Those who have felt the doubts, the jealousies2, the resentments3, the humiliations, the hopes, the despair, the impatience5, and, in a word, the infinite disquiets6 of love, will be able to conceive the sea of agitation8 on which our adventurer was tossed all night long, without repose9 or intermission. Sometimes he resolved to employ all his industry and address in discovering the place in which Aurelia was sequestered10, that he might rescue her from the supposed restraint to which she had been subjected. But when his heart beat high with the anticipation11 of this exploit, he was suddenly invaded, and all his ardour checked, by the remembrance of that fatal letter, written and signed by her own hand, which had divorced him from all hope, and first unsettled his understanding. The emotions waked by this remembrance were so strong, that he leaped from the bed, and the fire being still burning in the chimney, lighted a candle, that he might once more banquet his spleen by reading the original billet, which, together with the ring he had received from Miss Darnel’s mother, he kept in a small box, carefully deposited within his portmanteau. This being instantly unlocked, he unfolded the paper, and recited the contents in these words:—
“SIR,—Obliged as I am by the passion you profess12, and the eagerness with which you endeavour to give me the most convincing proof of your regard, I feel some reluctance13 in making you acquainted with a circumstance, which, in all probability, you will not learn without some disquiet7. But the affair is become so interesting, I am compelled to tell you, that however agreeable your proposals may have been to those whom I thought it my duty to please by every reasonable concession14, and howsoever you may have been flattered by the seeming complacency with which I have heard your addresses, I now find it absolutely necessary to speak in a decisive strain, to assure you, that, without sacrificing my own peace, I cannot admit a continuation of your correspondence; and that your regard for me will be best shown by your desisting from a pursuit which is altogether inconsistent with the happiness of AURELIA DARNEL.”
Having pronounced aloud the words that composed this dismission, he hastily replaced the cruel scroll15, and being too well acquainted with the hand to harbour the least doubt of its being genuine, threw himself into his bed in a transport of despair, mingled16 with resentment4, during the predominancy of which he determined17 to proceed in the career of adventure, and endeavour to forget the unkindness of his mistress amidst the avocations18 of knight19-errantry.
Such was the resolution that governed his thoughts, when he rose in the morning, ordered Crabshaw to saddle Bronzomarte, and demanded a bill of his expense. Before these orders could be executed, the good woman of the house entering his apartment, told him, with marks of concern, that the poor young lady, Miss Meadows, had dropped her pocket-book in the next chamber20, where it was found by the hostess, who now presented it unopened.
Our knight having called in Mrs. Oakley and her son as witnesses, unfolded the book without reading one syllable21 of the contents, and found in it five banknotes, amounting to two hundred and thirty pounds. Perceiving at once the loss of this treasure might be attended with the most embarrassing consequences to the owner, and reflecting that this was a case which demanded the immediate22 interposition and assistance of chivalry23, he declared that he himself would convey it safely into the hands of Miss Meadows; and desired to know the road she had pursued, that he might set out in quest of her without a moment’s delay. It was not without some difficulty that this information was obtained from the postboy, who had been enjoined24 to secrecy25 by the lady, and even gratified with a handsome reward for his promised discretion27. The same method was used to make him disgorge his trust; he undertook to conduct Sir Launcelot, who hired a post-chaise for despatch28, and immediately departed, after having directed his squire29 to follow his track with the horses.
Yet, whatever haste he made, it is absolutely necessary, for the reader’s satisfaction, that we should outstrip30 the chaise, and visit the ladies before his arrival. We shall therefore, without circumlocution31, premise32, that Miss Meadows was no other than that paragon33 of beauty and goodness, the all-accomplished34 Miss Aurelia Darnel. She had, with that meekness35 of resignation peculiar36 to herself, for some years, submitted to every species of oppression which her uncle’s tyranny of disposition37 could plan, and his unlimited38 power of guardianship40 execute, till at length it rose to such a pitch of despotism as she could not endure. He had projected a match between his niece and one Philip Sycamore, Esq., a young man who possessed41 a pretty considerable estate in the north country; who liked Aurelia’s person, but was enamoured of her fortune, and had offered to purchase Anthony’s interest and alliance with certain concessions42, which could not but be agreeable to a man of loose principles, who would have found it a difficult task to settle the accounts of his wardship43.
According to the present estimate of matrimonial felicity, Sycamore might have found admittance as a future son-in-law to any private family of the kingdom. He was by birth a gentleman, tall, straight, and muscular, with a fair, sleek44, unmeaning face, that promised more simplicity45 than ill-nature. His education had not been neglected, and he inherited an estate of five thousand a year. Miss Darnel, however, had penetration46 enough to discover and despise him, as a strange composition of rapacity47 and profusion48, absurdity49 and good sense, bashfulness and impudence50, self-conceit and diffidence, awkwardness and ostentation51, insolence52 and good-nature, rashness and timidity. He was continually surrounded and preyed53 upon by certain vermin called Led Captains and Buffoons54, who showed him in leading-strings like a sucking giant, rifled his pockets without ceremony, ridiculed55 him to his face, traduced56 his character, and exposed him in a thousand ludicrous attitudes for the diversion of the public; while at the same time he knew their knavery57, saw their drift, detested58 their morals, and despised their understanding. He was so infatuated by indolence of thought, and communication with folly59, that he would have rather suffered himself to be led into a ditch with company, than be at the pains of going over a bridge alone; and involved himself in a thousand difficulties, the natural consequences of an error in the first concoction60, which, though he plainly saw it, he had not resolution enough to avoid.
Such was the character of Squire Sycamore, who professed61 himself the rival of Sir Launcelot Greaves in the good graces of Miss Aurelia Darnel. He had in this pursuit persevered62 with more constancy and fortitude63 than he ever exerted in any other instance. Being generally needy64 from extravagance, he was stimulated65 by his wants, and animated67 by his vanity, which was artfully instigated68 by his followers69, who hoped to share the spoils of his success. These motives70 were reinforced by the incessant71 and eager exhortations72 of Anthony Darnel, who seeing his ward26 in the last year of her minority, thought there was no time to be lost in securing his own indemnification, and snatching his niece for ever from the hopes of Sir Launcelot, whom he now hated with redoubled animosity. Finding Aurelia deaf to all his remonstrances73, proof against ill usage, and resolutely74 averse75 to the proposed union with Sycamore, he endeavoured to detach her thoughts from Sir Launcelot, by forging tales to the prejudice of his constancy and moral character; and, finally, by recapitulating76 the proofs and instances of his distraction77, which he particularised with the most malicious78 exaggerations.
In spite of all his arts, he found it impracticable to surmount79 her objections to the proposed alliance, and therefore changed his battery. Instead of transferring her to the arms of his friend, he resolved to detain her in his own power by a legal claim, which would invest him with the uncontrolled management of her affairs. This was a charge of lunacy, in consequence of which he hoped to obtain a commission, to secure a jury to his wish, and be appointed sole committee of her person, as well as steward80 on her estate, of which he would then be heir-apparent.
As the first steps towards the execution of this honest scheme, he had subjected Aurelia to the superintendency and direction of an old duenna, who had been formerly81 the procuress of his pleasures; and hired a new set of servants, who were given to understand, at their first admission, that the young lady was disordered in her brain.
An impression of this nature is easily preserved among servants, when the master of the family thinks his interest is concerned in supporting the imposture83. The melancholy84 produced from her confinement85, and the vivacity86 of her resentment under ill usage, were, by the address of Anthony, and the prepossession of his domestics, perverted87 into the effects of insanity88; and the same interpretation89 was strained upon her most indifferent words and actions.
The tidings of Miss Darnel’s disorder82 was carefully circulated in whispers, and soon reached the ears of Mr. Sycamore, who was not at all pleased with the information. From his knowledge of Anthony’s disposition, he suspected the truth of the report; and, unwilling90 to see such a prize ravished as it were from his grasp, he, with the advice and assistance of his myrmidons, resolved to set the captive at liberty, in full hope of turning the adventure to his own advantage; for he argued in this manner:—“If she is in fact compos mentis, her gratitude91 will operate in my behalf, and even prudence92 will advise her to embrace the proffered93 asylum94 from the villany of her uncle. If she is really disordered, it will be no great difficulty to deceive her into marriage, and then I become her trustee of course.”
The plan was well conceived, but Sycamore had not discretion enough to keep his own counsel. From weakness and vanity, he blabbed the design, which in a little time was communicated to Anthony Darnel, and he took his precautions accordingly. Being infirm in his own person, and consequently unfit for opposing the violence of some desperadoes, whom he knew to be the satellites of Sycamore, he prepared a private retreat for his ward at the house of an old gentleman, the companion of his youth, whom he had imposed upon with the fiction of her being disordered in her understanding, and amused with a story of a dangerous design upon her person. Thus cautioned and instructed, the gentleman had gone with his own coach and servants to receive Aurelia and her governante at a third house, to which she had been privately95 removed from her uncle’s habitation; and in this journey it was that she had been so accidentally protected from the violence of the robbers by the interposition and prowess of our adventurer.
As he did not wear his helmet in that exploit, she recognised his features as he passed the coach, and, struck with the apparition96, shrieked97 aloud. She had been assured by her guardian39 that his design was to convey her to her own house; but perceiving in the sequel that the carriage struck off upon a different road, and finding herself in the hands of strangers, she began to dread98 a much more disagreeable fate, and conceived doubts and ideas that filled her tender heart with horror and affliction. When she expostulated with the duenna, she was treated like a changeling, admonished99 to be quiet, and reminded that she was under the direction of those who would manage her with a tender regard to her own welfare, and the honour of her family. When she addressed herself to the old gentleman, who was not much subject to the emotions of humanity, and besides firmly persuaded that she was deprived of her reason, he made no answer, but laid his finger on his mouth by way of enjoining100 silence.
This mysterious behaviour aggravated101 the fears of the poor hapless young lady; and her terrors waxed so strong, that when she saw Tom Clarke, whose face she knew, she called aloud for assistance, and even pronounced the name of his patron Sir Launcelot Greaves, which she imagined might stimulate66 him the more to attempt something for her deliverance.
The reader has already been informed in what manner the endeavours of Tom and his uncle miscarried. Miss Darnel’s new keeper having in the course of his journey halted for refreshment102 at the Black Lion, of which being landlord, he believed the good woman and her family were entirely103 devoted104 to his will and pleasure, Aurelia found an opportunity of speaking in private to Dolly, who had a very prepossessing appearance. She conveyed a purse of money into the hands of this young woman, telling her, while the tears trickled105 down her cheeks, that she was a young lady of fortune, in danger, as she apprehended106, of assassination107. This hint, which she communicated in a whisper while the governante stood at the other end of the room, was sufficient to interest the compassionate108 Dolly in her behalf. As soon as the coach departed, she made her mother acquainted with the transaction; and as they naturally concluded that the young lady expected their assistance, they resolved to approve themselves worthy109 of her confidence.
Dolly having enlisted110 in their design a trusty countryman, one of her own professed admirers, they set out together for the house of the gentleman in which the fair prisoner was confined, and waited for her in secret at the end of a pleasant park, in which they naturally concluded she might be indulged with the privilege of taking the air. The event justified111 their conception; on the very first day of their watch they saw her approach, accompanied by her duenna. Dolly and her attendant immediately tied their horses to a stake, and retired112 into a thicket113, which Aurelia did not fail to enter. Dolly forthwith appeared, and, taking her by the hand, led her to the horses, one of which she mounted in the utmost hurry and trepidation114, while the countryman bound the duenna with a cord prepared for the purpose, gagged her mouth, and tied her to a tree, where he left her to her own meditations115. Then he mounted before Dolly, and through unfrequented paths conducted his charge to an inn on the post-road, where a chaise was ready for their reception.
As he refused to proceed farther, lest his absence from his own home should create suspicion, Aurelia rewarded him liberally, but would not part with her faithful Dolly, who indeed had no inclination116 to be discharged; such an affection and attachment117 had she already acquired for the amiable118 fugitive119, though she knew neither her story nor her true name. Aurelia thought proper to conceal120 both, and assumed the fictitious121 appellation122 of Meadows, until she should be better acquainted with the disposition and discretion of her new attendant.
The first resolution she could take, in the present flutter of her spirits, was to make the best of her way to London, where she thought she might find an asylum in the house of a female relation, married to an eminent123 physician, known by the name of Kawdle. In the execution of this hasty resolve, she travelled at a violent rate, from stage to stage, in a carriage drawn124 by four horses, without halting for necessary refreshment or repose, until she judged herself out of danger of being overtaken. As she appeared overwhelmed with grief and consternation125, the good-natured Dolly endeavoured to alleviate126 her distress127 with diverting discourse128, and, among other less interesting stories, entertained her with the adventures of Sir Launcelot and Captain Crowe, which she had seen and heard recited while they remained at the Black Lion; nor did she fail to introduce Mr. Thomas Clarke in her narrative129, with such a favourable130 representation of his person and character, as plainly discovered that her own heart had received a rude shock from the irresistible131 force of his qualifications.
The history of Sir Launcelot Greaves was a theme which effectually fixed132 the attention of Aurelia, distracted as her ideas must have been by the circumstances of her present situation. The particulars of his conduct since the correspondence between him and her had ceased, she heard with equal concern and astonishment133; for, how far soever she deemed herself detached from all possibility of future connexion with that young gentleman, she was not made of such indifferent stuff as to learn without emotion the calamitous134 disorder of an accomplished youth, whose extraordinary virtues135 she could not but revere136.
As they had deviated137 from the post-road, taken precautions to conceal their route, and made such progress, that they were now within one day’s journey of London, the careful and affectionate Dolly, seeing her dear lady quite exhausted138 with fatigue139, used all her natural rhetoric140, which was very powerful, mingled with tears that flowed from the heart, in persuading Aurelia to enjoy some repose; and so far she succeeded in the attempt, that for one night the toil141 of travelling was intermitted. This recess142 from incredible fatigue was a pause that afforded our adventurer time to overtake them before they reached the metropolis143, that vast labyrinth144, in which Aurelia might have been for ever lost to his inquiry145.
It was in the afternoon of the day which succeeded his departure from the White Hart, that Sir Launcelot arrived at the inn, where Miss Aurelia Darnel had bespoke146 a dish of tea, and a post-chaise for the next stage. He had by inquiry traced her a considerable way, without ever dreaming who the person really was whom he thus pursued, and now he desired to speak with her attendant. Dolly was not a little surprised to see Sir Launcelot Greaves, of whose character she had conceived a very sublime147 idea from the narrative of Mr. Thomas Clarke; but she was still more surprised when he gave her to understand that he had charged himself with a pocket-book, containing the bank-notes which Miss Meadows had dropped in the house where they had been threatened with insult. Miss Darnel had not yet discovered her disaster, when her attendant, running into the apartment, presented the prize which she had received from our adventurer, with his compliments to Miss Meadows, implying a request to be admitted into her presence, that he might make a personal tender of his best services.
It is not to be supposed that the amiable Aurelia heard unmoved such a message from a person, whom her maid discovered to be the identical Sir Launcelot Greaves, whose story she had so lately related; but as the ensuing scene requires fresh attention in the reader, we shall defer148 it till another opportunity, when his spirits shall be recruited from the fatigue of this chapter.
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