WHEN Camilla appeared at the hall-door, a gentleman descended1 from the carriage of Mrs. Berlinton, with an air the most melancholy2, and eyes bent3 to the earth, in the mournful bow with which he offered her his hand: though, when he had assisted her into the coach, he raised them, and, turning round, cast upon the mansion4 a look of desponding fondness, that immediately brought to her recollection young Melmond, the Oxford6 student, and the brother of her new friend.
Mrs. Berlinton received her with tenderness, folding her to her breast, and declaring life to be now insupportable without her.
The affection of Camilla was nearly reciprocal, but her pleasure had no chance of equal participation7; nor was the suspensive state of her mind the only impediment; opposite to her in the carriage, and immediately claiming her attention, was Mrs. Mittin.
The agitating9 events which had filled up the short interval10 of her residence at Cleves, had so completely occupied every faculty11 that, till the affair of the horse involved her in new difficulties, her debts had entirely12 flown her remembrance; and the distressing13 scenes which immediately succeeded to that forced recollection, made its duration as short as it was irksome; but the sight of Mrs. Mittin brought it back with violence to her memory, and flashed it, with shame, upon her conscience.
The twenty pounds, however, just given her by Sir Hugh, occurred at the same moment to her thoughts; and she determined14 to repair her negligence15, by appropriating it into parcels for the payment of all she owed, before she suffered sleep again to her eyes.
Mrs. Berlinton informed her, that both herself and her brother had been summoned to Southampton to meet Mrs. Ecton, the aunt by whom she had been educated, who had just arrived there from Wales, upon some secret business, necessary for her to hear, but which could not be revealed by letters.
The journey, though in itself short and pleasant, proved to Camilla long and wearisome; the beauties of the prospect16 were acknowledged by her eye, but her mind, dead to pleasure, refused to give them their merited effect. To the charms of nature she could not be blind; her fervent17 imagination, and the lessons of her youth, combined to do them justice; but she thought not of them at this moment; hill, vale, or plain, were uninteresting, however beautiful; it was Edgar she looked for; Edgar, who thus coldly had suffered her to depart, but who still, it was possible, might pursue; and hope, ever active, painted him, as she proceeded, in every distant object that caught her eye, whether living or inanimate, brightening, from time to time, the roses of her cheeks with the felicity of a speedy reconciliation18; but upon every near approach, the flattering error was detected, and neither hill, vale, nor plain, could dispel19 the disappointment. A fine country, and diversified20 views, may soften21 even the keenest affliction of decided22 misfortune, and tranquillise the most gloomy sadness into resignation and composure; but suspense23 rejects the gentle palliative; ’tis an absorbent of the faculties24 that suffers them to see, hear, and feel only its own perplexity; and the finer the fibres of the sensibility on which it seizes, the more exclusive is its despotism; doubt, in a fervent mind, from the rapidity of its evolutions between fear in its utmost despondence, and hope in its fullest rapture25, is little short of torture.
They drove immediately to an elegant house, situated26 upon a small eminence27, half a mile without the town of Southampton, which had already been secured; and Mrs. Berlinton, as soon as she had chosen the pleasantest apartment it afforded for Camilla, and suffered Mrs. Mittin to choose the next pleasant for herself, went, accompanied by her brother, to the lodging28 of Mrs. Ecton.
Left alone, Camilla stationed herself at a window, believing she meant to look at the prospect; but her eye, faithful to her heart, roved up and down the high road, and took in only chaises or horsemen, till Mrs. Mittin, with her customary familiarity, came into the room. ‘Well, my dear miss,’ she cried, ‘you’re welcome to Southampton, and welcome to Mrs. Berlinton; she’s a nice lady as ever I knew; I suppose you’re surprised to see us so great together? but I’ll tell you how it came about. You must know, just as you was gone, I happened to be in the book shop when she came in, and asked for a book; the Peruvan Letters she called and it was not at home, and she looked quite vexed29, for she said she had looked the catalogue up and down, and saw nothing she’d a mind to; so I thought it would be a good opportunity to oblige her, and be a way to make a prodigious30 genteel acquaintance besides; so I took down the name, and I found out the lady that had got the book, and I made her a visit, and I told her it was particular wanted by a lady that had a reason; so she let me have it, and I took it to my pretty lady, who was so pleased, she did not know how to thank me: So this got me footing in the house; and there I heard, amongst her people she was coming to Southampton, and was to call for you, my dear miss; so when I found she had not her coach full, I ask’d her to give me a cast; for I told her you’d be particular glad to see me, as we’d some business to settle together, that was a secret between only us two; so she said she would do anything to give you pleasure; so then I made free to ask her to give me a night’s lodging, till I could find out some friend to be at; for I’d a vast mind to come to Southampton, as I could do it so reasonable, for I like to go every where. And I say, my dear miss, if you’ll tell her ’twill oblige you, she’ll make me the compliment to let me stay all the time, for I know nobody, here; though I don’t fear making friends, go where I will. And you know, my dear miss, you can do no less by me, considering what I’ve done for you; for I’ve kept all the good people quiet about your debts; and they say you may pay them when you will, as I told them you was such a rich heiress; which Mr. Dubster let me into the secret of, for he had had it from your brother.’
Camilla now experienced the extremest repentance31 and shame to find herself involved in any obligation with a character so forward, vulgar, and encroaching, and to impose such a person through the abuse of her name and influence, upon the time and patience of Mrs. Berlinton.
The report spread by Lionel she immediately disavowed, and, producing her twenty pound bank note, begged Mrs. Mittin would have the goodness to get it changed for her, and to discharge her accounts without delay.
Surprised by this readiness, and struck by the view of the note, Mrs. Mittin imputed32 to mere33 reserve the denial of her expected wealth, but readily promised to get in the bills, and see her clear.
Camilla would now have been left alone; but Mrs. Mittin thought of nothing less than quitting her, and she knew not how to bid her depart. It was uncertain when Mrs. Berlinton could return; to obviate34, therefore, in some measure, the fatigue35 of such conversation, Camilla proposed walking.
It was still but two o’clock, and the weather was delicious; every place that opened to any view, presented some prospect that was alluring36; Camilla, notwithstanding her anxiety, was caught, and at intervals37, at least, forgot all within, from admiration38 of all without.
Mrs. Mittin led immediately to the town, and Camilla was struck with its neatness, and surprised by its populousness39. Mrs. Mittin assured her it was nothing to London, and only wished she could walk her from Charing-cross to Temple-bar, just to shew her what it was to see a little of the world.
‘But now, my dear,’ she cried, ‘the thing is to find out what we’ve got to look at; so don’t let’s go on without knowing what we’re about; however, these shops are all so monstrous40 smart, ’twill be a pleasure to go into them, and ask the good people what there’s to see in the town.’
This pretext41 proved so fertile to her of entertainment, in the opportunity it afforded of taking a near view of the various commodities exposed to sale, that while she entered almost every shop, with inquiries42 of what was worth seeing, she attended to no answer nor information, but having examined and admired all the goods within sight or reach, walked off, to obtain, by similar means, a similar privilege further on; boasting to Camilla, that, by this clever device they might see all that was smartest, without the expence of buying any thing.
It is possible that this might safely have been repeated, from one end of the town to the other, had Mrs. Mittin been alone; and she seemed well disposed to make the experiment; but Camilla, who, absent and absorbed, accompanied without heeding43 her, was of a figure and appearance not quite so well adapted for indulging with impunity44 such unbridled curiosity. The shopkeepers, who, according to their several tastes or opinions, gave their directions to the churches, the quays45, the market-place, the antique gates, the town-hall, &c. involuntarily looked at her as they answered the questioner, and not satisfied with the short view, followed to the door, to look again; this presently produced an effect that, for the whole length of the High-street, was amply ridiculous; every one perceiving that, whatsoever47 had been his recommendation, whether to the right, to the left, or forward, the two inquirers went no further than into the next shop, whence they regularly drew forth48 either the master or the man to make another starer at their singular proceeding49.
Some supposed they were only seeking to attract notice; others thought they were deranged50 in mind; and others, again, imagined they were shoplifters, and hastened back to their counters, to examine what was missing of their goods.
Two men of the two last persuasions51 communicated to one another their opinions, each sustaining his own with a positiveness that would have ended in a quarrel, had it not been accommodated by a wager53. To settle this became now so important, that business gave way to speculation54, and the contending parties, accompanied by a young perfumer as arbitrator, leaving their affairs in the hands of their wives, or their domestics, issued forth from their repositories, to pursue and watch the curious travellers; laying bets by the way at almost every shop as they proceeded, till they reached the quay46, where the ladies made a full stand, and their followers55 opened a consultation56 how best to decide the contest.
Mr. Firl, a sagacious old linen57 draper, who concluded them to be shoplifters, declared he would keep aloof58, for he should detect them best when they least suspected they were observed.
Mr. Drim, a gentle and simple haberdasher, who believed their senses disordered, made a circuit to face and examine them, frequently, however, looking back, to see that no absconding59 trick was played him by his friends. When he came up to them, the pensive8 and absorbed look of Camilla struck him as too particular to be natural; and in Mrs. Mittin he immediately fancied he perceived something wild, if not insane. In truth, an opinion preconceived of her derangement60 might easily authorise strong suspicions of confirmation61, from the contented62 volubility with which she incessantly63 ran on, without waiting for answerers, or even listeners; and his observation had not taught him, that the loquacious64 desire only to speak. They exact time, not attention.
Mrs. Mittin, soon observing the curiosity with which he examined them, looked at him so hard in return, talking the whole time, in a quick low voice, to Camilla, upon his oddity, that, struck with a direful panic, in the persuasion52 she was marking him for some mischief65, he turned short about to get back to his companions; leaving Mrs. Mittin with precisely66 the same opinion of himself which he had imbibed67 of her.
‘Well my dear,’ cried she, ‘this is one of the most miraculous68 adventures I’ve met with yet; as sure as you’re alive that man that stares so is not right in the head! for else what should he run away for, all in such a hurry, after looking at us so particular for nothing? I’ll assure you, I think the best thing we can do, is to get off as fast as we can, for fear of the worst.’
They then sped their way from the quay; but, in turning down the first passage to get out of sight, they were led into one of the little rooms prepared for the accommodation of bathers.
This seemed so secure, as well as pleasant, that Camilla, soothed69 by the tranquillity70 with which she could contemplate71 the noble Southampton water and its fine banks, sat down at the window, and desired not to walk any further.
The fright with which Mr. Drim had retreated, gained no proselyte to his opinion; Mr. Girt, the perfumer, asserted, significantly, they were only idle travellers, of light character; and Mr. Firl, when in dodging72 them, he saw they went into a bathing room, offered to double his wager that it was to make some assortment73 of their spoil.
This was accepted, and it was agreed that one should saunter in the adjoining passages to see which way they turned upon coming out while the two others should patrol the beach, to watch their disappearance74 from the windows.
Mrs. Mittin, meanwhile, was as much amused, though with different objects, as Camilla. A large mixt party of ladies and gentlemen, who had ordered a vessel75 for sailing down the water, which was not yet ready, now made their appearance; and their dress, their air of enjoyment76, their outcries of impatience77, the frisky78 gaiety of some, the noisy merriment of others, seemed to Mrs. Mittin marks of so much grandeur79 and happiness, that all her thoughts were at work to devise some contrivance for becoming of their acquaintance.
Camilla also surveyed, but almost without seeing them; for the only image of her mind now unexpectedly met her view; Dr. Marchmont and Edgar, just arrived, had patrolled to the beach, where Edgar, whose eye, from his eagerness, appeared to be every where in a moment, immediately perceived her; they both bowed, and Dr. Marchmont, amazed by the air and figure of her companion, inquired if Mrs. Berlinton had any particularly vulgar relation to whom she was likely to commit her fair guest.
Edgar, who had seen only herself, could not now forbear another glance; but the aspect of Mrs. Mittin, without Mrs. Berlinton, or any other more dignified81 or fitting protectress, was both unaccountable and unpleasant to him; he recollected82 having seen her at Tunbridge, where the careless temper, and negligent83 manners of Mrs. Arlbery, made all approaches easy, that answered any purpose of amusement or ridicule84; but he could not conceive how Mrs. Berlinton, or Camilla herself, could be joined by such a companion.
Mr. Firl, having remarked these two gentlemen’s bows, began to fear for his wager; yet, thinking it authorised him to seek some information, approached them, and taking off his hat, said: ‘You seem to be noticing those two ladies up there; pray, gentlemen, if you’ve no objection, who may they be?’
‘Why do you ask, sir?’ cried Edgar, sternly.
‘Why, we’ve a wager depending upon them, sir, and I believe there’s no gentleman will refuse to help another about a wager.’
‘A wager?’ repeated Edgar, wishing, but vainly, to manifest no curiosity; ‘what inducement could you have to lay a wager about them?’
‘Why, I believe, sir, there’s nobody’s a better judge than me what I’ve laid about; though I may be out, to be sure, if you know the ladies; but I’ve seen so much of their tricks, in my time, that they must be pretty sharp before they’ll over-reach me.’
‘What tricks? who must be sharp? who are you talking of?’
‘Shoplifters, sir.’
‘Shoplifters! what do you mean?’
‘No harm, sir; I may be out, to be sure, as I say; and if so, I ask pardon; only, as we’ve laid the wager, I think I may speak before I pay.’
The curiosity of Edgar would have been converted into ridicule, had he been less uneasy at seeing with whom Camilla was thus associated; Mrs. Mittin might certainly be a worthy85 woman, and, if so, must merit every kindness that could be shewn her; but her air and manner so strongly displayed the low bred society to which she had been accustomed, that he foresaw nothing but improper86 acquaintance, or demeaning adventures, that could ensue from such a connection at a public place.
Dr. Marchmont demanded what had given rise to this suspicion.
Mr. Firl answered, that they had been into every shop in the town, routing over every body’s best goods, yet not laying out a penny.
Nothing of this could Edgar comprehend, except that Camilla had suffered herself to be led about by Mrs. Mittin, entirely at her pleasure; but all further inquiry87 was stopt, by the voluntary and pert junction88 of Girt, the young perfumer, who, during this period, had by no means been idle; for perceiving, in the group waiting for a vessel, a certain customer by whom he knew such a subject would be well received, he contrived89 to excite his curiosity to ask some questions, which could only be satisfied by the history of the wager, and his own opinion that both parties were out.
This drew all eyes to the bathing room; and new bets soon were circulated, consisting of every description of conjecture90, or even possibility, except that the two objects in question were innocent: and for that, in a set of fourteen, only one was found who defended Camilla, though her face seemed the very index of purity, which still more strongly was painted upon it than beauty, or even than youth. Such is the prevalent disposition91 to believe in general depravity, that while those who are debased themselves find a consolation92 in thinking others equally worthless, those even, who are of a better sort, nourish a secret vanity in supposing few as good as themselves; and fully93, without reflection, the fair candour of their minds, by aiding that insidious94 degeneracy, which robs the community of all confidence in virtue95.
The approach of the perfumer to Edgar had all the hardiness96 of vulgar elation80, bestowed97, at this moment, by the recent encouragement of having been permitted to propagate his facetious98 opinions in a society of gentlefolks; for though to one only amongst them, a young man of large fortune, by whom he was particularly patronised, he had presumed verbally to address himself, he had yet the pleasure to hear his account repeated from one to another, till not a person of the company escaped hearing it.
‘My friend Firl’s been telling you, I suppose, sir,’ said he, to Edgar, ‘of his foolish wager? but, take my word for it....’
Here Edgar, who again had irresistibly99 looked up at the room, saw that the three gentlemen had entered it; alarmed lest these surmises100 should be productive of impertinence to Camilla, he darted101 quickly from the beach to her immediate5 protection.
But the rapidity of his wishes were ill seconded by the uncertainty102 of his footsteps; and while, with eyes eagerly wandering all around, he hastily pushed forward, he was stopt by Mr. Drim, who told him to take care how he went on, for, in one of those bathing houses, to the best of his belief, there were two crazy women, one melancholy, and one stark103 wild, that had just, as he supposed, escaped from their keepers.
‘How shall I find my way, then, to another of the bathing houses?’ cried Edgar.
Mr. Drim undertook to shew him where he might turn, but said he must not lose sight of the door, because he had a bottle of port depending upon it; his neighbour, Mr. Firl, insisting they were only shoplifters.
Edgar here stopt short and stared.
Drim then assured him it was what he could not believe, as nothing was missing; though Mr. Firl would have it that it was days and days, sometimes, before people found out what was gone; but he was sure, himself, they were touched in the head, by their going about so wild, asking everybody the same questions, and minding nobody’s answers.
Edgar, convinced now Camilla was here again implicated104, broke with disgust from the man, and rushed to the door he charged him to avoid.
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