THE serenity1 of virtue2 would now again have made its abode3 the breast of Mr. Tyrold, but for the constant wretchedness to which he saw his daughter a prey4. With the benignest pity he strove to revive her; a pity unabated by any wonder, unalloyed with any blame. His wonder fell all upon Edgar, whom he considered as refining away mortal happiness, by dissatisfaction that it was not divine; but his censure5, which he reserved wholly for vice6, exonerated7 them both. Still, however, he flattered himself that ere long, to her youthful mind and native chearfulness, tranquillity8, if not felicity, would imperceptibly return, from such a union for exertion9 of filial and sisterly duties: that industry would sweeten rest, virtue gild10 privation, and self-approvance convert every sacrifice into enjoyment11.
But peace such as this was far from her bosom12. While the desertion of Edgar had tolled13 the death bell to all her hopes, an unremitting contention14 disturbed her mind, whether to avow15 or conceal16 her situation with regard to the money-lender. The reflections of every night brought a dissatisfaction in her conduct, which determined17 her upon an openness the most undisguised for the following morning: but timidity, and the desire of reprieve18 from the fearful task, again, the following morning, regularly postponed19 her purpose.
In the first horror occasioned by her father’s distress20 from the bills of her brother, she wrote a supplicating21 letter to Mrs. Mittin, to intreat she would endeavour to quiet her creditors22 till she could arrange something for their payment. And while this produced a correspondence replete23 with danger, difficulty, and impropriety, a new circumstance occurred, which yet more cruelly embittered24 her conflicting emotions. Lavinia, in the virtuous25 eagerness of her heart to forward the general oeconomy, insisted wholly to relinquish26, for this year, her appropriate allowance; declaring that, by careful management, she could dispense27 with anything new, and that the very few expences she might find utterly28 unavoidable, she would demand from time to time as they occurred. Camilla, at this proposition, retreated, in agony, to her chamber29. To make the same was impossible; for how, then, find interest for the money-lender? yet to withstand so just an example, seemed a disgrace to every duty and every feeling.
Lavinia, who, in her countenance30 and abrupt31 departure, read the new distress she had incautiously excited, with a thousand self-reproaches followed her. She had considered but the common cause when she spoke32, without weighing the strange appearance of not being seconded by her sister: But her mind was amongst the last to covet33 the narrow praise of insidious34 comparison; and her concern for the proposal she had made, when she saw its effect, was as deep as that of Camilla in hearing it, though not attended with the same aggravations.
Mr. Tyrold remained utterly surprized. The generous and disinterested35 nature of Camilla, made it impossible to suspect her restrained by a greater love of money than Lavinia; and he could not endure to suppose her late visits to public places, had rendered personal oeconomy more painful.
But he would make no enquiry that might seem a reproach; nor suffer any privation or contribution that was not chearful and voluntary.
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The purchases for the wedding of Miss Dennel being now made, that young lady came down to the country to solemnize her nuptials36, accompanied by Mrs. Mittin, who instantly visited Camilla.
She could settle nothing, she said, with the money-lender, without the premium37; but she had coaxed38 all the creditors, by assuring them, that, as the debtor39 was a great heiress, they were certain of their money when she came to her estate. Camilla could not endure to owe their forbearance to a falsehood; though to convince Mrs. Mittin of her errour, in contradiction to the assertion of Lionel, was a vain attempt. The business, however, pressed; and to keep back these but too just claimants was her present most fervent40 desire. Mrs. Mittin was amongst the most expert of expedient-mongers, and soon started a method for raising the premium. She asked to look at what Camilla possessed41 of trinkets: and the prize ear-rings of Tunbridge, the ear-rings and necklace of Southampton, and several small toys occasionally given her, were collected. The locket she also demanded, to make weight; but neither that, nor the peculiar42 gifts, as keep-sakes, of her father, mother, or uncle, consisting of a seal, a ring, and a watch, would she part with.
What she would relinquish, however, Mrs. Mittin disposed of to one of her numerous friends; but they raised only, when intrinsically valued, sixteen pounds. Lavinia then insisted upon coming forward with a contribution of every trinket she was worth, save what had the same sacred motives44 of detention45: and the twenty pounds, without any ceremony of acknowledgment, were delivered to Mr. Clykes; who then took into his own hands the payment of the hundred and eighteen pounds; for which he received a bond, signed by Camilla, and witnessed by Mrs. Mittin; and another note of hand, promising46 ten per cent. interest for the sum, till the principal were repaid. These two notes, he acknowledged, were mere47 pledges of honour, as the law would treat her as an infant: but he never acted without them, as they prevented mistakes in private dealings.
This important affair arranged, Camilla felt somewhat more at ease; she was relieved from hourly alarms, and left the mistress to make her confession48 as circumstances directed. But she obtained not for nothing the agency of Mrs. Mittin, who was not a character to leave self out of consideration in her transactions for others; and at every visit made at Etherington from this time, she observed something in the apparel of Camilla that was utterly old fashioned, or too mean for her to wear; but which would do well enough for herself, when vamped up, as she knew how. Her obligations and inexperience made it impossible to her to resist, though, at this season of saving care, she gave up nothing which she could not have rendered useful, by industry and contrivance.
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During this unhappy period at Etherington, a brighter, though not unclouded scene, was exhibited at Cleves. Melmond arrived; he was permitted to pay his addresses to the fair Indiana, and believed felicity celestial49 accorded to him even upon earth.
But this adored object herself suffered some severe repining at her fate, when she saw, from her window, her lover gallop50 into the park without equipage, without domestics, and mounted on a hired horse. The grimacing51 shrugs52 of Miss Margland shewed she entered into this mortification53; and they were nearly conspiring54 to dismiss the ignoble55 pretender, when a letter, which he modestly sent up, from his sister, inviting56 Indiana to pass a few weeks in Grosvenor Square, once again secured the interest of the brother. She suffered, therefore, Sir Hugh to hand her down stairs, and the enamoured Melmond thought himself the most blest of men.
The sight of such eager enjoyment, and the really amiable57 qualities of this youth, soon completely reconciled the Baronet to this new business; for he saw no reason, he said, in fact, why one niece had not as good a right to be married first as another. The generous and sentimental58 Eugenia never ceased her kind offices, and steadily59 wore an air of tolerable chearfulness all day, though her pillow was nightly wetted with tears for her unfortunate lot.
Nor, with all her native equanimity60 and acquired philosophy, was this a situation to bring back serenity. The enthusiastic raptures61 of Melmond elevated him, in her eyes, to something above human; and while his adoration62 of Indiana presented to her a picture of all she thought most fascinating, his grateful softness of respect to herself, was penetratingly touching63 to her already conquered heart.
Indiana, meanwhile, began ere long, to catch some of the pleasure she inspired. The passionate64 animation65 of Melmond, soon not only resumed its first power, but became even essential to her. No one else had yet seemed to think her so completely a goddess, except Mr. Macdersey, whom she scarce expected ever to see again. With Melmond she could do nothing that did not make her appear to him still more lovely: and though her whims66, thus indulged, became almost endless, they but kindled67 with fresh flame his admiration68. If she fretted69, he thought her all sensibility; if she pouted70, all dignity; if her laughter was unmeaning, she was made up of innocent gaiety; if what she said was shallow, he called her the child of pure nature; if she were angry, how becoming was her spirit! if illiberal71, how noble was her frankness! Her person charmed his eye, but his own imagination framed her mind, and while his enchanted72 faculties73 were the mere slaves of her beauty, they persuaded themselves they were vanquished74 by every other perfection.
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Mr. Tyrold had not yet related Edgar’s defection to Sir Hugh; though from the moment the time of hope was past, he wished to end that of expectation. But the pressure of the affairs of Lionel detained him at Etherington, and he could not bear to give grief to his brother, till he could soften75 its effect by the consolation76 of some residence at Cleves. This time now arrived; and the next day was fixed77 for his painful task, in which he meant to spare Camilla any share, when Jacob begged immediate78 admittance into the study, where Mr. Tyrold and his daughters were drinking tea.
His scared look instantly announced ill news. Mr. Tyrold was alarmed, Lavinia was frightened, and Camilla exclaimed, ‘Jacob, speak at once!’
He begged to sit down.
Camilla ran to get him a chair.
‘Is my brother well, Jacob?’ cried Mr. Tyrold.
‘Why, pretty well, considering, Sir,-but these are vast bad times for us!’
‘O! if my uncle is but well,’ cried Camilla, relieved from her first dreadful doubt, ‘all, I hope, will do right!’
‘Why, ay, Miss,’ said Jacob, smiling, ‘I knew you’d be master’s best comfort; and so I told him, and so he says, for that matter himself, as I’ve got to tell you from him. But, for all that, he takes on prodigious79 bad. I never saw him in the like way, except just that time when Miss Geny had the small pox.’
They all supplicated80 him to forbear further comments, and then gathered, that a money-agent, employed by young Lynmere, had just arrived at Cleves; where, with bitter complaints, he related that, having been duped into believing him heir to Sir Hugh Tyrold, he had been prevailed with to grant him money, from time to time, to pay certain bills, contracted not only there, but in London, for goods sent thence by his order, to the amount of near thirteen hundred pounds, without the interest, of which he should give a separate account; that he had vainly applied81 to the young gentleman for re-imbursement, who finally assured him he was just disinherited by his uncle. No hope, therefore, remained to save him from the ruin of this affair, but in the compassion82 of the Baronet, which he now came to most humbly83 solicit84.
While Mr. Tyrold, in silent surprise and concern, listened to an account that placed his brother in difficulties so similar to his own, Camilla, sinking back in her chair, looked pale, looked almost lifeless. The history of the debts she already knew, and had daily expected to hear; but the circumstance of the money-lender, and the delusion85 concerning the inheritance, so resembled her own terrible, and yet unknown story, that she felt personally involved in all the shame and horror of the relation.
Mr. Tyrold, who believed her suffering all for her uncle, made further enquiries, while Lavinia tenderly sustained her. ‘Don’t take on so, dear Miss,’ said Jacob, ‘for all our hope is in you, as Master and I both said; and he bid me tell your papa, that if he’d only give young ‘Squire Mandlebert a jog, to egg him on, that he might not be so shilly shally, as soon as ever the wedding’s over, he’d accept his kind invitation to Beech86 Park, and bide87 there till he got clear, as one may say.’
Mr. Tyrold now required no assigned motive43 for the excessive distress of his daughter, and hastened to turn Jacob from this too terribly trying subject, by saying, ‘My brother then means to pay these demands?’
‘Lauk, yes, Sir! his honour pays every thing as any body asks him; only he says he don’t know how, because of having no more money, being so hard run with all our preparations we have been making this last fortnight.’
Camilla, with every moment encreasing agitation88, hid her face against Lavinia; but Mr. Tyrold, with some energy, said: ‘The interest, at least, I hope he will not discharge; for those dangerous vultures, who lie in wait for the weak or erring89, to encourage their frailties90 or vices91, by affording them means to pursue them, deserve much severer punishment, than merely losing a recompense for their iniquitous92 snares93.’
This was quite too much for the already disordered Camilla; she quitted her sister, glided94 out of the room, and delivered herself over as a prey no longer to sorrow but remorse95. Her conduct seemed to have been precisely96 the conduct of Clermont, and she felt herself dreadfully implicated97 as one of the weak or erring, guilty of frailties or vices.
That an uncle so dearly loved should believe she was forming an establishment which would afford him an asylum98 during his difficulties, now every prospect99 of that establishment was over, was so heart-piercing a circumstance, that to her father it seemed sufficient for the whole of what she endured. He made her over, therefore, to Lavinia, while he hastened to Cleves; for Jacob, when he had said all he was ordered to say, all he had gathered himself, and all he was able to suggest, finished with letting him know that his master begged he would set out that very moment.
The time of his absence was spent by Camilla in an anguish100 that, at his return, seemed quite to have changed her. He was alarmed, and redoubled his tenderness; but his tenderness was no longer her joy. He knows not, she thought, whom he caresses101; knows not that the wounds just beginning to heal for the son, are soon to be again opened for the daughter!
Yet her affections were all awake to enquire102 after her uncle; and when she heard that nothing could so much sooth him as her sight, all fear of his comments, all terror of exertion, subsided103 in the possible chance of consoling him: and Mr. Tyrold, who thought every act of duty led to chearfulness, sent to desire the carriage might fetch her the next morning.
He passed slightly over to Camilla the scene he had himself gone through; but he confessed to Lavinia its difficulty and pain. Sir Hugh had acknowledged he had drawn104 his bankers dry, yet had merely current cash to go on till the next quarter, whence he intended to deduct105 the further expences of the weddings. Nevertheless, he was determined upon paying every shilling of the demand, not only for the debts, but for all the complicate106 interest. He would not listen to any reasoning upon this subject, because, he said, he had it upon his conscience that the first fault was his own, in letting poor Clermont leave the kingdom, without clearing up to him that he had made Eugenia his exclusive heiress. It was in vain Mr. Tyrold pointed107 out, that no future hopes of wealth could exculpate108 this unauthorized extravagance in Clermont, and no dissipation in Clermont could apologize for the clandestine109 loan, and its illegal interest: ‘The poor boy,’ said he, ‘did it all, knowing no better, which how can I expect, when I did wrong myself, being his uncle? Though, if I were to have twenty more nephews and nieces in future, the first word I should say to them would be to tell them I should give them nothing; to the end that having no hope, they might all be happy one as another.’ All, therefore, that was left for Mr. Tyrold, was to counsel him upon the best and shortest means of raising the sum; and for this purpose, he meant to be with him again the next day.
This affair, however, with all its reproach for the past, and all its sacrifices for the time to come, by no means so deeply affected110 Sir Hugh as the blow Mr. Tyrold could no longer spare concerning Edgar. It sunk to his heart, dispirited him to tears, and sent him, extremely ill, to bed.
The chaise came early the next morning, and Mr. Tyrold had the pleasure to see Camilla exert herself to appear less sad. Lavinia was also of the party, as he meant to stay the whole day.
Eugenia met them in the hall, with the welcome intelligence that Sir Hugh, though he had passed a wretched night, was now somewhat better, and considerably111 cheared, by a visit from his old Yorkshire friend, Mr. Westwyn.
Nevertheless, Sir Hugh dismissed him, and everybody else, to receive Camilla alone.
She endeavoured to approach him calmly, but his own unchecked emotions soon overset her borrowed fortitude112, and the interview proved equally afflicting113 to both. The cruel mischiefs114 brought upon him by Clermont, were as nothing in the balance of his misfortunes, when opposed to the sight of sorrow upon that face which, hitherto, had so constantly enlivened him as an image of joy: and with her, every self-disappointment yielded, for the moment, to the regret of losing so precious a blessing115, as offering a refuge, in a time of difficulty, to an uncle so dear to her.
Mr. Tyrold would not suffer this scene to be long uninterrupted; he entered, with a chearing countenance, that compelled them to dry their tears, and told them the Westwyns could not much longer be left out, though they remained, well contented116, for the present, with Miss Margland and his other daughters. ‘Melmond and Indiana,’ added he, smiling, ‘seem at present not beings of this lower sphere, nor to have a moment to spare for those who are.’
‘That, my dear brother,’ answered the Baronet, ‘is all my comfort; for as to all the rest of my marrying, you see what it’s come to! who could have thought of young Mr. Edgar’s turning out in the same way? I can’t say but what I take it pretty unkind of him, letting me prepare at this rate for nothing; besides Beech Park’s being within but a stone’s throw, as one may say, as well as his own agreeableness. However, now I’ve seen a little more of the world, I can’t say I find much difference between the good and the bad, with respect to their all doing alike. The young boys now-a-days, whatever’s come to ’em, don’t know what they’d be at. They think nothing of disappointing a person if once they’ve a mind to change their minds. All one’s preparations go for nothing; which they never think of.’
Mr. Tyrold now prevailed for the re-admission of Mr. Westwyn, who was accompanied by his son, and followed by the Cleves family.
The cheeks of Camilla recovered their usual hue117 at the sight of Henry, from the various interesting recollections which occurred with it. She was seen herself with their original admiration, both by the father and the son, though with the former it was now mingled118 with anger, and with the latter no longer gilded119 with hope. Yet the complaints against her, which, upon his arrival, Mr. Westwyn meant to make, were soon not merely relinquished120, but transformed into pity, upon the view of her dejected countenance, and silent melancholy121.
The Baronet, however, revived again, by seeing his old friend, whose humour so much resembled his own, that, in Yorkshire, he had been always his first favourite. Each the children of untutored nature, honest and open alike in their words and their dealings, their characters and their propensities122 were nearly the same, though Sir Hugh, more self-formed, had a language and manner of his own; and Mr. Westwyn, of a temper less equal and less gentle, gave way, as they arose, to such angry passions as the indulgent Baronet never felt.
‘My dear friend,’ said Mr. Westwyn, ‘you don’t take much notice of my Hal, though, I’ll give you my word, you won’t see such another young fellow every day. However, it’s as well not, before his face, for it might only make him think himself somebody: and that, while I am alive, I don’t intend he should do. I can’t bear a young fellow not dutiful. I’ve always a bad opinion of him. I can’t say he pleases me.’
‘My dear Westwyn,’ answered the Baronet, ‘I’ve no doubt but what master Hal is very good, for which I am truly glad. But as to much over-rejoicing, now, upon the score of young boys, it’s what I can’t do, seeing they’ve turned out so ill, one after another, as far as I have had to do with them; for which, however, I hope I bear ’em no malice123. They’ve enough to answer for without that, which, I hope, they’ll think of in time.’
‘Why to be sure, Sir Hugh, if you set about thinking of a young fellow by the pattern of my friend Clermont, I can’t say I’m much surprised you don’t care to give him a good word; I can’t say I am. I am pretty much of the same way of thinking. I love to speak the truth.’ He then took Mr. Tyrold apart, and ran on with a history of all he had gathered, while at Leipsic, of the conduct and way of life of Clermont Lynmere. ‘He was a disgrace,’ said he, ‘even to the English name, as a Professor told me, that I can’t remember the name of, it’s so prodigious long; but, if it had not been for my son, he told me, they’d have thought all the English young fellows good for nothing, except extravagance, and eating and drinking! “They’d all round have got an ill name,” says he, “if it had not been for your son,” were his words which I shall never forget. I sent him over a noble pipe of Madeira, which I’d just got for myself, as soon as I came home. I took to him very much, I can’t say but I did; he was a very good man; he had prodigiously124 the look of an Englishman. He said Hal was an ornament125 to the university. I took it very well of him. I wish he had not such a hard name. I can never call it to mind. I hate a hard name. I can never speak it without a blunder.’
Sir Hugh now, who had been talking with Henry, called upon Mr. Westwyn, to beg his pardon for not speaking of him more respectfully, saying: ‘I see he’s quite agreeable, which I should have noticed from the first, only being what I did not know; which I hope is my excuse; my head, my dear friend, not getting on much, in point of quickness: though I can’t say it’s for want of pains, since you and I used to live so much together; but to no great end, for I always find myself in the back, however it happens: which your son, Master Hal, is, I see, quite the contrary.’
Mr. Westwyn was so much gratified by this praise, that he immediately confessed the scheme and wish he had formed of marrying Hal to Camilla, only for her not approving it. Sir Hugh protested nothing could give him more pleasure than such a connexion, and significantly added, he had other nieces, besides Camilla.
‘Why, yes,’ said Mr. Westwyn, ‘and I can’t keep from looking at ’em; I like ’em all mightily126. I’m a great friend to taking from a good stock. I chuse to know what I’m about. That girl at Southampton hit my fancy prodigiously. But I’m not for the beauty. A beauty won’t make a good wife. It takes her too much time to put her cap on.’ That little one, there, with the hump, which I don’t mind, nor the limp, neither, I like vastly. But I’m afraid Hal won’t take to her. A young man don’t much fancy an ugly girl. He’s always hankering after something pretty. There’s that other indeed, Miss Lavinia, is as handsome a girl as I’d wish to see. And she seems as good, too. However, I’m not for judging all by the eye. I’m past that. An old man should not play the fool. Which I wish somebody would whisper to a certain Lord that I know of, that don’t behave quite to my mind. I’m not fond of an old fool: nor a young one neither. They make me sick.’
Sir Hugh heard and agreed to all this, with the same simplicity127 with which it was spoken; and, soon after, Yorkshire becoming their theme, Mr. Tyrold had the pleasure of seeing his brother so much re-animated by the revival128 of old scenes, ideas, and connexions, that he heartily129 joined in pressing the Mr. Westwyns to spend a fortnight at Cleves, to which they consented with pleasure.
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