WHEN the tumult1 of this affair subsided2, Mr. Tyrold and his family prepared to re-establish themselves at Etherington; and Mrs. Tyrold, the great inducement for the separation being over, was earnest to take home again the disinherited Camilla. Sir Hugh, whose pleasure in her sight was now embittered3 by regret and remorse4, had not courage to make the smallest opposition5; yet he spent the day of her departure in groans6 and penitence7. He thought it right, however, to detain Eugenia, who, as his decided8 heiress, was left to be brought up at Cleves.
The loss of the amusing society of his favourite; the disappointment he had inflicted9 upon her, and the sweetness with which she had borne it, preyed10 incessantly11 upon his spirits; and he knew not how to employ himself, which way to direct his thoughts, nor in what manner to beguile12 one moment of his time, after the children were gone to rest.
The view of the constant resources which his brother found in literature, augmented13 his melancholy14 at his own imperfections; and the steady industry with which Mr. Tyrold, in early youth, had attained15 them, and which, while devoted16 to field sports, he had often observed with wonder and pity, he now looked back to with self-reproach, and recognised in its effect with a reverence17 almost awful.
His imagination, neither regulated by wisdom, nor disciplined by experience, having once taken this turn, he soon fancied that every earthly misfortune originated in a carelessness of learning, and that all he wished, and all he wanted, upbraided18 him with his ignorance. If disease and pain afflicted19 him, he lamented20 the juvenile21 inattention that had robbed him of acquirements which might have taught him not to regard them; if the word scholar was named in his presence, he heaved the deepest sigh; if an article in a newspaper, with which he was unacquainted, was discussed, he reviled22 his early heedlessness of study; and the mention of a common pamphlet, which was unknown to him, gave him a sensation of disgrace: even inevitable23 calamities24 he attributed to the negligence25 of his education, and construed26 every error, and every evil of his life, to his youthful disrespect of Greek and Latin.
Such was the state of his mind, when his ordinary maladies had the serious aggravation27 of a violent fit of the gout.
In the midst of the acute anguish28, and useless repentance29, which now alternately ravaged30 his happiness, it suddenly occurred to him, that, perhaps, with proper instruction, he might even yet obtain a sufficient portion of this enviable knowledge, to enable him to pass his evenings with some similarity to his brother.
Revived by this suggestion, he sent for Mr. Tyrold, to communicate to him his idea, and to beg he would put him into a way to recover his lost time, by recommending to him a tutor, with whom he might set about a course of studies:–‘Not that I want,’ cried he, ‘to make any particular great figure as a scholar: but if I could only learn just enough to amuse me at odd hours, and make me forget the gout, it’s as much as I desire.’
The total impossibility that such a project should answer its given purpose, deterred31 not Mr. Tyrold from listening to his request. The mild philosophy of his character saw whatever was lenient32 to human sufferings as eligible33, and looked no further for any obstacles to the wishes of another, than to investigate if their gratification would be compatible with innocence34. He wrote, therefore, to a college associate of his younger years, whom he knew to be severely35 embarrassed in his affairs, and made proposals for settling him in the house of his brother. These were not merely gratefully accepted by his old friend, but drew forth38 a confession39 that he was daily menaced with a public arrest for debts, which he had incurred40 without luxury or extravagance, from mere36 ignorance of the value of money, and of economy.
In the award of cool reason, to attend to what is impracticable, appears a folly41 which no inducement can excuse. Mrs. Tyrold treated this scheme with calm, but complete contempt. She allowed no palliation for a measure of which the abortive42 end was glaring; to hearken to it displeased43 her, as a false indulgence of childish vanity; and her understanding felt shocked that Mr. Tyrold would deign44 to humour his brother in an enterprise which must inevitably45 terminate in a fruitless consumption of time.
Sir Hugh soon, but without anger, saw her disapprobation of his plan; her opinions, from a high superiority to all deceit, were as unreserved as those of the baronet, from a nature incapable46 of caution. He told her he was sorry to perceive that she thought he should make no proficiency47, but entreated48 her to take notice there was at least no great presumption49 in his attempt, as he meant to begin with the very beginning, and to go no farther at the first than any young little school-boy; for he should give himself fair play, by trying his hand with the rudiments50, which would no sooner be run over, than the rest would become plain sailing: ‘And if once,’ he added, ‘I should conquer the mastery of the classics, I shall make but very short work of all the rest.’
Mr. Tyrold saw, as forcibly as his wife, the utter impossibility that Sir Hugh could now repair the omissions51 of his youth; but he was willing to console his want of knowledge, and sooth his mortifications; and while he grieved for his bodily infirmities, and pitied his mental repinings, he considered his idea as not illaudable, though injudicious, and in favour of its blamelessness, forgave its absurdity52.
He was gratified, also, in offering an honourable53 provision to a man of learning in distress54, whose time and attention could not fail to deserve it, if dedicated55 to his brother, in whatever way they might be bestowed56.
He took care to be at Cleves on the day Dr. Orkborne, this gentleman, was expected, and he presented him to Sir Hugh with every mark of regard, as a companion in whose conversation, he flattered himself, pain might be lightened, and seclusion57 from mixt company cheerfully supported.
Dr. Orkborne expressed his gratitude58 for the kindness of Mr. Tyrold, and promised to make it his first study to merit the high consideration with which he had been called from his retirement59.
A scholastic60 education was all that had been given to Dr. Orkborne by his friends; and though in that their hopes were answered, no prosperity followed. His labours had been seconded by industry, but not enforced by talents; and they soon found how wide the difference between acquiring stores, and bringing them into use. Application, operating upon a retentive61 memory, had enabled him to lay by the most ample hoards62 of erudition; but these, though they rendered him respectable amongst the learned, proved nearly nugatory63 in his progress through the world, from a total want of skill and penetration64 to know how or where they might turn to any account. Nevertheless, his character was unexceptionable, his manners were quiet, and his fortune was ruined. These were the motives65 which induced rather the benevolence66 than the selection of Mr. Tyrold to name him to his brother, in the hope that, while an asylum67 at Cleves would exonerate68 him from all pecuniary69 hardships, his very deficiency in brilliancy of parts, and knowledge of mankind, which though differently modified, was equal to that of Sir Hugh himself, would obviate70 regret of more cultivated society, and facilitate their reciprocal satisfaction.
The introduction over, Mr. Tyrold sought by general topics to forward their acquaintance, before any allusion71 should be made to the professed72 plan of Sir Hugh; but Sir Hugh was too well pleased with its ingenuity73 to be ashamed of its avowal74; he began, therefore, immediately to descant75 upon the indolence of his early years, and to impeach76 the want of timely severity in his instructors77: ‘For there is an old saying,’ he cried, ‘but remarkably78 true, That learning is better than house or land; which I am an instance of myself, for I have house and land plenty, yet don’t know what to do with them properly, nor with myself neither, for want of a little notion of things to guide me by.’ His brother, he added, had been too partial in thinking him already fitted for such a master as Dr. Orkborne; though he promised, notwithstanding his time of life, to become the most docile79 of pupils, and he hoped before long to do no discredit80 to the Doctor as his tutor.
Mr. Tyrold, whose own benign81 countenance82 could scarce refrain from a smile at this unqualified opening, endeavoured to divert to some other subject the grave astonishment83 of Dr. Orkborne, who, previously84 aware of the age and ill health of the baronet, naturally concluded himself called upon to solace85 the privacy of his life by reading or discourse86, but suggested not the most distant surmise87 he could be summoned as a preceptor.
Sir Hugh, however, far from palliating any design, disguised not even a feeling; he plunged88 deeper and deeper in the acknowledgment of his ignorance, and soon set wholly apart the delicate circumspection89 of his brother, by demanding of Dr. Orkborne what book he thought he had best buy for a beginning?
Receiving from the wondering Doctor no answer, he good humouredly added, ‘Come, don’t be ashamed to name the easiest, for this reason; you must know my plan is one of my own, which it is right to tell you. As fast as I get on, I intend, for the sake of remembering my lesson, to send for one of my nephews, and teach it all over again to him myself; which will be doing service to us all at once.’
Mr. Tyrold now, though for a few moments he looked down, thought it best to leave the matter to its own course, and Dr. Orkborne to his own observations; fully37 persuaded, that the smiles Sir Hugh might excite would be transient, and that no serious or lasting90 ridicule91 could be attached to his character, in the mind of a worthy92 man, to whom time and opportunity would be allowed for an acquaintance with its habitual93 beneficence. He excused himself, therefore, from staying any longer, somewhat to the distress of Dr. Orkborne, but hardly with the notice of the baronet, whose eagerness in his new pursuit completely engrossed94 him.
His late adventure, and his new heiress, now tormented95 him no more; Indiana was forgotten, Camilla but little thought of, and his whole mind became exclusively occupied by this fruitful expedient96 for retrieving97 his lost time.
Dr. Orkborne, whose life had been spent in any study rather than that of human nature, was so little able to enter into the character of Sir Hugh, that nothing less than the respect he knew to be due to Mr. Tyrold, could have saved him, upon his first reception, from a suspicion that he had been summoned in mere mockery. The situation, however, was peculiarly desirable to him and the experiment, in the beginning, corresponded with the hopes of Mr. Tyrold. Placed suddenly in ease and affluence98, Dr. Orkborne, with the most profound desire to please, sought to sustain so convenient a post, by obliging the patron, whom he soon saw it would be vain to attempt improving; while Sir Hugh in return, professed himself the most fortunate of men, that he had now met with a scholar who had the good nature not to despise him.
Relief from care thus combining with opportunity, Dr. Orkborne was scarce settled, ere he determined99 upon the execution of a long, critical, and difficult work in philology100, which he had often had in contemplation, but never found leisure to undertake. By this means he had a constant resource for himself; and the baronet, observing that time never hung heavy upon his hands, conceived a yet higher admiration101 of learning, and felt his spirits proportionably re-animated by the fair prospect102 of participating in such advantages.
From this dream, however, he was soon awakened103; a parcel, by the direction of Dr. Orkborne, arrived from his bookseller, with materials for going to work.
Sir Hugh then sent off a message to the parsonage-house, informing his brother and his family, that they must not be surprised if they did not see or hear of him for some time, as he had got his hands quite full, and should be particularly engaged for a week or two to come.
Dr. Orkborne, still but imperfectly conceiving the extent, either of the plan, or of the simplicity105 of his new pupil, proposed, as soon as the packet was opened, that they should read together; but Sir Hugh replied, that he would do the whole in order, and by no means skip the rudiments.
The disappointment which followed, may be easily imagined; with neither quickness to learn, nor memory to retain, he aimed at being initiated106 in the elements of a dead language, for which youth only can find time and application, and even youth but by compulsion. His head soon became confused, his ideas were all perplexed107, his attention was vainly strained, and his faculties108 were totally disordered.
Astonished at his own disturbance109, which he attributed solely110 to not getting yet into the right mode, he laughed off his chagrin111, but was steady in his perseverance112; and continued wholly shut up from his family and friends, with a zeal113 worthy better success.
Lesson after lesson, however, only aggravated114 his difficulties, till his intellects grew so embarrassed he scarce knew if he slept or waked. His nights became infected by the perturbation of the day; his health visibly suffered from the restlessness of both, and all his flattering hopes of new and unknown happiness were ere long exchanged for despair.
He now sent for his brother, and desired to speak with him alone; when, catching115 him fast by the hand, and looking piteously in his face, ‘Do you know, my dear brother,’ he cried, ‘I find myself turning out as sheer a blockhead as ever, for all I have got so many more years over my head than when I began all this hard jingle116 jangle before?’
Mr. Tyrold, with greater concern than surprise, endeavoured to re-assure and console him, by pointing out a road more attainable117 for reaping benefit from the presence of Dr. Orkborne, than the impracticable path into which he had erroneously entered.
‘Ah! no, my dear brother,’ he answered; ‘if I don’t succeed this way, I am sure I shall succeed no other; for as to pains, I could not have taken more if I had been afraid to be flogged once a-day: and that gentleman has done all he can, too, as far as I know to the contrary. But I really think whatever’s the meaning of it, there’s some people can’t learn.’
Then shaking his head, he added, in a low voice: ‘To say the truth, I might as well have given it up from the very first, for any great comfort I found in it, if it had not been for fear of hurting that gentleman; however, don’t let the poor gentleman know that; for I’ve no right to turn him off upon nothing, merely for the fault of my having no head, which how can he help?’
Mr. Tyrold agreed in the justice of this reflection, and undertook to deliberate upon some conciliatory expedient.
Sir Hugh heartily118 thanked him; ‘But only in the mean time that you are thinking,’ cried he, ‘how shall I bring it about to stop him from coming to me with all those books for my study? For, do you know, my dear brother, because I asked him to buy me one for my beginning, he sent for a full score? And when he comes to me about my lesson, he brings them all upon me together: which is one thing, for ought I know, that helps to confuse me; for I am wondering all the while when I shall get through with them. However, say nothing of all this before the poor gentleman, for fear he should take it as a hint; which might put him out of heart: for which reason I’d rather take another lesson, Lord help me!-than vex119 him.’
Mr. Tyrold promised his best consideration, and to see him again the next morning. But he had hardly left Cleves ten minutes, when a man and horse came galloping120 after him, with a petition that he would return without delay.
The baronet received him with a countenance renovated121 with self-complacency. ‘I won’t trouble you,’ he cried, ‘to think any more; for now I have got a plan of my own, which I will tell you. Not to throw this good gentleman entirely122 away, I intend having a sort of a kind of school set up here in my sick room, and so to let all my nephews come, and say their tasks to him in my hearing; and then, who knows but I may pick up a little amongst them myself, without all this hard study?’
Mr. Tyrold stated the obvious objections to so wild a scheme; but he besought123 him not to oppose it, as there was no other way for him to get rid of his tutoring, without sending off Dr. Orkborne. He desired, therefore, that Lionel might come instantly to Cleves; saying, ‘I shall write myself to Eton, by the means of the Doctor, to tell the Master I shall take Clermont entirely home after the next holidays, for the sake of having him study under my own eye.’
He then entreated him to prepare Dr. Orkborne for his new avocation124.
Mr. Tyrold, who saw that in this plan the inventor alone could be disappointed, made no further remonstrance125, and communicated the design to Dr. Orkborne; who, growing now deeply engaged in his own undertaking126, was perfectly104 indifferent to whom or to what his occasional attendance might be given.
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