There is a curious anomaly about the way in which a self-confidence, impervious1 to the stabs of ill-fortune, may be paralyzed in a moment by the little prick2 of a snub irresponsible. Now, I would not go so far as to say that the sang-froid shown by Mr. Tuke over his virtual dismissal by Miss Royston represented the real state of his feelings; or that he did not find his appetite for a certain fruit stimulated3 by his disappointment of it. But, without doubt, the sting that most rankled4 for the moment in his vanity was that tart5 little rebuke6 administered to him by the aristocratic carline in the theatre-lobby. It was absurd, it was inexplicable—but so it was. His sense of injury in the greater matter was quite overcrowded by his feeling of humiliation7 in the lesser8. That was a little snake, but it swallowed all the rest—so elastic9 is a proud stomach.
Perhaps it was all very beneficial to him. No doubt it was too much his way to affect a good-humoured tolerance10 of destiny; to repudiate11 responsibility, in speech or act, on the strength of a certain genial12 creed13 of fatality14 that assumed itself independent of the laws of obligation. To have that much of the vagabond in one, that one moves serenely15 indifferent to conventional restrictions16, is excellent; but to insist upon one’s vagabondage is to be a didactic vagabond; and that is intolerable. For it is to assume that orthodox folk must accept vagabondage as the superior condition, which, being orthodox, they cannot.
Therefore it was that, upon the morning following his visit to the theatre, our gentleman started—as he had obstinately18 resolved he would do—upon his homeward journey, quite truculent19 with a sense of grievance20.
There was little in the prospect21 about him that served to otherwise than confirm his depression. Winter, it was evident, was asserting itself with a despotic and merciless rigour that was deaf to all considerations of humanity. The sleet22 of the previous night had frozen into and made long icy crevasses23 of the road-ruts; the throat of the wind was hoarse24 with cold; the grey of utter lifelessness stretched from earth to sky—a grey that no fury of the stiff blast could rend25 or discompose.
Each hour linked itself to the next with a bolt of iron as, his teeth set to the driving chill, he urged his long way forward. The road clanked under him; the scarlet27 nostrils28 of his straining horse palpitated like blown coals against a background of ashes. He did not much care to think of anything but his own miserable29 discomfort30; and in that he took some hard satisfaction, as if by enduring it he were shaming the callous31 soul who had bidden him away from his cosy32 fireside in the “Adelphi.”
It was at this climax33 of his meditations34 that humour and hunger ventured upon a little roguish assault on his epigastrium. Had the attack failed, he had been other than the man of this history. It did not, by any means. He sighed, drew himself up, twinkled over the collapse35 of his pondered heroics, broke into a laugh, half-vexed, half-jocund, and fairly plunged36 into that illuminating37 thought of the æsthetic value of appetite to a free man.
“For I am free!” he cried to the winds—“and responsible in all the world to nobody but myself!”
At the very next wayside inn he dismounted and called boisterously38 for food. Munching39 this, with a confident digestion40, by a jolly fire, and delighting in every purple bead41 of Clos Vougeot that swam to his glass rim42, he would give his fancies, as the freeborn children of a Bohemian, rein43 to run as they listed, and would even humour them to the top bent44 of his inclination45. Well, their order—or absence of it—might be this: Position and respectability; a park, a carriage-road, trim servants, nice-mannered children; a stake in the county and a sober reputation to prop46 it; an admirable cold wife, in whom an innate47 artificiality should be tuned48 to the musical pitch of sentiment; on every side a thickset hedge of formality and restriction17, where-through one decent passage alone should be pierced—the stone-flagged way to the tremendously enduring family vault;—and at the last, the precise misrepresentation of a ruled epitaph. Good! And now from the olive to the wine: Life—the life that he understood and could rejoice in—away from the flint road and spurring on to the downs; the life of heath and water and wood, of the blown blue sky and the whirled pollen49 of flowers; of light and gloom, risk and effort and reward; of the great breath of change and freedom, and—ah! yes: of the sympathizing soft heart to be always waiting him at the blossoming corner; the spirit to often share with him the wanderings and the marvels50, and to pull him down into the sweet-smelling brake at shut of eve, and so for both to make a common cause of dreams.
Which was the happier picture? And yet a very fragrant51 perfume would cling about the presentment of that white gentle-born Angela; and sometimes even now it would appear a profanation52 to him to hold her cheaply in his thoughts.
He would not. If a certain shame-faced exultation53 over his latest emancipation54 would stir oddly in him from time to time, he would not so far abuse the trust his own heart had placed in a recent sentiment as to set up a new idol55 in the niche56 of a fallen image. Angela might be deposed57; but—for the present at least—no other should usurp58 her throne.
Momentarily firm in this respect, and secure in his own geniality59 from the carping criticisms of conscience, he turned from all tender retrospections, and lazily, as he sat, reviewed a little company of late incidents. From yesterday with its snubs and its petty hurts, to the melancholy60 and monotonous61 flight of this morning—even that now had its accents to be indulgently recalled. His thoughts went back along the wintry road he had traversed, and dwelt comically upon the figure of an old oddity he had seen peering down upon him from a leaf-ruined gazebo—an oddity, the personification of much inquisitiveness62, that was muffled63 in many capes64 and that held a great blue umbrella between its old head and the blast. He remembered how a half-dozen snow-buntings had fled over a hedge-row as he went by; how down a certain swoop65 of meadow-land a flock of screaming gulls66 had dived; how, where in a roadside churchyard a sexton was toiling67 at a grave, the titlarks had bobbed and curtsied on the newly-turned mould, desperate in their freezing hunger;—and from all this he augured68 that such a winter was threatening as would make the country no desirable place to live in for some months to come.
Still, he was not sorry he was returning to it. In his new lust69 for freedom a veritable loathing70 for the gilded71 fetters72 of town-life was a first condition, and he would have no knowledge of passions that could only take breath in a vitiated atmosphere. If he must sin, he would sin in the woods; and of his wavering human soul “let the forest judge.”
It had been a desolate73 road he came by—black and gloomy with frost, and enlivened by but few passing vehicles. One of these—a post-chaise—there had been, going on monotonously74 before him at a distance ahead. Its steady progression (he could not tell why) annoyed and worried him. It was always there, a yellow blot75 in the perspective of highway; whipping down and up the hollows, swinging rhythmically76 in its straps77, endlessly speeding on and holding him, as it were, in its wake. Once or twice he had been moved to cut past and outrun it; but the bitter push of wind in his front and an apathy78 bred of cold would dissuade79 him from the effort, and in the end he would always find himself jogging sombrely along in its rear. It was a satisfaction to him, as he came within sight of the inn at which he was to dismount, to see this persistent80 vehicle, its occupants and cattle refreshed, moving off on its further journey; for so, he comforted himself, he should resume his own way by and by unvexed of that aggravating81 accompaniment. This was all childish, of course; but so it was that it was always his habit to be impatient of anything that embarrassed his free forward outlook; and to be kept walking behind a pedestrian in the street he would regard as almost a personal affront82.
However, for the rest of his day’s journey he had the road virtually to himself; and by sundown he had completed his forty-fifth mile, and was clanking into the High Street of Basingstoke.
At the “White Horse” in this town he woke on the following morning, with a sense of constriction83 at his heart, to find the water in his ewer84 a sheet of ice, and that smell of cold soot85, that seems the prevailing86 atmosphere of hard winters, to proceed from everything about him.
His room looked upon the stable-yard, and glancing thereinto while in process of dressing87, he broke into an oath at sight of a yellow chaise that stood below with horses attached, over one of which a red-nosed post-boy sprawled88 expectant, awaiting his fare.
He was scowlingly speculating as to the possibility of his having to tail a second day in the wake of this rumbling90 jaundice, when he uttered a startled exclamation91 and, drawing into the covert92 of the window curtains, stood peering down into the yard.
For the hirer of the chaise—to whom early rising would appear to be a right condition of posting—was at that moment issued from the inn, and was mounting, without any affectation of leisure, the step of the vehicle.
Mr. Tuke, thinking of that presentation to his view, two nights before, of a lank26, long back in the pit of the theatre, came hurriedly from his hiding-place; and at that instant, the traveller turned and flashed an upward glance at the window. With the very movement, he gave a hoarse order to the post-boy, wrenched94 open the door of the carriage, plunged in, and, before peeping Tom could gather his perceptions, the chaise was rolling and clattering95 out of the yard.
So—ho! there was business afoot! Where hitherto was all avoidance and reluctance96, now must be haste and scurry97 and pursuit. The squalid rogue98 Brander posting it like a lord! Surely there must be some momentous99 reason for the outlay100.
The gentleman at this point, wild with eagerness and impatience101, stood below presently on the yard-steps to bolt a mouthful of meat and bread while his horse was saddling. Ten minutes later he was off and set to the chase, pounding it along at what rate he durst on the icy roads.
“If they are pointed102 for Andover, well and good,” he murmured. “Do they take cross-tracks for the ‘Dog and Duck,’ I shall know what to apprehend103.”
With the thought, he swerved104 from the main-road into the first of the homeward by-ways; cantered down a mile of close-set lanes; turned a corner leading to a stretch of open downs, and—there, going one before him, small in the distance, was the vehicle he pursued.
To overtake and constitute himself its rear-guard—such must be his object. An easily attained105 one, it would appear; but his horse was scarcely fresh, and a slip on those glassy ruts might ruin all.
He settled himself doggedly106 to the chase. Such veritably it became; for soon it was evident that the quarry107 knew itself to be pursued, and tactically wished to allure108 him on to a destructive speed. But, little by little the horseman gained on the other. He got near enough to mark Brander’s head thrust intermittently109 from the window—by and by to hear faintly the rascal’s voice cursing on his leaping postillion. Suddenly the leading party took an unexpected way, brought out on the high-road leading from Winchester to Stockbridge, and went careering for the latter place at a gallop110.
It was all give-and-take country they raced by—desolate downland that dropped and rose like a flying sparrow. Over it the pace became terrific. The post-boy lashed93 his horses till they foamed112; the rider galled113 the sides of his poor straining beast. Something, it was obvious, must happen shortly—to whom was the single question.
The pursuer was to triumph. At the crest114 of that very slope that led up to the high gallows-tree, the ridden post-horse shied at a dangling115 chain, threw his mount, brought his fellow to his knees—and in a moment carriage and cattle were a plunging116 tangle117 of confusion.
With a shout of jubilation118, Tuke spurred up the hill and rode upon his enemy.
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