hands, did Brandon toss over the motley contents of the mahogany reservoirs which the pawnbroker now submitted to his scrutiny94. Nothing on earth is so melancholy95 a prospect96 as a pawnbroker’s drawer! Those little, quaint97, valueless ornaments — those true-lovers’ knots, those oval lockets, those battered98 rings, girdled by initials, or some brief inscription99 of regard or of grief — what tales of past affections, hopes, and sorrows do they not tell! But no sentiment of so general a sort ever saddened the hard mind of William Brandon, and now less than at any time could such reflections have occurred to him. Impatiently he threw on the table, one after another, the baubles100 once hoarded101 perchance with the tenderest respect, till at length his eyes sparkled, and with a nervous gripe he seized upon an old ring which was inscribed102 with letters, and circled a heart containing hair. The inscription was simply, “W. B. to Julia.” Strange and dark was the expression that settled on Brandon’s face as he regarded this seemingly worthless trinket. After a moment’s gaze, he uttered an inarticulate exclamation103, and thrusting it into his pocket, renewed his search. He found one or two other trifles of a similar nature; one was an ill-done miniature set in silver, and bearing at the back sundry104 half-effaced letters, which Brandon construed105 at once (though no other eye could) into “Sir John Brandon, 1635, AEtat. 28;” the other was a seal stamped with the noble crest106 of the house of Brandon, ‘A bull’s head, ducally crowned and armed, Or.’ As soon as Brandon had possessed himself of these treasures, and arrived at the conviction that the place held no more, he assured the conscientious107 Swoppem of his regard for that person’s safety, rewarded him munificently108, and went his way to Bow Street for a warrant against the witness who had commended him to the pawnbroker. On his road thither109, a new resolution occurred to him. “Why make all public,” he muttered to himself, “if it can be avoided? and it may be avoided!” He paused a moment, then retraced110 his way to the pawnbroker’s, and, after a brief mandate111 to Mr. Swoppem, returned home. In the course of the same evening the witness we refer to was brought to the lawyer’s house by Mr. Swoppem, and there held a long and private conversation with Brandon; the result of this seemed a compact to their mutual112 satisfaction, for the man went away safe, with a heavy purse and a light heart, although sundry shades and misgivings113 did certainly ever and anon cross the latter; while Brandon flung himself back in his seat with the triumphant114 air of one who has accomplished some great measure, and his dark face betrayed in every feature a joyousness115 and hope which were unfrequent guests, it must be owned, either to his countenance116 or his heart.
So good a man of business, however, was William Brandon that he allowed not the event of that day to defer117 beyond the night his attention to his designs for the aggrandizement118 of his niece and house. By daybreak the next morning he had written to Lord Mauleverer, to his brother, and to Lucy. To the last his letter, couched in all the anxiety of fondness and the caution of affectionate experience, was well calculated to occasion that mingled shame and soreness which the wary119 lawyer rightly judged would be the most effectual enemy to an incipient120 passion. “I have accidentally heard,” he wrote, “from a friend of mine, just arrived from Bath, of the glaring attentions paid to you by a Captain Clifford; I will not, my dearest niece, wound you by repeating what also I heard of your manner in receiving them. I know the ill-nature and the envy of the world; and I do not for a moment imagine that my Lucy, of whom I am so justly proud, would countenance, from a petty coquetry, the advances of one whom she could never marry, or evince to any suitor partiality unknown to her relations, and certainly placed in a quarter which could never receive their approbation121. I do not credit the reports of the idle, my dear niece; but if I discredit49, you must not slight them. I call upon your prudence122, your delicacy123, your discretion74, your sense of right, at once and effectually to put a stop to all impertinent rumours: dance with this young man no more; do not let him be of your party in any place of amusement, public or private; avoid even seeing him if you are able, and throw in your manner towards him that decided124 coldness which the world cannot mistake.” Much more did the skilful125 uncle write, but all to the same purpose, and for the furtherance of the same design. His letter to his brother was not less artful. He told him at once that Lucy’s preference of the suit of a handsome fortune-hunter was the public talk, and besought126 him to lose not a moment in quelling the rumour16. “You may do so easily,” he wrote, “by avoiding the young man; and should he be very importunate127, return at once to Warlock. Your daughter’s welfare must be dearer to you than anything.”
To Mauleverer, Brandon replied by a letter which turned first on public matters, and then slid carelessly into the subject of the earl’s information.
Among the admonitions which he ventured to give Mauleverer, he dwelt, not without reason, on the want of tact128 displayed by the earl in not manifesting that pomp and show which his station in life enabled him to do. “Remember,” he urged, “you are not among your equals, by whom unnecessary parade begins to be considered an ostentatious vulgarity. The surest method of dazzling our inferiors is by splendour, not taste. All young persons — all women in particular — are caught by show, and enamoured of magnificence. Assume a greater state, and you will be more talked of; and notoriety wins a woman’s heart more than beauty or youth. You have, forgive me, played the boy too long; a certain dignity becomes your manhood; women will not respect you if you suffer yourself to become ‘stale and cheap to vulgar company.’ You are like a man who has fifty advantages, and uses only one of them to gain his point, when you rely on your conversation and your manner, and throw away the resources of your wealth and your station. Any private gentleman may be amiable129 and witty; but any private gentleman cannot call to his aid the Aladdin’s lamp possessed in England by a wealthy peer. Look to this, my dear lord! Lucy at heart is vain, or she is not a woman. Dazzle her, then — dazzle! Love may be blind, but it must be made so by excess of light. You have a country-house within a few miles of Bath. Why not take up your abode there instead of in a paltry130 lodging131 in the town? Give sumptuous132 entertainments — make it necessary for all the world to attend them — exclude, of course, this Captain Clifford; you will then meet Lucy without a rival. At present, excepting only your title, you fight on a level ground with this adventurer, instead of an eminence133 from which you could in an instant sweep him away. Nay, he is stronger than you; he has the opportunities afforded by a partnership134 in balls where you cannot appear to advantage; he is, you say, in the first bloom of youth, he is handsome. Reflect! — your destiny, so far as Lucy is concerned, is in your hands. I turn to other subjects,” etc. As Brandon re-read, ere he signed, this last letter, a bitter smile sat on his harsh yet handsome features. “If,” said he, mentally, “I can effect this object — if Mauleverer does marry this girl — why so much the better that she has another, a fairer, and a more welcome lover. By the great principle of scorn within me, which has enabled me to sneer135 at what weaker minds adore, and make a footstool of that worldly honour which fools set up as a throne, it would be to me more sweet than fame — ay, or even than power — to see this fine-spun lord a gibe136 in the mouths of men — a cuckold, a cuckold!” and as he said the last word Brandon laughed outright137. “And he thinks, too,” added he, “that he is sure of my fortune; otherwise, perhaps, he, the goldsmith’s descendant, would not dignify138 our house with his proposals; but he may err6 there — he may err there,” and, finishing his soliloquy, Brandon finished also his letter by —“Adieu, my dear lord, your most affectionate friend”!
It is not difficult to conjecture139 the effect produced upon Lucy by Brandon’s letter. It made her wretched; she refused for days to go out; she shut herself up in her apartment, and consumed the time in tears and struggles with her own heart. Sometimes what she conceived to be her duty conquered, and she resolved to forswear her lover; but the night undid140 the labour of the day — for at night, every night, the sound of her lover’s voice, accompanied by music, melted away her resolution, and made her once more all tenderness and trust. The words, too, sung under her window were especially suited to affect her; they breathed a melancholy which touched her the more from its harmony with her own thoughts. One while they complained of absence, at another they hinted at neglect; but there was always in them a tone of humiliation141, not reproach; they bespoke142 a sense of unworthiness in the lover, and confessed that even the love was a crime: and in proportion as they owned the want of desert did Lucy more firmly cling to the belief that her lover was deserving.
The old squire143 was greatly disconcerted by his brother’s letter. Though impressed with the idea of self-consequence, and the love of tolerably pure blood, common to most country squires144, he was by no means ambitious for his daughter. On the contrary, the same feeling which at Warlock had made him choose his companions among the inferior gentry145 made him averse146 to the thought of a son-inlaw from the peerage. In spite of Mauleverer’s good-nature, the very ease of the earl annoyed him, and he never felt at home in his society. To Clifford he had a great liking147; and having convinced himself that there was nothing to suspect in the young gentleman, he saw no earthly reason why so agreeable a companion should not be an agreeable son-inlaw. “If he be poor,” thought the squire, “though he does not seem so, Lucy is rich!” And this truism appeared to him to answer every objection. Nevertheless, William Brandon possessed a remarkable influence over the weaker mind of his brother; and the squire, though with great reluctance148, resolved to adopt his advice. He shut his doors against Clifford, and when he met him in the streets, instead of greeting him with his wonted cordiality, he passed him with a hasty “Good day, Captain!” which, after the first day or two, merged149 into a distant bow. Whenever very good-hearted people are rude, and unjustly so, the rudeness is in the extreme. The squire felt it so irksome to be less familiar than heretofore with Clifford, that his only remaining desire was now to drop him altogether; and to this consummation of acquaintance the gradually cooling salute150 appeared rapidly approaching. Meanwhile Clifford, unable to see Lucy, shunned151 by her father, and obtaining in answer to all inquiry152 rude looks from the footman, whom nothing but the most resolute153 command over his muscles prevented him from knocking down, began to feel perhaps, for the first time in his life, that an equivocal character is at least no equivocal misfortune. To add to his distress154, “the earnings155 of his previous industry”— we use the expression cherished by the wise Tomlinson — waxed gradually less and less beneath the expenses of Bath; and the murmuring voices of his two comrades began already to reproach their chief for his inglorious idleness, and to hint at the necessity of a speedy exertion156.
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