One result of the venture was the development of a new phase in Julia's nature. She not only accepted the future profit as certain, but she had apparently8 calculated its exact amount and framed her plans accordingly. If she had been humiliated9 by the character of Joseph's first business transaction with her father, she now made amends10 for it. "Pa" was their good genius. "Pa" was the agency whereby they should achieve wealth and social importance. Joseph now had the clearest evidence of the difference between a man who knew the world and was of value in it, and their slow, dull-headed country neighbors. Indeed, Julia seemed to consider the Asten property as rather contemptible11 beside the splendor13 of the Blessing scheme. Her gratitude14 for a quiet home, her love of country life, her disparagement15 of the shams16 and exactions of "society," were given up as suddenly and coolly as if she had never affected17 them. She gave herself no pains to make the transition gradual, and thus lessen18 its shock. Perhaps she supposed that Joseph's fresh, unsuspicious nature was so plastic that it had already sufficiently19 taken her impress, and that he would easily forget the mask she had worn. If so, she was seriously mistaken.
He saw, with a deadly chill of the heart, the change in her manner,—a change so complete that another face confronted him at the table, even as another heart beat beside his on the dishallowed marriage-bed. He saw the gentle droop20 vanish from the eyelids21, leaving the cold, flinty pupils unshaded; the soft appeal of the half-opened lips was lost in the rigid22, almost cruel compression which now seemed habitual23 to them; all the slight dependent gestures, the tender airs of reference to his will or pleasure, had rapidly transformed themselves into expressions of command or obstinate24 resistance. But the patience of a loving man is equal to that of a loving woman: he was silent, although his silence covered an ever-increasing sense of outrage25.
Once it happened, that after Julia had been unusually eloquent26 concerning "what pa is doing for us," and what use they should make of "pa's money, as I call it," Joseph quietly remarked:—
"You seem to forget, Julia, that without my money not much could have been done."
An angry color came into her face; but, on second thought, she bent27 her head, and murmured in an offended voice: "It is very mean and ungenerous in you to refer to our temporary poverty. You might forget, by this time, the help pa was compelled to ask of you."
"I did not think of that!" he exclaimed. "Besides, you did not seem entirely28 satisfied with my help, at the time."
"O, how you misunderstand me!" she groaned29. "I only wished to know the extent of his need. He is so generous, so considerate towards us, that we only guess his misfortune at the last moment."
The possibility of being unjust silenced Joseph. There were tears in Julia's voice, and he imagined they would soon rise to her eyes. After a long, uncomfortable pause, he said, for the sake of changing the subject: "What can have become of Elwood Withers30? I have not seen him for months."
"I don't think you need care to know," she remarked. "He's a rough, vulgar fellow: it's just as well if he keeps away from us."
"Julia! he is my friend, and must always be welcome to me. You were friendly enough towards him, and towards all the neighborhood, last summer: how is it that you have not a good word to say now?"
He spoke31 warmly and indignantly. Julia, however, looked at him with a calm, smiling face. "It is very simple," she said. "You will agree with me, in another year. A guest, as I was, must try to see only the pleasant side of people: that's our duty; and so I enjoyed—as much as I could—the rusticity32, the awkwardness, the ignorance, the (now, don't be vexed33, dear!)—the vulgarity of your friend. As one of the society of the neighborhood, as a resident, I am not bound by any such delicacy34. I take the same right to judge and select as I should take anywhere. Unless I am to be hypocritical, I cannot—towards you, at least—conceal my real feelings. How shall I ever get you to see the difference between yourself and these people, unless I continually point it out? You are modest, and don't like to acknowledge your own superiority."
She rose from the table, laughing, and went out of the room humming a lively air, leaving Joseph to make the best of her words.
A few days after this the work on the branch railway, extending down the valley, reached a point where it could be seen from the Asten farm. Joseph, on riding over to inspect the operations, was surprised to find Elwood, who had left his father's place and become a sub-contractor. The latter showed his hearty35 delight at their meeting.
"I've been meaning to come up," he said, "but this is a busy time for me. It's a chance I couldn't let slip, and now that I've taken hold I must hold on. I begin to think this is the thing I was made for, Joseph."
"I never thought of it before," Joseph answered, "and yet I'm sure you are right. How did you hit upon it?"
"I didn't; it was Mr. Held."
"Philip?"
"Him. You know I've been hauling for the Forge, and so it turned up by degrees, as I may say. He's at home, and, I expect, looking for you. But how are you now, really?"
Elwood's question meant a great deal more than he knew how to say. Suddenly, in a flash of memory, their talk of the previous year returned to Joseph's mind; he saw his friend's true instincts and his own blindness as never before. But he must dissemble, if possible, with that strong, rough, kindly36 face before him.
"O," he said, attempting a cheerful air, "I am one of the old folks now. You must come up—"
The recollection of Julia's words cut short the invitation upon his lips. A sharp pang37 went through his heart, and the treacherous38 blood crowded to his face all the more that he tried to hold it back.
"Come, and I'll show you where we're going to make the cutting," Elwood quietly said, taking him by the arm. Joseph fancied, thenceforth, that there was a special kindness in his manner, and the suspicion seemed to rankle40 in his mind as if he had been slighted by his friend.
As before, to vary the tedium41 of his empty life, so now, to escape from the knowledge which he found himself more and more powerless to resist, he busied himself beyond all need with the work of the farm. Philip had returned with his sister, he knew, but after the meeting with Elwood he shrank with a painful dread42 from Philip's heart-deep, intimate eye. Julia, however, all the more made use of the soft spring weather to survey the social ground, and choose where to take her stand. Joseph scarcely knew, indeed, how extensive her operations had been, until she announced an invitation to dine with the Hopetons, who were now in possession of the renovated43 Calvert place. She enlarged, more than was necessary, on the distinguished44 city position of the family, and the importance of "cultivating" its country members. Joseph's single brief meeting with Mr. Hopeton—who was a short, solid man, in ripe middle age, of a thoroughly45 cosmopolitan46, though not a remarkably47 intellectual stamp—had been agreeable, and he recognized the obligation to be neighborly. Therefore he readily accepted the invitation on his own grounds.
When the day arrived, Julia, after spending the morning over her toilet, came forth39 resplendent in rosy48 silk, bright and dazzling in complexion49, and with all her former grace of languid eyelids and parted lips. The void in Joseph's heart grew wider at the sight of her; for he perceived, as never before, her consummate50 skill in assuming a false character. It seemed incredible that he should have been so deluded51. For the first time a feeling of repulsion, which was almost disgust, came upon him as he listened to her prattle52 of delight in the soft weather, and the fragrant53 woods, and the blossoming orchards54. Was not, also, this delight assumed? he asked himself: false in one thing, false in all, was the fatal logic55 which then and there began its torment56.
The most that was possible in such a short time had been achieved on the Calvert place. The house had been brightened, surrounded by light, airy verandas57, and the lawn and garden, thrown into one and given into the hands of a skilful58 gardener, were scarcely to be recognized. A broad, solid gravel-walk replaced the old tan-covered path; a pretty fountain tinkled59 before the door; thick beds of geranium in flower studded the turf, and veritable thickets60 of rose-trees were waiting for June. Within the house, some rooms had been thrown together, the walls richly yet harmoniously61 colored, and the sumptuous62 furniture thus received a proper setting. In contrast to the houses of even the wealthiest farmers, which expressed a nicely reckoned sufficiency of comfort, the place had an air of joyous63 profusion64, of a wealth which delighted in itself.
Mr. Hopeton met them with the frank, offhand65 manner of a man of business. His wife followed, and the two guests made a rapid inspection66 of her as she came down the hall. Julia noticed that her crocus-colored dress was high in the neck, and plainly trimmed; that she wore no ornaments67, and that the natural pallor of her complexion had not been corrected by art. Joseph remarked the simple grace of her movement, the large, dark, inscrutable eyes, the smooth bands of her black hair, and the pure though somewhat lengthened68 oval of her face. The gentle dignity of her manner more than refreshed, it soothed69 him. She was so much younger than her husband that Joseph involuntarily wondered how they should have come together.
The greetings were scarcely over before Philip and Madeline Held arrived. Julia, with the least little gush70 of tenderness, kissed the latter, whom Philip then presented to Joseph for the first time. She had the same wavy71 hair as her brother, but the golden hue72 was deepened nearly into brown, and her eyes were a clear hazel. It was also the same frank, firm face, but her woman's smile was so much the sweeter as her lips were lovelier than the man's. Joseph seemed to clasp an instant friendship in her offered hand.
There was but one other guest, who, somewhat to his surprise, was Lucy Henderson. Julia concealed73 whatever she might have felt, and made so much reference to their former meetings as might satisfy Lucy without conveying to Mrs. Hopeton the impression of any special intimacy74. Lucy looked thin and worn, and her black silk dress was not of the latest fashion: she seemed to be the poor relation of the company. Joseph learned that she had taken one of the schools in the valley, for the summer. Her manner to him was as simple and friendly as ever, but he felt the presence of some new element of strength and self-reliance in her nature.
His place at dinner was beside Mrs. Hopeton, while Lucy—apparently by accident—sat upon the other side of the hostess. Philip and the host led the conversation, confining it too exclusively to the railroad and iron interests; but those finally languished75, and gave way to other topics in which all could take part. Joseph felt that while the others, except Lucy and himself, were fashioned under different aspects of life, some of which they shared in common, yet that their seeming ease and freedom of communication touched, here and there, some invisible limit, which they were careful not to pass. Even Philip appeared to be beyond his reach, for the time.
The country and the people, being comparatively new to them, naturally came to be discussed.
"Mr. Held, or Mr. Asten,—either of you know both,"—Mr. Hopeton asked, "what are the principal points of difference between society in the city and in the country?"
"Indeed, I know too little of the city," said Joseph.
"And I know too little of the country,—here, at least," Philip added. "Of course the same passions and prejudices come into play everywhere. There are circles, there are jealousies76, ups and downs, scandals, suppressions, and rehabilitations: it can't be otherwise."
"Are they not a little worse in the country," said Julia, "because—I may ask the question here, among us—there is less refinement77 of manner?"
"If the external forms are ruder," Philip resumed, "it may be an advantage, in one sense. Hypocrisy78 cannot be developed into an art."
Julia bit her lip, and was silent.
"But are the country people, hereabouts, so rough?" Mrs. Hopeton asked. "I confess that they don't seem so to me. What do you say, Miss Henderson?"
"Perhaps I am not an impartial79 witness," Lucy answered. "We care less about what is called 'manners' than the city people. We have no fixed80 rules for dress and behavior,—only we don't like any one to differ too much from the rest of us."
"That's it!" Mr. Hopeton cried; "the tyrannical levelling sentiment of an imperfectly developed community! Fortunately, I am beyond its reach."
Julia's eyes sparkled: she looked across the table at Joseph, with a triumphant81 air.
Philip suddenly raised his head. "How would you correct it? Simply by resistance?" he asked.
Mr. Hopeton laughed. "I should no doubt get myself into a hornet's-nest. No; by indifference82!"
Then Madeline Held spoke. "Excuse me," she said; "but is indifference possible, even if it were right? You seem to take the levelling spirit for granted, without looking into its character and causes; there must be some natural sense of justice, no matter how imperfectly society is developed. We are members of this community,—at least, Philip and I certainly consider ourselves so,—and I am determined83 not to judge it without knowledge, or to offend what may be only mechanical habits of thought, unless I can see a sure advantage in doing so."
Lucy Henderson looked at the speaker with a bright, grateful face. Joseph's eyes wandered from her to Julia, who was silent and watchful84.
"But I have no time for such conscientious85 studies," Mr. Hopeton resumed. "One can be satisfied with half a dozen neighbors, and let the mass go. Indifference, after all, is the best philosophy. What do you say, Mr. Held?"
"Indifference!" Philip echoed. A dark flush came into his face, and he was silent a moment. "Yes: our hearts are inconvenient86 appendages87. We suffer a deal from unnecessary sympathies, and from imagining, I suppose, that others feel them as we do. These uneasy features of society are simply the effort of nature to find some occupation for brains otherwise idle—or empty. Teach the people to think, and they will disappear."
Joseph stared at Philip, feeling that a secret bitterness was hidden under his careless, mocking air. Mrs. Hopeton rose, and the company left the table. Madeline Held had a troubled expression, but there was an eager, singular brightness in Julia's eyes.
"Emily, let us have coffee on the veranda," said Mr. Hopeton, leading the way. He had already half forgotten the subject of conversation: his own expressions, in fact, had been made very much at random88, for the sole purpose of keeping up the flow of talk. He had no very fixed views of any kind, beyond the sphere of his business activity.
Philip, noticing the impression he had made on Joseph, drew him to one side. "Don't seriously remember my words against me," he said; "you were sorry to hear them, I know. All I meant was, that an over-sensitive tenderness towards everybody is a fault. Besides, I was provoked to answer him in his own vein89."
"But, Philip!" Joseph whispered, "such words tempt12 me! What if they were true?"
Philip grasped his arm with a painful force. "They never can be true to you, Joseph," he said.
Gay and pleasant as the company seemed to be, each one felt a secret sense of relief when it came to an end. As Joseph drove homewards, silently recalling what had been said, Julia interrupted his reflections with: "Well, what do you think of the Hopetons?"
"She is an interesting woman," he answered.
"But reserved; and she shows very little taste in dress. However, I suppose you hardly noticed anything of the kind. She kept Lucy Henderson beside her as a foil: Madeline Held would have been damaging."
Joseph only partly guessed her meaning; it was repugnant, and he determined to avoid its further discussion.
"Hopeton is a shrewd business man," Julia continued, "but he cannot compare with her for shrewdness—either with her or—Philip Held!"
"What do you mean?"
"I made a discovery before the dinner was over, which you—innocent, unsuspecting man that you are—might have before your eyes for years, without seeing it. Tell me now, honestly, did you notice nothing?"
"What should I notice, beyond what was said?" he asked.
"That was the least!" she cried; "but, of course, I knew you couldn't. And perhaps you won't believe me, when I tell you that Philip Held,—your particular friend, your hero, for aught I know your pattern of virtue90 and character, and all that is manly91 and noble,—that Philip Held, I say, is furiously in love with Mrs. Hopeton!"
Joseph started as if he had been shot, and turned around with an angry red on his brow. "Julia!" he said, "how dare you speak so of Philip!"
She laughed. "Because I dare to speak the truth, when I see it. I thought I should surprise you. I remembered a certain rumor92 I had heard before she was married,—while she was Emily Marrable,—and I watched them closer than they guessed. I'm certain of Philip: as for her, she's a deep creature, and she was on her guard; but they are near neighbors."
Joseph was thoroughly aroused and indignant. "It is your own fancy!" he exclaimed. "You hate Philip on account of that affair with Clementina; but you ought to have some respect for the woman whose hospitality you have accepted!"
"Bless me! I have any quantity of respect both for her and her furniture. By the by, Joseph, our parlor93 would furnish better than hers; I have been thinking of a few changes we might make, which would wonderfully improve the house. As for Philip, Clementina was a fool. She'd be glad enough to have him now, but in these matters, once gone is gone for good. Somehow, people who marry for love very often get rich afterwards,—ourselves, for instance."
It was some time before Joseph's excitement subsided94. He had resented Julia's suspicion as dishonorable to Philip, yet he could not banish95 the conjecture96 of its possible truth. If Philip's affected cynicism had tempted97 him, Julia's unblushing assumption of the existence of a passion which was forbidden, and therefore positively98 guilty, seemed to stain the pure texture99 of his nature. The lightness with which she spoke of the matter was even more abhorrent100 to him than the assertion itself; the malicious101 satisfaction in the tones of her voice had not escaped his ear.
"Julia," he said, just before they reached home, "do not mention your fancy to another soul than me. It would reflect discredit102 on you."
"You are innocent," she answered. "And you are not complimentary103. If I have any remarkable104 quality, it is tact105. Whenever I speak, I shall know the effect before-hand; even pa, with all his official experience, is no match for me in this line. I see what the Hopetons are after, and I mean to show them that we were first in the field. Don't be concerned, you good, excitable creature, you are no match for such well-drilled people. Let me alone, and before the summer is over we will give the law to the neighborhood!"
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prattle
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