A COUNCIL was now held upon what course must next be taken. Both Sir Hugh and Eugenia were too much fatigued1 to walk any further; yet it was concluded that the garden chair, by some mistake, was gone straight to the cottage. Edgar, therefore, proposed running thither2 to bring it round for them, while Dr. Orkborne should go forward for Miss Margland and Indiana, and conduct them by the high road to the same place; where the whole party might at length re-assemble. Sir Hugh approved the plan, and he set off instantly.
But not so Dr. Orkborne; he thought himself disgraced by being sent from one post to another; and though Eugenia was nothing to him, in competition with his tablets and his work, his own instructions had so raised her in his mind, that he thought her the only female worthy3 a moment of his time. Indiana he looked upon with ineffable4 contempt; the incapacity she had shewn during the short time she was under his pupillage, had convinced him of the futility5 of her whole sex, from which he held Eugenia to be a partial exception; and Miss Margland, who never spoke6 to him but in a voice of haughty7 superiority, and whom he never answered, but with an air of solemn superciliousness8, was his rooted aversion. He could not brook9 being employed in the service of either; he stood, therefore, motionless, till Sir Hugh repeated the proposition.
Not caring to disoblige him, he then, without speaking, slowly and unwillingly10 moved forwards.
‘I see,’ said the baronet, softened11 rather than offended, ‘he does not much like to leave his little scholar, which is but natural; though I took it rather unkind his letting the poor thing run against the very horns of the bull, as one may say, if it had not been for a mere12 accidental passenger. However, one must always make allowance for a man that takes much to his studies, those things generally turning the head pretty much into a narrow compass.’
He then called after him, and said if the walk would tire him, he would wait till they came of themselves, which no doubt they would soon do, as Lionel was gone for them.
Dr. Orkborne gladly stopt; but Dr. Marchmont, seeing little likelihood of a general meeting without some trouble, offered to take the commission upon himself, with a politeness that seemed to shew it to be a wish of his own.
Sir Hugh accepted his kindness with thanks; and Dr. Orkborne, though secretly disconcerted by such superior alacrity13 in so learned a man, was well content to reinstate himself by the side of his pupil.
Sir Hugh, who saw the eyes of Bellamy constantly turned towards Eugenia, thought his presence highly dangerous, and with much tribulation14, said: ‘As I find, sir, we may all have to stay here, I don’t know how long, I hope you won’t be affronted15, after my best thanks for your keeping my niece from the bull, if I don’t make any particular point of begging the favour of you to stay much longer with us.’
Bellamy, extremely chagrined16, cast an appealing look at Eugenia, and expressing his regret that his services were inadmissible, made his retreat with undisguised reluctance18.
Eugenia, persuaded she owed him a serious obligation for his care, as well as for his partiality, felt the sincerest concern at his apparent distress19, and contributed far more than she intended to its removal, by the gentle countenance20 with which she received his sorrowful glance.
Bellamy, hastily overtaking Dr. Marchmont, darted21 on before him in search of Miss Margland and Indiana, who, far from advancing, were pacing their way back to the church-yard. Lionel had joined them, and the incensed22 Miss Margland had encouraged the glad attendance of the Oxonian, as a protection to herself.
The sight of Bellamy by no means tended to disperse23 the storm: She resented his deserting her while she was in danger, and desired to see no more of him. But when he had respectfully suffered her wrath25 to vent26 itself, he made apologies, with an obsequiousness27 so rare to her, and a deference28 so strikingly contrasted with the daring ridicule29 of Lionel, that she did not long oppose the potent30 charm of adulation-a charm which, however it may be sweetened by novelty, seldom loses its effect by any familiarity.
During these contests, Indiana was left wholly to young Melmond, and the temptation was too strong for his impassioned feelings to withstand: ‘O fairest,’ he cried, ‘fairest and most beautiful of all created beings! Can I resist-no! this one, one effusion-the first and the last! The sensibility of your mind will plead for me–I read it in those heavenly eyes-they emit mercy in their beauty! they are as radiant with goodness as with loveliness! alas31! I trespass–I blush and dare not hope your forgiveness.’
He stopt, terrified at his own presumption32; but the looks of Indiana were never more beautiful, and never less formidable. A milder doom33, therefore, seemed suddenly to burst upon his view. Elated and enraptured34, he vehemently36 exclaimed: ‘Oh, were my lot not irrevocably miserable37! were the smallest ray of light to beam upon my despondence!’–
Indiana still spoke not a word, but she withdrew not her smiles; and the enraptured student, lifted into the highest bliss38 by the permission even of a doubt, walked on, transported, by her side, too happy in suspence to wish an explanation.
In this manner they proceeded, till they were joined by Dr. Marchmont. The task he had attempted was beyond his power of performance; Miss Margland was inexorable; she declared nothing should induce her to go a step towards the field inhabited by the bull, and every assurance of safety the Doctor could urge was ineffectual.
He next assailed39 Indiana; but her first terror, soothed40 by the compassion41 and admiration42 of Melmond, was now revived, and she protested, almost with tears, that to go within a hundred yards of that dreadful meadow would make her undoubtedly43 faint away. The tender commiseration44 of Melmond confirmed her apprehensions45, and she soon looked upon Dr. Marchmont as a barbarian46 for making the proposal.
The Doctor then commended them to the care of Lionel, and returned with this repulse47 to Sir Hugh.
The baronet, incapable48 of being angry with any one he conceived to be frightened, said they should be pressed no more, for he would give up going to the cottage, and put his best foot forward to walk on to them himself; adding he was so overjoyed to have got rid of that young spark, that he had no fear but that he, and poor Eugenia, too, should both do as well as they could.
They proceeded very slowly, the baronet leaning upon Dr. Marchmont, and Eugenia upon Dr. Orkborne, who watchful49, with no small alarm, of the behaviour of the only man he had yet seen with any internal respect, since he left the university, sacrificed completely his notes and his tablets to emulate50 his attentions.
When they approached the church-yard, in which Miss Margland and her party had halted, Sir Hugh perceived Bellamy. He stopt short, calling out, with extreme chagrin17, ‘Lord help us! what a thing it is to rejoice! which one never knows the right season to do, on the score of meeting with disappointments!’
Then, after a little meditation51, ‘There is but one thing,’ he cried, ‘to be done, which is to guard from the first against any more mischief52, having already had enough of it for one morning, not to say more than I could have wished by half: So do you, good Dr. Marchmont, take Eugenia under your own care, and I’ll make shift with Dr. Orkborne for myself; for, in the case he should take again to writing or thinking, it will be nothing to me to keep still till he has done; provided it should happen at a place where I can sit down.’
Dr. Orkborne had never felt so deeply hurt; the same commission transferred to Edgar, or to Lionel, would have failed to affect him; he considered them as of an age fitted for such frivolous53 employment, which he thought as much below his dignity, as the young men themselves were beneath his competition; but the comfort of contempt, a species of consolation54 ever ready to offer itself to the impulsive55 pride of man, was here an alleviation56 he could not call to his aid; the character of Dr. Marchmont stood as high in erudition as his own; and, though his acquaintance with him was merely personal, the fame of his learning, the only attribute to which fame, in his conception, belonged, had reached him from authority too unquestionable for doubt. The urbanity, therefore, of his manners, his general diffusion57 of discourse58, and his universal complaisance59, filled him with astonishment60, and raised an emotion of envy which no other person would have been deemed worthy of exciting.
But though his long and fixed61 residence at Cleves had now removed the timid circumspection62 with which he first sought to ensure his establishment, he yet would not venture any positive refusal to the baronet; he resigned, therefore, his young charge to his new and formidable opponent, and even exerted himself to mark some alacrity in assisting Sir Hugh. But his whole real attention was upon Dr. Marchmont, whom his eye followed in every motion, to discover, if possible, by what art unknown he had acquired such a command over his thoughts and understanding, as to bear patiently, nay64 pleasantly, with the idle and unequal companions of general society.
Dr. Marchmont, who was rector of Cleves, had been introduced to Sir Hugh upon the baronet’s settling in the large mansion-house of that village; but he had not visited at the house, nor had his company been solicited65. Sir Hugh, who could never separate understanding from learning, nor want of education from folly66, concluded that such a man as Dr. Marchmont must necessarily despise him; and though the extreme sweetness of his temper made him draw the conclusion without resentment67, it so effectually prevented all wish of any intercourse68, that they had never conversed69 together till this morning; and his surprise, now, at such civilities and good humour in so great a scholar, differed only from that of Dr. Orkborne, in being accompanied with admiration instead of envy.
Eugenia thus disposed of, they were proceeding70, when Sir Hugh next observed the young Oxonian: He was speaking with Indiana, to whom his passionate71 devotion was glaring from his looks, air, and whole manner.
‘Lord help me!’ exclaimed he; ‘if there is not another of those new chaps, that nobody knows anything about, talking to Indiana! and, for aught I can tell to the contrary, making love to her! I think I never took such a bad walk as this before, since the hour I was born, in point of unluckiness. Robert will have enough to answer for, which he must expect to hear; and indeed I am not much obliged to Mrs. Margland herself, and so I must needs tell her, though it is not what I much like to do.’
He then made a sign to Miss Margland to approach him: ‘Mrs. Margland,’ he cried, ‘I should not have taken the liberty to beckon72 you in this manner, but that I think it right to ask you what those two young gentlemen, that I never saw before, do in the church-yard; which is a thing I think rather odd.’
‘As to that gentleman, sir,’ she answered, bridling73, ‘who was standing63 by me, he is the only person I have found to protect me from Mr. Lionel, whose behaviour, sit, I must freely tell you–’
‘Why certainly, Mrs. Margland, I can’t deny but he’s rather a little over and above giddy; but I am sure your understanding won’t mind it, in consideration of his being young enough to be your son, in the case of your having been married time enough.’
He then desired Indiana would come to him.
The rapture35 of the Oxonian was converted into torture by this summons; and the suspence which the moment before he had gilded74 with the gay colours of hope, he felt would be no longer supportable when deprived of the sight of his divinity. Scarce could he refrain from casting himself publicly at her feet, and pouring forth75 the wishes of his heart. But when again the call was repeated, and he saw her look another way, as if desirous not to attend to it, the impulse of quick rising joy dispersed76 his small remains77 of forbearance, and precipitately78 clasping his hands, ‘O go not!’ he passionately79 exclaimed; ‘leave me not in this abyss of suffering! Fairest and most beautiful! tell me at least, if my death is inevitable80! if no time-no constancy-no adoration81-may ever dare hope to penetrate82 that gentlest of bosoms83!’
Indiana herself was now, for the first time, sensible of a little emotion; the animation84 of this address delighted her; it was new, and its effect was highly pleasing. How cold, she thought, is Edgar! She made not any answer, but permitted her eyes to meet his with the most languishing85 softness.
Melmond trembled through his whole frame; despair flew him, and expectation wore her brightest plumage: ‘O pronounce but one word,’ he cried, ‘one single word!-are, are you–0 say not yes!-irrevocably engaged?-lost to all hope-all possibility for ever?’
Indiana again licensed86 her fine eyes with their most melting powers, and all self-control was finally over with her impassioned lover; who, mingling87 prayers for her favour, with adoration of her beauty, heeded88 not who heard him, and forgot every presence but her own.
Miss Margland, who, engrossed89 by personal resentment and debates, had not remarked the rising courage, and energy of Melmond, had just turned to Indiana, upon the second call of Sir Hugh, and became now utterly90 confounded by the sight of her willing attention: ‘Miss Lynmere,’ cried she, angrily, ‘what are you thinking of? Suppose Mr. Mandlebert should come, what might be the consequence?’
‘Mandlebert?’ repeated Melmond, while the blood forsook91 his cheeks; ‘is it then even so?-is all over?-all decided92? is my destiny black and ireful for ever?’
Indiana still more and more struck with him, looked down, internally uttering: Ah! were this charming youth but master of Beech93 Park!
At this instant, the rapid approach of a carriage caught their ears; and eager to avoid making a decisive reply, she ran to the church-yard gate to look at it, exclaiming: ‘Dear! what an elegant chariot.’ When it came up to the party, it stopt, and, opening the door himself, Edgar jumped hastily out of it.
The Oxonian stood aghast: but Indiana, springing forward, and losing in curiosity every other sensation, cried: ‘Dear! Mr. Mandlebert, whose beautiful new carriage is that?’
‘Yours,’ answered he, gallantly94, ‘if you will honour it with any commands.’
She then observed his crest95 and cypher were on the panels; and another entire new set of ideas took instant possession of her mind. She received literally96 an answer which he had made in gay courtesy, and held out her hand to be helped into the chariot.
Edgar, though surprised and even startled at this unexpected appropriation97 of his civility, could not recede98; but the moment he had seated her, hastily turned round, to inquire who else was most fatigued.
The Oxonian now felt lost! suddenly, abruptly99, but irretrievably lost! The cypher he saw-the question ‘whose carriage is that?’ he heard-the answer ‘yours’ made him gasp100 for breath, and the instantaneous acceptance stung him to the soul. Wholly in desperation, he rushed to the opposite window of the chariot, and calling out, ‘enough, cruel!-cruel!-enough–I will see you no more!’ hurried out of sight.
Indiana, who, for the first time, thought herself mistress of a new and elegant equipage, was so busily employed in examining the trappings and the lining101, that she bore his departure without a sigh; though but an instant before it might have cost her something near one.
Eugenia had been touched more deeply. She was ignorant of what had passed, but she had seen the agitation102 of Melmond, and the moment he disappeared, she ejaculated secretly: ‘Ah! had he conceived the prepossession of Bellamy! where had been my steadiness? where, O Clermont! thy security!–’
The scrupulous103 delicacy104 of her mind was shocked at this suggestion, and she rejoiced she had not been put to such a trial.
Edgar now explained, that when he arrived at the cottage, he found, as he had foreseen, the garden chair waiting there, by mistake, and Robert in much distress, having just discovered that an accident had happened to one of the wheels. He had run on, therefore, himself, to Beech Park, for his own new chariot, which was lately arrived from town, making Robert follow with Sir Hugh’s horses, as his own were out at grass.
It was dinner-time, and Sir Hugh, equally vexed105 and fatigued, resolved to return straight home. He accepted, therefore, a place in the chariot, bid Eugenia follow him, and Robert make haste; solemnly adding to the latter: ‘I had fully24 intended making you the proper lecture upon your not coming in time; but as it has turned out not to be your fault, on account of an accident, I shall say no more; except to give you a hint not to do such a thing again, because we have all been upon the point of being tossed by a mad bull; which would certainly have happened, but for the lucky chance of its turning out a false alarm.’
The remainder of the party proceeded without further adventure. Edgar attended Camilla; Miss Margland adhered to Bellamy: Lionel, who durst not venture at any new frolic, but with whom time lingered when none was passing, retreated; Dr. Marchmont, who was near his home, soon also made his bow; and Dr. Orkborne, who was glad to be alone, ruminated106 with wonder upon what appeared to him a phenomenon, a man of learning who could deign107 to please and seem pleased where books were not the subject of discourse, and where scholastic108 attainments109 were not required to elucidate110 a single sentence.
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91 forsook | |
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98 recede | |
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99 abruptly | |
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101 lining | |
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104 delicacy | |
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107 deign | |
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108 scholastic | |
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109 attainments | |
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