The Step-Dame1’s Suspicions Being Awakened2, she Lays a Snare3 for Our Adventurer, from which he is DELIVERED BY THE Interposition of His Good Genius.
Though the husband swallowed the bait without further inquiry4, the penetration5 of the wife was not so easily deceived. That same dialogue in Wilhelmina’s apartment, far from allaying7, rather inflamed8 her suspicion; because, in the like emergency, she herself had once profited by the same, or nearly the same contrivance. Without communicating her doubts to the father, she resolved to double her attention to the daughter’s future conduct, and keep such a strict eye over the behaviour of our gallant9, that he should find it very difficult, if not impossible, to elude10 her observation. For this purpose she took into her pay an old maiden11, of the right sour disposition12, who lived in a house opposite to her own, and directed her to follow the young lady in all her outgoings, whenever she should receive from the window a certain signal, which the mother-in-law agreed to make for the occasion. It was not long before this scheme succeeded to her wish. The door of communication betwixt Wilhelmina’s apartment and the staircase being nailed up by the jeweller’s express order, our adventurer was altogether deprived of those opportunities he had hitherto enjoyed, and was not at all mortified13 to find himself so restricted in a correspondence which began to be tiresome14 and disagreeable. But the case was far otherwise with his Dulcinea, whose passion, the more it was thwarted15, raged with greater violence, like a fire, that, from the attempts that are made to extinguish it, gathers greater force, and flames with double fury.
Upon the second day of her misfortune, she had written a very tender billet, lamenting16 her unhappiness in being deprived of those meetings which constituted the chief joy of her life, and entreating17 him to contrive18 some means of renewing the delicious commerce in an unsuspected place. This intimation she proposed to convey privately19 into the hand of her lover, during his next visit to the family; but both were so narrowly eyed by the mother, that she found the execution of her design impracticable; and next forenoon, on pretence20 of going to church, repaired to the house of a companion, who, being also her confidant, undertook to deliver the billet with her own hand.
The she-dragon employed by her mother, in obedience21 to the sign which was displayed from the window immediately put on her veil, and followed Wilhelmina at a distance, until she saw her fairly housed. She would not even then return from her excursion, but hovered23 about in sight of the door, with a view of making further observations. In less than five minutes after the young lady disappeared, the scout24 perceived her coming out, accompanied by her comrade, from whom she instantly parted, and bent25 her way towards the church in good earnest, while the other steered26 her course in another direction. The duenna, after a moment’s suspense27 and consideration, divined the true cause of this short visit, and resolved to watch the motions of the confidant, whom she traced to the academy in which our hero lodged28, and from which she saw her return, after the supposed message was delivered.
Fraught29 with this intelligence, the rancorous understrapper hied her home to the jeweller’s wife, and made a faithful recital30 of what she had seen, communicating at the same time her own conjectures31 on that subject. Her employer was equally astonished and incensed32 at this information. She was seized with all that frenzy33 which takes possession of a slighted woman, when she finds herself supplanted34 by a detested35 rival; and, in the first transports of her indignation, devoted36 them as sacrifices to her vengeance37. Nor was her surprise so much the effect of his dissimulation38, as of his want of taste and discernment. She inveighed39 against him, not as the most treacherous40 lover, but as the most abject41 wretch42, in courting the smiles of such an awkward dowdy43, while he enjoyed the favours of a woman who had numbered princes in the train of her admirers. For the brilliancy of her attractions, such as they at present shone, she appealed to the decision of her minister, who consulted her own satisfaction and interest, by flattering the other’s vanity and resentment44; and so unaccountable did the depravity of our hero’s judgment45 appear to this conceited46 dame, that she began to believe there was some mistake in the person, and to hope that Wilhelmina’s gallant was not in reality her professed47 admirer, Mr. Fathom48, but rather one of his fellow-lodgers, whose passion he favoured with his mediation49 and assistance.
On this notion, which nothing but mere50 vanity could have inspired, in opposition51 to so many more weighty presumptions52, she took the resolution of bringing the affair to a fuller explanation, before she would concert any measures to the prejudice of our adventurer, and forthwith despatched her spy back to his lodgings53, to solicit54, on the part of Wilhelmina, an immediate22 answer to the letter he had received. This was an expedition with which the old maiden would have willingly dispensed55, because it was founded upon an uncertainty56, which might be attended with troublesome consequences; but, rather than be the means of retarding57 a negotiation58 so productive of that sort of mischief59 which is particularly agreeable to all of her tribe, she undertook to manage and effect the discovery, in full confidence of her own talents and experience.
With such a fund of self-sufficiency and instigation, she repaired to the academy on the instant, and inquiring for Mr. Fathom, was introduced to his apartment, where she found him in the very act of writing a billet to the jeweller’s daughter. The artful agent having asked, with the mysterious air of an expert go-between, if he had not lately received a message from a certain young lady, and, being answered in the affirmative, gave him to understand, that she herself was a person favoured with the friendship and confidence of Wilhelmina, whom she had known from her cradle, and often dandled on her knee; then, in the genuine style of a prattling60 dry nurse, she launched out in encomiums on his Dulcinea’s beauty and sweetness of temper, recounting many simple occurrences of her infancy61 and childhood; and, finally, desiring a more circumstantial answer to that which she had sent to him by her friend Catherina. In the course of her loquacity62 she had also, according to her instructions, hinted at the misfortune of the door; and, on the whole, performed her cue with such dexterity63 and discretion64 that our politician was actually overreached, and, having finished his epistle, committed it to her care, with many verbal expressions of eternal love and fidelity65 to his charming Wilhelmina.
The messenger, doubly rejoiced at her achievement, which not only recommended her ministry66, but also gratified her malice67, returned to her principal with great exultation68, and, delivering the letter, the reader will easily conceive the transports of that lady when she read the contents of it in these words:—
“ANGELIC WILHELMINA!— To forget those ecstatic scenes we have enjoyed together, or even live without the continuation of that mutual69 bliss70, were to quit all title to perception, and resign every hope of future happiness. No! my charmer, while my head retains the least spark of invention, and my heart glows with the resolution of a man, our correspondence shall not be cut off by the machinations of an envious71 stepmother, who never had attractions to inspire a generous passion; and, now that age and wrinkles have destroyed what little share of beauty she once possessed72, endeavours, like the fiend in paradise, to blast those joys in others, from which she is herself eternally excluded. Doubt not, dear sovereign of my soul! that I will study, with all the eagerness of desiring love, how to frustrate73 her malicious74 intention, and renew those transporting moments, the remembrance of which now warms the breast of your ever constant FATHOM.”
Had our hero murdered her father, or left her a disconsolate75 widow, by effecting the death of her dear husband, there might have been a possibility of her exerting the Christian76 virtues77 of resignation and forgiveness; but such a personal outrage79 as that contained in this epistle precluded80 all hope of pardon, and rendered penitence81 of no signification. His atrocious crime being now fully82 ascertained83, this virago84 gave a loose to her resentment, which became so loud and tempestuous85, that her informer shuddered86 at the storm she had raised, and began to repent87 of having communicated the intelligence which seemed to have such a violent effect upon hex brain.
She endeavoured, however, to allay6 the agitation88, by flattering her fancy with the prospect89 of revenge, and gradually soothed90 her into a state of deliberate ire; during which she determined91 to take ample vengeance on the delinquent92. In the zenith of her rage, she would have had immediate recourse to poison or steel, had she not been diverted from her mortal purpose by her counsellor, who represented the danger of engaging in such violent measures, and proposed a more secure scheme, in the execution of which she would see the perfidious93 wretch sufficiently94 punished, without any hazard to her own person or reputation. She advised her to inform the jeweller of Fathom’s efforts to seduce95 her conjugal96 fidelity, and impart to him a plan, by which he would have it in his power to detect our adventurer in the very act of practising upon her virtue78.
The lady relished97 her proposal, and actually resolved to make an assignation with Ferdinand, as usual, and give notice of the appointment to her husband, that he might personally discover the treachery of his pretended friend, and inflict98 upon him such chastisement99 as the German’s brutal100 disposition should suggest, when inflamed by that species of provocation101. Had this project been brought to bear, Ferdinand, in all likelihood, would have been disqualified from engaging in any future intrigue103; but fate ordained104 that the design should be defeated, in order to reserve him for more important occasions.
Before the circumstances of the plan could be adjusted, it was his good fortune to meet his Dulcinea in the street, and, in the midst of their mutual condolence on the interruption they had suffered in their correspondence, he assured her, that he would never give his invention respite105, until he should have verified the protestations contained in the letter he had delivered to her discreet106 agent. This allusion107 to a billet she had never received, did not fail to alarm her fears, and introduce a very mortifying108 explanation, in which he so accurately109 described the person of the messenger, that she forthwith comprehended the plot, and communicated to our hero her sentiments on that subject.
Though he expressed infinite anxiety and chagrin110 at this misfortune, which could not fail to raise new obstacles to their love, his heart was a stranger to the uneasiness he affected111; and rather pleased with the occasion, which would furnish him with pretences112 to withdraw himself gradually from an intercourse113 by this time become equally cloying114 and unprofitable. Being well acquainted with the mother’s temperament115, he guessed the present situation of her thoughts, and concluding she would make the jeweller a party in her revenge, he resolved from that moment to discontinue his visits, and cautiously guard against any future interview with the lady whom he had rendered so implacable.
It was well for our adventurer that his good fortune so seasonably interposed; for that same day, in the afternoon, he was favoured with a billet from the jeweller’s wife, couched in the same tender style she had formerly116 used, and importing an earnest desire of seeing him next day at the wonted rendezvous117. Although his penetration was sufficient to perceive the drift of this message, or at least to discern the risk he should run in complying with her request, yet he was willing to be more fully certified118 of the truth of his suspicion, and wrote an answer to the billet, in which he assured her, that he would repair to the place of appointment with all the punctuality of an impatient lover. Nevertheless, instead of performing this promise, he, in the morning, took post in a public-house opposite to the place of assignation, in order to reconnoitre the ground, and about noon had the pleasure of seeing the German, wrapped in a cloak, enter the door of his wife’s she-friend, though the appointment was fixed119 at five in the evening. Fathom blessed his good angel for having conducted him clear of this conspiracy120, and kept his station with great tranquillity121 till the hour of meeting, when he beheld122 his enraged123 Thalestris take the same route, and enjoyed her disappointment with ineffable124 satisfaction.
Thus favoured with a pretext125, he took his leave of her, in a letter, giving her to understand, that he was no stranger to the barbarous snare she had laid for him; and upbraiding126 her with having made such an ungrateful return for all his tenderness and attachment127. She was not backward in conveying a reply to this expostulation, which seemed to have been dictated128 in all the distraction129 of a proud woman who sees her vengeance baffled, as well as her love disdained130. Her letter was nothing but a succession of reproaches, menaces, and incoherent execrations. She taxed him with knavery131, insensibility, and dissimulation; imprecated a thousand curses upon his head, and threatened not only to persecute132 his life with all the arts that hell and malice could inspire, but also to wound him in the person of her daughter-in-law, who should be enclosed for life in a convent, where she should have leisure to repent of those loose and disorderly practices which he had taught her to commit, and of which she could not pretend innocence133, as they had it in their power to confront her with the evidence of her lover’s own confession134. Yet all this denunciation was qualified102 with an alternative, by which he was given to understand, that the gates of mercy were still open, and that penitence was capable of washing out the deepest stain of guilt135.
Ferdinand read the whole remonstrance136 with great composure and moderation, and was content to incur137 the hazard of her hate, rather than put her to the trouble of making such an effort of generosity138, as would induce her to forgive the heinous139 offence he had committed; nor did his apprehension140 for Wilhelmina in the least influence his behaviour on this occasion. So zealous141 was he for her spiritual concerns, that he would have been glad to hear she had actually taken the veil; but he knew such a step was not at all agreeable to her disposition, and that no violence would be offered to her inclinations142 on that score, unless her stepmother should communicate to the father that letter of Fathom’s which she had intercepted143, and by which the German would be convinced of his daughter’s backsliding; but this measure, he rightly supposed, the wife would not venture to take, lest the husband, instead of taking her advice touching144 the young lady, should seek to compromise the affair, by offering her in marriage to her debaucher145, a proffer146 which, if accepted, would overwhelm the mother with vexation and despair. He therefore chose to trust to the effects of lenient147 time, which he hoped would gradually weaken the resentment of this Penthesilea, and dissolve his connexion with the other parts of the family, from which he longed to be totally detached.
How well soever he might have succeeded in his attempts to shake off the yoke148 of the mother, who by her situation in life was restrained from prosecuting149 those measures her resentment had planned against his fortitude150 and indifference151, he would have found greater difficulty than he had foreseen, in disengaging himself from the daughter, whose affections he had won under the most solemn professions of honour and fidelity, and who, now she was debarred of his company and conversation, and in danger of losing him for ever, had actually taken the resolution of disclosing the amour to her father, that he might interpose in behalf of her peace and reputation, and secure her happiness by the sanction of the church.
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