THE suddenness of this blow to Camilla, at the moment when her expectations from Edgar were wound up to the summit of all she desired, would have stupefied her into a consternation1 beyond even affliction, had not the mildness of his farewell, the kindness of his prayers, and the friendship of his counsels, joined to the generosity2 of leaving wholly to herself the account of their separation, subdued3 all the pride that sought to stifle4 her tenderness, and penetrated5 her with an admiration6 which left not one particle of censure7 to diminish her regret.
Melmond and his sister, always open to distress8, and susceptible9 to pity, saw with true concern this melancholy10 change, and concluded that Mandlebert had communicated some painful intelligence.
She went straight to her own room, with a sign of supplication11 that Mrs. Berlinton would not follow; and turning quick from Mrs. Mittin, who met her at the street door.
Mrs. Berlinton yielded; but Mrs. Mittin was not easily rebuffed. She was loaded with lilac plumes12, ribbands, and gauzes, and Camilla saw her bed completely covered with her new ball dress.
This sight was, at first, an aggravation13 of her agony, by appearing to her as superfluous14 as it was expensive: but wherever hope could find an aperture15 to creep in at, it was sure of a welcome from Camilla. Edgar was undoubtedly16 invited to the ball; why should he not be there? he had taken leave of her, indeed, and he certainly proposed going abroad; but could a mere17 meeting once more, be so repugnant as not to be endured.
The answer to this question was favourable18 to her wishes, for by her wishes it was framed: and the next play of her fertile and quick reviving imagination, described the meeting that would ensue, the accidents that would bring them into the same set, the circumstances that would draw them again into conversation, and the sincerity19 with which she would do justice to her unalterable esteem20, by assuring him how injurious to it were his surmises21 that she thought him rigorous, austere22, or in any single instance to blame.
These hopes somewhat appeased23, though their uncertainty25 could not banish26 her terrors, and she was able to appear at dinner tolerably composed.
Another affair, immediately after, superseded28 them, for the present, by more urgent difficulties.
Soon after her arrival at Southampton, a poor woman, who washed for her, made a petition in behalf of her brother, a petty shop-keeper, who, by various common, yet pitiable circumstances of unmerited ill success in business, was unable to give either money or security to the wholesale29 dealers30, for the renewal31 of his exhausted32 stock in trade; though the present full season, made it rational to suppose, that, if he had his usual commodities, he might retrieve33 his credit, save himself from bankruptcy34, and his children from beggary. These last, which were five in number, were all, upon various pretences35, brought to Camilla, whose pity they excited by the innocence36 with which they seemed ignorant of requiring it; and who received them with smiles and encouragement, however frivolous37 their errands, and frequent their interruptions. But the goods which their father wanted to lay in, to revive his trade, demanded full thirty pounds, which, Camilla declared, were as absolutely out of her power to give as thirty thousand, though she promised to plead to Sir Hugh for the sum, upon her return to Cleves, and was prevailed with to grant her name to this promise for the wholesale dealers. These would trust, however, to no verbal security; and Mrs. Mittin, who from collateral38 reasons was completely a friend of the poor man, offered to be bound for him herself, though thirty pounds were nearly her year’s income, provided Camilla would sign a paper, by which she would engage upon her honour, to indemnify her of any loss she might eventually sustain by this agreement, as soon as she was of age, or should find it in her power before that time.
The seriousness of this clause, made Camilla refuse the responsibility, protesting she should have no added means in consequence of being of age. But Mrs. Mittin assured Higden, the poor man, as she assured all others, that she was heiress to immense wealth, for she had had it from one that had it from her own brother’s own mouth; and that though she could not find out why she was so shy of owning it, she supposed it was only from the fear of being imposed upon.
The steadiness of Camilla, however, could not withstand her compassion39, when the washerwoman brought the poor children to beg for their father; and, certain of her uncle’s bounty40, she would have run a far more palpable risk, sooner than have assumed the force to send them weeping away.
The stores were then delivered; and all the family poured forth41 their thanks.
But this day, in quitting the dining parlour, she was stopt in the hall by Higden, who, in unfeigned agonies, related, that some flasks42 of oil, in a small hamper43, which were amongst the miscellaneous articles of his just collected stores, had, by some cruel accident, been crushed, and their contents, finding their way into all the other packages, had stained or destroyed them.
Camilla, to whose foresight44 misfortune never presented itself, heard this with nearly equal terror for herself, and sorrow for the poor man: yet her own part, in a second minute, appeared that of mere inconvenience, compared with his, which seemed ruin irretrievable; she sought, therefore, to comfort him; but could afford no further help, since she had painfully to beg from her uncle the sum already so uselessly incurred45. He ventured still to press, that, if again he could obtain a supply, every evil chance should be guarded against; but Camilla had now learned that accidents were possible; and the fear which arises from disappointed trust, made her think of probable mischiefs46 with too acute a discernment, to deem it right to run again any hazard, where, if there were a failure, another, not herself, would be the sufferer. Yet the despair of the poor man induced her to promise she would write in his favour, though not act in it again unauthorised.
With feelings of still augmented47 discomfort48, from her denial, she repaired to her toilette; but attired49 herself without seeing what she put on, or knowing, but by Mrs. Mittin’s descriptions and boastings, that her dress was new, of the Pervil uniform, and made precisely51 like that of Mrs. Berlinton. Her agitated52 spirits, suspended, not between hope and fear, but hope and despair, permitted no examination of its elegance53: the recollection of its expence, and the knowledge that Edgar thought her degenerating54 into coquetry, left nothing but regret for its wear.
Mrs. Berlinton, who never before, since her marriage, had been of any party where her attractions had not been unrivalled, had believed herself superior to pleasure from personal homage55, and knew not, till she missed it, that it made any part of her amusement in public. But the Beauty, when first she perceives a competitor for the adulation she has enjoyed exclusively, and the Statesman, at the first turn of popular applause to an antagonist56, are the two beings who, perhaps, for the moment, require the most severe display of self-command, to disguise, under the semblance57 of good humour or indifference58, the disappointment they experience in themselves, or the contempt with which they are seized for the changing multitude.
Mrs. Berlinton, though she felt no resentment59 against Camilla for the desertion she had occasioned her, felt much surprize; not to be first was new to her: and whoever, in any station of life, any class of society, has had regular and acknowledged precedency, must own a sudden descent to be rather aukward. Where resignation is voluntary, to give up the higher place may denote more greatness of mind than to retain it; but where imposed by others, few things are less exhilarating to the principal, or impress less respect upon the by-stander.
Mrs. Berlinton had never been vain; but she could not be ignorant of her beauty; and that the world’s admiration should be so wondrously60 fickle61, or so curiously62 short-lived, as to make even the bloom of youth fade before the higher zest63 of novelty, was an earlier lesson than her mind was prepared to receive. She thought she had dressed herself that morning with too much carelessness of what was becoming, and devoted64 to this evening a greater portion of labour and study.
While Camilla was impatiently waiting, Mrs. Pollard, the washerwoman, gained admittance to her, and bringing two interesting little children of from four to five years old, and an elder girl of eleven, made them join with herself to implore65 their benefactress to save them all from destruction.
Higden having had the imprudence, in his grief, to make known his recent misfortune, it had reached the ears of his landlord, who already was watchful66 and suspicious, from a year and half arrears67 of his rent; and steps were immediately preparing to seize whatever was upon the premises68 the next morning; which, by bringing upon him all his other creditors69, would infallibly immure70 him in the lingering hopelessness of a prison.
Camilla now wavered; the debt was but eighteen pounds; the noble largesses of her uncle in charity, till, of late, that he had been somewhat drained by Lionel, were nearly unlimited71.–She paused-looked now at the pleading group, now at her expensive dress; asked how, for her own hopes, she could risk so much, yet for their deliverance from ruin so little; and with a blush turning from the mirrour, and to the children with a tear, finally consented that the landlord should apply to her the next morning.
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Lord Pervil had some time opened the ball before Mrs. Berlinton’s arrival; but he looked every where for Camilla, to succeed to a young lady of quality with whom he had danced the first two dances. He could not, however, believe he had found, though he now soon saw and made up to her. The brilliancy of her eyes was dimmed by weeping, her vivacity72 was changed into dejection, sighs and looks of absence took place of smiles and sallies of gaiety, and her whole character seemed to have lost its spring and elasticity73. She gave him her hand, to preserve her power of giving it if claimed by Edgar, and though he had thought of her without ceasing since she had charmed him in the yacht, till he had obtained it, not a lady appeared in the room, by the time these two dances were over, that he would not more chearfully have chosen for two more: her gravity every minute encreased, her eye rolled, with restless anxiety, every where, except to meet his, and so little were her thoughts, looks, or conversation bestowed74 upon her partner, that instead of finding the animated76 beauty who had nearly captivated him on board the yacht, he seemed coupled with a fair lifeless machine, whom the music, perforce, put in motion; and relinquished77 her hand with as little reluctance78 as she withdrew it.
Melmond had again, by his sister, been forced into the party, though with added unwillingness79, from his new idea of Indiana. Now, however, to avoid that fair bane was impossible: Indiana was the first object to meet every eye, from the lustre80 of her beauty, and the fineness of her figure, each more than ever transcendently conspicuous81, from the uniform which had obliged every other female in the room to appear in exactly the same attire50. Yet great and unrivalled as was the admiration which she met, what came simply and naturally was insufficient82 for the thirst with which she now quaffed83 this intoxicating84 beverage85; and to render its draughts86 still more delicious, she made Eugenia always hold by her arm. The contrast here to the spectators was diverting as well as striking, and renewed attention to her own charms, when the eye began to grow nearly sated with gazing. The ingenuous87 Eugenia, incapable88 of suspecting such a design, was always the dupe to the request, from the opinion it was made in kindness, to save her from fatigue89 in the eternal sauntering of a public place; and, lost to all fear, in being lost to all hope, as to her own appearance, chearfully accompanied her beautiful kinswoman, without conjecturing90 that, in a company whence the illiterate91 and vulgar were excluded, personal imperfections could excite pleasantry, or be a subject of satire92.
Camilla, who still saw nothing of Edgar, yet still thought it possible he might come, joined them as soon as she was able. Miss Margland was full of complaints about Dr. Orkborne, for his affording them no assistance in the yacht, and not coming home even to dinner, nor to attend them to Lord Pervil’s ; and Eugenia, who was sincerely attached to the Doctor, from the many years he had been her preceptor, was beginning to express her serious uneasiness at his thus strangely vanishing; when Clermont, with the most obstreperous93 laughter, made up to them, and said: ‘I’ll tell you a monstrous94 good joke! the best thing you ever heard in your life! the old Doctor’s been upon the very point of being drowned!-and he has not had a morsel95 to eat all day!’
He then related that his man, having seen him composedly seated, and musing96 upon a pile of planks97 which were seasoning98 upon the beach, with his face turned away from the company to avoid its interruptions, had enquired100 if he had any commands at home, whither he was going: ‘Not for meaning to do them,’ continued Lynmere; ‘No, no! catch Bob at that! but only to break in upon him; for Bob’s a rare hand at a joke. He says he’s ready to die with laughing, when he speaks to the old Doctor while he’s studying, because he looks so much as if he wished we were all hanged. However, he answered tolerably civilly, and only desired that nobody might go into his room till he came home from the sail, for he’d forgot to lock it. So Bob, who smoked how the matter was, says: ‘The sail, Sir, what are you going alone, then? for all the company’s been gone these two hours.’ So this put him in such a taking, Bob says he never laughed so much in his life. He jumped up as if he’d been bit: ‘Gone?’ says he, ‘why where’s Miss Eugenia, I promised Sir Hugh not to lose sight of her.’ So he said he’d go after her that very moment. ‘Call me a boat,’ said he: just as if he’d ordered a hackney coach; for he knows about as much of winds and tides as my little bay Filly, that I bought of Halder yesterday for fifty pounds, but that I shall make worth seventy in less than a month. Well, there was nothing to be had but a small fishing boat, so Bob winks101 at the man to take in a friend; for he has all those fellows in a string! So in went his Latinship, and off they put. Bob fell into such a fit of laughter, he says I might have heard him a mile off. I don’t think Bob has his fellow upon earth for fun.’
Eugenia now interrupted the narration102, with a serious enquiry where Dr. Orkborne was at present.
Lynmere, shouting at what he thought the ridicule103 of this concern, answered, that Bob had told the fisherman to go about his own business, unless the Doctor offered to pay him handsomely for taking him on board the yacht; but thinking it would be a good joke to know what was become of him, he had gone himself, with Halder, and some more choice blades, to the beach, about half an hour ago, to make Bob see if the fishing boat was come in; and, by good luck, they arrived at the very nick of time, and saw the Doctor, the fish, and the fishing-tackle, all hauled out together. ‘And a better sight was never seen before, I promise you!’ continued Lynmere; ‘I thought I should quite have burst my sides with looking at him, he was so wet and so cold, and so miserable104; and when I thought of his having had no dinner, I shouted till I was ready to roll on the beach-and he smelt105 so of the fish, that I could have hugged Bob, ’twas such monstrous good sport. He got three half crowns in a minute for his ingenuity106. Halder began;-and two others of us gave two more.’
‘Poor Dr. Orkborne! and where is he now?’ said Eugenia.
‘Why we got about the fisherman, and then we had all the same fun over again: He says, that, at first, the poor gentleman was in a great taking, fretting107 and fuming108, and looking out for the yacht, and seeming almost beside himself for hurry to get to it; but after that, he takes out a little red book and a pencil, and falls to writing, just as hard as if he’d come into the boat for nothing else; insomuch, that when they were just coming along-side the yacht, he never lifted up his head, nor listened to one word, but kept making a motion with his hand to be let alone: and when the man said the yacht would be passed, he bid him hold his peace, and not interrupt him so, in such a pettish109 manner, that the man resolved to take honest Bob’s advice, and go on about his own business. And so he did, and the Doctor was as content as a lord, till he had scribbled110 all he could scratch out of his noddle: but then came the best sport of all; for when he had nothing more to write, and looked up, and saw the boat stock still, and the man fishing at his leisure, and heard the yacht had been bound homeward of a good hour, he was in such a perilous111 passion, the man says, that he actually thought he’d have jumped overboard. I’ll bet what you will he won’t ask Bob to call him a boat again in a hurry.’
‘As to his behaviour,’ said Miss Margland, ‘it’s the last thing in the world to surprize me, after what I have seen myself; nor any body else, I believe, neither. Who is Dr. Orkborne? I doubt much if any body ever heard his name before. I should like to know if any body can tell who was his grandfather!’
She then declared, if she could get any soul to fetch him, he should still come, if it were only that he might not pass the evening all in his own way, which would be just the thing to encourage him to hide himself out of sight, on purpose not to help them another time.
Eugenia was going to beg he might not be disturbed, when Melmond, all alacrity112 to seize any means of absenting himself from the two cousins, who produced in him so severe a conflict, offered his services to carry a message to the Doctor; which, being readily accepted, he set off.
Indiana and Eugenia, not wholly without similarity of sensation, looked after him. Indiana had now caught his eye; and though quickness was no part of her character, the tale it told had convinced her that her power, though no longer acknowledged was not extinguished; it required neither elemental precepts113, nor sagacious perceptions, to make this discovery, and she exultingly114 determined116 to appease24 her late mortification117, by reducing him to her feet. She stopt not to enquire99 what such a step might be to Eugenia, nor what was likely, or even desirable to be its event. Where narrow minds imagine they have received injury, they seek revenge rather than redress118, from an opinion that such a conduct asserts their own importance.
Still vainly, and wretchedly, the eyes of Camilla sought Edgar: the evening advanced, but he came not; yet, catching119 at every possible chance for hope, she thought some other room that they had not visited, might be open for company, where, finally, they might meet.
Dr. Orkborne accompanied Melmond back. Miss Margland was preparing him a reproachful reception, but was so much offended by the fishy120 smell which he brought into the room, that she had immediate27 recourse to her salts, and besought121 him to stand out of her way. He complied without reluctance, though with high disdain122.
The young ladies were all dancing. Indiana had no sooner perceived Melmond, than she determined to engage his attention: the arts of coquetry require but slender parts, where the love of admiration is potent123; she pretended, therefore, to feel extremely ill, put her hand to her forehead, and telling her partner, Mr. Halder, she could not stand another minute, hastened to Miss Margland, and cast herself, as if fainting, upon her neck.
This had all the success with Melmond that his own lively imagination could give it. He flew to a side-table to get her a glass of water, which his trembling hand could scarce hold, but which she received from him with a languishing124 sweetness, that dissolved every tie but of love, and he ‘hung over her enamoured;’ [Milton] while Miss Margland related that she could hardly keep from fainting herself, so much she had been shocked and disordered by the horrid126 smell of Dr. Orkborne.
Indiana now caught the infection, and protested she was so much worse, that if she had not a little air she should die. Melmond was flying to open a window, but a lady who sat close to it, objected; and he had then recourse to two folding doors, leading to a portico127 open to a large garden.
Hither Indiana permitted herself to be led, and led by the thrice happy, yet thrice miserable Melmond. Miss Margland was accompanying them, but Lady Pervil, advancing to enquire what went wrong, gave her an opportunity irresistible128 to inveigh129 against Dr. Orkborne; and as her well-bred hearer, though little interested in such a detail, would not interrupt it, Indiana arrived alone in the portico with Melmond. Halder, who had danced with her, followed, but supposing Melmond the favoured man, walked singing off, and made the tour of the garden.
This situation was to Melmond as dangerous, as to Indiana it was exulting115. She now suddenly withdrew her hand, with an air of poignant130 disdain, which the illuminated131 portico and house made amply visible; and when, surprised and much moved, he tremblingly enquired if she were worse, she answered, ‘Why do you ask? I am sure you do not care.’
Easily deprived of all forbearance, ‘Heavens!’ he exclaimed, ‘do I live, yet suffer this imputation132! O divine Indiana! load me with every other reproach, rather than this dreadful charge of insensibility to all that is most lovely, most perfect upon earth!’
‘I thought,’ said Indiana, again softening133 her fine eyes, ‘you had quite forgot me, and all the vows134 you made to me.’
‘Wretch that I am,’ cried Melmond nearly distracted by this charge, and by the regret at losing him, which seemed its purpose, ‘condemned to every species of woe135! O fair, angelic Indiana! in a cottage with you would I have dwelt, more delightedly, and more proudly, than any potentate136 in the most gorgeous palace: but, alas137! from you-formed to enchant138 all mankind, and add grace to every dignity-from you could I dare ask such a sacrifice?’
Indiana now listened with an attentive139 softness no longer factitious; though all her views wafted140 her to splendour and high life, her ear could not withstand the romantic sound of love and a cottage; and though no character was ever less formed to know and taste the blessings141 such a spot may bestow75 and reciprocate142, she imagined she might there be happy, for she considered such a habitation but as a bower143 of eglantine and roses, in which she might repose144 and be adored all day long.
Melmond saw but too quickly the relenting cast of her countenance145; and ecstasy146 and despair combated which should bear sway in his breast. ‘Ah, madam,’ he cried, ‘most adorable and most adored of women! you know my terrible situation, but you know not the sufferings, nor the constancy of my heart!-the persecution147 of friends, the pressure of distress, the hopelessness of my idolized Indiana–’
A deep sigh interrupted him-it came not from Indiana-startled, he looked round-and beheld148 Eugenia, leaning against the door by which she seemed to have intended entering, pale, petrified149, aghast.
Shame now tied his tongue, and tingled150, with quick reproach, through his whole frame. He looked at Indiana with despair, at Eugenia with remorse151; injured rectitude and blushing honour urged him to the swiftest termination of so every way terrible a scene, and bowing low to Eugenia, ‘I durst not, madam,’ he cried, ‘ever hope for your pardon! yet I rather deluded152 myself than deceived you when I ventured to solicit153 your acceptance. Alas! I am a bankrupt both in fortune and in heart, and can only pray you will hasten to forget-that you may forbear to execrate154 me!’
He then disappeared, finding a way out by the garden, to avoid re-entering the ball-room.
Eugenia, who, in this speech, comprehended an eternal adieu, sunk upon the seat of the portico, cold, shivering, almost lifeless. Little prepared for such an event, she had followed Indiana the moment she was disengaged from the dance, not suspicious of any tête-à-tête, from believing Halder of the party. The energy of Melmond made her approach unheard; and the words she unavoidably caught, nearly turned her to marble.
Indiana was sorry for her distress, yet felt a triumph in its cause; and wondered how so plain a little creature could take it into her head to think of marrying.
Camilla now joined them, affrighted at the evident anguish125 of Eugenia, who, leaning upon her affectionate bosom155, had the relief excited by pity, of bursting into tears, while despondingly she uttered: ‘All is over, my sister, and over for life with Eugenia! Melmond flies and detests156 me! I am odious157 in his sight! I am horror to this thoughts!’
Camilla wept over her in silent, but heart-breaking sympathy. Indiana returned to the dance: but the two suffering sisters remained in the portico till summoned to depart. They were insensible to the night air, from the fever of their minds. They spoke158 no more; they felt the insufficiency of words to express their griefs, and their mutual159 compassion was all that softened160 their mutual sorrows.
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