AS the lodgings1 taken by Miss Margland could not be ready till the afternoon, Camilla remained with her sister; a sojourn2 which, while it consoled her with the society, and gratified her by the approbation3 of Eugenia, had yet another allurement4; it detained her under the same roof with Edgar; and his manner of listening to her rejection6, and his undisguised suffering before they were parted, led her to expect he might yet demand a conference before she quitted the hotel.
In about an hour, as unpleasantly as unceremoniously, they were broken in upon by Mrs. Mittin.
‘How monstrous7 lucky, my dear,’ cried she, to Camilla, ‘that I should find you, and your little sister, for I suppose this is she, together! I went into your dining-room to ask for you, and there I met those other two ladies; and I’ve made acquaintance with ’em, I assure you, already; for I told them I was on a visit at the Honourable8 Mrs. Berlinton’s . So I’ve had the opportunity to recommend some shops to ’em, and I’ve been to tell some of the good folks to send them some of their nicest goods for ’em to look at; for, really, since I’ve been bustling9 a little about here, I’ve found some of the good people so vastly obliging, I can’t but take a pleasure in serving ’em, and getting ’em a few customers, especially as I know a little civility of that sort makes One friends surprisingly. Often and often have I got things under prime cost myself, only by helping10 a person on in his trade. So one can’t say good nature’s always thrown away. However, I come now on purpose to put a note into your own hands, from Mrs. Berlinton; for all the servants were out of the way, except one, and he wanted to be about something else, so I offered to bring it, and she was very much pleased; so I fancy it’s about some secret, for she never offered to shew it me; but as to the poor man saved from the walk, I’ve won his heart downright; I dare say he’ll go of any odd errand for me, now, without vails. That’s the best of good nature, it always comes home to one.’
The note from Mrs. Berlinton contained a tender supplication11 for the return of Camilla, and a pressing and flattering invitation that her sister should join their little party as the motives12 of honour and discretion13 which made her, at the request and for the sake of her brother, sacrifice her eagerness to be presented to Miss Lynmere, operated not to impede14 her acquaintance with Miss Eugenia.
This proposition had exquisite15 charms for Eugenia. To become acquainted with the sister of him to whom, henceforward, she meant to devote her secret thoughts, enchanted16 her imagination.
Camilla, therefore, negotiated the visit with Miss Margland, who, though little pleased by this separate invitation, knew not how to refuse her concurrence17; but Indiana, indignant that the sister of Melmond should not, first, have waited upon her, and solicited18 her friendship, privately19 resolved, in pique20 of this disrespect, to punish the brother with every rigour she could invent.
Camilla, upon her return, found Mrs. Mittin already deeply engaged in proposing an alteration21 in the dress of Eugenia, which she was aiding Molly Mill to accomplish; and so much she found to say and to do, to propose and to object to, to contrive22 and to alter, that, from the simplicity23 of the mistress, and the ignorance of the maid, the one was soon led to conclude she should have appeared improperly24 before Mrs. Berlinton, without such useful advice; and the other to believe she must shortly have lost her place, now her young lady was come forth25 into the world, if she had not thus miraculously26 met with so good a friend.
During these preparations, Camilla was summoned back to the dining-room to receive Mr. Westwyn.
She did not hear this call with serenity27. The danger which, however unwittingly, she had caused his son, and the shocking circumstances which were its foundation, tingled28 her cheeks, and confounded her wish of making acknowledgments, with an horror that such an obligation could be possible.
The door of the dining-room was open, and as soon as her steps were heard, Mr. Westwyn came smiling forth to receive her. She hung back involuntarily; but, pacing up to her, and taking her hand, ‘Well, my good young lady,’ he cried, ‘I have brought you my son; but he’s no boaster, that I can assure you, for though I told him how you wanted him to come to you, and was so good as to say you were so much obliged to him, I can’t make him own he has ever seen you in his life; which I tell him is carrying his modesty29 over far; I don’t like affectation... I have no taste for it.’
Camilla, discovering by this speech, as well as by his pleased and tranquil30 manner, that he had escaped hearing of the intended duel31, and that his son was still ignorant whose cause he had espoused32, ardently34 wished to avert35 farther shame by concealing36 herself; and, step by step, kept retreating back towards the room of Eugenia; though she could not disengage her hand from the old gentleman, who, trying to draw her on, said: ‘Come, my dear! don’t go away. Though my son won’t confess what he has done for you, he can’t make me forget that you were such a dear soul as to tell me yourself, of his good behaviour, and of your having such a kind opinion of him. And I have been telling him, and I can assure you I keep my word, that if he has done a service to the niece of my dear old friend, Sir Hugh Tyrold, it shall value him fifty pound a-year more to his income, if I straighten myself never so much. For a lad, that knows how to behave in that manner, will never spend his money so as to make his old father ashamed of him. And that’s a good thing for a man to know.’
‘Indeed, sir, this is some mistake,’ said the young man himself, now advancing into the passage, while Camilla was stammering37 out an excuse from entering; ‘it’s some great mistake; I have not the honour to know....’
He was going to add Miss Tyrold, but he saw her at the same moment, and instantly recollecting38 her face, stopt, blushed, and looked amazed.
The retreating effort of Camilla, her shame and her pride, all subsided39 by his view, and gave place to the more generous feelings of gratitude40 for his intuitive good opinion, and emotion for the risk he had run in her defence: and with an expression of captivating sweetness in her eyes and manner, ‘That you did not know me,’ she cried, ‘makes the peculiarity41 of your goodness, which, indeed, I am more sensible to than I can express.’
‘Why, there! there, now! there!’ cried Mr. Westwyn, while his son, enchanted to find whose character he had sustained, bowed almost to the ground with respectful gratitude for such thanks; only but listen! she says the very same things to your face, that she said behind your back! though I am afraid, it’s only to please an old father; for if not, I can’t for my life find out any reason why you should deny it. Come, Hal, speak out, Hal!’
Equally at a loss how either to avow43 or evade44 what had passed in the presence of Camilla, young Westwyn began a stammering and awkward apology; but Camilla, feeling doubly his forbearance, said: ‘Silence may in you be delicate... but in me it would be graceless.’ Then, turning from him to old Mr. Westwyn, ‘you may be proud, sir,’ she cried, ‘of your son! It was the honour of an utter stranger he was protecting, as helpless as she was unknown at the time she excited his interest; nor had he even in view this poor mede he now receives of her thanks!’
‘My dearest Hal!’ cried Mr. Westwyn, wringing45 him by the hand; ‘if you have but one small grain of regard for me, don’t persist in denying this! I’d give the last hundred pounds I had in the world to be sure it was true!’
‘That to hear the name of this lady,’ said the young man, ‘should not be necessary to inspire me with respect for her, who can wonder? that any opportunity could arise in which she should want defence, is all that can give any surprise.’
‘You own it, then, my dear Hal? you own you’ve done her a kindness? why then, my dear Hal, you’ve done one to me! and I can’t help giving you a hug for it, let who will think me an old fool.’
He then fervently46 embraced his son, who confused, though gratified, strove vainly to make disclaiming47 speeches. ‘No, no, my dear Hal,’ he cried, ‘you sha’n’t let yourself down with me again, I promise you, though you’ve two or three times tried to make me think nothing of you; but this young lady here, dear soul, speaks another language; she says I may be proud of my son! and I dare say she knows why, for she’s a charming girt, as ever I saw; so I will be proud of my son! Poor dear Hal! thou hast got a good friend, I can tell thee, in that young lady! and she’s niece to the best man I ever knew; and I value her good opinion more than anybody’s .’
‘You are much too good,’ cried Camilla, in an accent of tender pleasure, the result of grateful joy, that she had not been the means of destroying the paternal48 happiness of so fond a father, joined to the dreadful certainty how narrowly she had escaped that misery50; ‘you are much too good, and I blush even to thank you, when I think–’
What she meant to add was in a moment forgotten, and that she blushed ceased to be metaphorical51, when now, as they all three entered the dining-room together, the first object that met her eyes was Edgar.
Their eyes met not again; delighted and conscious, she turned hers hastily away. He comes, thought she, to me! he will not submit to the separation; he comes to re-assure me of his esteem52, and to receive once more my faithful heart!
Edgar had seen, by chance, the Westwyns pass to the room of the Cleves party, and felt the most ardent33 desire to know if they would meet with Camilla, and what would be her reception of her young champion, whose sword, with extreme trouble, he had himself that morning sheathed53, and whose gallantry he attributed to a vehement54, however, sudden passion. Dr. Marchmont acknowledged the epoch55 to be highly interesting for observation, and, presuming upon their old right of intimacy56 with all the party, they abruptly57 made a second visit.
Miss Margland and Indiana, who were examining some goods sent by Mrs. Mittin, had received them all four without much mark of civility; and Mr. Westwyn immediately desired Camilla to be sent for, and kept upon the watch, till her step made him hasten out to meet her.
Edgar could not hear unmoved the dialogue which ensued; he imagined an amiable58 rival was suddenly springing up in young Westwyn, at the very moment of his own dismission, which he now even thought possible this incipient59 conquest had urged; and when Camilla, walking between the father and the son, with looks of softest sensibility, came into the room, he thought he had never seen her so lovely, and that her most bewitching smiles were purposely lavished60 for their captivation.
With this idea, he found it impossible to speak to her; their situation, indeed, was too critical for any common address, and when he saw that she turned from him, he attempted to converse61 with the other ladies upon their purchases; and Camilla, left to her two new beaux, had the unavoidable appearance of being engrossed62 by them, though the sight of Edgar instantly robbed them of all her real attention.
Soon after, the door was again opened, and Mr. Girt, the young perfumer, came, smirking63 and scraping, into the room, with a box of various toys, essences, and cosmetics64, recommended by Mrs. Mittin.
Ignorant of the mischief65 he had done her, and not even recollecting to have seen him, Camilla made on to look at his goods; but Edgar, to whom his audacious assertions were immediately brought back by his sight, would have made him feel the effects of his resentment66, had not his passion for Camilla been of so solid, as well as warm a texture67, as to induce him to prefer guarding her delicacy68, to any possible display he could make of his feelings to others, or even to herself.
Mr. Girt, in the midst of his exhibition of memorandum69 books, smelling bottles, tooth-pick cases, and pocket mirrours; with washes to immortalize the skin, powders becoming to all countenances70, and pomatums to give natural tresses to old age, suddenly recollected72 Camilla. The gross mistake he had made he had already discovered, by having dodged73 her to the house of Mrs. Berlinton; but all alarm at it had ceased, by finding, through a visit made to his shop by Mrs. Mittin, that she was uninformed he had propagated it. Not gifted with the discernment to see in the air and manner of Camilla her entire, though unassuming superiority to her accidental associate, he concluded them both to be relations of some of the upper domestics; and with a look and tone descending74 from the most profound adulation, with which he was presenting his various articles to Miss Margland and Indiana, into a familiarity the most facetious75, ‘O dear, ma’am,’ he cried, ‘I did not see you at first; I hope t’other lady’s well that’s been so kind as to recommend me? Indeed I saw her just now.’
Young Westwyn, to whom, as to Edgar, the bold defamation76 of Girt occurred with his presence, but whom none of the nameless delicacies77 of the peculiar42 situation, and peculiar character of Edgar, restrained into silence, felt such a disgust at the presumption78 of effrontery79 that gave him courage for this facetious address, to a young lady whose innocence80 of his ill usage made him think its injury double, that, unable to repress his indignation, he abruptly whispered in his ear, ‘Walk out of the room, sir!’
The amazed perfumer, at this haughty81 and unexpected order, stared, and cried aloud, ‘No offence, I hope, sir?’
Mr. Westwyn asked what was the matter? while Camilla, crimsoned82 by the familiar assurance with which she had been addressed, retired83 to a window.
‘Nothing of any moment, sir,’ answered Henry; and again, in a low but still more positive voice, he repeated his command to Girt.
‘Sir, I’m not used to be used in this manner!’ answered he, hardily84, and hoping, by raising his tone, for the favourable85 intervention86 of the company.
Indiana, now, was preparing to scream, and Miss Margland was looking round to see whom she should reprehend87; but young Westwyn, coolly opening the door, with a strong arm, and an able jerk, twisted the perfumer into the passage, saying, ‘You may send somebody for your goods.’
Girt, who equally strong, but not equally adroit88 as Henry, strove in vain to resist, vowed89 vengeance90 for this assault. Henry, without seeming to hear him, occupied himself with looking at what he had left. Camilla felt her eyes suffuse91 with tears; and Edgar, for the first time in his life, found himself visited by the baleful passion of envy.
Miss Margland could not comprehend what this meant; Indiana comprehended but too much in finding there was some disturbance92 of which she was not the object; but Mr. Westwyn, losing his look of delight, said, with something of severity, ‘Ha! what did you turn that man out of the room for?’
‘He is perfectly93 aware of my reason, sir,’ said Henry; and then added it was a long story, which he begged to relate another time.
The blank face of Mr. Westwyn shewed displeasure and mortification94. He lifted the head of his cane95 to his mouth, and after biting it for some time, with a frowning countenance71, muttered, ‘I don’t like to see a man turned out of a room. If he’s done any harm, tell him so; and if it’s worse than harm, souse him in a horsepond; I’ve no objection: But I don’t like to see a man turned out of a room; it’s very unmannerly; and I did not think Hal would do such a thing.’ Then suddenly, and with a succinct96 bow, bidding them all good bye, he took a hasty leave; still, however, muttering, all the way along the passage, and down the stairs, loud enough to be heard: ‘Kicking and jerking a man about does not prove him to be in the wrong. I thought Hal had been more of a gentleman. If I don’t find the man turns out to be a rascal97, Hal shall beg his pardon; for I don’t like to see a man turned out of a room.’
Henry, whose spirit was as irritable98 as it was generous, felt acutely this public censure99, which, though satisfied he did not deserve, every species of propriety100 prohibited his explaining away. With a forced smile, therefore, and a silent bow, he followed his father.
Miss Margland and Indiana now burst forth with a torrent101 of wonders, conjectures102, and questions; but the full heart of Camilla denied her speech, and the carriage of Mrs. Berlinton being already at the door, she called upon Eugenia, and followed, perforce, by Mrs. Mittin, left the hotel.
Edgar and Dr. Marchmont gave neither surprise nor concern by retiring instantly to their own apartment.
‘Dr. Marchmont,’ said the former, in a tone of assumed moderation, ‘I have lost Camilla! I see it plainly. This young man steps forward so gallantly103, so ingenuously104, nay105 so amiably106, that the contrast... chill, severe, and repulsive107... must render me... in this detestable state... insupportable to all her feelings. Dr. Marchmont! I have not a doubt of the event!’
‘The juncture108 is, indeed, perilous109, and the trial of extremest hazard; but it is such as draws all uncertainty110 to a crisis, and, therefore, is not much to be lamented111. You may safely, I think, rest upon it your destiny. To a general female heart a duel is the most dangerous of all assaults, and the most fascinating of all charms; and a duellist112, though precisely113 what a woman most should dread49, as most exposing her to public notice, is the person of all others she can, commonly, least resist. By this test, then, prove your Camilla. Her champion seems evidently her admirer, and his father her adorer. Her late engagement with you may possibly not reach them; or reaching but with its dissolution, serve only to render them more eager.’
‘Do you suppose him,’ cried Edgar, after a pause of strong disturbance; ‘do you suppose him rich?’
‘Certainly not. That the addition of fifty pounds a-year to his income should be any object, proves his fortune to be very moderate.’
‘Clear her, then, at least,’ said he, with a solemnity almost reproachful; ‘clear her, at least, of every mercenary charge! If I lose her...’ he gasped114 for breath... ‘she will not, you find, be bought from me! and pique, anger, injustice115, nay inconstancy, all are less debasing than the sordid116 corruption117 of which you suspected her.’
‘This does not, necessarily, prove her disinterested118; she is too young, yet, to know herself the value she may hereafter set upon wealth. And, independent of that inexperience, there is commonly so little stability, so little internal hold, in the female character, that any sudden glare of adventitious119 lure5, will draw them, for the moment, from any and every regular plan of substantial benefit. It remains120, therefore, now to be tried, if Beech121 Park, and its master united, can vie with the bright and intoxicating122 incense123 of a life voluntarily risked, in support... not of her fair fame, that was unknown to its defender124... but simply of the fair countenance which seemed its pledge.’
Edgar, heartless and sad, attempted no further argument; he thought the Doctor prejudiced against the merits of Camilla; yet it appeared, even to himself, that her whole conduct, from the short period of his open avowal125, had seemed a wilful126 series of opposition127 to his requests and opinions. And while terror for surrounding dangers gave weight to his disapprobation of her visiting Southampton, with a lady she knew him to think more attractive than safe or respectable, her sufferance of the vulgar and forward Mrs. Mittin, with whom again he saw her quit the hotel, was yet more offensive, since he could conceive for it no other inducement than a careless, if not determined128 humour, to indulge every impulse, in equal contempt of his counsel, and her own reflection,
All blame, however, of Camilla, was short of his self-dissatisfaction, in the distance imposed upon him by uncertainty, and the coldness dictated129 by discretion. At a period so sensitive, when her spirit was alarmed, and her delicacy was wounded, that a stranger should start forward, to vindicate130 her innocence, and chastise131 its detractors, was singular, was unfortunate, was nearly intolerable; and he thought he could with thankfulness, have renounced132 half his fortune, to have been himself the sole protector of Camilla.
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intervention
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