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"Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin1 appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature2 and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial3 fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation4 from the Bible,--or from one of our elder poets,--in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably6 clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense. Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister's, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements; for Miss Brooke's plain dressing7 was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister shared. The pride of being ladies had something to do with it: the Brooke connections, though not exactly aristocratic, were unquestionably "good:" if you inquired backward for a generation or two, you would not find any yard-measuring or parcel-tying forefathers--anything lower than an admiral or a clergyman; and there was even an ancestor discernible as a Puritan gentleman who served under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor8 of a respectable family estate. Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor9, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster's daughter. Then there was well-bred economy, which in those days made show in dress the first item to be deducted10 from, when any margin11 was required for expenses more distinctive12 of rank. Such reasons would have been enough to account for plain dress, quite apart from religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined13 it; and Celia mildly acquiesced14 in all her sister's sentiments, only infusing them with that common-sense which is able to accept momentous15 doctrines16 without any eccentric agitation17. Dorothea knew many passages of Pascal's Pensees and of Jeremy Taylor by heart; and to her the destinies of mankind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes18 of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam19. She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned20 by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly21 include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there; she was enamoured of intensity22 and greatness, and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects; likely to seek martyrdom, to make retractations, and then to incur23 martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it. Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere24 with her lot, and hinder it from being decided25 according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine26 affection. With all this, she, the elder of the sisters, was not yet twenty, and they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous27, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian28 trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned29 condition.
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent30 temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote. He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling32 habit of mind. Mr. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent33 intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously34 indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention35 of his snuff-box, concerning which he was watchful36, suspicious, and greedy of clutch.
In Mr. Brooke the hereditary37 strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance38; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues39, turning sometimes into impatience40 of her uncle's talk or his way of "letting things be" on his estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes. She was regarded as an heiress; for not only had the sisters seven hundred a-year each from their parents, but if Dorothea married and had a son, that son would inherit Mr. Brooke's estate, presumably worth about three thousand a-year--a rental41 which seemed wealth to provincial families, still discussing Mr. Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy42 which has so nobly exalted43 the necessities of genteel life.
And how should Dorothea not marry?--a girl so handsome and with such prospects44? Nothing could hinder it but her love of extremes, and her insistence45 on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary46 man to hesitate before he made her an offer, or even might lead her at last to refuse all offers. A young lady of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer47 and prayed fervidly48 as if she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles--who had strange whims49 of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken50 you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane51 people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even among the cottagers, was generally in favor of Celia, as being so amiable52 and innocent-looking, while Miss Brooke's large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking. Poor Dorothea! compared with her, the innocent-looking Celia was knowing and worldly-wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay53, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it. Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback. She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, and when her eyes and cheeks glowed with mingled54 pleasure she looked very little like a devotee. Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious55 qualms56; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous57 way, and always looked forward to renouncing58 it.
She was open, ardent59, and not in the least self-admiring; indeed, it was pretty to see how her imagination adorned60 her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange from some other motive61 than that of seeing Mr. Brooke, she concluded that he must be in love with Celia: Sir James Chettam, for example, whom she constantly considered from Celia's point of view, inwardly debating whether it would be good for Celia to accept him. That he should be regarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance62. Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious63 Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety64 to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,--how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful65 marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.
These peculiarities66 of Dorothea's character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged67 lady as guide and companion to his nieces. But he himself dreaded68 so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded69 by Dorothea's objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world--that is to say, Mrs. Cadwallader the Rector's wife, and the small group of gentry70 with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle's household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage71 that belonged to it.
Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen, and about whom Dorothea felt some venerating72 expectation. This was the Reverend Edward Casaubon, noted73 in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre74 to his piety, and having views of his own which were to be more clearly ascertained75 on the publication of his book. His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship.
Early in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room76 which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent77 on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia, who had been watching her with a hesitating desire to propose something, said--
"Dorothea, dear, if you don't mind--if you are not very busy--suppose we looked at mamma's jewels to-day, and divided them? It is exactly six months to-day since uncle gave them to you, and you have not looked at them yet."
Celia's face had the shadow of a pouting78 expression in it, the full presence of the pout79 being kept back by an habitual80 awe81 of Dorothea and principle; two associated facts which might show a mysterious electricity if you touched them incautiously. To her relief, Dorothea's eyes were full of laughter as she looked up.
"What a wonderful little almanac you are, Celia! Is it six calendar or six lunar months?"
"It is the last day of September now, and it was the first of April when uncle gave them to you. You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then. I believe you have never thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here."
"Well, dear, we should never wear them, you know." Dorothea spoke5 in a full cordial tone, half caressing82, half explanatory. She had her pencil in her hand, and was making tiny side-plans on a margin.
Celia colored, and looked very grave. "I think, dear, we are wanting in respect to mamma's memory, to put them by and take no notice of them. And," she added, after hesitating a little, with a rising sob83 of mortification84, "necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon, who was stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments85. And Christians86 generally--surely there are women in heaven now who wore jewels." Celia was conscious of some mental strength when she really applied87 herself to argument.
"You would like to wear them?" exclaimed Dorothea, an air of astonished discovery animating88 her whole person with a dramatic action which she had caught from that very Madame Poincon who wore the ornaments. "Of course, then, let us have them out. Why did you not tell me before? But the keys, the keys!" She pressed her hands against the sides of her head and seemed to despair of her memory.
"They are here," said Celia, with whom this explanation had been long meditated89 and prearranged.
"Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel-box."
The casket was soon open before them, and the various jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table. It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of remarkable90 beauty, the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts91 set in exquisite92 gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it. Dorothea immediately took up the necklace and fastened it round her sister's neck, where it fitted almost as closely as a bracelet93; but the circle suited the Henrietta-Maria style of Celia's head and neck, and she could see that it did, in the pier-glass opposite.
"There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses."
Celia was trying not to smile with pleasure. "O Dodo, you must keep the cross yourself."
"No, no, dear, no," said Dorothea, putting up her hand with careless deprecation.
"Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you--in your black dress, now," said Celia, insistingly. "You _might_ wear that."
"Not for the world, not for the world. A cross is the last thing I would wear as a trinket." Dorothea shuddered94 slightly.
"Then you will think it wicked in me to wear it," said Celia, uneasily.
"No, dear, no," said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. "Souls have complexions96 too: what will suit one will not suit another."
"But you might like to keep it for mamma's sake."
"No, I have other things of mamma's--her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of--plenty of things. In fact, they are all yours, dear. We need discuss them no longer. There--take away your property."
Celia felt a little hurt. There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration, hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution97.
"But how can I wear ornaments if you, who are the elder sister, will never wear them?"
"Nay98, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance99. If I were to put on such a necklace as that, I should feel as if I had been pirouetting. The world would go round with me, and I should not know how to walk."
Celia had unclasped the necklace and drawn100 it off. "It would be a little tight for your neck; something to lie down and hang would suit you better," she said, with some satisfaction. The complete unfitness of the necklace from all points of view for Dorothea, made Celia happier in taking it. She was opening some ring-boxes, which disclosed a fine emerald with diamonds, and just then the sun passing beyond a cloud sent a bright gleam over the table.
"How very beautiful these gems101 are!" said Dorothea, under a new current of feeling, as sudden as the gleam. "It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate102 one, like scent31. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems103 in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think that emerald is more beautiful than any of them."
"And there is a bracelet to match it," said Celia. "We did not notice this at first."
"They are lovely," said Dorothea, slipping the ring and bracelet on her finely turned finger and wrist, and holding them towards the window on a level with her eyes. All the while her thought was trying to justify104 her delight in the colors by merging105 them in her mystic religious joy.
"You _would_ like those, Dorothea," said Celia, rather falteringly106, beginning to think with wonder that her sister showed some weakness, and also that emeralds would suit her own complexion95 even better than purple amethysts. "You must keep that ring and bracelet--if nothing else. But see, these agates107 are very pretty and quiet."
"Yes! I will keep these--this ring and bracelet," said Dorothea. Then, letting her hand fall on the table, she said in another tone--"Yet what miserable108 men find such things, and work at them, and sell them!" She paused again, and Celia thought that her sister was going to renounce109 the ornaments, as in consistency110 she ought to do.
"Yes, dear, I will keep these," said Dorothea, decidedly. "But take all the rest away, and the casket."
She took up her pencil without removing the jewels, and still looking at them. She thought of often having them by her, to feed her eye at these little fountains of pure color.
"Shall you wear them in company?" said Celia, who was watching her with real curiosity as to what she would do.
Dorothea glanced quickly at her sister. Across all her imaginative adornment111 of those whom she loved, there darted112 now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching113 quality. If Miss Brooke ever attained114 perfect meekness115, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
"Perhaps," she said, rather haughtily116. "I cannot tell to what level I may sink."
Celia blushed, and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away. Dorothea too was unhappy, as she went on with her plan-drawing, questioning the purity of her own feeling and speech in the scene which had ended with that little explosion.
Celia's consciousness told her that she had not been at all in the wrong: it was quite natural and justifiable117 that she should have asked that question, and she repeated to herself that Dorothea was inconsistent: either she should have taken her full share of the jewels, or, after what she had said, she should have renounced118 them altogether.
"I am sure--at least, I trust," thought Celia, "that the wearing of a necklace will not interfere with my prayers. And I do not see that I should be bound by Dorothea's opinions now we are going into society, though of course she herself ought to be bound by them. But Dorothea is not always consistent."
Thus Celia, mutely bending over her tapestry119, until she heard her sister calling her.
"Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible120 stairs and fireplaces."
As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly121. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia's mind towards her elder sister. The younger had always worn a yoke122; but is there any yoked123 creature without its private opinions?
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