Among the favourite authors of his early years were the heroic poets of Italy. From them he imbibed1 the love of chivalry2 and romance. He had too much good sense to regret the times of Charlemagne and Arthur. But, while his imagination was purged3 by a certain infusion4 of philosophy, he conceived that there was in the manners depicted5 by these celebrated6 poets something to imitate, as well as something to avoid. He believed that nothing was so well calculated to make men delicate, gallant7, and humane8, as a temper perpetually alive to the sentiments of birth and honour. The opinions he entertained upon these topics were illustrated9 in his conduct, which was assiduously conformed to the model of heroism10 that his fancy suggested.
With these sentiments he set out upon his travels, at the age at which the grand tour is usually made; and they were rather confirmed than shaken by the adventures that befel him. By inclination11 he was led to make his longest stay in Italy; and here he fell into company with several young noblemen whose studies and principles were congenial to his own. By them he was assiduously courted, and treated with the most distinguished12 applause. They were delighted to meet with a foreigner, who had imbibed all the peculiarities13 of the most liberal and honourable14 among themselves. Nor was he less favoured and admired by the softer sex. Though his stature15 was small, his person had an air of uncommon16 dignity. His dignity was then heightened by certain additions which were afterwards obliterated,— an expression of frankness, ingenuity17, and unreserve, and a spirit of the most ardent18 enthusiasm. Perhaps no Englishman was ever in an equal degree idolised by the inhabitants of Italy.
It was not possible for him to have drunk so deeply of the fountain of chivalry without being engaged occasionally in affairs of honour, all of which were terminated in a manner that would not have disgraced the chevalier Bayard himself. In Italy, the young men of rank divide themselves into two classes,— those who adhere to the pure principles of ancient gallantry, and those who, being actuated by the same acute sense of injury and insult, accustom19 themselves to the employment of hired bravoes as their instruments of vengeance20. The whole difference, indeed, consists in the precarious21 application of a generally received distinction. The most generous Italian conceives that there are certain persons whom it would be contamination for him to call into the open field. He nevertheless believes that an indignity22 cannot be expiated23 but with blood, and is persuaded that the life of a man is a trifling24 consideration, in comparison of the indemnification to be made to his injured honour. There is, therefore, scarcely any Italian that would upon some occasions scruple25 assassination26. Men of spirit among them, notwithstanding the prejudices of their education, cannot fail to have a secret conviction of its baseness, and will be desirous of extending as far as possible the cartel of honour. Real or affected27 arrogance28 teaches others to regard almost the whole species as their inferiors, and of consequence incites29 them to gratify their vengeance without danger to their persons. Mr. Falkland met with some of these. But his undaunted spirit and resolute30 temper gave him a decisive advantage even in such perilous31 rencounters. One instance, among many, of his manner of conducting himself among this proud and high-spirited people it may be proper to relate. Mr. Falkland is the principal agent in my history; and Mr. Falkland in the autumn and decay of his vigour32, such as I found him, cannot be completely understood without a knowledge of his previous character, as it was in all the gloss33 of youth, yet unassailed by adversity, and unbroken in upon by anguish34 or remorse35.
At Rome he was received with particular distinction at the house of marquis Pisani, who had an only daughter, the heir of his immense fortune, and the admiration36 of all the young nobility of that metropolis37. Lady Lucretia Pisani was tall, of a dignified38 form, and uncommonly39 beautiful. She was not deficient40 in amiable41 qualities, but her soul was haughty42, and her carriage not unfrequently contemptuous. Her pride was nourished by the consciousness of her charms, by her elevated rank, and the universal adoration43 she was accustomed to receive.
Among her numerous lovers count Malvesi was the individual most favoured by her father, nor did his addresses seem indifferent to her. The count was a man of considerable accomplishments44, and of great integrity and benevolence45 of disposition46. But he was too ardent a lover, to be able always to preserve the affability of his temper. The admirers whose addresses were a source of gratification to his mistress, were a perpetual uneasiness to him. Placing his whole happiness in the possession of this imperious beauty, the most trifling circumstances were capable of alarming him for the security of his pretensions47. But most of all he was jealous of the English cavalier. Marquis Pisani, who had spent many years in France, was by no means partial to the suspicious precautions of Italian fathers, and indulged his daughter in considerable freedoms. His house and his daughter, within certain judicious48 restraints, were open to the resort of male visitants. But, above all, Mr. Falkland, as a foreigner, and a person little likely to form pretensions to the hand of Lucretia, was received upon a footing of great familiarity. The lady herself, conscious of innocence49, entertained no scruple about trifles, and acted with the confidence and frankness of one who is superior to suspicion.
Mr. Falkland, after a residence of several weeks at Rome, proceeded to Naples. Meanwhile certain incidents occurred that delayed the intended nuptials50 of the heiress of Pisani. When he returned to Rome Count Malvesi was absent. Lady Lucretia, who had been considerably51 amused before with the conversation of Mr. Falkland, and who had an active and enquiring52 mind, had conceived, in the interval53 between his first and second residence at Rome, a desire to be acquainted with the English language, inspired by the lively and ardent encomiums of our best authors that she had heard from their countryman. She had provided herself with the usual materials for that purpose, and had made some progress during his absence. But upon his return she was forward to make use of the opportunity, which, if missed, might never occur again with equal advantage, of reading select passages of our poets with an Englishman of uncommon taste and capacity.
This proposal necessarily led to a more frequent intercourse54. When Count Malvesi returned, he found Mr. Falkland established almost as an inmate55 of the Pisani palace. His mind could not fail to be struck with the criticalness of the situation. He was perhaps secretly conscious that the qualifications of the Englishman were superior to his own; and he trembled for the progress that each party might have made in the affection of the other, even before they were aware of the danger. He believed that the match was in every respect such as to flatter the ambition of Mr. Falkland; and he was stung even to madness by the idea of being deprived of the object dearest to his heart by this tramontane upstart.
He had, however, sufficient discretion56 first to demand an explanation of Lady Lucretia. She, in the gaiety of her heart, trifled with his anxiety. His patience was already exhausted57, and he proceeded in his expostulation, in language that she was by no means prepared to endure with apathy58. Lady Lucretia had always been accustomed to deference59 and submission60; and, having got over something like terror, that was at first inspired by the imperious manner in which she was now catechised, her next feeling was that of the warmest resentment61. She disdained62 to satisfy so insolent63 a questioner, and even indulged herself in certain oblique64 hints calculated to strengthen his suspicions. For some time she described his folly65 and presumption66 in terms of the most ludicrous sarcasm67, and then, suddenly changing her style, bid him never let her see him more except upon the footing of the most distant acquaintance, as she was determined68 never again to subject herself to so unworthy a treatment. She was happy that he had at length disclosed to her his true character, and would know how to profit of her present experience to avoid a repetition of the same danger. All this passed in the full career of passion on both sides, and Lady Lucretia had no time to reflect upon what might be the consequence of thus exasperating70 her lover.
Count Malvesi left her in all the torments71 of frenzy72. He believed that this was a premeditated scene, to find a pretence73 for breaking off an engagement that was already all but concluded; or, rather, his mind was racked with a thousand conjectures74: he alternately thought that the injustice75 might be hers or his own; and he quarrelled with Lady Lucretia, himself, and the whole world. In this temper he hastened to the hotel of the English cavalier. The season of expostulation was now over, and he found himself irresistibly76 impelled77 to justify78 his precipitation with the lady, by taking for granted that the subject of his suspicion was beyond the reach of doubt.
Mr. Falkland was at home. The first words of the count were an abrupt79 accusation80 of duplicity in the affair of Lady Lucretia, and a challenge. The Englishman had an unaffected esteem81 for Malvesi, who was in reality a man of considerable merit, and who had been one of Mr. Falkland’s earliest Italian acquaintance, they having originally met at Milan. But more than this, the possible consequence of a duel82 in the present instance burst upon his mind. He had the warmest admiration for Lady Lucretia, though his feelings were not those of a lover; and he knew that, however her haughtiness83 might endeavour to disguise it, she was impressed with a tender regard for Count Malvesi. He could not bear to think that any misconduct of his should interrupt the prospects84 of so deserving a pair. Guided by these sentiments, he endeavoured to expostulate with the Italian. But his attempts were ineffectual. His antagonist85 was drunk with choler, and would not listen to a word that tended to check the impetuosity of his thoughts. He traversed the room with perturbed86 steps, and even foamed87 with anguish and fury. Mr. Falkland, finding that all was to no purpose, told the count, that, if he would return tomorrow at the same hour, he would attend him to any scene of action he should think proper to select.
From Count Malvesi Mr. Falkland immediately proceeded to the palace of Pisani. Here he found considerable difficulty in appeasing88 the indignation of Lady Lucretia. His ideas of honour would by no means allow him to win her to his purpose by disclosing the cartel he had received; otherwise that disclosure would immediately have operated as the strongest motive89 that could have been offered to this disdainful beauty. But, though she dreaded90 such an event, the vague apprehension91 was not strong enough to induce her instantly to surrender all the stateliness of her resentment. Mr. Falkland, however, drew so interesting a picture of the disturbance92 of Count Malvesi’s mind, and accounted in so flattering a manner for the abruptness93 of his conduct, that this, together with the arguments he adduced, completed the conquest of Lady Lucretia’s resentment. Having thus far accomplished94 his purpose, he proceeded to disclose to her every thing that had passed.
The next day Count Malvesi appeared, punctual to his appointment, at Mr. Falkland’s hotel. Mr. Falkland came to the door to receive him, but requested him to enter the house for a moment, as he had still an affair of three minutes to despatch95. They proceeded to a parlour. Here Mr. Falkland left him, and presently returned leading in Lady Lucretia herself, adorned96 in all her charms, and those charms heightened upon the present occasion by a consciousness of the spirited and generous condescension97 she was exerting. Mr. Falkland led her up to the astonished count; and she, gently laying her hand upon the arm of her lover, exclaimed with the most attractive grace, “Will you allow me to retract98 the precipitate99 haughtiness into which I was betrayed?” The enraptured100 count, scarcely able to believe his senses, threw himself upon his knees before her, and stammered101 out his reply, signifying that the precipitation had been all his own, that he only had any forgiveness to demand, and, though they might pardon, he could never pardon himself for the sacrilege he had committed against her and this god-like Englishman. As soon as the first tumults102 of his joy had subsided103, Mr. Falkland addressed him thus:—
“Count Malvesi, I feel the utmost pleasure in having thus by peaceful means disarmed104 your resentment, and effected your happiness. But I must confess, you put me to a severe trial. My temper is not less impetuous and fiery105 than your own, and it is not at all times that I should have been thus able to subdue106 it. But I considered that in reality the original blame was mine. Though your suspicion was groundless, it was not absurd. We have been trifling too much in the face of danger. I ought not, under the present weakness of our nature and forms of society, to have been so assiduous in my attendance upon this enchanting107 woman. It would have been little wonder, if, having so many opportunities, and playing the preceptor with her as I have done, I had been entangled108 before I was aware, and harboured a wish which I might not afterwards have had courage to subdue. I owed you an atonement for this imprudence.
“But the laws of honour are in the utmost degree rigid109; and there was reason to fear that, however anxious I were to be your friend, I might be obliged to be your murderer. Fortunately, the reputation of my courage is sufficiently110 established, not to expose it to any impeachment111 by my declining your present defiance112. It was lucky, however, that in our interview of yesterday you found me alone, and that accident by that means threw the management of the affair into my disposal. If the transaction should become known, the conclusion will now become known along with the provocation113, and I am satisfied. But if the challenge had been public, the proofs I had formerly114 given of courage would not have excused my present moderation; and, though desirous to have avoided the combat, it would not have been in my power. Let us hence each of us learn to avoid haste and indiscretion, the consequences of which may be inexpiable but with blood; and may Heaven bless you in a consort115 of whom I deem you every way worthy69!”
I have already said that this was by no means the only instance, in the course of his travels, in which Mr. Falkland acquitted116 himself in the most brilliant manner as a man of gallantry and virtue117. He continued abroad during several years, every one of which brought some fresh accession to the estimation in which he was held, as well as to his own impatience118 of stain or dishonour119. At length he thought proper to return to England, with the intention of spending the rest of his days at the residence of his ancestors.
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impeachment
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