LATE as Edgar quitted the rectory, he went not straight to Beech1 Park; every tie both of friendship and propriety2 carried him first to Dr. Marchmont; who had too much feeling to wonder at the power of his late incitements, and too much goodness of heart not to felicitate hint, upon their issue, though he sighed at the recollection of the disappointments whence his own doubting counsel originated. Twice betrayed in his dearest expectations, he had formed two criterions from his peculiar3 experience, by which he had settled his opinion of the whole female sex; and where opinion may humour systematic4 prepossession, who shall build upon his virtue5 or wisdom to guard the transparency of his impartiality6?
The following day, the Westwyns presented themselves at Etherington; hurried from a tour they were taking through Devonshire and Cornwall, by intelligence which had reached them that Sir Hugh Tyrold was ruined, and Cleves was to be let. They met, by chance, with Edgar alone in the parlour; and the joy of the old gentleman in hearing how small a part of the rumour7 was founded in fact, made him shake hands with him as cordially for setting him right, as Edgar welcomed his kindness, from the pleasure afforded by the sight of such primitive8 regard. But when, presuming upon his peculiar intimacy9 in the family, as ward10 of Mr. Tyrold, though without yet daring to avow11 his approaching nearer affinity12, Edgar insisted upon his superior claim for supplanting13 them in taking charge of the debt of his guardian14; Mr. Westwyn, almost angrily, protested he would let no man upon earth, let him be whose ward he pleased, shew more respect than himself for the brother of Sir Hugh Tyrold; ‘And Hal thinks the same too,’ he added, ‘or he’s no son of mine. And so he’ll soon shew you, in a way you can’t guess, I give you my word. At least that’s my opinion!’
He then took his son apart, and abruptly15 whispered to him, ‘As that pretty girl you and I took such a fancy to, at Southton, served us in that shabby manner, because of meeting with that old Lord, it’s my opinion you’d do the right thing to take her sister; who’s pretty near as pretty, and gives herself no airs; and that will be shewing respect for my worthy16 old friend, now he’s down in the world; which is exactly that he did for me when I was down myself. For if he had not lent me that thousand pounds I told you of, when not a relation I had would lend me a hundred, I might have been ruined before ever you were born. Come, tell me your mind Hal! off or on? don’t stand shilly shally; it’s what I can’t bear; speak honestly; I won’t have your choice controlled; only this one thing I must tell you without ceremony, I shall never think well of you again as long as ever I live, if you demur17 so much as a moment. It’s what I can’t bear; it i’n’t doing a thing handsomely. I can’t say I like it.’
The appearance of Lavinia relieved the immediate18 embarrassment19 of Henry, while the modest pleasure with which she received them confirmed the partiality of both. The eagerness, however, of the father, admitted of no delay, and when Sir Hugh entered the room, the son’s assent20 being obtained, he warmly demanded the fair Lavinia for his daughter-in-law.
Sir Hugh received the proposition with the most copious21 satisfaction; Mr. and Mrs. Tyrold with equal, though more anxious delight; and Lavinia herself with blushing but unaffected hopes of happiness.
Whatever was known to Sir Hugh, no cautions, nor even his own best designs, could save from being known to the whole house. Eugenia, therefore, was unavoidably informed-of this transaction; and the generous pleasure with which she revived from the almost settled melancholy22 left upon her, by continual misfortunes, justified23 the impatience24 of Edgar to accelerate the allowed period for publishing his own happy history.
Eugenia wept with joy at tidings so precious of her beloved sister, through whom, and her other dear friends, she was alone, she said, susceptible25 of joy, though to all sorrow she henceforth bid adieu, ‘For henceforth,’ she cried, ‘I mean to regard myself as if already I had passed the busy period of youth and of life, and were only a spectatress of others. For this purpose, I have begun writing my memoirs27, which will amuse my solitude28, and confirm my–I hope, philosophical29 idea.’
She then produced the opening of her intended book.
SECTION I
‘No blooming coquette, elated with adulation and triumphant30 with conquest, here counts the glories of her eyes, or enumerates31 the train of her adorers: no beauteous prude, repines at the fatigue32 of admiration33, nor bewails the necessity of tyranny: O gentle reader! you have the story of one from whom fate has withheld34 all the delicacy35 of vanity, all the regale36 of cruelty–!”
‘Here,’ interrupted the young biographer, ‘will follow my portrait, and then this further address to my readers.’
‘O ye, who, young and fair, revel37 in the attractions of beauty, and exult38 in the pride of admiration, say, where is your envy of the heiress to whom fortune comes with such alloys39? And which, however distressed42 or impoverished43, would accept my income with my personal defects?
‘Ye, too, O lords of the creation, mighty44 men! impute45 not to native vanity the repining spirit with which I lament46 the loss of beauty; attribute not to the innate47 weakness of my sex, the concern I confess for my deformity; nor to feminine littleness of soul, a regret of which the true source is to be traced to your own bosoms48, and springs from your own tastes: for the value you yourselves set upon external attractions, your own neglect has taught me to know; and the indifferency with which you consider all else, your own duplicity has instructed me to feel.’
Camilla sought to dissuade49 her from reflexions so afflictive50, and retrospections so poignant51; but they aided her, she said, in her task of acquiring composure for the regulation of her future life.
Edgar now received permission to make his communication to the Baronet.
The joy with which Sir Hugh heard it, was for some time over-clouded by doubt. ‘My dear Mr. young Edgar,’ he said, ‘in case you don’t know your own mind yet, in the point of its not changing again, as it did before, I’d as leave you would not tell me of it till you’ve taken the proper time to be at a certainty; frettings about these ups and downs, being what do no good to me, in point of the gout.’
But when thoroughly52 re-assured, ‘Well,’ he cried, ‘this is just the thing I should have chose out of all our misfortunes, being what makes me happier than ever I was in my life; except once before on the very same account, which all turned out to end in nothing: which, I hope, won’t happen any more: for now I’ve only to pay off all our debts, and then I may go back again to Cleves, which I shall be glad enough to do, it being but an awkward thing to a man, after he’s past boyhood, having no home of his own.’
A sigh at the recollection of the change in his situation, since his plan was last agitated53, checked his felicity, and depressed54 even that of Edgar, who, with the most tender earnestness, besought55 his leave to advance the sum requisite56 to return him tranquilly57 to his mansion58; but who could not prevail, till Camilla joined in the petition, and permitted Edgar, in both their names to entreat59, as their dearest wish, that they might be united, according to the first arrangement, from Cleves.
This the Baronet could not resist, and preparations were rapidly made for re-instating him in his dwelling60, and for the double marriages destined61 to take place upon his return.
‘Well, then, this,’ cried he, as he poured upon them his tenderest blessings62 and caresses63, ‘is the oddest of all! My dear little Camilla, that I took all my fortune from, is the very person to give me her’s as soon as ever she gets it! as well as my own house over my old head again, after my turning her, as one may say, out of it! which is a thing as curious, in point of us poor ignorant mortals, as if my brother had put it in a sermon.’
‘Such turns in the tide of fortune,’ said Mr. Tyrold, ‘are amongst the happiest lessons of humanity, where those who have served the humble64 and helpless from motives65 of pure disinterestedness67, find they have made useful friends for themselves, in the perpetual vicissitudes68 of our unstable69 condition.’
‘Why, then, there’s but one thing more, by what I can make out,’ said the Baronet, ‘that need be much upon my mind, and that I’ve been thinking some time about, in point of forming a scheme to get rid of, which I think I’ve got a pretty good one: for here’s Lavinia going to be married to the very oldest friend I have in the world; that is, to his son, which is the same thing in point of bringing us all together; and my own dear little girl, to the best gentleman in the county, except for that one thing of going off at the first, which I dare say he did not mean, for which reason I shall mention it no more: and Indiana, to one of those young captains, that I can’t pretend I know much of; but that’s very excusable in so young a person, not having had much head from the beginning; which I always make allowance for; my own not being over extraordinary: and Eugenia, poor thing, being a widow already; for which God be praised; which I hope is no sin, in point of the poor lad that’s gone not belonging to any of us, by what I can make out, except by his own doing whether we would or not; which, however, is neither here nor there, now he’s gone; for Eugenia being no beauty, and Clermont having as good as said so, I suppose she thought she must not be too difficult; which is a thing young girls are apt to fall into; and boys too, for the matter of that; for, by what I can make out of life, I don’t see but what a scholar thinks a girl had better be pretty than not, as much as another man.’
‘But what, my dear brother,’ said Mr. Tyrold, ‘is your new distress41 and new scheme?’
‘Why I can’t say but what I’m a little put out, that Indiana should forget poor Mrs. Margland, in the particular of asking her to go to live with her; which, however, I dare say she can’t help, those young captains commonly not over liking70 having elderly persons about them; not that I mean to guess her age, which I take to be fifty, and upwards71; which is no point of ours. But the thing I’m thinking of is Dr. Orkborne, in the case of their marrying one another.’
“My dear brother!... has any such idea occurred to them?’
‘Not as I know of; but Indiana having done with one, and Eugenia with the other, and me, Lord help me! not wanting either of them, why what can I do if they won’t? the Doctor’s asked to go to town, for the sake of printing his papers, which I begged him not to hurry, for I’m but little fit for learned conversation just now; though when he’s here, he commonly says nothing; only taking out his tablets to write down something that comes into his head, as I suppose: which I can’t say is very entertaining in the light of a companion. However, as to his having called me a blockhead, it’s not what I take umbrage72 at, not being a wit being a fault of no man’s, except of nature, nobody has a right to be angry at. Besides, as to his having a little pride, it’s what I owe him no ill-will for; a scholar having nothing else but his learning, is excusable for making the most of it. However, if they would marry one another, I can’t but say I should take it very well of them. The only thing I know against it, is the mortal dislike they have to one another: and that, my dear brother, is the point I want to consult you about; for then we shall be got off all round: which would be a great thing off my mind.’
When the happy day arrived for returning to Cleves, Sir Hugh re-took possession of his hospitable73 mansion, amidst the tenderest felicitations of his fond family, and the almost clamorous74 rejoicings of the assembled poor of the neighbourhood: and the following morning, Mr. Tyrold gave the hand of Lavinia to Harry75 Westwyn, and Dr. Marchmont united them; and Edgar, glowing with happiness, now purified from any alloy40, received from the same revered76 hand, and owed to the same honoured voice, the final and lasting77 possession of the tearful, but happy Camilla.
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What further remains78 to finish this small sketch79 of a Picture of Youth, may be comprised in a few pages.
Indiana was more fortunate in her northern expedition, than experiments of that nature commonly prove. Macdersey was a man of honour, and possessed80 better claims to her than he had either language or skill to explain: but the good Lord O’Lerney, who, to benevolence81 the most chearful, and keenness the least severe, joined judgment82 and generosity83, acted as the guardian of his kinsman84, and placed the young couple in competence85 and comfort.
The profession of Macdersey obliging him to sojourn86 frequently in country quarters, Indiana, when the first novelty of tête-à-tête was over, wished again for the constant adulatress of her charms and endowments, and, to the inexpressible rapture87 of Sir Hugh, solicited88 Miss Margland to be her companion: and the influence of constant flattery was so seductive to her weak mind, that, though insensible to the higher motive66 of cherishing her in remembrance of her long cares, she was so spoilt by her blandishments, and so accustomed to her management, that she parted from her no more.
Lavinia, with her deserving partner, spent a month between Cleves and Etherington, and then accompanied him and his fond father to their Yorkshire estate and residence. Like all characters of radical89 worth, she grew daily upon the esteem90 and affection of her new family, and found in her husband as marked a contrast with Clermont Lynmere, to annul91 all Hypothesis of Education, as Lord O’Lerney, cool, rational, and penetrating92, opposed to Macdersey, wild, eccentric, and vehement93, offered against all that is National. Brought up under the same tutor, the same masters, and at the same university, with equal care, equal expence, equal opportunities of every kind, Clermont turned out conceited94, voluptuous95, and shallow; Henry modest, full of feeling, and stored with intelligence.
Lionel, first enraged96, but next tamed, by the disinheritance which he had drawn97 upon himself, had ample subject in his disappointment to keep alive his repentance98. And though enabled to return from banishment99, by the ignominious100 condemnation101, with another culprit, of the late partner in his guilt102, he felt so lowered from his fallen prospects103, and so gloomy from his altered spirits, that when his parents, satisfied with his punishment, held out the olive-branch to invite him home, he came forth26 again rather as if condemned104, than forgiven; and, wholly wanting fortitude105 either to see or to avoid his former associates, he procured106 an appointment that carried him abroad, where his friends induced him to remain, till his bad habits, as well as bad connections, were forgotten, and time aided adversity in forming him a new character.
Clermont, for whom his uncle bought a commission, fixed107 himself in the army; though with no greater love of his country, than was appendant to the opportunity it afforded of shewing his fine person to regimental advantage.
Mrs. Arlbery was amongst the first to hasten with congratulations to Camilla. With too much understanding to betray her pique108 upon the errour of her judgment, as to the means of attaching Mandlebert, she had too much goodness of heart not to rejoice in the happiness of her young friend.
Mrs. Lissin, who accompanied her in the wedding visit, confessed herself the most disappointed and distressed of human beings. She had not, she said, half so much liberty as when she lived with her Papa, and heartily109 repented110 marrying, and wished she had never thought of it. The servants were always teazing her for orders and directions; every thing that went wrong, it was always she who was asked why it was not right; when she wanted to be driving about all day, the coachman always said it was too much for the horses; when she travelled, the maids always asked her what must be packed up; if she happened to be out at dinner time, Mr. Lissin found fault with every thing’s being cold: if she wanted to do something she liked, he said she had better let it alone; and, in fine, her violent desire for this state of freedom, ended in conceiving it a state of bondage111; she found her own house the house of which she must take the charge; being her own mistress, having the burthen of superintending a whole family, and being married, becoming the property of another, to whom she made over a legal right to treat her just as he pleased. And as she had chosen neither for character, nor for disposition112, neither from sympathy nor respect, she found it hard to submit where she meant to become independent, and difficult to take the cares where she had made no provision for the solaces113 of domestic life.
The notable Mrs. Mittin contrived115 soon to so usefully ingratiate herself in the favour of Mr. Dennel, that, in the full persuasion117 she would save him half his annual expences, he married her: but her friend, Mr. Clykes, was robbed in his journey home of the cash which he had so dishonourably gained.
The first care of Edgar was to clear every debt in which Camilla had borne any share, and then to make over to Lavinia the little portion intended to be parted between the sisters. Henry would have resisted; but Mr. Tyrold knew the fortune of Edgar to be fully116 adequate to his generosity, and sustained the proposition. Sir Sedley Clarendel received his two hundred pounds without opposition118, though with surprise; and was dubious119 whether to rejoice in the shackles120 he had escaped, or to lament the charmer he had lost.
Sir Hugh would suffer no one but himself to clear the debts of his two nephews, or refund121 what had been advanced by his excellent old friend Mr. Westwyn. He called back all his servants, liberally recompensed their marked attachment122, provided particularly for good old Jacob; and took upon himself the most ample reward for the postillion who meant to rescue Eugenia.
The prisoner and his wife, now worthy established cottagers, were the first, at the entrance of Beech Park, to welcome the bride and bridegroom; and little Peggy Higden was sent for immediately, and placed, with extremest kindness, where she might rise in use and in profit.
Lord O’Lerney was sedulously123 sought by Edgar, who had the infinite happiness to see Camilla a selected friend of Lady Isabella Irby, whose benevolent124 care of her in the season of her utter distress, had softly enchained her tenderest gratitude125, and had excited in himself an almost adoring respect.
Melmond had received in time the caution of Camilla, to prevent the meeting to which the baseness of Bellamy was deluding126 his misguided sister, through her own wild theories. He forbore to blast her fame by calling him publicly to account; and ere further arts could be practised, Bellamy was no more.
Mrs. Berlinton, in the shock of sudden sorrow, shut herself up from the world. Claims of debts of honour, which she had no means to answer, pursued her in her retreat; she became at once the prey127 of grief, repentance, and shame; and her mind was yet young enough in wrong, to be penetrated128 by the early chastisement129 of calamity130. Removed from the whirl of pleasure, which takes reflexion from action, and feeling from thought, she reviewed, with poignant contrition131, her graceless misconduct with regard to Eugenia, detested132 her infatuation, and humbled133 herself to implore134 forgiveness. Her aunt seized the agitating135 moment of self-upbraiding and worldly disgust, to impress upon her fears the lessons of her opening life: and thus, repulsed136 from passion, and sickened of dissipation, though too illiberally137 instructed for chearful and rational piety138, she was happily snatched from utter ruin by protecting, though eccentric enthusiasm.
Eugenia, for some time, continued in voluntary seclusion139, happily reaping from the fruits of her education and her virtues140, resources and reflexions for retirement141, that robbed it of weariness. The name, the recollection of Bellamy, always made her shudder142, but the peace of perfect innocence143 was soon restored to her mind. The sufferings of Mrs. Berlinton from self-reproach, taught her yet more fully to value the felicity of blamelessness; and the generous liberality of her character, made the first inducement she felt for exertion144, the benevolence of giving solace114 to a penitent145 who had injured her.
Melmond, long conscious of her worth, and disgusted with all that had rivalled it in his mind, with the fervour of sincerity146, yet diffidence of shame and regret, now fearfully sought the favour he before had reluctantly received. But Eugenia retreated. She had no courage for a new engagement, no faith for new vows147, no hope for new happiness: till his really exemplary character, with the sympathy of his feelings, and the similarity of his taste and turn of mind with her own, made the Tyrolds, when they perceived his ascendance, second his wishes. Approbation148 so sacred, joined to a prepossession so tender, soon conquered every timid difficulty in the ingenuous149 Eugenia; who in his well-earnt esteem, and grateful affection, received, at length, the recompence of every exerted virtue, and the solace of every past suffering. Melmond, in a companion delighting in all his favourite pursuits, and capable of joining even in his severer studies, found a charm to beguile150 from him all former regret, while reason and experience endeared his ultimate choice. Eugenia once loved, was loved for ever. Where her countenance151 was looked at, her complexion152 was forgotten; while her voice was heard, her figure was unobserved; where her virtues were known, they seemed but to be enhanced by her personal misfortunes.
The Baronet was enchanted153 to see her thus unexpectedly happy, and soon transferred to Melmond the classical respect which Clermont had forfeited154, when he concurred155 with Eugenia in a petition, that Dr. Orkborne, without further delay, might be enabled to retire to his own plans and pursuits, with such just and honourable156 consideration for labours he well knew how to appreciate, as his friend Mr. Tyrold should judge to be worthy of his acceptance.
With joy expanding to that thankfulness which may be called the beauty of Piety, the virtuous157 Tyrolds, as their first blessings, received these blessings of their children: and the beneficent Sir Hugh felt every wish so satisfied, he could scarcely occupy himself again with a project... save a maxim158 of prudence159, drawn from his own experience, which he daily planned teaching to the little generation rising around him; To avoid, from the disasters of their Uncle, the Dangers and Temptations, to their Descendants, of Unsettled Collateral160 Expectations.
Thus ended the long conflicts, doubts, suspences, and sufferings of Edgar and Camilla; who, without one inevitable161 calamity, one unavoidable distress, so nearly fell the sacrifice to the two extremes of Imprudence, and Suspicion, to the natural heedlessness of youth unguided, or to the acquired distrust of experience that had been wounded. Edgar, by generous confidence, became the repository of her every thought; and her friends read her exquisite162 lot in a gaiety no longer to be feared: while, faithful to his word, making Etherington, Cleves, and Beech Park, his alternate dwellings163, he rarely parted her from her fond Parents and enraptured164 Uncle. And Dr. Marchmont, as he saw the pure innocence, open frankness, and spotless honour of her heart, found her virtues, her errours, her facility, or her desperation, but A PICTURE OF YOUTH; and regretting the false light given by the spirit of comparison, in the hypothesis which he had formed from individual experience, acknowledged its injustice165, its narrowness, and its arrogance166. What, at last, so diversified167 as man? what so little to be judged by his fellow?
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