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diff --git a/22840.txt b/22840.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c1d1e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/22840.txt @@ -0,0 +1,839 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Honor O'callaghan, by Mary Russell Mitford + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Honor O'callaghan + +Author: Mary Russell Mitford + +Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22840] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HONOR O'CALLAGHAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +HONOR O'CALLAGHAN + +By Mary Russell Mitford + + +Times are altered since Gray spoke of the young Etonians as a set of +dirty boys playing at cricket. There are no such things as boys to be +met with now, either at Eton or elsewhere; they are all men from ten +years old upwards. Dirt also hath vanished bodily, to be replaced by +finery. An aristocratic spirit, an aristocracy not of rank but of +money, possesses the place, and an enlightened young gentleman of my +acquaintance, who when somewhere about the ripe age of eleven, conjured +his mother "_not_ to come to see him until she had got her new carriage, +lest he should be quizzed by the rest of the men," was perhaps no unfair +representative of the mass of his schoolfellows. There are of course +exceptions to the rule. The sons of the old nobility, too much +accustomed to splendour in its grander forms, and too sure of their own +station to care about such matters, and the few finer spirits, whose +ambition even in boyhood soars to far higher and holier aims, are, +generally speaking, alike exempt from these vulgar cravings after petty +distinctions. And for the rest of the small people, why "winter and +rough weather," and that most excellent schoolmaster, the world, will +not fail, sooner or later, to bring them to wiser thoughts. + +In the meanwhile, as according to our homely proverb, "for every gander +there's a goose," so there are not wanting in London and its environs +"establishments," (the good old name of boarding-school being altogether +done away with,) where young ladies are trained up in a love of fashion +and finery, and a reverence for the outward symbols of wealth, which +cannot fail to render them worthy compeers of the young gentlemen +their contemporaries. I have known a little girl, (fit mate for the +above-mentioned amateur of new carriages,) who complained that _her_ +mamma called upon her, attended only by one footman; and it is certain, +that the position of a new-comer in one of these houses of education +will not fail to be materially influenced by such considerations as the +situation of her father's town residence, or the name of her mother's +milliner. At so early a period does the exclusiveness which more or +less pervades the whole current of English society make its appearance +amongst our female youth. + +Even in the comparatively rational and old-fashioned seminary in which +I was brought up, we were not quite free from these vanities. We too +had our high castes and our low castes, and (alas! for her and for +ourselves!) we counted among our number one who in her loneliness and +desolation might almost be called a Pariah--or if that be too strong an +illustration, who was at least, in more senses than one, the Cinderella +of the school. + +Honor O'Callaghan was, as her name imports, an Irish girl. She had been +placed under the care of Mrs. Sherwood before she was five years old, +her father being designated, in an introductory letter which he +brought in his hand, as a barrister from Dublin, of ancient family, of +considerable ability, and the very highest honour. The friend, however, +who had given him this excellent character, had, unfortunately, died +a very short time after poor Honor's arrival; and of Mr. O'Callaghan +nothing had ever been heard after the first half-year, when he sent +the amount of the bill in a draft, which, when due, proved to +be dishonoured. The worst part of this communication, however +unsatisfactory in its nature, was, that it was final. All inquiries, +whether in Dublin or elsewhere, proved unavailing; Mr. O'Callaghan had +disappeared; and our unlucky gouvernante found herself saddled with the +board, clothing, and education, the present care, and future destiny, of +a little girl, for whom she felt about as much affection as was felt +by the overseers of Aberleigh towards their involuntary protege, Jesse +Cliffe. Nay, in saying this, I am probably giving our worthy governess +credit for somewhat milder feelings upon this subject than she +actually entertained; the overseers in question, accustomed to such +circumstances, harbouring no stronger sentiment than a cold, passive +indifference towards the parish boy, whilst she, good sort of woman as +in general she was, did certainly upon this occasion cherish something +very like an active aversion to the little intruder. + +The fact is, that Mrs. Sherwood, who had been much captivated by +Mr. O'Callaghan's showy, off-hand manner, his civilities, and his +flatteries, felt, for the first time in her life, that she had been +taken in; and being a peculiarly prudent, cautious personage, of the +slow, sluggish, stagnant temperament, which those who possess it are +apt to account a virtue, and to hold in scorn their more excitable +and impressible neighbours, found herself touched in the very point of +honour, piqued, aggrieved, mortified; and denouncing the father as the +greatest deceiver that ever trod the earth, could not help transferring +some part of her hatred to the innocent child. She was really a good +sort of woman, as I have said before, and every now and then her +conscience twitched her, and she struggled hard to seem kind and to be +so: but it would not do. + +There the feeling was, and the more she struggled against it, the +stronger, I verily believe, it became. Trying to conquer a deep-rooted +aversion, is something like trampling upon camomile: the harder you +tread it down the more it flourishes. + +Under these evil auspices, the poor little Irish girl grew up amongst +us. Not ill-used certainly, for she was fed and taught as we were; and +some forty shillings a year more expended upon the trifles, gloves, +and shoes, and ribbons, which make the difference between nicety and +shabbiness in female dress, would have brought her apparel upon an +equality with ours. Ill-used she was not: to be sure, teachers, and +masters seemed to consider it a duty to reprimand her for such faults +as would have passed unnoticed in another; and if there were any noise +amongst us, she, by far the quietest and most silent person in the +house, was, as a matter of course, accused of making it. Still she was +not what would be commonly called ill-treated; although her young heart +was withered and blighted, and her spirit crushed and broken by the +chilling indifference, or the harsh unkindness which surrounded her on +every side. + +Nothing, indeed, could come in stronger contrast than the position of +the young Irish girl, and that of her English companions. A stranger, +almost a foreigner amongst us, with no home but that great school-room; +no comforts, no in-dulgences, no knick-knacks, no money, nothing but the +sheer, bare, naked necessaries of a schoolgirl's life; no dear family +to think of and to go to; no fond father to come to see her; no brothers +and sisters; no kindred; no friends. It was a loneliness, a desolation, +which, especially at breaking-up times, when all her schoolfellows went +joyfully away each to her happy home, and she was left the solitary and +neglected inhabitant of the deserted mansion, must have pressed upon her +very heart The heaviest tasks of the half year must have been pleasure +and enjoyment compared with the dreariness of those lonesome holidays. + +And yet she was almost as lonely when we were all assembled. Childhood +is, for the most part, generous and sympathising; and there were many +amongst us who, interested by her deserted situation, would have been +happy to have been her friends. But Honor was one of those flowers which +will only open in the bright sunshine. Never did marigold under a cloudy +sky shut up her heart more closely than Honor O'Callaghan. In a +word, Honor had really one of the many faults ascribed to her by Mrs. +Sherwood, and her teachers and masters--that fault so natural and so +pardonable in adversity--she was proud. + +National and family pride blended with the personal feeling. Young as +she was when she left Ireland, she had caught from the old nurse who had +had the care of her infancy, rude legends of the ancient greatness of +her country, and of the regal grandeur of the O'Connors, her maternal +ancestors; and over such dim traces of Cathleen's legends as floated +in her memory, fragments wild, shadowy, and indistinct, as the +recollections of a dream, did the poor Irish girl love to brood. Visions +of long-past splendour possessed her wholly, and the half-unconscious +reveries in which she had the habit of indulging, gave a tinge of +romance and enthusiasm to her character, as peculiar as her story. + +Everything connected with her country had for her an indescribable +charm. It was wonderful how, with the apparently scanty means of +acquiring knowledge which the common school histories afforded, +together with here and there a stray book borrowed for her by her young +companions from their home libraries, and questions answered from the +same source, she had contrived to collect her abundant and accurate +information, as to its early annals and present position. Her +antiquarian lore was perhaps a little tinged, as such antiquarianism is +apt to be, by the colouring of a warm imagination; but still it was a +remarkable exemplification of the power of an ardent mind to ascertain +and combine facts upon a favourite subject under apparently insuperable +difficulties. Unless in pursuing her historical inquiries, she did +not often speak upon the subject. Her enthusiasm was too deep and too +concentrated for words. But she was Irish to the heart's core, and had +even retained, one can hardly tell how, the slight accent which in a +sweet-toned female voice is so pretty. + +In her appearance, also, there were many of the characteristics of +her countrywomen. The roundness of form and clearness of complexion, the +result of good nurture and pure blood which are often found in those +who have been nursed in an Irish cabin, the abundant wavy hair and the +deep-set grey eye. The face, in spite of some irregularity of feature, +would have been pretty, decidedly pretty, if the owner had been happy; +but the expression was too abstracted, too thoughtful, too melancholy +for childhood or even for youth. She was like a rose shut up in a room, +whose pale blossoms have hardly felt the touch of the glorious sunshine +or the blessed air. A daisy of the field, a common, simple, cheerful +looking daisy, would be pleasanter to gaze upon than the blighted queen +of flowers. + +Her figure was, however, decidedly beautiful. Not merely tall, but +pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree. She was not +generally remarkable for accomplishment. How could she, in the total +absence of the most powerful, as well as the most amiable motives to +exertion? She had no one to please; no one to watch her progress, to +rejoice in her success, to lament her failure. In many branches of +education she had not advanced beyond mediocrity, but her dancing was +perfection; or rather it would have been so, if to her other graces +she had added the charm of gaiety. But that want, as our French +dancing-master used to observe, was so universal in this country, +that the wonder would have been to see any young lady, whose face in a +cotillion (for it was before the days of quadrilles) did not look as if +she was following a funeral. + +Such at thirteen I found Honor O'Callaghan, when I, a damsel some three +years younger, was first placed at Mrs. Sherwood's; such five years +afterwards I left her, when I quitted the school. + +Calling there the following spring, accompanied by my good godfather, we +again saw Honor silent and pensive as ever. The old gentleman was much +struck with her figure and her melancholy. "Fine girl that!" observed +he to me; "looks as if she was in love though," added he, putting +his finger to his nose with a knowing nod, as was usual with him upon +occasions of that kind. I, for my part, in whom a passion for literature +was just beginning to develope itself had a theory of my own upon the +subject, and regarded her with unwonted respect in consequence. Her +abstraction appeared to me exactly that of an author when contemplating +some great work, and I had no doubt but she would turn out a poetess. +Both conjectures were characteristic, and both, as it happened, wrong. + +Upon my next visit to London, I found that a great change had happened +in Honor's destiny. Her father, whom she had been fond of investing with +the dignity of a rebel, but who had, according to Mrs. Sherwood's more +reasonable suspicion, been a reckless, extravagant, thoughtless person, +whose follies had been visited upon himself and his family, with the +evil consequences of crimes, had died in America; and his sister, the +richly-jointured widow of a baronet, of old Milesian blood, who during +his life had been inexorable to his entreaties to befriend the poor +girl, left as it were in pledge at a London boarding-school, had +relented upon hearing of his death, had come to England, settled +all pecuniary matters to the full satisfaction of the astonished and +delighted governess, and finally carried Honor back with her to Dublin. + +From this time we lost sight altogether of our old companion. With her +schoolfellows she had never formed even the common school intimacies, +and to Mrs. Sherwood and her functionaries, she owed no obligation +except that of money, which was now discharged. The only debt of +gratitude which she had ever acknowledged, was to the old French +teacher, who, although she never got nearer the pronunciation or the +orthography of her name than Mademoiselle l'Ocalle, had yet, in the +overflowing benevolence of her temper, taken such notice of the deserted +child, as amidst the general neglect might pass for kindness. But she +had returned to France. For no one else did Honor profess the slightest +interest. Accordingly, she left the house where she had passed nearly all +her life, without expressing any desire to hear again of its inmates, +and never wrote a line to any of them. + +We did hear of her, however, occasionally. Rumours reached us, vague and +distant, and more conflicting even than distant rumours are wont to be. +She was distinguished at the vice-regal court, a beauty and a wit; she +was married to a nobleman of the highest rank; she was a nun of the +order of Mercy; she was dead. + +And as years glided on, as the old school passed into other hands, and +the band of youthful companions became more and more dispersed, one of +the latter opinions began to gain ground among us, when two or three +chanced to meet, and to talk of old schoolfellows. If she had been alive +and in the great world, surely some of us should have heard of her. Her +having been a Catholic, rendered her taking the veil not improbable; +and to a person of her enthusiastic temper, the duties of the sisters of +Mercy would have peculiar charms. + +As one of that most useful and most benevolent order, or as actually +dead, we were therefore content to consider her, until, in the lapse of +years and the changes of destiny, we had ceased to think of her at all. + +The second of this present month of May was a busy and a noisy day in +my garden. All the world knows what a spring this has been. The famous +black spring commemorated by Gilbert White can hardly have been more +thoroughly ungenial, more fatal to man or beast, to leaf and flower, +than this most miserable season, this winter of long days, when the sun +shines as if in mockery, giving little more heat than his cold sister +the moon, and the bitter north-east produces at one and the same moment +the incongruous annoyances of biting cold and suffocating dust. Never was +such a season. The swallows, nightingales, and cuckoos were a fortnight +after their usual time. I wonder what they thought of it, pretty +creatures, and how they made up their minds to come at all!--and the +sloe blossom, the black thorn winter as the common people call it, +which generally makes its appearance early in March along with the +first violets, did not whiten the hedges this year until full two months +later,* In short, everybody knows that this has been a most villanous +season, and deserves all the ill that can possibly be said of it. But +the second of May held forth a promise which, according to a very usual +trick of English weather, it has not kept; and was so mild and smiling +and gracious, that, without being quite so foolish as to indulge in any +romantic and visionary expectation of ever seeing summer again, we were +yet silly enough to be cheered by the thought that spring was coming at +last in good earnest. + + * It is extraordinary how some flowers seem to obey the + season, whilst others are influenced by the weather. The + hawthorn, certainly nearly akin to the sloe blossom, is this + year rather forwarder, if anything, than in common years; + and the fritillary, always a May flower, is painting the + water meadows at this moment in company with "the + blackthorn winter;" or rather is nearly over, whilst its + cousin german, the tulip, is scarcely showing for bloom in + the warmest exposures and most sheltered borders of the + garden. + +In a word, it was that pleasant rarity a fine day; and it was also a day +of considerable stir, as I shall attempt to describe hereafter, in my +small territories. + +In the street too, and in the house, there was as much noise and bustle +as one would well desire to hear in our village. + +The first of May is Belford Great Fair, where horses and cows are sold, +and men meet gravely to transact grave business; and the second of May +is Belford Little Fair, where boys and girls of all ages, women and +children of all ranks, flock into the town, to buy ribbons and dolls and +balls and gingerbread, to eat cakes and suck oranges, to stare at the +shows, and gaze at the wild beasts, and to follow merrily the merry +business called pleasure. + +Carts and carriages, horse-people and foot-people, were flocking to the +fair; unsold cows and horses, with their weary drivers, and labouring +men who, having made a night as well as a day of it, began to think +it time to find their way home, were coming from it; Punch was being +exhibited at one end of the street, a barrel-organ, surmounted by a most +accomplished monkey, was playing at the other; a half tipsy horse-dealer +was galloping up and down the road, showing off an unbroken forest pony, +who threatened every moment to throw him and break his neck; a hawker +was walking up the street crying Greenacre's last dying speech, who was +hanged that morning at Newgate, and as all the world knows, made none; +and the highway in front of our house was well nigh blocked up by three +or four carriages waiting for different sets of visiters, and by a +gang of gipsies who stood clustered round the gate, waiting with great +anxiety the issue of an investigation going on in the hall, where one +of their gang was under examination upon a question of stealing a goose. +Witnesses, constables, and other officials were loitering in the court, +and dogs were barking, women chattering, boys blowing horns, and babies +squalling through all. It was as pretty a scene of crowd and din and +bustle as one shall see in a summer's day. The fair itself was calm and +quiet in comparison; the complication of discordant sounds in Hogarth's +Enraged Musician was nothing to it. + +Within my garden the genius of noise was equally triumphant. An +ingenious device, contrived and executed by a most kind and ingenious +friend, for the purpose of sheltering the pyramid of geraniums in front +of my greenhouse,--consisting of a wooden roof, drawn by pullies up and +down a high, strong post, something like the mast of a ship,* had +given way; and another most kind friend had arrived with the requisite +machinery, blocks and ropes, and tackle of all sorts, to replace it +upon an improved construction. With him came a tall blacksmith, a short +carpenter, and a stout collar-maker, with hammers, nails, chisels, and +tools of all sorts, enough to build a house; ladders of all heights and +sizes, two or three gaping apprentices, who stood about in the way, John +willing to lend his aid in behalf of his flowers, and master Dick with +his hands in his pockets looking on. The short carpenter perched himself +upon one ladder, the tall blacksmith on another; my good friend, Mr. +Lawson, mounted to the mast head; and such a clatter ensued of hammers +and voices--(for it was exactly one of those fancy jobs where every one +feels privileged to advise and find fault)--such clashing of opinions +and conceptions and suggestions as would go to the building a county +town. + + * This description does not sound prettily, but the real + effect is exceedingly graceful: the appearance of the dark + canopy suspended over the pile of bright flowers, at a + considerable height, has something about it not merely + picturesque but oriental; and that a gentleman's contrivance + should succeed at all points, as if he had been a real + carpenter, instead of an earl's son and a captain in the + navy, is a fact quite unparalleled in the annals of + inventions. + +Whilst this was going forward in middle air, I and my company were doing +our best to furnish forth the chorus below. It so happened that two +sets of my visiters were scientific botanists, the one party holding the +Linnoean system, the others disciples of Jussieu; and the garden being +a most natural place for such a discussion, a war of hard words ensued, +which would have done honour to the Tower of Babel. "Tetradynamia," +exclaimed one set; "Monocotyledones," thundered the other; whilst +a third friend, a skilful florist, but no botanist, unconsciously +out-long-worded both of them, by telling me that the name of a new +annual was "Leptosiphon androsaceus." + +Never was such a confusion of noises! The house door opened, and my +father's strong clear voice was heard in tones of warning. "Woman, +how can you swear to this goose?" Whilst the respondent squeaked out in +something between a scream and a cry, "Please your worship, the poor +bird having a-laid all his eggs, we had marked un, and so--" What +farther she would have said being drowned in a prodigious clatter +occasioned by the downfal of the ladder that supported the tall +blacksmith, which, striking against that whereon was placed the short +carpenter, overset that climbing machine also, and the clamor incident +to such a calamity overpowered all minor noises. + +In the meanwhile I became aware that a fourth party of visiters had +entered the garden, my excellent neighbour, Miss Mortimer, and three +other ladies, whom she introduced as Mrs. and the Misses Dobbs; and the +botanists and florists having departed, and the disaster at the mast +being repaired, quiet was so far restored, that I ushered my guests into +the greenhouse, with something like a hope that we should be able to +hear each other speak. + +Mrs. Dobbs was about the largest woman I had ever seen in my life, +fat, fair, and _fifty_ with a broad rosy countenance, beaming with +good-humour and contentment, and with a general look of affluence over +her whole comfortable person. She spoke in a loud voice which made +itself heard over the remaining din in the garden and out, and with a +patois between Scotch and Irish, which puzzled me, until I found from +her discourse that she was the widow of a linen manufacturer, in the +neighbourhood of Belfast. + +"Ay," quoth she, with the most open-hearted familiarity, "times are +changed for the better with me since you and I parted in Cadogan Place. +Poor Mr. Dobbs left me and those two girls a fortune of---- Why, I +verily believe," continued she, interrupting herself, "that you don't +know me!" + +"Honor!" said one of the young ladies to the other, "only look at this +butterfly!" + +Honor! Was it, could it be Honor O'Callaghan, the slight, pale, romantic +visionary, so proud, so reserved, so abstracted, so elegant, and so +melancholy? Had thirty years of the coarse realities of life transformed +that pensive and delicate damsel into the comely, hearty, and to say +the truth, somewhat vulgar dame whom I saw before me? Was such a change +possible? + +"Married a nobleman!" exclaimed she when I told her the reports +respecting herself. "Taken the veil! No, indeed! I have been a far +humbler and happier woman. It is very strange, though, that during my +Cinderella-like life at school, I used always in my day-dreams to make +my story end like that of the heroine of the fairy tale; and it is +still stranger, that both rumours were within a very little of coming +true,--for when I got to Ireland, which, so far as I was concerned, +turned out a very different place from what I expected, I found myself +shut up in an old castle, fifty times more dreary and melancholy than +ever was our great school-room in the holidays, with my aunt setting +her heart upon marrying me to an old lord, who might, for age and +infirmities, have passed for my great grandfather; and I really, in my +perplexity, had serious thoughts of turning nun to get rid of my suitor; +but then I was allowed to go into the north upon a visit, and fell in +with my late excellent husband, who obtained Lady O'Hara's consent to +the match by the offer of taking me without a portion; and ever since," +continued she, "I have been a very common-place and a very happy woman. +Mr. Dobbs was a man who had made his own fortune, and all he asked of +me was, to lay aside my airs and graces, and live with him in his own +homely, old-fashioned way amongst his own old people, (kind people they +were!) his looms, and his bleaching-grounds; so that my heart was opened, +and I grew fat and comfortable, and merry and hearty, as different from +the foolish, romantic girl whom you remember, as plain honest prose is +from the silly thing called poetry. I don't believe that I have ever +once thought of my old castles in the air for these five-and-twenty +years. It is very odd, though," added she, with a frankness which was +really like thinking aloud, "that I always did contrive in my visions +that my history should conclude like that of Cinderella. To be +sure, things are much better as they are, but it is an odd thing, +nevertheless. Well! perhaps my daughters...!" + +And as they are rich and pretty, and good-natured, although much more +in the style of the present Honor than the past, it is by no means +improbable that the vision which was evidently glittering before the +fond mother's eyes, may be realised. At all events, my old friend is, as +she says herself a happy woman--in all probability, happier than if the +Cinderella day-dream had actually come to pass in her own comely person. +But the transition! After all, there are real transformations in this +every-day world, which beat the doings of fairy land all to nothing; and +the change of the pumpkin into a chariot, and the mice into horses, was +not to be compared for a moment with the transmogrification of Honor +O'Callaghan into Mrs. Dobbs. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Honor O'callaghan, by Mary Russell Mitford + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HONOR O'CALLAGHAN *** + +***** This file should be named 22840.txt or 22840.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/8/4/22840/ + +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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