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+Title: Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica
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+Author: Anthony Trollope
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+MISS SARAH JACK, OF SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA
+
+by Anthony Trollope
+
+
+
+
+There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless
+it be a people in their decadence.  I am not aware that the latter
+misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part of
+the world; but there is reason to fear that it has fallen on an
+English colony in the island of Jamaica.
+
+Jamaica was one of those spots on which fortune shone with the full
+warmth of all her noonday splendour.  That sun has set;--whether for
+ever or no none but a prophet can tell; but as far as a plain man may
+see, there are at present but few signs of a coming morrow, or of
+another summer.
+
+It is not just or proper that one should grieve over the misfortunes
+of Jamaica with a stronger grief because her savannahs are so lovely,
+her forests so rich, her mountains so green, and he rivers so rapid;
+but it is so.  It is piteous that a land so beautiful should be one
+which fate has marked for misfortune.  Had Guiana, with its flat,
+level, unlovely soil, become poverty-stricken, one would hardly
+sorrow over it as one does sorrow for Jamaica.
+
+As regards scenery she is the gem of the western tropics.  It is
+impossible to conceive spots on the earth's surface more gracious to
+the eye than those steep green valleys which stretch down to the
+south-west from the Blue Mountain peak towards the sea; and but
+little behind these in beauty are the rich wooded hills which in the
+western part of the island divide the counties of Hanover and
+Westmoreland.  The hero of the tale which I am going to tell was a
+sugar-grower in the latter district, and the heroine was a girl who
+lived under that Blue Mountain peak.
+
+The very name of a sugar-grower as connected with Jamaica savours of
+fruitless struggle, failure, and desolation.  And from his earliest
+growth fruitless struggle, failure, and desolation had been the lot
+of Maurice Cumming.  At eighteen years of age he had been left by his
+father sole possessor of the Mount Pleasant estate, than which in her
+palmy days Jamaica had little to boast of that was more pleasant or
+more palmy.  But those days had passed by before Roger Cumming, the
+father of our friend, had died.
+
+These misfortunes coming on the head of one another, at intervals of
+a few years, had first stunned and then killed him.  His slaves rose
+against him, as they did against other proprietors around him, and
+burned down his house and mills, his homestead and offices.  Those
+who know the amount of capital which a sugar-grower must invest in
+such buildings will understand the extent of this misfortune.  Then
+the slaves were emancipated.  It is not perhaps possible that we,
+now-a-days, should regard this as a calamity; but it was quite
+impossible that a Jamaica proprietor of those days should not have
+done so.  Men will do much for philanthropy, they will work hard,
+they will give the coat from their back;--nay the very shirt from
+their body; but few men will endure to look on with satisfaction
+while their commerce is destroyed.
+
+But even this Mr. Cumming did bear after a while, and kept his
+shoulder to the wheel.  He kept his shoulder to the wheel till that
+third misfortune came upon him--till the protection duty on Jamaica
+sugar was abolished.  Then he turned his face to the wall and died.
+
+His son at this time was not of age, and the large but lessening
+property which Mr. Cumming left behind him was for three years in the
+hands of trustees.  But nevertheless Maurice, young as he was,
+managed the estate.  It was he who grew the canes, and made the
+sugar;--or else failed to make it.  He was the "massa" to whom the
+free negroes looked as the source from whence their wants should be
+supplied, notwithstanding that, being free, they were ill inclined to
+work for him, let his want of work be ever so sore.
+
+Mount Pleasant had been a very large property.  In addition to his
+sugar-canes Mr. Cumming had grown coffee; for his land ran up into
+the hills of Trelawney to that altitude which in the tropics seems
+necessary for the perfect growth of the coffee berry.  But it soon
+became evident that labour for the double produce could not be had,
+and the coffee plantation was abandoned.  Wild brush and the thick
+undergrowth of forest reappeared on the hill-sides which had been
+rich with produce.  And the evil re-created and exaggerated itself.
+Negroes squatted on the abandoned property; and being able to live
+with abundance from their stolen gardens, were less willing than ever
+to work in the cane pieces.
+
+And thus things went from bad to worse.  In the good old times Mr.
+Cumming's sugar produce had spread itself annually over some three
+hundred acres; but by degrees this dwindle down to half that extent
+of land.  And then in those old golden days they had always taken a
+full hogshead from the acre;--very often more.  The estate had
+sometimes given four hundred hogsheads in the year.  But in the days
+of which we now speak the crop had fallen below fifty.
+
+At this time Maurice Cumming was eight-and-twenty, and it is hardly
+too much to say that misfortune had nearly crushed him.  But
+nevertheless it had not crushed him.  He, and some few like him, had
+still hoped against hope; had still persisted in looking forward to a
+future for the island which once was so generous with its gifts.
+When his father died he might still have had enough for the wants of
+life had he sold his property for what it would fetch.  There was
+money in England, and the remains of large wealth.  But he would not
+sacrifice Mount Pleasant or abandon Jamaica; and now after ten years'
+struggling he still kept Mount Pleasant, and the mill was still
+going; but all other property had parted from his hands.
+
+By nature Maurice Cumming would have been gay and lively, a man with
+a happy spirit and easy temper; but struggling had made him silent if
+not morose, and had saddened if not soured his temper.  He had lived
+alone at Mount Pleasant, or generally alone.  Work or want of money,
+and the constant difficulty of getting labour for his estate, had
+left him but little time for a young man's ordinary amusements.  Of
+the charms of ladies' society he had known but little.  Very many of
+the estates around him had been absolutely abandoned, as was the case
+with his own coffee plantation, and from others men had sent away
+their wives and daughters.  Nay, most of the proprietors had gone
+themselves, leaving an overseer to extract what little might yet be
+extracted out of the property.  It too often happened that that
+little was not sufficient to meet the demands of the overseer
+himself.
+
+The house at Mount Pleasant had been an irregular, low-roofed,
+picturesque residence, built with only one floor, and surrounded on
+all sides by large verandahs.  In the old days it had always been
+kept in perfect order, but now this was far from being the case.  Few
+young bachelors can keep a house in order, but no bachelor young or
+old can do so under such a doom as that of Maurice Cumming.  Every
+shilling that Maurice Cumming could collect was spent in bribing
+negroes to work for him.  But bribe as he would the negroes would not
+work.  "No, massa:  me pain here; me no workee to-day," and Sambo
+would lay his fat hand on his fat stomach.
+
+I have said that he lived generally alone.  Occasionally his house on
+Mount Pleasant was enlivened by visits of an aunt, a maiden sister of
+his mother, whose usual residence was at Spanish Town.  It is or
+should be known to all men that Spanish Town was and is the seat of
+Jamaica legislature.
+
+But Maurice was not over fond of his relative.  In this he was both
+wrong and foolish, for Miss Sarah Jack--such was her name--was in
+many respects a good woman, and was certainly a rich woman.  It is
+true that she was not a handsome woman, nor a fashionable woman, nor
+perhaps altogether an agreeable woman.  She was tall, thin, ungainly,
+and yellow.  Her voice, which she used freely, was harsh.  She was a
+politician and a patriot.  She regarded England as the greatest of
+countries, and Jamaica as the greatest of colonies.  But much as she
+loved England she was very loud in denouncing what she called the
+perfidy of the mother to the brightest of her children.  And much as
+she loved Jamaica she was equally severe in her taunts against those
+of her brother-islanders who would not believe that the island might
+yet flourish as it had flourished in her father's days.
+
+"It is because you and men like you will not do your duty by your
+country," she had said some score of times to Maurice--not with much
+justice considering the laboriousness of his life.
+
+But Maurice knew well what she meant.  "What could I do there up at
+Spanish Town," he would answer, "among such a pack as there are
+there?  Here I may do something."
+
+And then she would reply with the full swing of her eloquence, "It is
+because you and such as you think only of yourself and not of
+Jamaica, that Jamaica has come to such a pass as this.  Why is there
+a pack there as you call them in the honourable House of Assembly?
+Why are not the best men in the island to be found there, as the best
+men in England are to be found in the British House of Commons?  A
+pack, indeed!  My father was proud of a seat in that house, and I
+remember the day, Maurice Cumming, when your father also thought it
+no shame to represent his own parish.  If men like you, who have a
+stake in the country, will not go there, of course the house is
+filled with men who have no stake.  If they are a pack, it is you who
+send them there;--you, and others like you."
+
+All had its effect, though at the moment Maurice would shrug his
+shoulders and turn away his head from the torrent of the lady's
+discourse.  But Miss Jack, though she was not greatly liked, was
+greatly respected.  Maurice would not own that she convinced him; but
+at last he did allow his name to be put up as candidate for his own
+parish, and in due time he became a member of the honourable House of
+Assembly in Jamaica.
+
+This honour entails on the holder of it the necessity of living at or
+within reach of Spanish Town for some ten weeks towards the chose of
+every year.  Now on the whole face of the uninhabited globe there is
+perhaps no spot more dull to look at, more Lethean in its aspect,
+more corpse-like or more cadaverous than Spanish Town.  It is the
+head-quarters of the government, the seat of the legislature, the
+residence of the governor;--but nevertheless it is, as it were, a
+city of the very dead.
+
+Here, as we have said before, lived Miss Jack in a large forlorn
+ghost-like house in which her father and all her family had lived
+before her.  And as a matter of course Maurice Cumming when he came
+up to attend to his duties as a member of the legislature took up his
+abode with her.
+
+Now at the time of which we are specially speaking he had completed
+the first of these annual visits.  He had already benefited his
+country by sitting out one session of the colonial parliament, and
+had satisfied himself that he did no other good than that of keeping
+away some person more objectionable than himself.  He was however
+prepared to repeat this self-sacrifice in a spirit of patriotism for
+which he received a very meagre meed of eulogy from Miss Jack, and an
+amount of self-applause which was not much more extensive.
+
+"Down at Mount Pleasant I can do something," he would say over and
+over again, "but what good can any man do up here?"
+
+"You can do your duty," Miss Jack would answer, "as others did before
+you when the colony was made to prosper."  And then they would run
+off into a long discussion about free labour and protective duties.
+But at the present moment Maurice Cumming had another vexation on his
+mind over and above that arising from his wasted hours at Spanish
+Town, and his fruitless labours at Mount Pleasant.  He was in love,
+and was not altogether satisfied with the conduct of his lady-love.
+
+Miss Jack had other nephews besides Maurice Cumming, and nieces also,
+of whom Marian Leslie was one.  The family of the Leslies lived up
+near Newcastle--in the mountains, that is, which stand over Kingston-
+-at a distance of some eighteen miles from Kingston, but in a climate
+as different from that of the town as the climate of Naples is from
+that of Berlin.  In Kingston the heat is all but intolerable
+throughout the year, by day and by night, in the house and out of it.
+In the mountains round Newcastle, some four thousand feet above the
+sea, it is merely warm during the day, and cool enough at night to
+make a blanket desirable.
+
+It is pleasant enough living up amongst those green mountains.  There
+are no roads there for wheeled carriages, nor are there carriages
+with or without wheels.  All journeys are made on horseback.  Every
+visit paid from house to house is performed in this manner.  Ladies
+young and old live before dinner in their riding-habits.  The
+hospitality is free, easy, and unembarrassed.  The scenery is
+magnificent.  The tropical foliage is wild and luxuriant beyond
+measure.  There may be enjoyed all that a southern climate has to
+offer of enjoyment, without the penalties which such enjoyments
+usually entail.
+
+Mrs. Leslie was a half-sister of Miss Jack, and Miss Jack had been a
+half-sister also of Mrs. Cumming; but Mrs. Leslie and Mrs. Cumming
+had in no way been related.  And it had so happened that up to the
+period of his legislative efforts Maurice Cumming had seen nothing of
+the Leslies.  Soon after his arrival at Spanish Town he had been
+taken by Miss Jack to Shandy Hall, for so the residence of the
+Leslies was called, and having remained there for three days, had
+fallen in love with Marian Leslie.  Now in the West Indies all young
+ladies flirt; it is the first habit of their nature--and few young
+ladies in the West Indies were more given to flirting, or understood
+the science better than Marian Leslie.
+
+Maurice Cumming fell violently in love, and during his first visit at
+Shandy Hall found that Marian was perfection--for during this first
+visit her propensities were exerted altogether in his own favour.
+That little circumstance does make such a difference in a young man's
+judgment of a girl!  He came back fall of admiration, not altogether
+to Miss Jack's dissatisfaction; for Miss Jack was willing enough that
+both her nephew and her niece should settle down into married life.
+
+But then Maurice met his fair one at a governor's ball--at a ball
+where red coats abounded, and aides-de-camp dancing in spurs, and
+narrow-waisted lieutenants with sashes or epaulettes!  The aides-de-
+camp and narrow-waisted lieutenants waltzed better than he did; and
+as one after the other whisked round the ball-room with Marian firmly
+clasped in his arms, Maurice's feelings were not of the sweetest.
+Nor was this the worst of it.  Had the whisking been divided equally
+among ten, he might have forgiven it; but there was one specially
+narrow-waisted lieutenant, who towards the end of the evening kept
+Marian nearly wholly to himself.  Now to a man in love, who has had
+but little experience of either balls or young ladies, this is
+intolerable.
+
+He only met her twice after that before his return to Mount Pleasant,
+and on the first occasion that odious soldier was not there.  But a
+specially devout young clergyman was present, an unmarried,
+evangelical, handsome young curate fresh from England; and Marian's
+piety had been so excited that she had cared for no one else.  It
+appeared moreover that the curate's gifts for conversion were
+confined, as regarded that opportunity, to Marion's advantage.  "I
+will have nothing more to say to her," said Maurice to himself,
+scowling.  But just as he went away Marian had given him her hand,
+and called him Maurice--for she pretended that they were cousins--and
+had looked into his eyes and declared that she did hope that the
+assembly at Spanish Town would soon be sitting again.  Hitherto, she
+said, she had not cared one straw about it.  Then poor Maurice
+pressed the little fingers which lay within his own, and swore that
+he would be at Shandy Hall on the day before his return to Mount
+Pleasant.  So he was; and there he found the narrow-waisted
+lieutenant, not now bedecked with sash and epaulettes, but lolling at
+his ease on Mrs. Leslie's sofa in a white jacket, while Marian sat at
+his feet telling his fortune with a book about flowers.
+
+"Oh, a musk rose, Mr. Ewing; you know what a musk rose means!"  Then
+she got up and shook hands with Mr. Cumming; but her eyes still went
+away to the white jacket and the sofa.  Poor Maurice had often been
+nearly broken-hearted in his efforts to manage his free black
+labourers; but even that was easier than managing such as Marion
+Leslie.
+
+Marian Leslie was a Creole--as also were Miss Jack and Maurice
+Cumming--a child of the tropics; but by no means such a child as
+tropical children are generally thought to be by us in more northern
+latitudes.  She was black-haired and black-eyed, but her lips were as
+red and her cheeks as rosy as though she had been born and bred in
+regions where the snow lies in winter.  She was a small, pretty,
+beautifully made little creature, somewhat idle as regards the work
+of the world, but active and strong enough when dancing or riding
+were required from her.  Her father was a banker, and was fairly
+prosperous in spite of the poverty of his country.  His house of
+business was at Kingston, and he usually slept there twice a week;
+but he always resided at Shandy Hall, and Mrs. Leslie and her
+children knew but very little of the miseries of Kingston.  For be it
+known to all men, that of all towns Kingston, Jamaica, is the most
+miserable.
+
+I fear that I shall have set my readers very much against Marian
+Leslie;--much more so than I would wish to do.  As a rule they will
+not know how thoroughly flirting is an institution in the West
+Indies--practised by all young ladies, and laid aside by them when
+they marry, exactly as their young-lady names and young-lady habits
+of various kinds are laid aside.  All I would say of Marian Leslie is
+this, that she understood the working of the institution more
+thoroughly than others did.  And I must add also in her favour that
+she did not keep her flirting for sly corners, nor did her admirers
+keep their distance till mamma was out of the way.  It mattered not
+to her who was present.  Had she been called on to make one at a
+synod of the clergy of the island, she would have flirted with the
+bishop before all his priests.  And there have been bishops in the
+colony who would not have gainsayed her!
+
+But Maurice Cumming did not rightly calculate all this; nor indeed
+did Miss Jack do so as thoroughly as she should have done, for Miss
+Jack knew more about such matters than did poor Maurice.  "If you
+like Marion, why don't you marry her?"
+
+Miss Jack had once said to him; and this coming from Miss Jack, who
+was made of money, was a great deal.
+
+"She wouldn't have me," Maurice had answered.
+
+"That's more than you know or I either," was Miss Jack's reply.  "But
+if you like to try, I'll help you."
+
+With reference to this, Maurice as he left Miss Jack's residence on
+his return to Mount Pleasant, had declared that Marian Leslie was not
+worth an honest man's love.
+
+"Psha!" Miss Jack replied; "Marian will do like other girls.  When
+you marry a wife I suppose you mean to be master?"
+
+"At any rate I shan't marry her," said Maurice.  And so he went his
+way back to Hanover with a sore heart.  And no wonder, for that was
+the very day on which Lieutenant Ewing had asked the question about
+the musk rose.
+
+But there was a dogged constancy of feeling about Maurice which could
+not allow him to disburden himself of his love.  When he was again at
+Mount Pleasant among his sugar-canes and hogsheads he could not help
+thinking about Marian.  It is true he always thought of her as flying
+round that ball-room in Ewing's arms, or looking up with rapt
+admiration into that young parson's face; and so he got but little
+pleasure from his thoughts.  But not the less was he in love with
+her;--not the less, though he would swear to himself three times in
+the day that for no earthly consideration would he marry Marian
+Leslie.
+
+The early months of the year from January to May are the busiest with
+a Jamaica sugar-grower, and in this year they were very busy months
+with Maurice Cumming.  It seemed as though there were actually some
+truth in Miss Jack's prediction that prosperity would return to him
+if he attended to his country; for the prices of sugar had risen
+higher than they had ever been since the duty had been withdrawn, and
+there was more promise of a crop at Mount Pleasant than he had seen
+since his reign commenced.  But then the question of labour?  How he
+slaved in trying to get work from those free negroes; and alas! how
+often he slaved in vain!  But it was not all in vain; for as things
+went on it became clear to him that in this year he would, for the
+first time since he commenced, obtain something like a return from
+his land.  What if the turning-point had come, and things were now
+about to run the other way.
+
+But then the happiness which might have accrued to him from this
+source was dashed by his thoughts of Marian Leslie.  Why had he
+thrown himself in the way of that syren?  Why had he left Mount
+Pleasant at all?  He knew that on his return to Spanish Town his
+first work would be to visit Shandy Hall; and yet he felt that of all
+places in the island, Shandy Hall was the last which he ought to
+visit.
+
+And then about the beginning of May, when he was hard at work turning
+the last of his canes into sugar and rum, he received his annual
+visit from Miss Jack.  And whom should Miss Jack bring with her but
+Mr. Leslie.
+
+"I'll tell you what it is," said Miss Jack; "I have spoken to Mr.
+Leslie about you and Marian."
+
+"Then you had no business to do anything of the kind," said Maurice,
+blushing up to his ears.
+
+"Nonsense," replied Miss Jack, "I understand what I am about.  Of
+course Mr. Leslie will want to know something about the estate."
+
+"Then he may go back as wise as he came, for he'll learn nothing from
+me.  Not that I have anything to hide."
+
+"So I told him.  Now there are a large family of them, you see; and
+of course he can't give Marian much."
+
+"I don't care a straw if he doesn't give her a shilling.  If she
+cared for me, or I for her, I shouldn't look after her for her
+money."
+
+"But a little money is not a bad thing, Maurice," said Miss Jack, who
+in her time had had a good deal, and had managed to take care of it.
+
+"It is all one to me."
+
+"But what I was going to say is this--hum--ha.  I don't like to
+pledge myself for fear I should raise hopes which mayn't be
+fulfilled."
+
+"Don't pledge yourself to anything, aunt, in which Marian Leslie and
+I are concerned."
+
+"But what I was going to say is this; my money, what little I have,
+you know, must go some day either to you or to the Leslies."
+
+"You may give all to them if you please."
+
+"Of course I may, and I dare say I shall," said Miss Jack, who was
+beginning to be irritated.  "But at any rate you might have the
+civility to listen to me when I am endeavouring to put you on your
+legs.  I am sure I think about nothing else, morning, noon, and
+night, and yet I never get a decent word from you.  Marian is too
+good for you; that's the truth."
+
+But at length Miss Jack was allowed to open her budget, and to make
+her proposition; which amounted to this--that she had already told
+Mr. Leslie that she would settle the bulk of her property conjointly
+on Maurice and Marian if they would make a match of it.  Now as Mr.
+Leslie had long been casting a hankering eye after Miss Jack's money,
+with a strong conviction however that Maurice Cumming was her
+favourite nephew and probable heir, this proposition was not
+unpalatable.  So he agreed to go down to Mount Pleasant and look
+about him.
+
+"But you may live for the next thirty years, my dear Miss Jack," Mr.
+Leslie had said.
+
+"Yes, I may," Miss Jack replied, looking very dry.
+
+"And I am sure I hope you will," continued Mr. Leslie.  And then the
+subject was allowed to drop; for Mr. Leslie knew that it was not
+always easy to talk to Miss Jack on such matters.
+
+Miss Jack was a person in whom I think we may say that the good
+predominated over the bad.  She was often morose, crabbed, and self-
+opinionated. but then she knew her own imperfections, and forgave
+those she loved for evincing their dislike of them.  Maurice Cumming
+was often inattentive to her, plainly showing that he was worried by
+her importunities and ill at ease in her company.  But she loved her
+nephew with all her heart; and though she dearly liked to tyrannise
+over him, never allow herself to be really angry with him, though he
+so frequently refused to bow to her dictation.  And she loved Marian
+Leslie also, though Marian was so sweet and lovely and she herself so
+harsh and ill-favoured.  She loved Marian, though Marian would often
+be impertinent.  She forgave the flirting, the light-heartedness, the
+love of amusement.  Marian, she said to herself, was young and
+pretty.  She, Miss Jack, had never known Marian's temptation.  And so
+she resolved in her own mind that Marian should be made a good and
+happy woman;--but always as the wife of Maurice Cumming.
+
+But Maurice turned a deaf ear to all these good tidings--or rather he
+turned to them an ear that seemed to be deaf.  He dearly, ardently
+loved that little flirt; but seeing that she was a flirt, that she
+had flirted so grossly when he was by, he would not confess his love
+to a human being.  He would not have it known that he was wasting his
+heart for a worthless little chit, to whom every man was the same--
+except that those were most eligible whose toes were the lightest and
+their outside trappings the brightest.  That he did love her he could
+not help, but he would not disgrace himself by acknowledging it.
+
+He was very civil to Mr. Leslie, but he would not speak a word that
+could be taken as a proposal for Marian.  It had been part of Miss
+Jack's plan that the engagement should absolutely be made down there
+at Mount Pleasant, without any reference to the young lady; but
+Maurice could not be induced to break the ice.  So he took Mr. Leslie
+through his mills and over his cane-pieces, talked to him about the
+laziness of the "niggers," while the "niggers" themselves stood by
+tittering, and rode with him away to the high grounds where the
+coffee plantation had been in the good old days; but not a word was
+said between them about Marian.  And yet Marian was never out of his
+heart.
+
+And then came the day on which Mr. Leslie was to go back to Kingston.
+"And you won't have her then?" said Miss Jack to her nephew early
+that morning.  "You won't be said by me?"
+
+"Not in this matter, aunt."
+
+"Then you will live and die a poor man; you mean that, I suppose?"
+
+"It's likely enough that I shall.  There's this comfort, at any rate,
+I'm used to it."  And then Miss Jack was silent again for a while.
+
+"Very well, sir; that's enough," she said angrily.  And then she
+began again.  "But, Maurice, you wouldn't have to wait for my death,
+you know."  And she put out her hand and touched his arm, entreating
+him as it were to yield to her.  "Oh, Maurice," she said, "I do so
+want to make you comfortable.  Let us speak to Mr. Leslie."
+
+But Maurice would not.  He took her hand and thanked her, but said
+that on this matter he must he his own master.  "Very well, sir," she
+exclaimed, "I have done.  In future you may manage for yourself.  As
+for me, I shall go back with Mr. Leslie to Kingston."  And so she
+did.  Mr. Leslie returned that day, taking her with him.  When he
+took his leave, his invitation to Maurice to come to Shandy Hall was
+not very pressing.  "Mrs. Leslie and the children will always be glad
+to see you," said he.
+
+"Remember me very kindly to Mrs. Leslie and the children," said
+Maurice.  And so they parted.
+
+"You have brought me down here on a regular fool's errand," said Mr.
+Leslie, on their journey back to town.
+
+"It will all come right yet," replied Miss Jack.  "Take my word for
+it he loves her."
+
+"Fudge," said Mr. Leslie.  But he could not afford to quarrel with
+his rich connection.
+
+In spite of all that he had said and thought to the contrary, Maurice
+did look forward during the remainder of the summer to his return to
+Spanish Town with something like impatience, it was very dull work,
+being there alone at Mount Pleasant; and let him do what he would to
+prevent it, his very dreams took him to Shandy Hall.  But at last the
+slow time made itself away, and he found himself once more in his
+aunt's house.
+
+A couple of days passed and no word was said about the Leslies.  On
+the morning of the third day he determined to go to Shandy Hall.
+Hitherto he had never been there without staying for the night; but
+on this occasion he made up his mind to return the same day.  "It
+would not be civil of me not to go there," he said to his aunt.
+
+"Certainly not," she replied, forbearing to press the matter further.
+"But why make such a terrible hard day's work of it?"
+
+"Oh, I shall go down in the cool, before breakfast; and then I need
+not have the bother of taking a bag."
+
+And in this way he started.  Miss Jack said nothing further; but she
+longed in her heart that she might be at Marian's elbow unseen during
+the visit.
+
+He found them all at breakfast, and the first to welcome him at the
+hall door was Marian.  "Oh, Mr. Cumming, we are so glad to see you;"
+and she looked into his eyes with a way she had, that was enough to
+make a man's heart wild.  But she not call him Maurice now.
+
+Miss Jack had spoken to her sister, Mrs. Leslie, as well as to Mr.
+Leslie, about this marriage scheme.  "Just let them alone," was Mrs.
+Leslie's advice.  "You can't alter Marian by lecturing her.  If they
+really love each other they'll come together; and if they don't, why
+then they'd better not."
+
+"And you really mean that you're going back to Spanish Town to-day?"
+said Mrs. Leslie to her visitor.
+
+"I'm afraid I must.  Indeed I haven't brought my things with me."
+And then he again caught Marian's eye, and began to wish that his
+resolution had not been so sternly made.
+
+"I suppose you are so fond of that House of Assembly," said Marian,
+"that you cannot tear yourself away for more than one day.  You'll
+not be able, I suppose, to find time to come to our picnic next
+week?"
+
+Maurice said he feared that he should not have time to go to a
+picnic.
+
+"Oh, nonsense," said Fanny--one of the younger girls--"you must come.
+We can't do without him, can we?"
+
+"Marian has got your name down the first on the list of the
+gentlemen," said another.
+
+"Yes; and Captain Ewing's second," said Bell, the youngest.
+
+"I'm afraid I must induce your sister to alter her list," said
+Maurice, in his sternest manner.  "I cannot manage to go, and I'm
+sure she will not miss me."
+
+Marion looked at the little girl who had so unfortunately mentioned
+the warrior's name, and the little girl knew that she had sinned.
+
+"Oh, we cannot possibly do without you; can we, Marian?" said Fanny.
+"It's to be at Bingley's Dell, and we've got a bed for you at
+Newcastle; quite near, you know."
+
+"And another for--" began Bell, but she stopped herself.
+
+"Go away to your lessons, Bell," said Marion.  "You know how angry
+mamma will be at your staying here all the morning;" and poor Bell
+with a sorrowful look left the room.
+
+"We are all certainly very anxious that you should come; very anxious
+for a great many reasons," said Marian, in a voice that was rather
+solemn, and as though the matter were one of considerable import.
+"But if you really cannot, why of course there is no more to be
+said."
+
+"There will be plenty without me, I am sure."
+
+"As regards numbers, I dare say there will; for we shall have pretty
+nearly the whole of the two regiments;" and Marian as she alluded to
+the officers spoke in a tone which might lead one to think that she
+would much rather be without them; "but we counted on you as being
+one of ourselves; and as you had been away so long, we thought--we
+thought--," and then she turned away her face, and did not finish her
+speech.  Before he could make up his mind as to his answer she had
+risen from her chair, and walked out of the room.  Maurice almost
+thought that he saw a tear in her eye as she went.
+
+He did ride back to Spanish Town that afternoon, after an early
+dinner; but before he went Marian spoke to him alone for one minute.
+
+"I hope you are not offended with me," she said.
+
+"Offended! oh no; how could I be offended with you?"
+
+"Because you seem so stern.  I am sure I would do anything I could to
+oblige you, if I knew how.  It would be so shocking not to be good
+friends with a cousin like you."
+
+"But there are so many different sorts of friends," said Maurice.
+
+"Of course there are.  There are a great many friends that one does
+not care a bit for,--people that one meets at balls and places like
+that--"
+
+"And at picnics," said Maurice.
+
+"'Well, some of them there too; but we are not like that; are we?"
+
+What could Maurice do but say, "no," and declare that their
+friendship was of a warmer description?  And how could he resist
+promising to go to the picnic, though as he made the promise he knew
+that misery would be in store for him?  He did promise, and then she
+gave him her hand and called him Maurice.
+
+"Oh!  I am so glad," she said.  "It seemed so shocking that you
+should refuse to join us.  And mind and be early, Maurice; for I
+shall want to explain it all.  We are to meet, you know, at Clifton
+Gate at one o'clock, but do you be a little before that, and we shall
+be there."
+
+Maurice Cumming resolved within his own breast as he rode back to
+Spanish Town, that if Marian behaved to him all that day at the
+picnic as she had done this day at Shandy Hall, he would ask her to
+be his wife before he left her.
+
+And Miss Jack also was to be at the picnic.
+
+"There is no need of going early," said she, when her nephew made a
+fuss about the starting.  "People are never very punctual at such
+affairs as that; and then they are always quite long enough."  But
+Maurice explained that he was anxious to be early, and on this
+occasion he carried his point.
+
+When they reached Clifton Gate the ladies were already there; not in
+carriages, as people go to picnics in other and tamer countries, but
+each on her own horse or her own pony.  But they were not alone.
+Beside Miss Leslie was a gentleman, whom Maurice knew as Lieutenant
+Graham, of the flag-ship at Port Royal; and at a little distance
+which quite enabled him to join in the conversation was Captain
+Ewing, the lieutenant with the narrow waist of the previous year.
+
+"We shall have a delightful day, Miss Leslie," said the lieutenant.
+
+"Oh, charming, isn't it?" said Marian.
+
+"But now to choose a place for dinner, Captain Ewing;--what do you
+say?"
+
+"Will you commission me to select?  You know I'm very well up in
+geometry, and all that?"
+
+"But that won't teach you what sort of a place does for a picnic
+dinner;--will it, Mr. Cumming?"  And then she shook hands with
+Maurice, but did not take any further special notice of him.  "We'll
+all go together, if you please.  The commission is too important to
+be left to one."  And then Marian rode off, and the lieutenant and
+the captain rode with her.
+
+It was open for Maurice to join them if he chose, but he did not
+choose.  He had come there ever so much earlier than he need have
+done, dragging his aunt with him, because Marian had told him that
+his services would be specially required by her.  And now as soon as
+she saw him she went away with the two officers!--went away without
+vouchsafing him a word.  He made up his mind, there on the spot, that
+he would never think of her again--never speak to her otherwise than
+he might speak to the most indifferent of mortals.
+
+And yet he was a man that could struggle right manfully with the
+world's troubles; one who had struggled with them from his boyhood,
+and had never been overcome.  Now he was unable to conceal the
+bitterness of his wrath because a little girl had ridden off to look
+for a green spot for her tablecloth without asking his assistance!
+
+Picnics are, I think, in general, rather tedious for the elderly
+people who accompany them.  When the joints become a little stiff,
+dinners are eaten most comfortably with the accompaniment of chairs
+and tables, and a roof overhead is an agrement de plus.  But,
+nevertheless, picnics cannot exist without a certain allowance of
+elderly people.  The Miss Marians and Captains Ewing cannot go out to
+dine on the grass without some one to look after them.  So the
+elderly people go to picnics, in a dull tame way, doing their duty,
+and wishing the day over.  Now on the morning in question, when
+Marian rode off with Captain Ewing and lieutenant Graham, Maurice
+Cumming remained among the elderly people.
+
+A certain Mr. Pomken, a great Jamaica agriculturist, one of the
+Council, a man who had known the good old times, got him by the
+button and held him fast, discoursing wisely of sugar and ruin, of
+Gadsden pans and recreant negroes, on all of which subjects Maurice
+Cumming was known to have an opinion of his own.  But as Mr. Pomken's
+words sounded into one ear, into the other fell notes, listened to
+from afar,--the shrill laughing voice of Marian Leslie as she gave
+her happy order to her satellites around her, and ever and anon the
+bass haw-haw of Captain Ewing, who was made welcome as the chief of
+her attendants.  That evening in a whisper to a brother councillor
+Mr. Pomken communicated his opinion that after all there was not so
+much in that young Cumming as some people said.  But Mr. Pomken had
+no idea that that young Cumming was in love.
+
+And then the dinner came, spread over half an acre.  Maurice was
+among the last who seated himself; and when he did so it was in an
+awkward comfortless corner, behind Mr. Pomken's back, and far away
+from the laughter and mirth of the day.  But yet from his comfortless
+corner he could see Marian as she sat in her pride of power, with her
+friend Julia Davis near her, a flirt as bad as herself, and her
+satellites around her, obedient to her nod, and happy in her smiles.
+
+"Now I won't allow any more champagne," said Marian, "or who will
+there be steady enough to help me over the rocks to the grotto?"
+
+"Oh, you have promised me!" cried the captain.
+
+"Indeed, I have not; have I, Julia?"
+
+"Miss Davis has certainly promised me," said the lieutenant.
+
+"I have made no promise, and don't think I shall go at all," said
+Julia, who was sometimes inclined to imagine that Captain Ewing
+should be her own property.
+
+All which and much more of the kind Maurice Cumming could not hear;
+but he could see--and imagine, which was worse.  How innocent and
+inane are, after all, the flirtings of most young ladies, if all
+their words and doings in that line could be brought to paper!  I do
+not know whether there be as a rule more vocal expression of the
+sentiment of love between a man and woman than there is between two
+thrushes!  They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct
+rather than by reason.
+
+"You are going home with the ladies to-night, I believe," said
+Maurice to Miss Jack, immediately after dinner.  Miss Jack
+acknowledged that such was her destination for the night.
+
+"Then my going back to Spanish Town at once won't hurt any one--for,
+to tell the truth, I have had enough of this work."
+
+"Why, Maurice, you were in such a hurry to come."
+
+"The more fool I; and so now I am in a hurry to go away.  Don't
+notice it to anybody."
+
+Miss Jack looked in his face and saw that he was really wretched; and
+she knew the cause of his wretchedness.
+
+"Don't go yet, Maurice," she said; and then added with a tenderness
+that was quite uncommon with her, "Go to her, Maurice, and speak to
+her openly and freely, once for all; you will find that she will
+listen then.  Dear Maurice, do, for my sake."
+
+He made no answer, but walked away, roaming sadly by himself among
+the trees.  "Listen!" he exclaimed to himself.  "Yes, she will alter
+a dozen times in as many hours.  Who can care for a creature that can
+change as she changes?"  And yet he could not help caring for her.
+
+As he went on, climbing among rocks, he again came upon the sound of
+voices, and heard especially that of Captain Ewing.  "Now, Miss
+Leslie, if you will take my hand you will soon be over all the
+difficulty."  And then a party of seven or eight, scrambling over
+some stones, came nearly on the level on which he stood, in full view
+of him; and leading the others were Captain Ewing and Miss Leslie.
+
+He turned on his heel to go away, when he caught the sound of a step
+following him, and a voice saying, "Oh, there is Mr. Cumming, and I
+want to speak to him;" and in a minute a light hand was on his arm.
+
+"Why are you running away from us?" said Marian.
+
+"Because--oh, I don't know.  I am not running away.  You have your
+party made up, and I am not going to intrude on it."
+
+"What nonsense!  Do come now; we are going to this wonderful grotto.
+I thought it so ill-natured of you, not joining us at dinner.  Indeed
+you know you had promised."
+
+He did not answer her, but he looked at her--full in the face, with
+his sad eyes laden with love.  She half understood his countenance,
+but only half understood it.
+
+"What is the matter, Maurice?" she said.  "Are you angry with me?
+Will you come and join us?"
+
+"No, Marian, I cannot do that.  But if you can leave them and come
+with me for half an hour, I will not keep you longer."
+
+She stood hesitating a moment, while her companion remained on the
+spot where she had left him.  "Come, Miss Leslie," called Captain
+Ewing.  "You will have it dark before we can get down."
+
+"I will come with you," whispered she to Maurice, "but wait a
+moment."  And she tripped back, and in some five minutes returned
+after an eager argument with her friends.  "There," she said, "I
+don't care about the grotto, one bit, and I will walk with you now;--
+only they will think it so odd."  And so they started off together.
+
+Before the tropical darkness had fallen upon them Maurice had told
+the tale of his love,--and had told it in a manner differing much
+from that of Marian's usual admirers, he spoke with passion and
+almost with violence; he declared that his heart was so full of her
+image that he could not rid himself of it for one minute; "nor would
+he wish to do so," he said, "if she would be his Marian, his own
+Marian, his very own.  But if not--" and then he explained to her,
+with all a lover's warmth, and with almost more than a lover's
+liberty, what was his idea of her being "his own, his very own," and
+in doing so inveighed against her usual light-heartedness in terms
+which at any rate were strong enough.
+
+But Marian here it all well.  Perhaps she knew that the lesson was
+somewhat deserved; and perhaps she appreciated at its value the love
+of such a man as Maurice Cumming, weighing in her judgment the
+difference between him and the Ewings and the Grahams.
+
+And then she answered him well and prudently, with words which
+startled him by their prudent seriousness as coming from her.  She
+begged his pardon heartily, she said, for any grief which she had
+caused him; but yet how was she to he blamed, seeing that she had
+known nothing of his feelings?  Her father and mother had said
+something to her of this proposed marriage; something, but very
+little; and she had answered by saying that she did not think Maurice
+had any warmer regard for her than of a cousin.  After this answer
+neither father nor mother had pressed the matter further.  As to her
+own feelings she could then say nothing, for she then knew nothing;--
+nothing but this, that she loved no one better than him, or rather
+that she loved no one else.  She would ask herself if she could love
+him; but he must give her some little time for that.  In the
+meantime--and she smiled sweetly at him as she made the promise--she
+would endeavour to do nothing that would offend him; and then she
+added that on that evening she would dance with him any dances that
+he liked.  Maurice, with a self-denial that was not very wise,
+contented himself with engaging her for the first quadrille.
+
+They were to dance that night in the mess-room of the officers at
+Newcastle.  This scheme had been added on as an adjunct to the
+picnic, and it therefore became necessary that the ladies should
+retire to their own or their friends' houses at Newcastle to adjust
+their dresses.  Marian Leslie and Julia Davis were there accommodated
+with the loan of a small room by the major's wife, and as they were
+brushing their hair, and putting on their dancing-shoes, something
+was said between them about Maurice Cumming.
+
+"And so you are to be Mrs. C. of Mount Pleasant," said Julia.  "Well;
+I didn't think it would come to that at last."
+
+"But it has not come to that, and if it did why should I not be Mrs.
+C., as you call it?"
+
+"The knight of the rueful countenance, I call him."
+
+"I tell you what then, he is an excellent young man, and the fact is
+you don't know him."
+
+"I don't like excellent young men with long faces.  I suppose you
+won't be let to dance quick dances at all now."
+
+"I shall dance whatever dances I like, as I have always done," said
+Marian, with some little asperity in her tone.
+
+"Not you; or if you do, you'll lose your promotion.  You'll never
+live to be my Lady Rue.  And what will Graham say?  You know you've
+given him half a promise."
+
+"That's not true, Julia;--I never gave him the tenth part of a
+promise."
+
+"Well, he says so;" and then the words between the young ladies
+became a little more angry.  But, nevertheless, in due time they came
+forth with faces smiling as usual, with their hair brushed, and
+without any signs of warfare.
+
+But Marian had to stand another attack before the business of the
+evening commenced, and this was from no less doughty an antagonist
+than her aunt, Miss Jack.  Miss Jack soon found that Maurice had not
+kept his threat of going home; and though she did not absolutely
+learn from him that he had gone so far towards perfecting her dearest
+hopes as to make a formal offer to Marion, nevertheless she did
+gather that things were fast that way tending.  If only this dancing
+were over! she said to herself, dreading the unnumbered waltzes with
+Ewing, and the violent polkas with Graham.  So Miss Jack resolved to
+say one word to Marian--"A wise word in good season," said Miss Jack
+to herself, "how sweet a thing it is."
+
+"Marian," said she.  "Step here a moment, I want to say a word to
+you."
+
+"Yes, aunt Sarah," said Marian, following her aunt into a corner, not
+quite in the best humour in the world; for she had a dread of some
+further interference.
+
+"Are you going to dance with Maurice to-night?"
+
+"Yes, I believe so,--the first quadrille."
+
+"Well, what I was going to say is this.  I don't want you to dance
+many quick dances to-night, for a reason I have;--that is, not a
+great many."
+
+"Why, aunt, what nonsense!"
+
+"Now my dearest, dearest girl, it is all for your own sake.  Well,
+then, it must out.  He does not like it, you know."
+
+"What he?"
+
+"Maurice."
+
+"Well, aunt, I don't know that I'm bound to dance or not to dance
+just as Mr. Cumming may like.  Papa does not mind my dancing.  The
+people have come here to dance and you can hardly want to make me
+ridiculous by sitting still."  And so that wise word did not appear
+to be very sweet.
+
+And then the amusement of the evening commenced, and Marian stood up
+for a quadrille with her lover.  She however was not in the very best
+humour.  She had, as she thought, said and done enough for one day in
+Maurice's favour.  And she had no idea, as she declared to herself,
+of being lectured by aunt Sarah.
+
+"Dearest Marion," he said to her, as the quadrille came to a close,
+"it is an your power to make me so happy,--so perfectly happy."
+
+"But then people have such different ideas of happiness," she
+replied.  "They can't all see with the same eyes, you know."  And so
+they parted.
+
+But during the early part of the evening she was sufficiently
+discreet; she did waltz with Lieutenant Graham, and polk with Captain
+Ewing, but she did so in a tamer manner than was usual with her, and
+she made no emulous attempts to dance down other couples.  When she
+had done she would sit down, and then she consented to stand up for
+two quadrilles with two very tame gentlemen, to whom no lover could
+object.
+
+"And so, Marian, your wings are regularly clipped at last," said
+Julia Davis coming up to her.
+
+"No more clipped than your own," said Marian.
+
+"If Sir Rue won't let you waltz now, what will he require of you when
+you're married to him?"
+
+"I am just as well able to waltz with whom I like as you are, Julia;
+and if you say so in that way, I shall think it's envy."
+
+"Ha--ha--ha; I may have envied you some of your beaux before now; I
+dare say I have.  But I certainly do not envy you Sir Rue."  And then
+she went off to her partner.
+
+All this was too much for Marian's weak strength, and before long she
+was again whirling round with Captain Ewing.  "Come, Miss Leslie,"
+said he, "let us see what we can do.  Graham and Julia Davis have
+been saying that your waltzing days are over, but I think we can put
+them down."
+
+Marian as she got up, and raised her arm in order that Ewing might
+put his round her waist, caught Maurice's eye as he leaned against a
+wall, and read in it a stern rebuke.  "This is too bad," she said to
+herself.  "He shall not make a slave of me, at any rate as yet."  And
+away she went as madly, more madly than ever, and for the rest of the
+evening she danced with Captain Ewing and with him alone.
+
+There is an intoxication quite distinct from that which comes from
+strong drink.  When the judgment is altogether overcome by the
+spirits this species of drunkenness comes on, and in this way Marian
+Leslie was drunk that night.  For two hours she danced with Captain
+Ewing, and ever and anon she kept saying to herself that she would
+teach the world to know--and of all the world Mr. Cumming especially-
+-that she might be lead, but not driven.
+
+Then about four o'clock she went home, and as she attempted to
+undress herself in her own room she burst into violent tears and
+opened her heart to her sister-- "Oh, Fanny, I do love him, I do love
+him so dearly! and now he will never come to me again!"
+
+Maurice stood still with his back against the wall, for the full two
+hours of Marian's exhibition, and then he said to his aunt before he
+left--"I hope you have now seen enough; you will hardly mention her
+name to me again."  Miss Jack groaned from the bottom of her heart
+but she said nothing.  She said nothing that night to any one; but
+she lay awake in her bed, thinking, till it was time to rise and
+dress herself.  "Ask Miss Marian to come to me," she said to the
+black girl who came to assist her.  But it was not till she had sent
+three times, that Miss Marian obeyed the summons.
+
+At three o'clock on the following day Miss Jack arrived at her own
+hall door in Spanish Town.  Long as the distance was she ordinarily
+rode it all, but on this occasion she had provided a carriage to
+bring her over as much of the journey as it was practicable for her
+to perform on wheels.  As soon as she reached her own hall door she
+asked if Mr. Cumming was at home.  "Yes," the servant said.  "He was
+in the small book-room, at the back of the house, up stairs."
+Silently, as if afraid of being heard, she stepped up her own stairs
+into her own drawing-room; and very silently she was followed by a
+pair of feet lighter and smaller than her own.
+
+Miss Jack was usually somewhat of a despot in her own house, but
+there was nothing despotic about her now as she peered into the book-
+room.  This she did with her bonnet still on, looking round the half-
+opened door as though she were afraid to disturb her nephew, he sat
+at the window looking out into the verandah which ran behind the
+house, so intent on his thoughts that he did not hear her.
+
+"Maurice," she said, "can I come in?"
+
+"Come in? oh yes, of course;" and he turned round sharply at her.  "I
+tell you what, aunt; I am not well here and I cannot stay out the
+session.  I shall go back to Mount Pleasant."
+
+"Maurice," and she walked close up to him as she spoke, "Maurice, I
+have brought some one with me to ask your pardon."
+
+His face became red up to the roots of his hair as he stood looking
+at her without answering.  "You would grant it certainly," she
+continued, "if you knew how much it would be valued."
+
+"Whom do you mean? who is it?" he asked at last.
+
+"One who loves you as well as you love her--and she cannot love you
+better.  Come in, Marian."  The poor girl crept in at the door,
+ashamed of what she was induced to do, but yet looking anxiously into
+her lover's face.  "You asked her yesterday to be your wife," said
+Miss Jack, "and she did not then know her own mind.  Now she has had
+a lesson.  You will ask her once again; will you not, Maurice?"
+
+What was he to say? how was he to refuse, when that soft little hand
+was held out to him; when those eyes laden with tears just ventured
+to look into his face?
+
+"I beg your pardon if I angered you last night," she said.
+
+In half a minute Miss Jack had left the room, and in the space of
+another thirty seconds Maurice had forgiven her.  "I am your own now,
+you know," she whispered to him in the course of that long evening.
+"Yesterday, you know--," but the sentence was never finished.
+
+It was in vain that Julia Davis was ill-natured and sarcastic, in
+vain that Ewing and Graham made joint attempt upon her constancy.
+From that night to the morning of her marriage--and the interval was
+only three months--Marian Leslie was never known to flirt.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, by Trollope
+
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