Lord Pottersleigh snuffed and ejaculated from time to time, and ere long had betaken himself to his room. Caradoc, Guilfoyle--who seemed considerably8 bewildered by the affair--young Clavel of the 19th, and other gentlemen, with Gwyllim the butler, Morgan Roots the gardener, Bob Spurrit, and the whole male staff of the household, manfully continued their search by the shore. There the scene was wild and impressive. Before the violence of the bellowing9 wind, the mist was giving place to the pall-like masses of dark clouds, which rolled swiftly past the pale face of the new moon, imparting a weird-like aspect to the rocky coast, against which the sea was foaming10 in white and hurrying waves, while the sea-birds, scared alike by the shouts and the light of the searchers, quite as much as by the storm, screamed and wheeled in wild flights about their eyries. Moments there were when Caradoc thought the search was prosecuted11 in the wrong direction, and that, as there had probably been an elopement, this prowling along the seashore was absurd.
"Can it be," said he, inaudibly, "that the little boy who cried for the moon has made off with it bodily? If so, this will be rather a 'swell13' affair for the mess of the Royal Welsh."
Slowly passed the time, and more anxious than all the rest--Lady Naseby of course excepted--the soft-hearted Winifred was full of dismay that any catastrophe14 should occur to two guests at Craigaderyn, and she listened like a startled fawn15 to every passing sound.
Dora, as deeming herself the authoress of the whole calamity16, was completely crushed, and sat on a low stool with her head bowed on Lady Naseby's knee, sobbing17 bitterly ever and anon, when the storm-gusts howled among the trees of the chase, shook the oriels of the old mansion18, and made the ivy19 leaves patter on the panes20, or shuddering21 as she heard the knell-like ding-dong of the house-bell occasionally. The masses of her golden hair had been dishevelled by the wind without; but she forgot all about that, as well as about her two solemn engagements made with Tom Clavell for the morrow; one, the mild excitement of fishing for sticklebacks in the horse-pond, and the other, a gallop22 to the Marine23 Parade of Llandudno, attended by old Bob Spurrit; for the little sub of the 1st York North Riding was, pro12 tem., the bondsman of a girl who was at once charming and childish, petulant24 and more than pretty. Heavily and anxiously were passed the minutes, the quarters, and the hours. Messenger after messenger to the searchers by the shore went forth and returned. Their tidings were all the same; nothing had been seen or heard of the boat, of Lady Estelle, or of her companion. Nine o'clock was struck by the great old clock in the stable court, and then every one instinctively25 looked at his or her watch. Half-past nine, ten, and even midnight struck, without tidings of the lost. By that time the mist had cleared away, the tide had turned, and the west wind was rolling the incoming sea with mightier26 fury on the rock-bound shore.
The first hours of the morning passed without intelligence, and alarm, dismay, and grief reigned27 supreme28 among the pallid29 group at Craigaderyn Court. All could but hope that with the coming day a revelation might come for weal or woe30; and as if to involve the disappearance31 of the missing ones in greater mystery, if it did not point to a terrible conclusion, the lost pleasure-boat was discovered by a coastguardsman, high and dry, and bottom up, on a strip of sandy beach, some miles from Craigaderyn; but of its supposed occupants not a trace could be found, save a lace cuff32, recognised as Lady Estelle's, wedged or washed into the framework of the little craft, thus linking her fate with it. Ours was, indeed, a perilous33 situation. We were helplessly adrift on a stormy sea, off a rock-bound coast, in a tiny boat, liable to swamping at any moment, without oars35 or covering, the wind rising fast, while the darkness and the mist were coming down together. I had no words to express my anxiety for what one so delicately nurtured36 as Estelle might suffer. My annoyance37 at the surmises and wonder naturally excited by our protracted38 absence; quizzical, it might be equivocal, inferences drawn39 from it--I thought nothing of these. I was beyond all such minor40 considerations, and felt only solicitude41 for her safety and a terror of what her fate might be. All other ideas, even love itself--though that very solicitude was born of love--were merged42 for the time in the tenderest anxiety. If her situation with me was perilous, what had it been if with Lord Pottersleigh? But had she been with him, no such event as a descent to that unlucky pleasure grotto43 could have been thought of. Though pale and terrified, not a tear escaped her now; but her white and beautiful face was turned, with a haggard aspect, to mine. A life-buoy happened to be in the boat, and without a word I tied it to her securely.
"Is there not one for you?" she asked, piteously, laying a hand on mine.
"Think not of me, Lady Estelle; if you are saved, what care I for myself?"
"You swim, then?"
"A little, a very little; scarcely at all."
"You are generous and noble, Mr. Hardinge! O, if kind God permits me to reach the land safely, I shall never be guilty of an act of folly44 like this again. Mamma says--poor mamma!--that it is birth, or blood, which carries people through great emergencies; but who could have foreseen such a calamitous45 contretemps as this? And who could have been a greater coward than I? I should have made a steady attempt at yonder pitiful cliff; to fail was most childish, and I have involved you in this most fatal peril34."
She sobbed46 as she spoke47, and her eyes were full of light; but her lips were compressed, and all her soft and aristocratic loveliness seemed for a time to grow different in expression; to gather sternness, as a courage now possessed48 her, of which she had seemed deficient49 before, or it might be an obstinacy50 born of despair; for the light boat was swept hither and thither51 helplessly, by stem and stern alternately, on each successive wave; tossed upward on the crest52 of one watery53 ridge54, or sunk downward between two that heaved up on each side as if to engulf55 us; while the spoondrift, salt and bitter, torn from their tops, flew over us, as she clung with one hand to the gunwale of the tiny craft, and with the other to me.
That we were not being drifted landward was evident, for we could no longer hear the voices of the sea-birds among the rocks; and to be drifted seaward by ebb56 tide or current was only another phase of peril. The voice of Lady Estelle came in painful gasps58 as she said,
"O, Mr. Hardinge, Mr. Hardinge, we shall perish most miserably59; we shall certainly be drowned! Mamma, my poor mamma, I shall never see her more!"
Though striving to reassure60 her I was, for a time, completely bewildered by anxiety for what she must suffer by a terror of the sudden fate that might come upon her; and I was haunted by morbid61 visions of her, the brilliant Estelle, a drowned and sodden62 corpse63, the sport of the waves--of myself I never thought--tossing unburied in the deep, or, it might be, cast mutilated on the shore; and she looked so beautiful and helpless as she clung to me now, clasping my right arm with all her energy, her head half reclined upon my shoulder, and the passing spray mingling64 with her tears upon her cheek. "The drowning man is said to be confronted by a ghostly panorama65 of his whole life." It may be so generally; but then I had only the horror of losing Estelle, whom I loved so tenderly. We were now together and alone, so completely, suddenly, and terribly alone, it might be for life or for death--the former short indeed, and the latter swift and sudden, if the boat upset, or we were washed out of it into the sea; and yet in that time of peril she possessed more than ever for me that wondrous66 and undefinable charm and allurement67 which every man finds in the woman he loves, and in her only.
"God spare us and help us!" she exclaimed. "Mr. Hardinge, I am filled with unutterable fear;" and then she added, unconsciously quoting some poet, "I find the thought of death, to one near death, most dreadful!"
"With you, Estelle, love might make it indeed a joy to die!" I exclaimed, with a gush68 of enthusiasm and tenderness that, but for the terrible situation, had been melodramatic.
"I did not think that you loved me so," said she, after a little pause; and my arm now encircled her waist, while something of an invocation to heaven rose to my lips, and I repeated,
"Not think that I loved you! Do not be coquettishly unwilling69 to admit what you must know, that since that last happy night in London you have never been absent from my thoughts; and here, Estelle, dear, dear Estelle, when menaced by a grave amid these waters, I tell you that I loved you from the first moment that I knew you! Death stares us in the face, but tell me truly that you--that you--"
"Love you in return? I do, indeed, dear Harry70!" she sobbed, and then her beloved face, chilled and damp with tears and spray, came close to mine.
"God bless you, O my darling, for this avowal71!" said I in a thick voice, and even the terrors of our position could not damp the glow of my joy.
In all my waking dreams of her had Estelle seemed beautiful; but never so much so as now, when I seemed on the eve of losing her for ever, and my own life, too; when each successive wave that rolled in inky blackness towards us might tear her from my clasp! How easily under some circumstances do we learn the language of passion! and now, while clasping her fast with one arm, as with both of hers she clung to me, I pressed her to my breast, and told her again and again how fondly I loved her, while--as it were in a dream, a portion of a nightmare--our boat, now filling fast with water, was tossed madly to and fro. And like a dream, too, it seemed, the fact that I had her all to myself--for life or death, as it were--this brilliant creature so loved by many, so prized by all, and hitherto apparently72 so unattainable; she who, by a look, a glance, a smile, by a flirt73 of her fan, by the dropping of a glove, or the gift of a flower, selected with point from her bouquet74, had held my soul in thrall75 by all the delicious trifles that make up the sum and glory of love to the lover who is young. And where were we now? Alone on the dark, and ere long it was the midnight, sea! Alone, and with me; I who had so long eyed her lovingly and longingly76, even as Sch?n Rohtrant, the German king's daughter, was gazed at and loved by the handsome page, who dared not to touch or kiss her till he gathered courage one day, as the ballad77 tells us, when they were under a shady old oak.
"If God spares us to see her," said Lady Estelle, "what will mamma think of this terrible fiasco of ours?"
While Estelle loved me, I felt that I did not care very much for the dowager's views of the matter, especially at that precise moment. When on terra firma there would be sufficient time to consider them.
"And you are mine, darling?" said I, tenderly.
"I am yours, Harry, and yours only."
"Never shall I weary of hearing this admission; but the rumour78 of an engagement to Lord Pottersleigh?'
"Absurd! It has grown out of his dangling79 after me and mamma's wish, as I won't have my cousin Naseby."
"And you do not hold yourself engaged--"
"Save to you, Harry, and you alone."
And as her head again sank upon my shoulder, her pride and my doubts fled together; but now a half-stifled shriek80 escaped her, as the frail81 boat was nearly overturned by a larger wave than usual, which struck it on the counter. We were drenched82 and chilled, so ours was, indeed, love-making under difficulties; and the time, even with her reclining in my arms, passed slowly. How many a prayer and invocation, all too deep for utterance83, rose to my lips for her! The hours drew on. Would day never dawn? With all the sweet but now terrible companionship of love--for it was love combined with gloomy danger--this was our utmost craving84.
The new moon, as she rose pale and sharp, like a silver sickle85, from the Irish Sea, when the fog began to disperse86, tipped for a little time with light the wave-tops as they rose or sank around us; but clouds soon enveloped87 her again; and when the tide turned, the sea ran inward, and broke wildly on the tremendous headlands of the coast. That our boat was not swamped seemed miraculous88; but it was very buoyant, being entirely89 lined with cork90, and had air-tight compartments91 under the seats. A gray streak92 at the far horizon had spread across a gap of pale green, announcing that the short August night was past, and rapidly it broadened and brightened into day, while crimson93 and gold began to tip the wave-tops with a fiery94 hue95, the whole ocean seeming to be mottled, as it were; and I could see the coast-line, as we were not quite a mile from it. In the distance were plainly visible the little town of Abergele, and those hills where Castell Cawr and the Cefn Ogo are, tinged96 with pink, as they rose above the white vapour that rolled along the shore.
The more distant mountain ranges seemed blue and purple against a sky where clouds of pearly-pink were floating. Estelle was exhausted97 now. Her pallor added to my misery98. So many hours of pitiless exposure had proved too much for her strength, and with her eyes closed she lay helpless in my arms, while wave after wave was now impelling99 us shoreward, and, most happily it would seem, towards a point where the rocks opened and the water shoaled. One enormous breaker, white-crested and overarching, came rolling upon us. A gasp57, a mutual100 cry to heaven, half-stifled by the bitter spray, and then the mighty101 volume of it engulfed102 us and our boat. We had a momentary103 sense of darkness and blindness, a sound as of booming thunder mingled104 with the clangour of bells in our ears, and something of the feeling of being swept by an express train through a tunnel filled with water, for we were fairly under the latter; but I clung to the boat with one hand and arm, while the other went round Estelle with a death-like embrace, that prevented her from being swept or torn from me.
For some moments I knew not whether we were on the land or in the sea; but, though stunned105 by the shock, I acted mechanically. Then I remember becoming conscious of rising through the pale-green water, of inhaling106 a long breath, a gasping107 respiration108, and of seeing the sunshine on the waves. Another shock came, and we were flung on the flat or sloping beach, to be there left by the receding109 sea. Instead of in that place, had we been dashed against the impending110 rocks elsewhere, all had then been over with us. I still felt that my right arm was clasped around Estelle; but she was motionless, breathless, and still; and though a terror that she was dead oppressed me, a torpor111 that I could not resist spread over all my faculties112, and I sank into a state of perfect unconsciousness.
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