MRS. NORFIELD, a lady whom circumstances had brought into some intimacy1 with Mrs. Berlinton upon her marriage, had endeavoured, from the first of her entrance into high life, to draw her into a love of play; not with an idea of doing her any mischief2, for she was no more her enemy than her friend; but to answer her own purposes of having a Faro table under her own direction. She was a woman of fashion, and as such every-where received; but her fortune was small, and her passion for gaming inordinate3; and as there was not, at this time, one Faro table at Southampton, whither she was ordered for her health, she was almost wearied into a lethargy, till her reiterated4 intreaties prevailed, at length, with Mrs. Berlinton to hold one at her own house.
The fatigue5 of life without view, the peril6 of talents without prudence7, and the satiety8 of pleasure without intermission, were already dangerously assaulting the early independence and the moment of vacancy10 and weariness was seized by Mrs. Norfield, to press the essay of a new mode of amusement.
Mrs. Berlinton’s house opened, failed not to be filled; and opened for a Faro table, to be filled with a peculiar11 set. To game has, unfortunately, always its attractions; to game with a perfect novice12 is not what will render it less alluring13; and to see that novice rich and beautiful is still less likely to be repelling14.
Mr. Berlinton, when he made this marriage, supposed he had engaged for life a fair nurse to his infirmities; but when he saw her fixed16 aversion, he had not spirit to cope with it; and when she had always an excuse for a separation, he had not the sense to acquaint himself how she passed her time in his absence. A natural imbecility of mind was now nearly verging17 upon dotage18, and as he rarely quitted his room but at meal times, she made a point never to see him in any other part of the day. Her antipathy19 rendered her obdurate20, though her disposition21 was gentle, and she had now left him at Tunbridge, to meet her aunt at Southampton, with a knowledge he was too ill to follow her, and a determination, upon various pretences22, to stay away from him for some months. The ill fate of such unequal alliances is almost daily exemplified in life; and though few young brides of old bridegrooms fly their mates thus openly and decidedly, their retainers have seldom much cause to rejoice in superior happiness, since they are generally regarded but as the gaolers of their young prey23.
Moderation was the last praise to which Mrs. Berlinton had any claim; what she entered upon through persecution24, in an interval25 of mental supineness, she was soon awake to as a pleasure, and next pursued as a passion. Her beloved correspondent was neglected; her favourite authors were set aside; her country rambles26 were given up; balls and the rooms were forgotten; and Faro alone engrossed27 her faculties28 by day, and her dreams during the short epoch29 she reserved for sleep at night. She lost, as might be expected, as constantly as she played; but as money was not what she naturally valued, she disdained30 to weigh that circumstance; and so long as she had any to pay, resigned it with more grace than by others it was won.
That Camilla was not caught by this ruinous fascination31, was not simply the effect of necessity. Had the state of her finances been as flourishing as it was decayed, she would have been equally steady in this forbearance: her reason was fair, though her feelings frequently chaced it from the field. She looked on, therefore, with safety, though not wholly with indifference32; she had too much fancy not to be amused by the spirit of the business, and was too animated33 not to take part in the successive hopes and fears of the several competitors; but though her quick sensations prompted a readiness, like that of Mrs. Berlinton, to enter warmly into all that was presented to her, the resemblance went no further; what she was once convinced was wrong she was incapable34 of practising.
Upon Gaming, the first feeling and the latest reflection are commonly one; both point its hazards to be unnecessary, its purposes rapacious35, and its end desperate loss, or destructive gain; she not only, therefore, held back; she took the liberty, upon the privilege of their avowed36 friendship, to remonstrate37 against this dangerous pastime with Mrs. Berlinton. But that lady, though eminently39 designed to be amiable40, had now contracted the fearful habit of giving way to every propensity41; and finding her native notions of happiness were blighted42 in the bud, concluded that all which now remained for her was the indulgence of every luxury. She heard with sweetness the expostulation of her young friend; but she pursued her own course.
In a very few days, however, while the blush of shame dyed her beautiful cheeks, she inquired if Camilla could lend her a little ready money.
A blush of no less unpleasant feelings overspread the face of her fair guest, in being compelled to own she had none to lend; but she eagerly promised to procure43 some from Mrs. Mittin, who had a note in her hand to exchange for the payment of some small debts contracted at Tunbridge. Mrs. Berlinton, gathering44, from her confusion, how ill she was stored, would not hear of applying to this resource, ‘though I hate,’ she cried, ‘to be indebted to that odious45 old cousin, of whom I was obliged to borrow last night.’
Glaring imprudence in others is a lesson even to the most unthinking; Camilla, when she found that Mrs. Berlinton had lost every guinea she could command, ventured to renew still more forcibly her exhortations46 against the Faro table; but Mrs. Berlinton, notwithstanding she possessed47 an excellent capacity, was so little fortified48 with any practical tenets either of religion or morality, that where sentiment did not take the part of what was right, she had no preservative49 against what was wrong. The Faro table, therefore, was still opened; and Lord Valhurst, by the sums he lent, obtained every privilege of intimacy in the family, except that of being welcome.
Against this perilous50 mode of proceeding51 Camilla was not the only warner. Mrs. Ulst saw with extreme repugnance52 the mode of life her niece was pursuing, and reprimanded her with severe reproach; but her influence was now lost; and Mrs. Berlinton, though she kindly53 attended her, and sought to alleviate54 her sufferings, acted as if she were not in existence.
It was now Mrs. Mittin gained the highest point of her ambition; Mrs. Berlinton, tired of remonstrances55 she could not controvert56, and would not observe, was extremely relieved by finding a person who would sit with her aunt, comply with her humours, hear her lamentations, subscribe57 to her opinions, and beguile58 her of her rigid59 fretfulness by the amusement of gossiping anecdotes60.
Mrs. Mittin had begun life as the apprentice61 to a small country milliner; but had rendered herself so useful to a sick elderly gentlewoman, who lodged62 in the house, that she left her a legacy63, which, by sinking into an annuity64, enabled her to quit her business, and set up, in her own conception, for a gentlewoman herself; though with so very small an income, that to sustain her new post, she was frequently reduced to far greater dependence9 and hardships than she experienced in her old one. She was good-humoured, yet laborious65; gay, yet subservient66; poor, yet dissipated. To be useful, she would submit to any drudgery68; to become agreeable, devoted69 herself to any flattery. To please was her incessant70 desire, and her rage for popularity included every rank and class of society. The more eminent38, of course, were her first objects, but the same aim descended71 to the lowest. She would work, read, go of errands, or cook a dinner; be a parasite72, a spy, an attendant, a drudge67; keep a secret, or spread a report; incite73 a quarrel, or coax74 contending parties into peace; invent any expedient75, and execute any scheme... all with the pretext76 to oblige others, but all, in fact, for simple egotism; as prevalent in her mind as in that of the more highly ambitious, though meaner and less dangerous.
Camilla was much relieved when she found this officious person was no longer retained solely77 upon her account; but still she could neither obtain her bills, no answers ever arriving, nor the money for her twenty pound note, Mrs. Mittin always evading78 to deliver it, and asserting she was sure somebody would come in the stage the next day for the payment she had promised; and when Camilla wanted cash for any of the very few articles she now allowed herself to think indispensable, instead of restoring it into her hands, she flew out herself to purchase the goods that were required, and always brought them home with assurances they were cheaper than the shopkeepers would let her have them for herself.
Camilla resisted all incitements to new dress and new ornaments79, with a fortitude80 which must not be judged by the aged15, nor the retired81, who weighing only the frivolity82 of what she withstood, are not qualified83 to appreciate the merit of this sort of resignation; the young, the gay, the new in life, who know that, amongst minor84 calamities85, none are more alarming to the juvenile86 breast than the fear of not appearing initiated87 in the reigning88 modes, can alone do justice to the present philosophy of Camilla, in seeing that all she wore, by the quick changes of fashion, seemed already out of date; in refusing to look at the perpetual diversity of apparel daily brought, by various dress modellers, for the approbation89 of Mrs. Berlinton, and in seeing that lady always newly, brightly, and in a distinguished90 manner attired91, yet appearing by her side in exactly the same array that she had constantly worn at Tunbridge. Nor was Camilla indifferent to this contrast; but she submitted to it as the duty of her present involved situation, which exacted from her every privation, in preference to bestowing93 upon any new expence the only sum she could command towards clearing what was past.
But, after a very short time, the little wardrobe exhibited a worse quality than that of not keeping pace with the last devices of the ton; it lost not merely its newness, but its delicacy94. Alas95! thought she, how long, in the careful and rare wear of Etherington and Cleves, all this would have served me; while here, in this daily use, a fortnight is scarce passed, yet all is spoilt and destroyed. Ah! public places are only for the rich!
Now, therefore, Mrs. Mittin was of serious utility; she failed not to observe the declining state of her attire92; and though she wondered at the parsimony96 which so resolutely97 prohibited all orders for its renewal98, in a young lady she considered as so great an heiress, she was yet proud to display her various powers of proving serviceable. She turned, changed, rubbed, cleaned, and new made up all the several articles of which her dress was composed, to so much advantage, and with such striking effect, that for yet a few days more all seemed renewed, and by the arts of some few alterations99, her appearance was rather more than less fashionable than upon her first arrival.
But this could not last long; and when all, again, was fading into a state of decay, Mrs. Berlinton received an invitation for herself and her fair guest, to a great ball and supper, given upon the occasion of a young nobleman’s coming of age, in which all the dancers, by agreement, were to be habited in uniform.
This uniform was to be clear fine lawn, with lilac plumes100 and ornaments.
Camilla had now, with consuming regret, passed several days without one sight of Edgar. This invitation, therefore, which was general to all the company at Southampton, was, in its first sound, delicious; but became, upon consideration, the reverse. Clear lawn and lilac plumes and ornaments she had none; how to go she knew not; yet Edgar she was sure would be there; how to stay away she knew less.
This was a severe moment to her courage; she felt it faltering,.and putting down the card of invitation, without the force of desiring Mrs. Berlinton to make her excuse, repaired to her own room, terrified by the preponderance of her wishes to a consent which she knew her situation rendered unwarrantable.
There, however, though she gained time for reflection, she gathered not the resolution she sought. The stay at Southampton, by the desire of Lynmere, had been lengthened101; yet only a week remained, before she must return to her father and her Uncle... but how return? separated from Edgar? Edgar whom she still believed she had only to see again in some more auspicious102 moment to re-conquer and fix for life! But when and where might that auspicious moment be looked for? not at Mrs. Berlinton’s ; there he no more attempted to visit: not at the Rooms; those regions were decidedly relinquished103, and all general invitations were inadequate104 to draw Mrs. Berlinton from her new pursuit: where, then, was this happy explanation to pass?
When our wishes can only be gratified with difficulty, we conclude, in the ardour of combating their obstacle, that to lose them, is to lose everything, to obtain them is to ensure all good. At this ball, and this supper, Camilla painted Edgar completely restored to her; she was certain he would dance with her; she was sure he would sit by no one else during the repast; the many days since they had met would endear to him every moment they could now spend together, and her active imagination soon worked up scenes so important from this evening, that she next persuaded her belief that all chance of reconciliation105 hung wholly upon the meeting it offered.
Impelled106 by this notion, yet wavering, dissatisfied, and uncomfortable, she summoned Mrs. Mittin, and entreated107 she would make such inquiries108 concerning the value of the ball-dress uniform, as would enable her to estimate its entire expence.
Her hours passed now in extreme disquietude; for while all her hopes centred in the approaching festival, the estimate which was to determine her power of enjoying it was by no means easy to procure. Mrs. Mittin, though an adept109 in such matters, took more pleasure in the parade than in the performance of her task; and always answered to her inquiries, that it was impossible to speak so soon; that she must go to such another shop first; that she must consult with such and such a person; and that she must consider over more closely the orders given by Mrs. Berlinton, which were to be her direction, though with the stipulation110 of having materials much cheaper and more common.
At length, however, she burst into her room, one morning, before she was dressed, saying: ‘Now, my dear miss, I hope I shall make you happy;’ and displayed, upon the bed, a beautiful piece of fine lawn.
Camilla examined and admired it, asked what it was a yard, and how much would suffice for the dress.
‘Why, my dear, I’ll answer for it there’s enough for three whole dresses; why it’s a whole piece; and I dare say I can get a handkerchief and an apron111 out of it into the bargain.’
‘But I want neither handkerchief, nor apron, nor three dresses, Mrs. Mittin; I shall take the smallest quantity that is possible, if I take any at all.’
Mrs. Mittin said that the man would not cut it, and she must take the whole, or none.
Camilla was amazed she could so far have misunderstood her as to bring it upon such terms, and begged she would carry it back.
‘Nay, if you don’t take this, my dear, there’s nothing in the shops that comes near it for less than fifteen shillings a-yard; Mrs. Berlinton gives eighteen for her’s , and it don’t look one bit to choose; and this, if you take it all together, you may have for ten, for all its width, for there’s 30 yards, and the piece comes to but fifteen pound.’
Camilla protested she would not, at this time, pay ten shillings a-yard for any gown in the world.
Mrs. Mittin, who had flattered herself that the handkerchief and apron, at least, if not one of the gowns, would have fallen to her share, was much discomposed by this unexpected declaration; and disappointed, murmuring, and conceiving her the most avaricious112 of mortals, was forced away; leaving Camilla in complete despondence of any power to effect her wish with propriety113.
Mrs. Mittin came back late, and with a look of dismay; the man of whom she had had the muslin, who was a traveller, whom she had met at a friend’s , had not waited her return; and, as she had left the fifteen pounds with him, for a pledge of the security of his goods, she supposed he had made off, to get rid of the whole piece at once.
Camilla felt petrified114. No possible pleasure or desire could urge her, deliberately115, to what she deemed an extravagance; yet here, in one moment, she was despoiled116 of three parts of all she possessed, either for her own use, or towards the restitution117 of her just debts with others.
Observing her distress118, though with more displeasure than pity, from believing it founded in the most extraordinary covetousness119, Mrs. Mittin proposed measuring the piece in three, and disposing of the two gowns she did not want to Mrs. Berlinton, or her sister and Miss Lynmere.
Camilla was a little revived; but the respite120 of difficulty was short; upon opening the piece, it was found damaged; and after the first few yards, which Mrs. Mittin had sedulously121 examined, not a breadth had escaped some rent, fray122, or mischief.
The ill being now irremediable, to make up the dress in the cheapest manner possible was the only consolation123 that remained. Mrs. Mittin knew a mantua-maker who, to oblige her, would undertake this for a very small payment; and she promised to procure everything else that was necessary for the merest trifle.
Determined124, however, to risk nothing more in such hands, she now positively125 demanded that the residue126 of the note should be restored to her own keeping. Mrs. Mittin, though much affronted127, honestly refunded128 the five pounds. The little articles she had occasionally brought were still unpaid129 for; but her passion for detaining the money was merely with a view to give herself consequence, in boasting how and by whom she was trusted, and now and then drawing out her purse, before those who had less to produce; but wholly without any design of imposition or fraud; all she could obtain by hints and address she conceived to be fair booty; but further she went not even in thought.
Three days now only remained before this event-promising ball was to take place, and within three after it, the Southampton expedition was to close. Camilla scarce breathed from impatience130 for the important moment, which was preceded by an invitation to all the company, to take a sail on the Southampton water on the morning of the entertainment.
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approbation
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delicacy
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parsimony
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reconciliation
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