He is the Messenger of Happiness to His Sister, who Removes the Film which had Long Obstructed1 His PENETRATION2, WITH Regard to Count Fathom3.
As the most endearing affection had always subsisted4 between Renaldo and his sister, he would not one moment deny himself the pleasure of flying to her embrace, and of being the glad messenger of her deliverance. Soon, therefore, as he understood the place of her retreat, and had obtained a proper order to the abbess, signed by Count Trebasi, he set out post for Vienna, still accompanied by his faithful Hibernian, and, arriving at the convent, found the abbess and the whole house so engrossed5 in making preparations for the ceremony of giving the veil next day to a young woman who had fulfilled the term of her probation6, that he could not possibly see his sister with that leisure and satisfaction which he had flattered himself with enjoying at this meeting; and therefore he was fain to bridle7 his impatience8 for two days, and keep his credentials9 until the hurry should be over, that Mademoiselle might have no intimation of her good fortune, except from his own mouth.
In order to fill up this tedious interval10, he visited his friends at court, who were rejoiced to hear the happy issue of his excursion to Presburg; the prince, who was his particular patron, desired he would make himself perfectly11 easy with regard to the death of Count Trebasi, for he would take care to represent him in such a light to the empress-queen, as would screen him from any danger or prosecution12 on that account. His highness, moreover, appointed the following day for performing the promise he had made of presenting him to that august princess, and in the meantime prepossessed her so much in his favour, that when he approached her presence, and was announced by his noble introductor, she eyed him with a look of peculiar13 complacency, saying, “I am glad to see you returned to my dominions15. Your father was a gallant16 officer, who served our house with equal courage and fidelity17; and as I understand you tread in his footsteps, you may depend upon my favour and protection.”
He was so much overwhelmed with this gracious reception, that, while he bowed in silence, the drops of gratitude18 trickled19 from his eyes; and her imperial majesty20 was so well pleased with this manifestation21 of his heart, that she immediately gave directions for promoting him to the command of a troop of horse. Thus fortune seemed willing, and indeed eager to discharge the debt she owed him for the different calamities23 he had undergone. And as he looked upon the generous Hebrew to be the sole source of his success, he did not fail to make him acquainted with the happy effects of his recommendation and friendship, and to express, in the warmest terms, the deep sense he had of his uncommon24 benevolence25, which, by the bye, was still greater, with regard to Renaldo, than the reader as yet imagines; for he not only furnished him with money for his present occasions, but also gave him an unlimited26 credit on a banker in Vienna, to whom one of his letters was directed.
The ceremony of the nun27’s admission being now performed, and the convent restored to its former quiet, Melvil hastened thither28 on the wings of brotherly affection, and presented his letter to the abbess, who having perused29 the contents, by which she learned that the family disquiets31 of Count Trebasi no longer subsisted, and that the bearer was the brother of Mademoiselle, she received him with great politeness, congratulated him on this happy event, and, begging he would excuse her staying with him in the parlour, on pretence32 of business, withdrew, saying, she would immediately send in a young lady who would console him for her absence. In a few minutes he was joined by his sister, who, expecting nothing less than to see Renaldo, no sooner distinguished33 his features, than she shrieked34 aloud with surprise, and would have sunk upon the floor, had not he supported her in his embrace.
Such a sudden apparition35 of her brother at any time, or in any place, after their long separation, would have strongly affected36 this sensible young lady; but to find him so abruptly37 in a place where she thought herself buried from the knowledge of all her relations, occasioned such commotions38 in her spirits as had well-nigh endangered her reason. For it was not till after a considerable pause, that she could talk to him with connexion or coherence39. However, as those transports subsided40, they entered into a more deliberate and agreeable conversation; in the course of which, he gradually informed her of what had passed at the castle; and inexpressible was the pleasure she felt in learning that her mother was released from captivity41, herself restored to freedom, and her brother to the possession of his inheritance, by the only means to which she had always prayed these blessings42 might be owing.
As she had been treated with uncommon humanity by the abbess, she would not consent to leave the convent until he should be ready to set out for Presburg; so that they dined together with that good lady, and passed the afternoon in that mutual43 communication with which a brother and sister may be supposed to entertain themselves on such an occasion. She gave him a detail of the insults and mortifications she had suffered from the brutality44 of her father-in-law, and told him, that her confinement45 in this monastery46 was owing to Trebasi having intercepted47 a letter to her from Renaldo, signifying his intention to return to the empire, in order to assert his own right, and redress48 his grievances49. Then turning the discourse50 upon the incidents of his peregrinations, she in a particular manner inquired about that exquisite51 beauty who had been the innocent source of all his distresses52, and upon whose perfections he had often, in his letters to his sister, expatiated53 with indications of rapture54 and delight.
This inquiry55 in a moment blew up that scorching56 flame which had been well-nigh stifled57 by other necessary avocations58. His eyes gleamed, his cheeks glowed and grew pale alternately, and his whole frame underwent an immediate22 agitation59; which being perceived by Mademoiselle, she concluded that some new calamity60 was annexed61 to the name of Monimia, and, dreading62 to rip up a wound which she saw was so ineffectually closed, she for the present suppressed her curiosity and concern, and industriously63 endeavoured to introduce some less affecting subject of conversation. He saw her aim, approved of her discretion64, and, joining her endeavours, expressed his surprise at her having omitted to signify the least remembrance of her old favourite, Fathom, whom he had left in England. He had no sooner pronounced this name, than she suffered some confusion in her turn; from which, however, recollecting65 herself, “Brother,” said she, “you must endeavour to forget that wretch66, who is altogether unworthy of retaining the smallest share of your regard.”
Astonished, and indeed angry, at this expression, which he considered as the effect of malicious67 misrepresentation, he gently chid68 her for her credulity in believing the envious69 aspersion70 of some person, who repined at the superior virtue71 of Fathom, whom he affirmed to be an honour to the human species.
“Nothing is more easy,” replied the young lady, “than to impose upon a person, who, being himself unconscious of guile72, suspects no deceit. You have been a dupe, dear brother, not to the finesse73 of Fathom, but to the sincerity74 of your own heart. For my own part, I assume no honour to my own penetration in having comprehended the villany of that impostor, which was discovered, in more than one instance, by accidents I could not possibly foresee.
“You must know, that Teresa, who attended me from my childhood, and in whose honesty I reposed75 such confidence, having disobliged some of the inferior servants, was so narrowly watched in all her transactions, as to be at last detected in the very act of conveying a piece of plate, which was actually found concealed76 among her clothes.
“You may guess how much I was astonished when I understood this circumstance. I could not trust to the evidence of my own senses, and should have still believed her innocent, in spite of ocular demonstration77, had not she, in the terrors of being tried for felony, promised to make a very material discovery to the Countess, provided she would take such measures as would save her life.
“This request being complied with, she, in my hearing, opened up such an amazing scene of iniquity78, baseness, and ingratitude79, which had been acted by her and Fathom, in order to defraud80 the family to which they were so much indebted, that I could not have believed the human mind capable of such degeneracy, or that traitor81 endowed with such pernicious cunning and dissimulation82, had not her tale been congruous, consistent, and distinct, and fraught83 with circumstances that left no room to doubt the least article of her confession84; on consideration of which she was permitted to go into voluntary exile.”
She then explained their combination in all the particulars, as we have already recounted them in their proper place, and finally observed, that the opinion she had hence conceived of Fathom’s character, was confirmed by what she had since learned of his perfidious85 conduct towards that very nun who had lately taken the veil.
Perceiving her brother struck dumb with astonishment86, and gaping87 with the most eager attention, she proceeded to relate the incidents of his double intrigue88 with the jeweller’s wife and daughter, as they were communicated to her by the nun, who was no other than the individual Wilhelmina. After those rivals had been forsaken89 by their gallant, their mutual animosities and chagrin90 served to whet91 the attention and invention of each; so that in a little time the whole mystery stood disclosed to both. The mother had discovered the daughter’s correspondence with Fathom, as we have formerly92 observed, by means of that unfortunate letter which he unwittingly committed to the charge of the old beldame; and, as soon as she understood he was without the reach of all solicitation93 or prosecution, imparted this billet to her husband, whose fury was so ungovernable, that he had almost sacrificed Wilhelmina with his own hands, especially when, terrified by his threats and imprecations, she owned that she had bestowed94 the chain on this perfidious lover. However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement95 of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication96 of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows97, to witness which he invoked98 all the saints in heaven.
The jeweller, upon cooler consideration, was unwilling99 to lose the last spark of hope that glittered among the ruins of his despair, and resisted all the importunities of his wife, who pressed him to consult the welfare of his daughter’s soul, in the fond expectation of finding some expedient100 to lure101 back the chain and its possessor. In the meantime Wilhelmina was daily and hourly exposed to the mortifying102 animadversions of her mamma, who, with all the insolence103 of virtue, incessantly104 upbraided105 her with the backslidings of her vicious life, and exhorted106 her to reformation and repentance107. This continual triumph lasted for many months, till at length, a quarrel happening between the mother and the gossip at whose house she used to give the rendezvous108 to her admirers, that incensed109 confidante, in the precipitation of her anger, promulgated110 the history of those secret meetings; and, among the rest, her interviews with Fathom were brought to light.
The first people who hear news of this sort are generally those to whom they are most unwelcome. The German was soon apprised111 of his wife’s frailty112, and considered the two females of his house as a couple of devils incarnate113, sent from hell to exercise his patience. Yet, in the midst of his displeasure, he found matter of consolation114, in being furnished with a sufficient reason for parting with his helpmate, who had for many years kept his family in disquiet30. He therefore, without hazarding a personal conference, sent proposals to her by a friend, which she did not think proper to reject; and seeing himself restored to the dominion14 of his own house, exerted his sway so tyrannically, that Wilhelmina became weary of her life, and had recourse to the comforts of religion, of which she soon became enamoured, and begged her father’s permission to dedicate the rest of her life to the duties of devotion. She was accordingly received in this convent, the regulations of which were so much to her liking115, that she performed the task of probation with pleasure, and voluntarily excluded herself from the vanities of this life. It was here she had contracted an acquaintance with Mademoiselle de Melvil, to whom she communicated her complaints of Fathom, on the supposition that he was related to the Count, as he himself had often declared.
While the young lady rehearsed the particulars of this detail, Renaldo sustained a strange vicissitude116 of different passions. Surprise, sorrow, fear, hope, and indignation raised a most tumultuous conflict in his bosom117. Monimia rushed upon his imagination in the character of innocence118 betrayed by the insinuations of treachery. He with horror viewed her at the mercy of a villain119, who had broken all the ties of gratitude and honour.
Affrighted at the prospect120, he started from his seat, exclaiming, in the most unconnected strain of distraction121 and despair, “Have I then nourished a serpent in my bosom! Have I listened to the voice of a traitor, who hath murdered my peace! who hath torn my heart-strings asunder122, and perhaps ruined the pattern of all earthly perfection. It cannot be. Heaven would not suffer such infernal artifice123 to take effect. The thunder would be levelled against the head of the accursed projector124.”
From this transport, compared with his agitation when he mentioned Monimia, his sister judged that Fathom had been the occasion of a breach125 between the two lovers; and this conjecture126 being confirmed by the disjointed answers he made to her interrogations upon the affair, she endeavoured to calm his apprehensions127, by representing that he would soon have an opportunity of returning to England, where the misunderstanding might be easily cleared up; and that, in the meantime, he had nothing to fear on account of the person of his mistress, in a country where individuals were so well protected by the laws and constitution of the realm. At length he suffered himself to be flattered with the fond hope of seeing Monimia’s character triumph in the inquiry, of retrieving128 that lost jewel, and of renewing that ravishing intercourse129 and exalted130 expectation which had been so cruelly cut off. He now wished to find Fathom as black as he had been exhibited, that Monimia’s apostasy131 might be numbered among the misrepresentations of his treachery and fraud.
His love, which was alike generous and ardent132, espoused133 the cause, and he no longer doubted her constancy and virtue. But when he reflected how her tender heart must have been wrung134 with anguish135 at his unkindness and cruelty, in leaving her destitute136 in a foreign land; how her sensibility must have been tortured in finding herself altogether dependent upon a ruffian, who certainly harboured the most baleful designs upon her honour; how her life must be endangered both by his barbarity and her own despair — I say, when he reflected on these circumstances, he shuddered137 with horror and dismay; and that very night despatched a letter to his friend the Jew, entreating138 him, in the most pressing manner, to employ all his intelligence in learning the situation of the fair orphan139, that she might be protected from the villany of Fathom, until his return to England.
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