THE kind reception of Mrs. Arlbery, and all the animation1 of her discourse2, were thrown away upon Camilla. An absent smile, and a few faint acknowledgments of her goodness were all she could return: Eugenia abandoned when she might have been served, Edgar contemning3 when he might have been approving... these were the images of her mind, which resisted entrance to all other.
Tired of fruitless attempts to amuse her, Mrs. Arlbery, upon their arrival at the Grove4, conducted her to an apartment prepared for her, and made use of no persuasion5 that she would leave it before dinner.
Camilla then, too unhappy to fear any injunction, and resigned to whatever she might receive, read the discourse of Mr. Tyrold.
For Miss Camilla Tyrold.
IT is not my intention to enumerate6, my dear Camilla, the many blessings7 of your situation; your heart is just and affectionate, and will not forget them: I mean but to place before you your immediate8 duties, satisfied that the review will ensure their performance.
Unused to, because undeserving control, your days, to this period, have been as gay as your spirits. It is now first that your tranquillity9 is ruffled10; it is now, therefore, that your fortitude11 has its first debt to pay for its hitherto happy exemption12.
Those who weigh the calamities13 of life only by the positive, the substantial, or the irremediable mischiefs14 which they produce, regard the first sorrows of early youth as too trifling15 for compassion16. They do not enough consider that it is the suffering, not its abstract cause, which demands human commiseration17. The man who loses his whole fortune, yet possesses firmness, philosophy, a disdain18 of ambition, and an accommodation to circumstances, is less an object of contemplative pity, than the person who, without one real deprivation19, one actual evil, is first, or is suddenly forced to recognise the fallacy of a cherished and darling hope.
That its foundation has always been shallow is no mitigation of disappointment to him who had only viewed it in its super-structure. Nor is its downfall less terrible to its visionary elevator, because others had seen it from the beginning as a folly20 or a chimera21; its dissolution should be estimated, not by its romance in the unimpassioned examination of a rational looker on, but by its believed promise of felicity to its credulous22 projector23.
Is my Camilla in this predicament? had she wove her own destiny in the speculation24 of her wishes? Alas25! to blame her, I must first forget, that delusion26, while in force, has all the semblance27 of reality, and takes the same hold upon the faculties28 as truth. Nor is it till the spell is broken, till the perversion29 of reason and error of judgment30 become wilful31, that Scorn ought to point ‘its finger’ or Censure32 its severity.
But of this I have no fear. The love of right is implanted indelibly in your nature, and your own peace is as dependant33 as mine and as your mother’s upon its constant culture.
Your conduct hitherto has been committed to yourself. Satisfied with establishing your principles upon the adamantine pillars of religion and conscience, we have not feared leaving you the entire possession of general liberty. Nor do I mean to withdraw it, though the present state of your affairs, and what for some time past I have painfully observed of your precipitance, oblige me to add partial counsel to standing34 precept35, and exhortation36 to advice. I shall give them, however, with diffidence, fairly acknowledging and blending my own perplexities with yours.
The temporal destiny of woman is enwrapt in still more impenetrable obscurity than that of man. She begins her career by being involved in all the worldly accidents of a parent; she continues it by being associated in all that may environ a husband: and the difficulties arising from this doubly appendant state, are augmented38 by the next to impossibility, that the first dependance should pave the way for the ultimate. What parent yet has been gifted with the foresight39 to say, ‘I will educate my daughter for the station to which she shall belong?’ Let us even suppose that station to be fixed40 by himself, rarely as the chances of life authorise such a presumption41; his daughter all duty, and the partner of his own selection solicitous42 of the alliance: is he at all more secure he has provided even for her external welfare? What, in this sublunary existence, is the state from which she shall neither rise nor fall? Who shall say that in a few years, a few months, perhaps less, the situation in which the prosperity of his own views has placed her, may not change for one more humble43 than he has fitted her for enduring, or more exalted44 than he has accomplished45 her for sustaining? The conscience, indeed, of the father is not responsible for events, but the infelicity of the daughter is not less a subject of pity.
Again, if none of these outward and obvious vicissitudes46 occur, the proper education of a female, either for use or for happiness, is still to seek, still a problem beyond human solution; since its refinement48, or its negligence49, can only prove to her a good or an evil, according to the humour of the husband into whose hands she may fall. If fashioned to shine in the great world, he may deem the metropolis50 all turbulence51; if endowed with every resource for retirement52, he may think the country distasteful. And though her talents, her acquirements, may in either of these cases be set aside, with an only silent regret of wasted youth and application; the turn of mind which they have induced, the appreciation53 which they have taught of time, of pleasure, or of utility, will have nurtured54 inclinations56 and opinions not so ductile57 to new sentiments and employments, and either submission58 becomes a hardship, or resistance generates dissention.
If such are the parental59 embarrassments60, against which neither wisdom nor experience can guard, who should view the filial without sympathy and tenderness?
You have been brought up, my dear child, without any specific expectation. Your mother and myself, mutually deliberating upon the uncertainty62 of the female fate, determined63 to educate our girls with as much simplicity64 as is compatible with instruction, as much docility65 for various life as may accord with invariable principles, and as much accommodation with the world at large, as may combine with a just distinction of selected society. We hoped, thus, should your lots be elevated, to secure you from either exulting66 arrogance67, or bashful insignificance68; or should they, as is more probable, be lowly, to instil69 into your understandings and characters such a portion of intellectual vigour70 as should make you enter into an humbler scene without debasement, helplessness, or repining.
It is now, Camilla, we must demand your exertions71 in return. Let not these cares, to fit you for the world as you may find it, be utterly72 annihilated73 from doing you good, by the uncombated sway of an unavailing, however well-placed attachment74.
We will not here canvass75 the equity76 of that freedom by which women as well as men should be allowed to dispose of their own affections. There cannot, in nature, in theory, nor even in common sense, be a doubt of their equal right: but disquisitions on this point will remain rather curious than important, till the speculatist can superinduce to the abstract truth of the position some proof of its practicability.
Meanwhile, it is enough for every modest and reasonable young woman to consider, that where there are two parties, choice can belong only to one of them: and then let her call upon all her feelings of delicacy77, all her notions of propriety78, to decide: Since Man must choose Woman, or Woman Man, which should come forward to make the choice? Which should retire to be chosen?
A prepossession directed towards a virtuous79 and deserving object wears, in its first approach, the appearance of a mere80 tribute of justice to merit. It seems, therefore, too natural, perhaps too generous, to be considered either as a folly or a crime. It is only its encouragement where it is not reciprocal, that can make it incur81 the first epithet82, or where it ought not to be reciprocal that can brand it with the second. With respect to this last, I know of nothing to apprehend83:-with regard to the first–I grieve to wound my dearest Camilla, yet where there has been no subject for complaint, there can have been none for expectation.
Struggle then against yourself as you would struggle against an enemy. Refuse to listen to a wish, to dwell even upon a possibility, that opens to your present idea of happiness. All that in future may be realised probably hangs upon this conflict. I mean not to propose to you in the course of a few days to reinstate yourself in the perfect security of a disengaged mind. I know too much of the human heart to be ignorant that the acceleration84, or delay, must depend upon circumstance: I can only require from you what depends upon yourself, a steady and courageous85 warfare86 against the two dangerous underminers of your peace and of your fame, imprudence and impatience88. You have champions with which to encounter them that cannot fail of success,... good sense and delicacy.
Good sense will shew you the power of self-conquest, and point out its means. It will instruct you to curb89 those unguarded movements which lay you open to the strictures of others. It will talk to you of those boundaries which custom forbids your sex to pass, and the hazard of any individual attempt to transgress90 them. It will tell you, that where allowed only a negative choice, it is your own best interest to combat against a positive wish. It will bid you, by constant occupation, vary those thoughts that now take but one direction, and multiply those interests which now recognise but one object: and it will soon convince you, that it is not strength of mind which you want, but reflection, to obtain a strict and unremitting control over your passions.
This last word will pain, but let it not shock you. You have no passions, my innocent girl, at which you need blush, though enough at which I must tremble!–For in what consists your constraint91, your forbearance? your wish is your guide, your impulse is your action. Alas! never yet was mortal created so perfect, that every wish was virtuous, or every impulse wise!
Does a secret murmur92 here demand: if a discerning predilection93 is no crime, why, internally at least, may it not be cherished? whom can it injure or offend, that, in the hidden recesses94 of my own breast, I nourish superior preference of superior worth?
This is the question with which every young woman beguiles95 her fancy; this is the common but seductive opiate, with which inclination55 lulls96 reason.
The answer may be safely comprised in a brief appeal to her own breast.
I do not desire her to be insensible to merit; I do not even demand she should confine her social affections to her own sex, since the most innocent esteem97 is equally compatible, though not equally general with ours: I require of her simply, that, in her secret hours, when pride has no dominion98, and disguise would answer no purpose, she will ask herself this question, ‘Could I calmly hear that this elect of my heart was united to another? Were I to be informed that the indissoluble knot was tied, which annihilates99 all my own future possibilities, would the news occasion me no affliction?’ This, and this alone, is the test by which she may judge the danger, or the harmlessness of her attachment.
I have now endeavoured to point out the obligations which you may owe to good sense. Your obligations to delicacy will be but their consequence.
Delicacy is an attribute so peculiarly feminine, that were your reflections less agitated100 by your feelings, you could delineate more distinctly than myself its appropriate laws, its minute exactions, its sensitive refinements101. Here, therefore, I seek but to bring back to your memory what livelier sensations have inadvertently driven from it.
You may imagine, in the innocency102 of your heart, that what you would rather perish than utter can never, since untold103, be suspected: and, at present, I am equally sanguine104 in believing no surmise105 to have been conceived where most it would shock you: yet credit me when I assure you, that you can make no greater mistake, than to suppose that you have any security beyond what sedulously106 you must earn by the most indefatigable107 vigilance. There are so many ways of communication independent of speech, that silence is but one point in the ordinances108 of discretion109. You have nothing, in so modest a character, to apprehend from vanity or presumption; you may easily, therefore, continue the guardian110 of your own dignity: but you must keep in mind, that our perceptions want but little quickening to discern what may flatter them; and it is mutual61 to either sex to be to no gratification so alive, as to that of a conscious ascendance over the other.
Nevertheless, the female who, upon the softening111 blandishment of an undisguised prepossession, builds her expectation of its reciprocity, is, in common, most cruelly deceived. It is not that she has failed to awaken112 tenderness; but it has been tenderness without respect: nor yet that the person thus elated has been insensible to flattery; but it has been a flattery to raise himself, not its exciter in his esteem. The partiality which we feel inspires diffidence: that which we create has a contrary effect. A certainty of success in many destroys, in all weakens, its charm: the bashful excepted, to whom it gives courage; and the indolent, to whom it saves trouble.
Carefully, then, beyond all other care, shut up every avenue by which a secret which should die untold can further escape you. Avoid every species of particularity; neither shun113 nor seek any intercourse114 apparently115; and in such meetings as general prudence87 may render necessary, or as accident may make inevitable116, endeavour to behave with the same open esteem as in your days of unconsciousness. The least unusual attention would not be more suspicious to the world, than the least undue117 reserve to the subject of our discussion. Coldness or distance could only be imputed118 to resentment119; and resentment, since you have received no offence, how, should it be investigated, could you vindicate120! Or how, should it be passed in silence, secure from being attributed to pique121 and disappointment?
There is also another motive122, important to us all, which calls for the most rigid123 circumspection124. The person in question is not merely amiable125; he is also rich: mankind at large, therefore, would not give merely to a sense of excellence126 any obvious predilection. This hint will, I know, powerfully operate upon your disinterested127 spirit.
Never from personal experience may you gather, how far from soothing128, how wide from honourable129, is the species of compassion ordinarily diffused130 by the discovery of an unreturned female regard. That it should be felt unsought may be considered as a mark of discerning sensibility; but that it should be betrayed uncalled for, is commonly, however ungenerously, imagined rather to indicate ungoverned passions, than refined selection. This is often both cruel and unjust; yet, let me ask–Is the world a proper confident for such a secret? Can the woman who has permitted it to go abroad, reasonably demand that consideration and respect from the community, in which she has been wanting to herself? To me it would be unnecessary to observe, that her indiscretion may have been the effect of an inadvertence which owes its origin to artlessness, not to forwardness: She is judged by those, who, hardened in the ways of men, accustom131 themselves to trace in evil every motive to action; or by those, who, preferring ridicule132 to humanity, seek rather to amuse themselves wittily133 with her susceptibility, than to feel for its innocence134 and simplicity.
In a state of utter constraint, to appear natural is, however, an effort too difficult to be long sustained; and neither precept, example, nor disposition135, have enured my poor child to the performance of any studied part. Discriminate136, nevertheless, between hypocrisy137 and discretion. The first is a vice37; the second a conciliation138 to virtue139. It is the bond that keeps society from disunion; the veil that shades our weakness from exposure, giving time for that interior correction, which the publication of our infirmities would else, with respect to mankind, make of no avail.
It were better no doubt, worthier140, nobler, to meet the scrutiny141 of our fellow-creatures by consent, as we encounter, per force, the all-viewing eye of our Creator: but since for this we are not sufficiently142 without blemish143, we must allow to our unstable144 virtues145 all the encouragement that can prop47 them. The event of discovered faults is more frequently callousness146 than amendment147; and propriety of example is as much a duty to our fellow-creatures, as purity of intention is a debt to ourselves.
To delicacy, in fine, your present exertions will owe their future recompence, be your ultimate lot in life what it may. Should you, in the course of time, belong to another, you will be shielded from the regret that a former attachment had been published; or should you continue mistress of yourself, from a blush that the world is acquainted it was not by your choice.
I shall now conclude this little discourse by calling upon you to annex148 to whatever I have offered you of precept, the constant remembrance of your mother for example.
In our joint149 names, therefore, I adjure150 you, my dearest Camilla, not to embitter151 the present innocence of your suffering by imprudence that may attach to it censure, nor by indulgence that may make it fasten upon your vitals! Imprudence cannot but end in the demolition152 of that dignified153 equanimity154, and modest propriety, which we wish to be uniformly remarked as the attributes of your character: and indulgence, by fixing, may envenom a dart155 that as yet may be gently withdrawn156, from a wound which kindness may heal, and time may close; but which, if neglected, may wear away, in corroding157 disturbance158, all your life’s comfort to yourself, and all its social purposes to your friends and to the world.
AUGUSTUS TYROLD.
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