MR. Tyrold did not return till the next day from Belfont, where, through the account he gave from his Daughter, the violent exit of the miserable1 Bellamy was brought in accidental death. Various circumstances had now acquainted him with the history of that wretched man, who was the younger son of the master of a great gaming-house. In his first youth, he had been utterly2 neglected, and left to run wild whither he chose; but his father afterwards becoming very rich, had bestowed3 upon him as good an education as the late period at which it was begun could allow. He was intended for a lucrative4 business; but he had no application, and could retain no post: he went into the army; but he had no courage, and was speedily cashiered. Inheriting a passion for the means by which the parental5 fortune had been raised, he devoted6 himself next to its pursuit, and won very largely. But as extravagance and good luck, by long custom, go hand in hand, he spent as fast as he acquired; and upon a tide of fortune in his disfavour, was tempted7 to reverse the chances by unfair play, was found out, and as ignominiously8 chaced from the field of hazard as from that of patriotism9. His father was no more; his eldest10 brother would not assist him; he sold therefore his house, and all he possessed11 but his wardrobe, and, relying upon a very uncommonly12 handsome face and person, determined13 to seek a fairer lot, by eloping, if possible, with some heiress. He thought it, however, prudent14 not only to retire from London, but to make a little change in his name, which from Nicholas Gwigg he refined into Alphonso Bellamy. He began his career by a tour into Wales; where he insinuated15 himself into the acquaintance of Mrs. Ecton, just after she had married Miss Melmond to Mr. Berlinton: and though this was not an intercourse16 that could travel to Gretna Green, the beauty and romantic turn of the bride of so disproportioned a marriage, opened to his unprincipled mind a scheme yet more flagitious. Fortunately, however, for his fair destined17 prey18, soon after the connexion was formed, she left Wales; and the search of new adventures carried him, by various chances, into Hampshire. But he had established with her a correspondence, and when he had caught, or rather forced, an heiress into legal snares19, the discovery of who and what he was, became less important, and he ventured again to town, and renewed his heinous20 plan, as well as his inveterate21 early habits; till surprised by some unpleasant recollectors, debts of honour, which he had found it convenient to elude23 upon leaving the Capital, were claimed, and he found it impossible to appear without satisfying such demands. Thence his cruel and inordinate24 persecution25 of his unhappy wife for money; and thence, ultimately, the brief vengeance26 which had reverberated27 upon his own head.
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Camilla, whose danger was the result of self-neglect, as her sufferings had all flowed from mental anguish28, was already able to go down to the study upon the arrival of Mr. Tyrold: where she received, with grateful rapture29, the tender blessings31 which welcomed her to the paternal32 arms-to her home-to peace-to safety-and prim33?|val joy.
Mr. Tyrold, sparing to her yet weak nerves any immediate34 explanations upon the past, called upon his wife to aid him to communicate, in the quietest manner, what had been done at Belfont to Eugenia; charging Camilla to take no part in a scene inevitably35 shocking.
Once more in the appropriate apartment of her Father, where all her earliest scenes of gayest felicity had passed, but which, of late, she had only approached with terrour, only entered to weep, she experienced a delight almost awful in the renovation36 of her pristine37 confidence, and fearless ease. She took from her pocket-where alone she could ever bear to keep it-her loved locket, delighting to attribute to it this restoration to domestic enjoyment38; though feeling at the same time, a renewal39 of suspence from the return of its donor40, and from the affecting interview into which she had been surprised, that broke in upon even her filial happiness, with bitter, tyrannical regret. Yet she pressed to her bosom41 the cherished symbol of first regard, and was holding it to her lips, when Mrs. Tyrold, unexpectedly, re-entered the room.
In extreme confusion, she shut it into its shagreen case, and was going to restore it to her pocket; but infolding it, with her daughter’s hand, between each of her own, Mrs. Tyrold said, ‘Shall I ever, my dear girl, learn-the history of this locket?’
‘O yes, my dearest Mother,’ said the blushing Camilla, ‘of that-and of every-and of all things-you have only-you have merely–’
‘If it distresses42 you, my dear child, we will leave it to another day,’ said Mrs. Tyrold, whose eyes Camilla saw, as she now raised her own, were swimming in tears.
‘My Mother! my dearest Mother!’ cried she, with the tenderest alarm, ‘has any thing new happened?–Is Eugenia greatly affected44?’
‘She is all, every way, and in every respect,’ said Mrs. Tyrold, ‘whatever the fondest, or even the proudest Mother could wish. But I do not at this instant most think of her. I am not without some fears for my Camilla’s strength, in the immediate demand that may be made upon her fortitude45. Tell me, my child, with that sincerity46 which so long has been mutually endearing between us, tell me if you think you can see here, again, and as usual, without any risk to your health, one long admitted and welcomed as a part of the family?’
She started, changed colour, looked up, cast her eyes on the floor; but soon seeing Mrs. Tyrold hold an handkerchief bathed in tears to her face, lost all dread47, and even all consciousness in tender gratitude48, and throwing her arms round her neck, ‘O my Mother,’ she cried, ‘you who weep not for yourself-scarcely even in the most poignant49 sorrow-can you weep for me?–I will see-or I will avoid whoever you please–I shall want no fortitude, I shall fear nothing-no one-not even myself-now again under your protection! I will scarcely even think, my beloved Mother, but by your guidance!’
‘Compose yourself, then, my dearest girl: and, if you believe you are equal to behaving with firmness, I will not refuse his request of re-admission.’
‘His request?’ repeated Camilla, with involuntary quickness; but finding Mrs. Tyrold did not notice it, gently adding, ‘That person that–I believe-you mean-has done nothing, my dear Mother, to merit expulsion!–’
‘I am happy to hear you say so: I have been fearfully, I must own, and even piercingly displeased50 with him.’
‘Ah, my dear Mother! how kind was the partiality that turned your displeasure so wrong a way! that made you,-even you, my dear Mother, listen to your fondness rather than to your justice!–’
She trembled at the temerity51 of this vindication52 the moment it had escaped her, and looking another way, spoke53 again of Eugenia: but Mrs. Tyrold now, taking both her hands, and seeking, though vainly, to meet her eyes, said, ‘My dearest child, I grow painfully anxious to end a thousand doubts; to speak and to hear with no further ambiguity54, nor reserve. If Edgar–’
Camilla again changed colour, and strove to withdraw her hands.
‘Take courage, my dear love, and let one final explanation relieve us both at once. If Edgar his merited well of you, why are you parted?–If ill-why this solicitude55 my opinion of him should be unshaken?’
Her head now dropt upon Mrs. Tyrold’s shoulder, as she faintly answered, ‘He deserves your good opinion, my dearest Mother-for he adores you–I cannot be unjust to him,-though he has made me–I own-not very happy!’
‘Designedly, my Camilla?’
‘O, no, my dearest Mother!-he would not do that to an enemy!’
‘Speak out, then, and speak clearer, my dearest Camilla. If you think of him so well, and are so sure of his good intentions, what-in two words,-what is it that has parted you?’
‘Accident, my dearest Mother-deluding appearances, and false internal reasoning on my part,-and on his, continual misconstruction! O my dearest Mother! how have I missed your guiding care! I had ever the semblance56, by some cruel circumstance, some inexplicable57 fatality58 of incident, to neglect his counsel, oppose his judgment59, deceive his expectations, and trifle with his regard!–Yet, with a heart faithful, grateful, devoted,–O my dearest Mother!-with an esteem60 that defies all comparison,... a respect closely meliorating even to veneration61!... Never was heart... my dearest Mother, so truly impressed with the worth of another... with the nobleness....’
A buzzing noise from the adjoining parlour, sounding something between a struggle and a dispute, suddenly stopt her,... and as she raised her head from the bosom of her Mother, in which she had seemed seeking shelter from the very confidence she was pouring forth62, she saw the door opened, and the object of whom she was speaking appear at it.... Fluttered, colouring, trembling,... yet with eyes refulgent63 with joy, and every feature speaking ecstasy64.
Almost fainting with shame and surprise, she gave herself up as disgraced, if not dishonoured65 evermore, for a short, but bitter half moment. It was not longer. Edgar, rushing forward, and seizing the hands of Mrs. Tyrold, even while they were encircling her drooping66, shrinking, half expiring Camilla, pressed them with ardent67 respect to his lips, rapidly exclaiming, ‘My more than Mother! my dear, kind, excellent, inestimable friend!–Forgive this blest intrusion-plead for me where I dare not now speak-and raise your indeed maternal68 eyes upon the happiest-the most devoted of your family!’
‘What is it overpowers me thus this morning?’ cried Mrs. Tyrold, leaning her head upon her clinging Camilla, while large drops fell from her eyes; ‘Misfortune, I see, is not the greatest test of our philosophy!... joy, twice today, has completely demolished69 mine!’
‘What goodness is this! what encouragement to hope some indulgent intercession here-where the sense that now breaks in upon me of ungenerous... ever to be lamented-and I had nearly said, execrated70 doubt, fills me with shame and regret-and makes me-even at this soft reviving, heart-restoring moment, feel undeserving my own hopes!’–
‘Shall I-may I leave him to make his peace?’ whispered Mrs. Tyrold to her daughter, whose head sought concealment71 even to annihilation; but whose arms, with what force they possessed, detained her, uttering faintly but rapidly, ‘O no, no, no!’
‘My more than Mother!’ again cried Edgar, ‘–I will wait till that felicity may be accorded me, and put myself wholly under your kind and powerful influence. One thing alone I must say;–I have too much to answer for, to take any share of the misdemeanors of another!–I have not been a treacherous72 listener, though a wilful73 obtruder–See, Mrs. Tyrold! Who placed me in that room-who is the accomplice74 of my happiness!’
With a smile that seemed to beam but the more brightly for her glistening75 eyes, Mrs. Tyrold looked to the door, and saw there, leaning against it, the form she most revered76; surveying them all with an expression of satisfaction so perfect, contentment so benign77, and pleasure mingled79 with so much thankfulness, that her tears now flowed fast from unrestrained delight; and Mr. Tyrold, approaching to press at once the two objects of his most exquisite80 tenderness to his breast, said, ‘This surprise was not planned, but circumstances made it more than irresistible81. It was not, however, quite fair to my Camilla, and if she is angry, we will be self-exiled till she can pardon us.’
‘This is such a dream,’-cried Camilla, as now, first, from the voice of her Father she believed it reality; ‘so incredible-so unintelligible–I find it entirely-impossible-impossible to comprehend any thing I see or hear!’–
‘Let the past,... not the present,’ cried Edgar, ‘be regarded as the dream! And generously drive it from your mind as a fever of the brain, with which reason had no share, and for which memory must find no place.’
‘If I could understand in the least,’ said Camilla, ‘what this all means... what–’
Mr. Tyrold now insisted that Edgar should retreat, while he made some explanation; and then related to his trembling, doubting, wondering daughter, the following circumstances.
In returning from Belfont, he had stopt at the half-way-house, where he had received from Mrs. Marl, a letter that, had it reached him as it was intended, at Etherington, would have quickened the general meeting, yet nearly have broken his heart. It was that which, for want of a messenger, had never been sent, and which Peggy, in cleaning the bed room, had found under a table, where it had fallen, she supposes, when the candle was put upon it for reading prayers.
‘There was another letter, too!’ interrupted Camilla, with quick blushing recollection ‘–-but my illness... and all that has followed, made me forget them both till this very moment... Did she say anything of any... other?’
‘Yes;... the other had been delivered according to its address.’
‘Good Heaven!’
‘Be not frightened, my Camilla, all has been beautifully directed for the best. My accomplice had received his early in the morning; he was at the house, by some fortunate hazard, when it was found, and, being well known there, Mrs. Marl gave it to him immediately.’
‘How terrible!... It was meant only in case... I had seen no one anymore!’...
‘The intent, and the event, have been happily, my child, at war. He came instantly hither, and enquired83 for me; I was not returned; he asked my route, and rode to follow or meet me. About an hour ago, we encountered upon the road: he gave his horse to his groom84, and came into the chaise to me.’
Camilla now could with difficulty listen; but her Father hastened to acquaint her, that Edgar, with the most generous apologies, the most liberal self-blame, had re-demanded his consent for a union, from which every doubt was wholly, and even miraculously85 removed, by learning thus the true feelings of her heart, as depicted86 at the awful crisis of expected dissolution. The returning smiles which forced their way now through the tears and blushes of Camilla, shewed how vainly she strove to mingle78 the regret of shame with the felicity of fond security, produced by this eventful accident. But when she further heard that Edgar, in Flanders, had met with Lionel, who, in frankly87 recounting his difficulties and adventures, had named some circumstances which had so shaken every opinion that had urged him to quit England, as to induce him instantly, from the conference, to seek a passage for his return, she felt all but happiness retire from her heart;-vanish even from her ideas.
‘You are not angry, then,’ said Mr. Tyrold, as smilingly he read her delighted sensations, ‘that I waited not to consult you? That I gave back at once my consent? That I folded him again in my arms?... again... called him my son?’
She could but seek the same pressure; and he continued, ‘I would not bring him in with me; I was not aware my dear girl was so rapidly recovered, and I had a task to fulfil to my poor Eugenia that was still my first claim. But I promised within an hour, your Mother, at least, should welcome him. He would walk, he said, for that period. When I met her, I hinted at what was passing, and she followed me to our Eugenia; I then briefly88 communicated my adventure; and your Mother, my Camilla, lost herself in hearing it! Will you not,... like me!... withdraw from her all reverence89? Her eyes gushed90 with tears,... she wept, as you weep at this moment; she was sure Edgar Mandlebert could alone preserve you from danger, yet make you happy–Was she wrong, my dear child? Shall we attack now her judgment, as well as her fortitude!’
Only at her feet could Camilla shew her gratitude; to action she had recourse, for words were inadequate91, and the tenderest caresses92 now spoke best for them all.
Respect for the situation of Eugenia, who had desired, for this week, to live wholly up stairs and alone, determined Mr. and Mrs. Tyrold to keep back for some time the knowledge of this event from the family. Camilla was most happy to pay such an attention to her sister; but when Mr. Tyrold was leaving her, to consult upon it with Edgar, the ingenuousness93 of her nature urged her irresistibly95 to say, ‘Since all this has passed, my dearest Father-my dearest Mother-does it not seem as if I should now myself–’
She stopt; but she was understood; they both smiled, and Mr. Tyrold immediately bringing in Edgar, said, ‘I find my pardon, my dear fellow-culprit, is already accorded; if you have doubts of your own, try your eloquence96 for yourself.’
He left the room, and Mrs. Tyrold was gently rising to quietly follow, but Camilla, with a look of entreaty97 of which she knew the sincerity, and would not resist the earnestness, detained her.
‘Ah yes, stay, dearest Madam!’ cried Edgar, again respectfully taking her hand, ‘and through your unalterable goodness, let me hope to procure98 pardon for a distrust which I here for ever renounce99; but which had its origin in my never daring to hope what, at this moment, I have the felicity to believe. Yet now, even now, without your kind mediation100, this dear convalescent may plan some probationary101 trial at which my whole mind, after this long suffering, revolts. Will you be my caution, my dearest Mrs. Tyrold? Will you venture-and will you deign102 to promise, that if a full and generous forgiveness may be pronounced....’
‘Forgiveness?’ in a soft voice interrupted Camilla: ‘Have I any thing to forgive? I thought all apology-all explanation, rested on my part; and that my imprudencies-my rashness-my so often-erring judgment... and so apparently103, almost even culpable104 conduct.’...
‘O, my Camilla! my now own Camilla!’ cried Edgar, venturing to change the hand of the Mother for that of the daughter; ‘what too, too touching105 words and concessions106 are these! Suffer me, then, to hope a kind amnesty may take place of retrospection, a clear, liberal, open forgiveness anticipate explanation and enquiry?’
‘Are you sure,’ said Camilla, smiling, ‘this is your interest, and not mine?... Does he not make a mistake, my dearest Mother, and turn my advocate, instead of his own; And can I fairly take advantage of such an errour.’
The sun-shine of her returning smiles went warm to her Mother’s heart, and gave a glow to the cheeks of Edgar, and a brightness to his eyes that irradiated his whole countenance107. ‘Your penetrating108 judgment,’ said he, to Mrs. Tyrold, ‘will take in at once more than any professions, any protestations can urge for me:... you see the peace, the pardon which those eyes do not seek to withhold109...will you then venture, my more than maternal friend! my Mother, in every meaning which affection and reverence can give to that revered appellation-will you venture at once-now-upon this dear and ever after hallowed minute-to seal the kind consent of my truly paternal guardian110, and to give me an example of that trust and confidence which my whole future life shall look upon as its lesson?’
‘Yes!’ answered Mrs. Tyrold, instantly joining their hands, ‘and with every security that the happiness of all our lives-my child’s , my husband’s, your’s, my valued Edgar’s, and my own, will all owe their felicity to the blessing30 with which I now lay my hands upon my two precious children!’
Tears were the only language that could express the fulness of joy which succeeded to so much sorrow; and when Mr. Tyrold returned, and had united his tenderest benediction111 with that of his beloved wife, Edgar was permitted to remain alone with Camilla; and the close of his long doubts, and her own long perplexities, was a reciprocal confidence that left nothing untold112, not an action unrelated, not even a thought unacknowledged.
Edgar confessed that he no sooner had quitted her, than he suspected the justice of his decision; the turn which of late, he had taken, doubtfully to watch her every action, and suspiciously to judge her every motive113, though it had impelled114 him in her presence, ceased to operate in her absence.–He was too noble to betray the well meant, though not well applied115 warnings of Dr. Marchmont, yet he acknowledged, that when left to cool reflection, a thousand palliations arose for every step he could not positively116 vindicate117: and when, afterwards, from the frank communication of Lionel, he learnt what belonged to the mysterious offer of Sir Sedley Clarendel, that she would superintend the disposal of his fortune, and the deep obligation in which she had been innocently involved, his heart smote118 him for having judged ere he had investigated that transaction; and in a perturbation unspeakable of quick repentance119, and tenderness, he set out for England. But when, at the half-way-house, he stopt as usual to rest his horses in his way to Beech120 Park,-what were his emotions at the sight of the locket, which the landlady121 told him had been pledged by a lady in distress43! He besought122 her pardon for the manner in which he had made way to her; but the almost frantic123 anxiety which seized him to know if or not it was, and to save her, if so, from the intended intrusion of the landlord, made him irresistibly prefer it to the plainer mode which he should have adopted with any one else, of sending in his name, and some message. His shock at her view in such a state, he would not now revive; but the impropriety of bidding the landlady quit the chamber124, and the impossibility of entering into an explanation in her hearing, alone repressed, at that agitated125 moment, the avowal126 of every sensation with which his heart was labouring. ‘But when,’ he added, ‘shall I cease to rejoice that I had listened to the good landlady’s history of a sick guest, while all conjecture127 was so remote from whom it might be! when I am tempted to turn aside from a tale of distress, I will recollect22 what I owe to having given!’ Lost in wonder at what could have brought her to such a situation, and disturbed how to present himself at the rectory, till fixed128 in his plans, he had ridden to the half-way-house that morning, to enquire82 concerning the corpse129 that Mrs. Marl had mentioned-and there-while he was speaking with her, the little maid brought down two letters-one of them directed to himself.–
‘What a rapid transition,’ cried he, ‘was then mine, from regrets that robbed life of all charms, to prospects130 which paint it in its most vivid colours of happiness! from wavering the most deplorable, to resolutions of expiating131 by a whole life of devoted fondness, the barbarous waywardness that could deprive me, for one wilful moment, of the exquisite felicity of my lot!... ’
‘But still,’ said Camilla, ‘I do not quite understand how you came in that room this morning? and how you authorized132 yourself to overhear my confessions133 to my Mother?’
‘Recollect my acknowledged accomplice before you hazard any blame! When I came hither... somewhat, I confess, within my given hour, Mr. Tyrold received me himself at the door. He told me I was too soon, and took me into the front parlour. The partition is thin. I heard my name spoken by Mrs. Tyrold, and the gentle voice of my Camilla, in accents yet more gentle than even that voice ever spoke before, answering some question; I was not myself, at first, aware of its tenour... but when, unavoidably, I gathered it... when I heard words so beautifully harmonizing with what I had so lately perused–I would instantly have ventured into the room; but Mr. Tyrold feared surprising you-you went on-my fascinated soul divested134 me of obedience-of caution-of all but joy and gratitude... and he could no longer restrain me. And now with which of her offenders135 will my Camilla quarrel?’
‘With neither, I believe, just at present. The conspiracy136 is so complex, and even my Mother so nearly a party concerned, that I dare not risk the unequal contest. I must only, in future,’ added she smiling, ‘speak ill of you... and then you will find less pleasure in the thinness of a partition!’
Faithfully she returned his communication, by the fullest, most candid137, and unsparing account of every transaction of her short life, from the still shorter period of its being put into voluntary motion. With nearly breathless interest, he listened to the detail of her transactions with Sir Sedley Clarendel, with pity to her debts, and with horrour to her difficulties. But when, through the whole ingenuous94 narration138, he found himself the constant object of every view, the ultimate motive to every action, even where least it appeared, his happiness, and his gratitude, made Camilla soon forget that sorrow had ever been known to her.
They then spoke of her two favourites, Mrs. Arlbery, and Mrs. Berlinton; and though she was animated139 in her praise of the good qualities of the first, and the sweet attraction of the last, she confessed the danger, for one so new in the world, of chusing friends distinct from those of her family; and voluntarily promised, during her present season of inexperience, to repose140 the future choice of her connections, where she could never be happy without their approvance.
The two hundred pounds to Sir Sedley Clarendel, he determined, on the very day that Camilla should be his, to return to the Baronet, under the privilege, and in the name of paying it for a brother.
In conference thus softly balsamic to every past wound, and thus deliciously opening to that summit of earthly felicity... confidence unlimited141 entwined around affection unbounded... hours might have passed, unnumbered and unawares, had not prudence142 forced a separation, for the repose of Camilla.
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