THE THEATRE—THE RUFFIAN—THE ASSAULT, AND THE RENCONTRE.
Major O'Leary had hardly dismounted in the quadrangle of the "Cock and Anchor," when O'Connor rode slowly into the inn-yard.
"How are you, my dear fellow?" exclaimed the man of scarlet1 and gold; "I was just asking where you were. Come down off that beast, I want to have a word in your ear—a bit of news—some fun. Descend2, I say, descend."
O'Connor accordingly dismounted.
"Now then—a hearty3 shake—so. I have great news, and only a minute to tell it. Jack4, run like a shot, and get me a chair. Here, Tim, take a napkin and an oyster-knife, and do not leave a bit of mud, or the sign of it, upon my back: take a general survey of the coat and breeches, and a particular review of the wig5. And, Jem, do you give my boots a harum-scarum shot of a superficial scrub, and touch up the hat—gently, do you mind—and take care of the lace. So while the fellows are finishing my toilet, I may as well tell you my morsel6 of news. Do you know who is to be at the playhouse to-night?"
O'Connor expressed his ignorance.
"Well, then, I'll tell you, and make what use you like of it," resumed the major. "Miss Mary Ashwoode! There's for you. Take my advice, get into a decent coat and breeches, and run down to the theatre—it is not five minutes' walk from this; you'll easily find us, and I'll take care to make room for you. Why, you do not seem half pleased: what more can you wish for, unless you expect the girl to put up for the evening at the "Cock and Anchor"? Rouse yourself. If you feel modest, there is nothing like a pint7 or two of Madeira: don't try brandy—it's the father and mother of all sorts of indiscretions. Now, mind, you have the hint; it is an opportunity you ought to improve. By the powers, if I was in your place—but no matter. You may not have an opportunity of seeing her again these six months; and unless I'm completely mistaken, you are as much in love with the girl as I am with—several that shall be nameless. Heigho! next after Burgundy, and the cock-pit, and the fox-hounds, and two or three more frailties8 of the kind, there is nothing in the world I prefer to flirtation9, without much minding whether I'm the principal or the second in the affair. But here comes the vehicle."
Accordingly, without waiting to say any more, the major took his seat in the chair, and was borne by the lusty chairmen, at a swinging pace, through the narrow streets, and, without let or accident, safely deposited within the principal entrance of the theatre.
The theatre of Smock Alley10 (or, as it was then called, Orange Street) was not quite what theatres are nowadays. It was a large building of the kind, as theatres were then rated, and contained three galleries, one above the other, supported by heavy wooden caryatides, and richly gilded11 and painted. The curtain, instead of rising and falling, opened, according to the old fashion, in the middle, and was drawn12 sideways apart, disclosing no triumphs of illusive13 colouring and perspective, but a succession of plain tapestry-covered screens, which, from early habit, the audience accommodatingly accepted for town or country, dry land or sea, or, in short, for any locality whatsoever14, according to the manager's good will and pleasure. This docility15 and good faith on the part of the audience were, perhaps, the more praiseworthy, inasmuch as a very considerable number of the aristocratic spectators actually sate16 in long lines down either side of the stage—a circumstance involving, by the continuous presence of the same perukes, and the same embroidered17 waistcoats, the same set of countenances19, and the same set of legs, in every variety of clime and situation through which the wayward invention of the playwright20 hurried his action, a very severe additional tax upon the imaginative faculties21 of the audience. But perhaps the most striking peculiarities22 of the place were exhibited in the grim persons of two bonâ fide sentries23, in genuine cocked hats and scarlet coats, with their enormous muskets24 shouldered, and the ball-cartridges dangling25 in ostentatious rows from their bandoleers, planted at the front, and facing the audience, one at each side of the stage—a vivid evidence of the stern vicissitudes26 and insecurity of the times. For the rest, the audience of those days, in the brilliant colours, and glittering lace, and profuse27 ornament28, which the gorgeous fashion of the time allowed, presented a spectacle of rich and dazzling magnificence, such as no modern assembly of the kind can even faintly approach.
The major had hardly made his way to the box where his party were seated, when his attention was caught by an object which had for him all but irresistible29 attractions: this was the buxom30 person of Mistress Jannet Rumble31, a plump, good-looking, young widow of five-and-forty, with a jolly smile, a hearty laugh, and a killing32 acquaintance with the language of the eyes. These perfections—for of course her jointure, which, by the way, was very considerable, could have had nothing to do with it—were too much for Major O'Leary. He met the widow accidentally, made a few careless inquiries33 about her finances, and fell over head and ears in love with her upon the shortest possible notice. Our friend had, therefore, hardly caught a glimpse of her, when Miss Copland, beside whom he was seated, observed that he became unusually meditative34, and at length, after two or three attempts to enter again into conversation—all resulting in total and incoherent failure, the major made some blundering excuse, took his departure, and in a moment had planted himself beside the fascinating Mistress Rumble—where we shall allow him the protection of a generous concealment35, and suffer him to read the lady's eyes, and insinuate37 his soft nonsense, without intruding38 for a moment upon the sanctity of lovers' mutual39 confidences.
Emily Copland having watched and enjoyed the manœuvres of her military friend till she was fairly tired of the amusement, and having in vain sought to engage Henry Ashwoode, who was unusually moody40 and absent, in conversation, at length, as a last desperate resource, turned her attention to what was passing upon the stage.
While all this was going forward, young Ashwoode was a good deal disconcerted at observing among the crowd in the pit a personage with whom, in the vicious haunts which he frequented, he had made a sort of ambiguous acquaintance. The man was a bulky, broad-shouldered, ill-looking fellow, with a large, vulgar, red face, and a coarse, sensual mouth, whose blue, swollen41 lips indicated habitual42 intemperance43, and the nauseous ugliness of which was further enhanced by the loss of two front teeth, probably by some violent agency, as was testified by a deep scar across the mouth; the eyes of the man carried that uncertain expression, half of shame and half of defiance44, which belongs to the coward, bully45, and ruffian. The blackness of habitually-indulged and ferocious46 passion was upon his countenance18; and the revolting character of the face was the more unequivocally marked by a sort of smile, or rather sneer47, which had in it neither intellectuality nor gladness—an odious48 libel on the human smile, with nothing but brute49 insolence50 and scorn, and a sardonic51 glee in its baleful light—a smile from which every human sympathy recoiled52 abashed53 and affrighted. Let not the reader imagine that the man and the character are but the dreams of fiction; the wretch54, whose outward seeming we have imperfectly sketched56, lived and moved in the scenes where we have fixed57 our narrative—there grew rich—there rioted in the indulgence of every passion which hell can inspire or to which wealth can pander—there ministered to his insatiate avarice58, by the destruction and beggary of thousands of the young and thoughtless—and there at length, in the fulness of his time, died—in the midst of splendour and infamy59: with malignant60 and triumphant61 perseverance62 having persisted to his latest hour in the prosecution63 of his Satanic mission; luring64 the unwary into the toils65 of crime and inextricable madness, and thence into the pit of temporal and eternal ruin. This man, Nicholas Blarden, Esquire, was the proprietor66 of one of those places where fortunes are squandered67, time sunk, habits, temper, character, morals, all, corrupted68, blasted, destroyed—one of those places which are set apart as the especial temples of avarice, in which, year after year, are for ever recurring69 the same perennial70 scenes of mad excess, of calculating, merciless fraud, of bleak71, brain-stricken despair—places to which has been assigned, in a spirit of fearful truth, the appellative of "hell."
The man whom we have mentioned, it had never been young Ashwoode's misfortune to meet, except in those scenes where his acquaintance was useful, without being actually discreditable; for it was the fellow's habit, with the instinctive72 caution which marks such gentlemen, to court public observation as little as possible, and to skulk73 systematically74 from the eye of popular scrutiny—seldom embarrassing his aristocratic acquaintances by claiming the privilege of recognition at unseasonable times; and confining himself, for the most part, exclusively to his own coterie75. Independently of his unpleasant natural peculiarities there were other circumstances which tended to make him a conspicuous76 object in the crowd—the fellow was extravagantly77 over-dressed, and had planted himself in a standing78 posture79 upon a bench, and from this elevated position was, with steady effrontery80, gazing into the box in which young Ashwoode's party were seated, exchanging whispers and horse-laughs with three or four men who looked scarcely less villainous than himself, and, as soon became apparent, directing his marked and exclusive attention to Miss Ashwoode, who was too deeply absorbed in her own sorrowful reflections to heed81 what was passing around her. The young man felt his choler mount, as he beheld82 the insolent83 conduct of the fellow—he saw, however, that Blarden was evidently not perfectly55 sober, and hesitated what course he should take. Strongly as he was tempted84 to spring at once into the pit, and put an end to the impertinence by caning85 the fellow within an inch of his life, he yet felt that a disreputable conflict of the kind had better be avoided, and could not well be justified86 except as a last resource; he, therefore, made up his mind to bear it as long as human endurance could.
Whatever hopes he entertained of escaping a collision with this man were, however, destined87 to be disappointed. Nicky Blarden (as his friends endearingly called him), to the great comfort of that part of the audience in his immediate88 neighbourhood, at length descended89 from his elevated stand, but not to conceal36 himself among the less obtrusive90 spectators. With an insolent swagger the fellow shouldered his way among the crowd towards the box where the object of his gaze was seated; and, having planted himself directly beneath it, he stared impudently91 up at young Ashwoode, exclaiming at the same time,—
"I say, Ashwoode, how does the world wag with you?—why ain't you rattling92 the bones this evening? d——n me, you may as well be off, and let me take care of the dimber mot up there?"
"Do you speak to me, sir?" inquired young Ashwoode, turning almost livid with passion, and speaking in that subdued93 tone, and with that constrained94 coolness, which precedes some ungovernable outburst of fury.
"Why, —— me, how great we've got all at once—I say, you don't know me—Eh! don't you?" exclaimed the fellow, with vulgar scorn, at the same time rather roughly poking95 Ashwoode's hand with the hilt of his sword.
"I shall show you, sir, when your drunken folly96 has passed away, by very sore proofs, that I do know you," replied the young man, clutching his cane97 with such a grip as threatened to force his fingers into it—"be assured, sir, I shall know you, and you me, as long as you have the power to remember."
"Whieu, d—— it, don't frighten us," said the fellow, looking round for the approbation98 of his companions. "I say, d——n it, don't frighten the people—come, come, no gammon. I say, Ashwoode, you must introduce me, or present me, or whatever's the word, to your sister up there—I say you must."
"Quit this part of the house this instant, sir, or nothing shall prevent me flogging you until I leave not a whole bone in your body—this warning is the last—profit by it," rejoined Ashwoode, in a low tone of bitter rage.
"Oh, ho! it's there you are—is it?" rejoined the fellow, with a wink99 at his comrades, "so you're going to beat the people—why, d——n it, you're enough to make a horse laugh. I say I want to know your sister, or your miss, or whatever she is, with the black hair up there, and if you won't introduce me, d——n it, I must only introduce myself."
So saying, the fellow made a spring and caught the ledge100 of the front of the box, with the intention of vaulting101 into the place. Lord Aspenly and the young ladies had arisen in some alarm.
"My lord," said young Ashwoode, "have the goodness to conduct the ladies to the lobby—I will join you in a moment."
This direction was promptly102 obeyed, and at the same moment the young man caught the fellow, already half into the box, by the neckcloth, dragged his body across the wooden parapet, and while he struggled helplessly to disengage himself—half strangled, and without the power to get either up or down—with his heavy cane, the young gentleman—every nerve, sinew, and muscle being strung to tenfold power by fury—inflicted upon his back and ribs103 a castigation104 so prolonged and tremendous, that before it had ended, the scoundrel was perfectly insensible, in which state Henry Ashwoode flung him down again into the pit, amid the obstreperous105 acclamations of all parts of the house—an uproar106 of applause in which the spectators in the pit joined with such hearty enthusiasm, that at length, touched with a kindred heroism107, they turned upon the associates of the fallen champion, and fairly kicked and cuffed108 them out of the house.
This feat109 accomplished110, the young gentleman went down the stairs to the street-entrance, and, after considerable delay, succeeded, with the assistance of the footman who had attended him into the house, in finding out their carriage, and having it brought to the door—not judging it expedient111 that the ladies should return to their places, where they would, of course, be exposed to the gazing curiosity of the multitude. He found the party in the lobby quite recovered from whatever was unpleasant in the excitement of the scene, the more violent part of which they had not witnessed. Lord Aspenly and Emily Copland were laughing over the adventure; and Mary, flashed and agitated112, was looking better than she had before upon that night. Taking his cousin under his own protection, and consigning113 his sister to that of Lord Aspenly, young Ashwoode led the way to the carriage. As they passed slowly along the lobby, the quick eye of Mary Ashwoode discerned a form, at sight of which her heart swelled114 and throbbed115 as though it would burst—the colour fled from her cheeks, and she felt for a moment on the point of swooning; the pride of her sex, however, sustained her; the tingling116 blood again mounted warmly to her cheeks, her eye brightened, and she listened, with more apparent interest than perhaps she ever did before, to Lord Aspenly's remarks—the form was O'Connor's. As she passed him, she returned his salute117 with a slight and haughty118 bow, and saw, and felt the stern, cold, proud expression which marked his pale and handsome features. In another moment she was seated in the carriage; the doors were closed, crack went the whip, and clatter119 go the iron hoofs120 on the pavement—but before they had traversed a hundred yards on their homeward way, poor Mary Ashwoode sunk back in her place, and fainted away.
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docility
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defiance
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sneer
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odious
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brute
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wretch
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perfectly
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infamy
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