THE evening, as usual, was destined1 to the Rooms. The first object Camilla perceived upon her entrance was Edgar, and the smile with which she met his eye brought him instantly to her side. That smile was not less radiant for his nearer approach–, nor was his pleasure in it less animated2 for observing that Major Cerwood was not of her party, nor as yet in the room. The opportunity seemed inviting3 to engage her himself; to suggest and to find it irresistible4 was the same thing, and he inquired if her whole evening were arranged, or she would go down two dances with an old friend.
The softness of her assent5 was even exquisite6 delight to him; and, as they all walked up and down the apartment, though he addressed her but little, and though she spoke7 but in answer, every word he uttered she received as couching some gentle meaning, and every syllable8 she replied, he thought conveyed something of flattering interest: and although all was upon open and unavoidable subjects, he had no eyes but for her, she had no attention but for him.
This quiet, yet heart-felt intercourse9, was soon a little interrupted by the appearance of a large and striking party, led on by Lady Alithea Selmore; for which every body made way, to which every body turned, and which, passing by all the company without seeming conscious there was any to pass, formed a mass at the upper end of the room, with an air and manner of such exclusive attention to their chief, or to one another, that common observation would have concluded some film before their eyes obstructed10 their discerning that they were not the sole engrossers of the apartment.
But such was not the judgment11 formed of them by Mrs. Arlbery, who, forced by the stream to give them passage, paid herself for the condescension12 by a commentary upon the passengers. ‘Those good people,’ said she, ‘strive to make us believe we are nothing to them. They strive even to believe it themselves. But this is the mere13 semblance14 worn by pride and affectation, to veil internal fatigue15. They come hither to recruit their exhausted16 powers, not, indeed, by joining in our society, but by a view of new objects for their senses, and the flattering idea, for their minds, of the envy or admiration17 they excite. They are all people of some consequence, and many of them are people of title: but these are far the most supportable of the group; their privileged superiority over the rest is so marked and indisputable, that they are saved the trouble either of claiming or ascertaining18 it: but those who approach their rank without reaching it, live in a constant struggle to make known their importance. Indeed, I have often seen that people of title are less gratified with the sound of their own honours, than people of no title in pronouncing them.’
Sir Sedley Clarendel was of this set. Like the rest he passed Mrs. Arlbery without seeming to notice her, and was passing Camilla in the same manner; but not aware this was only to be fine, like the party to which he belonged, she very innocently spoke to him herself, to hope he got safe to his lodgings19, without feeling any further ill effect from his accident.
Sir Sedley, though internally much gratified by this interest in his safety, which in Camilla was the result of having herself endangered it, looked as if he scarce recollected20 her, and making hastily a kind of half bow, walked on with his company.
Camilla, who had no view, nor one serious thought concerning him, was rather amused than displeased21 by his caprices; and was preparing to relate the history of his lameness22 to Edgar, who seemed surprised and even hurt by her addressing him, and by his so slightly passing her, when the entrance of another splendid party interrupted all discourse23.
And here, to her utter amaze, she beheld24, as chief of the group, her romantic new friend; not leading, indeed, like Lady Alithea Selmore, a train, but surrounded by admirers, who, seeking no eye but hers, seemed dim and humble25 planets, moving round a radiant sun.
Camilla now, forgetting Sir Sedley, would have taken this moment to narrate26 her adventure with Mrs. Berlinton, had not her design been defeated by the approach of the Major. He belonged to this last group, but was the only one that separated from it. He spoke to Camilla with his usual air of devotion, told her he had dined with Mrs. Berlinton, to whose husband, whom he had taken for her grandfather, he had been just introduced; and begged to know of Mrs. Arlbery if he might have the pleasure of bringing them all acquainted; an offer which Camilla, unauthorised by Mrs. Berlinton, had not ventured to make. Mrs. Arlbery declined the proposal; not anxious to mix where she had small chance of presiding.
The party, after traversing the room, took full and exclusive possession of a considerable spot just below that occupied by Lady Alithea.
These two companies completely engrossed27 all attention, amply supplying the rest of the assembly with topics for discourse. The set with Lady Alithea Selmore was, in general, haughty28, supercilious29, and taciturn; looking around with eyes determined30 to see neither any person nor any thing before them, and rarely speaking, except to applaud what fell from her ladyship; who far less proud, because a lover of popularity, deigned31 herself, from time to time, a slight glance at the company, to see if she was observed, and to enjoy its reverence32.
The party to which Mrs. Berlinton was the loadstone, was far more attractive to the disciples33 of nature, though less sedulously34 sought by those whom the manners and maxims35 of the common world had sophisticated. They were gay, elegant, desirous to please, because pleased themselves; and though some of them harboured designs deeper and more dangerous than any formed by the votaries36 of rank, they appeared to have nothing more in view than to decorate with flowers the present moment. The magnetic influence of beauty was, however, more powerful than that of the ton; for though Mrs. Berlinton, from time to time, allured37 a beau from Lady Alithea Selmore, her ladyship, during the whole season, had not one retaliation39 to boast. But, on the other hand, the females, in general, strove to cluster about Lady Alithea; Mrs. Berlinton leaving them no greater chance of rivalship in conversation than in charms.
Edgar had made way upon the approach of the Major, who wore an air of superior claim extremely unpleasant to him; but, since already engaged to Camilla, he meant to return to her when the dancing began.
She concluded he left her but to speak to some acquaintance, and was, herself, amply occupied in observing her new friend. The light in which she now beheld her, admired, pursued, and adulated40, elegantly adorned41 in her person, and evidently with but one rival for fame and fashion in Tunbridge, filled her with astonishment42. Nothing could less assort with her passion for solitude43, her fondness for literary and sentimental44 discussions, and her enthusiasm in friendship. But her surprise was mixed with praise and admiration, when she reflected upon the soft humility45, and caressing46 sweetness of her manners, yet found her, by general consent, holding this elevated rank in society.
The Major earnestly pressed to conduct Camilla to this coterie47, assuring her Mrs. Berlinton would not have passed, had she seen her, for, during dinner, and at coffee, she had talked of nobody else. Camilla heard this with pleasure, but shrunk from all advances, and strove rather to hide than shew herself, that Mrs. Berlinton might have full liberty either to seek or avoid her. She wished to consult Edgar upon this acquaintance; though the present splendour of her appearance, and the number of her followers48, made her fear she could never induce him to do justice to the sweetness and endearment49 of her social powers.
When the Major found he pleaded in vain, he said he would at least let Mrs. Berlinton know where to look for her; and went himself to that lady.
Edgar, who had felt sensibly mortified50 to observe, when he retreated, that the eyes and attention of Camilla had been wholly bestowed51 upon what he considered merely as a new scene, was now coming forward; when he saw Mrs. Berlinton hastily rise, suddenly break from all her adulators, and, with quick steps and animated gestures, traverse the apartment, to address Camilla, whom, taking by both her hands, which she pressed to her heart, she conjured52, in the most flattering terms, to accompany her back.
Camilla was much gratified; yet, from delicacy53 to Mrs. Arlbery, stimulated54 by the fear of missing her expected partner in the country dances, declined the invitation: Mrs. Berlinton looked disappointed; but said she would not be importunate55, and returned alone.
Camilla, a little disturbed, besought56 the Major to follow, with an offer of spending with her, if she pleased, the whole of the ensuing day.
‘Charming!’ cried the Major, ‘for I am engaged to her myself already.’
To Camilla this hearing was distressing57; to Edgar it was scarcely endurable. But she could not retract58, and Edgar was stopt in the inquiries59 he meant to make concerning this striking new acquaintance, by an abrupt60 declaration from Mrs. Arlbery, that the Rooms were insufferable, and she would immediately go home. She then gave her hand to the General, and Miss Dennel took the arm of Camilla, murmuring, that she would never leave the Rooms at such an early hour again, when once she was married.
To quit Edgar thus, at the very moment of renewed intercourse and amity61, seemed too cruel; and Camilla, though with blushes, and stammering62, whispered Mrs. Arlbery, ‘What can I do, ma’am? most unfortunately I have engaged myself to dance?’
‘With whom?’
‘With–Mr.–Mandlebert.’
‘O, vastly well! Stay, then by all means: but, as he has not engaged me too, allow me, I beseech63 you, to escape. Mrs. Berlinton will, I am sure, be happy to take care of you.’
This scheme was, to Camilla, the most pleasant that could be proposed; and, at the same instant, the Major returned to her, with these words written with a pencil upon the back of a letter.
‘To-morrow, and next day, and next day, come to me, my lovely friend; every thing, and every body fatigues64 me but yourself.’
Camilla, obliged again to have recourse to the Major, wrote, upon the same paper, ‘Can you have the goodness to convey me to Mount Pleasant tonight, if I stay?’ and begged him to bring her an answer. She entreated65, also, Mrs. Arlbery to stop till it arrived, which was almost in the same minute; for the eye of Mrs. Berlinton had but glanced upon the words, ere her soft and lovely form was again with their fair writer, with whom, smiling and delighted, she walked back, arm in arm, to her place.
Mrs. Arlbery and the General, and Mr. and Miss Dennel, now left the room.
Edgar viewed all this with amazement66. He found that the young lady she joined was sister-in-law to a peer, and as fashionable as she was beautiful; but could not fathom67 how so great an intimacy68 had so suddenly been formed.
Camilla, thus distinguished69, became now herself an object of peculiar70 notice; her own personal claim to particular attention, her dejection had forfeited71, for it had robbed her eyes of their animation73, and her countenance74 of its play; but no contagion75 spreads with greater certainty nor greater speed than that of fashion; slander76 itself is not more sure of promulgation77. She was now looked at by all present as if seen for the first time; every one discovered in her some charm, some grace, some excellence78; those who, the minute before, had passed her with perfect indifference79, said it was impossible to see and not be struck with her; and all agreed she could appear upon no spot under the sun, and not instinctively80 be singled out, as formed to shine in the highest sphere.
But he by whom this transaction was observed with most pleasure, was Sir Sedley Clarendel. The extraordinary service he had performed for Camilla, and the grateful interest she had shewn him in return, had led him to consider her with an attention so favourable81, that, without half her merit, or half her beauty, she could not have failed rising in his estimation, and exciting his regard: and she had now a superior charm that distanced every other; she had been asked to dance, yet refused it, by a man of celebrity82 in the ton; and she was publicly sought and caressed83 by the only rival at Tunbridge, in that species of renown84, to Lady Alithea Selmore.
He felt an increased desire to be presented to Mrs. Berlinton himself; and, gliding85 from his own circle as quietly as he could contrive86, not to offend Lady Alithea, who, though she laughed at the little Welsh rustic87, was watchful88 of her votaries, and jealous of her rising power, came gently behind Lord O’Lerney and whispered his request.
He was received by the young beauty with that grace, and that sweetness which rendered her so generally bewitching, yet with an air that proved her already accustomed to admiration, and untouched by its intoxicating89 qualities. All that was voluntary of her attention was bestowed exclusively upon Camilla, though, when addressed and called upon by others, she answered without impatience90, and looked without displeasure.
This conduct, at the same time that it shewed her in a point of view the most amiable91, raised Camilla higher and higher in the eyes of the by-standers: and, in a few minutes more, the general cry throughout the assembly was, to inquire who was the young lady thus brought forward by Mrs. Berlinton.
Edgar heard this with increased anxiety. Has she discretion92, has she fortitude93, thought he, to withstand public distinction? Will it not spoil her for private life; estrange94 her from family concerns? render tasteless and insipid95 the conjugal96 and maternal97 characters, meant by Nature to form not only the most sacred of duties, but the most delicious of enjoyments98?
Very soon after, this anxiety was tinctured with a feeling more severe; he saw her spoken to negligently99 by Sir Sedley-he required, after what he had already himself deemed impertinence from the Baronet, that she should have assumed to him a distant dignity; but he perceived, on the contrary, that she answered him with pleasant alacrity100, and, when not engaged by Mrs. Berlinton, attended to him, even with distinction.
Alas101! thought he, the degradation102 from the true female character is already begun! already the lure38 of fashion draws her from what she owes to delicacy and propriety103, to give a willing reception to insolence104 and foppery!
Camilla, meanwhile, unsuspicious of his remarks, and persuaded every civility in her power was due to Sir Sedley, was gay, pleased, and pleasing; happy to consider herself under the guidance, and restored to the amity of Edgar, and determined to acquaint him with all her affairs, and consult him upon all her proceedings105.
The dancing, for which mutually they languished107, as the mutual106 means of reunion, seemed not to be the humour of the evening, and those who were ready for it, were not of sufficient consequence to bring it forward. But when Mrs. Berlinton mentioned, that she had been taking some lessons in a cotillon, a universal cry was raised by all her party, to try one immediately. She pleaded in vain her inexperience in such dances; they insisted there was nobody present that could criticise108, that her form alone would compensate109 for every mistake of rule, and that the best lesson was easy practice.
She was soon gained, for she was not addicted110 to denials; but the application which ensued to Camilla was acceded111 to less promptly112. As there were but two other ladies in the circle of Mrs. Berlinton, her assistance was declared to be indispensable. She pleaded inability of every sort, though to dance without Edgar was her only real objection; for she had no false shame in being ignorant of what she never had learnt. But Mrs. Berlinton protested she would not rise if she were the only novice113 to be exhibited; and the Major then prepared to prostrate114 himself at the feet of Camilla; who, hastily, and ashamed, stood up, to prevent an action that Edgar might misinterpret.
Hoping, however, now, to at least draw him into their set, she ventured to acknowledge to Mrs. Berlinton, that she was already engaged, in case she danced.
The Major, who heard her, and who knew it was not to himself, strenuously115 declared this could only be for country dances, and therefore would not interfere116 with a cotillon.
‘Will country dances, then,’ said she, blushing, ‘follow?’
‘Certainly, if any one has spirit to begin them.’
The cotillon was now played, and the preceding bow from the opposite Major forced her courtsie in return.
The little skill in this dance of one of the performers, and the total want of it in another, made it a mere pleasantry to all, though the youth and beauty of the two who did the worst, rendered them objects of admiration, that left nearly unnoticed those who did best.
To Camilla what belonged to pleasantry in this business was of short duration, When the cotillon was over, she saw nothing of Edgar. She looked around, mortified, disappointed. No one called for a country dance; and the few who had wished for it, concluding all chance over when a cotillon was begun, had now retired117, or given it up.
What was this disappointment, compared with the sufferings of Edgar? Something of a contest, and of entreaties118, had reached his ears, while he had hovered119 near the party, or strolled up and down the room. He had gathered the subject was dancing, and he saw the Major most earnest with Camilla. He was sure it was for her hand, and concluded it was for a country dance; but could she forfeit72 her engagement? were matters so far advanced, as to make her so openly shew him all prevailing120, all powerful, not only over all rivals, but, according to the world’s established customs upon these occasions, over all decorum?
Presently, he saw the Major half kneel; he saw her rise to prevent the prostration121; and he heard the dance called.
He could bear no more; pain intolerable seized, distracted him, and he abruptly122 quitted the ballroom123, lest the Major should approach him with some happy apology, which he was unfitted to receive.
He could only settle his ideas by supposing she really loved Major Cerwood, and had suffered her character to be infected by the indelicacy that made a part of his own. Yet why had she so striven to deny all regard, all connection? what an unaccountable want of frankness! what a miserable124 dereliction of truth!
His first impulse was to set off instantly from Tunbridge; but his second thoughts represented the confession125 this would make. He was too proud to leave the Major, whom he despised, such a triumph, and too much hurt to permit Camilla herself to know him so poignantly126 wounded. She could not, indeed, but be struck by his retreat; he resolved, however, to try to meet with her the next day, and to speak to her with the amity they had so lately arranged, yet in a way that should manifest him wholly free from all other interest or view.
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