WITH a pen flowing quick from feelings of the most generous warmth, Edgar wrote the following letter:
To Dr. Marchmont.
Accuse me not of precipitance, my dear Doctor, nor believe me capable of forgetting the wisdom of your suggestions, nor of lightly weighing those evils with which your zeal1 has encompassed2 me, though I write at this instant to confess a total contrariety of sentiment, to call back every promise of delay, and to make an unqualified avowal3, that the period of caution is past! Camilla is not happy-something, I know not what, has disturbed the gay serenity4 of her bosom5: she has forbid me to enquire6 the cause;-one way only remains7 to give me a claim to her confidence.–O Doctor! wonder not if cold, tardy8, suspicious–I had nearly said unfeeling, caution, shrinks at such a moment, from the rising influence of warmer sympathy, which bids me sooth her in distress9, shield her from danger, strengthen all her virtues10, and participate in their emanations!
You will not do me the injustice11 to think me either impelled12 or blinded by external enchantments13; you know me to have withstood their yet fuller blaze in her cousin: O no! were she despoiled14 of all personal attraction by the same ravaging15 distemper that has been so fierce with her poor sister; were a similar cruel accident to rob her form of all symmetry, she would yet be more fascinating to my soul, by one single look, one single word, one sweet beaming smile, diffusing16 all the gaiety it displays, than all of beauty, all of elegance17, all of rank, all of wealth, the whole kingdom, in some wonderful aggregate18, could oppose to her.
Her face, her form, however penetrating19 in loveliness, aid, but do not constitute, her charms; no, ’tis the quick intelligence of soul that mounts to her eyes, ’tis the spirit checked by sweetness, the sweetness animated20 by spirit, the nature so nobly above all artifice21, all study–O Doctor! restore to me immediately every vestige22, every trait of any promise, any acquiescence23, any idea the most distant, that can be construed24 into a compliance25 with one moment’s requisition of delay!
EDGAR MANDLEBERT.
Cleves Park, Friday Evening.
Camilla, meanwhile, shut up in her room, wept almost without cessation, from a sense of general unhappiness, though fixed26 to no point, and from a disturbance27 of mind, a confusion of ideas and of feelings, that rendered her incapable28 of reflection. She was again followed by Eugenia, and could no longer refuse, to her tender anxiety, a short detail of the attack which occasioned her disorder29; happy, at least, in reciting it, that by unfolding the cause, there no longer remained any necessity to repress the effects of her affliction.
To her great surprise, however, Eugenia only said: ‘And is this all, my dear Camilla?’
‘All!’ exclaimed Camilla.
‘Yes, is it all?–I was afraid some great misfortune had happened.’
‘And what could happen more painful, more shocking, more cruel?’
‘A thousand things! for this is nothing but a mere30 mistake; and you should not make yourself unhappy about it, because you are not to blame.’
‘Is it then nothing to be accused of designs and intentions so criminal?’
‘If the accusation31 were just, it might indeed make you wretched: but it is Miss Margland only who has any reason to be afflicted32; for it is she alone who has been in the wrong.’
Struck with this plain but uncontrovertible truth, Camilla wiped her eyes, and strove to recover some composure; but finding her tears still force their way, ‘It is not,’ she cried, with some hesitation33, ‘it is not the aspersions of Miss Margland alone that give me so much vexation-the unkindness of Indiana–’
‘Indeed she is highly reprehensible34; and so I will tell her;-but still, if she has any fears, however ill-founded, of losing Edgar, you cannot but pardon-you must even pity her.’
Struck again, and still more forcibly, by this second truth, Camilla, ashamed of her grief, made a stronger and more serious effort to repress it; and receiving soon afterwards a summons from her uncle, her spirit rose once more to the relief of her dejection, upon seeing him seated between Miss Margland and Indiana, and discerning that they had been making some successful complaint, by the air of triumph with which they waited her approach.
‘My dear Camilla,’ he cried, with a look of much disturbance, ‘here’s a sad ado, I find; though I don’t mean to blame you, nor young Mr. Mandlebert neither, taste being a fault one can’t avoid; not but what a person’s changing their mind is what I can’t commend in any one, which I shall certainly let him know, not doubting to bring him round by means of his own sense: only, my dear, in the meanwhile, I must beg you not to stand in your cousin’s way.’
‘Indeed, my dear uncle, I do not merit this imputation35; I am not capable of such treachery!’ indignantly answered Camilla.
‘Treachery! Lord help us! treachery!’ cried Sir Hugh, fondly embracing her, ‘don’t I know you are as innocent as the baby unborn? and more innocent too, from the advantage of having more sense to guide you by! treachery, my dear Camilla! why, I think there’s nobody so good in the wide world!-by which I mean no reflections, never thinking it right to make any.’
Indiana, sullenly36 pouting37, spoke38 not a word; but Miss Margland, with a tone of plausibility39 that was some covert40 to its malice41, said ‘Why then all may be well, and the young ladies as good friends as ever, and Mr. Mandlebert return to the conduct of a gentleman, only just by Miss Camilla’s doing as she would be done by; for nothing that all of us can say will have any effect, if she does not discourage him from dangling42 about after her in the manner he does now, speaking to nobody else, and always asking her opinion about every trifle, which is certainly doing no great justice to Miss Lynmere.’
Indiana, with a toss of the head, protested his notice was the last thing she desired.
‘My dear Indiana,’ said Sir Hugh, ‘don’t mind all that outward shew. Mr. Mandlebert is a very good boy, and as to your cousin Camilla, I am sure I need not put you in mind how much she is the same; but I really think, whatever’s the reason, the young youths of now-a-days grow backwarder and backwarder. Though I can’t say but what in my time it was just the same; witness myself; which is what I have been sorry for often enough, though I have left off repenting43 it now, because it’s of no use; age being a thing there’s no getting ahead of.’
‘Well, then, all that remains is this,’ said Miss Margland, ‘let Miss Camilla keep out of Mr. Mandlebert’s way; and let her order the carriage, and go to Mrs. Arlbery’s to-morrow, and take no notice of his likings and dislikings; and I’ll be bound for it he will soon think no more of her, and then, of course, he will give the proper attention to Miss Lynmere.’
‘O, if that’s all,’ cried Sir Hugh, ‘my dear Camilla, I am sure, will do it, and as much again too, to make her cousin easy. And so now, I hope, all is settled, and my two good girls will kiss one another, and be friends; which I am sure I am myself, with all my heart.’
Camilla hung her head, in speechless perturbation, at a task which appeared to her equally hard and unjust; but while fear and shame kept her silent, Sir Hugh drew her to Indiana, and a cold, yet unavoidable salute44, gave a species of tacit consent to a plan which she did not dare oppose, from the very strength of the desire that urged her opposition45.
They then separated; Sir Hugh delighted, Miss Margland triumphant46, Indiana half satisfied, half affronted47, and Camilla with a mind so crowded, a heart so full, she scarcely breathed. Sensations the most contrary, of pain, pleasure, hope, and terror, at once assailed48 her. Edgar, of whom so long she had only thought as of the destined50 husband of Indiana, she now heard named with suspicions of another regard, to which she did not dare give full extension; yet of which the most distant surmise51 made her consider herself, for a moment, as the happiest of human beings, though she held herself the next as the most culpable52 for even wishing it.
She found Eugenia still in her room, who, perceiving her increased emotion, tenderly enquired53, if there were any new cause.
‘Alas! yes, my dearest Eugenia! they have been exacting54 from me the most cruel of sacrifices! They order me to fly from Edgar Mandlebert-to resist his advice-to take the very measures I have promised to forbear-to disoblige, to slight, to behave to him even offensively! my uncle himself, lenient55, kind, indulgent as he is, my uncle himself has been prevailed with to inflict56 upon me this terrible injunction.’
‘My uncle,’ answered Eugenia, ‘is incapable of giving pain to any body, and least of all to you, whom he loves with such fondness; he has not therefore comprehended the affair; he only considers, in general, that to please or to displease57 Edgar Mandlebert can be a matter of no moment to you, when compared with its importance to Indiana.’
‘It is a thousand and a thousand, a million and a million times more important to me, than it can ever be to her!’ exclaimed the ardent58 Camilla, ‘for she values not his kindness, she knows not his worth, she is insensible to his virtues!’
‘You judge too hastily, my dear Camilla; she has not indeed your warmth of heart; but if she did not wish the union to take place, why would she shew all this disquiet59 in the apprehension60 of its breach61?’
Camilla, surprised into recollection, endeavoured to become calmer.
‘You, indeed,’ continued the temperate62 Eugenia, ‘if so situated63, would not so have behaved; you would not have been so unjust; and you could not have been so weak; but still, if you had received, however causelessly, any alarm for the affection of the man you meant to marry, and that man were as amiable64 as Edgar, you would have been equally disturbed.’
Camilla, convinced, yet shocked, felt the flutter of her heart give a thousand hues65 to her face, and walking to the window, leaned far out to gasp66 for breath.
‘Weigh the request more coolly, and you cannot refuse a short compliance. I am sure you would not make Indiana unhappy.’
‘O, no! not for the world!’ cried she, struggling to seem more reasonable than she felt.
‘Yet how can she be otherwise, if she imagines you have more of the notice and esteem67 of Edgar than herself?’
Camilla now had not a word to say; the subject dropt; she took up a book, and by earnest internal remonstrances68, commanded herself to appear at tea-time with tolerable serenity.
The evening was passed in spiritless conversation, or in listening to the piano-forte, upon which Indiana, with the utmost difficulty, played some very easy lessons.
At night, the following answer arrived from Dr. Marchmont:
To Edgar Mandlebert, Esq.
Parsonage House, Cleves,
Friday Night.
My DEAR FRIEND,
I must be thankful, in a moment of such enthusiasm, that you can pay the attention of even recollecting69 those evils with which my zeal only has, you think, encompassed you. I cannot insist upon the practice of caution which you deem unfounded; but as you wait my answer, I will once more open upon my sentiments, and communicate my wishes. It is now only I can speak them; the instant you have informed the young lady of your own, silences them for ever. Your honour and her happiness become then entangled70 in each other, and I know not which I would least willingly assail49. What in all men is base, would to you, I believe, be impossible-to trifle with such favour as may be the growth of your own undisguised partiality.
Your present vehemence71 to ascertain72 the permanent possession of one you conceive formed for your felicity, obscures, to your now absorbed faculties73, the thousand nameless, but tenacious74, delicacies75 annexed76 by your species of character to your powers of enjoyment77. In two words, then, let me tell you, what, in a short time, you will daily tell yourself: you cannot be happy if not exclusively loved; for you cannot excite, you cannot bestow78 happiness.
By exclusively, I do not mean to the exclusion79 of other connections and regard; far from it; those who covet80 in a bride the oblivion of all former friendships, all early affections, weaken the finest ties of humanity, and dissolve the first compact of unregistered but genuine integrity. The husband, who would rather rationally than with romance be loved himself should seek to cherish, not obliterate81 the kind feelings of nature in its first expansions. These, where properly bestowed82, are the guarantees to that constant and respectable tenderness, which a narrow and selfish jealousy83 rarely fails to convert into distaste and disgust.
The partiality which I mean you to ascertain, injures not these prior claims; I mean but a partiality exclusive of your situation in life, and of all declaration of your passion: a partiality, in fine, that is appropriate to yourself, not to the rank in the world with which you may tempt84 her ambition, nor to the blandishments of flattery, which only soften85 the heart by intoxicating86 the understanding.
Observe, therefore, if your general character, and usual conduct, strike her mind; if her esteem is yours without the attraction of assiduity and adulation; if your natural disposition87 and manners make your society grateful to her, and your approbation88 desirable.
It is thus alone you can secure your own contentment; for it is thus alone your reflecting mind can snatch from the time to come the dangerous surmises89 of a dubious90 retrospection.
Remember, you can always advance; you can never, in honour, go back; and believe me when I tell you, that the mere simple avowal of preference, which only ultimately binds91 the man, is frequently what first captivates the woman. If her mind is not previously92 occupied, it operates with such seductive sway, it so soothes93, so flatters, so bewitches her self-complacency, that while she listens, she imperceptibly fancies she participates in sentiments, which, but the minute before, occurred not even to her imagination; and while her hand is the recompence of her own eulogy94, she is not herself aware if she has bestowed it where her esteem and regard, unbiassed by the eloquence95 of acknowledged admiration96, would have wished it sought, or if it has simply been the boon97 of her own gratified vanity.
I now no longer urge your acquiescence, my dear friend; I merely entreat98 you twice to peruse99 what I have written, and then leave you to act by the result of such perusal100.
I remain
Your truly faithful and obliged
GABRIEL MARCHMONT.
Edgar ran through this letter with an impatience101 wholly foreign to his general character. ‘Why,’ cried he, ‘will he thus obtrude102 upon me these fastidious doubts and causeless difficulties? I begged but the restitution103 of my promise, and he gives it me in words that nearly annihilate104 my power of using it.’
Disappointed and displeased105, he hastily put it into his pocketbook, resolving to seek Camilla, and commit the consequences of an interview to the impulses it might awaken106.
He was half way down stairs, when the sentence finishing with, ‘you cannot excite, you cannot bestow happiness,’ confusedly recurred107 to him: ‘If in that,’ thought he, ‘I fail, I am a stranger to it myself, and a stranger for ever;’ and, returning to his room, he re-opened the letter to look for the passage.
The sentence lost nothing by being read a second time; he paused upon it dejectedly, and presently re-read the whole epistle.
‘He is not quite wrong!’ cried he, pensively108; ‘there is nothing very unreasonable109 in what he urges: true, indeed, it is, that I can never be happy myself, if her happiness is not entwined around my own.’
The first blight110 thus borne to that ardent glee with which the imagination rewards its own elevated speculations111, he yet a third time read the letter.
‘He is right!’ he then cried; ‘I will investigate her sentiments, and know what are my chances for her regard; what I owe to real approbation; and what merely to intimacy112 of situation. I will postpone113 all explanation till my visit here expires, and devote the probationary114 interval115, to an examination which shall obviate116 all danger of either deceiving my own reason, or of beguiling117 her inconsiderate acceptance.’
This settled, he rejoiced in a mastery over his eagerness, which he considered as complete, since it would defer118 for no less than a week the declaration of his passion.
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approbation
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surmises
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restitution
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