IT was late when Edgar returned to Cleves. Camilla flew to meet him. He told her everything relative to her petitioner1 was in the most prosperous train; he had seen the prisoner, heard the particulars of his story, which all tended to his exculpation2; and Mrs. Arlbery had contrived3 to make acquaintance with his counsel, whom she found perfectly4 well disposed to exert himself in the cause, and whom she had invited to a splendid supper. The trial was to take place the next morning.
Camilla, already powerfully struck with Mrs. Arlbery, was enchanted5 to find her thus active in benevolence6.
Edgar was to dine with that lady the next day, and to learn the event of their joint7 exertions8.
This proved all that could be wished. The prosecution10 had been mild: the judge and jury had been touched with compassion11; and the venial12 offender13 had been released with a gentle reprimand.
Mandlebert returned to communicate these tidings to Camilla, with a pleasure exactly in unison14 with her own. Mrs. Arlbery, he avowed15, had been as zealous16 as himself; and had manifested a charity of disposition17 which the flightiness of her manners had not let him to expect.
The next object of attention was the raffle18, which was to take place the following morning.
Sir Hugh was averse19 to letting his nieces go abroad again so soon: but Miss Margland, extremely anxious about her own chance for the prize, solemnly asserted its necessity; inveighed20 against the mismanagement of everything at Cleves, stifled21 all her complaints of Lionel, and pronounced a positive decision, that, to carry Indiana to public places, was the sole method of promoting the match.
Sir Hugh then, willing to believe, and yet more willing to get rid of disputing with her, no longer withheld22 his consent.
They were advanced within half a mile of Northwick, when a sick man, painfully supported by a woman with a child in her arms, caught their eyes. The ready hand of Eugenia was immediately in her pocket; Camilla, looking more intently upon the group, perceived another child, and presently recognised the wife of the prisoner. She called to the coachman to stop, and Edgar, at the same moment, rode up to the carriage.
Miss Margland angrily ordered the man to drive on, saying, she was quite sick of being thus for ever infested23 with beggars; who really came so often, they were no better than pick-pockets.
‘O don’t refuse to let me speak to them!’ cried Camilla; ‘it will be such a pleasure to see their joy!’
‘O yes! they look in much joy indeed! they seem as if they had not eat a morsel24 these three weeks! Drive on, I say, coachman! I like no such melancholy25 sights, for my part. They always make me ill. I wonder how any body can bear them.’
‘But we may help them; we may assist thern!’ said Camilla, with increasing earnestness.
‘And pray, when they have got all our money, who is to help us?’
Eugenia, delighted to give, but unhabituated to any other exertion9, flung half a crown to them; and Indiana, begging to look out, said, ‘Dear! I never saw a prisoner before!’
Encouraged by an expressive26 look from Camilla, Edgar dismounted to hand her from the carriage, affecting not to hear the remonstrances27 of Miss Margland, though she scrupled28 not to deliver them very audibly. Eugenia languished29 to join them, but could not venture to disobey a direct command; and Indiana, observing the road to be very dusty, submitted, to save a pair of beautiful new shoes.
Camilla had all the gratification she promised herself, in witnessing the happiness of the poor petitioner. He was crawling to Cleves, with his family, to offer thanks. They were penniless, sick, and wretched; yet the preservation30 of the poor man seemed to make misery31 light to them all.
Edgar desired to know what were their designs for the future. The man answered that he should not dare go back to his own country, because there his disgrace was known, and he should procure32 no work; nor, indeed, was he now able to do any. ‘So we must make up our minds to beg from door to door, and in the streets, and on the high road,’ he continued; ‘till I get back a little strength; and can earn a living more creditably.’
‘But as long as we have kept you alive, and saved you from being transported,’ said his wife, ‘for which all thanks be due to this good gentleman, we shall mind no hardships, and never go astray again, in wicked unthinkingness of this great mercy.’
Edgar inquired what had been their former occupations; they answered, they had both been day-workers in the field, till a fit of sickness had hindered the poor man from getting his livelihood33: penury34 and hunger then pressing hard upon them all, he had been tempted35 to commit the offence for which he was taken, and brought to death’s door. ‘But as now,’ he added, ‘I have been saved, I shall make it a warning for the time to come, and never give myself up to so bad a course again.’
Edgar asked the woman what money she had left.
‘Ah, sir, none! for we had things to pay, and people to satisfy, and so everything you and the good ladies gave us, is all gone; for, while anything was left us, they would not be easy. But this is no great mischief36 now, as my husband is not taken away from us, and is come to a right sense.’
‘I believe,’ said Edgar, ‘you are very good sort of people, however distress37 had misguided you.’
He then put something into the man’s hand, and Eugenia, who from the carriage window heard what passed, flung him another half crown; Camilla added a shilling, and turning suddenly away, walked a few paces from them all.
Edgar, gently following, inquired if anything was the matter; her eyes were full of tears: ‘I was thinking,’ she cried, ‘what my dear father would have said, had he seen me giving half a guinea for a toy, and a shilling to such poor starving people as these!’
‘Why, what would he have said?’ cried Edgar, charmed with her penitence38, though joining in the apprehended39 censure40.
‘He would more than ever have pitied those who want money, in seeing it so squandered41 by one who should better have remembered his lessons! O, if I could but recover that half guinea!’
‘Will you give me leave to get it back for you?’
‘Leave? you would lay me under the greatest obligation! How far half a guinea would go here, in poverty such as this!’
He assured her he could regain42 it without difficulty; and then, telling the poor people to postpone43 their walk to Cleves till the evening, when Camilla meant to prepare her uncle, also, to assist them, he handed her to the coach, with feelings yet more pleased than her own, and galloped44 forward to execute his commission.
He was ready at the door of the library to receive them. As they alighted, Camilla eagerly cried: ‘Well! have you succeeded?’
‘Can you trust yourself to this spot, and to a review of the allurement,’ answered he, smiling, and holding half a guinea between his fingers, ‘yet be content to see your chance for the prize withdrawn45?’
‘O give it me! give it me!’ cried she, almost seizing it from him, ‘my dear father will be so glad to hear I have not spent it so foolishly.’
The rafflers were not yet assembled; no one was in the shop but a well dressed elegant young man, who was reading at a table, and who neither raised his eyes at their entrance, nor suffered their discourse47 to interrupt his attention; yet though abstracted from outward objects, his studiousness was not of a solemn cast; he seemed wrapt in what he was reading with a pleasure amounting to ecstasy48. He started, acted, smiled, and looked pensive49 in turn, while his features were thrown into a thousand different expressions, and his person was almost writhed50 with perpetually varying gestures. From time to time his rapture51 broke forth52 into loud exclamations53 of ‘Exquisite54! exquisite!’ while he beat the leaves of the book violently with his hands, in token of applause, or lifting them up to his lips, almost devoured55 with kisses the passages that charmed him. Sometimes he read a few words aloud, calling out ‘Heavenly!’ and vehemently56 stamping his approbation57 with his feet; then suddenly shutting up the book, folded his arms, and casting his eyes towards the ceiling, uttered: ‘O too much! too much! there is no standing58 it!’ yet again, the next minute, opened it and resumed the lecture.
The youthful group was much diverted with this unintended exhibition. To Eugenia alone it did not appear ridiculous; she simply envied his transports, and only wished to discover by what book they were excited. Edgar and Camilla amused themselves with conjecturing59 various authors; Indiana and Miss Margland required no such aid to pass their time, while, with at least equal delight, they contemplated60 the hoped-for prize.
Lionel now bounced in: ‘Why what,’ cried he, ‘are you all doing in this musty old shop, when Mrs. Arlbery and all the world are enjoying the air on the public walks?’
Camilla was instantly for joining that lady; but Eugenia felt an unconquerable curiosity to learn the running title of the book. She stole softly round to look over the shoulder of the reader, and her respect for his raptures61 increased, when she saw they were raised by Thomson’s Seasons.
Neither this approach, nor the loud call of Lionel, had interrupted the attention of the young student, who perceived and regarded nothing but what he was about; and though occasionally he ceased reading to indulge in passionate62 ejaculations, he seemed to hold everything else beneath his consideration.
Lionel, drawn46 to observe him from the circuit made by Eugenia, exclaimed: ‘What, Melmond! why, how long have you been in Hampshire?’
The youth, surprised from his absence of mind by the sound of his own name, looked up and said: ‘Who’s that?’
‘Why, when the deuce did you come into this part of the world?’ cried Lionel, approaching him to shake hands.
‘O! for pity’s sake,’ answered he, with energy, ‘don’t interrupt me!’
‘Why not? have not you enough of that dry work at Oxford63? Come, come, have done with this boyish stuff, and behave like a man.’
‘You distract me,’ answered Melmond, motioning him away; ‘I am in a scene that entrances me to Elysium! I have never read it since I could appreciate it.’
‘What! old Thomson?’ said Lionel, peeping over him; ‘why, I never read him at all. Come, man! (giving him a slap on the shoulder) come along with me, and I’ll shew you something more worth looking at.’
‘You will drive me mad, if you break in upon this episode! ’tis a picture of all that is divine upon earth! hear it, only hear it!’
He then began the truly elegant and feeling description that concludes Thomson’s Spring; and though Lionel, with a loud shout, cried: ‘Do you think I come hither for such fogrum stuff as that?’ and ran out of the shop; the ‘wrapt enthusiast’ continued reading aloud, too much delighted with the pathos64 of his own voice in expressing the sentiments of the poet, to deny himself a regale65 so soothing66 to his ears.
Eugenia, enchanted, stood on tiptoe to hear him, her uplifted finger petitioning silence all around, and her heart fondly repeating, O just such a youth be Clermont! just such his passion for reading! just such his fervour for poetry! just such his exaltation of delight in literary yet domestic felicity!
Mandlebert, also, caught by the rehearsal67 of his favourite picture of a scheme of human happiness, which no time, no repetition can make vapid68 to a feeling heart, stood pleased and attentive69 to hear him; even Indiana, though she listened not to the matter, was struck by the manner in which it was delivered, which so resembled dramatic recitation, that she thought herself at a play, and full of wonder, advanced straight before him, to look full in his face, and watch the motions of his right arm, with which he acted incessantly70, while the left held his book. Miss Margland concluded he was a strolling player, and did not suffer him to draw her eyes from the locket. But when, at the words
— content,
Retirement71, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue72, and approving Heaven,
Mandlebert turned softly round to read their impression on the countenance73 of Camilla — she was gone!
Attracted by her wish to see more of Mrs. Arlbery, she had run out of the shop after Lionel, before she either knew what was reading, or was missed by those the reader had engaged. Edgar, though disappointed, wondered he should have stayed himself to listen to what had long been familiar to him, and was quietly gliding74 away when he saw her returning. He then went back to his post, wondering, with still less satisfaction, how she could absent herself from hearing what so well was worth her studying.
The young man, when he came to the concluding line:
To scenes where love and bliss75 immortal76 reign77!
rose, let fall the book, clasped his hands with a theatrical78 air, and was casting his eyes upwards79 in a fervent80 and willing trance, when he perceived Indiana standing immediately before him.
Surprised and ashamed, his sublimity81 suddenly forsook82 him; his arms dropt, and his hands were slipt into his waistcoat pockets.
But, the very next moment, the sensation of shame and of self was superseded83 by the fair object that had thus aroused him. Her beauty, her youth, her attitude of examination, struck him at first with an amazement84 that presently gave place to an admiration85 as violent as it was sudden. He started back, bowed profoundly, without any pretence86 for bowing at all, and then rivetting his eyes, in which his whole soul seemed centred, on her lovely face, stood viewing her with a look of homage87, motionless, yet enraptured88.
Indiana, still conceiving this to be some sort of acting89, unabashed kept her post, expecting every moment he would begin spouting91 something more. But the enthusiasm of the young Oxonian had changed its object; the charms of poetry yielded to the superior charms of beauty, and while he gazed on the fair Indiana, his fervent mind fancied her some being of celestial92 order, wonderfully accorded to his view: How, or for what purpose, he as little knew as cared. The play of imagination, in the romance of early youth, is rarely interrupted with scruples93 of probability.
This scene of dumb transport and unfixed expectation, was broken up neither by the admirer nor the admired, but by the entrance of Mrs. Arlbery, Sir Sedley Clarendel, Lionel, the officers, and many of the rest of the company that had been present at the public breakfast: Nor would even this intrusion have disengaged the young Oxonian from his devout95 and ecstatic adoration96, had it been equally indifferent to Indiana; but the appearance of a party of gay officers was not, to her, a matter of little moment. Eager for the notice in which she delighted, she looked round in full confidence of receiving it. The rapture of the Oxonian, as she had seen it kindled97 while he was reading, she attributed to something she did not understand, and took in it, therefore, no part; but the adulation of the officers was by no means ambiguous, and its acceptance was as obvious as its presentation.
Willingly, therefore, as well as immediately encompassed98, she received a thousand compliments, and in the gratification of hearing them, completely forgot her late short surprise; but the Oxonian, more forcibly struck, ardently99 followed her with his eyes, started back theatrically100 at every change of attitude, which displayed her fine figure, and at her smiles smiled again, from the uncontrollable sympathy of a fascinated imagination.
Miss Margland felt not small pride in seeing her pupil thus distinguished101, since it marked the shrewdness of her capacity in foretelling102 the effect of bringing her forth. Anxious to share in a consequence to which she had industriously103 contributed, she paradingly forced her way through the group, and calling the attention of Indiana to herself, said: ‘I am glad you came away, my dear; for I am sure that man is only a poor strolling player.’
‘Dear! let me look at him again!’ cried Indiana; ‘for I never saw a player before; only at a play.’
She then turned back to examine him.
Enchanted to again meet her eyes, the youth bowed with intense respect, and advanced a few paces, as if with intention to speak to her, though immediately and with still more precipitance he retreated, from being ready with nothing to say.
Lionel, going up to him, and pulling him by the arm, cried: ‘Why, man! what’s come to you? These are worse heroics than I have seen you in yet.’
The bright eyes of Indiana being still fixed94 upon him, he disdained104 all notice of Lionel, beyond a silent repulse105.
Indiana, having now satisfied her curiosity, restored her attention to the beaux that surrounded her. The Oxonian, half sighing, unfolded his clasped hands, one of which he reposed106 upon the shoulder of Lionel.
‘Come, prithee, be a little less in alt,’ cried Lionel, ‘and answer a man when he speaks to you. Where did you leave Smythson?’
‘Who is that divinity; can you tell me?’ said the Oxonian in a low and respectful tone of inquiry107.
‘What divinity?’
‘What divinity? insensible Tyrold! tasteless! adamantine! Look, look yonder, and ask me again if you can!’
‘O what; my cousin Indiana?’
‘Your cousin? have you any affinity108 with such a creature as that? O Tyrold! I glory in your acquaintance! she is all I ever read of! all I ever conceived! she is beauty in its very essence! she is elegance109, delicacy110, and sensibility personified!’
‘All very true,’ said Lionel; ‘but how should you know anything of her besides her beauty?’
‘How? by looking at her! Can you view that countenance and ask me how? Are not those eyes all soul? Does not that mouth promise every thing that is intelligent? Can those lips ever move but to diffuse111 sweetness and smiles? I must not look at her again! another glance may set me raving112!’
‘May?’ cried Lionel, laughing; ‘why what have you been doing all this time? However, be a little less in the sublime113, and I’ll introduce you to her.’
‘Is it possible? shall I owe to you so celestial a happiness? O Tyrold! you bind114 me to you for life!’
Lionel, heartily115 hallowing, then brought him forward to Indiana: ‘Miss Lynmere,’ he cried, ‘a fellow student of mine, though somewhat more given to study than your poor cousin, most humbly116 begs the honour of kissing your toe.’
The uncommon117 lowness of the bow which the Oxonian, ignorant of what Lionel would say, was making, led Miss Margland to imagine he was really going to perform that popish ceremony; and hastily pulling Lionel by the sleeve, she angrily said: ‘Mr. Lionel, I desire to know by whose authority you present such actor-men to a young lady under my care.’
Lionel, almost in convulsions, repeated this aloud; and the young student, who had just, in a voice of the deepest interest and respect, begun, ‘The high honour, madam;’ hearing an universal laugh from the company, stopt short, utterly118 disconcerted, and after a few vainly stammering119 attempts, bowed again, and was silent.
Edgar, who in this distress, read an ingenuousness120 of nature that counterpoised its romantic enthusiasm, felt for the young man, and taking Lionel by the arm, said: ‘Will you not introduce me also to your friend?’
‘Mr. Melmond of Brazen121 Nose! Mr. Mandlebert of Beech122 Park!’ cried Lionel, flourishing, and bowing from one to the other.
Edgar shook hands with the youth, and hoped they should be better acquainted.
Camilla, gliding round, whispered him: ‘How like my dear father was that! to give relief to embarrassment123, instead of joining in the laugh which excites it!’
Edgar, touched by a comparison to the person he most honoured, gratefully looked his acknowledgment; and all displeasure at her flight, even from Thomson’s scene of conjugal124 felicity, was erased125 from his mind.
The company grew impatient for the raffle, though some of the subscribers were not arrived. It was voted, at the proposition of Mrs. Arlbery, that the master of the shop should represent, as their turns came round, those who were absent.
While this was settling, Edgar, in some confusion, drew Camilla to the door, saying: ‘To avoid any perplexity about your throwing, suppose you step into the haberdasher’s shop that is over the way?’
Camilla, who already had felt very awkward with respect to her withdrawn subscription126, gladly agreed to the proposal, and begging him to explain the matter to Miss Margland, tript across the street, while the rafflers were crowding to the point of action.
Here she sat, making some small purchases, till the business was over: The whole party then came forth into the street, and all in a body poured into the haberdasher’s shop, smiling, bowing, and of one accord wishing her joy.
Concluding this to be in derision of her desertion, she rallied as well as she was able; but Mrs. Arlbery, who entered the last, and held the locket in her hand, said: ‘Miss Tyrold, I heartily wish you equally brilliant success, in the next, and far more dangerous lottery127, in which, I presume, you will try your fate.’ And presented her the prize.
Camilla, colouring, laughing, and unwillingly128 taking it, said: ‘I suppose, ma’am — I hope — it is yours?’ And she looked about for Edgar to assist her; but, he was gone to hasten the carriage.
Every body crowded round her to take a last sight of the beautiful locket. Eager to get rid of it, she put it into the hands of Indiana, who regarded it with a partiality which her numerous admirers had courted, individually, in vain; though the young Oxonian, by his dramatic emotions, had engaged more of her attention than she had yet bestowed129 elsewhere. Eugenia too, caught by his eccentricity130, was powerfully impelled131 to watch and admire him; and not the less, in the unenvying innocency132 of her heart, for his evident predilection133 in favour of her cousin. This youth was not, however, suffered to engross134 her; the stranger by whom she had already been distinguished at the ball and public breakfast, was one in the group, and resumed a claim upon her notice, too flattering in its manner to be repulsed135, and too new to her extreme inexperience to be obtrusive136.
Meanwhile, Camilla gathered from Major Cerwood, that the prize had really fallen to her lot. Edgar had excused her not staying to throw for herself, but the general proxy137, the bookseller, had been successful in her name.
In great perplexity how to account for this incident, she apprehended Edgar had made some mistake, and determined138, through his means, to restore the locket to the subscription.
The carriage of Mrs. Arlbery was first ready; but, pushing away the throng139 of beaux offering assistance, she went up to Camilla, and said: ‘Fair object of the spleen of all around, will you bring a little of your influence with good fortune to my domain140, and come and dine with me?’
Delighted at the proposal, Camilla looked at Miss Margland; but Miss Margland, not being included in the invitation, frowned a refusal.
Edgar now entered and announced the coach of Sir Hugh.
‘Make use of it as you can,’ said Mrs. Arlbery; ‘there is room for one more to go back than it brought; so pray do the honours prettily141. Clarendel! take care of Miss Tyrold to my coach.’
Sir Sedley smiled, and played with his watch chain, but did not move.
‘O you laziest of all lazy wretches142!’ cried Mrs. Arlbery.
‘I shall reverse the epithet143, and be the alertest of the alert,’ said Major Cerwood; ‘if the commission may be devolved to myself.’
‘Positively144 not for the world! there is nothing so pleasant as working the indolent; except, indeed, making the restless keep quiet; so, come forth, Clarendel! be civil, and strike us all with astonishment145!’
‘My adored Mrs. Arlbery!’ cried he, (hoisting himself upon the shop counter, and swinging a switch to and fro, with a languid motion) ‘your maxims146 are all of the first superlative, except this; but nobody’s civil now, you know; ’tis a fogramity quite out.’
‘So you absolutely won’t stir, then?’
‘O pray! pray!’ answered he, putting on his hat and folding his arms, ‘a little mercy! ’tis so vastly insufferably hot! Calcutta must be in the frigid147 zone to this shop! a very ice-house!’
Camilla, who never imagined rudeness could make a feature of affectation, internally attributed this refusal to his pique148 that she had disregarded him at the public breakfast, and would have made him some apology, but knew not in what manner to word it.
The Major again came forward, but Miss Margland, advancing also, said: ‘Miss Camilla! you won’t think of dining out unknown to Sir Hugh?’
‘I am sure,’ cried Mrs. Arlbery, ‘you will have the goodness to speak for me to Sir Hugh.’ Then, turning to Lionel, ‘Mr. Tyrold,’ she added, ‘you must go with us, that you may conduct your sister safe home. Don’t be affronted149; I shall invite you for your own sake another time. Come, you abominable150 Clarendel! awake! and give a little spring to our motions.’
‘You are most incommodiously cruel!’ answered he; ‘but I am bound to be your slave.’ Then calling to one of the apprentices151 in the shop: ‘My vastly good boy,’ he cried, ‘do you want to see me irrecoverably subdued152 by this immensely inhuman153 heat?’
The boy stared; and said, ‘Sir.’
‘If not, do get me a glass of water.’
‘O worse and worse!’ said Mrs. Arlbery; ‘your whims154 are insupportable. I give you up! Major! advance.’
The Major, with alacrity155, offered his hand; Camilla hesitated; she wished passionately156 to go, yet felt she had no authority for such a measure. The name, though not the person of Mrs. Arlbery, was known both at Cleves and at Etherington, as belonging to the owner of a capital house in the neighbourhood; and though the invitation was without form, Camilla was too young to be withheld by ceremony. Her uncle, she was sure, could refuse her nothing; and she thought, as she was only a visitor at Cleves, Miss Margland had no right to control her; the pleasure, therefore, of the scheme, soon conquered every smaller difficulty, and, looking away from her party, she suffered herself to be led to the coach.
Miss Margland as she passed, said aloud: ‘Remember! I give no consent to this!’
But Eugenia, on the other side, whispered: ‘Don’t be uneasy; I will explain to my uncle how it all happened.’
Mrs. Arlbery was following, when Indiana exclaimed: ‘Cousin Camilla, what am I to do with your locket?’
Camilla had wholly forgotten it; she called to Edgar, who slowly, and with a seriousness very unusual, obeyed her summons.
‘There has been some great mistake,’ said she, ‘about the locket. I suppose they neglected to scratch out my name from the subscription; for Major Cerwood says it really came to me. Will you be so good as to return it to the bookseller?’
The gravity of Edgar immediately vanished: ‘Are you so ready,’ he said, ‘even when it is in your possession, to part with so pretty a trinket?’
‘You know it cannot be mine, for here is my half guinea.’
Mrs. Arlbery then got into the coach; but Camilla, still farther recollecting157 herself, again called to Edgar, and holding out the half guinea, said: ‘How shall I get this to the poor people?’
‘They were to come,’ he answered, ‘to Cleves this afternoon.’
‘Will you, then, give it them for me?’
‘No commission to Mr. Mandlebert!’ interrupted Mrs. Arlbery; ‘for he must positively dine with us.’
Mandlebert bowed a pleased assent158, and Camilla applied159 to Eugenia; but Miss Margland, in deep wrath160, refused to let her move a step.
Mrs. Arlbery then ordered the coach to drive home. Camilla, begging a moment’s delay, desired Edgar to approach nearer, and said, in a low voice: ‘I cannot bear to let those poor expectants toil161 so far for nothing. I will sooner go back to Cleves myself. I shall not sleep all night if I disappoint them. Pray, invent some excuse for me.’
‘If you have set your heart upon this visit,’ answered Mandlebert, with vivacity162, though in a whisper, ‘I will ride over myself to Cleves, and arrange all to your wishes; but if not, certainly there can need no invention, to decline an invitation of which Sir Hugh has no knowledge.’
Camilla, who at the beginning of this speech felt the highest glee, sunk involuntarily at its conclusion, and turning with a blank countenance to Mrs. Arlbery, stammeringly163 said: ‘Can you, will you — be so very good, as not to take it ill if I don’t go with you?’
Mrs. Arlbery, surprised, very coldly answered: ‘Certainly not! I would be no restraint upon you. I hate restraint myself.’ She then ordered the footman to open the door; and Camilla, too much abashed90 to offer any apology, was handed out by Edgar.
‘Amiable Camilla!’ said he, in conducting her back to Miss Margland, ‘this is a self-conquest that I alone, perhaps, expected from you!’
Cheared by such approbation, she forgot her disappointment, and regardless of Miss Margland and her ill humour, jumped into her uncle’s coach, and was the gayest of the party that returned to Cleves.
Edgar took the locket from Indiana, and promised to rectify164 the mistake; and then, lest Mrs. Arlbery should be offended with them all, rode to her house without any fresh invitation, accompanied by Lionel; whose anger against Camilla, for suffering Miss Margland to gain a victory, was his theme the whole ride.
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