“What does the beauty want of our poor lady? She has a totally different stamp. I don’t know much about women, but I can see that.”
“How do you mean – a different stamp? They both have the stamp of their rank!” cried Rosy.
“Who can ever tell what women want, at any time?” Hyacinth said, with the off-handedness of a man of the world.
“Well, my boy, if you don’t know any more than I, you disappoint me! Perhaps if we wait long enough she will tell us some day herself.”
“Tell you what she wants of Lady Aurora?”
“I don’t mind about Lady Aurora so much; but what in the name of long journeys does she want with us?”
“Don’t you think you’re worth a long journey?” Rosy asked, gaily36. “If you were not my brother, which is handy for seeing you, and I were not confined to my sofa, I would go from one end of England to the other to make your acquaintance! He’s in love with the Princess,” she went on, to Hyacinth, “and he asks those senseless questions to cover it up. What does any one want of anything?”
It was decided37, at last, that the two young men should go down to Greenwich, and after they had partaken of bread and cheese with Rosy they embarked38 on a penny steamer. The boat was densely39 crowded, and they leaned, rather squeezed together, in the fore33 part of it, against the rail of the deck, and watched the big black fringe of the yellow stream. The river was always fascinating to Hyacinth. The mystified entertainment which, as a child, he had found in all the aspects of London came back to him from the murky40 scenery of its banks and the sordid41 agitation42 of its bosom43: the great arches and pillars of the bridges, where the water rushed, and the funnels44 tipped, and sounds made an echo, and there seemed an overhanging of interminable processions; the miles of ugly wharves45 and warehouses46; the lean protrusions of chimney, mast, and crane; the painted signs of grimy industries, staring from shore to shore; the strange, flat, obstructive barges47, straining and bumping on some business as to which everything was vague but that it was remarkably48 dirty; the clumsy coasters and colliers, which thickened as one went down; the small, loafing boats, whose occupants, somehow, looking up from their oars34 at the steamer, as they rocked in the oily undulations of its wake, appeared profane49 and sarcastic50; in short, all the grinding, puffing51, smoking, splashing activity of the turbid52 flood. In the good-natured crowd, amid the fumes53 of vile54 tobacco, beneath the shower of sooty particles, and to the accompaniment of a bagpipe55 of a dingy56 Highlander57, who sketched58 occasionally a smothered59 reel, Hyacinth forbore to speak to his companion of what he had most at heart; but later, as they lay on the brown, crushed grass, on one of the slopes of Greenwich Park, and saw the river stretch away and shine beyond the pompous60 colonnades61 of the hospital, he asked him whether there was any truth in what Rosy had said about his being sweet on their friend the Princess. He said ‘their friend’ on purpose, speaking as if, now that she had been twice to Audley Court, Muniment might be regarded as knowing her almost as well as he himself did. He wished to conjure62 away the idea that he was jealous of Paul, and if he desired information on the point I have mentioned this was because it still made him almost as uncomfortable as it had done at first that his comrade should take the scoffing63 view. He didn’t easily see such a fellow as Muniment wheel about from one day to the other, but he had been present at the most exquisite64 exhibition he had ever observed the Princess make of that divine power of conciliation65 which was not perhaps in social intercourse66 the art she chiefly exercised but was certainly the most wonderful of her secrets, and it would be remarkable67 indeed that a sane68 young man should not have been affected69 by it. It was familiar to Hyacinth that Muniment was not easily touched by women, but this might perfectly have been the case without detriment70 to the Princess’s ability to work a miracle. The companions had wandered through the great halls and courts of the hospital; had gazed up at the glories of the famous painted chamber71 and admired the long and lurid72 series of the naval73 victories of England – Muniment remarking to his friend that he supposed he had seen the match to all that in foreign parts, offensive little travelled beggar that he was. They had not ordered a fish-dinner either at the ‘Trafalgar’ or the ‘Ship’ (having a frugal74 vision of tea and shrimps75 with Rosy, on their return), but they had laboured up and down the steep undulations of the shabby, charming park; made advances to the tame deer and seen them amble76 foolishly away; watched the young of both sexes, hilarious77 and red in the face, roll in promiscuous78 entanglement79 over the slopes; gazed at the little brick observatory80, perched on one of the knolls81, which sets the time of English history and in which Hyacinth could see that his companion took a kind of technical interest; wandered out of one of the upper gates and admired the trimness of the little villas82 at Blackheath, where Muniment declared that it was his idea of supreme83 social success to be able to live. He pointed84 out two or three small, semi-detached houses, faced with stucco, and with ‘Mortimer Lodge’ or ‘The Sycamores’ inscribed85 upon the gate-posts, and Hyacinth guessed that these were the sort of place where he would like to end his days – in high, pure air, with a genteel window for Rosy’s couch and a cheerful view of suburban86 excursions. It was when they came back into the park that, being rather hot and a little satiated, they stretched themselves under a tree and Hyacinth yielded to his curiosity.
“Sweet on her – sweet on her, my boy!” said Muniment. “I might as well be sweet on the dome87 of St Paul’s, which I just make out off there.”
“The dome of St Paul’s doesn’t come to see you, and doesn’t ask you to return the visit.”
“Oh, I don’t return visits – I’ve got a lot of jobs of my own to do. If I don’t put myself out for the Princess, isn’t that a sufficient answer to your question?”
“I’m by no means sure,” said Hyacinth. “If you went to see her, simply and civilly, because she asked you, I shouldn’t regard it as a proof that you had taken a fancy to her. Your hanging off is more suspicious; it may mean that you don’t trust yourself – that you are in danger of falling in love if you go in for a more intimate acquaintance.”
“It’s a rum job, your wanting me to make up to her. I shouldn’t think it would suit your book,” Muniment rejoined, staring at the sky, with his hands clasped under his head.
“Do you suppose I’m afraid of you?” his companion asked. “Besides,” Hyacinth added in a moment, “why the devil should I care, now?”
Muniment, for a little, made no rejoinder; he turned over on his side, and with his arm resting on the ground leaned his head on his hand. Hyacinth felt his eyes on his face, but he also felt himself colouring, and didn’t meet them. He had taken a private vow88 never to indulge, to Muniment, in certain inauspicious references, and the words he had just spoken had slipped out of his mouth too easily. “What do you mean by that?” Paul demanded, at last; and when Hyacinth looked at him he saw nothing but his companion’s strong, fresh, irresponsible face. Muniment, before speaking, had had time to guess what he meant by it.
Suddenly, an impulse that he had never known before, or rather that he had always resisted, took possession of him. There was a mystery which it concerned his happiness to clear up, and he became unconscious of his scruples89, of his pride, of the strength that he had believed to be in him – the strength for going through his work and passing away without a look behind. He sat forward on the grass, with his arms round his knees, and bent90 upon Muniment a face lighted up by his difficulties. For a minute the two men’s eyes met with extreme clearness, and then Hyacinth exclaimed, “What an extraordinary fellow you are!”
“You’ve hit it there!” said Muniment, smiling.
“I don’t want to make a scene, or work on your feelings, but how will you like it when I’m strung up on the gallows91?”
“You mean for Hoffendahl’s job? That’s what you were alluding to just now?” Muniment lay there, in the same attitude, chewing a long blade of dry grass, which he held to his lips with his free hand.
“I didn’t mean to speak of it; but after all, why shouldn’t it come up? Naturally, I have thought of it a good deal.”
“What good does that do?” Muniment returned. “I hoped you didn’t, and I noticed you never spoke of it. You don’t like it; you would rather throw it up,” he added.
There was not in his voice the faintest note of irony92 or contempt, no sign whatever that he passed judgment93 on such a tendency. He spoke in a quiet, human, memorising manner, as if it had originally quite entered into his thought to allow for weak regrets. Nevertheless the complete reasonableness of his tone itself cast a chill on his companion’s spirit; it was like the touch of a hand at once very firm and very soft, but strangely cold.
“I don’t want in the least to throw the business up, but did you suppose I liked it?” Hyacinth asked, with rather a forced laugh.
“My dear fellow, how could I tell? You like a lot of things I don’t. You like excitement and emotion and change, you like remarkable sensations, whereas I go in for a holy calm, for sweet repose94.”
“If you object, for yourself, to change, and are so fond of still waters, why have you associated yourself with a revolutionary movement?” Hyacinth demanded, with a little air of making rather a good point.
“Just for that reason!” Muniment answered, with a smile. “Isn’t our revolutionary movement as quiet as the grave? Who knows, who suspects, anything like the full extent of it?”
“I see – you take only the quiet parts!”
In speaking these words Hyacinth had had no derisive95 intention, but a moment later he flushed with the sense that they had a sufficiently96 petty sound. Muniment, however, appeared to see no offence in them, and it was in the gentlest, most suggestive way, as if he had been thinking over what might comfort his comrade, that he replied, “There’s one thing you ought to remember – that it’s quite on the cards it may never come off.”
“I don’t desire that reminder,” Hyacinth said; “and, moreover, you must let me say that, somehow, I don’t easily fancy you mixed up with things that don’t come off. Anything you have to do with will come off, I think.”
Muniment reflected a moment, as if his little companion were charmingly ingenious. “Surely, I have nothing to do with this idea of Hoffendahl’s.”
“With the execution, perhaps not; but how about the conception? You seemed to me to have a great deal to do with it the night you took me to see him.”
Muniment changed his position, raising himself, and in a moment he was seated, Turk-fashion, beside his mate. He put his arm over his shoulder and held him, studying his face; and then, in the kindest manner in the world, he remarked, “There are three or four definite chances in your favour.”
“I don’t want comfort, you know,” said Hyacinth, with his eyes on the distant atmospheric97 mixture that represented London.
“What the devil do you want?” Muniment asked, still holding him, and with perfect good-humour.
“Well, to get inside of you a little; to know how a chap feels when he’s going to part with his best friend.”
“To part with him?” Muniment repeated.
“I mean, putting it at the worst.”
“I should think you would know by yourself, if you’re going to part with me!”
At this Hyacinth prostrated98 himself, tumbled over on the grass, on his face, which he buried in his arms. He remained in this attitude, saying nothing, for a long time; and while he lay there he thought, with a sudden, quick flood of association, of many strange things. Most of all, he had the sense of the brilliant, charming day; the warm stillness, touched with cries of amusement; the sweetness of loafing there, in an interval99 of work, with a friend who was a tremendously fine fellow, even if he didn’t understand the inexpressible. Muniment also kept silent, and Hyacinth perceived that he was unaffectedly puzzled. He wanted now to relieve him, so that he pulled himself together again and turned round, saying the first thing he could think of, in relation to the general subject of their conversation, that would carry them away from the personal question: “I have asked you before, and you have told me, but somehow I have never quite grasped it (so I just touch on the matter again), exactly what good you think it will do.”
“This idea of Hoffendahl’s? You must remember that as yet we know only very vaguely100 what it is. It is difficult, therefore, to measure closely the importance it may have, and I don’t think I have ever, in talking with you, pretended to fix that importance. I don’t suppose it will matter immensely whether your own engagement is carried out or not; but if it is it will have been a detail in a scheme of which the general effect will be decidedly useful. I believe, and you pretend to believe, though I am not sure you do, in the advent28 of the democracy. It will help the democracy to get possession that the classes that keep them down shall be admonished101 from time to time that they have a very definite and very determined102 intention of doing so. An immense deal will depend upon that. Hoffendahl is a capital admonisher.”
Hyacinth listened to this explanation with an expression of interest that was not feigned103; and after a moment he rejoined, “When you say you believe in the democracy, I take for granted you mean you positively104 wish for their coming into power, as I have always supposed. Now what I really have never understood is this – why you should desire to put forward a lot of people whom you regard, almost without exception, as donkeys.”
“Ah, my dear lad,” laughed Muniment, “when one undertakes to meddle105 in human affairs one must deal with human material. The upper classes have the longest ears.”
“I have heard you say that you were working for an equality in human conditions, to abolish the immemorial inequality. What you want, then, for all mankind is a similar nuance106 of asininity107.”
“That’s very clever; did you pick it up in France? The low tone of our fellow-mortals is a result of bad conditions; it is the conditions I want to alter. When those that have no start to speak of have a good one, it is but fair to infer that they will go further. I want to try them, you know.”
“But why equality?” Hyacinth asked. “Somehow, that word doesn’t say so much to me as it used to. Inequality – inequality! I don’t know whether it’s by dint108 of repeating it over to myself, but that doesn’t shock me as it used.”
“They didn’t put you up to that in France, I’m sure!” Muniment exclaimed. “Your point of view has changed; you have risen in the world.”
“Risen? Good God, what have I risen to?”
“True enough; you were always a bloated little swell109!” And Muniment gave his young friend a sociable110 slap on the back. There was a momentary111 bitterness in its being imputed112 to such a one as Hyacinth, even in joke, that he had taken sides with the fortunate ones of the earth, and he had it on his tongue’s end to ask his friend if he had never guessed what his proud titles were – the bastard113 of a murderess, spawned114 in a gutter115, out of which he had been picked by a sewing-girl. But his life-long reserve on this point was a habit not easily broken, and before such an inquiry116 could flash through it Muniment had gone on: “If you’ve ceased to believe we can do anything, it will be rather awkward, you know.”
“I don’t know what I believe, God help me!” Hyacinth remarked, in a tone of an effect so lugubrious117 that Paul gave one of his longest, most boyish-sounding laughs. And he added, “I don’t want you to think I have ceased to care for the people. What am I but one of the poorest and meanest of them?”
“You, my boy? You’re a duke in disguise, and so I thought the first time I ever saw you. That night I took you to Hoffendahl you had a little way with you that made me forget it; I mean that your disguise happened to be better than usual. As regards caring for the people, there’s surely no obligation at all,” Muniment continued. “I wouldn’t if I could help it – I promise you that. It all depends on what you see. The way I’ve used my eyes in this abominable118 metropolis119 has led to my seeing that present arrangements won’t do. They won’t do,” he repeated, placidly120.
“Yes, I see that, too,” said Hyacinth, with the same dolefulness that had marked his tone a moment before – a dolefulness begotten121 of the rather helpless sense that, whatever he saw, he saw (and this was always the case) so many other things beside. He saw the immeasurable misery122 of the people, and yet he saw all that had been, as it were, rescued and redeemed123 from it: the treasures, the felicities, the splendours, the successes, of the world. All this took the form, sometimes, to his imagination, of a vast, vague, dazzling presence, an irradiation of light from objects undefined, mixed with the atmosphere of Paris and of Venice. He presently added that a hundred things Muniment had told him about the foul124 horrors of the worst districts of London, pictures of incredible shame and suffering that he had put before him, came back to him now, with the memory of the passion they had kindled125 at the time.
“Oh, I don’t want you to go by what I have told you; I want you to go by what you have seen yourself. I remember there were things you told me that weren’t bad in their way.” And at this Paul Muniment sprang to his feet, as if their conversation had drawn to an end, or they must at all events be thinking of their homeward way. Hyacinth got up, too, while his companion stood there. Muniment was looking off toward London, with a face that expressed all the healthy singleness of his vision. Suddenly Paul remarked, as if it occurred to him to complete, or at any rate confirm, the declaration he had made a short time before, “Yes, I don’t believe in the millennium126, but I do believe in the democracy.”
The young man, as he spoke these words, struck his comrade as such a fine embodiment of the spirit of the people; he stood there, in his powerful, sturdy newness, with such an air of having learnt what he had learnt and of good-nature that had purposes in it, that our hero felt the simple inrush of his old, frequent pride at having a person of that promise, a nature of that capacity, for a friend. He passed his hand into Muniment’s arm and said, with an imperceptible tremor127 in his voice, “It’s no use your saying I’m not to go by what you tell me. I would go by what you tell me, anywhere. There’s no awkwardness to speak of. I don’t know that I believe exactly what you believe, but I believe in you, and doesn’t that come to the same thing?”
Muniment evidently appreciated the cordiality and candour of this little tribute, and the way he showed it was by a movement of his arm, to check his companion, before they started to leave the spot, and by looking down at him with a certain anxiety of friendliness128. “I should never have taken you to Hoffendahl if I hadn’t thought you would jump at the job. It was that flaring129 little oration130 of yours, at the club, when you floored Delancey for saying you were afraid, that put me up to it.”
“I did jump at it – upon my word I did; and it was just what I was looking for. That’s all correct!” said Hyacinth, cheerfully, as they went forward. There was a strain of heroism131 in these words – of heroism of which the sense was not conveyed to Muniment by a vibration132 in their interlocked arms. Hyacinth did not make the reflection that he was infernally literal; he dismissed the sentimental133 problem that had bothered him; he condoned134, excused, admired – he merged135 himself, resting happy for the time in the consciousness that Paul was a grand fellow, that friendship was a purer feeling than love, and that there was an immense deal of affection between them. He did not even observe at that moment that it was preponderantly on his own side.
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