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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Country Lodgings + +Author: Mary Russell Mitford + +Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22838] +Last Updated: January 9, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNTRY LODGINGS *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + COUNTRY LODGINGS + </h1> + <h2> + By Mary Russell Mitford + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + Between two and three years ago, the following pithy advertisement + appeared in several of the London papers:— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Country Lodgings.—Apartments to let in a large farm-house, + situate in a cheap and pleasant village, about forty miles + from London. Apply (if by letter post-paid) to A. B., No. 7, + Salisbury-street, Strand." +</pre> + <p> + Little did I think, whilst admiring in the broad page of the Morning + Chronicle the compendious brevity of this announcement, that the pleasant + village referred to was our own dear Aberleigh; and that the first tenant + of those apartments should be a lady whose family I had long known, and in + whose fortunes and destiny I took a more than common interest! + </p> + <p> + Upton Court was a manor-house of considerable extent, which had in former + times been the residence of a distinguished Catholic family, but which, in + the changes of property incident to our fluctuating neighbourhood, was now + "fallen from its high estate," and degraded into the homestead of a farm + so small, that the tenant, a yeoman of the poorest class, was fain to eke + out his rent by entering into an agreement with a speculating Belford + upholsterer, and letting off a part of the fine old mansion in the shape + of furnished lodgings. + </p> + <p> + Nothing could be finer than the situation of Upton, placed on the summit + of a steep acclivity, looking over a rich and fertile valley to a range of + woody hills; nothing more beautiful than the approach from Belford, the + road leading across a common between a double row of noble oaks, the + ground on one side sinking with the abruptness of a north-country burn, + whilst a clear spring, bursting from the hill side, made its way to the + bottom between patches of shaggy underwood and a grove of smaller trees; a + vine-covered cottage just peeping between the foliage, and the picturesque + outline of the Court, with its old-fashioned porch, its long windows, and + its tall, clustered chimneys towering in the distance. It was the + prettiest prospect in all Aberleigh. + </p> + <p> + The house itself retained strong marks of former stateliness, especially + in one projecting wing, too remote from the yard to be devoted to the + domestic purposes of the farmer's family. The fine proportions of the + lofty and spacious apartments, the rich mouldings of the ceilings, the + carved chimney-pieces, and the panelled walls, all attested the former + grandeur of the mansion; whilst the fragments of stained glass in the + windows of the great gallery, the half-effaced coats of arms over the + door-way, the faded family portraits, grim black-visaged knights, and pale + shadowy ladies, or the reliques of mouldering tapestry that fluttered + against the walls, and, above all, the secret chamber constructed for the + priest's hiding-place in days of Protestant persecution, for in darker + ages neither of the dominant churches was free from that foul stain,—each + of these vestiges of the manners and the history of times long gone by + appealed to the imagination, and conspired to give a Mrs. Radcliffe-like, + Castle-of-Udolpho-sort of romance to the manor-house. Really, when the + wind swept through the overgrown espaliers of that neglected but luxuriant + wilderness, the terraced garden; when the screech-owl shrieked from the + ivy which clustered up one side of the walls, and "rats and mice, and such + small deer," were playing their pranks behind the wainscot, it would have + formed as pretty a locality for a supernatural adventure, as ever decayed + hunting lodge in the recesses of the Hartz, or ruined fortress on the + castled Rhine. Nothing was wanting but the ghost, and a ghost of any taste + would have been proud of such a habitation. + </p> + <p> + Less like a ghost than the inhabitant who did arrive, no human being well + could be. + </p> + <p> + Mrs. Cameron was a young widow. Her father, a Scotch officer, well-born, + sickly, and poor, had been but too happy to bestow the hand of his only + child upon an old friend and fellow-countryman, the principal clerk in a + government office, whose respectable station, easy fortune, excellent + sense, and super-excellent character, were, as he thought, and as fathers, + right or wrong, are apt to think, advantages more than sufficient to + counterbalance a disparity of years and appearance, which some daughters + might have thought startling,—the bride being a beautiful girl of + seventeen, the bridegroom a plain man of seven-and-fifty. In this case, at + least, the father was right. He lived long enough to see that the young + wife was unusually attached to her kind and indulgent husband, and died, + about a twelve-month after the marriage, with the fullest confidence in + her respectability and happiness. Mr. Cameron did not long survive him. + Before she was nineteen the fair Helen Cameron was a widow and an orphan, + with one beautiful boy, to whom she was left sole personal guardian, an + income being secured to her ample for her rank in life, but clogged with + the one condition of her not marrying again. + </p> + <p> + Such was the tenant, who, wearied of her dull suburban home, a red brick + house in the middle of a row of red brick houses; tired of the loneliness + which never presses so much upon the spirits as when left solitary in the + environs of a great city; pining for country liberty, for green trees, and + fresh air; much caught by the picturesque-ness of Upton, and its mixture + of old-fashioned stateliness and village rusticity; and, perhaps, a little + swayed by a desire to be near an old friend and correspondent of the + mother, to whose memory she was so strongly attached, came in the budding + spring time, the showery, flowery month of April, to spend the ensuing + summer at the Court. + </p> + <p> + We, on our part, regarded her arrival with no common interest. To me it + seemed but yesterday since I had received an epistle of thanks for a + present of one of dear Mary Howitt's charming children's books,—an + epistle undoubtedly not indited by the writer,—in huge round text, + between double pencil lines, with certain small errors of orthography + corrected in a smaller hand above; followed in due time by postscripts to + her mother's letters, upon one single line, and the spelling much amended; + then by a short, very short note, in French; and at last, by a despatch of + unquestionable authenticity, all about doves and rabbits,—a holiday + scrawl, rambling, scrambling, and uneven, and free from restraint as heart + could desire. It appeared but yesterday since Helen Graham was herself a + child; and here she was, within two miles of us, a widow and a mother! + </p> + <p> + Our correspondence had been broken off by the death of Mrs. Graham when + she was about ten years old, and although I had twice called upon her in + my casual visits to town during the lifetime of Mr. Cameron; and although + these visits had been most punctually returned, it had happened, as those + things do happen in dear, provoking London, where one is sure to miss the + people one wishes most to see, that neither party had ever been at home; + so that we had never met, and I was at full liberty to indulge in my + foolish propensity of sketching in my mind's eye a fancy portrait of my + unknown friend. + </p> + <p> + Il Penseroso is not more different from L'Allegro than was my anticipation + from the charming reality. Remembering well her mother's delicate and + fragile grace of figure and countenance, and coupling with that + recollection her own unprotected and solitary state, and somewhat + melancholy story, I had pictured to myself (as if contrast were not in + this world of ours much more frequent than congruity) a mild, pensive, + interesting, fair-haired beauty, tall, pale, and slender;—I found a + Hebe, an Euphrosyne,—a round, rosy, joyous creature, the very + impersonation of youth, health, sweetness, and gaiety, laughter flashing + from her hazel eyes, smiles dimpling round her coral lips, and the rich + curls of her chestnut hair,—for having been fourteen months a widow, + she had, of course, laid aside the peculiar dress,—the glossy + ringlets of her "bonny brown hair" literally bursting from the comb that + attempted to confine them. + </p> + <p> + We soon found that her mind was as charming as her person. Indeed, her + face, lovely as it was, derived the best part of its loveliness from her + sunny temper, her frank and ardent spirit, her affectionate and generous + heart. It was the ever-varying expression, an expression which could not + deceive, that lent such matchless charms to her glowing and animated + countenance, and to the round and musical voice sweet as the spoken voice + of Malibran, or the still fuller and more exquisite tones of Mrs. Jordan, + which, true to the feeling of the moment, vibrated alike to the wildest + gaiety and the deepest pathos. In a word, the chief beauty of Helen + Cameron was her sensibility. It was the perfume to the rose. + </p> + <p> + Her little boy, born just before his father's death, and upon whom she + doated, was a magnificent piece of still life. Calm, placid, dignified, an + infant Hercules for strength and fair proportions, grave as a judge, quiet + as a flower, he was, in point of age, exactly at that most delightful + period when children are very pleasant to look upon, and require no other + sort of notice whatsoever. Of course this state of perfection could not be + expected to continue. The young gentleman would soon aspire to the + accomplishments of walking and talking—and then!—but as that + hour of turmoil and commotion to which his mamma looked forward with + ecstacy was yet at some months distance, I contented myself with saying of + master Archy, with considerably less than the usual falsehood, that which + everybody does say of only children, that he was the finest baby that ever + was seen. + </p> + <p> + We met almost every day. Mrs. Cameron was never weary of driving about our + beautiful lanes in her little pony-carriage, and usually called upon us in + her way home, we being not merely her oldest, but almost her only friends; + for lively and social as was her temper, there was a little touch of + shyness about her, which induced her rather to shun than to covet the + company of strangers. And indeed the cheerfulness of temper, and activity + of mind, which made her so charming an acquisition to a small circle, + rendered her independent of general society. Busy as a bee, sportive as a + butterfly, she passed the greater part of her time in the open air, and + having caught from me that very contagious and engrossing passion, a love + of floriculture, had actually undertaken the operation of restoring the + old garden at the Court—a coppice of brambles, thistles, and weeds + of every description, mixed with flowering shrubs, and overgrown + fruit-trees—to something like its original order. The farmer, to be + sure, had abandoned the job in despair, contenting himself with growing + his cabbages and potatoes in a field hard by. But she was certain that she + and her maid Martha, and the boy Bill, who looked after her pony, would + weed the paths, and fill the flower-borders in no time. We should see; I + had need take good care of my reputation, for she meant her garden to beat + mine. + </p> + <p> + What progress Helen and her forces, a shatter-brain boy who did not know a + violet from a nettle, and a London-bred girl who had hardly seen a + rose-bush in her life, would have made in clearing this forest of + underwood, might easily be foretold. Accident, however, that frequent + favourer of bold projects, came to her aid in the shape of a more + efficient coadjutor. + </p> + <p> + Late one evening the fair Helen arrived at our cottage with a face of + unwonted gravity. Mrs. Davies (her landlady) had used her very ill. She + had taken the west wing in total ignorance of there being other apartments + to let at the Court, or she would have secured them. And now a new lodger + had arrived, had actually taken possession of two rooms in the centre of + the house; and Martha, who had seen him, said he was a young man, and a + handsome man—and she herself a young woman unprotected and alone!—It + was awkward, very awkward! Was it not very awkward? What was she to do? + </p> + <p> + Nothing could be done that night; so far was clear; but we praised her + prudence, promised to call at Upton the next day, and if necessary, to + speak to this new lodger, who might, after all, be no very formidable + person; and quite relieved by the vent which she had given to her + scruples, she departed in her usual good spirits. + </p> + <p> + Early the next morning she re-appeared. "She would not have the new lodger + disturbed for the world! He was a Pole. One doubtless of those unfortunate + exiles. He had told Mrs. Davies that he was a Polish gentleman desirous + chiefly of good air, cheapness, and retirement. Beyond a doubt he was one + of those unhappy fugitives. He looked grave, and pale, and thoughtful, + quite like a hero of romance. Besides, he was the very person who a week + before had caught hold of the reins when that little restive pony had + taken fright at the baker's cart, and nearly backed Bill and herself into + the great gravel-pit on Lanton Common. Bill had entirely lost all command + over the pony, and but for the stranger's presence of mind, she did not + know what would have become of them. Surely I must remember her telling me + the circumstance? Besides, he was unfortunate! He was poor! He was an + exile! She would not be the means of driving him from the asylum which he + had chosen for all the world!—No! not for all my geraniums!" an + expression which is by no means the anti-climax that it seems—for in + the eyes of a florist, and that florist an enthusiast and a woman, what is + this rusty fusty dusty musty bit of earth, called the world, compared to a + stand of bright flowers? + </p> + <p> + And finding, upon inquiry, that M. Choynowski (so he called himself) had + brought a letter of recommendation from a respectable London tradesman, + and that there was every appearance of his being, as our fair young friend + had conjectured, a foreigner in distress, my father not only agreed that + it would be a cruel attempt to drive him from his new home, (a piece of + tyranny which, even in this land of freedom, might, I suspect, have been + managed in the form of an offer of double rent, by that grand despot, + money,) but resolved to offer the few attentions in our poor power, to one + whom every look and word proclaimed him to be, in the largest sense of the + word, a gentleman. + </p> + <p> + My father had seen him, not on his visit of inquiry, but on a few days + after, bill-hook in hand, hacking away manfully at the briers and brambles + of the garden. My first view of him was in a position even less romantic, + assisting a Belford tradesman to put up a stove in the nursery. + </p> + <p> + One of Mrs. Cameron's few causes of complaint in her country lodgings had + been the tendency to smoke in that important apartment. We all know that + when those two subtle essences, smoke and wind, once come to do battle in + a wide, open chimney, the invisible agent is pretty sure to have the best + of the day, and to drive his vapoury enemy at full speed before him. M. + Choynowski, who by this time had established a gardening acquaintance, not + merely with Bill and Martha, but with their fair mistress, happening to + see her, one windy evening, in a paroxysm of smoky distress, not merely + recommended a stove, after the fashion of the northern nations' notions, + but immediately walked into Belford to give his own orders to a + respectable ironmonger; and they were in the very act of erecting this + admirable accessary to warmth and comfort (really these words are + synonymous) when I happened to call. + </p> + <p> + I could hardly have seen him under circumstances better calculated to + display his intelligence, his delicacy, or his good-breeding. The + patience, gentleness, and kind feeling, with which he contrived at once to + excuse and to remedy certain blunders made by the workmen in the execution + of his orders, and the clearness with which, in perfectly correct and + idiomatic English, slightly tinged with a foreign accent, he explained the + mechanical and scientific reasons for the construction he had suggested, + gave evidence at once of no common talent, and of a considerate-ness and + good-nature in its exercise more valuable than all the talent in the + world. If trifling and every-day occurrences afford, as I believe they do, + the surest and safest indications of character, we could have no + hesitation in pronouncing upon the amiable qualities of M. Choynowski. + </p> + <p> + In person he was tall and graceful, and very noble-looking. His head was + particularly intellectual, and there was a calm sweetness about the mouth + that was singularly prepossessing. Helen had likened him to a hero of + romance. In my eyes he bore much more plainly the stamp of a man of + fashion—of that very highest fashion which is too refined for + finery, too full of self-respect for affectation. Simple, natural, mild, + and gracious, the gentle reserve of his manner added, under the + circumstances, to the interest which he inspired. Somewhat of that reserve + continued even after our acquaintance had ripened into intimacy. + </p> + <p> + He never spoke of his own past history, or future prospects, shunned all + political discourse, and was with difficulty drawn into conversation upon + the scenery and manners of the North of Europe. He seemed afraid of the + subject. + </p> + <p> + Upon general topics, whether of literature or art, he was remarkably open + and candid. He possessed in an eminent degree the talent of acquiring + languages for which his countrymen are distinguished, and had made the + best use of those keys of knowledge. I have never met with any person + whose mind was more richly cultivated, or who was more calculated to adorn + the highest station. And here he was wasting life in a secluded village in + a foreign country! What would become of him after his present apparently + slender resources should be exhausted, was painful to imagine. The more + painful, that the accidental discovery of the direction of a letter had + disclosed his former rank. It was part of an envelope addressed, "A + Monsieur Monsieur le Comte Choynowski," and left as a mark in a book, all + except the name being torn off. But the fact needed no confirmation. All + his habits and ways of thinking bore marks of high station. What would + become of him? + </p> + <p> + It was but too evident that another calamity was impending over the + unfortunate exile. Although most discreet in word and guarded in manner, + every action bespoke his devotion to his lovely fellow inmate. Her wishes + were his law. His attentions to her little boy were such as young men + rarely show to infants except for love of the mother; and the garden, that + garden abandoned since the memory of man, (for the Court, previous to the + arrival of the present tenant, had been for years uninhabited,) was, under + his exertions and superintendence, rapidly assuming an aspect of + luxuriance and order. It was not impossible but Helen might realise her + playful vaunt, and beat me in my own art after all. + </p> + <p> + John (our gardening lad) was as near being jealous as possible, and, + considering the estimation in which John is known to hold our doings in + the flower way, such jealousy must be accepted as the most flattering + testimony to his rival's success. To go beyond our garden was, in John's + opinion, to be great indeed! + </p> + <p> + Every thought of the Count Choynowski was engrossed by the fair Helen; and + we saw with some anxiety that she in her turn was but too sensible of his + attentions, and that everything belonging to his country assumed in her + eyes an absorbing importance. She sent to London for all the books that + could be obtained respecting Poland; ordered all the journals that + interested themselves in that interesting though apparently hopeless + cause; turned liberal,—she who had been reared in the lap of + conservatism, and whom my father used laughingly to call the little Tory;—turned + Radical, turned Republican,—for she far out-soared the moderate + doctrines of whiggism in her political flights; denounced the Emperor + Nicholas as a tyrant; spoke of the Russians as a nation of savages; and in + spite of the evident uneasiness with which the Polish exile listened to + any allusion to the wrongs of his country, for he never mingled in such + discussions, omitted no opportunity of proving her sympathy by declaiming + with an animation and vehemence, as becoming as anything so like scolding + well could be, against the cruelty and wickedness of the oppressors of + that most unfortunate of nations. + </p> + <p> + It was clear that the peace of both was endangered, perhaps gone; and that + it had become the painful duty of friendship to awaken them from their too + bewitching dream. + </p> + <p> + We had made an excursion, on one sunny summer's day, as far as the Everley + Hills. Helen, always impassioned, had been wrought into a passionate + recollection of her own native country, by the sight of the heather just + bursting into its purple bloom; and M. Choynowski, usually so + self-possessed, had been betrayed into the expression of a kindred feeling + by the delicious odour of the fir plantations, which served to transport + him in imagination to the balm-breathing forests of the North. This + sympathy was a new, and a strong bond of union between two spirits but too + congenial; and I determined no longer to defer informing the gentleman, in + whose honour I placed the most implicit reliance, of the peculiar position + of our fair friend. + </p> + <p> + Detaining him, therefore, to coffee, (we had taken an early dinner in the + fir grove,) and suffering Helen to go home to her little boy, I contrived, + by leading the conversation to capricious wills, to communicate to him, as + if accidentally, the fact of her forfeiting her whole income in the event + of a second marriage.—He listened with grave attention. + </p> + <p> + "Is she also deprived," inquired he, "of the guardianship of her child?" + </p> + <p> + "No. But as the sum allowed for the maintenance is also to cease from the + day of her nuptials, and the money to accumulate until he is of age, she + would, by marrying a poor man, do irreparable injury to her son, by + cramping his education. It is a grievous restraint." + </p> + <p> + He made no answer. And after two or three attempts at conversation, which + his mind was too completely pre-occupied to sustain, he bade us + good-night, and returned to the Court. The next morning we heard that he + had left Upton and gone, they said, to Oxford. And I could not help hoping + that he had seen his danger, and would not return until the peril was + past. + </p> + <p> + I was mistaken. In two or three days he returned, exhibiting less + self-command than I had been led to anticipate. The fair lady, too, I took + occasion to remind of this terrible will, in hopes, since he would not go, + that she would have had the wisdom to have taken her departure. No such + thing; neither party would move a jot I might as well have bestowed my + counsel upon the two stone figures on the great gateway. And heartily + sorry, and a little angry, I resolved to let matters take their own + course. + </p> + <p> + Several weeks passed on, when one morning she came to me in the sweetest + confusion, the loveliest mixture of bashfulness and joy. + </p> + <p> + "He loves me!" she said; "he has told me that he loves me!" + </p> + <p> + "Well?" + </p> + <p> + "And I have referred him to you. That clause——" + </p> + <p> + "He already knows it." And then I told her, word for word, what had + passed. + </p> + <p> + "He knows of that clause, and he still wishes to marry me! He loves me for + myself! Loves me, knowing me to be a beggar! It is true, pure, + disinterested affection!" + </p> + <p> + "Beyond all doubt it is. And if you could live upon true love——" + </p> + <p> + "Oh, but where <i>that</i> exists, and youth, and health, and strength, + and education, may we not be well content to try to earn a living + together? think of the happiness comprised in that word! I could give + lessons;—I am sure that I could. I would teach music, and drawing, + and dancing—anything for him! or we could keep a school here at + Upton—anywhere with him!" + </p> + <p> + "And I am to tell him this?" + </p> + <p> + "Not the words!" replied she, blushing like a rose at her own earnestness; + "not those words!" + </p> + <p> + Of course, it was not very long before M. le Comte made his appearance. + </p> + <p> + "God bless her, noble, generous creature!" cried he, when I had fulfilled + my commission. "God for ever bless her!" + </p> + <p> + "And you intend, then, to take her at her word, and set up school + together?" exclaimed I, a little provoked at his unscrupulous acceptance + of her proffered sacrifice. "You really intend to keep a lady's + boarding-school here at the Court?" + </p> + <p> + "I intend to take her at her word, most certainly," replied he, very + composedly; "but I should like to know, my good friend, what has put it + into her head, and into yours, that if Helen marries me she must needs + earn her own living? Suppose I should tell you," continued he, smiling, + "that my father, one of the richest of the Polish nobility, was a + favourite friend of the Emperor Alexander; that the Emperor Nicholas + continued to me the kindness which his brother had shown to my father, and + that I thought, as he had done, (gratitude and personal attachment apart,) + that I could better serve my country, and more effectually ameliorate the + condition of my tenants and vassals, by submitting to the Russian + government, than by a hopeless struggle for national independence? Suppose + that I were to confess, that chancing in the course of a three-years' + travel to walk through this pretty village of yours, I saw Helen, and + could not rest until I had seen more of her;—supposing all this, + would you pardon the deception, or rather the allowing you to deceive + yourselves? Oh, if you could but imagine how delightful it is to a man, + upon whom the humbling conviction has been forced, that his society is + courted and his alliance sought for the accidents of rank and fortune, to + feel that he is, for once in his life, honestly liked, fervently loved for + himself, such as he is, his own very self,—if you could but fancy + how proud he is of such friendship, how happy in such love, you would + pardon him, I am sure you would; you would never have the heart to be + angry. And now that the Imperial consent to a foreign union—the + gracious consent for which I so anxiously waited to authorize my proposals—has + at length arrived, do you think," added the Count, with some seriousness, + "that there is any chance of reconciling this dear Helen to my august + master? or will she still continue a rebel?" + </p> + <p> + At this question, so gravely put, I laughed outright "Why really, my dear + Count, I cannot pretend to answer decidedly for the turn that the affair + might take; but my impression—to speak in that idiomatic English, + more racy than elegant, which you pique yourself upon understanding—my + full impression is, that Helen having for no reason upon earth but her + interest in you, <i>ratted</i> from Conservatism to Radicalism, will for + the same cause lose no time in ratting back again. A woman's politics, + especially if she be a young woman, are generally the result of feeling + rather than of opinion, and our fair friend strikes me as a most unlikely + subject to form an exception to the rule. However, if you doubt my + authority in this matter, you have nothing to do but to inquire at the + fountain-head. There she sits, in the arbour. Go and ask." + </p> + <p> + And before the words were well spoken, the lover, radiant with happiness, + was at the side of his beloved. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Country Lodgings, by Mary Russell Mitford + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNTRY LODGINGS *** + +***** This file should be named 22838-h.htm or 22838-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/8/3/22838/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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