All these difficulties had Mr. Sawyer to encounter on the night of the Harborough Ball.
Yes, the important event had arrived at last, after much discussion by stewards17 and lady patronesses, and general differences of opinion amongst all concerned. After protestations from some that they could by no means fill their houses, and assurances from others that nothing would induce them to travel such distances by night in bad weather, and declarations from all that, for their own part, they voted the whole thing a bore, the day was at length fixed18, the musicians engaged, the supper ordered, and the room prepared.
“It was to be a capital ball,” said one, “comprising the élite of three counties, and at least as many beautiful débutantes.” “There would be nobody there,” vowed19 another, “but the M.F.H., and the M.P., and old Mrs. Halfcaste, with a bevy20 of the townspeople.” The room would be cold, prophesied21 the malcontents; the supper scanty22, the roads slippery, and the moon obscured. Miss Cecilia Dove, in talking the matter over with her mamma, inclined first to one, and then the other of these opinions; supporting each in turn with vigour23 and tenacity24. Under any circumstances, however, she had determined25 to go.
Behold26 Mr. Sawyer then, in his little smoky bedroom, struggling into a white neckcloth, about ten P.M., and contemplating27 a pale face and heavy eyes; the unattractive appearance of which he could not wholly attribute to the bad glass which adorned28 his dressing-table. He was nervous, too, was our friend John Standish Sawyer; unquestionably nervous. Of all nights in his life this was the one when he would fain have borrowed, if he could, the exterior29 of another hunting-man, a very different-looking person, whom painters strive to represent as worthy30 to be the Queen of Beauty’s choice, in their embodiment of the hapless loves of Venus and Adonis. Alas31! Mr. S. could not conceal32 from himself that he was anything but a good-looking fellow.
Nevertheless, a plain exterior, like a bad farm, must equally be cultivated at the proper season. Dress works wonders, and the tailor, if you employ Poole, doubtless helps to make the man. Like Brummel, our friend spoilt a good many white neckcloths before he effected the desired tie. At last, however, he got it to his liking33, swung himself into a roomy dress-coat—scarlet, with silk lining—and proceeded, not without trepidation34, to the scene of action.
Is there any penalty or disgrace attached to the solecism of being earlier than one’s neighbours at ball, concert or other public occasion of festivity? It is wonderful what pains people will take to avoid this appearance of over-punctuality. I cannot call to mind any occasion on which I have thus had the room entirely35 to myself; nor did I ever meet any one who would confess that he had enjoyed this monopoly of vacuity36. And yet somebody must arrive first! I wonder how that desolate37 one employs the long leaden moments. Does he wander about with his hands in his pockets, trying to look as if he expected something, and scanning the decorations with critical sang froid! Does he fraternise with the musicians, who, drawn38 up in a row, must present, indeed, a formidable array of eyes to a person of moderate apprehensions39, and win their eternal goodwill41 by performing a pas seul to their voluntary strains? or does he give way to a cowardly despair, and, retreating in disorder42, retire incontinently to bed? Probably not the latter, or the ball would never begin.
Mr. Sawyer had none of this to confront single-handed. Loitering about the cloak-room door, he came upon Struggles, Brush, Savage43, and Co.; all equally averse44 with himself to plunge45 prematurely46 into the festive47 scene, and was greeted by the conclave48, from whom he had parted about an hour previously49, with a boisterous50 cordiality born of their potations.
“He’s meant!” said one, talking of our friend as if he were a racehorse in strong training, whom each had backed heavily to win. “Got-up to the nines!” exclaimed another, scanning him from top to toe, as an adjutant scans a recruit. “Hang it! Sawyer, you’ve done it to-night!” laughed a third; “they won’t let you out of this alive!” And Mr. S., who rather flattered himself the general effect was favourable51, did not quite know whether to be pleased with their approbation52 or to take huff at their familiarity. Meanwhile carriages were setting down with increasing frequency. The clatter53 was quite alarming in the paved streets of the little country town; the steam of horses almost obscured the carriage-lamps, and sweet little satin-slippered feet stepped daintily from inside, over an interregnum of wet straw, on to a soppy foot-cloth. When ankles are neatly54 turned, but not otherwise, it is surprising what a deal of holding-up is required by the compressible and expansive crinoline. Warm greetings and affectionate pressures of the hand were exchanged between such swains as were lucky enough to intercept55 them and their own peculiar56 damsels in the passage to the cloak-room, whither the ladies betook themselves forthwith, there to leave their becoming and coquettish little burnouses ere they shook out their canvas and got under sail in all the splendour of fall dress.
Mammas looked approvingly at their bridling57 daughters, as the latter tripped into the ball-room before them; mammas, the very counterpart of those blooming beauties, had you rolled up two or three into one, but fair-shouldered, brown-haired, and comely58 yet, as English matrons are, up to a very uncertain period. Papas, with white gloves and red faces, slapped each others’ backs, and talked about yesterday’s gallop59. The musicians struck up the prettiest waltz of the last season but one; Major Brush, with unexampled temerity60, dashed into the enchanted61 ring with Lady Barbara Blazer in his arms; Bob Blazer followed suit with flirting62 Miss Tiptoes. A whirling maze63 of tulle, and wreaths, and sparkling gems64, and perfumed floating tresses pervaded65 the magic circle; louder pealed66 the cornet-à-piston, brighter glanced the eyes, faster flew the dancers, the top of the room began to fill, and the ball might now be said to have fairly begun.
It is only your habitual67 ball-goer, however, who can thus, like some consummate68 swimmer, dash in with a header and strike out at once into the flood. Less experienced performers may be excused for shivering awhile on the brink69. Shy gentlemen congregating70 round the doorway71 fitted their gloves on with tedious accuracy, looking over their collars meanwhile at their future partners, with an air of melancholy72 defiance73; the weaker-minded ones informing each other confidentially74 that it was “going to be a capital ball!” The ranks of these waverers thinned perceptibly though, as the dance wore on, and Mr. Sawyer, who did not waltz, found himself ere long stranded75 high and dry at the top of the room amongst the grandees76; a little bewildered, truly, and lost in such a crowd of strangers, but greatly sustained, nevertheless, by Hope and Bordeaux.
These stimulants77, as might be expected, waned78 simultaneously79. Fresh arrivals blocked the doorway; and still she didn’t come! Not she, indeed! Catch Miss Cissy doing anything half so green as arriving early or staying late. No, no; if you want to be sought after, ladies, you must be sparing of your presence and economical of your smiles. There is no dog so obedient as the one you keep sitting up on his hind80 legs, to beg for a crumb81 of biscuit at a time.
Mr. Sawyer was in despair. As a stranger, however, he was presented to the grandees, and found himself, he scarcely knew how, engaged to dance “The Lancers” with Lady Barbara Blazer, a formidable beauty, of dashing, not to say, overwhelming manners, and who attributed to extraordinary forwardness, for which she rather liked him, our friend’s confused and half-unconscious request that she would favour him with her hand.
Now dancing was not Mr. Sawyer’s forte82, and he had never before attempted “The Lancers.” It is no wonder, then, that the intricacies of that measure should have utterly84 bamboozled85 him, or that he should have set to the wrong people, got in everybody’s way, and made himself supremely86 ridiculous. Add to this, that in the midst of the most difficult man?uvre, when, hunting over the set for his own partner in vain, he caught Cissy Dove’s eyes fixed upon him with an expression of malicious87 amusement; and it is needless to specify88 that his discomfiture89 was complete: Cissy Dove looking radiant as a Peri. Oh, after that, it was all magic and moonshine. Lady Barbara never alluded90 to him subsequently as anything but “the poor queer man I met at Harborough;” and that magnificent dame’s opinion of his intellectual attainments91 I had rather not be compelled to declare.
Mr. Sawyer was no sooner released from his self-imposed penance92 than he flew to the side of his charmer, whom he found, as might be expected, hemmed93 in by Mamma and Papa, surrounded by a bevy of female acquaintances, and receiving the homage94 of one or two elaborate dandies of considerable calibre and pretension95.
She shook hands with him, however, across young Vainhopes; after which he was forced to fall back upon Parson Dove, whom he accosted96 with great cordiality and affection.
A man never shows to such advantage as in the presence of his ladye-love. How many a Hercules have we not seen holding her silks for Omphale; his lion-front looking sheepish—not to say asinine97; his strength degenerated98 to clumsiness; his whole exterior denoting helpless subjection and dismay! Mr. Sawyer was no exception to the general rule. He pulled at his neckcloth; twitched99 his gloves on and off; looked at his boots! listened to the Parson’s platitudes100, without hearing a word; finally, made a desperate plunge, and entreated101 Miss Dove to dance the next quadrille with him.
Miss Dove was engaged.
“Well, the one after that.”
Miss Dove glanced at a tiny list of running horses, so to speak, that she held in her hand.
“Dear me; she was engaged for that too!”
Our friend was disgusted beyond measure: he fell back with a mortified102 bow, and resolved he would not speak to her for the rest of the night. It would be a poor pastime to watch the dancers from a remote corner without participating in their amusements; nevertheless he entered at once on the self-inflicted penance. The ball, however, went on none the less gaily103 for his abstinence. Lady Barbara nearly swept him off his legs in a whirlwind of crinoline as she waltzed by him at the rate of forty miles an hour. The Tiptoes and the Vainhopes and the rest seemed as unconscious of his presence as if he had never left The Grange, and Cissy Dove, herself dancing with a succession of dandies, each more resplendent and more taken up with himself than another, never glanced but once in the direction of her disappointed swain. That single look, however, had in it something of a pleading expression, that found its way through the embroidered104 plaits of Mr. Sawyer’s best shirt-front, and mollified the stern heart beneath. It brought him out of his corner; it induced him to think more favourably105 of life in general, and of the Scotch106 quadrilles, now striking up merrily, in particular; it even prompted him to select the youngest Miss Hare, a blushing virgin107 making her first appearance in public, as his partner; and, lastly, tempted83 him to request Miss Dove and her cavalier, no less a swell108 than Bob Blazer, to be their vis-à-vis.
Cissy watched him pretty narrowly during the dance. Ladies, as we all know, have the abnormal faculty109 of seeing without looking. I am bound to confess that his dialogue with little Polly Hare was of so harmless a nature as could not have excited the ghost of an apprehension40 in the most jealous disposition110. It proceeded something in this wise.
Mr. Sawyer, with his whole attention absorbed in the lady opposite: “Are you fond of dancing?”
The youngest Miss Hare: “Oh! very.”
Mr. S.: “What a pretty room this is!”
Miss H.: “Yes, very.”
Mr. S.: “The music is remarkably111 good for a country band.”
Miss H.: “Oh! very.”
[Grand Round strikes up, much to their joint112 relief, and promises to put a speedy termination to the solemnity.]
But in the revolutions of this highly-exciting pastime there is one figure which admits of the gentleman and lady opposite saying nearly three words to each other; and it is needless to insist on the necessity of condensing as much meaning as possible into so short a sentence.
“Why so cross?” said Miss Cissy, as she approached her adorer at this propitious113 moment; and, although Mr. Sawyer had neither presence of mind nor opportunity to make an appropriate reply, he looked like a different individual henceforth, and almost forgot to return his little partner, none the worse for her excursion, to the maternal114 wing.
Little did Mr. Sawyer dream, as she thanked him with her demure115 curtsey, how that sly puss, who had been indeed the life and soul of the school-room she had just left, would act the whole scene over again that night in her dormitory for the edification of three elder sisters and a Swiss maid; how she would mimic116 to the life his stiff shy manner and preoccupied117 demeanour; nay118, make her very draperies stick out like the square tails of his coat. In virtue119 of her sex, the little minx detected his secret, and saw through him at a glance, though she was but sixteen. He thought it was very good of him to dance with her, and she was making a study and a character of him the whole time. Dear, dear! how little we know of them! Happy the man who wraps himself in a waterproof120 garment of vanity; who is determined to ignore the reflection, that the smile he resolves to accept as approval may be nothing better than derision after all; who leaves them to their own devices, and thanks his stars that he has served his apprenticeship121 and is “out of his time!”
A quadrille with Miss Dove put everything to rights. She seemed resolved to make amends122, and she did it so prettily123. She gave him her fan to hold, and her bouquet124 to smell, and asked his opinion of the different beauties, and smiled upon him and petted him, till her dancing-bear was in thorough subjection once more. He almost made up his mind he would propose to her in the tea-room. An eligible125 spot for the purpose, as it was likely to contain about fifty couples wedged together in the closest possible proximity126. He could hardly be mistaken, he thought, this time; yet a cold shudder127 crept over him as he recollected128 Miss Mexico. If this business should have the same termination, he felt he had lived long enough. He would go and drown himself in the Whissendine, or retire to the mountain fastnesses of Wales, there to hunt with the Plinlimmon harriers and that united pack, the glory of three districts, whereof no mortal tongue can pronounce the names.
He drew her nervously129 with him towards the tea-room. Ere they reached its entrance they were intercepted130 by young Vainhopes—all gloves and studs and curls and chains and smiles.
“Our waltz at last, Miss Dove,” said he, with a captivating grin; “thought you’d forgotten me; quite in despair; waited all the evening.” And he carried her off, amidst a running fire of such complimentary131 phrases as constituted his usual conversations with the fair, and which they were quite willing to accept at their real value.
It needs little knowledge of chemistry to be aware that cold water poured on hot iron generates steam. I think Mr. Sawyer showed his sense in retiring to blow his off, with one or two convivial5 spirits, who finished the evening in the Honourable132 Crasher’s rooms on cigars and brandy-and-water; the latter gentleman, who had asked Lady Barbara to dance, and then forgotten all about it, having made an early retreat to those comfortable quarters.
Here we may leave these choice spirits to their potations. Mr. Sawyer, as his friends remarked, was noisier that usual, and mixed his glass remarkably strong. He did not feel inclined to go to bed, but was quite determined not to return to the ball. Perhaps, without knowing it, he could not have adopted a more judicious133 resolution.
Cissy looked for him everywhere. She even excused herself from dancing, more than once, in expectation of his return—meaning, however, to pay him off to some purpose when he did come back. But even at the cloak-room door there was no Mr. Sawyer. Bob Blazer got her shawl and Savage called the carriage, and Vainhopes put her into it. Yet Cissy felt out of spirits and out of humour. Though she declared she had never enjoyed a ball so much, her mamma thought she was very silent all the way home; and she took her bedroom candle and retired134 upstairs the very moment they arrived at the Rectory.
It was a “new sensation” to Miss Dove not to have everything entirely her own way.
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gaily
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