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'Who can tell? Who can say? She can tell. She can put an end to it all.
She has but to say a word, and I will devote my life to her. But that
word must be spoken.' As he said this, he dashed his hand upon the
table, and looked up with an air that would have been comic with its
assumed magnificence had it not been for the true tragedy of the
occasion.

'You had better, at any rate, let her have her child for the present.'

'No my boy shall go with me. She may go, too, if she pleases, but my
boy shall certainly go with me. If I had put her from me, as you said
just now, it might have been otherwise. But she shall be as welcome to
me as flowers in May as flowers in May! She shall be as welcome to me
as the music of heaven.'

Sir Marmaduke felt that he had nothing more to urge. He had altogether
abandoned that idea of having his revenge at the cost of the man's
throat, and was quite convinced that reason could have no power with
him. He was already thinking that he would go away, straight to his
lawyer, so that some step might be taken at once to stop, if possible,
the taking away of the boy to America, when the lock of the door was
gently turned, and the landlady entered the room.

'You will excuse me, sir,' said the woman, 'but if you be anything to
this gentleman--'

'Mrs Fuller, leave the room,' said Trevelyan. 'I and the gentleman are
engaged.'

'I see you be engaged, and I do beg pardon. I ain't one as would
intrude wilful, and, as for listening, or the likes of that, I scorn
it. But if this gentleman be anything to you, Mr Trevelyan--'

'I am his wife's father,' said Sir Marmaduke.

'Like enough. I was thinking perhaps so. His lady was down here on
Thursday as sweet a lady as any gentleman need wish to stretch by his
side.'

'Mrs Fuller,' said Trevelyan, marching up towards her, 'I will not have
this, and I desire that you will retire from my room.'

But Mrs Fuller escaped round the table, and would not be banished. She
got round the table, and came closely opposite to Sir Marmaduke. 'I
don't want to. say nothing out of my place, sir,' said she, 'but
something ought to be done. He ain't fit to be left to hisself not
alone not as he is at present. He ain't, indeed, and I wouldn't be
doing my duty if I didn't say so. He has them sweats at night as'd be
enough to kill any man; and he eats nothing, and he don't do. nothing;
and as for that poor little boy as is now in my own bed upstairs, if it
wasn't that I and my Bessy is fond of children, I don't know what would
become of that boy.'

Trevelyan, finding it impossible to get rid of her, had stood quietly,
while he listened to her.'she has been good to my child,' he said. 'I
acknowledge it. As for myself, I have not been well. It is true. But I
am told that travel will set me on my feet again. Change of air will do
it.' Not long since he had been urging the wretchedness of his own
bodily health as a reason why his wife should yield to him; but now,
when his sickness was brought as a charge against him was adduced as a
reason why his friends should interfere, and look after him and concern
themselves in his affairs, he saw at once that it was necessary that he
should make little of his ailments.

'Would it not be best, Trevelyan, that you should come with me to a
doctor?' said Sir Marmaduke.

'No no. I have my own doctor. That is, know the course which I should
follow. This place, though it is good for the boy, has disagreed with
me, and my life has not been altogether pleasant--I may say, by no
means pleasant. Troubles have told upon me, but change of air will mend
it all.'

'I wish you would come with me, at once, to London. You shall come
back, you know. I will not detain you.'

'Thank you no. I will not trouble you'. That will do, Mrs Fuller. You
have intended to do your duty, no doubt, and now you can go.' Whereupon
Mrs Fuller did go. 'I am obliged for your care, Sir Marmaduke, but I
can really do very well without troubling you.'

'You cannot suppose, Trevelyan, that we can allow things to go on like
this.'

'And what do you mean to do?'

'Well I shall take advice. I shall go to a lawyer and to a doctor, and
perhaps to the Lord Chancellor, and all that kind of thing. We can't
let things go on like this.'

'You can do as you please,' said Trevelyan, 'but as you have threatened
me, I must ask you to leave me.'

Sir Marmaduke could do no more, and could say no more, and he took his
leave, shaking hands with the man, and speaking to him with a courtesy
which astonished himself. It was impossible to maintain the strength of
his indignation against a poor creature who was so manifestly unable to
guide himself. But when he was in London he drove at once to the house
of Dr Trite Turbury, and remained there till the doctor returned from
his round of visits. According to the great authority, there was much
still to be done before even the child could be rescued out of the
father's hands. 'I can't act without the lawyers,' said Dr Turbury. But
he explained to Sir Marmaduke what steps should be taken in such a
matter.

Trevelyan, in the mean time, clearly understanding that hostile
measures would now be taken against him, set his mind to work to think
how best he might escape at once to America with his boy.'



CHAPTER LXX - SHEWING WHAT NORA ROWLEY THOUGHT ABOUT CARRIAGES

Sir Marmaduke, on his return home from Dr Turbury's house, found that
he had other domestic troubles on hand over and above those arising
from his elder daughter's position. Mr Hugh Stanbury had been in
Manchester Street during his absence, and had asked for him, and,
finding that he was away from home, had told his story to Lady Rowley.
When he had been shown upstairs all the four daughters had been with
their mother; but he had said a word or two signifying his desire to
speak to Lady Rowley, and the three girls had left the room. In this
way it came to pass that he had to plead his cause before Nora's mother
and her elder sister. He had pleaded it well, and Lady Rowley's heart
had been well disposed towards him; but when she asked of his house and
his home, his answer had been hardy more satisfactory than that of
Alan-a-Dale. There was little that he could call his own beyond 'The
blue vault of heaven.' Had he saved any money? No not a shilling that
was to say as he himself expressed it nothing that could be called
money. He had a few pounds by him, just to go on with. What was his
income? Well last year he had made four hundred pounds, and this year
he hoped to make something more. He thought he could see his way
plainly to five hundred a year. Was it permanent; and if not, on what
did it depend? He believed it to be as permanent as most other
professional incomes, but was obliged to confess that, as regarded the
source from whence it was drawn at the present moment, it might be
brought to an abrupt end any day by a disagreement between himself and
the editor of the D. R. Did he think that this was fixed income? He did
think that if he and the editor of the D. R. were to fall out, he could
come across other editors who would gladly employ him. Would he himself
feel safe in giving his own sister to a man with such an income? In
answer to this question, he started some rather bold doctrines on the
subject of matrimony in general, asserting that safety was not
desirable, that energy, patience, and mutual confidence would be
increased by the excitement of risk, and that in his opinion it behoved
young men and young women to come together and get themselves married,
even though there might be some not remote danger of distress before
them. He admitted that starvation would be disagreeable especially for
children, in the eyes of their parents but alleged that children as a
rule were not, starved, and quoted the Scripture to prove that honest
laborious men were not to be seen begging their bread in the streets.
He was very eloquent, but his eloquence itself was against him. Both
Lady Rowley and Mrs Trevelyan were afraid of such advanced opinions;
and, although everything was of course to be left, nominally, to the
decision of Sir Marmaduke, they both declared that they could not
recommend Sir Marmaduke to consent. Lady Rowley said a word as to the
expediency of taking Nora back with her to the Mandarins, pointing out
what appeared to her then to be the necessity of taking Mrs Trevelyan
with them also; and in saying this she hinted that if Nora were
disposed to stand by her engagement, and Mr Stanbury equally so
disposed, there might be some possibility of a marriage at a future
period. Only, in such case, there must be no correspondence. In answer
to this Hugh declared that he regarded such a scheme as being
altogether bad. The Mandarins were so very far distant that he might as
well be engaged to an angel in heaven. Nora, if she were to go away
now, would perhaps never come back again; and if she did come back,
would be an old woman, with hollow cheeks. In replying to this
proposition, he let fall an opinion that Nora was old enough to judge
for herself. He said nothing about her actual age, and did not venture
to plead that the young lady had a legal right to do as she liked with
herself; but he made it manifest that such an idea was in his mind. In
answer to this, Lady Rowley asserted that Nora was a good girl, and
would do as her father told her; but she did not venture to assert that
Nora would give up her engagement. Lady Rowley at last undertook to
speak to Sir Rowley, and to speak also to her daughter. Hugh was asked
for his address, and gave that of the office of the D. R. He was always
to be found there between three and five; and after that, four times a
week, in the reporters' gallery of the House of Commons. Then he was at
some pains to explain to Lady Rowley that though he attended the
reporters' gallery, he did not report himself. It was, his duty to
write leading political articles, and, to enable him to do so, he
attended the debates.

Before he went Mrs Trevelyan thanked him most cordially for the trouble
he had taken in procuring for her the address at Willesden, and gave
him some account of the journey which she and her mother had made to
River's Cottage. He argued with both of them that the unfortunate man
must now be regarded as being altogether out of his mind, and something
was said as to the great wisdom and experience of Dr Trite Turbury.
Then Hugh Stanbury took his leave; and even Lady Rowley bade him adieu
with kind cordiality. 'I don't wonder, mamma, that Nora should like
him,' said Mrs Trevelyan.

'That is all very well, my dear, and no doubt he is pleasant, and
manly, and all that but really it would be almost like marrying a
beggar.'

'For myself,' said Mrs Trevelyan, 'if I could begin life again, I do
not think that any temptation would induce me to place myself in a
man's power.'

Sir Marmaduke was told of all this on his return home, and he asked
many questions as to the nature of Stanbury's work. When it was
explained to him Lady Rowley repeating as nearly as he could all that
Hugh had himself said about it, he expressed his opinion that writing
for a penny newspaper was hardly more safe as a source of income than
betting on horse races. 'I don't see that it is wrong,' said Mrs
Trevelyan.

'I say nothing about wrong. I simply assert that it is uncertain. The
very existence of such a periodical must in itself be most insecure.'
Sir Marmaduke, amidst the cares of his government at the Mandarins,
had, perhaps, had no better opportunity of watching what was going on
in the world of letters than had fallen to the lot of Miss Stanbury at
Exeter.

'I think your papa is right,' said Lady Rowley.

'Of course I am right. It is out of the question; and so Nora must be
told.' He had as yet heard nothing about Mr Glascock. Had that
misfortune been communicated to him his cup would indeed have been
filled with sorrow to overflowing.

In the evening Nora was closeted with her father. 'Nora, my dear, you
must understand, once and for all, that this cannot be,' said Sir
Marmaduke. The Governor, when he was not disturbed by outward
circumstances, could assume a good deal of personal dignity, and could
speak, especially to his children, with an air of indisputable
authority.

'What can't be, papa?' said Nora.

Sir Marmaduke perceived at once that there was no indication of
obedience in his daughter's voice, and he prepared himself for battle.
He conceived himself to be very strong, and thought that his objections
were so well founded that no one would deny their truth and that his
daughter had not a leg to stand on. 'This, that your mamma tells me of
about Mr Stanbury. Do you know, my dear, that he has not a shilling in
the world?'

'I know that he has no fortune, papa if you mean that.'

'And no profession either nothing that can be called a profession. I do
not wish to argue it, my dear, because there is no room for argument.
The whole thing is preposterous. I cannot but think ill of him for
having proposed it to you; for he must have known must have known, that
a young man without an income cannot be accepted as a fitting suitor
for a gentleman's daughter. As for yourself, I can only hope that you
will get the little idea out of your head very quickly but mamma will
speak to you about that. What I want you to understand from me is this
that there must be an end to it.'

Nora listened to this speech in perfect silence, standing before her
father, and waiting patiently till the last word of it should be
pronounced. Even when he had finished she still paused before she
answered him. 'Papa,' she said at last and hesitated again before she
went on.

'Well, my dear.'

'I can not give it up.'

'But you must give it up.'

'No, papa. I would do anything I could for you and mamma, but that is
impossible.'

'Why is it impossible?'

'Because I love him so dearly.'

'That is nonsense. That is what all girls say when they choose to run
against their parents. I tell you that it shall be given up. I will not
have him here. I forbid you to see him. It is quite out of the question
that you should marry such a man. I do hope, Nora, that you are not
going to add to mamma's difficulties and mine by being obstinate and
disobedient.' He paused a moment, and then added, 'I do not think that
there is anything more to be said.'

'Papa.'

'My dear, I think you had better say nothing further about it. If you
cannot bring yourself at the present moment to promise that there shall
be an end of it, you had better hold your tongue. You have heard what I
say, and you have heard what mamma says. I do not for a moment suppose
that you dream of carrying on a communication with this gentleman in
opposition to our wishes.'

'But I do.'

'Do what?'

'Papa, you had better listen to me.' Sir Marmaduke, when he heard this,
assumed an air of increased authority, in which he intended that
paternal anger should be visible; but he seated himself, and prepared
to receive, at any rate, some of the arguments with which Nora intended
to bolster up her bad cause. 'I have promised Mr Stanbury that I will
be his wife.'

'That is all nonsense.'

'Do listen to me, papa. I have listened to you and you ought to listen
to me. I have promised him, and I must keep my promise. I shall, keep
my promise if he wishes it. There is a time when a girl must be
supposed to know what is best for herself just as there is for a man.'

'I never heard such stuff in all my life. Do you mean that you'll go
out and marry him like a beggar, with nothing but what you stand up in,
with no friend to be with you, an outcast, thrown off by your mother
with your father's curse?'

'Oh, papa, do not say that. You would not curse me. You could not.'

'If you do it at all, that will be the way.'

'That will not be the way, papa. You could not treat me like that.'

'And how are you proposing to treat me?'

'But, papa, in whatever way I do it, I must do it. I do not say today
or tomorrow; but it must be the intention and purpose of my life, and I
must declare that it is, everywhere. I have made up my mind about it. I
am engaged to him, and I shall always say so unless he breaks it. I
don't care a bit about fortune. I thought I did once, but I have
changed all that.'

'Because this scoundrel has talked sedition to you.'

'He is not a scoundrel, papa, and he has not talked sedition. I don't
know what sedition is. I thought it meant treason, and I'm sure he is
not a traitor. He. has made me love him, and I shall be true to him.'

Hereupon Sir Marmaduke began almost to weep. There came first a
half-smothered oath and then a sob, and he walked about the room, and
struck the table with his fist, and rubbed his bald head impatiently
with his hand. 'Nora,' he said, 'I thought you were so different from
this! If I had believed this of you, you never should have come to
England with Emily.'

'It is too late for that now, papa.'

'Your mamma always told me that you had such excellent ideas about
marriage.'

'So I have I think,' said she, smiling.

'She always believed that you would make a match that would be a credit
to the family.'

'I tried it, papa the sort of match that you mean. Indeed I was
mercenary enough in what I believed to be my views of life. I meant to
marry a rich man if I could, and did not think much whether I should
love him or not. But when the rich man came--'

'What rich man?'

'I suppose mamma has told you about Mr Glascock.'

'Who is Mr Glascock? I have not heard a word about Mr Glascock.' Then
Nora was forced to tell the story was called upon to tell it with all
its aggravating details. By degrees Sir Marmaduke learned that this Mr
Glascock, who had desired to be his son-in-law, was in very truth the
heir to the Peterborough title and estates would have been such a
son-in-law as almost to compensate, by the brilliance of the
connection, for that other unfortunate alliance. He could hardly
control his agony when he was made to understand that this embryo peer
had in truth been in earnest.

'Do you mean that he went down after you into Devonshire?'

'Yes, papa.'

'And you refused him then a second time?'

'Yes, papa.'

'Why why why? You say yourself that you liked him that you thought that
you would accept him.'

'When it came to speaking the word, papa, I found that I could not
pretend to love him when I did not love him. I did not care for him and
I liked somebody else so much better! I just told him the plain truth
and so he went away.'

The thought of all that he had lost, of all that might so easily have
been his, for a time overwhelmed Sir Marmaduke, and drove the very
memory of Hugh Stanbury almost out of his head; He could understand
that a girl should not marry a man whom she did not like; but he could
not understand how any girl should not love such a suitor as was Mr
Glascock. And had she accepted this pearl of men, with her position,
with her manners and beauty and appearance, such a connection would
have been as good as an assured marriage for every one of Sir
Marmaduke's numerous daughters. Nora was just the woman to look like a
great lady, a lady of high rank such a lady as could almost command men
to come and throw themselves at her unmarried sisters' feet. Sir
Marmaduke had believed in his daughter Nora, had looked forward to see
her do much for the family; and, when the crash had come upon the
Trevelyan household, had thought almost as much of her injured
prospects as he had of the misfortune of her sister. But now it seemed
that more than all the good things of what he had dreamed had been
proposed to this unruly girl, in spite of that great crash and had been
rejected! And he saw more than this as he thought. These good things
would have been accepted had it not been for this rascal of a
penny-a-liner, this friend of that other rascal Trevelyan, who had come
in the way of their family to destroy the happiness of them all! Sir
Marmaduke, in speaking of Stanbury after this, would constantly call
him a penny-a-liner, thinking that the contamination of the penny
communicated itself to all transactions of the Daily Record.

'You have made your bed for yourself, Nora, and you must lie upon it.'

'Just so, papa.'

'I mean that, as you have refused Mr Glascock's offer, you can never
again hope for such an opening in life.'

'Of course I cannot. I am not such a child as to suppose that there are
many Mr Glascocks to come and run after me. And if there were ever so
many, papa, it would be no good. As you say, I have chosen for myself,
and I must put up with it. When I see the carriages going about in the
streets, and remember how often shall have to go home in an omnibus, I
do think about it a good deal.'

'I'm afraid you will think when it is too late.'

'It isn't that I don't like carriages, papa. I do like them; and pretty
dresses, and brooches, and men and women who have nothing to do, and
balls, and the opera; but I love this man, and that is more to me than
all the rest. I cannot help myself if it were ever so. Papa, you
mustn't be angry with me. Pray, pray, pray do not say that horrid word
again.'

This was the end of the interview. Sir Marmaduke found that he had
nothing further to say. Nora, when she reached her last prayer to her
father, referring to that curse with which he had threatened her, was
herself in tears, and was leaning on him with her head against his
shoulder. Of course he did not say a word which could be understood as
sanctioning her engagement with Stanbury. He was as strongly determined
as ever that it was his duty to save her from the perils of such a
marriage as that. But, nevertheless, he was so far overcome by her as
to be softened in his manners towards her. He kissed her as he left
her, and told her to go to her mother. Then he went out and thought of
it all, and felt as though Paradise had been opened to his child and
she had refused to enter the gate.



CHAPTER LXXI - SHEWING WHAT HUGH STANBURY THOUGHT ABOUT THE DUTY OF MAN


In the conference which took place between Sir Marmaduke and his wife
after the interview between him and Nora, it was his idea that nothing
further should be done at all. 'I don't suppose. the man will come here
if he be told not,' said Sir Marmaduke, 'and if he does, Nora of course
will not see him.' He then suggested that Nora would of course go back
with them to the Mandarins, and that when once there she would not be
able to see Stanbury any more. 'There must be no correspondence or
anything of that sort, and so the thing will die away.' But Lady Rowley
declared that this would not quite suffice. Mr Stanbury had made his
offer in due form, and must be held to be entitled to an answer. Sir
Marmaduke, therefore, wrote the following letter to the
'penny-a-liner,' mitigating the asperity of his language in compliance
with his wife's counsels.



'Manchester Street, April 20th, 186-.

My Dear Sir,



Lady Rowley has told me of your proposal to my daughter Nora; and she
has told me also what she learned from you as to your circumstances in
life. I need hardly point out to you that no father would be justified
in giving his daughter to a gentleman upon so small an income, and upon
an income so very insecure.



I am obliged to refuse my consent, and I must therefore ask you to
abstain from visiting and from communicating with my daughter.

Yours faithfully,

MARMADUKE ROWLEY.

Hugh Stanbury, Esq.'



This letter was directed to Stanbury at the office of the D. R., and
Sir Marmaduke, as he wrote the pernicious address, felt himself injured
in at he was compelled to write about his daughter to a man so
circumstanced. Stanbury, when he got the letter, read it hastily and
then threw it aside. He knew what it would contain before he opened it.
He had heard enough from Lady Rowley to be aware that Sir Marmaduke
would not welcome him as a son-in-law; Indeed, he had never expected
such welcome. He was half-ashamed of his own suit because of the
lowliness of his position half-regretful that he should have induced
such a girl as Nora Rowley to give up for his sake her hopes of
magnificence and splendour. But Sir Marmaduke's letter did not add
anything to this feeling. He read it again, and smiled as he told
himself that the father would certainly be very weak in the hands of
his daughter. Then he went to work again at his article with a
persistent resolve that so small a trifle as such a note should have no
effect upon his daily work. 'Of course Sir Marmaduke would refuse his
consent. Of course it would be for him, Stanbury, to marry the girl he
loved in opposition to her father. Her father indeed! If Nora chose to
take him and as to that he was very doubtful as to Nora's wisdom but if
Nora would take him, what was any father's opposition to him. He wanted
nothing from Nora's father. He was not looking for money with his wife
nor for fashion, nor countenance. Such a Bohemian was he that he would
be quite satisfied if his girl would walk out to him, and become his
wife, with any morning-gown on and with any old hat that might come,
readiest to hand. He wanted neither cards, nor breakfast, nor
carriages, nor fine clothes. If his Nora should choose to come to him
as she was, he having had all previous necessary arrangements duly made
such as calling, of banns or procuring of licence if possible he
thought that a father's opposition would almost add something to the
pleasure of the occasion. So he pitched the letter on one side, and
went on with his article. And he finished his article; but it may be
doubted whether it was completed with the full strength and pith needed
for moving the pulses of the national mind as they should be moved by
leading articles in the D. R. As he was writing he was thinking of Nora
and thinking of the letter which Nora's father had sent to him. Trivial
as was the letter, he, could not keep himself from repeating the words
of it to himself. '"Need hardly point out," oh; needn't he? Then why
does he? Refusing his consent! I wonder what the old buffers think is
the meaning of their consent, when they are speaking of daughters old
enough to manage for themselves? Abstain from visiting or communicating
with her! But if she visits and communicates with me what then? I can't
force my way into the house, but she can force her way out. Does he
imagine that she can be locked up in the nursery or put into the
corner?' So he argued with himself, and by such arguments he brought
himself to the conviction that it would be well for him to answer Sir
Marmaduke's letter. This he did at once before leaving the office of
the D.R.