MR. Tyrold, according to the system of recreation which he had settled with his wife, saw with satisfaction the pleasure with which Camilla began this new acquaintance, in the hope it would help to support her spirits during the interval1 of suspense2 with regard to the purposes of Mandlebert. Mrs. Arlbery was unknown to him, except by general fame; which told him she was a woman of reputation as well as fashion, and that though her manners were lively, her heart was friendly, and her hand ever open to charity.
Upon admitting Lionel again to his presence, he spoke3 forcibly, though with brevity, upon the culpability4 of his conduct. What he had done he said, let him colour it to himself with what levity5 he might, was not only a robbery, but a robbery of the most atrocious and unjustifiable class; adding terror to violation6 of property, and playing upon the susceptibility of the weakness and infirmities, which he ought to have been the first to have sheltered and sheathed7. Had the action contained no purpose but a frolic, even then the situation of the object on whom it fell, rendered it inhuman8; but as its aim and end was to obtain money, it was dishonourable to his character, and criminal by the laws of his country. ‘Yet shudder9 no more,’ continued he, ‘young man, at the justice to which they make you amenable10, than at having deserved, though you escape it! From this day, however, I will name it no more. Feeble must be all I could utter, compared with what the least reflection must make you feel! Your uncle, in a broken state of health, is sent abroad; your mother, though too justly incensed11 to see you, sacrifices her happiness to serve you!’
Lionel, for a few hours, was in despair after this harangue12; but as they passed away, he strove to drive it from his mind, persuading himself it was useless to dwell upon what was irretrievable.
Mrs. Arlbery, the following day, made her visit at Etherington, and invited the two sisters to a breakfast she was to give the next morning. Mr. Tyrold, who with surprize and concern at a coldness so dilatory13, found a second day wearing away without a visit from Mandlebert, gladly consented to allow of an amusement, that might shake from Camilla the pensiveness14 into which, at times, he saw her falling.
Mrs. Arlbery had declared she hated ceremony in the summer; guarded, therefore, by Lionel, the sisters walked to the Grove15. From the little hill they had again to pass, they observed a group of company upon the leads of her house, which were flat, and balustraded round; and when they presented themselves at the door, they were met by Major Cerwood, who conducted them to the scene of business.
It was the end of July, and the weather was sultry; but though the height of the place upon which the present party was collected, gave some freshness to the air, the heat reflected from the lead would have been nearly intolerable, had it not been obviated16 by an awning17, and by matts, in the part where seats and refreshments18 were arranged. French horns and clarinets were played during the repast.
This little entertainment had for motive19 a young lady’s quitting her boarding school. Miss Dennel, a niece, by marriage, of Mrs. Arlbery, who, at the age of fourteen, came to preside at the house and table of her father, had begged to be felicitated by her aunt, upon the joyful20 occasion, with a ball: but Mrs. Arlbery declared she never gave any entertainments in which she did not expect to play the principal part herself; and that balls and concerts were therefore excluded from her list of home diversions. It was vastly well to see others shine superior, she said, elsewhere, but she could not be so accommodating as to perform Nobody under her own roof. She offered her, however, a breakfast, with full choice of its cakes and refreshments; which, with leave to fix upon the spot where it should be given, was all the youthful pleader could obtain.
The Etherington trio met with a reception the most polite, and Camilla was distinguished21 by marks of peculiar22 favour. Few guests were added to the party she had met there before, except the young lady who was its present foundress; and whose voice she recollected23 to have heard, in the enquiries which had reached her ear from within the paddock.
Miss Dennel was a pretty, blooming, tall girl, but as childish in intellect as in experience; though self-persuaded she was a woman in both, since she was called from school to sit at the head of her father’s table.
Camilla required nothing further for entertainment than to listen to her new friend; Lavinia, though more amazed than amused, always modestly hung back as a mere24 looker on; and the company in general made their diversion from viewing, through various glasses, the seats of the neighbouring gentlemen, and reviewing, with yet more scrutiny25, their characters and circumstances. But Lionel, ever restless, seized the opportunity to patrol the attic26 regions of the house, where, meeting with a capacious lumber27 room, he returned to assure the whole party it would make an admirable theatre, and to ask who would come forth28 to spout29 with him.
Mr. Macdersey said, he did not know one word of any part, but he could never refuse anything that might contribute to the company’s pleasure.
Away they sped together, and in a few minutes reversed the face of everything. Old sofas, bedsteads, and trunks, large family chests, deal boxes and hampers30, carpets and curtains rolled up for the summer, tables with two legs, and chairs without bottoms, were truckled from the middle to one end of the room, and arranged to form a semi-circle, with seats in front, for a pit. Carpets were then uncovered and untied31, to be spread for the stage, and curtains, with as little mercy, were unfurled, and hung up to make a scene.
They then applied32 to Miss Dennel, who had followed to peep at what they were about, and asked if she thought the audience might be admitted.
She declared she had never seen any place so neat and elegant in her life.
Such an opinion could not but be decisive; and they prepared to re-ascend; when the sight of a small door, near the entrance of the large apartment, excited the ever ready curiosity of Lionel, who, though the key was on the outside, contrived33 to turn it wrong; but while endeavouring to rectify34 by force what he had spoilt by aukwardness, a sudden noise from within startled them all, and occasioned quick and reiterated35 screams from Miss Dennel, who, with the utmost velocity36 burst back upon the company on the leads, calling out; ‘O Lord! how glad I am I’m coming back alive! Mr. Macdersey and young Mr. Tyrold are very likely killed! for they’ve just found I don’t know how many robbers shut up in a dark closet!’
The gentlemen waited for no explanation to this unintelligible37 story, but hastened to the spot; and Mrs. Arlbery ordered all the servants who were in waiting to follow and assist.
Miss Dennel then entreated38 to have the trap door through which they ascended39, from a small staircase, to the leads, double locked till the gentlemen should declare upon their honours that the thieves were all dead.
Mrs. Arlbery would not listen to this, but waited with Lavinia and Camilla the event.
The gentlemen, meanwhile, reached the scene of action, at the moment when Macdersey, striking first his foot, and then his whole person against the door, had forced it open with such sudden violence, that he fell over a pail of water into the adjoining room.
The servants arriving at the same time, announced that this was merely a closet for mops, brooms, and pails, belonging to the housemaid: and it appeared, upon examination, that the noise from within, had simply been produced by the falling down of a broom, occasioned by their shaking the door in endeavouring to force the lock.
The Ensign, wetted or splashed all over, was in a fury; and, turning to Lionel, who laughed vociferously40, whilst the rest of the gentlemen were scarce less moderate, and the servants joined in the chorus, peremptorily41 demanded to know if he had put the pail there on purpose; ‘In which case, sir,’ said he, ‘you must never let me see you laugh again to the longest hour you have to live!’
‘My good Macdersey,’ said the General, ‘go into another room, and have your cloaths wiped and dried; it will be time enough then to settle who shall laugh longest.’
‘General,’ said he, ‘I scorn to mind being either wet or dry; a soldier ought to be above such delicate effeminacy: it is not, therefore, the sousing I regard, provided I can once be clear it was not done for a joke.’
Lionel, when he could speak, declared, that far from placing the pail there on purpose, he had not known there was such a closet in the house, nor had ever been up those stairs till they all mounted them together.
‘I am perfectly42 satisfied, then, my good friend,’ said the Ensign, shaking him by the hand with an heartiness43 that gave him no small share of the pail’s contents; ‘when a gentleman tells me a thing seriously, I make it a point to believe him; especially if he has a good honest countenance44, that assures me he would not refuse me satisfaction, in the case he had meant to make game of me.’
‘And do you always terminate your jests with the ceremony of a tilting45 match?’ cried Sir Sedley.
‘Yes, Sir! if I’m made a joke of by a man of any honour. For, to tell you a piece of my mind, there’s no one thing upon earth I hate like a joke; unless it’s against another person; and then it only gives me a little joy inwardly; for I make it a point of complaisance46 not to laugh out: except where I happen to wish for a little private conversation with the person that gives me the diversion.’
‘Facetious in the extreme!’ cried Sir Sedley, ‘an infallibly excellent mode to make a man die of laughter? Droll47 to the utmost!’
‘With regard to that, Sir, I have no objection to a little wit or humour, provided a person has the politeness to laugh only at himself, and his own particular friends and relations; but if once he takes the liberty to turn me into ridicule48, I look upon it as an affront49, and expect the proper reparation.’
‘O, to refuse that would be without bowels50 to a degree!’
Lionel now ran up stairs, to beg the ladies would come and see the theatre; but suddenly exclaimed, as he looked around, ‘Ah ha!’ and hastily galloped51 down, and to the bottom of the house. Mrs. Arlbery descended52 with her young party, and the Ensign, in mock heroics, solemnly prostrated53 himself to Miss Dennel, pouring into her delighted ears, from various shreds54 and scraps55 of different tragedies, the most high flown and egregiously56 ill-adapted compliments: while the Major, less absurdly, though scarce less passionately57, made Camilla his Juliet, and whispered the tenderest lines of Romeo.
Lionel presently running, out of breath, up stairs again, cried: ‘Mrs. Arlbery, I have drawn58 you in a new beau.’
‘Have you?’ cried she, coolly; ‘why then I permit you to draw him out again. Had you told me he had forced himself in, you had made him welcome. But I foster only willing slaves. So off, if you please, with your boast and your beau.’
‘I can’t, upon my word, ma’am, for he is at my heels.’
Mandlebert, at the same moment, not hearing what passed, made his appearance.
The surprised and always unguarded Camilla, uttered an involuntary exclamation59, which instantly catching60 his ear, drew his eye towards the exclaimer, and there fixed61 it; with an astonishment62 which suspended wholly his half made bow, and beginning address to Mrs. Arlbery.
Lionel had descried63 him upon the little hill before the house; where, as he was passing on, his own attention had been caught by the sound of horns and clarinets, just as, without any explanation, Lionel flew to tell him he was wanted, and almost forced him off his horse, and up the stairs.
Mrs. Arlbery, in common with those who dispense64 with all forms for themselves, exacted them punctiliously65 from all others. The visit therefore of Mandlebert not being designed for her, afforded her at first no gratification, and produced rather a contrary feeling, when she observed the total absence of all pleasure in the surprise with which he met Camilla at her house. She gave him a reception of cold civility, and then chatted almost wholly with the General, or Sir Sedley.
Edgar scarce saw whether he was received or not; his bow was mechanical, his apology for his intrusion was unintelligible. Amazement66 at seeing Camilla under this roof, disappointment at her breach67 of implied promise, and mortification68 at the air of being at home, which he thought he remarked in her situation, though at an acquaintance he had taken so much pains to keep aloof69 from her, all conspired70 to displease71 and perplex him; and though his eyes could with difficulty look any other way, he neither spoke to nor approached her.
Nor was even thus meeting her all he had to give him disturbance-the palpable devoirs of Major Cerwood incensed as well astonished him; for, under pretext72 of only following the humour of the day, in affecting to act the hero in love, the Major assailed73 her, without reserve, with declarations of his passion, which though his words passed off as quotations74, his looks and manner made appropriate. How, already, thought Edgar, has he obtained such a privilege? such confidence? To have uttered one such sentence, my tongue would have trembled, my lips would have quivered!
Camilla felt confounded by his presence, from the consciousness of the ill opinion she must excite by this second apparent disregard of a given engagement. She would fain have explained to him it’s history, but she could not free herself from the Major, whose theatrical75 effusions were not now to be repressed, since, at first, she had unthinkingly attended to them.
Lionel joined with Macdersey in directing similar heroics to Miss Dennel, who, simply enchanted76, called out: ‘I’m determined77 when I’ve a house of my own, I’ll have just such a room as this at the top of it, on purpose to act a play every night.’
‘And when, my dear,’ said Mrs. Arlbery, ‘do you expect to have a house of your own?’
‘O, as soon as I am married, you know.’
‘Is your marrying, then, already decided78?’
‘Dear no, not that I know of, aunt. I’m sure I never trouble myself about it; only I suppose it will happen some day or other.’
‘And when it does, you are very sure your husband will approve your acting79 plays every night?’
‘O, as to that, I shan’t ask him. Whenever I’m married I’ll be my own mistress, that I’m resolved upon. But papa’s so monstrous80 cross, he says he won’t let me act plays now.’
‘Papas and mamas,’ cried Sir Sedley, ‘are ever most egregiously in the way. ’Tis prodigiously81 surprising they have never yet been banished82 society. I know no mark more irrefragable of the supineness of mankind.’
Then rising, and exclaiming: ‘What savage83 heat! I wish the weather had a little feeling!’ he broke up the party by ordering his curricle, and being the first to depart.
‘That creature,’ cried Mrs. Arlbery, ‘if one had the least care for him, is exactly an animal to drive one mad! He labours harder to be affected84 than any ploughman does for his dinner. And, completely as his conceit85 obscures it, he has every endowment nature can bestow86, except common sense!’
They now all descended to take leave, except the Ensign and Lionel, who went, arm in arm, prowling about, to view all the garrets, followed on tip-toe by Miss Dennel. Lavinia called vainly after her brother; but Camilla, hoping every instant she might clear her conduct to Edgar, was not sorry to be detained.
They had not, however, been five minutes in the parlour, before a violent and angry noise from above, induced them all to remount to the top of the house; and there, upon entering a garret whence it issued, they saw Miss Dennel, decorated with the Ensign’s cocked hat and feather, yet looking pale with fright; Lionel accoutred in the maid’s cloaths, and almost in a convulsion of laughter; and Macdersey, in a rage utterly87 incomprehensible, with the coachman’s large bob-wig88 hanging loose upon his head.
It was sometime before it was possible to gather, that having all paraded into various garrets, in search of adventures, Lionel, after attiring89 himself in the maid’s gown, cap, and apron90, had suddenly deposited upon Miss Dennel’s head the Ensign’s cocked hat, replacing it with the coachman’s best wig upon the toupee91 of Macdersey; whose resentment92 was so violent at this liberty, that it was still some minutes before he could give it articulation93.
The effect of this full buckled94 bob-jerom which stuck hollow from the young face and powdered locks of the Ensign, was irresistibly95 ludicrous; yet he would have deemed it a greater indignity96 to take it quietly off, than to be viewed in it by thousands; though when he saw the disposition97 of the whole company to sympathise with Lionel, his wrath98 rose yet higher, and stamping with passion, he fiercely said to him–‘Take it off, sir!-take it off my head!’
Lionel, holding this too imperious a command to be obeyed, only shouted louder. Macdersey then, incensed beyond endurance, lowered his voice with stifled99 choler, and putting his arms akimbo, said–‘If you take me for a fool, sir, I shall demand satisfaction: for it’s what I never put up with!’
Then, turning to the rest, he solemnly added–‘I beg pardon of all the worthy100 company for speaking this little whisper, which certainly I should scorn to do before ladies, if it had not been a secret.’
Mrs. Arlbery, alarmed at the serious consequences now threatening this folly101, said–‘No, no; I allow of no secrets in my house, but what are entrusted102 to myself. I insist, therefore, upon being umpire in this cause.’
‘Madam,’ said Macdersey, ‘I hope never to become such a debased brute103 of the creation, as to contradict the commands of a fair lady: except when it’s upon a point of honour. But I can’t consent to pass for a fool; and still more not for a poltroon–You’ll excuse the little hint.’
Then, while making a profound and ceremonious bow, his wig fell over his head on the ground.
‘This is very unlucky,’ cried he, with a look of vexation; ‘for certainly, and to be sure no human mortal should have made me take it off myself, before I was righted.’
Camilla, picking it up, to render the affair merely burlesque104, pulled off the maid’s cap from her brother’s head, and put on the wig in its place, saying–‘There, Lionel, you have played the part of Lady Wrong Head long enough; be so good now as to perform that of Sir Francis.’
This ended the business, and the whole party, in curricles, on horseback, or on foot, departed from the Grove.
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