CAMILLA, from the instant she had perceived Edgar, had been in the utmost emotion, from doubt if his journey were to seek a reconciliation1, or only to return her letters, and take a lasting2 farewell. Her first feeling at his sight urged her to retire: but something of a softer nature speedily interfered4, representing, if now he should join her, what suffering might mutually be saved by an immediate5 conference. She kept, therefore, her seat, looking steadily6 straight down the water, and denying herself one moment’s glance at anything, or person, upon the beach: little imagining she ingrossed, herself, the attention of all who paraded it. But, when the insinuations of the flippant perfumer had once made her looked at, her beauty, her apparently8 unprotected situation, and the account of the wager9, seemed to render her an object to be stared at without scruple10.
Mrs. Mittin saw how much they were observed, but Camilla, unheeding her remarks, listened only to hear if any footsteps approached; but when, at last, some struck her ears, they were accompanied by an unknown voice, so loud and clamorously jovial11, that, disturbed, she looked round... and saw the door violently flung open, and three persons, dressed like gentlemen, force their way into the small dwelling12 place.
Mr. Halder, the leader of this triumvirate, was the particular patron of Girt, the young perfumer; and, though his superior in birth and riches, was scarcely upon a par7 with him, from wilful13 neglect, in education; and undoubtedly14 beneath him in decency15 and conduct, notwithstanding young Girt piqued17 himself far less upon such sentimental18 qualifications, than upon his skill in cosmetics19, and had less respect for unadulterated morals, than unadulterated powder.
The second who entered, was, in every particular, still less defensible: he was a peer of the realm; he had a daughter married, and his age entitled him to be the grandfather of young Halder. In point of fortune, speculatists deemed them equal; for though the estate of Halder was as yet unincumbered with the mortgages that hung upon that of Lord Valhurst, they computed20, with great exactness, the term of its superiority, since already he had inlisted in the jockey meetings, and belonged to the gaming clubs.
The third, a young man of a serious, but pleasing demeanour, was rather an attendant than a partner in this intrusion. He was the only one of the whole party to whom the countenance21 of Camilla had announced innocence22; and when Halder, instigated23 by the assertions of the facetious24 Girt, proposed the present measure, and Lord Valhurst, caught by the youthful beauty of the fair subject of discussion, acceded25, this single champion stood forth26, and modestly, yet firmly, declaring his opinion they were mistaken, accompanied them with a view to protect her, if he himself were right.
Boisterously27 entering, Halder addressed at once to Camilla, such unceremonious praise of her beauty, that, affrighted and offended, she hastily seized the arm of Mrs. Mittin, and, in a voice of alarm, though with an air of command that admitted no doubt of her seriousness, and no appeal from her resolution, said, ‘Let us go home, Mrs. Mittin, immediately.’
Simple as were these words, their manner had an effect upon Halder to awe28 and distance him. Beauty, in the garb29 of virtue30, is rather formidable than attractive to those who are natively unenlightened, as well as habitually31 degenerate32: though, over such as have ever known better sentiments, it frequently retains its primeval power, even in their darkest declension of depravity.
But while Halder, repulsed33, stood back, and the young champion, with an air the most respectful, made way for her to pass; Lord Valhurst, shutting the door, planted himself against it.
Seeing terror now take possession of every feature of her face, her determined34 protector called out: ‘Make way, my Lord, I beg!’ and offered her his hand. But Camilla, equally frightened at them all, shrunk appalled35 from his assistance, and turned towards the window, with an intention of demanding help from Edgar, whom she supposed still on the beach; but the peer, slowly moving from the door, said he was the last to mean to disconcert the young lady, and only wished to stop her till he could call for his carriage, that he might see her safe wherever she wished to go.
Camilla had no doubt of the sincerity36 of this proposal, but would accept no aid from a stranger, even though an old man, while she hoped to obtain that of Edgar. Edgar, however, she saw not, and fear is generally precipitate37: she concluded him gone; concluded herself deserted38, and, from knowing neither, equally fearing both the young men, inclined towards Lord Valhurst; who, with delighted surprise, was going to take her under his care, when Edgar rushed forward.
The pleasure that darted39 into her eyes announced his welcome. Halder, from his reception, thought the enigma40 of his own ill success solved; the other youth, supposing him her brother, no longer sought to interfere3; but Lord Valhurst exhibited signs of such irrepressible mortification41, that inexperience itself could not mistake the dishonourable views of his offered services, since, to see her in safety, was so evidently not their purpose. Camilla, looking at him with the horror he so justly excited, gave her hand to Edgar, who had instantly claimed it, and, without one word being uttered by either, hastily walked away with him, nimbly accompanied by Mrs. Mittin.
The young man, whose own mind was sufficiently42 pure to make him give easy credit to the purity of another, was shocked at his undeserved implication in so gross an attack, and at his failure of manifesting the laudable motive43 which had made him one of the triumvirate; and, looking after her with mingled44 admiration45 and concern, ‘Indeed, gentlemen,’ he cried, ‘you have been much to blame. You have affronted46 a young lady who carries in the whole of her appearance the marks of meriting respect.’
The sensibility of Lord Valhurst was not of sufficient magnitude to separate into two courses: the little he possessed47 was already occupied by his disappointment, in losing the beautiful prey48 he believed just falling into his hands, and he had no emotion, therefore, to bestow49 upon his young reprover. But Halder, who, to want of feeling, added want of sense, roared out, with rude raillery, a gross, which he thought witty50 attack, both of the defender51 and the defended.
The young man, with the proud probity52 of unhackneyed sentiment, made a vindication53 of his uncorrupt intentions; which produced but louder mirth, and coarser incredulity. The contest, however, was wholly unequal; one had nerves of the most irritable54 delicacy55; the other had never yet, by any sensation, nor any accident, been admonished56 that nerves made any part of the human composition: in proportion, therefore, as one became more offended, the other grew more callous57, till the chivalry58 of indignant honour, casting prudence59, safety, and forbearance away, dictated60 a hasty challenge, which was accepted with a horse laugh of brutal61 senselessness of danger. Courage is of another description, It risks life with heroism62; but it is only to preserve or pursue something, without which the charm of life were dissolved: it meets death with steadiness; but it prepares for immortality63 with reverence64 and emotion.
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Edgar and Camilla continued their walk in a silence painful to both, but which neither knew how first to break; each wished with earnestness an opening to communication and confidence; but, mutually shocked by the recent adventure, Edgar waited the absence of Mrs. Mittin, to point out the impropriety and insufficiency of such a guard; and Camilla, still aghast with terror, had no power of any sort to begin a discourse65.
Their taciturnity, if not well supplied, was, at least, well contrasted by the volubility of Mrs. Mittin, which, as in the bathing house it had been incessant66, in declaring, to the three intruders, that both she and the other young lady were persons of honour, was now no less unremitting in boasting how well she had checked and kept them in order.
The horror of the attack she had just escaped became soon but a secondary suffering to Camilla, though, at the moment, it had impressed her more terribly than any actual event of her life, or any scene her creative imagination had ever painted; yet, however dreadful, it was now past; but who could tell the end of what remained? the mute distance of Edgar, her uncertainty67 of his intentions, her suspicions of his wished secession, the severe task she thought necessary to perform of giving him his liberty, with the anguish68 of a total inability to judge whether such a step would recall his tenderness, or precipitate his retreat, were suggestions which quickly succeeded, and, in a very short time, wholly domineered over every other.
When they arrived at the house, Edgar demanded if he might hope for the honour of being presented, as a friend of the family, to Mrs. Berlinton.
Reviving, though embarrassed, she looked assent69, and went forward to inquire if Mrs. Berlinton were come home.
The servant answered no; but delivered her a letter from that lady; she took it with a look of distress70 whether or not to invite Edgar to enter, which the, at this period, welcome officiousness of Mrs. Mittin relieved, by saying, ‘Come, let us all come in, and make the parlour a little comfortable against Mrs. Berlinton comes home; for, I dare say, there’s nothing as it should be. These lodging-houses always want a heap of things one never thinks of before hand.’
They then all three entered, and Mrs. Mittin, who saw, she said, a thousand ways by which she might serve and oblige Mrs. Berlinton by various suggestions, and even directions, which she hazarded against her return, busied herself to arrange the two parlours to her satisfaction; and, then, went up stairs, to settle, also, all there; making abundant apologies for leaving them, and assuring them she would be back again as soon as she possibly could get all in order.
Her departure was a moment of extreme confusion to Camilla, who considered it as an invitation to her great scheme of rejection71, but who stammered72 something upon every other subject, to keep that off. She looked at her letter, wondered what it could contain, could not imagine why Mrs. Berlinton should write when they must so soon meet; and spent in conjectures73 upon its contents the time which Edgar besought74 her to bestow upon their perusal75.
Nothing gives so much strength to an adversary76 as the view of timidity in his opponent. Edgar grew presently composed, and felt equal to his purposed expostulation.
‘You decline reading your letter till I am gone?’ cried he; ‘I must, therefore, hasten away. Yet, before I go, I earnestly wish once more to take upon me the office formerly77 allowed me, and to represent, with simple sincerity, my apprehensions78 upon what I have observed this morning.’
The beginning of this speech had made Camilla break the seal of her letter; but its conclusion agitated79 her too much for reading it.
‘Is this silence,’ said he, trying to smile, ‘to repress me as arrogant,... or to disregard me as impertinent?’
‘Neither!’ she answered, forcing herself to look towards him with cheerfulness; ‘it is merely... attention.’
‘You are very good, and I will try to be brief, that I may put your patience to no longer proof than I can avoid. You know, already, all I can urge concerning Mrs. Berlinton; how little I wonder at the promptness of your admiration; yet how greatly I fear for the permanence of your esteem80. In putting yourself under her immediate and sole protection, you have shewn me the complete dissonance of our judgments81 upon this subject; but I do not forget that, though you had the goodness to hear me, you had the right to decide for yourself. Trust indeed, even against warning, is so far more amiable83 than suspicion, that it must always, even though it prove unfortunate, call for praise rather than censure84.’
The confusion of Camilla was now converted into self-reproach. What she thought coldness, she had resented; what appeared to her to be haughtiness85, she had resisted; but truth in the form of gentleness, brought her instantly to reason, and reason could only resume its empire, to represent as rash and imprudent an expedition so repugnant, in its circumstances, to the wishes and opinions of the person whose approbation86 was most essential to her happiness. Edgar had paused; and her every impulse led to a candid87 recognition of what she felt to be wrong; but her precarious88 situation with him, the report of his intended flight by Jacob, the letters still detained of Sir Sedley Clarendel, and no explanation demanded, by which she could gather if his plighted89 honour were not now his only tie with her, curbed90 her design, depressed91 her courage, and, silently, she let him proceed.
‘Upon this subject, therefore, I must say no more, except to hint a wish, that the apprehensions which first induced me to name it may, unbidden, occur as timely heralds92 to exertion93, should any untoward94 circumstances point to danger, alarm, or impropriety.’
The new but strong friendship of Camilla was alarmed for its delicacy by these words. The diffidence she felt, from conscious error, for herself, extended not to Mrs. Berlinton, whom, since she found guiltless, she believed to be blameless. She broke forth, therefore, into a warm eulogy95, which her agitation96 rendered eloquent97, while her own mind and spirits were relieved and revived, by this flight from her mortified98 self, to the friend she thought deserving her most fervent99 justification100.
Edgar listened attentively101, and his eyes, though they expressed much of serious concern, shewed also an irrepressible admiration of an enthusiasm so ardent102 for a female friend of so much beauty.
‘May she always merit this generous warmth!’ cried he; ‘which must have excited my best wishes for her welfare, even if I had been insensible to her own claims upon every man of feeling. But I had meant, at this time, to confine my ungrateful annotations103 to another... to the person who had just quitted the room.’
‘You do not mean to name her with Mrs. Berlinton? to imagine it possible I can have for her any similar regard? or any, indeed, at all, but such common good-will as all sorts and classes of people are entitled to, who are well meaning?’
‘Here, at least, then,’ said Edgar, with a sigh half suppressed, ‘our opinions may be consonant104. No; I designed no such disgraceful parallel for your elegant favourite. My whole intention is to remonstrate105... can you pardon so plain a word? against your appearing in public with a person so ill adapted to insure you the respect that is so every way your due.’
‘I had not the smallest idea, believe me, of appearing in public. I merely walked out to see the town, and to beguile106, in a stroll, time, which, in this person’s society, hung heavy upon me at home, in the absence of Mrs. Berlinton.’
The concise107 simplicity108 of this innocent account, banished109, in a moment, all severity of judgment82; and Edgar, expressively110 thanking her, rose, and was approaching her, though scarcely knowing with what purpose, when Mrs. Mittin burst into the room, exclaiming: ‘Well, my dear, you’ll never guess how many things I have done since I left you. In the first place, there was never a wash-ball; in the next place, not a napkin nor a towel was in its proper place; then the tea-things were forgot; and as to spoons, not one could I find. And now, I’ve a mind to go myself to a shop I took good notice of, and get her a little almond powder for her nice white hands; which, I dare say, will please her. I’ve thought of a hundred things at least. I dare say I shall quite win her heart. And I’m sure of my money again, if I lay out never so much. And I don’t know what I would not do for such a good lady.’
During this harangue111, Camilla, ashamed of her want of resolution, secretly vowed112, that, if again left alone with him, she would not lose a moment in restoring him his liberty, that with dignity she might once more receive, or with fortitude113 for ever resign it. She thought herself, at this moment, capable of either; but she had only thought it, since his softened114 look and air had made her believe she had nothing to fear from the alternative.
Mrs. Mittin soon went, though her continued and unmeaning chattery115 made the short term of her stay appear long. Each eager upon their own plan, both then involuntarily arose.
Camilla spoke116 first. ‘I have something,’ she cried, ‘to say,..’ but her voice became so husky, the inarticulate sounds died away unheard, and blushing at so feeble an opening, she strove, under the auspices117 of a cough, to disguise that she had spoken at all, for the purpose of beginning, in a more striking manner, again.
This succeeded with Edgar at this moment, for he had heard her voice, not her words: he began, therefore, himself. ‘This good lady,’ he said, ‘seems bit with the rage of obliging, though not, I think, so heroically, as much to injure her interest. But surely she flatters herself with somewhat too high a recompence? The heart of Mrs. Berlinton is not, I fancy, framed for such a conqueror118. But how, at the same time, is it possible conversation such as this should be heard under her roof? And how can it have come to pass that such a person...’
‘Talk of her,’ interrupted Camilla, recovering her breath, ‘some other time. Let me now inquire... have you burnt.. . I hope so!... those foolish... letters.... I put into your hands?... ’
The countenance of Edgar was instantly overclouded. The mention of those letters brought fresh to his heart the bitterest, the most excruciating and intolerable pang119 it had ever experienced; it brought Camilla to his view no longer artless, pure, and single-minded, but engaged to, or trifling120 with, one man, while seriously accepting another. ‘No, madam,’ he solemnly said, ‘I have not presumed so far. Their answers are not likely to meet with so violent a death, and it seemed to me that one part of the correspondence should be preserved for the elucidation121 of the other.’
Camilla felt stung by this reply, and tremulously answered, ‘Give me them back, then, if you please, and I will take care to see them all demolished122 together, in the same flames. Meanwhile....’
‘Are you sure,’ interrupted Edgar, ‘such a conflagration123 will be permitted? Does the man live who would have the philosophy... the insensibility I must rather style it-ever to resign, after once possessing, marks so distinguishing of esteem? O, Camilla! I, at least, could not be that man!’
Cut to the soul by this question, which, though softened by the last phrase, she deemed severely124 cruel, she hastily exclaimed. ‘Philosophy I have no right to speak of... but as to insensibility... who is the man that ever more can surprise me by its display? Let me take, however, this opportunity....’
A footman, opening the door, said, his lady had sent to beg an answer to her letter.
Camilla, in whom anger was momentary125, but the love of justice permanent, rejoiced at an interruption which prevented her from speaking, with pique16 and displeasure, a sentence that must lose all its purpose if not uttered with mildness. She would write, she said, immediately; and, bidding the man get her pen and ink, went to the window to read her letter; with a formal bow of apology to Edgar as she passed him.
‘I have made you angry?’ cried he, when the man was gone; ‘and I hate myself to have caused you a moment’s pain. But you must feel for me, Camilla, in the wound you have inflicted126! You know not the disorder127 of mind produced by a sudden, unlooked-for transition from felicity to perplexity, from serenity128 to misery129!... ’
Camilla felt touched, yet continued reading, or rather rapidly repeating to herself the words of her letter, without comprehending, or even seeking to comprehend, the meaning of one sentence.
He found himself quite unequal to enduring her displeasure; his own, all his cautions, all Dr. Marchmont’s advice, were forgotten; and tenderly following her, ‘Have I offended,’ he cried, ‘past forgiveness?’ Is Camilla immoveable? and is the journey from which I fondly hoped to date the renewal130 of every hope, the termination of every doubt, the period of all suffering and sorrow... ’
He stopt abruptly131, from the entrance of the servant with pen and ink, and the interruption was critical: it called him to his self-command: he stammered out that he would not impede132 her writing; and, though in palpable confusion, took his leave: yet, at the street-door, he gave a ticket with his name, to the servant who attended him, for Mrs. Berlinton; and, with his best respects, desired she might be told he should do himself the honour to endeavour to see her in the evening.
The recollection of Edgar came too late to his aid to answer its intended purpose. The tender avowal133 which had escaped him to Camilla, of the view of his journey, had first with astonishment134 struck her ear, and next with quick enchantment135 vibrated to her heart, which again it speedily taught to beat with its pristine136 vivacity137; and joy, spirit, and confidence expelled in a breath all but themselves.
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