THE presence of Lionel stifled1 the enquiries of Eugenia; and pride, all up in arms, absorbed every softer feeling in Camilla.
When they had driven half a mile, ‘Now, young ladies,’ said he, ‘I shall treat you with a frolic.’ He then stopt the carriage, and told the coachman to drive to Cornfield; saying, ’Tis but two miles about, and Coachy won’t mind that; will you Coachy?’
The coachman, looking forward to half a crown, said his horses would be all the better for a little more exercise; and Jacob, familiarly fond of Lionel from a boy, made no difficulty.
Lionel desired his sisters to ask no questions, assuring them he had great designs, and a most agreeable surprise in view for them.
In pursuance of his directions, they drove on till they came before a small house, just new fronted with deep red bricks, containing, on the ground floor, two little bow windows, in a sharp triangular2 form, enclosing a door ornamented3 with small panes4 of glass, cut in various shapes; on the first story, a little balcony, decorated in the middle and at each corner with leaden images of Cupids; and, in the attic6 story, a very small venetian window, partly formed with minute panes of glass, and partly with glazed7 tiles; representing, in blue and white, various devices of dogs and cats, mice and birds, rats and ferrets, as emblems8 of the conjugal9 state.
‘Well, young ladies, what say you to this?’ cried he, ‘does it hit your fancy? If it does, ’tis your own!’
Eugenia asked what he meant.
‘Mean? to make a present of it to which ever is the best girl, and can first cry bo! to a goose. Come, don’t look disdainfully. Eugenia, what say you? won’t it be better to be mistress of this little neat, tight, snug10 box, and a pretty little tidy husband, that belongs to it, than to pore all day long over a Latin theme with old Dr. Orkborne? I have often thought my poor uncle was certainly out of his wits, when he set us all, men, women, and children, to learn Latin, or else be whipt by the old doctor. But we all soon got our necks out of the collar, except poor Eugenia, and she’s had to work for us all. However, here’s an opportunity-see but what a pretty place-not quite finished, to be sure, but look at that lake? how cool, how rural, how refreshing11!’
‘Lake?’ repeated Eugenia, ‘I see nothing but a very dirty little pond, with a mass of rubbish in the middle. Indeed I see nothing else but rubbish all round, and every where.’
‘That’s the very beauty of the thing, my dear; it’s all in the exact state for being finished under your own eye, and according to your own taste.’
‘To whom does it belong?’
‘It’s uninhabited yet; but it’s preparing for a very spruce young spark, that I advise you both to set your caps at. Hold! I see somebody peeping; I’ll go and get some news for you.’
He then jumped from the coach, and ran up five deep narrow steps, formed of single large rough stones, which mounted so much above the threshold of the house, that upon opening the door, there appeared a stool to assist all comers to reach the floor of the passage.
Eugenia, with some curiosity, looked out, and saw her brother, after nearly forcing his entrance, speak to a very mean little man, dressed in old dirty cloaths, who seemed willing to hide himself behind the door, but whom he almost dragged forward, saying aloud, ‘O, I can take no excuse, I insist upon your shewing the house. I have brought two young ladies on purpose to see it; and who knows but one of them may take a fancy to it, and make you a happy man for life.’
‘As to that, sir,’ said the man, still endeavouring to retreat, ‘I can’t say as I’ve quite made my mind up yet as to the marriage ceremony. I’ve known partly enough of the state already; but if ever I marry again, which is a moot12 point, I sha’n’t do it hand over head, like a boy, without knowing what I’m about. However, it’s time enough o’conscience to think of that, when my house is done, and my workmen is off my hands.’
Camilla now, by the language and the voice, gathered that this was Mr. Dubster.
‘Pho, pho,’ answered Lionel, ‘you must not be so hard-hearted when fair ladies are in the case. Besides, one of them is that pretty girl you flirted13 with at Northwick. She’s a sister of mine, and I shall take it very ill if you don’t hand her out of the coach, and do the honours of your place to her.’
Camilla, much provoked, earnestly called to her brother, but utterly14 in vain.
‘Lauk-a-day! why it is not half finished,’ said Mr. Dubster; ‘nor a quarter neither: and as to that young lady, I can’t say as it was much in my mind to be over civil to her any more, begging pardon, after her giving me the slip in that manner. I can’t say as I think it was over and above handsome, letting me get my gloves. Not that I mind it in the least, as to that.’
‘Pho, pho, man, you must never bear malice15 against a fair lady. Besides, she’s come now on purpose to make her excuses.’
‘O, that’s another thing; if the young lady’s sorry, I sha’n’t think of holding out. Besides, I can’t say but what I thought her agreeable enough, if it had not been for her behaving so comical just at the last. Not that I mean in the least to make any complaint, by way of getting of the young lady scolded.’
‘You must make friends now, man, and think no more of it;’ cried Lionel, who would have drawn16 him to the carriage; but he protested he was quite ashamed to be seen in such a dishabille, and should go first and dress himself. Lionel, on the contrary, declaring nothing so manly17, nor so becoming, as a neglect of outward appearance, pulled him to the coach door, notwithstanding all his efforts to disengage himself, and the most bashful distortions with which he strove to sneak18 behind his conductor.
‘Ladies,’ said he, ‘Mr. Dubster desires to have the honour of walking over his house and grounds with you.’
Camilla declared she had no time to alight; but Lionel insisted, and soon forced them both from the coach.
Mr. Dubster, no longer stiff, starched19, and proud, as when full dressed, was sunk into the smallest insignificance20; and when they were compelled to enter his grounds, through a small Chinese gate, painted of a deep blue, would entirely21 have kept out of sight; but for a whisper from Lionel, that the ladies had owned they thought he looked to particular advantage in that careless attire22.
Encouraged by this, he came boldly forward, and suddenly facing them, made a low bow saying: ‘Young ladies, your humble23.’
They courtsied slightly, and Camilla said she was very sorry to break in upon him.
‘O, it don’t much matter,’ cried he, extremely pleased by this civility, ‘I only hope, young ladies, you won’t take umbrage24 at my receiving you in this pickle25; but you’ve popt upon me unawares, as one may say. And my best coat is at this very minute at Tom Hicks’s , nicely packed and papered up, and tied all round, in a drawer of his, up stairs, in his room. And I’d have gone for it with the greatest pleasure in life, to shew my respect, if the young gentleman would have let me.’
And then, recollecting26 Eugenia, ‘Good lauk, ma’am,’ said he, in a low voice to Camilla, ‘that’s that same lame27 little lady as I saw at the ball?’
‘That lady, sir,’ answered she, provoked, ‘is my sister.’
‘Mercy’s me!’ exclaimed he, lifting up his hands, ‘I wish I’d known as much at the time. I’m sure, ma’am, if I’d thought the young lady was any ways related to you, I would not have said a word disrespectful upon no account.’
Lionel asked how long he had had this place.
‘Only a little while. I happened of it quite lucky. A friend of mine was just being turned out of it, in default of payment, and so I got it a bargain. I intend to fit it up a little in taste, and then, whether I like it or no, I can always let it.’
They were now, by Lionel, dragged into the house, which was yet unfurnished, half papered, and half white washed. The workmen, Mr. Dubster said, were just gone to dinner, and he rejoiced that they had happened to come so conveniently, when he should be no loser by leaving the men to themselves, in order to oblige the young ladies with his company.
He insisted upon shewing them not only every room, but every closet, every cupboard, every nook, corner, and hiding place; praising their utility, and enumerating28 all their possible appropriations29, with the most minute encomiums.
‘But I’m quite sorry,’ cried he, ‘young ladies, to think as I’ve nothing to offer you. I eats my dinner always at the Globe, having nobody here to cook. However I’d have had a morsel30 of cake or so, if the young gentleman had been so kind as to give me an item beforehand of your intending me the favour. But as to getting things into the house hap5 hazard, really everything is so dear-it’s quite out of reason.’
The scampering31 of horses now carrying them to a window, they saw some hounds in full cry, followed by horse-men in full gallop33. Lionel declared he would borrow Jacob’s mare34, and join them, while his sisters walked about the grounds: but Camilla, taking him aside, made a serious expostulation, protesting that her father, with all his indulgence, and even her uncle himself, would be certainly displeased35, if he left them alone with this man; of whom they knew nothing but his very low trade.
‘Why what is his trade?’
‘A tinker’s : Mrs. Arlbery told me so.’
He laughed violently at this information, protesting he was rejoiced to find so much money could be made by the tinkering business, which he was determined36 to follow in his next distress37 for cash: yet added, he feared this was only the malice of Mrs. Arlbery, for Dubster, he had been told, had kept a shop for ready made wigs38.
He gave up, however, his project, forgetting the chace when he no longer heard the hounds, and desired Mr. Dubster to proceed in shewing his lions?
‘Lauk a day! sir, I’ve got no lions, nor tygers neither. It’s a deal of expence keeping them animals; and though I know they reckon me near, I sha’n’t do no such thing; for if a man does not take a little care of his money when once he has got it, especially if it’s honestly, I think he’s a fool for his pains; begging pardon for speaking my mind so freely.’
He then led them again to the front of the house, where he desired they would look at his pond. ‘This,’ said he, ‘is what I value the most of all, except my summer house and my labyrinth39. I shall stock it well; and many a good dinner I hope to eat from it. It gets me an appetite, sometimes, I think, only to look at it.’
“Tis a beautiful piece of water,’ said Lionel, ‘and may be useful to the outside as well as the inside, for, if you go in head foremost, you may bathe as well as feed from it.’
‘No, I sha’n’t do that, sir, I’m not over and above fond of water at best. However, I shall have a swan.’
‘A swan? why sure you won’t be contented40 with only one?’
‘O yes, I shall. It will only be made of wood, painted over in white. There’s no end of feeding them things if one has ’em alive. Besides it will look just as pretty; and won’t bite. And I know a friend of mine that one of them creatures flew at and gave him such a bang as almost broke his leg, only for throwing a stone at it, out of mere41 play. They are mortal spiteful, if you happen to hurt them when you’re in their reach.’
He then begged them to go over to his island, which proved to be what Eugenia had taken for a mass of rubbish. They would fain have been excused crossing a plank42 which he called a bridge, but Lionel would not be denied.
‘Now here,’ said he, ‘when my island’s finished, I shall have something these young ladies will like; and that’s a lamb.’
‘Alive, or dead?’ cried Lionel.
‘Alive,’ he replied, ‘for I shall have good pasture in a little bit of ground just by, where I shall keep me a cow; and here will be grass enough upon my island to keep it from starving on Sundays, and for now and then, when I’ve somebody come to see me. And when it’s fit for killing43, I can change it with the farmer down the lane, for another young one, by a bargain I’ve agreed with him for already; for I don’t love to run no risks about a thing for mere pleasure.’
‘Your place will be quite a paradise,’ said Lionel.
‘Why, indeed, sir, I think I’ve earned having a little recreeting, for I worked hard enough for it, before I happened of meeting with my first wife.’
‘O, ho! so you began with marrying a fortune?’
‘Yes, sir, and very pretty she was too, if she had not been so puny44. But she was always ailing45. She cost me a mort of money to the potecary before she went off. And she was a tedious while a dying, poor soul!’
‘Your first wife? surely you have not been twice married already?’
‘Yes, I have. My second wife brought me a very pretty fortune too. I can’t say but I’ve rather had the luck of it, as far as I’ve gone yet awhile.’
They now repassed the plank, and were conducted to an angle, in which a bench was placed close to the chinese rails, which was somewhat shaded by a willow46, that grew in a little piece of stagnant47 water on the other side. A syringa was planted in front, and a broom-tree on the right united it with the willow; in the middle there was a deal table.
‘Now, young ladies,’ said Mr. Dubster, ‘if you have a taste to breathe a little fresh country air, here’s where I advise you to take your rest. When I come to this place first, my arbour, as I call this, had no look out, but just to the fields, so I cut away them lilacs, and now there’s a good pretty look out. And it’s a thing not to be believed what a sight of people and coaches, and gentlemen’s whiskeys and stages, and flys, and wagons48, and all sorts of things as ever you can think of, goes by all day long. I often think people’s got but little to do at home.’
Next, he desired to lead them to his grotto49, which he said was but just begun. It was, indeed, as yet, nothing but a little square hole, dug into a chalky soil, down into which, no steps being yet made, he slid as well as he could, to the no small whitening of his old brown coat, which already was thread bare.
He begged the ladies to follow, that he might shew them the devices he had marked out with his own hand, and from his own head, for fitting up the inside. Lionel would not suffer his sisters to refuse compliance50, though Mr. Dubster himself cautioned them to come carefully, ‘in particular,’ he said, ‘the little lady, as she has happened of an ugly accident already, as I judge, in one of her hips51, and ’twould be pity, at her time of life, if she should happen of another at t’other side.’
Eugenia, not aware this misfortune was so glaring, felt much hurt by this speech; and Camilla, very angry with its speaker, sought to silence him by a resentful look; but not observing it; ‘Pray, ma’am,’ he continued, ‘was it a fall? or was you born so?’
Eugenia looked struck and surprized; and Camilla hastily whispered it was a fall, and bid him say no more about it; but, not understanding her, ‘I take it, then,’ he said, ‘that was what stinted52 your growth so, Miss? for, I take it, you’re not much above the dwarf53 as they shew at Exeter Change? Much of a muchness, I guess. Did you ever see him, ma’am?’
‘No, sir,’
‘It would be a good sight enough to see you together. He’d think himself a man in a minute. You must have had the small pox mortal bad, ma’am. I suppose you’d the conflint sort?’
Camilla here, without waiting for help, slid down into the intended grotto, and asked a thousand questions to change the subject; while Eugenia, much disconcerted, slowly followed, aided by Lionel.
Mr. Dubster then displayed the ingenious intermixture of circles and diamonds projected for the embellishment of his grotto; the first of which were to be formed with cockle-shells, which he meant to colour with blue paint; and the second he proposed shaping with bits of shining black coal. The spaces between would each have an oyster-shell in the middle, and here and there he designed to leave the chalk to itself, which would always, he observed, make the grotto light and cheary. Shells he said, unluckily, he did not happen to have; but as he had thoughts of taking a little pleasure some summer at Brighthelmstone or Margate, for he intended to see all those places, he should make a collection then; being told he might have as curious shells, and pebbles54 too, as a man could wish to look at, only for the trouble of picking them up off the shore.
They next went to what he called his labyrinth, which was a little walk he was cutting, zig-zag, through some brushwood, so low that no person above three foot height could be hid by it. Every step they took here, cost a rent to some lace or some muslin of one of the sisters; which Mr. Dubster observed with a delight he could not conceal55; saying this was a true country walk, and would do them both a great deal of good; and adding: ‘we that live in town, would give our ears for such a thing as this.’ And though they could never proceed a yard at a time, from the continual necessity of disentangling their dress from thorns and briars, he exultingly56 boasted that he should give them a good appetite for their dinner; and asked if this rural ramble57 did not make them begin to feel hungry. ‘For my part,’ continued he, ‘if once I get settled a bit, I shall take a turn in this zig-zag every day before dinner, which may save me my five grains of rhubarb, that the doctor ordered me for my stomach, since my having my illness, which come upon me almost as soon as I was a gentleman; from change of life, I believe, for I never knew no other reason; and none of the doctors could tell me nothing about it. But a man that’s had a deal to do, feels quite unked at first, when he’s only got to look and stare about him, and just walk from one room to another, without no employment.’
Lionel said he hoped, at least, he would not require his rhubarb to get down his dinner to day.
‘I hope so too, ‘squire,’ answered he, licking his lips, ‘for I’ve ordered a pretty good one, I can tell you; beef steaks and onions; and I don’t know what’s better. Tom Hicks is to dine with me at the Globe, as soon as I’ve give my workmen their tasks, and seen after a young lad that’s to do me a job there, by my grotto. Tom Hicks is a very good fellow; I like him best of any acquaintance I’ve made in these here parts. Indeed, I’ve made no other, on account of the unconvenience of dressing58, while I’m so much about with my workmen. So I keep pretty incog from the genteel; and Tom does well enough in the interim59.’
He then requested them to make haste to his summer-house, because his workmen would be soon returned, and he could not then spare a moment longer, without spoiling his own dinner.
‘My summer-house,’ said he, ‘is not above half complete yet; but it will be very pretty when it’s done. Only I’ve got no stairs yet to it; but there’s a very good ladder, if the ladies a’n’t afraid.
The ladies both desired to be excused mounting; but Lionel protested he would not have his friend affronted60; and as neither of them were in the habit of resisting him, nor of investigating with seriousness any thing that he proposed, they were soon teized into acquiescence61, and he assisted them to ascend62.
Mr. Dubster followed.
The summer-house was, as yet, no more than a shell; without windows, scarcely roofed, and composed of lath and plaister, not half dry. It looked on to the high road, and Mr. Dubster assured them, that, on market days, the people passed so thick, there was no seeing them for the dust. Here they had soon cause to repent63 their facility,-that dangerous, yet venial64, because natural fault of youth;-for hardly had they entered this place, ere a distant glimpse of a fleet stag, and a party of sportsmen, incited65 Lionel to scamper32 down; and calling out: ‘I shall be back presently,’ he made off towards the house, dragging the ladder after him.
The sisters eagerly and almost angrily remonstrated66; but to no purpose; and while they were still entreating67 him to return and supposing him, though out of sight, within hearing, they suddenly perceived him passing the window by the high road, on horse-back, switch in hand, and looking in the utmost glee. ‘I have borrowed Jacob’s mare,’ he cried, ‘for just half an hour’s sport, and sent Jacob and Coachy to get a little refreshment68 at the next public house; but don’t be impatient; I shan’t be long.’
Off then, he galloped69, laughing; in defiance70 of the serious entreaties71 of his sisters, and without staying to hear even one sentence of the formal exhortations72 of Mr. Dubster.
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