A man may be possessed1 with an evil spirit, and yet be wholly unconscious of the presence of his tenant2. This may seem, at the first blush, an impossible circumstance; nevertheless, we are upon reflection convinced that thousands of good, well-meaning people, carry about with them fitful, moody3, captious4, disorderly spirits, and are, notwithstanding, the very last folks to acknowledge the existence of the inmates5. Now, it would seem that Mr. Jericho had this ignorance in especial strength and perfection. He was blessed with the happiest forgetfulness of the demon6 that, as was shown in the last chapter, afflicted7 his wife, and astonished his acquaintance. He had no after-thought of the unseemly words, of the vulgar violence uttered and committed by his evil spirit. Poor man! He was spared the pain, the humiliation8 of such knowledge; hence, the fit over, the spirit laid, Jericho was as gay and debonair9 as ever—quite.
To be sure, Mrs. Jericho had affectionate misgivings10; and the young ladies, with a keen memory of the wildness of their father-in-law, looked with hopefulness quite natural to the day when they should be delivered from his tyranny by the new benevolence11 of a husband. The girls, with the simple confidence of their sex, were assured of the devotion of their lovers. Poor things! Now Sir Arthur Hodmadod, with sudden treachery, had contemplated12 instant flight. He was alarmed, terrified, at the thought of marrying the daughter of a man with such strange, such diabolic notions. Sir Arthur thought of the beneficial effect of a run through Italy. He could not disguise it from himself, that his heart was broken; and therefore, he was in the most interesting situation for a few months’ exile. He would forget the living beauties of Agatha in the refined abstractions of paint and marble. He had promised himself some day to cultivate his taste for art, and it was plain, the proper time was come. And then—and then the lover remembered—(how,[Pg 194] for an instant, could he have forgotten it?)—that Agatha bore no taint13 of Jericho’s blood. No: she was a Pennibacker; the daughter of a warrior14! And with this happy thought, Sir Arthur, with the mixed remorse15 and generosity16 of true affection, arrayed the dear one with newer, richer graces. But a mistress is never so captivating as when considered through the penitence17 of love.
The Hon. Cæsar Candituft had sterner thoughts of marriage. Perhaps, too, he had larger views than his simple, gentle friend; and so, placed upon himself a corresponding value. We believe Sir Arthur—could he have been induced to think at all—would have considered matrimony as a very pleasant little trip in a gay little boat; with a bright sky, a smooth sea, and now and then a mermaid18 to come up, and warble a song of love. Now, Candituft would not attempt the voyage so embarked19. He was for a secure craft, extremely well victualled, and—to be ready for the worst—carrying the heaviest metal. Therefore had Candituft resolved on the most guarded civility to Monica: he would, if possible, kill the love within her by the cutting coldness of his courtesy. For he had well-considered himself: he had sat in impartial20 judgment21 upon his own claims to a wife; and he was convinced that if he could be brought to persuade himself to marry into the family of a lunatic, at least he would be well paid for the daring. Thus, if Monica’s determination towards marriage could live through the cold season that was immediately to set in—if the hardy22 rose would smile through the frost—why, the flower, like the Druid’s misletoe, should only be gathered with a golden blade.
A week wore on, and Candituft was only the more hardened in civility. A week wore on, and Hodmadod was only the more melted in love. But Monica would not feel the bitter season—whilst Agatha smiled and glowed in the full flush of the sunny time. Sir Arthur, on his part, was a little astonished that Candituft could for a moment hesitate to seize his happiness at the altar’s foot, at the very time that he, the baronet, was to be crowned with joy for ever. Whereupon Candituft assured Sir[Pg 195] Arthur that, for one day, it would be more than sufficient bliss23 to see his friend made happy. He doubted his strength to stand up against the double delight of double nuptials25. Hence, for his part, he would wait. But we have a little anticipated; and have now to introduce a third party come upon a nuptial24 errand, to the Man of Money.
Basil, it may be remembered, left Primrose26 Place with Mr. Carraways, bent—as the old gentleman declared—upon business with the captain of a ship bound for the antipodes. It is needless to repeat any part of the conversation between the lover and the father, as they took their way to the Halcyon27, a magnificent vessel28, lying in the docks in all the seeming confusion of outfit29. We will at once come to the result of the dialogue carried on—oddly enough—amid all the activity and clamour of London streets. Earnest as were the words of Basil, passionate30 as were his looks—was there a single passenger, of the hundreds that passed and passed, who could have divined that the young man was at such an hour, and in such a place, telling the story of his heart, pleading the passion of a life? Yet it was even so. And the old man, in his best blunt way, opposed the ardour of the youth; even whilst his father’s heart glowed and throbbed31 at the expression. And then, as they walked onward32, the old man spoke33 less and less, and Basil became more voluble. At length, Carraways stopt, and taking Basil’s hand, said in a low, thick voice—“Well lad; thus it is. If there is no objection at your home, and you are sure of Bessy,—she’s your’s. And now, not another word upon the matter; for I see we’ve no time to lose.”
As we are modestly convinced that every tittle of this history will in a hundred years or more be a theme for commentators—(the worthy34 folks who too often write on books, as men with diamonds write on glass, obscuring light with scratches)—as we know that this volume will be very thickly annotated35, we shall make one point clear; namely, the precise spot where Carraways pronounced his consent. Well, then; it was exactly opposite the Royal Exchange, under the shadow of the grasshopper36. No[Pg 196] bad emblem37 of a poor yet cheerful lover, with little but hope and blithe38 spirits to begin the world upon.
Nevertheless—says somebody—an odd neighbourhood for men to ask and give in marriage. Well, it may be. Still, Hymen has been known to have his walk on ’Change, as well as common merchants; and what is more, with as fine a sense of profit and loss, as though in boyhood he had sat on the same form and thumbed the same arithmetic with Mercury.
And Carraways, true to his promise, presented himself at Jericho’s house. The Man of Money felt a joyous39 revenge as he eyed the ruined merchant’s card. It was very natural to Jericho. Sir Gilbert Carraways, the beggar, had treated him in the most shameful—the most insolent40 spirit. The poor wretch41 had, in no way, acknowledged the supremacy42 of his old friend’s wealth. No; his studied silence, his absence from the house, conveyed the contemptuous feeling of the pauper43 towards the rightful majesty44 of money. To be sure, Jericho had not offered assistance; certainly not; it was not his place to undraw his purse-strings, if people—ruined people—had not the due humility45 to ask it. But now—there could be no doubt of it—Carraways was come to beg for aid: he was at length taught by suffering a proper reverence46 for cash. And with this thought, Jericho armed himself to receive him. We write knowingly—armed himself. For as carefully, as cunningly as ever knight47 endued48 his frame with plates of steel or brass,—so did Jericho hang upon that thin, cold, shivering soul of his, the tremendous panoply49 of bank paper.
It is a curious sight—is it not?—to see the Man of Money sternly awaiting the advent50 of the rude, forgetful beggar. “Show him in,” brays51 Jericho to the servant. John quits the room, to serve up the pauper. But two minutes pass—and there sits Solomon Jericho dreadful in his arms of money: his visage sharp and cruel, newly whetted52, gleaming with scorn. The fat, ruddy, good-tempered face—with meat and wine in the look of it—that was wont53 to glow and grin at Carraways’ board, is prematurely[Pg 197] old, and shrunk, and sharpened; the hungry outline of felonious age.
Carraways enters the room. “Gracious heaven! Why, what is this?” For never since the merriment at the Hall, had Carraways and Jericho met. Never, of course, since Carraways departed this life in the gazette, had he seen the Man of Money. Therefore was the merchant astounded55 at the thing that sat before him—for Jericho did not rise to his old friend; oh no—he knew the prerogative56 of money better than that—and therefore, in his own natural way did Carraways give utterance57 to his wonderment. “Is it possible?”
“I believe, sir,” said Jericho, and contempt wrinkled his face, and his voice croaked58, frog-like—“I believe I see Gilbert Carraways, who was a merchant?”
“Who was a merchant, and is Gilbert Carraways still,” said the old man.
“Yes,” repeated Carraways clearly, sonorously60 ringing the words, “late of Jogtrot Hall, of Marigolds. Now, of a second floor, of Primrose Place.”
“Ha! ha! Well, now, I like that,” cried Jericho. “I like a man who can play with fortune. I like a man who, when the wench—she’s a queer cat, fortune, isn’t she, Mr. Gilbert Carraways?—when she spatters him with mud, can give her as good as she sends. Ha! ha! Well, if you have been covered with dirt, you’re merry still. But, why haven’t you come to see me?” asked Jericho with a sneer61.
“Because of the dirt, Mr. Jericho. You see, you ride upon fortune’s wheel; now I only get the mud from it.”
“Very good,” said the patron Jericho. “And I’m glad you can try to make a joke, Mr. Carraways; it must be a great comfort to a poor man. Why, now, I can understand how a beggar of a cold night, if he can only muster62 up heart enough to make a joke, how it must be as good as a truss of straw to him; mus’n’t it, eh, Mr. Carraways?”
“’Pon my word, Mr. Jericho, I haven’t yet tried the experiment.[Pg 198] And I do hope, you’ll never be brought to it; otherwise, I do think—try as you may—you’ll sleep plaguy coldly. But I didn’t come here to talk in this idle fashion.”
“I hope not,” said Jericho, sharpening his malice63 with his best might. “I hope you came to tell me, when you propose to see us at Jogtrot Hall. By the way, I’m going to change the name.”
“I hope so,” said Carraways very calmly.
“Yes; my friend the Duke of St. George—do you know the Duke?—-my friend has promised to give me a new name for it. Though I think, out of compliment to him, I shall call it George and Garter Lodge64. You know, Mr. Gilbert Carraways, there’s no telling what one may come to.”
“No, Solomon Jericho,” said the merchant. “Still, just now, you must have one comfort; you can’t come to less than you are.” Jericho called up all his thunder to his brows. “Surely,” said Carraways tranquilly65, as though he was speaking of some monstrous66 abortion67 of nature—“surely, ’tis wonderful! Why, my good man”—
“Good man!” roared Jericho.
“My good man,” and Carraways doggedly68 repeated the epithet69, “where do you put your heart? Why, it can’t be as big as a poppy-seed. Do you ever walk out in the air? If so, pray put a gold-bar or so in your pockets, or some day the wind will take you up—carry you into the sky. And who knows? Some future astronomer70—if I remember my schooling71 right, the sort of thing has been done—some astronomer may make a constellation72 of a bank-note.”
“I see,” said Jericho, with the most vigorous expression of pity. “I see,—you’re a free-thinker. Bank-notes in the sky! Poor man! Poverty has made you an atheist73.”
“Not so,” said Carraways, placidly74. “Indeed, not so. Strange as it may seem to you, poverty has made me a believer in more goodness than I dreamt of before. However, I didn’t come to talk of that.”
“I suppose not,” said Jericho.
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“But, bless me!” cried the persevering75 Carraways, “how thin you are! Why, you can have no bowels76.”
Mr. Jericho said nothing. He merely drew himself up, using a snaky motion of the head to express his silent contempt of the doubt. And silence was best. What spoken answer would have better met such unbelief?
“But as I say,” repeated Carraways, “I didn’t come to talk about that. I come—now attend to me, if you please, Solomon Jericho”—and Jericho fell flat against the back of his chair, astounded at the pauper’s impudence—“attend to me. I didn’t come to talk of that. I came here, at once, to renounce78 all right and title, for me and mine by gift or will now and for evermore,—all right, I say, to a shilling of your money.”
“I think,” said Mr. Jericho suddenly recovering himself, “I think you give yourself a very needless trouble.”
“Well, I hope so,” answered Carraways. “Still, I would not risk a mistake. Your son-in-law”—
“Humph!” said Jericho, and with studied sarcasm79. “Son-in-law! Yes; the law bears very hard on us, now and then.”
“Has proposed to marry my Bessy. I have consented; and after what I’ve said, I suppose, Mr. Jericho, you can have no objection to the match?”
“Really, Gilbert Carraways,” replied the Man of Money, smiling the while, “why should I? Your conditions are so advantageous80, that I should be a fool as well as a monster to come between two doting81 hearts. All I can say is, I wish you joy of the young gentleman.”
“I have every faith in him,” said Carraways. “Perhaps, Mr. Jericho, you will break the matter to Basil’s mother? I need not intrude82 upon the lady’s better employment. We leave England in about a fortnight.”
“What! the young couple and all?” cried Jericho; “and where may you be bound for?”
“A capital determination, Gilbert. As you’ve been turned topsy-turvy here, why going to the antipodes is, perhaps, the[Pg 200] shortest way of putting you on your legs again.” Here the servant answered the bell, rang by the Man of Money. “Beg Mrs. Jericho to come to me,” said the husband.
“Good morning,” cried Carraways rising. “I would rather not see the lady. I’ll leave the explanation in your hands. ’Twill come better from you. Much better. Well,”—and Carraways paused before Jericho, and staringly read him up and down—“you are thin! Why, you must have no more blood than a cucumber, Solomon. To think that a man should be so rich—ha! what luck you’ve had in platina, to be sure—so rich and so meagre! Talk of the Wandering Jew, why if you live long enough, you’ll be known as the Wandering Bank-note. Dear me! Well, you’d be very curious under a microscope—very curious. Good morning, good morning.” And Carraways bustled84 from the presence of the Man of Money, who sat speechless and confounded by the easy insolence85 of the pauper. Never, perhaps, since the first piece of metal was stamped as the go-between of man and man, had the dignity of wealth been so impudently86 put upon. In the savageness88 of his injured majesty, Jericho could have brained the offender89 with a bag of money—dashed him in little pieces with a golden thunderbolt; an article with which Plutus often beats the iron of the bigger Jupiter.
“He is gone now—the pauper’s departed,” said Jericho scornfully to his wife, as she entered.
“Who is gone? And whom can you speak of? A pauper, and here!” Mrs. Jericho would as soon have thought to see a polecat basking90 on the hearth-rug. “Pauper!”
“Oh! I suppose the old story with such people. Came for money?” said his wife.
“Not he; an impudent87, blustering92 scoundrel. Came here to shake his rags in my face, and show how very proud he was of them. Would you believe it? He had the brazen93 effrontery94 to come here—here—to renounce my offer of money, and that before it was made.”
“Dear me! Poor man!” said Mrs. Jericho, with a look and voice of pity. “Insane, of course.”
“No—not he. Not more mad than thousands of people. For it’s wonderful to think how near conceit95 is to insanity96, and yet how many folks are suffered to go free and foaming97 with it. Conceit, Sabilla; mere77 conceit in a rabid state. Of all pride, the worst is the pride of beggary. Of all madness, that madness is the worst and the most disgusting that, squatted98 upon a dunghill, brags100 of the straw and muck, as though they were gold and velvet101.”
“Very true, indeed, my dear—beautifully true,” said the wife. “But we must make great allowances; when a man is stripped of everything”—
“My dear!” cried Mrs. Jericho, with the prettiest glance of remonstrance102. “My love!”
“Moreover, when a family is stripped of everything,” cried Jericho, “I don’t think it precisely103 the family to marry into.”
“Why, Solomon, what do you mean?” asked the wife, anxious and foreboding.
“The meaning’s as short and as strong as the marriage service. Your hopeful son is going to marry Bessy.”
“Impossible! He cannot mean it,” cried Mrs. Jericho. “It is a mere folly104 of youth that he will outlive—that he must outlive. The fact is, my dear Jericho, we must send him abroad.”
“We needn’t trouble ourselves. In a few months he will be directly under my foot.” Mrs. Jericho stared. “At the antipodes, my dear; at the antipodes,” and Jericho rubbed his hands at the prospect105.
“And that Carraways—oh, it’s a pretty plan, I see, to provide for the daughter—that Carraways came here to tell you this?”
“With his compliments, or something like ’em, that I should open the matter to you.”
“Solomon, my dear Solomon”—and Mrs. Jericho dropt in a chair beneath her maternal106 feelings—“this is a great blow to our[Pg 202] house.” Jericho looked confidently; putting his thin hands into his pockets, as though he would imply a conviction that the house was strong enough to bear the shock. “’Twill break my heart, Solomon.” Still the husband looked calm and self-possessed. “It will bring me to a premature54 grave.” And still, and still the hopeful spouse107 blenched108 not. “A foolish, enthusiastic child—when there was such a path open to him!”
“All the road clean as a whistle to the Court of Queen’s Bench,” said Jericho.
“No—no. The Duke of St. George’s eldest109 daughter; that beautiful girl, the Lady Malypense—he has only to ask and have; I am certain of it, Solomon. If I know what the human heart is made of”—
“And what is it made of?” inquired Jericho; for in the material of hearts he had a strange interest. “What’s the stuff? People differ on the point devilishly.” Mrs. Jericho stared. “What do you think I heard? Why, that the heart of Lady Malypense—’twas that bitter fellow Thrush who said it—that her heart was like a jewel cushion; merely a thing to stick finery upon.” Mrs. Jericho looked wounded incredulity. “Oh, I don’t believe it. I only tell you how folks gabble about hearts. Ha! ha! every man talks of his neighbour’s heart, as though it was his own watch.—A thing to be seen in all its works; and abused for irregular going. I always laugh when I hear a man talk of another man’s heart. And if anybody has a right to laugh, I think it’s myself. Ha! ha!” and Jericho grinned disdainfully; and by such scorn withered110, as he believed, the wicked rumour111 that now and then would gabble against him.
“I am resolved, my love,” said Mrs. Jericho, “that this boy shall not sacrifice himself. I have fixed112 my heart upon a coronet for him, and he shall have it. We deserve nothing less.”
“Nothing more easy,” broke in the wife and mother. “He marries the Duke’s daughter; he obtains a high appointment at[Pg 203] a foreign court; he enters upon diplomacy114; I’m sure he was born for it; he always had, as a child, such a taste for mechanics. I only wish I’d kept the mouse-trap he invented when he was six years old. Depend upon it, he’s a born ambassador, my dear.”
“Isn’t marked anywhere with the name of the court, eh?” asked Jericho.
“Now, my love, I adore your wit; but do respect a mother’s feelings. Consider, Jericho. As I say, he marries Lady Malypense. He is sent abroad. Our politics are in a tangle115 somewhere—in Egypt, or Greece, or Belgium, or the Sandwich Islands—’tis all the same—and Basil winds the affair off as cleanly as a skein of silk. Then, of course, he is ennobled—he has somehow saved his country; and, choosing an estate from the map of England, it is bought for ever and for ever for him by a grateful people, and he takes his seat among the lords spiritual and temporal—a peer of the realm. I’m sure of it, from his genius; though I never named it before. Certain.”
“Well,” said Jericho, satirically, “there’s something in it. And yet to consider a peer in his robes and coronet—well, it must be confessed ’tis a mighty116 grand thing to come out of a mousetrap.”
“Not at all,” said Mrs. Jericho, “peerages have come of much smaller matters. And, in fact, my love, this intended marriage—this folly—this sacrifice must, at any cost, be prevented.”
“As you please; but for my part, I think you’d better let matters take their course.”
“Solomon!” cried the wife, in the voice of reproach.
“And as for a peerage, why, where Basil’s going, he may choose the rank he best likes; earl, marquess, duke.—And what’s more, he can have himself tattooed117, dog-cheap, with garters on both legs, and any number of orders.” And Jericho laughed at his own wit, with the partiality of a parent.
Mrs. Jericho visited the scorner with one scathing118 glance of anger; then half in pity, half in contempt, she cried—“Mr. Jericho, you are not a mother.” And it must be confessed the Man of Money bore the information with pattern tranquillity119.
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