THUS passed the first eight days of the Tunbridge excursion, and another week succeeded without any varying event.
Mrs. Arlbery now, impelled1 with concern for Camilla, and resentment2 against Edgar, renewed the subject of her opinion and advice upon his character and conduct. ‘My dear young friend,’ cried she, ‘I cannot bear to see your days, your views, your feelings, thus fruitlessly consumed: I have observed this young man narrowly, and I am convinced he is not worth your consideration.’
Camilla, deeply colouring, was beginning to assure her she had no need of this counsel; but Mrs. Arlbery, not listening, continued.
‘I know what you must say; yet, once more, I cannot refrain venturing at the liberty of lending you my experience. Turn your mind from him with all the expedition in your power, or its peace may be touched for the better half of your life. You do not see, he does not, perhaps, himself know, how exactly he is calculated to make you wretched. He is a watcher; and a watcher, restless and perturbed3 himself, infests4 all he pursues with uneasiness. He is without trust, and therefore without either courage or consistency5. To-day he may be persuaded you will make all his happiness; to-morrow, he may fear you will give him nothing but misery6. Yet it is not that he is jealous of any other; ’tis of the object of his choice he is jealous, lest she should not prove good enough to merit it. Such a man, after long wavering, and losing probable happiness in the terror of possible disappointment, will either die an old batchelor, with endless repinings at his own lingering fastidiousness, or else marry just at the eve of confinement7 for life, from a fit of the gout. He then makes, on a sudden, the first prudent8 choice in his way; a choice no longer difficult, but from the embarrassment9 of its ease; for she must have no beauty, lest she should be sought by others, no wit, lest others should be sought by herself; and no fortune, lest she should bring with it a taste of independence, that might curb10 his own will, when the strength and spirit are gone with which he might have curbed11 her’s .’
Camilla attempted to laugh at this portrait; but Mrs. Arlbery entreated12 her to consider it as faithful and exact. ‘You have thought of him too much,’ cried she, ‘to do justice to any other, or you would not, with such perfect unconcern, pass by your daily increasing influence with Sir Sedley Clarendel.’
Excessively, and very seriously offended, Camilla earnestly besought13 to be spared any hints of such a nature.
‘I know well,’ cried she, ‘how repugnant to seventeen is every idea of life that is rational. Let us, therefore, set aside, in our discussions, any thing so really beneficial, as a solid connection formed with a view to the worldly comforts of existence, and speak of Sir Sedley’s devoirs merely as the instrument of teaching Mandlebert, that he is not the only rich, young, and handsome man in this lower sphere, who has viewed Miss Camilla Tyrold with complacency. Clarendel, it is true, would lose every charm in my estimation by losing his heart; for the earth holds nothing comparable for deadness of weight, with a poor soul really in love-except when it happens to be with oneself!-yet, to alarm the selfish irresolution15 of that impenetrable Mandlebert, I should really delight to behold16 him completely caught.’
Camilla, distressed17 and confused, sought to parry the whole as raillery: but Mrs. Arlbery would not be turned aside from her subject and purpose. ‘I languish18, I own,’ cried she, ‘to see that frozen youth worked up into a little sensibility. I have an instinctive19 aversion to those cold, haughty20, drawing-back characters, who are made up of the egotism of looking out for something that is wholly devoted21 to them, and that has not a breath to breathe that is not a sigh for their perfections.’
‘O! this is far...’ Camilla began, meaning to say, far from the character of Mandlebert; but ashamed of undertaking22 his defence, she stopt short, and only mentally added, Even excellence23 such as his cannot, then, withstand prejudice!
‘If there is any way,’ continued Mrs. Arlbery, ‘of animating24 him for a moment out of himself, it can only be by giving him a dread25 of some other. The poor Major does his best; but he is not rich enough to be feared, unless he were more attractive. Sir Sedley will seem more formidable. Countenance26, therefore, his present propensity27 to wear your chains, till Mandlebert perceives that he is putting them on; and then... mount to the rising ground you ought to tread, and shew, at once, your power and your disinterestedness28, by turning from the handsome Baronet and all his immense wealth, to mark... since you are determined29 to indulge it... your unbiassed preference for Mandlebert.’
Camilla, irresistibly30 appeased31 by a picture so flattering to all her best feelings, and dearest wishes, looked down; angry with herself to find she felt no longer angry with Mrs. Arlbery.
Mrs. Arlbery, perceiving a point gained, determined to enforce the blow, and then leave her to her reflections.
‘Mandlebert is a creature whose whole composition is a pile of accumulated punctilios. He will spend his life in refining away his own happiness: but do not let him refine away yours. He is just a man to bewitch an innocent and unguarded young woman from forming any other connexion, and yet, when her youth and expectations have been sacrificed to his hesitation,... to conceive he does not use her ill in thinking of her no more, because he has entered into no verbal engagement. If his honour cannot be arraigned32 of breaking any bond,... What matters merely breaking her heart?’
She then left the room; but Camilla dwelt upon nothing she had uttered except the one dear and inviting33 project of proving disinterestedness to Edgar. ‘O! if once,’ she cried, ‘I could annihilate34 every mercenary suspicion! If once I could shew Edgar that his situation has no charms for me... and it has none! none! then, indeed, I am his equal, though I am nothing,.... equal in what is highest, in mind, in spirit, in sentiment!’
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From this time the whole of her behaviour became coloured by this fascinating idea; and a scheme which, if proposed to her under its real name of coquetry, she would have fled and condemned35 with antipathy36, when presented to her as a means to mark her freedom from sordid37 motives38, she adopted with inconsiderate fondness. The sight, therefore, of Edgar, wherever she met him, became now the signal for adding spirit to the pleasure with which, already, and without any design, she had attended to the young Baronet. Exertion40 gave to her the gaiety of which solicitude41 had deprived her, and she appeared, in the eyes of Sir Sedley, every day more charming. She indulged him with the history of her adventure at the house of Mr. Dubster, and his prevalent taste for the ridiculous made the account enchant42 him. He cast off, in return, all airs of affectation, when he conversed43 with her separately; and though still, in all mixt companies, they were resumed, the real integrity, as well as indifference45 of her heart, made that a circumstance but to stimulate46 this new species of intercourse47, by representing it to be equally void of future danger to them both.
All this, however, failed of its desired end. Edgar never saw her engaged by Sir Sedley, but he thought her youthfully grateful, and esteemed49 her the more, or beheld50 her as a mere14 coquette, and ceased to esteem48 her at all. But never for a moment was any personal uneasiness excited by their mutually increasing intimacy51. The conversations he had held, both with the Baronet and herself, had satisfied him that neither entertained one serious thought of the other; and he took, therefore, no interest in their acquaintance, beyond that which was always alive,-a vigilant52 concern for the manner in which it might operate upon her disposition53.
With respect to the Major, he was by no means so entirely54 at his ease. He saw him still the declared and undisguised pursuer of her favour; and though he perceived, at the same time, she rather avoided than sought him, he still imagined, in general, his acceptance was arranged, from the many preceding circumstances which had first given him that belief. The whole of her behaviour, nevertheless, perplexed55 as much as it grieved him, and frequently, in the same half hour, she seemed to him all that was most amiable56 for inspiring admiration57, and all that was least to be depended upon, for retaining attachment58.
Yet however, from time to time, he felt alarmed or offended, he never ceased to experience the fondest interest in her happiness, nor the most tender compassion59 for the dangers with which he saw her environed. He knew, that though her understanding was excellent, her temper was so inconsiderate, that she rarely consulted it; and that, though her mind was of the purest innocence60, it was unguarded by caution, and unprotected by reflexion. He thought her placed where far higher discretion61, far superior experience, might risk being shaken; and he did not more fervently62 wish, than internally tremble, for her safety. Wherever she appeared, she was sure of distinction: “Tis Miss Tyrold, the friend of Mrs. Berlinton,’ was buzzed round the moment she was seen; and the particular favour in which she stood with some votaries63 of the ton, made even her artlessness, her retired64 education, and her ignorance of all that pertained65 to the certain circles, past over and forgiven, in consideration of her personal attractions, her youth, and newness.
Still, however, even this celebrity66 was not what most he dreaded67: so sudden and unexpected an elevation68 upon the heights of fashionable fame might make her head, indeed, giddy, but her heart he thought formed of materials too pure and too good to be endangered so lightly; and though frequently, when he saw her so circumstanced, he feared she was undone69 for private life, he could not reflect upon her principles and disposition, without soon recovering the belief that a short time might restore her mind to its native simplicity70 and worth. But another rock was in the way, against which he apprehended71 she might be dashed, whilst least suspicious of any peril72.
This rock, indeed, exhibited nothing to the view that could have affrighted any spectator less anxiously watchful73, or less personally interested in regarding it. But youth itself, in the fervour of a strong attachment, is as open-eyed, as observant, and as prophetic as age, with all its concomitants of practice, time, and suspicion. This rock, indeed, far from giving notice of danger by any sharp points or rough prominences74, displayed only the smoothest and most inviting surface: for it was Mrs. Berlinton, the beautiful, the accomplished75, the attractive Mrs. Berlinton, whom he beheld as the object of the greatest risk she had to encounter.
As he still preserved the character with which she had consented to invest him of her monitor, he seized every opportunity of communicating to her his doubts and apprehensions77. But in proportion as her connexion with that lady increased, use to her manners and sentiments abated78 the wonderment they inspired, and they soon began to communicate an unmixt charm, that made all other society, that of Edgar alone excepted, heartless and uninteresting. Yet, in the conversations she held with him from time to time, she frankly79 related the extraordinary attachment of her new friend to some unknown correspondent, and confessed her own surprise when it first came to her knowledge.
Edgar listened to the account with the most unaffected dismay, and represented the probable danger, and actual impropriety of such an intercourse, in the strongest and most eloquent82 terms; but he could neither appal83 her confidence, nor subdue84 her esteem. The openness with which all had originally and voluntarily been avowed85, convinced her of the innocence with which it was felt, and all that his exhortations86 could obtain, was a remonstrance87 on her own part to Mrs. Berlinton.
She found that lady, however, persuaded she indulged but an innocent friendship, which she assured her was bestowed88 upon a person of as much honour as merit, and which only with life she should relinquish89, since it was the sole consolation90 of her fettered91 existence.
Edgar, to whom this was communicated, saw with terror the ascendance thus acquired over her judgment92 as well as her affections, and became more watchful and more uneasy in observing the progress of this friendship, than all the flattering devoirs of the gay Baronet, or the more serious assiduities of the Major.
Mrs. Berlinton, indeed, was no common object, either for fear or for hope, for admiration or for censure93. She possessed94 all that was most softly attractive, most bewitchingly beautiful, and most irresistibly captivating, in mind, person, and manners. But to all that was thus most fascinating to others, she joined unhappily all that was most dangerous for herself; an heart the most susceptible95, sentiments the most romantic, and an imagination the most exalted96. She had been an orphan97 from earliest years, and left, with an only brother, to the care of a fanatical maiden98 aunt, who had taught her nothing but her faith and her prayers, without one single lesson upon good works, or the smallest instruction upon the practical use of her theoretical piety99. All that ever varied100 these studies were some common and ill selected novels and romances, which a young lady in the neighbourhood privately101 lent her to read; till her brother, upon his first vacation from the University, brought her the works of the Poets. These, also, it was only in secret she could enjoy; but, to her juvenile102 fancy, and irregularly principled mind, that did not render them more tasteless. Whatever was most beautifully picturesque103 in poetry, she saw verified in the charming landscapes presented to her view in the part of Wales she inhabited; whatever was most noble or tender in romance, she felt promptly104 in her heart, and conceived to be general; and whatever was enthusiastic in theology, formed the whole of her idea and her belief with respect to religion.
Brought up thus, to think all things the most unusual and extraordinary, were merely common and of course; she was romantic without consciousness, and excentric without intention. Nothing steady or rational had been instilled105 into her mind by others; and she was too young, and too fanciful to have formed her own principles with any depth of reflection, or study of propriety81. She had entered the world, by a sudden and most unequal marriage, in which her choice had no part, with only two self-formed maxims106 for the law of her conduct. The first of these was, that, from her early notions of religion, no vestal should be more personally chaste107; the second, that, from her more recently imbibed108 ones of tenderness, her heart, since she was married without its concurrence109, was still wholly at liberty to be disposed of by its own propensities110, without reproach and without scruple111.
With such a character, where virtue112 had so little guide even while innocence presided; where the person was so alluring113, and the situation so open to temptation, Edgar saw with almost every species of concern the daily increasing friendship of Camilla. Yet while he feared for her firmness, he knew not how to blame her fondness; nor where so much was amiable in its object, could he cease to wish that more were right.
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Thus again lived and died another week; and the fourth succeeded with no actual occurrence, but a new change of opinion in Mrs. Arlbery, that forcibly and cruelly affected80 the feelings of Camilla.
Uninformed of the motive39 that occasioned the indifference with which Edgar beheld the newly awakened114 gallantry of Sir Sedley, and the pleasure with which Camilla received it, Mrs. Arlbery observed his total unconcern, first with surprise, next with perplexity, and finally with a belief he was seriously resolved against forming any connection with her himself. This she took an early opportunity to intimate to Camilla, warmly exhorting115 her to drive him fast from her mind.
Camilla assured her that no task could be more easy; but the disappointment of the project with respect to Sir Sedley, which she blushed to have adopted, hurt her in every possible direction. Coquetry was as foreign to the ingenuousness116 of her nature, as to the dignity of all her early maternal117 precepts118. She had hastily encouraged the devoirs of the Baronet, upon the recommendation of a woman she loved and admired; but now that the failure of her aim brought her to reflexion, she felt penitent119 and ashamed to have heeded120 any advice so contrary to the singleness of the doctrines122 of her father, and so inferior to the elevation of every sentiment she had ever heard from her mother. If Edgar had seen her design, he had surely seen it with contempt: and though his manner was still the most gentle, and his advice ever ready and friendly, the opinion of Mrs. Arlbery was corroborated123 by all her own observations, that he was decidedly estranged124 from her.
What repentance125 ensued! what severity of regret! how did she canvass126 her conduct, how lament127 she had ever formed that fatal acquaintance with Mrs. Arlbery, which he had so early opposed, and which seemed eternally destined128 to lead her into measures and conduct most foreign to his approbation129!
The melancholy130 that now again took possession of her spirits made her decline going abroad, from a renewed determination to avoid all meetings with Edgar. Mrs. Arlbery felt provoked to find his power thus unabated, and Sir Sedley was astonished. He still saw her perpetually, from his visits at Mount Pleasant; but his vanity, that weakest yet most predominant feature of his character, received a shock for which no modesty131 of apprehension76 or forethought had prepared him, in finding that, when he saw her no more in the presence of Mandlebert, he saw her no more the same. She was ready still to converse44 with him; but no peculiar132 attention was flattering, no desire to oblige was pointed133. He found he had been merely a passive instrument, in her estimation, to excite jealousy134; and even as such had been powerless to produce that effect. The raillery which Mrs. Arlbery spared not upon the occasion added greatly to his pique135, and his mortification136 was so visible, that Camilla perceived it, and perceived it with pain, with shame, and with surprise. She thought now, for the first time, that the public homage137 he had paid her had private and serious motives, and that what she imagined mere sportive gallantry, arose from a growing attachment.
This idea had no gratifying power; believing Edgar without care for her, she could not hope it would stimulate his regard; and conceiving she had herself excited the partiality by wilful138 civilities, she could feel only reproach from a conquest, unduly139, unfairly, uningenuously obtained.
In proportion as these self-upbraidings made her less deserving in her own eyes, the merits of the young Baronet seemed to augment140; and in considering herself as culpable141 for having raised his regard, she appeared before him with a humility142 that gave a softness to her look and manners, which soon proved as interesting to Sir Sedley as her marked gaiety had been flattering.
When she perceived this, she felt distressed anew. To shun143 him was impossible, as Mrs. Arlbery not only gave him completely the freedom of her house, but assiduously promoted their belonging always to the same group, and being seated next to each other. There was nothing she would not have done to extenuate144 her error, and to obviate145 its ill effect upon Sir Sedley; but as she always thought herself in the wrong, and regarded him as injured, every effort was accompanied with a timidity that gave to every change a new charm, rather than any repulsive146 quality.
In this state of total self-disapprobation, to return to Etherington was her only wish, and to pass the intermediate time with Mrs. Berlinton became her sole pleasure. But she was forced again into public to avoid an almost single intercourse with Sir Sedley.
In meeting again with Edgar she saw him openly delighted at her sight, but without the least apparent solicitude, or notice, that the young Baronet had passed almost the whole of the interval147 upon Mount Pleasant.
This was instantly noticed, and instantly commented upon by Mrs. Arlbery, who again, and strongly pointed out to Camilla, that to save her youth from being wasted by fruitless expectation, she must forget young Mandlebert, and study only her own amusement.
Camilla dissented148 not from the opinion; but the doctrine121 to which it was easy to agree, it was difficult to put in practice; and her ardent149 mind believed itself fettered for ever, and for ever unhappy.
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