NOT a bosom1 of the Cleves party enjoyed much tranquillity2 this evening. Miss Margland, though to the Baronet she would not recede3 from her first assertions, strove vainly to palliate to herself the ill grace and evident dissatisfaction with which Edgar had met the report. To save her own credit, however, was always her primary consideration; she resolved, therefore, to cast upon unfair play in Camilla, or upon the instability of Edgar, all the blame really due to her own undiscerning self-sufficiency.
Indiana thought so little for herself, that she adopted, of course, every opinion of Miss Margland; yet the immoveable coldness of Edgar, contrasted frequently in her remembrance by the fervour of Melmond and of Macdersey, became more and more distasteful to her; and Mrs. Arlbery’s idea, that she should be locked up in half a year, made her look upon him alternately as something to shun4 or to over-reach. She even wished to refuse him:-but Beech5 Park, the equipage, the servants, the bridal habiliment.–No! she could enjoy those, if not him. And neither her own feelings, nor the lessons of Miss Margland, had taught her to look upon marriage in any nobler point of view.
But the person most deeply dissatisfied this evening was Edgar. He now saw that, deceived by his own consciousness, he had misunderstood Mrs. Needham, who, as well as Mrs. Arlbery, he was convinced concluded him engaged to Indiana. He had observed with concern the approving credulity of Sir Hugh, and though glad to find his real plan, and all his wishes unsuspected, the false report excited his fears, lest Indiana should give it any credit, and secretly hurt his delicacy6 for the honour of his taste.
All the influence of pecuniary7 motives8 to which he deemed Camilla superior, occurred to him in the very words of Dr. Marchmont for Indiana; whose capacity he saw was as shallow as her person was beautiful. Yet the admiration9 with which she had already made her first appearance in the world, might naturally induce her belief of his reported devotion. If, therefore, his situation appeared to her to be eligible10, she had probably settled to accept him.
The most timid female delicacy was not more scrupulous11, than the manly12 honour of Edgar to avoid this species of misapprehension; and though perfectly13 confident his behaviour had been as irreproachable14 as it was undesigning, the least idea of any self-delusion on the part of Indiana, seemed a call upon his integrity for the most unequivocal manifestation15 of his intentions. Yet any declaration by words, with whatever care selected, might be construed16 into an implication that he concluded the decision in his own hands. And though he could scarcely doubt the fact, he justly held nothing so offensive as the palpable presumption17. One only line of conduct appeared to him, therefore, unexceptionable; which was wholly to avoid her, till the rumour18 sunk into its own nothingness.
This demanded from him a sacrifice the most painful, that of retiring from Cleves in utter ignorance of the sentiments of Camilla; yet it seemed the more necessary, since he now, with much uneasiness, recollected19 many circumstances which his absorbed mind had hitherto suffered to pass unnoticed, that led him to fear Sir Hugh himself, and the whole party, entertained the same notion.
He was shocked to consider Camilla involved in such a deception20, though delighted by the idea he might perhaps owe to an explanation, some marks of that preference for which Dr. Marchmont had taught him to wait, and which he now hoped might lie dormant21 from the persuasion22 of his engagement. To clear this mistake was, therefore, every way essential, as otherwise the very purity of her character must be in his disfavour. Still, however, the visit to the Grove23 hung upon his mind, and he resolved to investigate its cause the following morning, before he made his retreat.
Early the next day, Camilla sent to hasten the chaise which was to fetch Mr. Tyrold, and begged leave of her uncle to breakfast at Etherington. His assent24 was always ready; and believing every evil would yield to absence, she eagerly, and even with happiness set off.
When the rest of the party assembled without her, Edgar, surprised, enquired25 if she were well? Miss Margland answered yes; but for the sake of what she loved best in the world, a frolic, she was gone in the chaise to Etherington. Edgar could not prevail with himself to depart till he had spoken with her, and privately27 deferred28 his purposed leave-taking till noon.
During this report, Sir Hugh was anxiously engaged in some business he seemed to wish to conceal29. He spoke26 little, but nodded frequently to himself, with an air of approving his own ideas; he summoned Jacob to him repeatedly, with whom he held various whispering conferences; and desired Miss Margland, who made the tea, not to pour it out too fast, as he was in no hurry to have breakfast over.
When nothing he could urge succeeded, in making any of the company eat or drink any thing more, he pulled Edgar by the sleeve; and, in an eager but low voice, said, ‘My dear Mr. Edgar, I have a great favour to beg of you, which is only that you will do something to divert Dr. Orkborne.’
‘I should be very happy, Sir,’ cried Edgar, smiling, ‘but I much doubt my capability30.’
‘Why, my dear Mr. Edgar, it’s only to keep him from finding out my new surprise till it’s got ready. And if you will but just spout31 out to him a bit or two of Virgil and Horace, or some of those Greek and Latin language-masters, he’ll be in no hurry to budge32, I promise you.’
A request from Sir Hugh, who with the most prompt alacrity33 met the wishes of everyone, was by Edgar held to be indisputable. He advanced, therefore, to Dr. Orkborne, who was feeling for his tablets, which he commonly examined in his way up the stairs, and started a doubt, of which he begged an exposition, upon a passage of Virgil.
Dr. Orkborne willingly stopt, and displayed, with no small satisfaction, an erudition, that did him nearly as much honour in the ears of the ignorant and admiring Sir Hugh, as in those of the cultivated and well-judging Edgar. ‘Ah!’ said the Baronet, sighing, though addressing himself to no one, ‘if I had but addicted34 myself to these studies in due season, I might have understood all this too! though now I can’t for my life make out much sense of what they’re talking of; nor a little neither, indeed, as to that; thanks to my own idleness; to which, however, I am not much obliged.’
Unfortunately, the discussion soon led to some points of comparison, that demanded a review of various authors, and the doctor proposed adjourning35 to his own apartment. The Baronet winked36 at Edgar, who would have changed the discourse37, or himself have sought the books, or have been satisfied without them; but Dr. Orkborne was as eager here, as in other matters he was slow and phlegmatic38; and, regardless of all opposition39, was making off, when Sir Hugh, catching40 him by the arm, exclaimed, ‘My good friend, I beg it as a particular favour, you won’t stir a step!’
‘Not stir a step, Sir?’ repeated the doctor, amazed.
‘That is, not to your own room.’
‘Not go to my own room, Sir?’
The Baronet gently begged him not to take it amiss, and presently, upon the appearance of Jacob, who entered with a significant smile, said, he would keep him no longer.
Dr. Orkborne, to whom nothing was so irksome as a moment’s detention41 from his books and papers, instantly departed, inviting42 Edgar to accompany him; but without troubling himself to inquire for what end he had been held back.
When they were gone, Sir Hugh, rubbing his hands, said, ‘Well, I think this good gentleman won’t go about the country again, with all his books fastened about him, to shew he has nowhere to put them: for as to his telling me he only took them to look at, I am not quite such an ignoramus, with all my ignorance, as to believe such a thing as that, especially of a regular bred scholar.’
A loud and angry sound of voices from above here interrupted the pleased harangue43 of the Baronet; Miss Margland opened the door to listen, and, with no small delight, heard words, scarce intelligible44 for rage, breaking from Dr. Orkborne, whose anger, while Edgar was endeavouring to moderate, Jacob and Mary were vociferously45 resenting.
Sir Hugh, all astonished, feared there was some mistake. He had sent, the preceding day, as far as Winchester, for two bookcases, which he had ordered should arrive early, and be put up during the breakfast; and he had directed Mary to place upon the shelves, with great care, all the loose books and papers she found dispersed46 about the room, as neatly47 as possible: after which Jacob was to give notice when all was arranged.
The words now ‘If I must have my manuscripts rummaged48 at pleasure, by every dunce in the house, I would rather lie in the street!’ distinctly caught their ears. Sir Hugh was thunderstruck with amazement49 and disappointment, but said nothing. Miss Margland looked all spite and pleasure, and Eugenia all concern.
Louder yet, and with accents of encreasing asperity50, the Doctor next exclaimed ‘A twelvemonth’s hard labour will not repair this mischief51! I should have been much more obliged to you if you had blown out my brains!’
The Baronet, aghast, cried, ‘Lord help us! I think I had best go and get the shelves pulled down again, what I have done not being meant to offend, being what will cost me ten pounds and upwards52.’
He then, though somewhat irresolute53, whether or not to proceed, moved towards the foot of the stairs; but there a new storm of rage startled him. ‘I wish you had been all of you annihilated54 ere ever you had entered my room! I had rather have lost my ears than that manuscript! I wish with all my heart you had been at the bottom of the sea, every one of you, before you had touched it!’
‘If you won’t believe me, it can’t be helped,’ said Mary; ‘but if I was to tell it you over and over, I’ve done nothing to no mortal thing. I only just swept the room after the carpenter was gone, for it was all in such a pickle55 it was a shame to be seen.’
‘You have ruined me!’ cried he, ‘you have swept it behind the fire, I make not a moment’s doubt; and I had rather you had given me a bowl of poison! you can make me no reparation; it was a clue to a whole section.’
‘Well, I won’t make no more words about it,’ said Mary, angrily; ‘but I’m sure I never so much as touched it with a pair of tongs56, for I never see it; nor I don’t so much as know it if I do.’
‘Why, it’s a piece of paper written all over; look! just such another as this: I left it on the table, by this corner–’
‘O! that?’ cried Mary; ‘yes, I remember that.’
‘Well, where is it? What have you done with it?’
‘Why, I happened of a little accident about that;-for as I was a sweeping57 under the table, the broom knocked the ink down; but, by good luck, it only fell upon that little morsel58 of paper.’
‘Little morsel of paper? it’s more precious than a whole library! But what did you do with it? what is become of it? whatever condition it is in, if you have but saved it-where is it, I say?’
‘Why-it was all over ink, and good for nothing, so I did not think of your missing it-so I throwed it behind the fire.’
‘I wish you had been thrown there yourself with all my heart! But if ever you bring a broom into my room again–’
‘Why, I did nothing but what my master ordered–’
‘Or if ever you touch a paper, or a book of mine, again–’
‘My master said himself–’
‘Your master’s a blockhead! and you are another-go away, I say!’
Mary now hurried out of the room, enraged59 for her master, and frightened for herself; and Edgar, not aware Sir Hugh was within hearing, soon succeeded in calming the doctor, by mildly listening to his lamentations.
Sir Hugh, extremely shocked, sat upon the stairs to recover himself. Miss Margland, who never felt so virtuous60, and never so elated, as when witnessing the imperfections or improprieties of others, descanted largely against ingratitude61; treating an unmeaning sally of passion as a serious mark of turpitude62: but Eugenia, ashamed for Dr. Orkborne, to whom, as her preceptor, she felt a constant disposition63 to be partial, determined64 to endeavour to induce him to make some apology. She glided65, therefore, past her uncle, and tapped at the doctor’s door.
Mary, seeing her master so invitingly66 in her way, could by no means resist her desire of appeal and complaint; and, descending67 the stairs, begged his honour to hear her.
‘Mary,’ said he, rising, and returning to the parlour, ‘you need not tell me a word, for I have heard it all myself; by which it may be truly said, listeners never hear good of themselves; so I’ve got the proper punishment; for which reason, I hope you won’t look upon it as an example.’
‘I am sure, Sir,’ said Mary, ‘if your honour can excuse his speaking so disrespectful, it’s what nobody else can; and if it was not for thinking as his head’s got a crack in it, there is not a servant among us as would not affront68 him for it.’
The Baronet interrupted her with a serious lecture upon the civility he expected for all his guests; and she promised to restrain her wrath69; ‘But only, sir,’ she continued, ‘if your honour had seen the bit of paper as he made such a noise at me for, your honour would not have believed it. Not a soul could have read it. My Tom would ha’ been well licked if he’d wrote no better at school. And as to his being a twelvemonth a scrawling70 such another, I’ll no more believe it than I’ll fly. It’s as great a fib as ever was told!’
Sir Hugh begged her to be quiet, and to think no more of the matter.
‘No, your honour, I hope I’m not a person as bears malice71; only I could not but speak of it, because he behaves more comical every day. I thought he’d ha’ beat me over and over. And as to the stories he tells about them little bits of paper, mortal patience can’t bear it no longer.’
The remonstrance72 of Eugenia took immediate73 effect. Dr. Orkborne, shocked and alarmed at the expression which had escaped him, protested himself willing to make the humblest reparation, and truly declared, he had been so greatly disturbed by the loss he had just sustained, that he not merely did not mean, but did not know what he had said.
Edgar was the bearer of his apology, which Sir Hugh accepted with his usual good humour. ‘His calling me a blockhead,’ cried he, ‘is a thing I have no right to resent, because I take it for granted, he would not have said it, if he had not thought it; and a man’s thoughts are his castle, and ought to be free!’
Edgar repeated the protestation, that he had been hurried on by passion, and spoke without meaning.
‘Why, then, my dear Mr. Edgar, I must fairly own I don’t see the great superiorness of learning, if it can’t keep a man’s temper out of a passion. However, say nothing of the sort to poor Clermont, upon his coming over, who I expect won’t speak one word in ten I shall understand; which, however, as it’s all been done for the best, I would not have the poor boy discouraged in.’
He then sent a kind message by Edgar to Dr. Orkborne, desiring him not to mind such a trifle.
This conciliating office was congenial to the disposition of Edgar, and softened74 his impatience75 for the return of Camilla, but when, soon after, a note arrived from Mr. Tyrold, requesting Sir Hugh to dispense76 with seeing him till the next day, and apologising for keeping his daughter, he felt equally disappointed and provoked, though he determined not to delay any longer his departure.
He gave orders, therefore, for his horses immediately, and with all the less regret, for knowing Camilla no longer in the circle he was to quit.
The ladies were in the parlour with Sir Hugh, who was sorrowfully brooding over his brother’s note, when he entered it to take leave. Addressing himself somewhat rapidly to the Baronet, he told him he was under an unpleasant necessity, to relinquish78 some days of the month’s sojourn79 intended for him. He made acknowledgments full of regard for his kindness and hospitality; and then, only bowing to the ladies, left the room, before the astonished Sir Hugh comprehended he was going.
‘Well,’ cried Miss Margland, ‘this is curious indeed! He has flown off from everything, without even an apology!’
‘I hope he is not really gone?’ said Eugenia, walking to the window.
‘I’m sure I don’t care what he does,’ cried Indiana, ‘he’s welcome to go or to stay. I’m grown quite sick of him, for my part.’
‘Gone?’ said Sir Hugh, recovering breath; ‘it’s impossible! Why, he never has said one word to me of the day, nor the settlements, nor all those things!’
He then rang the bell, and sent to desire Mr. Mandlebert might be called immediately.
Edgar, who was mounting his horse, obeyed with some chagrin80. As soon as he re-entered the room, Sir Hugh cried; ‘My dear Mr. young Edgar, it’s something amazing to me you should think of going away without coming to an explanation?’
‘An explanation, sir?’
‘Yes, don’t you know what I mean?’
‘Not in the least, sir,’ cried Edgar, staggered by a doubt whether he suspected what he felt for Camilla, or referred to what was reported of Indiana.
‘Why, then, my pretty dear,’ said Sir Hugh to Indiana, ‘you won’t object, I hope, to taking a little walk in the garden, provided it is not disagreeable to you; for you had better not hear what we are going to talk about before your face.’
Indiana, pouting81 her beautiful under lip, and scornfully passing Edgar, complied. Eugenia accompanied her; but Miss Margland kept her ground.
Sir Hugh, always unwilling82 to make any attack, and at a loss how to begin, simply said; ‘Why, I thought Mr. Mandlebert, you would stay with us till next year?’
Edgar only bowed.
‘Why, then, suppose you do?’
‘Most probably, sir, I shall by that time be upon the Continent. If some particular circumstance does not occur, I purpose shortly making the tour of Europe.’
Sir Hugh now lost all guard and all restraint, and with undisguised displeasure exclaimed; ‘So here’s just the second part of Clermont! at the moment I sent for him home, thinking he would come to put the finish to all my cares about Eugenia, he sends me word he must travel!–And though the poor girl took it very well, from knowing nothing of the matter, I can’t say I take it very kind of you, Mr. young Edgar, to come and do just the same by Indiana!’
The surprize of Edgar was unspeakable: that Sir Hugh should wish the relation of Jacob, with respect to Indiana, confirmed, he could not wonder; but that his wishes should have amounted to expectations, and that he should deem his niece ill used by their failure, gave him the most poignant83 astonishment84.
Miss Margland, taking advantage of his silent consternation85, began now to pour forth86 very volubly, the most pointed77 reflections upon the injury done to young ladies by reports of this nature, which were always sure to keep off all other offers. There was no end, she said, to the admirers who had deserted87 Indiana in despair; and she questioned if she would ever have any more, from the general belief of her being actually pre-engaged.
Edgar, whose sense of honour was tenaciously88 delicate, heard her with a mixture of concern for Indiana, and indignation against herself, that kept her long uninterrupted; for though burning to assert the integrity of his conduct, the fear of uttering a word that might be offensive to Indiana, embarrassed and checked him.
Sir Hugh, who in seeing him overpowered, concluded he was relenting, now kindly89 took his hand, and said: ‘My dear Mr. Mandlebert, if you are sorry for what you were intending, of going away, and leaving us all in the lurch90, why, you shall never hear a word more about it, for I will make friends for you with Indiana, and beg of Miss Margland that she’ll do us the favour to say no more.’
Edgar, affectionately pressing the hand of the Baronet, uttered the warmest expressions of personal regard, and protested he should always think it an honour to have been held worthy91 of pretending to any alliance in his family; but he knew not how the present mistake had been made, or report had arisen: he could boast of no partiality from Miss Lynmere, nor had he ever addressed her with any particular views: yet, as it was the opinion of Miss Margland, that the rumour, however false, might prevent the approach of some deserving object, he now finally determined to become, for awhile, a stranger at Cleves, however painful such self-denial must prove.
He then precipitately92 left the room, and, in five minutes, had galloped93 out of the Park.
The rest of the morning was spent by Sir Hugh in the utmost discomposure; and by Miss Margland in alternate abuse of Camilla and of Edgar; while Indiana passed from a piqued94 and short disappointment, to the consolatory95 idea that Melmond might now re-appear.
Edgar rode strait to Beech Park, where he busied himself the whole day in viewing alterations96 and improvements; but where nothing answered his expectations, since Camilla had disappointed them. That sun-beam, which had gilded97 the place to his eyes, was now over-clouded, and the first possession of his own domain98, was his first day of discontent.
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