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+Project Gutenberg's Lemorne Versus Huell, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
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+Title: Lemorne Versus Huell
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+Author: Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
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+Posting Date: July 27, 2008 [EBook #881]
+Release Date: April 1997
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEMORNE VERSUS HUELL ***
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+Produced by John M. Krafft
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+LEMORNE VERSUS HUELL
+
+Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
+
+Harper's New Monthly Magazine 26 (1863): 537-43.
+
+
+The two months I spent at Newport with Aunt Eliza Huell, who had been
+ordered to the sea-side for the benefit of her health, were the
+months that created all that is dramatic in my destiny. My aunt was
+troublesome, for she was not only out of health, but in a lawsuit. She
+wrote to me, for we lived apart, asking me to accompany her--not because
+she was fond of me, or wished to give me pleasure, but because I
+was useful in various ways. Mother insisted upon my accepting her
+invitation, not because she loved her late husband's sister, but because
+she thought it wise to cotton to her in every particular, for Aunt Eliza
+was rich, and we--two lone women--were poor.
+
+I gave my music-pupils a longer and earlier vacation than usual, took a
+week to arrange my wardrobe--for I made my own dresses--and then started
+for New York, with the five dollars which Aunt Eliza had sent for my
+fare thither. I arrived at her house in Bond Street at 7 A.M., and found
+her man James in conversation with the milkman. He informed me that
+Miss Huell was very bad, and that the housekeeper was still in bed. I
+supposed that Aunt Eliza was in bed also, but I had hardly entered the
+house when I heard her bell ring as she only could ring it--with an
+impatient jerk.
+
+"She wants hot milk," said James, "and the man has just come."
+
+I laid my bonnet down, and went to the kitchen. Saluting the cook, who
+was an old acquaintance, and who told me that the "divil" had been in
+the range that morning, I took a pan, into which I poured some milk, and
+held it over the gaslight till it was hot; then I carried it up to Aunt
+Eliza.
+
+"Here is your milk, Aunt Eliza. You have sent for me to help you, and I
+begin with the earliest opportunity."
+
+"I looked for you an hour ago. Ring the bell."
+
+I rang it.
+
+"Your mother is well, I suppose. She would have sent you, though, had
+she been sick in bed."
+
+"She has done so. She thinks better of my coming than I do."
+
+The housekeeper, Mrs. Roll, came in, and Aunt Eliza politely requested
+her to have breakfast for her niece as soon as possible.
+
+"I do not go down of mornings yet," said Aunt Eliza, "but Mrs. Roll
+presides. See that the coffee is good, Roll."
+
+"It is good generally, Miss Huell."
+
+"You see that Margaret brought me my milk."
+
+"Ahem!" said Mrs. Roll, marching out.
+
+At the beginning of each visit to Aunt Eliza I was in the habit of
+dwelling on the contrast between her way of living and ours. We lived
+from "hand to mouth." Every thing about her wore a hereditary air; for
+she lived in my grandfather's house, and it was the same as in his day.
+If I was at home when these contrasts occurred to me I should have felt
+angry; as it was, I felt them as in a dream--the china, the silver, the
+old furniture, and the excellent fare soothed me.
+
+In the middle of the day Aunt Eliza came down stairs, and after she had
+received a visit from her doctor, decided to go to Newport on Saturday.
+It was Wednesday; and I could, if I chose, make any addition to my
+wardrobe. I had none to make, I informed her. What were my dresses?--had
+I a black silk? she asked. I had no black silk, and thought one would be
+unnecessary for hot weather.
+
+"Who ever heard of a girl of twenty-four having no black silk! You have
+slimsy muslins, I dare say?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"And you like them?"
+
+"For present wear."
+
+That afternoon she sent Mrs. Roll out, who returned with a splendid
+heavy silk for me, which Aunt Eliza said should be made before Saturday,
+and it was. I went to a fashionable dress-maker of her recommending, and
+on Friday it came home, beautifully made and trimmed with real lace.
+
+"Even the Pushers could find no fault with this," said Aunt Eliza,
+turning over the sleeves and smoothing the lace. Somehow she smuggled
+into the house a white straw-bonnet, with white roses; also a handsome
+mantilla. She held the bonnet before me with a nod, and deposited it
+again in the box, which made a part of the luggage for Newport.
+
+On Sunday morning we arrived in Newport, and went to a quiet hotel in
+the town. James was with us, but Mrs. Roll was left in Bond Street,
+in charge of the household. Monday was spent in an endeavor to make
+an arrangement regarding the hire of a coach and coachman. Several
+livery-stable keepers were in attendance, but nothing was settled, till
+I suggested that Aunt Eliza should send for her own carriage. James was
+sent back the next day, and returned on Thursday with coach, horses, and
+William her coachman. That matter being finished, and the trunks being
+unpacked, she decided to take her first bath in the sea, expecting me to
+support her through the trying ordeal of the surf. As we were returning
+from the beach we met a carriage containing a number of persons with a
+family resemblance.
+
+When Aunt Eliza saw them she angrily exclaimed, "Am I to see those
+Uxbridges every day?"
+
+Of the Uxbridges this much I knew--that the two brothers Uxbridge were
+the lawyers of her opponents in the lawsuit which had existed three or
+four years. I had never felt any interest in it, though I knew that it
+was concerning a tract of ground in the city which had belonged to
+my grandfather, and which had, since his day, become very valuable.
+Litigation was a habit of the Huell family. So the sight of the Uxbridge
+family did not agitate me as it did Aunt Eliza.
+
+"The sly, methodical dogs! but I shall beat Lemorne yet!"
+
+"How will you amuse yourself then, aunt?"
+
+"I'll adopt some boys to inherit what I shall save from his clutches."
+
+The bath fatigued her so she remained in her room for the rest of the
+day; but she kept me busy with a hundred trifles. I wrote for her,
+computed interest, studied out bills of fare, till four o'clock came,
+and with it a fog. Nevertheless I must ride on the Avenue, and the
+carriage was ordered.
+
+"Wear your silk, Margaret; it will just about last your visit
+through--the fog will use it up."
+
+"I am glad of it," I answered.
+
+"You will ride every day. Wear the bonnet I bought for you also."
+
+"Certainly; but won't that go quicker in the fog than the dress?"
+
+"Maybe; but wear it."
+
+I rode every day afterward, from four to six, in the black silk, the
+mantilla, and the white straw. When Aunt Eliza went she was so on the
+alert for the Uxbridge family carriage that she could have had little
+enjoyment of the ride. Rocks never were a passion with her, she said,
+nor promontories, chasms, or sand. She came to Newport to be washed
+with salt-water; when she had washed up to the doctor's prescription she
+should leave, as ignorant of the peculiar pleasures of Newport as
+when she arrived. She had no fancy for its conglomerate societies, its
+literary cottages, its parvenue suits of rooms, its saloon habits, and
+its bathing herds.
+
+I considered the rides a part of the contract of what was expected in my
+two months' performance. I did not dream that I was enjoying them, any
+more than I supposed myself to be enjoying a sea-bath while pulling Aunt
+Eliza to and fro in the surf. Nothing in the life around me stirred me,
+nothing in nature attracted me. I liked the fog; somehow it seemed to
+emanate from me instead of rolling up from the ocean, and to represent
+me. Whether I went alone or not, the coachman was ordered to drive a
+certain round; after that I could extend the ride in whatever direction
+I pleased, but I always said, "Anywhere, William." One afternoon, which
+happened to be a bright one, I was riding on the road which led to the
+glen, when I heard the screaming of a flock of geese which were waddling
+across the path in front of the horses. I started, for I was asleep
+probably, and, looking forward, saw the Uxbridge carriage, filled with
+ladies and children, coming toward me; and by it rode a gentleman on
+horseback. His horse was rearing among the hissing geese, but neither
+horse nor geese appeared to engage him; his eyes were fixed upon me. The
+horse swerved so near that its long mane almost brushed against me. By
+an irresistible impulse I laid my ungloved hand upon it, but did not
+look at the rider. Carriage and horseman passed on, and William resumed
+his pace. A vague idea took possession of me that I had seen the
+horseman before on my various drives. I had a vision of a man galloping
+on a black horse out of the fog, and into it again. I was very sure,
+however, that I had never seen him on so pleasant a day as this! William
+did not bring his horses to time; it was after six when I went into Aunt
+Eliza's parlor, and found her impatient for her tea and toast. She was
+crosser than the occasion warranted; but I understood it when she gave
+me the outlines of a letter she desired me to write to her lawyer in
+New York. Something had turned up, he had written her; the Uxbridges
+believed that they had ferreted out what would go against her. I told
+her that I had met the Uxbridge carriage.
+
+"One of them is in New York; how else could they be giving me trouble
+just now?"
+
+"There was a gentleman on horseback beside the carriage."
+
+"Did he look mean and cunning?"
+
+"He did not wear his legal beaver up, I think; but he rode a fine horse
+and sat it well."
+
+"A lawyer on horseback should, like the beggar of the adage, ride to the
+devil."
+
+"Your business now is the 'Lemorne?'"
+
+"You know it is."
+
+"I did not know but that you had found something besides to litigate."
+
+"It must have been Edward Uxbridge that you saw. He is the brain of the
+firm."
+
+"You expect Mr. Van Horn?"
+
+"Oh, he must come; I can not be writing letters."
+
+We had been in Newport two weeks when Mr. Van Horn, Aunt Eliza's lawyer,
+came. He said that he would see Mr. Edward Uxbridge. Between them they
+might delay a term, which he thought would be best. "Would Miss Huell
+ever be ready for a compromise?" he jestingly asked.
+
+"Are you suspicious?" she inquired.
+
+"No; but the Uxbridge chaps are clever."
+
+He dined with us; and at four o'clock Aunt Eliza graciously asked him
+to take a seat in the carriage with me, making some excuse for not going
+herself.
+
+"Hullo!" said Mr. Van Horn when we had reached the country road;
+"there's Uxbridge now." And he waved his hand to him.
+
+It was indeed the black horse and the same rider that I had met. He
+reined up beside us, and shook hands with Mr. Van Horn.
+
+"We are required to answer this new complaint?" said Mr. Van Horn.
+
+Mr. Uxbridge nodded.
+
+"And after that the judgment?"
+
+Mr. Uxbridge laughed.
+
+"I wish that certain gore of land had been sunk instead of being mapped
+in 1835."
+
+
+"The surveyor did his business well enough, I am sure."
+
+They talked together in a low voice for a few minutes, and then Mr. Van
+Horn leaned back in his seat again. "Allow me," he said, "to introduce
+you, Uxbridge, to Miss Margaret Huell, Miss Huell's niece. Huell _vs._
+Brown, you know," he added, in an explanatory tone; for I was Huell
+_vs._ Brown's daughter. "Oh!" said Mr. Uxbridge bowing, and looking at
+me gravely. I looked at him also; he was a pale, stern-looking man, and
+forty years old certainly. I derived the impression at once that he had
+a domineering disposition, perhaps from the way in which he controlled
+his horse.
+
+"Nice beast that," said Mr. Van Horn.
+
+"Yes," he answered, laying his hand on its mane, so that the action
+brought immediately to my mind the recollection that I had done so too.
+I would not meet his eye again, however.
+
+"How long shall you remain, Uxbridge?"
+
+"I don't know. You are not interested in the lawsuit, Miss Huell?" he
+said, putting on his hat.
+
+"Not in the least; nothing of mine is involved."
+
+"We'll gain it for your portion yet, Miss Margaret," said Mr. Van Horn,
+nodding to Mr. Uxbridge, and bidding William drive on. He returned the
+next day, and we settled into the routine of hotel life. A few mornings
+after, she sent me to a matinee, which was given by some of the Opera
+people, who were in Newport strengthening the larynx with applications
+of brine. When the concert was half over, and the audience were making
+the usual hum and stir, I saw Mr. Uxbridge against a pillar, with his
+hands incased in pearl-colored gloves, and holding a shiny hat. He
+turned half away when he caught my eye, and then darted toward me.
+
+"You have not been much more interested in the music than you are in the
+lawsuit," he said, seating himself beside me.
+
+"The _tutoyer_ of the Italian voice is agreeable, however."
+
+"It makes one dreamy."
+
+"A child."
+
+"Yes, a child; not a man nor a woman."
+
+"I teach music. I can not dream over 'one, two, three.'"
+
+
+"_You_--a music teacher!"
+
+"For six years."
+
+I was aware that he looked at me from head to foot, and I picked at the
+lace on my invariable black silk; but what did it matter whether I owned
+that I was a genteel pauper, representing my aunt's position for two
+months, or not?
+
+"Where?"
+
+"In Waterbury."
+
+"Waterbury differs from Newport."
+
+"I suppose so."
+
+"You suppose!"
+
+A young gentleman sauntered by us, and Mr. Uxbridge called to him to
+look up the Misses Uxbridge, his nieces, on the other side of the hall.
+
+"Paterfamilias Uxbridge has left his brood in my charge," he said. "I
+try to do my duty," and he held out a twisted pearl-colored glove, which
+he had pulled off while talking. What white nervous fingers he had! I
+thought they might pinch like steel.
+
+"You suppose," he repeated.
+
+"I do not look at Newport."
+
+"Have you observed Waterbury?"
+
+"I observe what is in my sphere."
+
+"Oh!"
+
+He was silent then. The second part of the concert began; but I could
+not compose myself to appreciation. Either the music or I grew chaotic.
+So many tumultuous sounds I heard--of hope, doubt, inquiry, melancholy,
+and desire; or did I feel the emotions which these words express? Or was
+there magnetism stealing into me from the quiet man beside me? He left
+me with a bow before the concert was over, and I saw him making his way
+out of the hall when it was finished.
+
+I had been sent in the carriage, of course; but several carriages were
+in advance of it before the walk, and I waited there for William to
+drive up. When he did so, I saw by the oscillatory motion of his
+head, though his arms and whiphand were perfectly correct, that he was
+inebriated. It was his first occasion of meeting fellow-coachmen in full
+dress, and the occasion had proved too much for him. My hand, however,
+was on the coach door, when I heard Mr. Uxbridge say, at my elbow,
+
+"It is not safe for you."
+
+"Oh, Sir, it is in the programme that I ride home from the concert." And
+I prepared to step in.
+
+"I shall sit on the box, then."
+
+"But your nieces?"
+
+"They are walking home, squired by a younger knight."
+
+Aunt Eliza would say, I thought, "Needs must when a lawyer drives"; and
+I concluded to allow him to have his way, telling him that he was taking
+a great deal of trouble. He thought it would be less if he were allowed
+to sit inside; both ways were unsafe.
+
+Nothing happened. William drove well from habit; but James was obliged
+to assist him to dismount. Mr. Uxbridge waited a moment at the door,
+and so there was quite a little sensation, which spread its ripples
+till Aunt Eliza was reached. She sent for William, whose only excuse was
+"dampness."
+
+"Uxbridge knew my carriage, of course," she said, with a complacent
+voice. "He knew me," I replied.
+
+"You do not look like the Huells."
+
+"I look precisely like the young woman to whom he was introduced by Mr.
+Van Horn."
+
+"Oh ho!"
+
+"He thought it unsafe for me to come alone under William's charge."
+
+"Ah ha!"
+
+No more was said on the subject of his coming home with me. Aunt Eliza
+had several fits of musing in the course of the evening while I read
+aloud to her, which had no connection with the subject of the book. As
+I put it down she said that it would be well for me to go to church the
+next day. I acquiesced, but remarked that my piety would not require the
+carriage, and that I preferred to walk. Besides, it would be well for
+William and James to attend divine service. She could not spare James,
+and thought William had better clean the harness, by way of penance.
+
+The morning proved to be warm and sunny. I donned a muslin dress of home
+manufacture and my own bonnet, and started for church. I had walked but
+a few paces when the consciousness of being _free_ and _alone_ struck
+me. I halted, looked about me, and concluded that I would not go to
+church, but walk into the fields. I had no knowledge of the whereabouts
+of the fields; but I walked straight forward, and after a while came
+upon some barren fields, cropping with coarse rocks, along which ran a
+narrow road. I turned into it, and soon saw beyond the rough coast the
+blue ring of the ocean--vast, silent, and splendid in the sunshine.
+I found a seat on the ruins of an old stone-wall, among some tangled
+bushes and briers. There being no Aunt Eliza to pull through the surf,
+and no animated bathers near, I discovered the beauty of the sea, and
+that I loved it.
+
+Presently I heard the steps of a horse, and, to my astonishment, Mr.
+Uxbridge rode past. I was glad he did not know me. I watched him as he
+rode slowly down the road, deep in thought. He let drop the bridle, and
+the horse stopped, as if accustomed to the circumstance, and pawed the
+ground gently, or yawed his neck for pastime. Mr. Uxbridge folded his
+arms and raised his head to look seaward. It seemed to me as if he were
+about to address the jury. I had dropped so entirely from my observance
+of the landscape that I jumped when he resumed the bridle and turned
+his horse to come back. I slipped from my seat to look among the
+bushes, determined that he should not recognize me; but my attempt was a
+failure--he did not ride by the second time.
+
+"Miss Huell!" And he jumped from his saddle, slipping his arm through
+the bridle.
+
+"I am a runaway. What do you think of the Fugitive Slave Bill?"
+
+"I approve of returning property to its owners."
+
+"The sea must have been God's temple first, instead of the groves."
+
+"I believe the Saurians were an Orthodox tribe."
+
+"Did you stop yonder to ponder the sea?"
+
+"I was pondering 'Lemorne vs. Huell.'"
+
+He looked at me earnestly, and then gave a tug at the bridle, for his
+steed was inclined to make a crude repast from the bushes.
+
+"How was it that I did not detect you at once?" he continued.
+
+"My apparel is Waterbury apparel."
+
+"Ah!"
+
+We walked up the road slowly till we came to the end of it; then I
+stopped for him to understand that I thought it time for him to leave
+me. He sprang into the saddle.
+
+"Give us good-by!" he said, bringing his horse close to me.
+
+"We are not on equal terms; I feel too humble afoot to salute you."
+
+"Put your foot on the stirrup then."
+
+A leaf stuck in the horse's forelock, and I pulled it off and waved it
+in token of farewell. A powerful light shot into his eyes when he saw my
+hand close on the leaf.
+
+"May I come and see you?" he asked, abruptly. "I will."
+
+"I shall say neither 'No' or 'Yes.'"
+
+He rode on at a quick pace, and I walked homeward forgetting the sense
+of liberty I had started with, and proceeded straightway to Aunt Eliza.
+
+"I have not been to church, aunt, but to walk beyond the town; it was
+not so nominated in the bond, but I went. The taste of freedom was so
+pleasant that I warn you there is danger of my 'striking.' When will you
+have done with Newport?"
+
+"I am pleased with Newport now," she answered, with a curious
+intonation. "I like it."
+
+"I do also."
+
+Her keen eyes sparkled. "Did you ever like anything when you were with
+me before?"
+
+"Never. I will tell you why I like it: because I have met, and shall
+probably meet, Mr. Uxbridge. I saw him to-day. He asked permission to
+visit me."
+
+"Let him come."
+
+"He will come."
+
+But we did not see him either at the hotel or when we went abroad.
+Aunt Eliza rode with me each afternoon, and each morning we went to
+the beach. She engaged me every moment when at home, and I
+faithfully performed all my tasks. I clapped to the door on
+self-investigation--locked it against any analysis or reasoning upon any
+circumstance connected with Mr. Uxbridge. The only piece of treachery to
+my code that I was guilty of was the putting of the leaf which I brought
+home on Sunday between the leaves of that poem whose motto is,
+
+          "Mariana in the moated grange."
+
+On Saturday morning, nearly a week after I saw him on my walk, Aunt
+Eliza proposed that we should go to Turo Street on a shopping excursion;
+she wanted a cap, and various articles besides. As we went into a large
+shop I saw Mr. Uxbridge at a counter buying gloves; her quick eye caught
+sight of him, and she edged away, saying she would look at some goods on
+the other side; I might wait where I was. As he turned to go out he saw
+me and stopped.
+
+"I have been in New York since I saw you," he said. "Mr. Lemorne sent
+for me."
+
+"There is my aunt," I said.
+
+He shrugged his shoulders.
+
+"I shall not go away soon again," he remarked. "I missed Newport
+greatly."
+
+I made some foolish reply, and kept my eyes on Aunt Eliza, who dawdled
+unaccountably. He appeared amused, and after a little talk went away.
+
+Aunt Eliza's purchase was a rose-colored moire antique, which she said
+was to be made for me; for Mrs. Bliss, one of our hotel acquaintances,
+had offered to chaperon me to the great ball which would come off in a
+few days, and she had accepted the offer for me.
+
+"There will be no chance for you to take a walk instead," she finished
+with.
+
+"I can not dance, you know."
+
+"But you will be _there_."
+
+
+I was sent to a dress-maker of Mrs. Bliss's recommending; but I ordered
+the dress to be made after my own design, long plain sleeves, and high
+plain corsage, and requested that it should not be sent home till the
+evening of the ball. Before it came off Mr. Uxbridge called, and was
+graciously received by Aunt Eliza, who could be gracious to all except
+her relatives. I could not but perceive, however, that they watched each
+other in spite of their lively conversation. To me he was deferential,
+but went over the ground of our acquaintance as if it had been the most
+natural thing in the world. But for my life-long habit of never calling
+in question the behavior of those I came in contact with, and of
+never expecting any thing different from that I received, I might have
+wondered over his visit. Every person's individuality was sacred to
+me, from the fact, perhaps, that my own individuality had never been
+respected by any person with whom I had any relation--not even by my own
+mother.
+
+After Mr. Uxbridge went, I asked Aunt Eliza if she thought he looked
+mean and cunning? She laughed, and replied that she was bound to think
+that Mr. Lemorne's lawyer could not look otherwise.
+
+When, on the night of the ball, I presented myself in the rose-colored
+moire antique for her inspection, she raised her eyebrows, but said
+nothing about it.
+
+"I need not be careful of it, I suppose, aunt?"
+
+"Spill as much wine and ice-cream on it as you like."
+
+In the dressing-room Mrs. Bliss surveyed me.
+
+"I think I like this mass of rose-color," she said. "Your hair comes out
+in contrast so brilliantly. Why, you have not a single ornament on!"
+
+"It is so easy to dress without."
+
+This was all the conversation we had together during the evening, except
+when she introduced some acquaintance to fulfill her matronizing duties.
+As I was no dancer I was left alone most of the time, and amused myself
+by gliding from window to window along the wall, that it might not be
+observed that I was a fixed flower. Still I suffered the annoyance of
+being stared at by wandering squads of young gentlemen, the "curled
+darlings" of the ball-room. I borrowed Mrs. Bliss's fan in one of her
+visits for a protection. With that, and the embrasure of a remote window
+where I finally stationed myself, I hoped to escape further notice. The
+music of the celebrated band which played between the dances recalled
+the chorus of spirits which charmed Faust:
+
+   "And the fluttering
+   Ribbons of drapery
+   Cover the plains,
+   Cover the bowers,
+   Where lovers,
+   Deep in thought,
+   Give themselves for life."
+
+The voice of Mrs. Bliss broke its spell.
+
+"I bring an old friend, Miss Huell, and he tells me an acquaintance of
+yours."
+
+It was Mr. Uxbridge.
+
+"I had no thought of meeting you, Miss Huell."
+
+And he coolly took the seat beside me in the window, leaving to Mrs.
+Bliss the alternative of standing or of going away; she chose the
+latter.
+
+"I saw you as soon as I came in," he said, "gliding from window to
+window, like a vessel hugging the shore in a storm."
+
+"With colors at half-mast; I have no dancing partner."
+
+"How many have observed you?"
+
+"Several young gentlemen."
+
+"Moths."
+
+"Oh no, butterflies."
+
+"They must keep away now."
+
+"Are you Rhadamanthus?"
+
+"And Charon, too. I would have you row in the same boat with me."
+
+"Now you are fishing."
+
+"Won't you compliment me. Did I ever look better?"
+
+His evening costume _was_ becoming, but he looked pale, and weary, and
+disturbed. But if we were engaged for a tournament, as his behavior
+indicated, I must do my best at telling. So I told him that he
+never looked better, and asked him how I looked. He would look at me
+presently, he said, and decide. Mrs. Bliss skimmed by us with nods and
+smiles; as she vanished our eyes followed her, and we talked vaguely
+on various matters, sounding ourselves and each other. When a furious
+redowa set in which cut our conversation into rhythm he pushed up the
+window and said, "Look out."
+
+I turned my face to him to do so, and saw the moon at the full, riding
+through the strip of sky which our vision commanded. From the moon
+our eyes fell on each other. After a moment's silence, during which I
+returned his steadfast gaze, for I could not help it, he said: "If we
+understand the impression we make upon each other, what must be said?"
+
+I made no reply, but fanned myself, neither looking at the moon, nor
+upon the redowa, nor upon any thing.
+
+He took the fan from me.
+
+"Speak of yourself," he said.
+
+"Speak you."
+
+"I am what I seem, a man within your sphere. By all the accidents of
+position and circumstance suited to it. Have you not learned it?"
+
+"I am not what I seem. I never wore so splendid a dress as this till
+tonight, and shall not again."
+
+He gave the fan such a twirl that its slender sticks snapped, and it
+dropped like the broken wing of a bird.
+
+"Mr. Uxbridge, that fan belongs to Mrs. Bliss."
+
+He threw it out of the window.
+
+"You have courage, fidelity, and patience--this character with a
+passionate soul. I am sure that you have such a soul?"
+
+
+"I do not know."
+
+"I have fallen in love with you. It happened on the very day when I
+passed you on the way to the Glen. I never got away from the remembrance
+of seeing your hand on the mane of my horse."
+
+He waited for me to speak, but I could not; the balance of my mind was
+gone. Why should this have happened to me--a slave? As it had happened,
+why did I not feel exultant in the sense of power which the chance for
+freedom with him should give?
+
+"What is it, Margaret? your face is as sad as death."
+
+"How do you call me 'Margaret?'"
+
+"As I would call my wife--Margaret."
+
+He rose and stood before me to screen my face from observation. I
+supposed so, and endeavored to stifle my agitation.
+
+"You are better," he said, presently. "Come go with me and get some
+refreshment." And he beckoned to Mrs. Bliss, who was down the hall with
+an unwieldy gentleman.
+
+"Will you go to supper now?" she asked. "We are only waiting for you,"
+Mr. Uxbridge answered, offering me his arm.
+
+When we emerged into the blaze and glitter of the supper-room I sought
+refuge in the shadow of Mrs. Bliss's companion, for it seemed to me that
+I had lost my own.
+
+"Drink this Champagne," said Mr. Uxbridge. "Pay no attention to the
+Colonel on your left; he won't expect it."
+
+"Neither must you."
+
+"Drink."
+
+The Champagne did not prevent me from reflecting on the fact that he had
+not yet asked whether I loved him.
+
+The spirit chorus again floated through my mind:
+
+   "Where lovers,
+   Deep in thought,
+   _Give_ themselves for life."
+
+I was not allowed to _give_ myself--I was _taken_.
+
+"No heel-taps," he whispered, "to the bottom quaff."
+
+"Take me home, will you?"
+
+"Mrs. Bliss is not ready."
+
+"Tell her that I must go."
+
+He went behind her chair and whispered something, and she nodded to me
+to go without her.
+
+When her carriage came up, I think he gave the coachman an order to
+drive home in a round-about way, for we were a long time reaching it.
+I kept my face to the window, and he made no effort to divert my
+attention. When we came to a street whose thick rows of trees shut out
+the moonlight my eager soul longed to leap out into the dark and demand
+of him his heart, soul, life, for _me_.
+
+I struck him lightly on the shoulder; he seized my hand.
+
+"Oh, I know you, Margaret; you are mine!"
+
+"We are at the hotel."
+
+He sent the carriage back, and said that he would leave me at my aunt's
+door. He wished that he could see her then. Was it magic that made her
+open the door before I reached it?
+
+"Have you come on legal business?" she asked him.
+
+"You have divined what I come for."
+
+"Step in, step in; it's very late. I should have been in bed but for
+neuralgia. Did Mr. Uxbridge come home with you, Margaret?"
+
+"Yes, in Mrs. Bliss's carriage; I wished to come before she was ready to
+leave."
+
+"Well, Mr. Uxbridge is old enough for your protector, certainly."
+
+"I _am_ forty, ma'am."
+
+"Do you want Margaret?"
+
+"I do."
+
+"You know exactly how much is involved in your client's suit?"
+
+"Exactly."
+
+"You know also that his claim is an unjust one."
+
+"Do I?"
+
+"I shall not be poor if I lose; if I gain, Margaret will be rich."
+
+"'Margaret will be rich,'" he repeated, absently.
+
+"What! have you changed your mind respecting the orphans, aunt?"
+
+"She has, and is--nothing," she went on, not heeding my remark. "Her
+father married below his station; when he died his wife fell back to her
+place--for he spent his fortune--and there she and Margaret must remain,
+unless Lemorne is defeated."
+
+"Aunt, for your succinct biography of my position many thanks."
+
+"Sixty thousand dollars," she continued. "Van Horn tells me that, as
+yet, the firm of Uxbridge Brothers have only an income--no capital."
+
+"It is true," he answered, musingly.
+
+The clock on the mantle struck two.
+
+"A thousand dollars for every year of my life," she said. "You and I,
+Uxbridge, know the value and beauty of money.
+
+"Yes, there is beauty in money, and"--looking at me--"beauty without
+it."
+
+"The striking of the clock," I soliloquized, "proves that this scene is
+not a phantasm."
+
+"Margaret is fatigued," he said, rising. "May I come to-morrow?"
+
+
+"It is my part only," replied Aunt Eliza, "to see that she is, or is
+not, Cinderella."
+
+"If you have ever thought of me, aunt, as an individual, you must have
+seen that I am not averse to ashes."
+
+He held my hand a moment, and then kissed me with a kiss of
+appropriation.
+
+"He is in love with you," she said, after he had gone. "I think I
+know him. He has found beauty ignorant of itself; he will teach you to
+develop it."
+
+The next morning Mr. Uxbridge had an interview with Aunt Eliza before he
+saw me.
+
+When we were alone I asked him how her eccentricities affected him; he
+could not but consider her violent, prejudiced, warped, and whimsical.
+I told him that I had been taught to accept all that she did on this
+basis. Would this explain to him my silence in regard to her?
+
+"Can you endure to live with her in Bond Street for the present, or
+would you rather return to Waterbury?"
+
+"She desires my company while she is in Newport only. I have never been
+with her so long before."
+
+"I understand her. Law is a game, in her estimation, in which cheating
+can as easily be carried on as at cards."
+
+"Her soul is in this case."
+
+"Her soul is not too large for it. Will you ride this afternoon?"
+
+I promised, of course. From that time till he left Newport we saw each
+other every day, and though I found little opportunity to express my own
+peculiar feelings, he comprehended many of my wishes, and all my
+tastes. I grew fond of him hourly. Had I not reason? Never was friend so
+considerate, never was lover more devoted.
+
+When he had been gone a few days, Aunt Eliza declared that she was ready
+to depart from Newport. The rose-colored days were ended! In two days we
+were on the Sound, coach, horses, servants, and ourselves.
+
+It was the 1st of September when we arrived in Bond Street. A week from
+that date Samuel Uxbridge, the senior partner of Uxbridge Brothers, went
+to Europe with his family, and I went to Waterbury, accompanied by Mr.
+Uxbridge. He consulted mother in regard to our marriage, and appointed
+it in November. In October Aunt Eliza sent for me to come back to Bond
+Street and spend a week. She had some fine marking to do, she wrote.
+While there I noticed a restlessness in her which I had never before
+observed, and conferred with Mrs. Roll on the matter. "She do be awake
+nights a deal, and that's the reason," Mrs. Roll said. Her manner was
+the same in other respects. She said she would not give me any thing for
+my wedding outfit, but she paid my fare from Waterbury and back.
+
+She could not spare me to go out, she told Mr. Uxbridge, and in
+consequence I saw little of him while there.
+
+In November we were married. Aunt Eliza was not at the wedding, which
+was a quiet one. Mr. Uxbridge desired me to remain in Waterbury till
+spring. He would not decide about taking a house in New York till then;
+by that time his brother might return, and if possible we would go to
+Europe for a few months. I acquiesced in all his plans. Indeed I was not
+consulted; but I was happy--happy in him, and happy in every thing.
+
+The winter passed in waiting for him to come to Waterbury every
+Saturday; and in the enjoyment of the two days he passed with me. In
+March Aunt Eliza wrote me that Lemorne was beaten! Van Horn had taken up
+the whole contents of his snuff-box in her house the evening before in
+amazement at the turn things had taken.
+
+That night I dreamed of the scene in the hotel at Newport. I heard Aunt
+Eliza saying, "If I gain, Margaret will be rich." And I heard also the
+clock strike two. As it struck I said, "_My husband is a scoundrel_,"
+and woke with a start.
+
+
+
+
+
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