When George Vavasor left Mr Scruby’s office — the attentive1 reader will remember that he did call upon Mr Scruby, the Parliamentary lawyer, and there recognised the necessity of putting himself in possession of a small sum of money with as little delay as possible — when he left the attorney’s office, he was well aware that the work to be done was still before him. And he knew also that the job to be undertaken was a very disagreeable job. He did not like the task of borrowing his cousin Alice’s money.
We all of us know that swindlers and rogues2 do very dirty tricks, and we are apt to picture to ourselves a certain amount of gusto and delight on the part of the swindlers in the doing of them. In this, I think we are wrong. The poor, broken, semi-genteel beggar, who borrows half-sovereigns apiece from all his old acquaintances, knowing that they know that he will never repay them, suffers a separate little agony with each petition that he makes. He does not enjoy pleasant sailing in this journey which he is making. To be refused is painful to him. To get his half-sovereign with scorn is painful. To get it with apparent confidence in his honour is almost more painful. “D— it,” he says to himself on such rare occasions, “I will pay that fellow;” and yet, as he says it, he knows that he never will pay even that fellow. It is a comfortless unsatisfying trade, that of living upon other people’s money.
How was George Vavasor to make his first step towards getting his hand into his cousin’s purse? He had gone to her asking for her love, and she had shuddered3 when he asked her. That had been the commencement of their life under their new engagement. He knew very well that the money would be forthcoming when he demanded it — but under their present joint4 circumstances, how was he to make the demand? If he wrote to her, should he simply ask for money, and make no allusion5 to his love? If he went to her in person, should he make his visit a mere6 visit of business — as he might call on his banker?
He resolved at last that Kate should do the work for him. Indeed, he had felt all along that it would be well that Kate should act as ambassador between him and Alice in money matters, as she had long done in other things. He could talk to Kate as he could not talk to Alice — and then, between the women, those hard money necessities would be softened7 down by a romantic phraseology which he would not himself know how to use with any effect. He made up his mind to see Kate, and with this view he went down to Westmoreland; and took himself to a small wayside inn at Shap among the fells, which had been known to him of old. He gave his sister notice that he would be there, and begged her to come over to him as early as she might find it possible on the morning after his arrival. He himself reached the place late in the evening by train from London. There is a station at Shap, by which the railway company no doubt conceives that it has conferred on that somewhat rough and remote locality all the advantages of a refined civilization; but I doubt whether the Shappites have been thankful for the favour. The landlord at the inn, for one, is not thankful. Shap had been a place owing all such life as it had possessed8 to coaching and posting. It had been a stage on the high road from Lancaster to Carlisle, and though it lay high and bleak9 among the fells, and was a cold, windy, thinly-populated place — filling all travellers with thankfulness that they had not been made Shappites, nevertheless, it had had its glory in its coaching and posting. I have no doubt that there are men and women who look back with a fond regret to the palmy days of Shap.
Vavasor reached the little Inn about nine in the evening on a night that was pitchy dark, and in a wind which made it necessary for him to hold his hat on to his head. “What a beastly country to live in,” he said to himself, resolving that he would certainly sell Vavasor Hall in spite of all family associations, if ever the power to do so should be his. “What trash it is,” he said, “hanging on to such a place as that without the means of living like a gentleman, simply because one’s ancestors have done so.” And then he expressed a doubt to himself whether all the world contained a more ignorant, opinionated, useless old man than his grandfather — or, in short, a greater fool.
“Well, Mr George,” said the landlord as soon as he saw him, “a sight of you’s guid for sair een. It’s o’er lang since you’ve been doon amang the fells.” But George did not want to converse10 with the innkeeper, or to explain how it was that he did not visit Vavasor Hall. The innkeeper, no doubt, knew all about it — knew that the grandfather had quarrelled with his grandson, and knew the reason why; but George, if he suspected such knowledge, did not choose to refer to it. So he simply grunted11 something in reply, and getting himself in before a spark of fire which hardly was burning in a public room with a sandy floor, begged that the little sitting-room12 upstairs might be got ready for him. There he passed the evening in solitude13, giving no encouragement to the landlord, who, nevertheless, looked him up three or four times — till at last George said that his head ached, and that he would wish to be alone. “He was always one of them cankery chiels as never have a kindly14 word for man nor beast,” said the landlord. “Seems as though that raw slash15 in his face had gone right through into his heart.” After that George was left alone, and sat thinking whether it would not be better to ask Alice for two thousand pounds at once — so as to save him from the disagreeable necessity of a second borrowing before their marriage. He was very uneasy in his mind. He had flattered himself through it all that his cousin had loved him. He had felt sure that such was the case while they were together in Switzerland. When she had determined16 to give up John Grey, of course he had told himself the same thing. When she had at once answered his first subsequent overture17 with an assent18, he had of course been certain that it was so. Dark, selfish, and even dishonest as he was, he had, nevertheless, enjoyed something of a lover’s true pleasure in believing that Alice had still loved him through all their mischances. But his joy had in a moment been turned into gall19 during that interview in Queen Anne Street. He had read the truth at a glance. A man must be very vain, or else very little used to such matters, who at George Vavasor’s age cannot understand the feelings with which a woman receives him. When Alice contrived20 as she had done to escape the embrace he was so well justified21 in asking, he knew the whole truth. He was sore at heart, and very angry withal. He could have readily spurned22 her from him, and rejected her who had once rejected him. He would have done so had not his need for her money restrained him. He was not a man who could deceive himself in such matters. He knew that this was so, and he told himself that he was a rascal23.
Vavasor Hall was, by the road, about five miles from Shap, and it was not altogether an easy task for Kate to get over to the village without informing her grandfather that the visit was to be made, and what was its purport24. She could, indeed, walk, and the walk would not be so long as that she had taken with Alice to Swindale fell — but walking to an inn on a high road, is not the same thing as walking to a point on a hill side over a lake. Had she been dirty, draggled, and wet through on Swindale fell, it would have simply been matter for mirth; but her brother, she knew, would not have liked to see her enter the Lowther Arms at Shap in such a condition. It, therefore, became necessary that she should ask her grandfather to lend her the jaunting-car.
“Where do you want to go?” he asked sharply. In such establishments as that at Vavasor Hall the family horse is generally used for double duties. Though he draws the lady of the house one day, he is not too proud to draw manure25 on the next. And it will always be found that the master of the house gives a great preference to the manure over the lady. The Squire26 at Vavasor had come to do so to such an extent that he regarded any application for the animal’s services as an encroachment27.
“Only to Shap, grandpapa.”
“To Shap! what on earth can take you to Shap? There are no shops at Shap.”
“I am not going to do shopping, I want to see someone there.”
“Whom can you want to see at Shap?” Then it occurred to Kate on the spur of the moment that she might as well tell her grandfather the fact. “My brother has come down,” she said; “and is at the inn there. I had not intended to tell you, as I did not wish to mention his name till you had consented to receive him here.”
“And he expects to come here now — does he?” said the Squire.
“Oh, no, sir. I think he has no expectation of the kind. He has come down simply to see me — about business I believe.”
“Business! what business? I suppose he wants to get your money from you?”
“I think it is with reference to his marriage. I think he wants me to use my influence with Alice that it may not be delayed.”
“Look here, Kate; if ever you lend him your money, or any of it — that is, of the principal I mean — I will never speak to him again under any circumstance. And more than that! Look here, Kate. In spite of all that has passed and gone, the property will become his for his life when I die — unless I change my will. If he gets your money from you, I will change it, and he shall not be a shilling richer at my death than he is now. You can have the horse to go to Shap.”
What unlucky chance had it been which had put this idea into the old Squire’s head on this especial morning? Kate had resolved that she would entreat28 her brother to make use of her little fortune. She feared that he was now coming with some reference to his cousin’s money — that something was to be done to enable him to avail himself of his cousin’s offer; and Kate, almost blushing in the solitude of her chamber29 at the thought, was determined that her brother must be saved from such temptation. She knew that money was necessary to him. She knew that he could not stand a second contest without assistance. With all their confidences, he had never told her much of his pecuniary30 circumstances in the world, but she was almost sure that he was a poor man. He had said as much as that to her, and in his letter desiring her to come to him at Shap, he had inserted a word or two purposely intended to prepare her mind for monetary31 considerations.
As she was jogged along over the rough road to Shap, she made up her mind that Aunt Greenow would be the proper person to defray the expense of the coming election. To give Kate her due, she would have given up every shilling of her own money without a moment’s hesitation32, or any feeling that her brother would be wrong to accept it. Nor would she, perhaps, have been unalterably opposed to his taking Alice’s money, had Alice simply been his cousin. She felt that as Vavasors they were bound to stand by the future head of the family in an attempt which was to be made, as she felt, for the general Vavasor interest. But she could not endure to think that her brother should take the money of the girl whom he was engaged to marry. Aunt Greenow’s money she thought was fair game. Aunt Greenow herself had made various liberal offers to herself which Kate had declined, not caring to be under pecuniary obligations even to Aunt Greenow without necessity; but she felt that for such a purpose as her brother’s contest, she need not hesitate to ask for assistance, and she thought also that such assistance would be forthcoming.
“Grandpapa knows that you are here, George,” said Kate, when their first greeting was over.
“The deuce he does! And why did you tell him?”
“I could not get the car to come in without letting him know why I wanted it.”
“What nonsense! as if you couldn’t have made any excuse! I was particularly anxious that he should not guess that I am here.”
“I don’t see that it can make any difference, George.”
“But I see that it can — a very great difference. It may prevent my ever being able to get near him again before he dies. What did he say about my coming?”
“He didn’t say much.”
“He made no offer as to my going there?”
“No.”
“I should not have gone if he had. I don’t know now that I ever shall go. To be there to do any good — so as to make him alter his will, and leave me in the position which I have a right to expect, would take more time than the whole property is worth. And he would endeavour to tie me down in some way.”
“He might ask you, but he would not make it ground for another quarrel, if you refused.”
“He is so unreasonable33 and ignorant that I am better away from him. But, Kate, you have not congratulated me on my matrimonial prospects34.”
“Indeed I did, George, when I wrote to you.”
“Did you? well; I had forgotten. I don’t know that any very strong congratulatory tone is necessary. As things go, perhaps it may be as well for all of us, and that’s about the best that can be said for it.”
“Oh, George!”
“You see I’m not romantic, Kate, as you are. Half a dozen children with a small income do not generally present themselves as being desirable to men who wish to push their way in the world.”
“You know you have always longed to make her your wife.”
“I don’t know anything of the kind. You have always been under a match-making hallucination on that point. But in this case you have been so far successful, and are entitled to your triumph.”
“I don’t want any triumph; you ought to know that.”
“But I’ll tell you what I do want, Kate. I want some money.” Then he paused, but as she did not answer immediately, he was obliged to go on speaking. “I’m not at all sure that I have not been wrong in making this attempt to get into Parliament — that I’m not struggling to pick fruit which is above my reach.”
“Don’t say that, George.”
“Ah, but I can’t help feeling it. I need hardly tell you that I am ready to risk anything of my own. If I know myself I would toss up tomorrow, or for the matter of that today, between the gallows36 and a seat in the House. But I cannot go on with this contest by risking what is merely my own. Money, for immediate35 use, I have none left, and my neck, though I were ever so willing to risk it, is of no service.”
“Whatever I have can be yours tomorrow,” said Kate in a hesitating voice, which too plainly pronounced her misery37 as she made the offer. She could not refrain herself from making it. Though her grandfather’s threat was ringing in her ears — though she knew that she might be ruining her brother by proposing such a loan, she had no alternative. When her brother told her of his want of money, she could not abstain38 from tendering to him the use of what was her own.
“No;” said he. “I shall not take your money.”
“You would not scruple39, if you knew how welcome you are.”
“At any rate, I shall not take it. I should not think it right. All that you have would only just suffice for my present wants, and I should not choose to make you a beggar. There would, moreover, be a difficulty about readjusting the payment.”
“There would be no difficulty, because no one need be consulted but us two.”
“I should not think it right, and therefore let there be an end of it,” said George in a tone of voice which had in it something of magniloquence.
“What is it you wish, then?” said Kate, who knew too well what he did wish.
“I will explain to you. When Alice and I are married, of course there will be a settlement made on her, and as we are both the grandchildren of the old Squire I shall propose that the Vavasor property shall be hers for life in the event of her outliving me.”
“Well,” said Kate.
“And if this be done, there can be no harm in my forestalling40 some of her property, which, under the circumstances of such a settlement, would of course become mine when we are married.”
“But the Squire might leave the property to whom he pleases.”
“We know very well that he won’t, at any rate, leave it out of the family. In fact, he would only be too glad to consent to such an agreement as that I have proposed, because he would thereby41 rob me of all power in the matter.”
“But that could not be done till you are married.”
“Look here, Kate — don’t you make difficulties.” And now, as he looked at her, the cicature on his face seemed to open and yawn at her. “If you mean to say that you won’t help me, do say so, and I will go back to London.”
“I would do anything in my power to help you — that was not wrong!”
“Yes; anybody could say as much as that. That is not much of an offer if you are to keep to yourself the power of deciding what is wrong. Will you write to Alice — or better still, go to her, and explain that I want the money.”
“How can I go to London now?”
“You can do it very well, if you choose. But if that be too much, then write to her. It will come much better from you than from me; write to her, and explain that I must pay in advance the expenses of this contest, and that I cannot look for success unless I do so. I did not think that the demand would come so quick on me; but they know that I am not a man of capital, and therefore I cannot expect them to carry on the fight for me, unless they know that the money is sure. Scruby has been bitten two or three times by these metropolitan42 fellows, and he is determined that he will not be bitten again.” Then he paused for Kate to speak.
“George,” she said, slowly.
“Well.”
“I wish you would try any other scheme but that.”
“There is no other scheme! That’s so like a woman — to quarrel with the only plan that is practicable.”
“I do not think you ought to take Alice’s money.”
“My dear Kate, you must allow me to be the best judge of what I ought to do, and what I ought not to do. Alice herself understands the matter perfectly43. She knows that I cannot obtain this position, which is as desirable for her as it is for me — ”
“And for me as much as for either,” said Kate, interrupting him.
“Very well. Alice, I say, knows that I cannot do this without money, and has offered the assistance which I want. I would rather that you should tell her how much I want, and that I want it now, than that I should do so. That is all. If you are half the woman that I take you to be, you will understand this well enough.”
Kate did understand it well enough. She was quite awake to the fact that her brother was ashamed of the thing he was about to do — so much ashamed of it that he was desirous of using her voice instead of his own. “I want you to write to her quite at once,” he continued; “since you seem to think that it is not worth while to take the trouble of a journey to London.”
“There is no question about the trouble,” said Kate. “I would walk to London to get the money for you, if that were all.”
“Do you think that Alice will refuse to lend it me?” said he, looking into her face.
“I am sure that she would not, but I think that you ought not to take it from her. There seems to me to be something sacred about property that belongs to the girl you are going to marry.”
“If there is anything on earth I hate,” said George, walking about the room, “it is romance. If you keep it for reading in your bedroom, it’s all very well for those who like it, but when it comes to be mixed up with one’s business it plays the devil. If you would only sift44 what you have said, you would see what nonsense it is. Alice and I are to be man and wife. All our interests, and all our money, and our station in life, whatever it may be, are to be joint property. And yet she is the last person in the world to whom I ought to go for money to improve her prospects as well as my own. That’s what you call delicacy45. I call it infernal nonsense.”
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do, George. I’ll ask Aunt Greenow to lend you the money — or to lend it to me.”
“I don’t believe she’d give me a shilling. Moreover, I want it quite immediately, and the time taken up in letter-writing and negotiations46 would be fatal to me. If you won’t apply to Alice, I must. I want you to tell me whether you will oblige me in this matter.”
Kate was still hesitating as to her answer, when there came a knock at the door, and a little crumpled47 note was brought up to her. A boy had just come with it across the fell from Vavasor Hall, and Kate, as soon as she saw her name on the outside, knew that it was from her grandfather. It was as follows:“If George wishes to come to the Hall, let him come. If he chooses to tell me that he regrets his conduct to me, I will see him.”
“What is it?” said George. Then Kate put the note into her brother’s hand.
“I’ll do nothing of the kind,” he said. “What good should I get by going to the old man’s house?”
“Every good,” said Kate. “If you don’t go now you never can do so.”
“Never till it’s my own,” said George,
“If you show him that you are determined to be at variance48 with him, it never will be your own — unless, indeed, it should some day come to you as part of Alice’s fortune. Think of it, George; you would not like to receive everything from her.”
He walked about the room, muttering maledictions between his teeth, and balancing, as best he was able at such a moment, his pride against his profit. “You haven’t answered my question,” said he. “If I go to the Hall, will you write to Alice?”
“No, George; I cannot write to Alice asking her for the money.”
“You won’t?”
“I could not bring myself to do it.”
“Then, Kate, you and my grandfather may work together for the future. You may get him to leave you the place if you have skill enough.”
“That is as undeserved a reproach as any woman ever encountered,” said Kate, standing49 her ground boldly before him. “If you have either heart or conscience, you will feel that it is so.”
“I’m not much troubled with either one or the other, I fancy. Things are being brought to such a pass with me, that I am better without them.”
“Will you take my money, George; just for the present?”
“No. I haven’t much conscience; but I have a little left.”
“Will you let me write to Mrs Greenow?”
“I have not the slightest objection; but it will be of no use whatsoever50.”
“I will do so, at any rate. And now will you come to the Hall?”
“To beg that old fool’s pardon? No; I won’t. In the mood I am in at present, I couldn’t do it. I should only anger him worse than ever. Tell him that I’ve business which calls me back to London at once.”
“It is a thousand pities.”
“It can’t be helped.”
“It may make so great a difference to you for your whole life!” urged Kate.
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said George. “I’ll go to Vavasor and put up with the old Squire’s insolence51, if you’ll make this application for me to Alice.” I wonder whether it occurred to him that his sister desired his presence at the Hall solely52 on his own behalf. The same idea certainly did not occur to Kate. She hesitated, feeling that she would almost do anything to achieve a reconciliation53 between her grandfather and her brother.
“But you’ll let me write to Aunt Greenow first?” said she. “It will take only two days — or at the most three.”
To this George consented as though he were yielding a great deal; and Kate, with a sore conscience, with a full knowledge that she was undertaking54 to do wrong, promised that she would apply to Alice for her money, if sufficient funds should not be forthcoming from Mrs Greenow. Thereupon, George graciously consented to proceed to his bedroom, and put together his clothes with a view to his visit to the Hall.
“I thank Providence55, Kate, that circumstances make it impossible for me to stay above two days. I have not linen56 to last me longer.”
“We’ll manage that for you at the Hall.”
“Indeed you won’t do anything of the kind. And look, Kate, when I make that excuse don’t you offer to do so. I will stay there over tomorrow night, and shall go into Kendal early, so as to catch the express train up on Thursday morning. Don’t you throw me over by any counter proposition.”
Then they started together in the car, and very few words were said till they reached the old lodge57, which stood at the entrance to the place. “Eh, Mr George; be that you?” said the old woman, who came out to swing back for them the broken gate. “A sight of you is good for sair een.” It was the same welcome that the innkeeper had given him, and equally sincere. George had never made himself popular about the place, but he was the heir.
“I suppose you had better go into the drawing-room,” said Kate; “while I go to my grandfather. You won’t find a fire there.”
“Manage it how you please; but don’t keep me in the cold very long. Heavens, what a country house! The middle of January, and no fires in the rooms.”
“And remember, George, when you see him you must say that you regret that you ever displeased58 him. Now that you are here, don’t let there be any further misunderstanding.”
“I think it very probable that there will be,” said George. “I only hope he’ll let me have the old horse to take me back to Shap if there is. There he is at the front door, so I shan’t have to go into the room without a fire.”
The old man was standing at the Hall steps when the car drove up, as though to welcome his grandson. He put out his hand to help Kate down the steps, keeping his eye all the time on George’s face.
“So you’ve come back,” the Squire said to him.
“Yes, sir — I’ve come back — like the prodigal59 son in the parable60.”
“The prodigal son was contrite61. I hope you are so.”
“Pretty well for that, sir. I’m sorry there has been any quarrel, and all that, you know.”
“Go in,” said the Squire, very angrily. “Go in. To expect anything gracious from you would be to expect pearls from swine. Go in.”
George went in, shrugging his shoulders as his eyes met his sister’s. It was in this fashion that the reconciliation took place between Squire Vavasor and his heir.
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