Sans Souci stood before the parlor1 mirror, gazing into it, seeing—not the reflected image of her own elfish figure, or pretty, witching face, with its round, polished forehead, its mocking eyes, its sunny, dancing curls, its piquant2 little nose, or petulant3 little lips—but contemplating4, as through a magic glass, far down the vista5 of her childhood—childhood scarcely past, yet in its strong contrast to the present, seeming so distant, dim, and unreal, that her reminiscence of its days resembled more a vague dream of a pre-existence, than a rational recollection of a part of her actual life on earth. Poor Jacko was wondering "If I be I?"
Grim sat in a leathern chair, at the farthest extremity6 of the room, occupied with holding a book, but reading Jacquelina. Suddenly he broke into her brown study by exclaiming:
"I should like to know what you are doing, and how long you intend to remain standing7 before that glass."
"Oh, indeed! should you?" mocked Jacko, startled out of her reverie, yet instantly remembering to be provoking.
"What were you doing, and—"
"Looking at myself in the glass, to be sure."
"Don't cut off my question, if you please. I was going on to inquire of what you were thinking so profoundly. And madam, or miss—"
"Madam, if you please! the dear knows, I paid heavy enough for my new dignity, and don't intend to abate8 one degree of it. So if you call me miss again, I'll get some one who loves me to call you 'out!' Besides, I'd have you to know, I'm very proud of it. Ain't you, too? Say, Grim! ain't you a proud and happy man to be married?" asked Jacko, tauntingly9.
"You jibe10! You do so with a purpose. But it shall not avail you. I demand to know the subject of your thoughts as you stood before that mirror."
Now, none but a half madman like Grim would have gravely made such a demand, or exposed himself to such a rebuff as it deserved. Jacko looked at him quizzically.
"Hem11!" she answered, demurely12. "I'm sure I'm so awestricken, your worship, that I can scarcely find the use of my tongue to obey your reverence13. I hope your excellency won't be offended with me. But I was wondering in general, whether the Lord really did make all the people upon earth, and in particular, whether He made you, and if so, for what inscrutable reason He did it."
"You are an impertinent minion14. But, by the saints, I will have an answer to my question, and know what you were thinking of while gazing in that mirror."
"Sorry the first explanation didn't please your eminence15. But now, 'honor bright!' I'll tell you truly what I was thinking of. I was thinking—thinking how excessively pretty I am. Now, tell the truth, and shame the old gentleman. Did you ever, in all your life, see such a beautiful, bewitching, tantalizing16, ensnaring face as mine is?"
"I think I never saw such a fool!"
"Really? Then your holiness never looked at yourself in a mirror! never beheld17 'your natural face in a glass!' never saw 'what manner of man' you are."
"By St. Peter! I will not be insulted, and dishonored, and defied in this outrageous18 manner. I swear I will have your thoughts, if I have to pluck them from your heart."
"Whe-ew! Well, if I didn't always think thought was free, may I never be an interesting young widow, and captivate Thurston Willcoxen."
sang the elf, dancing about, seizing the bellows21 and flourishing it over her head like a tambourine22, as she danced.
"Be still, you termagant. Be still, you lunatic, or I'll have you put in a strait-jacket!" cried the exasperated23 professor.
"Poor fellow!" said Jacko, dropping the bellows and sidling up to him in a wheedling24, mock-sympathetic manner. "P-o-o-r f-e-l-l-o-w! don't get excited and go into the highstrikes. You can't help it if you're ugly and repulsive25 as Time in the Primer, any more than Thurston Willcoxen can help being handsome and attractive as Magnus Apollo."
"It was of him, then, you were thinking, minion? I knew it! I knew it!" exclaimed the professor, starting up, throwing down his book, and pacing the floor.
"Bear it like a man!" said Jacko, with solemnity.
"You admit it, then. You—you—you—"
"'Unprincipled female.' There! I have helped you to the words. And now, if you will be melo-dramatic, you should grip up your hair with both hands, and stride up and down the floor and vociferate, 'Confusion! distraction26! perdition! or any other awful words you can think of. That's the way they do it in the plays."
"Madam, your impertinence is growing beyond sufferance. I cannot endure it."
"St. Mary! I will bear this no longer."
"Then I'm afraid you'll have to emigrate!"
"I'll commit suicide."
"That's you! Do! I should like very well to wear bombazine this cold weather. Please do it at once, too, if you're going to, for I should rather be out of deep mourning by midsummer!"
"By heaven, I will pay you for this."
"Any time at your convenience, Dr. Grimshaw! And I shall be ready to give you a receipt in full upon the spot!" said the elf, rising. "Anything else in my line this morning, Dr. Grimshaw? Give me a call when you come my way! I shall be much obliged for your patronage," she continued, curtseying and dancing off toward the door. "By the way, my dear sir, there is a lecture to be delivered this evening by our gifted young fellow-citizen, Mr. Thurston Willcoxen. Going to hear him? I am! Good-day!" she said, and kissed her hand and vanished.
Grim was going crazy! Everybody said it, and what everybody says has ever been universally received as indisputable testimony28. Many people, indeed, averred29 that Grim never had been quite right—that he always had been queer, and that since his mad marriage with that flighty bit of a child, Jacquelina, he had been queerer than ever.
He would have been glad to prevent Jacquelina from going to the lecture upon the evening in question; but there was no reasonable excuse for doing so. Everybody went to the lectures, which were very popular. Mrs. Waugh made a point of being punctually present at every one. And she took charge of Jacquelina, whenever the whim30 of the latter induced her to go, which was as often as she secretly wished to "annoy Grim." And, in fact, "to plague the Ogre" was her only motive31 in being present, for, truth to tell, the elf cared very little either for the lecturer or his subjects, and usually spent the whole evening in yawning behind her pocket handkerchief. Upon this evening, however, the lecture fixed32 even the flighty fancy of Jacquelina, as she sat upon the front seat between Mrs. Waugh and Dr. Grimshaw.
Jacquelina was magnetized, and scarcely took her eyes from the speaker during the whole of the discourse33. Mrs. Waugh was also too much interested to notice her companions. Grim was agonized34. The result of the whole of which was—that after they all got home, Dr. Grimshaw—to use a common but graphic35 phrase—"put his foot down" upon the resolution to prevent Jacquelina's future attendance at the lectures. Whether he would have succeeded in keeping her away is very doubtful, had not a remarkably36 inclement37 season of weather set in, and lasted a fortnight, leaving the roads nearly impassable for two other weeks. And just as traveling was getting to be possible, Thurston Willcoxen was called to Baltimore, on his grandfather's business, and was absent a fortnight. So, altogether, six weeks had passed without Jacquelina's finding an opportunity to defy Dr. Grimshaw by attending the lectures against his consent.
At the end of that time, on Sunday morning, it was announced in the church that Mr. Willcoxen having returned to the county, would resume his lectures on the Wednesday evening following. Dr. Grimshaw looked at Jacquelina, to note how she would receive this news. Poor Jacko had been under Marian's good influences for the week previous, and was, in her fitful and uncertain way, "trying to be good." "As an experiment to please you, Marian," she said, "and to see how it will answer." Poor elf! So she called up no false, provoking smile of joy, to drive Grim frantic38, but heard the news of Thurston's arrival with the outward calmness that was perfectly39 true to the perfect inward indifference40.
"She has grown guarded—that is a very bad sign—I shall watch her closer," muttered Grim behind his closed teeth. And when the professor went home that day, his keen, pallid41 face was frightful42 to look upon. And many were the comments made by the dispersing43 congregation.
From that Sunday to the following Wednesday, not one word was spoken of Thurston Willcoxen or his lecture. But on Wednesday morning Dr. Grimshaw entered the parlor, where Jacquelina lingered alone, gazing out of the window, and going up to her side, astonished her beyond measure by speaking in a calm, kind tone, and saying:
"Jacquelina, you have been too much confined to the house lately. You are languid. You must go out more. Mr. Willcoxen lectures this evening. Perhaps you would like to hear him. If so, I withdraw my former prohibition44, which was, perhaps, too harsh, and I beg you will follow your own inclinations45, if they lead you to go."
You should have seen Jacko's eyes and eyebrows46! the former were dilated47 to their utmost capacity, while the latter were elevated to their highest altitude. The professor's eyebrows were knotted together, and his eyes sought the ground, as he continued:
"I myself have an engagement at Leonardtown this afternoon, which will
detain me all night, and therefore shall not be able to escort you; but
Mrs. Waugh, who is going, will doubtless take you under her charge.
Would you like to go?"
"I had already intended to go," replied Jacquelina, without relaxing a muscle of her face.
The professor nodded and left the room.
Soon after, Jacquelina sought her aunty, whom she found in the pantry, mixing mince-meat.
"I say, aunty—"
"Well, Lapwing?"
"When Satan turns saint, suspicion is safe, is it not?"
"What do you mean, Lapwing?"
"Why, just now the professor came to me, politely apologized for his late rudeness, and proposed that I should go with you to hear Mr. Willcoxen's lecture, while he, the professor, goes to Leonardtown to fulfill48 an engagement. I say, aunty, I sniff49 a plot, don't you?"
"I don't know what to make of it, Lapwing. Are you going?"
"Of course I am; I always intended to."
No more was said at the time.
Immediately after dinner Dr. Grimshaw ordered his horse, and saying that he was going to Leonardtown and should not be back till the next day, set forth50.
And after an early tea, Mrs. Waugh and Jacquelina set out in the family sleigh. A swift run over the hard, frozen snow brought them to Old Fields, where they stopped a moment to pick up Marian, and then shooting forward at the same rate of speed, they reached the lecture-room in full time.
Jacquelina was perhaps the very least enchanted51 of all his hearers—she was, in fact, an exception, and found the discourse so entirely52 uninteresting that it was with difficulty she could refrain from yawning in the face of the orator53. Mrs. Waugh also, perhaps, was but half mesmerized54, for her eyes would cautiously wander from the lecturer's pulpit to the side window on her right hand. At length she stooped and whispered to Jacquelina:
"Child, be cautious; Dr. Grimshaw is on the ground—I have seen his face rise up to that lower pane55 of glass at the corner of that window, several times. He must be crouched56 down on the outside."
Jacquelina gave a little start of surprise—her face underwent many phases of expression; she glanced furtively57 at the indicated window, and there she saw a pale, wild face gleam for an instant against the glass, and then drop. She nodded her head quickly, muttering:
"Oh, I'll pay him!"
"Don't child! don't do anything imprudent, for gracious' sake! That man is crazy—any one can see he is!"
"Oh, aunty, I'll be sure to pay him! He shan't be in my debt much longer. Soft, aunty! Don't look toward the window again! Don't let him perceive that we see him or suspect him—and then, you'll see what you'll see. I have a counter plot."
This last sentence was muttered to herself by Jacquelina, who thereupon straightened herself up—looked the lecturer in the eyes—and gave her undevoted attention to him during the rest of the evening. There was not a more appreciating and admiring hearer in the room than Jacquelina affected58 to be. Her face was radiant, her eyes starry59, her cheeks flushed, her pretty lips glowing breathlessly apart—her whole form instinct with enthusiasm. Any one might have thought the little creature bewitched. But the fascinating orator need not have flattered himself—had he but known it—Jacquelina neither saw his face nor heard his words; she was seeing pictures of Grim's bitter jealousy60, mortification61 and rage, as he beheld her from his covert62; she was rehearsing scenes of what she meant to do to him. And when at last she forgot herself, and clapped her hand enthusiastically, it was not at the glorious peroration63 of the orator—but at the perfection of her own little plot!
When the lecturer had finished, and as usual announced the subject and the time of the next lecture, Jacquelina, instead of rising with the mass of the audience, showed a disposition64 to retain her seat.
"Come, my dear, I am going," said Mrs. Waugh.
"Wait, aunty, I don't like to go in a crowd."
Mrs. Waugh waited while the people pressed toward the outer doors.
"I wonder whether the professor will wait and join us when we return home?" said Mrs. Waugh.
"We shall see," said Jacquelina. "I wish he may. I believe he will. I am prepared for such an emergency."
In the meantime, Thurston Willcoxen had descended65 from the platform, and was shaking hands right and left with the few people who had lingered to speak to him. Then he approached Mrs. Waugh's party, bowed, and afterward66 shook hands with each member of it, only retaining Marian's hand the fraction of a minute longest, and giving it an earnest pressure in relinquishing67 it. Then he inquired after the health of the family at Luckenough, commented upon the weather, the state of the crops, etc., and with a valedictory68 bow withdrew, and followed the retreating crowd.
"I think we can also go now," said Mrs. Waugh.
"Yes," said Jacquelina, rising.
Upon reaching the outside, they found old Oliver, with the sleigh drawn69 up to receive them. Jacquelina looked all around, to see if she could discover Thurston Willcoxen on the grounds; and not seeing him anywhere, she persuaded herself that he must have hastened home. But she saw Dr. Grimshaw, recognized him, and at the same time could but notice the strong resemblance in form and manner that he bore to Thurston Willcoxen, when it was too dark to notice the striking difference in complexion70 and expression. Dr. Grimshaw approached her, keeping his cloak partially71 lifted to his face, as if to defend it from the wind, but probably to conceal72 it. Then the evil spirit entered Jacquelina, and tempted73 her to sidle cautiously up to the professor, slip her arm through his arm, and whisper:
"Thurston! Come! Jump in the sleigh and go home with us. We shall have such a nice time! Old Grim has gone to Leonardtown, and won't be home till to-morrow!"
"Has he, minion? By St. Judas! you are discovered now! I have now full evidence of your turpitude74. By all the saints! you shall answer for it fearfully," said the professor, between his clenched75 teeth, as he closed his arm upon Jacquelina's arm and dragged her toward the sleigh.
"Ha! ha! ha! Oh! well, I don't care! If I mistook you for Thurston, it is not the first mistake I ever made about you. I mistook you once before for a man!" said Jacko, defiantly76.
He thrust her into the sleigh already occupied by Mrs. Waugh and Marian, jumped in after her, and took the seat by her side.
"Why, I thought that you set out for Leonardtown this afternoon, Dr.
Grimshaw!" said Mrs. Waugh, coldly.
"You may have jumped to other conclusions equally false and dangerous, madam!"
"What do you mean, sir?"
"I mean, madam, that in conniving77 at the perfidy78 of this unprincipled girl, your niece, you imagined that you were safe. It was an error. You are both discovered!" said the professor, doggedly79.
"Dr. Grimshaw," she said, "nothing but self-respect prevents me from ordering you from this sleigh!"
"I advise you to let self-respect, or any other motive you please, still restrain you, madam. I remain here as the warden81 of this pretty creature's person, until she is safely secured."
"You will at least be kind enough to explain to us the causes of your present words and actions, sir!" said Mrs. Waugh, severely82.
"Undoubtedly83, madam! Having, as I judged, just reasons for doubting the integrity of your niece, and more than suspecting her attachment84 to Mr. Willcoxen, I was determined85 to test both. Therefore, instead of going to Leonardtown, to be absent till to-morrow, I came here, posted myself at a favorable point for observation, and took notes. While here, I saw enough to convince me of Jacquelina's indiscretions. Afterward leaving the spot with lacerated feelings I drew near her. She mistook me for her lover, thrust her arm through mine, and said, 'Dear Thurston, come home with me—'"
"Oh! you shocking old fye-for-shame! I said no such thing! I said,
Thurston! Come! Jump in the sleigh and go home with us.'"
"It makes little difference, madam! The meaning was the same. I will not be responsible for a literal report. You are discovered."
"What does that mean? If it means you have discovered that I mistook you for Thurston Willcoxen, you ought to 'walk on thrones' the rest of your life! You never got such a compliment before, and never will again!"
"Aye! go on, madam! You and your conniving aunt—"
"Dr. Grimshaw, if you dare to say or hint such impertinence to me again, you shall leave your seat much more quickly than you took it," said Mrs. Waugh.
"We shall see, madam!" said the professor, and he lapsed86 into sullenness87 for the remainder of the drive.
But, oh! there was one in that sleigh upon whose heart the words of wild
Jacko had fallen with cruel weight-Marian!
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