UPON entering the room, Camilla saw again the Officers who had been there in the morning, and who were now joined by Sir Sedley Clarendel. She was met at the door by Major Cerwood, who seemed waiting for her appearance, and who made her his compliments with an air that studiously proclaimed his devotion. She seated herself by the side of Mrs. Arlbery, to look on at a game of chess, played by Sir Sedley and General Kinsale.
‘Clarendel,’ said Mrs. Arlbery, ‘you have not the least in the world the air of knowing what you are about.’
‘Pardon me, ma’am,’ said the General, ‘he has been at least half an hour contemplating1 this very move,-for which, as you see, I now check-mate him. Pray, Sir Sedley, how came you, at last, to do no better?’
‘Thinking of other things, my dear General. ’Tis impossible in the extreme to keep one’s faculties2 pinioned3 down to the abstruse4 vagaries5 of this brain-besieging game. My head would be deranged6 past redress7, if I did not allow it to visit the four quarters of the globe once, at least, between every move.’
‘You do not play so slow, then, from deliberating upon your chances, but from forgetting them?’
‘Defined my dear General, to scrupulosity8! Those exquisite9 little moments we steal from any given occupation, for the pleasure of speculating in secret upon something wholly foreign to it, are resistless to deliciousness.’
‘I entreat10, and command you then,’ cried Mrs. Arlbery, ‘to make your speculations11 public. Nothing will more amuse me, than to have the least intimation of the subjects of your reveries.’
‘My dear Mrs. Arlbery! your demand is the very quintessence of impossibility! Tell the subject of a reverie! know you not it wafts12 one at once out of the world, and the world’s powers of expression? while all it substitutes is as evanescent as it is delectable13. To attempt the least description would be a presumption14 of the first monstrousness15.’
‘O never heed16 that! presumption will not precisely17 be a novelty to you; answer me, therefore, my dear Clarendel, without all this conceit18. You know I hate procrastination19; and procrastinators still worse.’
‘Softly, dearest madam, softly! There is nothing in nature so horribly shocking to me as the least hurry. My poor nerves seek repose20 after any turbulent words, or jarring sounds, with the same craving21 for rest that my body experiences after the jolts22, and concussions23 of a long winded chase. By the way, does anybody want a good hunter? I have the first, perhaps, in Europe; but I would sell it a surprising bargain, for I am excruciatingly tired of it.’
All the gentlemen grouped round him to hear further particulars, except Mr. Macdersey, the young Ensign, who had so unguardedly exposed himself at the Northwick ball, and who now, approaching Camilla, fervently24 exclaimed; ‘How happy I should have been, madam, if I had had the good fortune to see you meet with that accident this morning, instead of being looking another way! I might then have had the pleasure to assist you. And O! how much more if it had been your divine cousin! I hope that fair angel is in perfect health! O what a beautiful creature she is! her outside is the completest diamond I ever saw! and if her inside is the same, which I dare say it is, by her smiles and delicate dimples, she must be a paragon25 upon earth!’
‘There is at least something very inartificial in your praise,’ said General Kinsale, ‘when you make your panegyric26 of an absent lady to a present one.’
‘O General, there is not a lady living can bear any comparison with her. I have never had her out of my thoughts from the first darling moment that ever I saw her, which has made me the most miserable27 of men ever since. Her eyes so beautiful, her mouth so divine, her nose so heavenly!–’
‘And how,’ cried Sir Sedley, ‘is the tip of her chin?’
‘No joking, sir!’ said the Ensign, reddening; ‘she is a piece of perfection not to be laughed at; she has never had her fellow upon the face of the earth; and she never will have it while the earth holds, upon account of there being no such person above ground.’
‘And pray,’ cried Sir Sedley, carelessly, ‘how can you be sure of that?’
‘How! why by being certain,’ answered the inflamed28 admirer; ‘for though I have been looking out for pretty women from morning to night, ever since I was conscious of the right use of my eyes, I never yet saw her parallel.’
A servant was now bringing in the tea; but his lady ordered him to set it down in the next room, whence the gentlemen should fetch it as it was wanted.
Major Cerwood took in charge all attendance upon Camilla; but he was not, therefore, exempt29 from the assiduities required by Mrs. Arlbery, for whom the homage30 of the General, the Colonel, and the Ensign, were insufficient31; and who, had a score more been present, would have found occupation for them all. Sir Sedley alone was excepted from her commands; for knowing they would be issued to him in vain, she contented32 herself with only interchanging glances of triumph with him, at the submission33 of every vassal34 but himself.
‘Heavens!’ cried she, to Colonel Andover, who had hastened to present her the first cup, ‘you surely think I have nerves for a public orator35! If I should taste but one drop of this tea, I might envy the repose of the next man who robs on the highway. Major Cerwood, will you try if you can do any better for me?’
The Major obeyed, but not with more success. ‘What in the world have you brought me?’ cried she; ‘Is it tea? It looks prodigiously36 as if just imported out of the slop bason. For pity sake, Macdersey, arise, and give me your help; you will at least never bring me such maudlin37 stuff’ as this. Even your tea will have some character; it will be very good or very bad; very hot or very cold; very strong or very weak; for you are always in flames of fire, or flakes38 of snow.’
‘You do me justice, ma’am; there is nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid39 as a medium. Give me love or hate! a friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body! Riches to chuck guineas about like halfpence, or poverty to beg in a ditch! Liberty wild as the four winds, or an oar40 to work in a galley41! Misery42 to tear my heart into an hundred thousand millions of atoms, or joy to make my soul dance into my brain! Every thing has some gratification, except a medium. ’Tis a poor little soul that is satisfied between happiness and despair.’
He then flew to bring her a dish of tea.
‘My dear Macdersey,’ cried she, in receiving it, ‘this is according to your system indeed; for ’tis a compound of strong, and rich, and sweet, to cloy43 an alderman, making altogether so luscious44 a syrup45, that our spring would be exhausted46 before I could slake47 my thirst, if I should taste it only a second time. Do, dear General, see if it is not possible to get me some beverage48 that I can swallow.’
The youngest man present was not more active than the General in this service; but Mrs. Arlbery, casting herself despondingly back the moment she had tasted what he brought her, exclaimed, ‘Why this is worst of all! If you can do no better for me, General, than this, tell me, at least, for mercy’s sake, when some other regiment49 will be quartered here?’
‘What a cruelty,’ said the Major, looking with a sigh towards Camilla, ‘to remind your unhappy prey51 they are but birds of passage!’
‘O, all the better, Major. If you understand your own interest you will be as eager to break up your quarters, as I can be to see your successors march into them. I have now heard all your compliments, and you have heard all my repartees; both sides, therefore, want new auditors52. A great many things I have said to you will do vastly well again for a new corps53; and, to do you justice, some few things you have said yourselves may do again in a new county.’
Then, addressing Camilla, she proposed, though without moving, that they should converse54 with one another, and leave the men to take care of themselves. ‘And excessively they will be obliged to me,’ she continued, without lowering her voice, ‘for giving this little holiday to their poor brains; for, I assure you, they have not known what to say this half hour. Indeed, since the first fortnight they were quartered here, they have not, upon an average, said above one new thing in three days. But one’s obliged to take up with Officers in the country, because there’s almost nothing else. Can you recommend me any agreeable new people?’
‘O no, ma’am! I have hardly any acquaintance, except immediately round the rectory; but, fortunately, my own family is so large, that I have never been distressed55 for society.’
‘O, ay, true! your own family, begin with that; do, pray, give me a little history of your own family?’
‘I have no history, ma’am, to give, for my father’s retired56 life–’
‘O, I have seen your father, and I have heard him preach, and I like him very much. There’s something in him there’s no turning into ridicule57.’
Camilla though surprised, was delighted by such a testimony58 to the respectability of her father; and, with more courage, said ‘And, I am sure, if you knew my mother, you would allow her the same exemption59.’
‘So I hear; therefore, we won’t talk of them. It’s a delightful60 thing to think of perfection; but it’s vastly more amusing to talk of errors and absurdities61. To begin with your eldest62 sister, then-she seems in just the same predicament as your father and but no mother: so we’ll let her rest, too.’
‘Indeed she is; she is as faultless–’
‘O, not a word more then; she won’t do for me at all. But, pray, is there not a single soul in all the round of your large family, that can afford a body a little innocent diversion?’
‘Ah, madam,’ said Camilla, shaking her head; ‘I fear, on the contrary, if they came under your examination, there is not one in whom you would not discern some foible!’
‘I should not like them at all the worse for that; for, between ourselves my dear Miss Tyrold, I am half afraid they might find a foible or two in return in me; so you must not be angry if I beg the favour of you to indulge me with a few of their defects.’
‘Indulge you!’
‘Yes for when so many of a family are perfect, if you can’t find me one or two that have a little speck63 of mortality, you must not wonder if I take flight at your very name. In charity, therefore, if you would not drop my acquaintance, tell me their vulnerable parts.’
Camilla laughed at this ridiculous reasoning, but would not enter into its consequences.
‘Well, then, if you will not assist me, don’t take it ill that I assist myself. In the first place, there’s your brother; I don’t ask you to tell me any thing of him; I have seen him! and I confess to you he does not put me into utter despair! he does not alarm me into flying all his race.’
Camilla tried vainly to look grave.
‘I have seen another, too, your cousin, I think; Miss Lynmere, that’s engaged to young Mandlebert.’
Camilla now tried as vainly to look gay.
‘She’s prodigiously pretty. Pray, is not she a great fool?’
‘Ma’am?’
‘I beg your pardon! but I don’t suppose you are responsible for the intellects of all your generation. However, she’ll do vastly well-you need not be uneasy for her. A face like that will take very good care of itself. I am glad she is engaged, for your sake, though I am sorry for Mandlebert; that is, if, as his class of countenance64 generally predicts, he marries with any notion of expecting to be happy.’
‘But why, ma’am,’ cried Camilla, checking a sigh, ‘are you glad for my sake?’
‘Because there are two reasons why she would be wonderfully in your way; she is not only prettier than you, but sillier.’
‘And would both those reasons,’ cried Camilla, again laughing, ‘make against me?’
‘O, intolerably, with the men! They are always enchanted65 with something that is both pretty and silly; because they can so easily please and so soon disconcert it; and when they have made the little blooming fools blush and look down, they feel nobly superior, and pride themselves in victory. Dear creatures! I delight in their taste; for it brings them a plentiful66 harvest of repentance67, when it is their connubial68 criterion; the pretty flies off, and the silly remains69, and a man then has a choice companion for life left on his hands!’
The young Ensign here could no longer be silent: ‘I am sure and certain,’ cried he, warmly, ‘Miss Lynmere is incapable70 to be a fool! and when she marries, if her husband thinks her so, it’s only a sign he’s a blockhead himself.’
‘He’ll be exactly of your opinion for the first month or two,’ answered Mrs. Arlbery, ‘or even if he is not, he’ll like her just as well. A man looks enchanted while his beautiful young bride talks nonsense; it comes so prettily71 from her ruby72 lips, and she blushes and dimples with such lovely attraction while she utters it; he casts his eyes around him with conscious elation73 to see her admirers, and his enviers; but he has amply his turn for looking like a fool himself, when youth and beauty take flight, and when his ugly old wife exposes her ignorance or folly74 at every word.’
‘The contrast of beginning and end,’ said the General, ‘is almost always melancholy75. But how rarely does any man,-nay76, I had nearly said, or any woman-think a moment of the time to come, or of any time but the present day, in marrying?’
‘Except with respect to fortune!’ cried Mrs. Arlbery, ‘and there, methinks, you men, at least, are commonly sufficiently77 provident78. I don’t think reflection is generally what you want in that point.’
‘As to reflection,’ exclaimed Mr. Macdersey, “tis the thing in the world I look upon to be the meanest! a man capable of reflection, where a beautiful young creature is in question, can have no soul nor vitals. For my part, ’tis my only misfortune that I cannot get at that lovely girl, to ask her for her private opinion of me at once, that I might either get a licence tomorrow, or drive her out of my head before sleep overtakes me another night.’
‘Your passions, my good Macdersey,’ said Mrs. Arlbery, ‘considering their violence, seem tolerably obedient. Can you really be so fond, or so forgetful at such short warning?’
‘Yes, but it’s with a pain that breaks my heart every time.’
‘You contrive79, however, to get it pretty soon mended!’
‘That, madam, is a power that has come upon me by degrees; I have paid dear enough for it!-nobody ever found it harder than I did at the beginning; for the first two or three times I took my disappointments so to heart, that I should have been bound for ever to any friend that would have had the good nature to blow my brains out.’
‘But now you are so much in the habit of experiencing these little failures, that they pass on as things of course?’
‘No, madam, you injure me, and in the tenderest point; for, as long as I have the least hope, my passion’s as violent as ever; but you would not be so unreasonable80 as to have a man love on, when it can answer no end? It’s no better than making him unhappy for a joke. There’s no sense in such a thing.’
‘By the way, my dear Miss Tyrold, and apropos81 to this Miss Lynmere,’ said Mrs. Arlbery, ‘do tell me something about Mr. Mandlebert-what is he?-what does he do always amongst you?’
‘He-he!–’ cried Camilla, stammering82, ‘he was a ward50 of my father’s —’
‘O, I don’t mean all that; but what is his style?-his class?-is he agreeable?’
‘I believe-he is generally thought so.’
‘If he is, do pray, then, draw him into my society, for I am terribly in want of recruits. These poor gentlemen you see here are very good sort of men; but they have a trick of sleeping with their eyes wide open, and fancy all the time they are awake; and, indeed, I find it hard to persuade them to the contrary, though I often ask them for their dreams. By the way, can’t you contrive, some or other amongst you, to make the room a little cooler?’
‘Shall I open this window?’ said the Major.
‘Nay, nay, don’t ask me; I had rather bear six times the heat, than give my own directions: nothing in the world fatigues83 me so much as telling stupid people how to set about things. Colonel, don’t you see I have no fan?’
‘I’ll fetch it directly-have you left it in the dining-parlour?’
‘Do you really think I would not send a footman at once, if I must perplex myself with all that recollection? My dear Miss Tyrold, did you ever see any poor people, that pretended at all to walk about, and mingle84 with the rest of the world, like living creatures, so completely lethargic85?–’tis really quite melancholy! I am sure you have good nature enough to pity them. It requires my utmost ingenuity86 to keep them in any employment; and if I left them to themselves, they would stand before the fire all the winter, and lounge upon sofas all the summer. And that indolence of body so entirely87 unnerves the mind, that they find as little to say as to do. Upon the whole, ’tis really a paltry88 race, the men of the present times. However, as we have got no better, and as the women are worse, I do all I can to make them less insufferable to me.’
‘And do you really think the women are worse?’ cried Camilla.
‘Not in themselves, my dear; but worse to me, because I cannot possibly take the same liberties with them. Macdersey, I wish I had my salts.’
‘It shall be the happiness of my life to find them, be they hid where they may; only tell me where I may have the pleasure to go and look for them.’
‘Nay, that’s your affair.’
‘Why, then, if they are to be found from the garret to the cellar, be sure I am a dead man, if I do not bring them you!’
This mode of displaying airs and graces was so perfectly89 new to Camilla, that the commands issued, and the obedience90 paid, were equally amusing to her. Brought up herself to be contented with whatever came in her way, in preference either to giving trouble, or finding fault, the ridiculous, yet playful wilfulness91 with which she saw Mrs. Arlbery send every one upon her errands, yet object to what every one performed, presented to her a scene of such whimsical gaiety, that her concern at the accident which had made her innocently violate her intended engagement with Edgar, was completely changed into pleasure, that thus, without any possible self blame, an acquaintance she had so earnestly desired was even by necessity established: and she returned home at night with spirits all revived, and eloquent92 in praise of her new favourite.
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