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THE
INFERNAL QUIXOTE.
A TALE OF THE DAY,
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Asºº (O-ºsa(se
RANE, MIN E R VA-P RESS, LEADEN HALL-STREET.
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* ~ 3 - 4.3
thºs-
DE DI CAT I O N,
—seeee!ººeeve-
To HIM,
Who, in the exalted station of a
Hublic life, steady to his friends
and to his trust, finds his whiright
conduct sanctioned even by his
Ohhonents.- --
Who, in his domestic circle
meets from every beloved relative
and social tie, the endearing smiles
of affection,-
A to
ii DEDICATION.
**
\
TO HIM,
Whose merits, while they claim
the tribute ofhrdise, mark by their
genuine lustre, unithout the nominal
adulation of Honours, Titles, Dig-
nites, which is the man,—
*
TO HIM,
Whom the universal voice hails
as the neart eacample to the virtue
that shines from the throne, these
pages are most humbly and most
respectfully dedicated-by
*m.
*
THE AUTHOR.
*
THE Peers of Hell assembled 3
—by their ARCHLEAD ER summoned.
Up SATAN rose. Harrowed with
doubt and soul-corroding thought—
the PANDA. Mon IUM attentive heard
him s peak.-- A ...sº
“My wiles and labours, restless
subtilties, and never-ceasing pains, in
aid of our united cause 'gainst Heaven
and Earth, well do you know, ye
Chiefs. \
A 2 “Success
( iv )
“Success—so long wavering—
smiles on our efforts. The reign of
ANT1 CHRIST is begun.—Thanks to
the daring, restless sons of France,
inspired by me and mine t ~. -
* The seeds of HELL, so ably scat-
tered through each Christian land,
Ruxurious yield their fruit, and choke
the sober weak celestial plants.
“Yet still there is a spot resists my
utmost efforts—too well ye know
the place. - *
“ In vain that imp Voltaire, and
yonder miserable group—on earth
conceited, prating, proud Philosophers
—gifted with all our learning, tried;
in vain. Robespierre, with his more
numerous
( v )
numerous gang, more wretched and
contemptible—the DEM A G O GUES
of FRANCE, but now the lowest
SLAves of HELL-armed with Cur
powers, essayed to force successºn
vain the chosen, favoured pupils of
either school, of war and learning,
still unceasing labour. Our Hell-born
virtues nor art nor force can graft
upon their tree of civil and religious
LIBERTY. * *
“Oh most ungrateful to recount
how oft we've baffled been.—Con-
fusion when My IDols fell before
the simple, plain Augustine—Then
ARTHUR inveterate assailed me.—
Still from other shores I poured upon
* ~ -- the
( vi ) *
the Isle, armed with the conquering
* sword, my worshippers ; till ALF RED,
wondrous man in peace, in war,
-*,
with never-ceasing care opposed my
rº fi, and firmly fixed the ADAMAN-
TINE Foundations of Chris-
TIAN TEMPLEs
“Thus failed my old decoy,
Idolatry No matter—I strived."
with other wiles. For some time
Priestcraft, Superstition, and a spe-
cious assemblage of Christian virtues
aided our cause. Horror! another
Alfred reigns—the shield celestial
from public and from private foe
protećts him—his tutelary genius, as
yet triumphant, smiles at our toils;
." *. & ———but
( vii )
*
——but enough of this degrad-
*
ing subječt. . . • . º
, “ Hear, Poºr ENTATEs of HELL,
ARCHFoEs of HE Av EN, my Bre-
thren united, free, equal participators
of unconfined, indiscriminate, inde- -
pendent CHAos,—hear what my
labouring prescience, diving deep with *
every learned lore into the bowels of
Futu RIT Y, has discovered. º
- “This auspicious day gives to the .
light in Albion's favoured Isle > y
49
The purport of this SAT AN1c
SPEECH the following history will
unfold; it is unnecessary, therefore,
to detail it any further:—but leaving
- this
* viii & S gº
i.
)
this fragment as—a prologue—a pre-
lude—a flight of fancy—an enigma—
aromantic effusion—a poetical licence
—a momordian scrap for critics, a
Zoilean sop—or, in short, what the
reader. pleases to think it———the
tale commences.

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THE
INFERNAL QUIXOTE.
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#
CHAP. I.
MERRILY rang. the bells in the
village of Hazleton, *
.”
* ar
‘Twas in the month of March, when
hares run madly—when young maidens
think of the coming spring, and
old ones rejoice that, as the days are
lengthened, the expence of fire and
candle decreases—when tradesmen's
wives dream of pleasure, and their
VoI. I. T B husbands
2 INFERNAL, QUIxote.
husbands of long journies, toil, trouble,
and loss—when the country buck is
about to patch up his old hunter, and
the city beau to purchase him as
a fresh ambling nag for his summer
recreation—when old debauchees lament
that the long nights are past, and every
gaming-house in St. James's droops its
head—when the sons of Day look for-
ward with joy, and Night's shamefaced
crew backward with remorse :--'twas
on the 21st of the month of March,
in the year 1773, after the birth of
Christ, when Sol enters into the Ram,
and the budding season commen-
ces, that the Rev. Mr. Lockeridge
mounted his old grey hunter for the last
time that season, and leisurely proceeded,
up the village in that motion, in which,
* the
INFERNAL quixot'E. 3
the true sportsman delights to go to
ÇOYêI’.
A loud bawling from a cottage door
arrested his progress, and the father of
a new-born babe required of his Reve-
rence to baptize the sigkly infant.
The divine turned round. He did not
ride home to divest himself of his pre-
sent garb ; he did not put on the gown,
the cassock, and the band, nor did he
put off his spurs; his spencer, or his
belt; but giving his horse to a lad at the
door, he entered the house, laid his
hunting whip and cap upon the table,
and demanded water and a prayer-
book, ' ' ' ' ' ' ' •
* , . ºn 2 Dr.
4 - INFERNAL, QUIxot E.
Dr. Line, the man-midwife, was in .
the room.
Now Dr. Line was not a little of the
Methodist, and beheld these unsanctified
emotions with no small portion of dis-
* pl
pleasure. ºr
&
As the young pastor entered the cot-
tage, the following conversation took
place.
f
“Well, my friend, how is your wife
and little one?”
- “My wife, Sir, and thank God! is
as well as can be expected * the
general favourable answer from the tip-
top of Nobility to the yery lowest of the
mobility, and perhaps the only general
, sentence
A-
A
INFERNAL quixote. 5
sentence in use among all ranks and
conditions; “but the child is sickly,
and we'll thank your Reverence to
give 'un a neame.”
“A boy 5°
“Yes, Sir.” -
“Come, give me-the prayer-book.
Good people, all kneel down.”
*~
}
The father brought the Curate a
cushion. ,
“No,” said he, “give it that gen-
tleman,” pointing to Dr. Line; “he
has more need of it than me.” *
Then, kneeling down, in a solemn
tone he read the proper prayers, till he
came to name theschild. 3-
•, B 3 ‘‘ What
6. 1 NFERNAL QUINOTE.
.*
“What name do you give it?” said
the Curate. - * *
“My name, Sir,” replied the father.
“Wilson tº exclaimed the Curate,
“I baptize thee, &c. &c.” • *
“Lord, Sir " said the father, “that's
my sirname !” ... }
“Yes,” replied the Curate, thought-
fully, “had I recollected myself sooner,
I should have concluded you meant
your Christian name ; but you should
have given me the name, for though I
know your sirname, I am as yet igno-
rant of the other.” *. !
“William, Sir,” said the man; | “...is

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£
it too late now P”
“I am not casuist enough to deter-
mine; some great man has said it is.”
He thought on the famous Mr. T ristram
Shandy.
IN E E R N A L Q UK X OT-E. 7
- Shandy—“ But why should you object
to its being as it is Wilson is a good
name, you are a good man, and I hope
your son will prove a Wilson Wilson in
its best sense.” w -
“This mistake, Sir,” said Dr. Line,
bowing very low, “I don't mean to
affix any blame on your Reverence, may *
perhaps prove a lucky Omen.” *.
“I am very well satisfied, Sir,” said s
the father.
The Curate concluded the service,
took up his cap and whip, and, as he
left the cottage, said to the owner—“If
you’ll send to my lodging, the old
woman will let you have a bottle of wine
for your wife and child, or any thing
else that you may want, if I have it.—
- B 4 Good
§ 'IN FERNAL QUIxOTE.
-Good morning, Sir!” to the Doctor;
“good morning, my friend " to the
other: “I hope the child will be well
by Sunday, and that you will bring him.
to Church; and that you'll never have
CauSe to repent that his Christian name
is Wilson.” - &
*
\
The pastor of the parish departed. S.
“I’ll gotoyour Church next Sunday,”
said Dr. Line, whose own, by the by,
was a large barn, where, he sometimes
"expounded himself; “and if you want
a godfather, I'll willingly stand for him
myself.” * A.
*
With humble thanks the offer was
• *
accepted,
/ - There
Z
. IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 9
There was something so, very unaf-
fected, so serious, if not sanctified, in
the manner of the Curate, that Dr. Liue,
in spite of his prepossessions, could not
fail giving this indirect tribute to his
praise
“Yet,” continued the Doctor,
“what a pity 'tis your young pastor
has not a little more—a little more—
decency about him.”
“ Decency, Sir there is not a more
decent man in the parish, whether he be
Methodist, or not.” • , º
... “By decency, I mean propriety of
-
behaviour, as it becomes a Minister of
the Gospel of Christ f"
& & Why, as to his saying prayers with-
out his gown or surplice, and just before
* f B 5 A. he
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he is going a hunting, though:lie had
his spurs and the other things on, I
can't see much harm in that, Doctor;
and I am sure he said it so devoutly
from his heart, that it did me good to
hear him—and a better heart-no man
in the kingdom has.”
The Doctor, if not convinced, drop-
ped his argument.
“How long has this gentleman been
with you?”
“About three years; but he lived in
\ t’other parish till lately, where the
Duke's Castle is;—but I've known him .
from a child. Poor young gentleman
he was disappointed in love, they said,
about four years ago, and so soon after
5 • sº- he
INFERNAL QUIxote. 11
--~~
as “e
he took orders, lives always in the
country, never visits any of the neigh-
botring gentlefolks, but spends all his
timein reading, hunting, writing, shoot-
ing, and preaching.” ---
“What, does he never go to my
Lord's, here?” sº
“Oh, no! he affronted my Lord
soon after he came to the Curacy.”
* How so?” * -
“My Lord's gamekeeper used fre-
quently to kill a bird or two on a Sunday,
and he wrote to my Lord about it, and
so Lord James took huff; and our Par-
son said he did not care for my Lord
more than he did for any of us, when
he did not behave properly, and that
the gamekeeper should not shoot on
Sundays.” "
*. B 6 “Why,
19. INFERNAL QUIXOTE:
“Why, here have I lived all my life
in this parish, and never knew till to-
day that this was the gentleman that
prevented the gamekeeper from shoot-
ing I never spoke to him before to-
day.” -
‘‘I don’t much wonder - at these
things, Doctor; you be one of the
Methodists, you know, and you kind of
folk don't much love the parsons, though
I believe that you be better than all the
restput together; but then you be always
at your books, and looking at the stars:
\
you do seldom speak to any of us, unless
it is to do us some good, and give some . .
Doctor's stuff.”
“But how, neighbour Wilson, did
your Curate prevent the man's shooting
on Sundays?”
^ “Why,
INFERNAL quixote. I3
£ 6. why, first, Sir, he told all the
Justices of it at the Quarter Sessions,
and informed against him ; and then he
took and wrote to the Bishop about it;
and so my Lord grey ashamed of the
* business, and gave it up.”
while I am telling the behaviour and
conversation of the Curate, of William
Wilson the carpenter, and of Dr. Line
the man-midwife of the parish, I have
not yet explained the first line of this
history, the harbinger of the momen-
tous records about to ensue—
“Merrily rang the bells in the village
of Hazleton.”
CHAP,
14 NFERNAL RUIxote.
}
*
*.
CHAP. II,
& 4 SURELY these bells will never have
done ringing for this son and heir,”
said Dr. Line.
- “Why, Doctor,” replied the other,
“I like to-hear them ; I fancy to my-
sclf it's for my own child, and Margery .
sº
thinks it a good omen to have a son
born on the same day, and, for what I
know, the same hour and minute that
my Lady Marauder is brought to bed; .
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and
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, and I fancy this ºëll-ringing, though
tºº. we don't pay for it, will do our young
one as much good as it does little Lord
James.”
“I want to calculate the nativity of
a child on whom Fortune so auspiciously
smiles, and this continual peal confuses
and prevents me. No doubt he will prove
a most wonderful man —Heir to the
Dukedom of Silsbury—born atthewernal
equinox, when Nature, heavenly god-
dess, first begins the year.—Fine thin SS,
neighbour, to set off with !” *
“Pray, Doctor, which do you think
was born first—my child, or his Lord-
ship's ".
“I really can’t say; they came into
, the world so nearly together.”
--& # * . 3. Qe
A. : * *
“Then,
16 IN FERNAL QUIxo‘TE.
“Then pray, Iſbctor, where is the
difference to the stars between the chil-
dren?” - * ,
Now Dr. Line did not expect such a
question as this : it was a direct attack
upon his favourite hobby-horse. Like
a man at a loss for an answer, he replied,
as if it was very evident –“Pshaw a
great deal, to be sure l’’
“Sir why?” *g.
“How the ” Dr. Line never
swore.—“How, I say, should I be able
to explain to you the nature of these
things— to you, who don't know Mars
from Venus, who never saw the ring of
Saturn, or the belt of Jove—to you,
who are not even acquainted with Ursa
*Major, who know not a planet froń a
Y fixed -
*
X- |
INFERNAL qu Ixot E. 17
fixed star, or a comet from a meteor—
53
to whom the moon is
How much further Dr. Line would
liave proceeded, and when he would
have finished his rhapsody on his neigh-
bour's ignorance, it is impossible to
say, as the other put a stop to it by
*
*
pleading guilty to all.
“Well, well, Doctor, I beg pardon—
I’m sure I did’nt mean to offend; I thought
there might be some notable difference
that I might have understood, why my
son and his Lordship's, both born at the
Saline time, should have different for-
tunes. But if so be they be the same,
I thank God for it; and if not, why
I hope God will give him grace to
- £2 behave
1.8 INFERNAL. QUIxote.
behave like a good Christian ; and then,
whatever is the fortune of the young
Duke that is to be, we shall have no
gréat need to envy him,”
A pure sentiment of religion, however *
awkwardly delivered, was enough at any
time to disarm the displeasure of Dr.
Line. He shook William Wilson cor-
dially by the hand; and, the bells having
ceased ringing, took up his hat, and
hastened homeward. **
Dr. Line lived the further side of the
village from the Church, in a small cot-
tage, Ireat and plain, and sheltered all
around with a little coppice. The whole
was his own, and that was about one
acre.
In
1 NFERNAL, QUIXOTE. . I9
*
. . In the midst of a rising spot. (which,
if I thought the majority of my readers
were antiquarians, I would have said,
with all due remarks, was an ancient
tumulus, or burial-place of a British
Druid some three thousand years ago),
the Doctor had built his house; and
about thirty years before the present
period, planted the wood around it.
Exclusive of an annual income of
forty pounds, which he had in the funds,
this was his whole property. He prac-
tised indeed as surgeon, apothecar y
and man-midwife ; but as he kept no
horse, and was most liberal in his terms,
his gains were very small. Hispleasure
and his business, this labour and his re-
creation, his expences and his studies,
. . * Were
20 INFERNAL QUIxote,
{
were all directed to objects above this
earth. The knowledge of the heavenly
bodies, their natures, powers, and influ-
ences employed his whole mind: yet
this astronomical knowledge was only
subservient to his astrological fancies.
Dr. Sibley was, in his opinion, the most
learned man that ever lived ; Nicholas
Culpepper was the next. Oh what *
would he not have given (if he had had
it) to have read in English (for he knew
no other language) the works of Bel-
lantius, Pirovanus, Marascallerus,
Goclenius, Caietanus, Paracelsus, Jovi-
anus Pontanus, Michael Scot, Chris-
topher Heydon, and other worthies of
this kind without number, and now al-
pmost without name
CHAP.
* - * Af
INFERNAL, QUIxoTE. 21
2’
- CHAP. III.
{ e’
^ THE Doctor, arrived at home, set to
his studies with a most hearty goodwill.
He calculated the hour of the child's birth.
He took a view of the heavens at the
time, with the positions, influences, and
aspects of the different planets; and, by
the assistance of White's Ephemeris,
which the Doctor annually purchased,
he was able to be very exact.
- - \
* The
92 INFERNAL QUIXOTE. "
. The horoscope proved to his satisfac-
tion; he was perfectly satisfied with his
labour, and cast the nativity to a.
nicety—Whose nativity ? the reader
may be inclined to say.—The son of
Lord James Marauder, Dr. Line un-
doubtedly meant; whetherit will answer
as well for the son of William Wilson,
the carpenter of Hazleton, who was
born at the same hour, the following
history will exemplify. -
-
But why was the Doctor more desir- .
ous of casting the nativity of Lord James'
Marauder's son, than he was of the car-
penter's 2–Did the Doctor expect any
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payment for it
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-- -
No : the Doctor was much too
2 humble
INFERNAL QUIXOTE. - 93
Humble a subject to be known at the great.
house ; and, in defiance of his poverty,
he had too much decent pride to be a
beggar : besides, a German professor of
midwifery had been bespoke from the
metropolis, for the purpose of delivering
my Lady. A complete set of wonderful
apparatus had assisted at the birth, and
young master had arrived in this world
with as much preparation and attend-
ance, as if his mother had been an Eve,
and the first of the human species that
had procreated in this terrestrial globe.
Perhaps then it was the same motive
that induced the good people that at-
tended her Ładyship, also induced our
Doctor to calculate her child's nativity
—his ostensible consequence in the eyes
of the world.
Lord
24 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
Lord James Marauder was thesecond
son of the late Duke of Silsbury. His
elder brother, the present Duke, WąS
unmarried; and though he had arrived
many years at the title, never went to
Court, or attempted to signalize himself ^ i
in any respect as a Peer of the realm.
In the early part of his life, indeed, he
had run through the course of fashion-
*
able dissipation; but finding himself a
man of but little consequence in the gay
world, and fond of field sports, he had
not even visited the metropolis for the
last two years; for the Duke had been
brought up in the Roman Catholic faith,
in which he still tenaciously abided ;—
without, therefore, looking for other rea-
sons, this will account for his continual
residence in the country
As
'I:N FERNAL - QUIX:OTE. $25
As for Lord James, he had early chang-
ed to the side of Fortune, was elected a
Member of Parliament, and became
Colonel of the Militia ; of course this
conduct did not conciliate the affections
of his brother, JLord James had before
run away with Miss Marauder, the rich
Irish heiress; and, according to the
will of the lady's father, changed his
family name of Kennet for that of
Marauder. A treaty of marriage was
on foot between the guardians of this
lady and his Grace, who thus doubly felt
the blow. Lord James had also clan-
destinely purchased a small estate and
manor in the very neighbourhood of his
noble brother, Most inveterate then
was the hatred of the Duke against
Lord James; he continually abused him
vol. 1, C in
Q6 3 N FERN A L QUIX OTE,
in his words, and opposed him in his
actions; yet as regularly four days in
the week did he employ himself in a
morning in a manner most agreeable to
the expectant wishes of the other; that
is, -He constantly ventured his neck in
a fox-chace.
f
Lord James, therefore, every other
day, at least, looked out for an express
that his Grace had taken his last gallop;
and generally on the evening of . Mon-
day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday,
(the days the Duke hunted), Lord
James took his walk up the hill that led
to his brother's castle, in hopes of meet-
ing the messenger with the mournful
tidings.-But Lord James Marauder
was no arithmatician, or he would have
4. known
IN FERN A L Quixote. g?
known that, after all the Duke's bold
riding, the odds were most considerably
against any serious accident; and here,
for the sake of young hunters, that they
may not be checked in their sport by
the coward fears of one fall too many, I
shall briefly state the odds.
In the first place, in the course of a
long day's hunting, it is ten to one in
favour of a bold and good rider, well
mounted, that he has any accident at
all.
Secondly, supposing he falls, it is
eight to one that neither he nor his horse
are materially hurt,
Again, it is sia to one the horse is
hurt, and not the rider, •
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28 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
. Neart, if the rider is hurt, it is twelve
to one that a bone is broken.
And, lastly, it is twenty to one, if a
bone is broken, that the wound is
mortal.
Ergo, 10×8×6×12×20=115200
... 1 × 1 × 1 × 1 × 1 = 1
And 1 15200- 1.
Thus stated in details:– *
That he has any fall is 10–to–1
That himself or horse is hurt 80–
to—1
That it is the horse, and not himself
480–to–1 >
That no bone is broken 5760—to—1
That the hurt is not mortal 115200
—to— 1
Therefore,
TNFERNAL QUIxotr. 29
Therefore, out of 115200 persons who
go a hunting in a morning, but one is
supposed to end his course that way.
Fair ladies, to you must the compiler
of these papers apologize for these last
pages, so incongruous to the develop-
ment of private history : yet among
you are some of the bold daughters
of Nimrod, votaries of Diana in the
day-time, and far be it from me to sup-
pose that ye are not equal votaries in
the Even—you, perhaps, will need no
apology; and also ye, who fear lest
the winds of Heaven should visit your
faces too roughly, who want not the
course daubing of dame Nature, but
delight in the soft touch of Art and
Fancy, do not despise and condemn
C 3 " this
3{} IN FERNAL Q U is O'FE.
*
this calculation :-have ye not fathers,
brothers, kinsmen, dear friends, or
more, dear lovers who partake of this
recreation ? and is it not a satisfaction to
you to know how little is the danger to
those you love? But enough of this.
I hasten back to my proper game, the
nativity of young Marauder, eldest son
of Lord James, grandson of the late
Duke of Silsbury, and nephew of the
present, besides a pedigree that might
easily be traced to half the crowned
heads in Europc.
The astrological data from which
Dr. Line cast the nativity of the
child, were—“On Monday, the 21st
of March, between the hours of five
and six, was born a male child, A. D.
1773.” {
** As
rNFERNAL QUIxoTE. 3}
As I have thus particularized the
year, month, day, and even hour in
which Lady James Marauder produced
my young hero to the world; and as an
astrologer, who wishes to have a concise
view of his future history, may look
back to the exact situation of the hea-
vens at that time, I shall no further
anticipate his life than with just men-
tioning the preamble to the worthy
Doctor's statement.
“The face of Nature smiles on thee,
my boy; the Planets are propitious ;
and Honours, Wealth, and Fame hover
around thy cradle.
“The Fates have decided thy line of
life in three divisions, and have given
$ C 4 to
*
39 I-N FER. NASL Q U 1 X OTE:
to each full five-and-twenty revolutious,
of this earthly planet. The first is due
to Love; the second Glory claims; and
Power grasps the third.”
Why I have been so minute in the
birth of the sons of # Lord James
Marauder and William Wilson, will, in
the course of the following pages, more
fully appear. Henceforth the history
demands a more rapid description.
CHAP.
IN FERN A T. QUIXOTE. 33;
*
º-ºº.
ÇHAP. IV.
>
} PASS over the days of childhood of
the two young men, whose births have
been so fully described:
I am happy to inform the reader that
the respectable Dean Bottom, Dean of
the diocese, thought proper to recollect
an old College acquaintance in the
Curate of the parishes of Hazleton and
Castleberry; and through his means
C 5 Mr.
34. IN FERNAL QU IX O'FE.
Mr. Lockeridge received a living in
the diocese, the valuable Rectory of
Wheatland.
I could here spin out a fine episode,
by following him to India, where he
went in pursuit of his first love, who,
I might almost say, had been kidnapped
by her relations to that meretricious
soil. As fire tries fine gold, so danger
tries our virtues, whether they are reak
or not. He found his fair one, though
compelled to accompany a stern father,
had resolutely withheld from many a
suitor her hand as well as her heart.
Her parent was lately deceased, and
almost the whole of a small property he
had left to her stepmother. This young
lady was preparing to return to England
when Mr. Lockeridge arrived. They
Were
INFERNAL QUíxOTE. 33
were immediately married ; and the
Rector of Wheatland, after a nine
months' voyage, staid but six weeks
before he prepared to return to his native
country, bringing back with him to
Europe a treasure more precious than all
the riches of Nabobs, Nizims, and
Rajahs.
The period of six years had elapsed
from young Marauder's and Wilson's
birth, when Mr. Lockeridge with his
spouse returned from India.
<>
As Rector of Wheatland, he had the
appointment of a boy to a public gram-
mar-school in his neighbourhood; and
two years after, young Wilson Wilson was
the lad chosen to be the object of his
bounty. *
C 6 Dr.
36 - INFERNAL QUIxote.
Dr. Line lived in statu quo at his;
favourite spot, where, as he yearly no-
ticed the growth of his circumambient:
plantation, did he perceive, at the same
time, that his circle of the heavens de-.
creased.—“An emblem,” he would say,
“of mortality;—we lose in one thing:
what we gain in another,”
The preferment of Mr. Lockeridge had
not diminished the civility and intimacy,
which, had strengthened between the:
Curate and Dr. Line, from the naming.
of young Wilson. It was by the
Doctor's recommendation that the boy
had been sent to the school. Dr. Line,
himself first taught his godson his.
A B C ; and, from the daily instruction:
which hegave him at the holidays, might:
be:
I.N.FERNAL Q U IX.6) TE, 37;
be not improperly called his philosophi-
cal tutor. In truth, he learned no great
deal at the school, not from any fault
in the teachers, but in the scholar him-
self. Latin and Greek he would at any
time resign for a lecture on the starry
bodies, which concluded with a peep
through the telescope; and he was much
more conspicuous at boxing, wrestling,
and cricketing, than at an oration, com-
position, or versification. His mind was.
too violent, perhaps too strong, to bear.
regular trammels.
When he arrived at his fifteenth year,
Dr. Line and his clerical patron, by
absolute dint of reasoning, prevailed
upon him to be more attentive to his
classical studies; and in the two last
years.
33 y NFERN &f,' quizers,
years he remained at the school, he
learned ſhore Greek and Latin than he
had dohe in aſ the former seven.
I cannot help remarking that Dr.
Line always concluded his arguments
to him to learn Latin and Greek, -“And
you will be able to read, not only
Nicholas Culpepper and Dr. Sibley, but
Bellantius, Pirovanus, Marascallerus,
Goclenius, Caietanus, Paracelsus, Jovi-
anus Pontanus, Michael Scot, &c. &c.
&c. &c. $
Ear different, and with far greater
eclat was the education of young Ma-
Fauder eonducted. Two private pre-
eeptors fived in the house. One taught
the ancient languages, the other the
f modern ;
IN FERN A. L. QUIXOTE, 39
modern; not forgetting (what is called)
the use of the globes, the mathematics,
and all its appurtenances. Daily did
Lord James hear of the improvement of
his son; and daily did he perceive spe-
cimens of that ready wit, bold remarks,
and argumentative powers which so early
distinguished the young man. Nor
were the gymnastic and pugilistic sci-
ences neglected. The names of Goddard
and Angelo, of Mendoza and Johnson,
with many others of inferior note, were
well known in his Lordship's mansion.
Very early in life did young Marauder
shew a bold, haughty, and commanding
spirit; and though he wanted not for
abilities, yet he always chose his own
time for learning, and his own subjects.
w * Many
40 TNFERNAL QUIxorf.
Many boys in the neighbourhood:
were frequently sent for to Lord James’s,
to be his playfellows; but a lad in the
village, who was articled to a petty
attorney, that acted as his Lordship's
steward, was his chief, though, humble
companion and favourite.
This youth was eight or nine years
older than Marauder, was of a sly and
subtle disposition, and soon gained the
favour of the family at the great house:
—He was not only the first to indulge -
the young heir in all his whims, freaks,
and fancies, but was the first to invent
new ones for him.
Young Marauder was very fond of
trying experiments of some kind or .
. other, ,
INFERNAL QUIxoTE. 4 I.
other, which it is unnecessary to repeat;.
as, like most boyish sports, when left to.
themselves, they begin and end in
cruelty. *.
Imphell, the attorney's clerk, never
boggled at anything the other required;
he was the chief instrument of his
wanton mischief, and the tyrant of those
boys whose ages came between the
future Duke's and his own.
As Marauder grew older, Imphell
generally accompanied him on horse-
back, and was a ready nomenclator to
tell him the history of the neighbour-
hood. .
Among other of the young hero's
- &IIlllSè-
42 INFERNAL oursors.
amusements, experiments with gunpow- -
der he particularly delighted in. He
was not only a very good shot, but with
a little mortar he would throw a bomb
to such a nicety, that even that high
military character, the Duke of Rich-
mond himself, would have been pleased
with his skill. *
Once he laid a scheme to give a gen-
teel jump to his French tutor, who had
displeased him; but owing to a mistake,
the train lighted on Imphell, who was
tossed some six or eight yards into a
pond of water, without receiving any
other injury, so judiciously had his
young pupil managed his work.
when Imphell came to the age of
- one-
rNFERNAL QUIX 9TE. 43
- one-and-twenty, Lord James, by his
son's particular desire, agreed with the
attorney, for a small annuity, to give
up the business to his clerk, the chief
part of which was the management of
his Lordship's estate. Yet this did not
prevent Imphell's attendance on the son
of his benefactor, till Marauder went
abroad. -
Young Wilson was most of his time
at School ; the summer holidays he ge-
nerally spent with his clerical patron,
and the winter ones with his parents,
and astrological friend, at home.
In their fifteenth year, by a circum-
stance I am about to relate, the young
men first became acquainted; till that
w period
4
44 - INFERNAL QUIxote.”
period Wilson was totally unknown tor
Mr. Marauder, though the former well
knew the son of Lord. James by sight.
Young Marauder had given five gui-
neas to be played for at backsword, in
the Whitsun-Week. Wilson happened
to be at home, and attended, the revel as
a spectator. A favourite groom of Mr.
Marauder's was about to carry off the
prize, when Wilson prevailed on a stout
Irishman, who worked for his father, to
mount the stage.
At the first blow the Irishman sent his
opponent sprawling on the ground ; a
dispute instantly arose concerning fair
play: Wilson was loud in defence of his
friend, and leaped upon the stage.
Mr.
*NFERNAL QUIxoTE. 43
Mr. Marauder, who was present, and
whose word had as yet been law, ordered
Thim off.
The son of the carpenter demurred.
The embryo Duke indignantly seized
a stick, and with many abusive words
threatened him with manual chastise-
ment on the spot.
Wilson replied—“You are surround-
ed with dependants, Sir, or you should
soon be convinced how little I fear you.”
“If you suppose, Sirrah, I want any
one to assist me in chastising your inso-
lence, you are greatly mistaken. Defend
yourself: I attack you but with your
own low weapons.” p f
, Y
“Come,
46 INFERNAL QUIxote.
“Come, then, and drive me down.”
Wilson instantly seized a cudgel.
Mr. Marauder considered himself as
an adept at the broadsword; and con-
fident of his strength, was about to
attempt tofulfil his words, when Imphell,
the attorney, his Lordship's bailiff, and
some other attendants interfered, and
with difficulty restrained him.
“Sir, he's beneath your notice,” ex-
claimed Imphell, as they all pushed for-
ward between the combatants.
The bailiff, a stout man, was in a
moment on the stage. He struck at
Wilson with his fist; while Imphell was
endeavouringtorestrainhisangry patron.
The
1N FERN A. L. QU IXOTE. A.Y
The youth turned the blow aside with
his cudgel, as he smote the other with
great violence on the arm. His father's
workhan, on whose account the quarrel
ñad commenced, seeing the danger his
young master was in, at this instant
caught him in his arms, and, before the
rest could make good their attack, leaped
9ff the other side of the stage with him. -
The bailiff, who was enraged at the
blow he had received, was eager to be
revenged. Marauderbrokefrom Imphell,
and sprung on the stage; but so many
now interfered, and not a few friends of
the carpenter placed themselves before
his son, that the bailiff was obliged to
be satisfied as he was. The difference
too between a raw lad of fifteen, and a
+ - robust
48 INFERNAL QUIxotº.
robust man of forty, prevented the
combat from proceeding any further.
Mr. Marauder himself was very vio-
lent, and was only prevented by the
interference of some gentlemen, who
were with him, from being the principal
in the affray.
Wilson, nearly as haughty, walked off
with the Irishman, remarking, in no low
key, that it required something more
than high birth, education, or abilities
to make a gentleman.
. From this period Mr. Marauder never
forgot Wilson, whom he called the car-
penter's insolent son; and Wilson, who
had before heard a great deal of the
. . abilities
INFERNAL Quixote. 49
9. abilities and accomplishments of his
Lordship's heir, was not much inclined,
from this specimen, to believe the whole
to be true. - --
The worthy Dr. Line, who, from the
concomitant circumstances of their birth,
had daily, for near fifteen years, expected
to see them fly into one another's arms,
and become a second Castor and Pollux,
was most wonderfully astonished when
he heard of the affray. Yet still he an-
ticipated great things, and again and
again reviewed 5 applauded , and confirmed
his original calculations.
. Happily for the Doctor, a new comet
had lately been discovered; and from
the inauspicious influence of this, he
VOL. I. - D accounted
50 IN FERNAL, QUIXOTE.
accounted for the retrograde motion of
things.
CHAP. V.
THE malign mists, which the sudden
affray, related in the last chapter, had
raised, were by no means allayed by
Lord James. Urged by his son, in
whose temper forgiveness had neither a
natural nor artificial growth, he exerted
his influence to injure the father of
young Wilson, and to drive him from
the village.
But
INFERNAL QUIX.O.T.E. 51
But his Lordship had more of the will
than the power, and, except in taking
from the carpenter his own particular
work, things remained in nearly the
Same State.
The greater part of the estates in the
parish belonged to his brother the Duke,
of which William Wilson's house, gar-
den, and field made a part. The manor,
and a small estate, indeed, belonged to
Lord James; and it was the circum-
stance of his having purchased these
privately (I before noticed) which in-
creased the division between the brothers.
Many a scheme had Lord James
devised when he should come to the
title—many an alteration and improve-
D 2 ment
52 INFERNAL QUIxote.
ment had he planned. Among the first
he had determined to turn out Wilson's
family. —This was a point in which he
had promised his son, whose haughty -
temper remembered, with increased acri-
mony, the affront which had been put
upon him at the revel.
Young Marauder was in some respects
like his father—in most superior. In
abilities, education, and person He left
Lord James far behind. Proud of the
lineage from which he was descended,
buoyed up with the great honours daily
expected, he saw himself in the first
situation in the kingdom, and in every
other person, but the Majesty, fancied *
he beheld an inferior. -
To
1NFERNAL QUIxoTE. 33
To recapitulate, in a very few words,
the chief motives which occasioned the
animosity between the Duke and his
brother, will account for the virulence
with which it was continued.
Lord James Kennet married Elizabeth
Marauder, a great heiress, and by her
father's will was obliged to take the
family name. Once possessed of the
wealth for which he married, he changed
his religion, and came into Parliament.
He now also bought the manor of
Hazleton, where the Duke had two
thousand a year, and which his Grace
had been trying to purchase from the
time he came to the title;—and what
heightened the whole, Lord James, by
having embraced theestablished reli gion,
D 3 became
34 NFERNAL quixote.
became possessed of the national advan-
tages and honours his brother, as a
Catholic, could not hold. Exclusive of
his seat in Parliament, he was Colonel
of the Militia; and on the next vacancy, -
the Lord Lieutenancy of the County
was promised him: yet, after all, his
Lordship was suspected to be not a whit
better Protestant in his heart, though
worldly motives had induced him to
recant his errors.
. But there was still a reason behind,
not generally known, and moregrating
than all this: Lady James was of a
Roman Catholic family; her father's will
required that she should marry one of
thesamepersuasion. Lord.J ames obeyed,
and changed after his marriage. The
- Duke
INFERNAL Quixote. 55.
--
Duke himself had intended to solicit,
and had spoken to her guardians ; buſ;
while his Grace's counsel were examin-
ing if the property was so great as
reported, Lord James, in his bro-
ther's name, called on the lawyers—was
satisfied—flew to the lady, and ran off
with her himself to Gretna-Green.
What the principles of Mr. Marauder *
were, will most fully appear in the
course of these pages. Whatever they
were at present, his father seemed per-
fectly well satisfied with them. One
thing was evident, that Lord James's
recantation had not grievously offended
any of his friends (besides the Duke)
of the Roman persuasion. - Generally a
º Priest or two of that communion resided
D 4 in
56 IN FERNAL QUIX.O.T.E.
in the house, and many of the latter,
Rench emigrants. My Lady, too, still
remained a good Catholic ; and his
Lordship kindly lent her the use of his
chapel—astrong instance of the liberality
of his notions, and that he was not
prejudiced to his new faith.
In his sixteenth year young Marauder
left England to visit France and Italy.
Many reasons induced his father to
permit his departure at so early an age.
When his passions had interfered,
Marauder had already shewn himself
capable of such violent measures as had
justly alarmed his friends. In some
cases all Imphell's art and ingenuity
had scarcely been able to defend his
young patron. ' These acts had been
*, attributed
INFERNAL QUIXOTE. 67
attributed to high courage, and an un-
daunted boyish spirit; but a circum-
stance which happened in his own family,
began to make his Lordship think more
seriously of the matter.
Sir Gourdy Kirtle, a first cousin of
my Lady, had in his sixtieth year broke
his vows of bachelorship, and married
for love. The blooming daughter of a
tenant was the happy bride. They came
in the third honey-moon on a visit to
Lord James. Lady Kirtle soon consi-
dered her new cousin with no unfavour-
able eye; and in every moment of Sir
Gourdy's absence, the youth was not idle
in endeavouring to ingratiate himself
into the fair lady's favour. A thousand
little nameless attentions, which an
D 5 elderly
58 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
elderly husband, from many a cause,
will omit, Marauder was ever ready to
perform. In walking, riding, fishing,
on land or water, her kind cousin
attended; yet with such art did he con-
duct himself, that Sir Gourdy had no
idea of his danger from a youth of
fifteen. &
His Lordship's suspicions were first
roused from a remark of Lady Marau-
der, that since the visit of their cousins,
her son seemed to have dropped his
boyish fancies; and she hoped the steady
conduct and grave counsel of Sir
Gourdy would work a perfect reform-
ation. Lord James, by a little atten-
tion, soon found that his fears were true, .
and determined, at all events, to remove
his
IN FERNAI, QUIX OTE, 59
his son from the fascinating- object
directly. A plausible excuse for going
to town separated them for some days; in
the interim Lord James watched so nar-
rowly, that he discovered a scheme for a .
private meeting during the winter,
which both parties were to spend in
town. The knowledge of this induced
Lord James to send his son abroad
immediately, to which the youth, in
defiance of his new flame, joyfully con-
sented.
Lord James gave him a commission in
the Militia before his departure—a
grateful feather in the cap of a youth
just entering the paths of manhood.
The allowance of his father was most
liberal, and his establishment such as
D 6 became
60 INFERNAL QUIXOTE.
became the heir of one of the first
Dukedoms in England.
§
His Lordship's prudence in sending
away his son at so critical a time was
soon justified by the event. In the
meridian of St. James's a lover was not
long wanting to Lady Kirtle, nora kind
friend to Sir Gourdy to remove the
mist from his eyes; and in eleven
months and a few odd days after the
marriage-knot was tied, did the Baronet
once more find himself at liberty.
CHAP. .
IN FERNAL QUIX OTE, 6I
CHAP. VI.
*
SEVENTEEN years had now passed
by since the birth of the renowned
youth, who will make the most conspi-
cuous figure in these pages, and Lord
James was as far from the Dukedom as
at the first moment of his father's death;
when on a Monday evening, as he took
his usual walk up the hill, he perceived,
at a great distance, a horseman riding
towards him,
The
60 INFERNAL QUIxote.
The morn had been frosty, the fields
of course were hard and slippery, most
congenial to fractures and broken bones,
though by no means hard enough to
prevent the sports of the field. -
With redoubled eagerness then he
viewed the rider. *
Nearer and more near as he approach-
ed, was he certified in its being the
family livery. *.
Lord James anxiously drew out his
pocket-glass, and mounted upon a high .
stone to take a better view. Some fro-
zen particles yet lay on the top of the .
stone;—my Lord was heavy; his feet
glided from beneath him; his nose
saluted
sº
INFERNAL QUIxoTE. 63
saluted the moist earth; and his shins,
more hapless, encountered the hard and
rugged edges of the stone.
The horseman, who indeed was a
servant of the Duke's, but had no mes-
sage for him, laughed; and passed by
without further notice. ***
His Lordship arose angry, fretted,
disappointed, and hurt. A ragged bruise
had torn the flesh; and by the time
Lord James Marauder arrived at home,
his leg had put on so unfavourable am
appearance, that it was thought necessary
to send for the family surgeon.
What is the need of sending for a
capital surgeon if he does not exhibit
5 his
64 INFERNAL QUIxotº.
his superior skill, but acts according to
the rules of the most common and
illiterate? and in what respect is a great
man a better patient than a poor one, if
he does not employ the doctor for a
greater length of time P Medical men
should recommend one another, wher-
ever there are assets enough for all.
The surgeon, rightly considering these
things, thought it advisable to call in
the physician; the physician prescribed
for the good of the apothecary ; the
apothecary recommended some excellent
nurses, &c. &c. &c.
In short, what with the doctors, the
physic, and the original malady, his
Lordship was no longer able to wait for
the death of his brother; but having
taken
IN FERNAL, QUIxo TE. 65.
taken five dozen drafts, aperients and
astringents, diaphoretics and diuretics,
febrifuges and anodynes, according as
each became necessary, in eight weeks
from the untoward accident, he himself
took his departure to the other world !
Thus, in his forty-fifth year, did Lord
James Marauder receive his summons to
leave this earthly state by means of a
grazed shin, at the very moment he
expected to hear that his brother had
departed by a broken neck. *
} es”-
CHAP.
66 INFERNAL qurkoTE.
CHAP. VII,
LADY JAMES MARAUDER was
inconsolable: every prospect of being .
a Duchess was gone for ever, Mr.
Marauder, who was summoned to
England upon the occasion, bore his
loss with more philosophy—an early
prognostic of an elevated and superior
mind, which had not in vain imbibed
the stoical principle. Amid the infal-
lible arguments by which he conquered
his grief, it did not escape him that he
was one step nearer the title.
The
- INFERNAL QUIxoTE. 67
The chief advantage that had accrued
to Lord James from his renouncing his
Catholic errors, may be reckoned his
seat in the House of Commons; and
this had helped him to some pretty
places in his friend the Minister's gift.
Mr. Marauder, since his travels, had
put on the whole man; and to the
former wit and learning of youth, he
added reflection, penetration, and judg-
Iment.
As a minor, he was not yet able to be
a candidate for the Borough his father's
death had vacated, as wanting a seat,
he wanted also the necessary qualifica-
tion to entitle him to his father's honours
and advantages. Mr. Marauder, there-
fore,
sº- t
68 INFERNAL QUIxote.
fore, saw no reason to profess the same
tenets or the same conduct ; and very
wisely considering that the purchase of
his honoured uncle's, his Grace of Sils-
bury's, life was not worth four years,
(young Marauder was a most excellent
reckoner as well as reasoner), which
period must elapse before he could take
his seat; and recollecting also that he
might, at any time, be as easily recon-
vinced of his errors, after the fall of the
Dukedom, he, for the present, openly ^
professed himself a Catholic as soon as
the funeral of his father was over.—Lady
James had never thought it worth her
while to change; and being of Irish
birth, and of an old rich Catholic family,
had ever remained in the religion of her
forefathers.
The
Isrennai. QUIX OTE, 69
\
The son's religious principles, there-
fore, could not be otherwise than grate-
ful to the mother; but Mr. Marauder
looked further: he considered his pro-
fession of the same faith as preparatory
-to a reconciliation with his uncle.
All due respect had been paid at Lord
James's decease, though the Duke hung
back, and could not be said to make any
approach on his part. But modesty,
which many philosophers say is only a
species of shame, (and Marauder early
in life prided himself on his philosophy),
was not one of the vices of this young
heir.
“What is modesty P” he would say.
-“It is a consciousness of some defect
Ol'
70 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
or weakness. Is it not proverbial that
a villain cannot look you in the face?
and why are men ashamed or shy, but
under the idea that the people they are
addressing, are their betters—or that the
actions they are performing, are not
altogether right P This weakness of the
mind I feel not ; and what I know to
be proper, I will act, with a total indif-
ference concerning the opinion of
others.
With these sentiments Mr. Marauder,
about a month from the funeral, sent
the Duke the following note:–
“ My
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE, 71
“My Lord Duke,
“Your well-known virtues,”—[if his
Grace had a virtue, it was certainly not
a cardinal one]—“flatter me with the
hope that your nephew will not petition
for your pardon in vain. I renounce
the errors of my unhappy father, and I
entreat your Grace not to visit his
offences on his innocent son.
“I humbly wait your Grace's per-
mission to pay my respects in person to
so near, so beloved a relation,”—[Mr.
Marauder had never seen the Duke, but
at a distance, in his life]—“ and I ever
shall remain,
“My Lord Duke,
“Your obedient and dutiful nephew,
“ JAMES MARAUDER.”
=
Mr.
*72 IN FERN A. L. QUI XOTE.
Mr. Marauder, in answer, received
the following note, evidently written
by another person, but signed by his
"Grace.
t
“Young Man,
“Your father thought proper, by un-
exampled baseness and treachery, to tear
asunder the link which once held us to-
gether. I see no purpose in uniting it
again. You have alreadyalargeandsplen-
did fortune, and canwant nothing of me:
I am getting old, and like not new faces.
“I thank you for your civility, and
wish you well; but would advise you to
Pursue your intentions in life without
regarding there is such a person as
t “Your kinsman,
‘‘SILSBURY.”
t Mr.
J N F Ef{XA L Q U IXOTE. 73
Mr. Marauder, not discouraged, ap-
plied again by his friends; and what
might have been the issue I cannot say,
had it not been for an accident which
happenca soon after.
The Duke of Silsbury had for many
years kept a woman, who had originally
been one of his servants. By her he
had had eight children: The eldest lad,
* two years younger than Wilson, went
to the same school. The boys were fre-
quently together. Wilson, at the holi-
days, had been often with him at the
Castle; and the boy would come over
and stay with him at his father's. Some-
times they were permitted to join his
Grace in the chace, and sometimes they
walked out with their guns. $.
VO L. I. E Wilson
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*
Wilson going home for a few days, the
other went with him ; and in the latter
amusement Mr. Marauder, who was
likewise sporting, met them.
He instantly recollected Wilson, and,
walking up, demanded their certificates.
In both it was found wanting
The young men were summoned
before a Justice of the Peace; and Mr.
Marauder, far from thinking who the
other was, compelled them both to pay
the double penalty, as they were unqua-
lified, and without a licence.
How great was Mr. Marauder's sur-
prise, when having laid the information,
he
IN FERN A L QUIXOTE. 75
he triumphantly attended the Justice,
and found the Duke's old steward therc,
who paid down the money for both, –
and turning to the young heir, gave him
a note.
“Whether or not you knew who
Harry Overton was, I care not ; your
behaviour to young Wilson is enough
to make me rejoice that Mr. Marauder
never has, and never shall be noticed by
‘‘s 11s BURY.”
—-
This circumstance brought Wilson
Wilson to his Grace's notice, who, with
the true spirit of opposition, did many
favours to him and his family, that
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76 IN FERNAL QUIXO'FE. '
it might reach his beloved nephew's
ears. S. T
The Duke pretended to be more and
more pleased with the young man; and
when Dr. Line and the worthy Clergy-
man were about to continue their pa-
tronage, by getting him an exhibition,
and scriding him to the University, his .
Grace offered to take him home to the
Castle, and keep him as a companion
and instructor for his children. This
offer was much too liberal to be refused,
as the Duke commenced his patronage
by giving him a life-hold property of one
hundred and fifty pounds a year—a suffi-
ciency to qualify him for sporting; as
much, perhaps, out of revenge against
his nephew, as good-will towards the
other.
Here
inrºsat outsorr. 77
Here was a circumstance that par-
ticularly pleased Dr. Line, who pro-
gnosticated most wonderful things from
hence, and took a journey to his friend
Lockeridge's, on purpose to remark in
what an astonishing way the fates of
Marauder and Wilson were entwined.
“Though the ad vantages of birth,
education, and connections have, so
eminently exalted the noble Marauder
above his twin luminary, see, my friend,
how in his eccentric course, like a
eomet, Wilson gradually approaches
him. Even the sinister acts of the one
turn to the benefit of the other; yet
I do not believe before the age of one-
and-twenty that any very great friend-
ship or intimacy will take place; then
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78 INFERNAL QUIxoTE.
we shall see them, &c. &c. &c. &c.
&c. &c.” -
The Doctor was got on his favourite
nag, and, without any hindrance from the
Rector, cantered away at a famous rate.
I shall not repeat his speech, as I
dislike the method of the historian, who
introduces a fortune-teller or a dream to
anticipate the wonders of his story. .
Perhaps I have been too guilty of
this fault already, and the least I can do
is to stop in time.
When the Doctor had finished, Mr.
Lockeridge replied with a smile—“Do
you suppose our young friend will be
?”
also a Duke w
“I cannot
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 79
“I cannot positively say ; but I wish
Mr. Marauder had a sister, and I should
have no doubts of Wilson Wilson's mar-
rying her.”
To clear up all these doubts, I shall
now proceed rapidly with my history.
£ 4 CHAP.
80 J.N FERNAL QU-IX. OTE,
CHAP. VIII.
A FTER this unlucky mistake con-
cerning the sporting, Mr. Marauder set
off to London; but his stay there WàS
very short: for, having looked over his
father's affairs, and settled his corre-
spondence, he thought proper to pay a
second visit to the Continent.
In his situation at the Duke's, Wilson
had continued three years, though with-
Out
INFERNAL QUIXeFE. 81.
out any particular occurrence; aequit-
ting himself in other respects, as well as
in his office of tutor, to the perfect,
satisfaction of his new patron.
Neither had these years been idly
employed as to his own improvement.
The Clergyman and Dr. Line saw with
pleasure that the seeds of virtue and
religion, which they had so sedulously
planted in his mind, were now produc-
ing their true fruits. In defiance of
the lowness of his origin, he was uni-
versally respected, and his society
courted by the gentlemen in the neigh-
bourhood.
His dutiful behaviour to his parents,
and his affectionate kindness to his
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82 IN FERNAL Q.U IX OTE.
younger brothers and sisters, was so
very different from those of humble
birth in general, who get forward in the
world, that he was the praise and theme
of every tongue. At no time did he
• conduct himself as if he was superior
or better than any of them ; he never
denied or wished to conceal his origin;
his father was an honest man, “the
noblest work of God I’’ says Mr. Pope;
* and though only a carpenter, (now,
indeed, by the assistance of his son and
his own industry, a builder), he gloried
in that he was his father.
These three years Mr. Marauder was
absent from England on his travels.
Tired of the restraint he found at home,
and having lost all hopes of profiting
bv
INFERNAL QUIxote. 83
by his attendance on the Duke, he did
not wish to return to his native country
till his minority was nearly passed.
After staying, at the beginning of his
tour, afew months in France, he lounged
at an easy rate through most parts of
Italy, seeing every thing worthy his
notice, and forming acquaintances
among some of the first families.
Provided with proper letters of re-
commendation, he had been the first
time introduced into all circles as the
undoubted heir of the Dukedom of
Silsbury. The great world was thus open
before him, and the spirit and talents of
theyoung Friglishman soon distinguished
Him; his gallantry, courage, and con-
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84. rNFERNAL quTX.org.
duct were frequently put to the trial,
and crowned him with success and
applause.
Unlike those young men of fortune
who have a conductor or leader, com-
monky called a tutor, to attend them,
he in every case acted and judged for
himself. A tenacious observer of his
own consequence, he condescended
sometimes to stoop to the level of an
inferior, but never suffered a dependant
to presume to exalt himself to his.
A Mr. Subtile, a Scotch gentleman of
family, accompanied him from England,
whom he always treated with a polite
intimacy, but at no times with a grain
of familiarity.
Mr.
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I N F E RNA E, Q, U [XOTE. 85
gº
Mr. Subtile was a man of letters
more than of native abilities, and his
knowledge was rather useful than bril-
Hant. His manners were mild and plau-
sible, but his mind restless and schis-
matic. He had been a Fellow and Tutor
at Cambridge; but had been obliged to
resign his situation on account of an
imprudent disclosure of notions, destruc-
tive in their effect, both to the established,
Church and State. He had ever pre-
ferred a wandering life, and necessity
only constrained him to be occasionally
at Cambridge; most parts of France
and Italy he was very well acquainted
with, and was well versed in their man-
ners, language, and customs. Hisinform-
ation was of great use to Mr. Marauder,
whose guardians settled an annuity upon
him
86 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE.
him for his attendance. He perfectly
knew how to conduct himself towards
the young heir, who, though he might
require and listen to advice, would never
bear the least remonstrance.
Marauder, at the commencement of
his tour, was little better than a boy;
but he threw the trammels of childhood
aside, and soon evinced a knowledge of
men and manners that astonished every
one who became acquainted with him.
His father's death left him entirely
at his own disposal; and while he shewed
the abilities of youth, he discovered also *s.
the judgment of age.
Neither a dupe to the artifices of the
Italian
INFERNAL QUIxOTE. 87
Italian Syrens, nor caught in, the spe-
cious snares of the titled gamester, he
could play around the fire, yet escape
from the blaze. The veterans of the
gay world, and the ladies of the highest
fashion beheld him with amazement. A
fair and famous wit said of him, that
he surpassed every European nation in
their own characteristics.
9
“Young Marauder,” exclaimed she
at a large concersazione, “excels you
all at your own weapons: he has the
levity and gallantry of the French, the
pride and hauteur of the Spaniard, the
conviviality of the German, the craſt
of the Italian, the revenge of the Por-
tuguese, the prudence of the Dutch,
and the extravagance and courage of his
OW. It
83. rNFERNAL. QUrxorg.
own countrymen—he is beloved by our
sex, and envied by youp's 1”
I shall not here relate the minute
occurrences of his travels; many cir-
cumstances which took place at that
period, will occur in the regular course
of these memoirs;—neither is it neces-
sary at present to introduce his more:
particular acquaintance—friends as the
world calls them: they will soon intro-
duce themselves. wº
Of these, a Mr. Arnon, a late ae-
guaintance, he was become very intimate
with; and a Mr. Fahany, a young Irish-
man, who for abilities, learning, family,
and fortune, was inferior to hone in that
kingdom. This gentleman he had met
in:
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 89
in Italy, who had, with the highest
politeness, noticed him, and with whom
he was now on terms of the greatcst
confidence,
Upon Marauder's return to England,
he spent great part of his time at a
Mr. Cloudley's, who will be hereafter
more regularly noticed—an acquaintance
introduced to him by Mr. Arnon.
Mr. Cloudley, who always lived in the
country, soon became very partial to him,
and was never so happy as when Ma-
rauder favoured himself and family with
his company,
In his twenty-first year he bade a
farewel to the enchanting Italian dames,
and
JO IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
and came to take possession of that
splendid fortune which he was already
entitled to,
CHAP. IX.
LET me again and again beg pårdon
of my fair readers for having so long
neglected to introduce any of their own
sex. I hope to make ample amends by
a character or two I shall now offer to
their notice. ©
In the beginning of the third year
* that
IN FERNAL Q U IX OTE. 9I
that Wilson was at the Castle, Mr.
Vasaley (a gentleman who lived in the
neighbourhood), brought to his house
two young ladies, to whom he had been
left guardian.
A handsome fortune of twenty thou-
sand pounds devolved to each, when she
came of age.
Emily, the eldest, was so perfectly
fascinating, that the veriest misanthro-
pist could not behold her with indiffer-
ence. She was in her twentieth year.
Her height was exactly that nice medium
of female beauty, which forms a pleas-
ing symmetry to the small and pointed
features of the most lovely face. Her
complexion was delicately fair ; her
eyes
92 TN FERNALs tº U IX off tº.
eyes not large, but quick, with a lan-
gºshing so thess which caught the ob-
server the moment he thought he had
escaped their first penetrating giance.
Her nose and forehead were models of
the Circassian ; her cheeks graced on
each side with a captivating dimple, in
which the little god of Love, with his
whole artillery, seemed to lay reclined.
Reader, didst thou ever see that enchant-
ing picture of Mary Queen of Scots,
painted by Zucchiro, in the possession
of F. Timberman, Esq. P. If thou hast,
thou mayst form some idea of the fea-
tures of the more lovely Emily. Her
hair, in native ringlets, luxuriously
flowed around her bosom ; and, to finish
the portrait, the taper fingers, the round
and polished arm, the small foot and
finishcci.
YN FET.N.A.F. QU, EXOTE. 93
finished ankle in a moment reminded
the enrapt admirer of the far-famed
Medicean Venus.
I would next describe the person of
her lovely sister, Fanny, in which a page
would be well employed; but, as her
thirteenth year was but lately passed, I
may very well defer it with saying that,
though in many respects different, there
was a strong likeness between thc sisters.
At present, if Emily had sat for the
picture of Flora, Fanny would have
made no bad Hebe.
Wilson, from whom the arrows of the
sportive god had as yet recoiled unhurt,
stood like a second Cymon when he
beheld this Iphigenia.
Cupid,
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94. IN FERNAL QUIX.O.T.E.
Cupid, who lay laughing among the
auburn tresses in her neck, saw the
opportunity; and before the poor youth
could recover from his surprise, let fly
his keenest arrow to the very bottom of
his heart.
In vain the young man rallied, and
endeavoured to extract the dart—every
attemptonly rankled the barb the deeper;
and before he left Mr. Vasaley's house,
the soft smiles of the fair maiden, as she
Sung
* In the dead of the night when with labour oppreſſ'd,
“ All mortals enjoy the ſweet bleſſings of reſt, &c. &c.”
completely subdued him.
The Duke's castle was not much more
* than
* *
IN FERNAL Q.U IXOTE. 95
than a mile from Mr. Vasaley's house.
Wilson, like most true lovers, first began
to despair; yet, in defiance of his sense,
his prudence, and almost of his will,
did his feet every evening lead him
towards Mr. Vasaley's. Often has he
walked to within a few yards of the
dwelling, which contained his beloved
object, and seeing no one, hastily turned
back again ;-still he took the same
path, reasoning and debating with him-
self, and frequently after four times
walking it, has he at last summoned reso-
lution to enter the house.
It cannot be supposed his passion long
remained hid from his lovely mistress:
every attempt at concealment only the
more exposed him.
When
96 - INFERNAL QUrx or 1.
When he considered her beauty, her
accomplishments, her handsome for-
tune—his own insignificance on the
other side, he determined to conquer
his fruitless, his presumptuous love.
Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley—people of the
common fashionable character—soon
rallicd her upon her conquest; nor
did the young lady despise it. The
great respectability of his character, his
connections, his own abilities, his person,
his manners, were such as would never
be injured by the lowness of his birth;
but wherever Wilson was known, these
soon affixed a proper consequence to
him. All these too upon acquaintance
increased, while the other was all but *...*
forgotten.
Besides,
*
*A
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 97.
Besides, as his origin was a subject of
which he was himself never ashamed, so
in vain did others attempt to injure him
there. In all companies he spoke (if
the course of conversation led him, but
never introduced the subject) of his
parents with that humility, duty, and
truth, that could never fail to leave an
impression favourable to himself in the
Iminds of his auditors.-As an instance.
iMr. and Mrs. Vasaley, and both the
young ladies were present; Mr. Vasaley
invited him to dinner the next day.
“I am obliged to you, Sir,” replied
Wilson, “and would with the greatest
pleasure accept your invitation, but I
have promised my mother to dine with
VOL., I, , F the
98. I'NiFTERN AiL QUIXOTE,
the family, as it is my father's birth-day,
which happens but once in four years.” .
“How can that be? asked Miss
Emily. z |
“He was born, Ma'am, on the 29th
of February.”
“Indeed tº said Mr. Vasaley; “it
is a very remarkable circumstance.”
“Your father, Sir,” said Miss Emily,
“I presume lives in this neighbour-
hood P”
“He is a carpenter, Ma'am, in the
next village.”
Miss Emily blushed ; Mr. Wilson did
not, but continued – “The kindness of
my friends having brought me up in
a different situation in life, has made me
a very unprofitable son. My father has
been
IN FER.N AL -QUIX.O.T.E. 499
been a most kind parent; and had he
not yielded up his interest for what he
conceived my profit, I might long before
this have been of considerable service
to him in his business, and saved him
much trouble in his old age.”
“Truly, Sir,” said Mr. Vasaley,
“the satisfaction of seeing you 53
then pausing a little, “noticed by his
Grace must overbalance every incon-
venience.” !
“Why, Sir,” replied Wilson, smiling,
“‘my father, I believe, would be as
happy with me at home; my mother's
vanity, I confess
Ladies, you will
pardon one of your own sex ;-but I
must say no more, or you will accuse
me of satirizing you.”
“When we think,” replied Mrs.
F 2 Vasaley,
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--- : . * e Af _T
'Vasaley, “that you are satirizing us,
we will chuse Miss Emily for our cham-
pion.”
This was uttered with great affected
archness: Wilson coloured not a little,
but, recovering himself, replied—“Miss
Emily, indeed, would turn my satire to
praise at any time.”
When Wilson had departed, Miss
Emily, addressing herself to Mrs. Vasaley,
said—“My dear Mrs. Vasaley, surely
this Mr. Wilson can never be the son of
a common carpenter P” x
“”Tis even so, my dear;-I told you
so before.”
“Oh, I thought you were in joke.
Well, whoever he is, he is a gentle-
man;–
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*
man;—yet I can scarcely believe any of
you.”
But, among all Mr. Vasaley's house-
hold, Wilson had not a warmer defender
than the beautiful little Fanny; and
among the many admirers who already
began to court the smiles of Miss Emily,
Wilson was ever aided by the good word.
and kind wishes of the sister.
That urbanity of manners, which was
so conspicuous in this young man, pene-
trated, like the genial warmth of the sun,
into every breast; that steady upright-
ness of conduct, which ever applauded
what was right in others, and condemned
what was Wrong, made him appear to all
F 3 what
H0% FN FERNA. L. QUI XOTE.
what he really was—the friend offiuman-
kind.—No poor man ever thought him.
proud, no rich one mean. In whatever
company he was present, he never
affected to be superior to any one; and
among the greatest men in the kingdom,
not the smallest traces of an abject ser-
wility was to be perceived. In his
friendships steady—in his love eonstant—
in his whole deportment mild, resolute,
and open to the truth. By nature he
was warm and hasty; and though he
Haboured to divest himself of these angry
ebuilitions, yet the dignified glow of
offended virtue would frequently burst
forth in defiance of every exertion.
The rules by which he endeavoured
to form his conduct, were the genuine
& principles
ENFERNAL QUIX OTE: 103
principles of Christianity, which he
would affirm were so plain and simple,
that common reason alone was ncCessary
to inform us what was right or Wrong.
A man, such as I have described,
whatever disadvantages of birth he
might labour under, could not fail to be
an interesting object to a woman of
sense. No fair one could form ān ae-
Quaintance without respecting him, and
his addresses must at least appear in the
light of a compliment.
But when the increasing notice which
the Duke of Silsbury took of him, is
considered, it even gave him a worldly
eonsequence Superior to most young
Iſlèll, -- " " :
-* - F 4. When.
104. IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
When he first became an inmate of
the castle, he rarely saw his Graces
Sometimes, when he joined the hounds,
the Duke would enter into conversation,
with him. Every conference satisfied
him that Wilson was more worthy of
his notice. The Duke made him a pre-
sent of two hunters, and kept them.
entirely for his riding. If Wilson was
absent from a day's sport, the Duke
began to miss him, and generally to
enquire for him. When any particular
sport was expected, Wilson was ever,
informed ; and perceiving it pleased his
patron, he seldom failed to attend. By
degrees his Grace saw more and more
of him within the castle. He took
pleasure in seeing and hearing the im-
provements of his children ; and he
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4, 24, ºf ** †. SOO1).
INFERNAL QUIXOTE.- 105
soon found that Wilson was become a.
general favourite.
... The house-steward was very old and
infirm; Wilson frequently assisted him,.
and, on his demise (the beginning of
the third year), his Grace offered the
place to the other, which was with gra.
titude accepted.
Thus, by slow and regular gradations,
did his Grace's favour increase; and by
the time Wilson had entered his twenty-
first year, it was generally known that
this young man was left one of the trus-
tees to his Grace's younger children. “
I have related these things now that
the reader may see why so beautiful, sº
F 5 a CCOmlº-
106 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
Asºº
accomplished, and rich a young lady
as Miss Emily Bellaire, did not spurn
at his addresses; as I wish not to have
the dernierresort of the Novelisthistorian
to the almighty power of Love.
The first critic of the Augustine age
remarked upon poetry—and Novels we
know are a ſpecies of poetry.—
* Nee Deus interfit mifi dignus vindice nodus
* Inciderit ;”
Which is as much as to say, never
let your heroes and heróines play the
fool, if they can possibly help it.
Therefore it is, that I wish rationally
to account for the lovely Miss Emily
3 permit-
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permitting the devoirs of young Wilson;
for, though the fair lady fed her fond
lover's flame with hopes, she could not
be said absolutely to have accepted him.
To speak literally, Miss Emily cer-
tainly gave the young gentleman every
encouragement to persevere in his suit;
yet she had neither bona fide (in honour).
entered into any positive engagement
to marry him, nor had she dismissed all
other pretenders. No, the fascinating
smile was not yet confined, and daily
almost, may I say, were human victims
offered up at the shrine of her beauty,
F: 6 CHAP,
#08 INFERNAL QUIXOTE,
CHAP. X.
As Miss Emily Bellaire soon became
the fashionable object of the men's ad-
miration, and the ladies' envy, in this
part of the country; it is no matter of
wonder that the fame of her beauty
should reach the ears of the gallant
Marauder, who was just returned from
his travels. -
Mr, Marauder spent the greatest part
of
\
IN FERN AI, QUIX OTE, 109
of his time in town, On his first arrival
from abroad, as Lady James was then
in London, and afterwards he was at his
friend Cloudley's. It was very late,
therefore, in the summer before he made
his appearance at Hazleton.
Mr. Marauder's acquaintance with
the neighbouring gentry was very distant
indeed ; he considered them as beings
of a lower order.
Immediately on his arrival in England
he had been presented at Court by the
Earl of Gayden, as the presumptive
heir of the Dukedom of Silsbury; he
had since been introduced to the first
Nobility of the kingdom, and was now
forming his establishment on the most
fashionable
*- ***
If (). IN FERNAL QUIxo TE:
fashionable scale, as became his splendid,
fortune and vast expectations.
Lady James was at this time in the
country, and her dutiful son came down,
for two days to enquire after her health.
In the course of a morning's ride he
met Miss Emily on horseback, attended.
by Wilson. A few paces behind were
Mr. Vasaley, another gentleman, and.
the little Fanny.
Miss Emily's green blind did not hide-
her face. Marauder saw in a moment
that her beauty had not been magnified.
He stopped his horse when he came
to Mr. Vasaley, and politely bowed.
- The
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The bow was returned, as a bow
generally is from a very great man to
one who feels himself inferior.
Farther than this, their acquaintance
had not yet commenced; but as Mr.
Marauder stopped his horse, Mr. Vasaley
said—“ How long, Sir, have we had the
honour of your company in the coun-
try?”
“A few days, Mr. Vasaley;—I pur-
pose staying some weeks,”—an hasty de-
termination,-‘‘ and have stopped my
horse to tell you I hope we shall be
better neighbours than I have yet found
it in my power to be.”
“You do me great honour, Sir ; ;
am extremely happy to hear it, and will
have the pleasure of paying my respects
to you to-morrow.”
‘‘ I shall
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“I shall be at home all the morning.
I hope Mrs. Vasaley is well; I begmy
compliments. Good day, Sir.”
Such was the origin of Mr. Marauder's
introduction to the family of Mr.
Vasaley.
The following day Mr. Vasaley's visit
was returned. Miss Emily was visible,
and her dimples played not in vain.
Mr. Marauder smiled most graciously,
and accepted an invitation of Mr.
Vasaley to dine on the third day.
Here Wilson was, by Mr. Marauder's
own desire, introduced to him. .
: Mr. Marauder said—(no one but
their
H.N FERNAL QUIXOTE. | 13
their common friend, Mr. Vasaley, was
present at the time)—“I should be
sorry, Mr. Wilson, that any misunder-
standing should take place between me
and my neighbours. The impetuosity
of boys is no excuse for the quarrels of
men. I am happy to meet you at my
friend, Mr. Vasaley’s.”
Wilson replied—“I with pleasure,
Sir, accept your offers of civility, and
assure you it is my wish to be on terms
of friendship with every human creature.
on the ſace of the earth.”
Perhaps this was not the kind of
answer to gain the favour of rising
greatness; but Wilson spoke it from his
heart. Mr. Marauder politely bowed,
and the gentlemen walked into the other
room to the ladies,
This
§ 14 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE-
This beginning of civilities between
two young men, bor under the same
planet, with the same influences, did not
long escape the ears of Dr. Line. Now
his predictions began to be fulfilled, and
he looked forward with confidence to,
the completion of them.
He borrowed immediately the excise-
man's horse, and took his usual journey
to his clerical friend. Nay, so anxious
was he to be the messenger of the good"
tidings, that he is reported to have rode
nearly five miles an hour—a speedy rate
to which he had been long unused.
“Oh Mr. Lockeridge tº exclaimed
be, “in these degenerate days, when
the noble science of astrology is con-
founded
IN FERNAL QUIX 6-TE. “T H 5
founded with the juggles of the magi-
eian, rejoice with me that my plain and
simple calculation has evinced that a
knowledge of the heavenly bodies is a
sure and certain rule to judge of the
occurrences of this inferior, poor, de-
pendant spot of earth.”
He told his tale: Mr. Lockeridge
congratulated him, with his usual good-
nature, on the rising friendship of the
young men.
“Yes, my dear friend, the hour of
maturity is at hand; their fates reach
their climax—their destinies, interwoven,
verge to the same point—and peace,
friendship, and unanimity entwine them
together, \
The
T 16. FN FERN AI, QUIX OTE:
The warm heart of Dr. Line was
never checked by his friend with any
cynical remark. ~
CHAP. XI.
A RECONCILIATION having thus
taken place between the young gentle-
men (if by that universal term they may
be linked together), they frequently
met at Mr. Vasaley's. -
The attractive magnet drew them with
an.irresistible impulse. -
Wilson:
TTNFERNAL 'QUIX OTE, 11;
! Wilson had been for some time a
«declared admirer.
, Mr. Marauder did not appear in so
ostensible a light. Yet not unmoved
did Wilson perceive the attentions of
the future Duke. The quick eye of
“love was alarmed; he fancied the lovely
-damsel too much encouraged his rival.
Perhaps the reader will be able to
judge more of the feelings of the parties
if I transcribe a love scene, than from
a thousand remarks :-if they are them-
selves lovers, I am sure they will; if they
know not how to love, they are every
way uninterested.
Qne morning, inadelicious téte-à-téte
with
i 18 H NYERN A L QUT XO Tº.
with his fair mistress—many sweet and
tender things had already passed—she
said—“Well, Sir, how do you like Mr.
Marauder? don't you think him very
agreeable?”
“I am afraid lest Miss Emily should
think him too agreeable.” z
“Oh, ridiculous ! Come, don't
pretend to be jealous. What, you sup-
pose every well-dressed man to be a most
formidable rival?”
“Ah! Emily, how can you accuse
me of needless jealousy P Does Mr.
Marauder attempt to conceal the passion
you have inspired him with P Do I not
know by my own feelings what is the
object that brings him to Mr. Vasaley's?”
JEmily smiled. Wilson continued.—
“Have
IN FERN A L QUIXOTE. 119
* “Have I not, dearest Emily, reason
to be alarmed when I consider the pow-
erful recommendations with which my
rival is armed—when I know my own
*~
insignificance?”
Miss Emily tried to look grave
“I am sorry, Mr. Wilson, you should
have so bad an opinion of me as to
suppose the gifts of Fortune will affect
my heart. But I believe you have no
very favourable sentiments of women in
general, and I see no reason why you
should exempt me from the list.”
“My dearest Emily,” taking her
hand, “how can you so cruelly tor-
ment me? On your favour have I
built my fondest hopes, and I tremble
when
# 20 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
when I see any one attempt to rob me
of my treasure.”
Emily's looks spoke encouragement;
Wilson, with increasing ardour, pro-
ceeded.—“But will my lovely girl pro-
mise me her favour, will she sanction
my love, will she consent to my wishes,
and kindly permit me to speak to her
guardians, to say I have her approbation
35
to address them—to hasten
“Oh dear me! what a hurry the good
man is in Indeed I can promise IłO-
thing. You know we are beth children
in the eyes of the law. You cannot tell
what may happen. Wait patiently, my
good friend,” laying her hand familiarly
on his.
* | Wilson
IN FERN A L QUIX:OTE. 121
Wilson kissing it in raptures—
“Shall I call you cruel or kind? If
you knew, my dearest Emily, how
wretched this suspense makes me, Surely
you would bless me with a more deter-
minate answer. Let me then speak to
your trustees. Why should my beloved
girl delay ? I know I am unworthy
such excellence; but if you could read
my heart, where every motion, every
thought 22
“I am not to be hurried, my good
man: I insist upon it you say not a
word to my guardians, unless you mean
to forfeit my favour for ever. Is it
necessary to have any other approbation
than mine P”
“No, no, my charming Emily, it is
you alone are the object of my pride and
WOL. I. G. my
129 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE.
my ambition. I wish but to hasten over
the tedious forms and ceremonies that
prevent me from claiming you by a
legal title. Oh glorious moment
when the holy bands of matrimony shall
give you to these arms—when I am
blessed with a right to protect and
defend you ! Say, my dearest, loveliest
Emily, shall I sweep away the impedi-
ments P” w” #
“Not a step further, as you value
me. Good day ! I must begone and
dress me. We see you in the evening?”
* As true as the dial to the sun.”
“Well, goodbye!—spareyour similes
to another time.”—So spoke the fair
daughter of Eve, and was off in a
moment.
Wilson
IN FERNAL QUIxote. F23.
Wilson had not been gone ten-minutes
before Marauder called.
Emily ran down stairs immediately
“Here comes my lovely murderess,”
exclaimed Mr. Marauder, meeting her
at the door, and taking her not-unwil-
ling hand.—“Ah! Emily, how many
poor hearts have you broken P What
number do I stand in your list?”
“Oh ſ* replied Emily, with a killing
smile, “I put you on the blank side,
among the insensibles.”
“No, Emily, if sensibility claims
your love, you will put me first on the
white side. Only feel my heart, my
charming angel ! how it beats to fly to
you !”
G 2 - With
124 INFERNAL quixote.
With a little coyness on the part of
the fair maiden, he pressed her hand to
his breast; she, laughing, replied—“It’s
a wanderer, I believe, and seems ready
to be off.” -.
“Not so, dear Emily; like a poor
ghost, you charm it within the circle of
your attractions. It is in vain for me *
that I think of returning to town—that
I seat me calmly in my mother's par-
lour—that I attempt to read, write,
and otherwise employ me: I instantly
find I have lost my better part, and as I
know you to be the thief, I am come to
reclaim it.” -
“Well, take it, and begone !” -
“No, I lose it with such pleasure, I
would rather make an exchange, if a
certain sentimental young gentleman,
whom
INFERNAL Quixote. 125
whom I saw at a distance striding over
the fields, has not been beforehand
with me.” -
‘‘ Ridiculous ! Mr. Marauder.”
“What, is the fluttering thing only
bespoke, and not yet departed ?”
Emily, whose expressive countenance
had before given its zest to every word
she uttered, answered but with a look
—such a look -
Marauder, interpreting it in his own
favour, continued-–" Then let me catch
it in my arms, and make sure of it ere
it is too late.”
As he spoke, he caught the tempting
object in his arms, and hastily snatched
a kiss. - -
G 3 “Upon
126 IN FERNAL Q UIX.O.T.E.
“Upon my life, Mr. Marauder, f
shall leave you !” pretending displea-
sure by an assumed gravity; “you are
getting rude, Sir!” -
- ſCan my lovely Emily be surprised
I am not insensible when all the world.
adores her? She called me a stoic just
now ; I only wish to convince her I am
not so to her charms.) ~.
“It is very fortunate we poor simple
maidens do not give credit to every
word you fine gentlemen utter.” *
& 4 Is it necessary I should speak to
declare the language of my soul? . Do
not my looks every moment betray me?
If I called Emily ordinary—if I said her
eyes wanted brightness, her features
expression, her form the graces, who
would know my picture : Is my lan-
guage
1N FERNAL QUIx OTE. 127
guage to be laconic, my manner torpid, .
as if I conversed with her grand-
mother?”
“Nonsense, Mr. Marauder I shall
fly if you do not talk more reasonably.”
“Charming maid tº continued Ma-
rauder, dropping on one knee, and
taking again aher snowy hand ; “no,
it is not the enchanting face, the be-
witching form that I adore—it is that
heavenly soul, which every turn of the
countenance shews, where the very
angels themselves might look with
pleasure, and see themselves outshone.
'Tis this I worship— this day and night
employs my busy mind, and to make
myself master of this beloved idol, I
- would, like the giants of old, shake the
throne of Jove himself.” -
G 4 “Indeed,
128 INFERNAL Quixote.
“Indeed, Mr. Marauder, you a Fe
getting very serious.” -” -
“Yes, my lovely friend—Oh ! that
I might call you by a dearer name —
I wish to be so. Thus on my knee let
me entreat your love. Say, and ease
my heart, that no cursed rival deprives
me of it. Dearest Emily, dearest, most
beloved maid, turn not away !—Oh say
I am not indifferent to you p.
“Why should I answer this smart
speech?” replied Emily, with an arch
smile. “ You told me before I was to
read your looks;–can you not read
mine?” -
“Yes,” retorted Marauder, spring-
ing up. “I will, at least, explain them
in my own favour, and the sacred kiss
of love shall seal my glowing hopes.”
- Mr.
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 129
Mr. Marauder was as good as his
word.
“Really, Sir,” exclaimed Emily,
trying topout, “I shall be very angry;
12,
must begone.—Good gracious !” con-
tinued she, looking at her watch, “it
wants but half an hour of dinner-time.
—Hark there is the first bell !”
, Emily tripped lightly away.
“She is and shall be mine !” said
Marauder to himself, looking eagerly
after her.
Nothing, perhaps, can be more dull
and unmeaning than a love scene
literally told:—it is the language of the
- .G 5. eyes,
I 30 InfºRNAL evixote. -
eyes, the pathos of the acting, an in-
describable je ne ſais quoi, which cannot
be translated into any one language,
but is in reality that universal language
of which so much has been said, so
little understood. Every love-sick
enamorato, from the clown that breaks
the clods, to the Smirking courtier that
shivers at a breeze—from the dustman
of St. Giles's, to the Grand Signior, or
still grander Emperor of China, equally
understand it. .
It is not then for any information in
that universal science of love that I -
have repeated the two last scenes; but
that the reader may form in his own
mind a clear opinion of each of the gen-
tlemen in the eyes—I cannot say heart
—of the beauteous Emily.
5 The
INFERNAL QUIxote. 13|
The advantages that both lovers had
personally and mentally were by no
means of apar. That they were in Mr.
Marauder's favour was clearly evidefit.
In manly beauty they might be equal ;
yet in a fashionable ease, a suavity
blended with a dignity of manners, ā
thoughtless gracefulness of action, not
omitting the power of dress, Wilson
could in no point compare with the
other. - -
Again, in affairs of gallantry Marau-
der had been deeply versed, and
ever successful. He might almost have
said with Caesar, upon another occasion—
* Veni, widi, vici !”
g 6 {\f
*.
{32 INFERNAL QUIxote.
or more literally, in Marauder's case, it
was—“I came, I was seen, I conquer-
ed;” but Wilson was a novice in these
matters. Wilson too was only able to
utter with confusion the dictates of the
heart :-Mr. Marauder, perfectly col-
lected, spoke from the reflection of the
mind. Again, in the knowledge of
these sweet things, Miss Emily was as
much superior to Wilson, as she was
inferior to Marauder.
Labouring under these disadvantages,
it is no wonder Wilson made but a slow
progress in his amorous siege, though in
less than six weeks Marauder made sure
of the citadel. g
CHAP.
*.
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 133
{º}
CHAP. XII.
*.
$
FROM Mr. Marauder's first acquaint-
ance with Miss Emily, it had been an
invariable rule with him to scoff and
ridicule Wilson and his principles; but
this was carried on by degrees, till in the -
end he had completely undermined him
in the favour of Miss Emily.
Most cautious, indeed, was Marauder
in Wilson's presence; and, in general,
his
&
f34; INFERNAL QUIxOTE
his satire was more in distant allusions.
than personal remarks. Among many
of the topics was religion, which it was
evident Wilson highly respected. This
was a subject Marauder could treat a
thousand ways; though when Wilson
was in company, he took good care not
to expose his own principles by giving
his opinion too freely : not that he
valued the pleasure or displeasure of the
other, but the time was not come when
he wished to take off the mask.
, Marauder seemed to have imbibed an
inveterate dislike against the Ministers
of religion.—“Canting hypocrites; sly
Priests, who fancy every one to be such
fools as to believe their nonsense; slaves
of prejudice; fellows who wilfully shut
- their
h
IN FERNAL Q UIXOTE. ºf 35.
their eyes, then say it is dark,” and
many such-like common-place terms
were frequently uttered by him. He
brought many books also to Miss Emily,
particular passages of which he often:
marked, and sometimes pointedly read.
Among the first was Mrs. Wollstone-
craft's Rights of Women.
One day having read some pages from
it, he remarked—“Well, my dear
Emily, what think you of this lady's
notions P’’ º
“I think she is very favourable to
our sex.”
“Not a whit too much SO, my dear
girl; why should there be any inferi-
ority in the one sex than the other P
In
136 IN FERNAL OU IX OTE,
In what are we superior to you ? - In
beauty and wit you always excel us;
and were your education not so confined,
I doubt not you would equally rival us
in the most learned studies. Yes, some
of your scs have already done it. For
classical learning and critical judgment,
a Dacier has been most eminent; and
this ingenious and elegant authoress is
herself a strong example.”
Marauder ran on with such a string
of female names, that even Emily began
to fancy herself half a Grecian; so art-
fully did he mix the most pernicious doc-
trines with the most grateful flattery.
As Marauder did not openly profess
himself the favoured lover of Emily
Bellaire,
IN FERN A L QUIXOTE. 137
Bellaire, Wilson was totally ignorant of
the progress his rival had made; and,
though sometimes a little jealousy might
ruffle his mind, Miss Emily was so
guarded before company, that at the
very moment when Marauder made sure
of his conquest, Wilson also flattered
himself with having more interest than
CVCT,
The motives, as well as the means,
of secrecy between the parties, will
fully appear as the history continues.
No one, indeed, was so ignorant of the
progress Marauder had made as Wilson
himself.
Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley in part knew
it; but they were too much people of
the
I 38 INFERNAL QUIxote.
.*
the world to think there was any harm
in a little flirting.
Once Vasaley mentioned to his wife
that he was afraid Emily Bellaire gave
Wilson too much encouragement if she
really meant to have Mr. Marauder.
But Mrs. Vasaley replied—“It would
be a very hard thing if a beautiful
young woman, before she tied herself
for life, might not indulge in a
little innocent coquetry. Besides, Miss
Emily's choice might depend at last
upon the temper of the person she chose;
and how could she so well know the
peculiarities of his temper, if she did
not give him some encouragement to
continue his suit?”
Many
IN FERN A. L. QU IX OTE. 139
£;
Many other arguments, equally cogent
and reasonable, Mrs. Vasaley produced,
and Mr. Vasaley, allowed them to be
S().
Little Fanny, though seven years
younger than her sister, was a child of
very promising abilities as well as per-
son, and endowed with an excellent
understanding, undebased by vanity,
uncorrupted by flattery. Young as she
was, she perceived the insincerity of her
sister's behaviour; and being always
most partial to Wilson, and no great
admirer of Marauder, who sometimes
treated her with great freedom, and
sometimes great indifference, she fre-
quently, in her artless way, mentioned
it. She, of course, also had more
opportunities
I40. IN FERNAL QUIX OTE.
opportunities of seeing her sister's beha-...
viour than any one else.
Fanny was about thirteen—an age of
childhood to a young female, but by no
means an age of ignorance.
One day when Marauder had just left
Emily, and Fanny had been present the
latter part of the time, she said—“Dear
me, sister, what would Mr. Wilson
think, if he knew you heard so kindly
all the fine things Mr. Marauder has
been speaking P”
“I care very little, Fanny, what Mr.
Wilson thinks.”
“Why surely, Emily, you don't like
Mr. Marauder better than Mr. Wilson?
and before you knew Mr. Marauder,
I thought
IN FERN A L Q U IX OTE, 141
I thought you was in love with Mr.
Wilson: you used to say to me he was
so sensible, and so handsome, and so
35
good-natured, and so
“Pshaw Fanny, you will be a child
all your life. Can't you see a vast dif-
ference between the son of a carpenter,
and a fine young man that is to be a
Duke, and to have all these great estates
round the country here?”
Mr. Vasaley's, among others, was
rented of the Duke.
“I don't know, Emily, that he is a
bit the better for that; and I am sure
I think there is no more comparison
between Mr. Wilson and this fine saucy
gentleman, than—” -
“I believe,
142 , IN FERNAL Q. U IX O'FE.
“I believe, Fanny, you are in love
with Wilson yourself; you are always
so praising him, and so pleased when
you see him.”
Fanny coloured. Emily continued.
“And, to do him justice, he praises
you almost as much : you are so
sweet a child, amiable a temper, excel-
lent a disposition—and then he is always.
bringing you books to read. I declare,
I think, when he comes here, he makes
as much love to you as me.”
“How can you talk so, Emily P You
know it is all for love of you; and he
always calls me his little sister.”
“Yes, and kisses you for his love of
23
#116.
Poor
IN FERNAL QUIX.O.T.E. . 143
Poor Fanny coloured more than ever.
“Well, he has only to wait,” said
Emily, “six or eight years, and you'll
make him a most excellent wife. Faith !
he is too steady and precise for me.”
“You did`nt say so, sister,” replied
Fanny, recovering herself, “before
- you knew Mr. Marauder; and as for
kissing, Mr. Marauder is always want-
ing to kiss me, but I hate him, and he
never did and never shall kiss me ; so
you may say what you will about me
and Mr. Wilson, but I am certain you
don’t treat him well.”
“Indeed, Fanny, you give yourself
great airs.”
“No, sister, I don’t mean to do so.”
“Why do you pretend to judge of
\ my
144 INFERNAL QUIxot E.
my conduct, and speak so contemptu-
ously of Mr. Marauder, whom every
body says is the most polite, well-bred,
fashionable man? He is nephew to the
Duke of Silsbury, and will some day be
Duke himself, whilst Wilson is no better
than a head servant.”
“Yet the Duke likes him better than
his nephew, and treats him with more
kindness.” -
‘‘ Ror all that, Mr. Marauder will be
Duke at last, and have all the estates
besides.” .
“Well, sister Emily, I only spoke as
I thought best for you. Mr. Marauder
is always so sly and cunning; and
though he makes me such fine speeches
when you are not by, I shall never like
him the better for it.” .
“Why,
YN FERN A L QUIXOTE. 145
-
“Why, what does he say to you,
child P”
“He says how tall and genteel I am,
and how much I am like you, and 53
“Oh he does there is great harm in
that, to be sure.”
“And he tries to take hold of me—
but he shall not touch me ; and though
Mr. Wilson did kiss me, it was when you
was by, for he's not so artful and im-
pudent; and I think you'll be much
happier with him.” *
5
“I tell you what, Fanny,” retorted
Emily, very gravely, “ you know no-
thing at all about these matters: re-
member, child, you are but just entered
in your teens, and it's pretty, indeed,
that you should pretend to question and
instruct your eldest sister. There, go
VOI. I. • II and
146 IN FERN A L Q U [XOTE.
go and read that fine book about the
Bible—your favourite's present—Miss
Moore's Sacred Dramas, as he calls
them ; that's most proper for a child to
do.”
“It would do you no harm, Emily,
to read them, although Mr. Marauder
did abuse them, and laugh, and call
them a pack of Parson's stuff: and I
hate him for that too.”
2
“I tell you what, Fanny,” conclud-
ed Miss Emily, with the authority of an
elder sister, “it’s very wrong of you to
talk in this way of Mr. Marauder, and
pretend to judge of my conduct. Mind
your dolls and your books, and don't
trouble-yourself with things you can't
understand.”
Such
IN FERN A L QUIXOTE. 147
Such were the different opinions of the
company at Mr. Vasaley's concerning
the two gentlemen.
CHAP. XIII.
IN the short space of two months,
after their first acquaintance, Mr. Ma-
rauder completely alienated the affec-
tions, or at least the inclinations, of
Emily Bellaire from Wilson, and trans-
ferred them to his own proper person.
IIis whole artillery of prayers, vows,
H 2 COH]-
14s INFERNAL QUIxo'ſ E.
compliments, and flattery had been level.
led at a weak fortification, where Vanity
commanded in chief, and Folly was
Prime-Mini ster. The outworks' were
already won, and the citadel was ready
to surrender at discretion ; but Marau-
der, like a complete General, was not
fond of giving too favourable terms.
- To drop my military metaphor, Mr.
Marauder, not doubting of his success,
seriously reasoned with himself whether
he should take Miss Emily for a wife or
a mistress. Many were the arguments -
for the last opinion—one only for the
“Miss Emily Bellaire, ” he would say -
to himself, “is most lovely and beau-
. . tiful
INFERNAL Quixote. 149
...”
tiful—perfections as necessary, perhaps
• *.
more so, in a mistress as a wife.—Yes;
but she has twenty thousand pounds.
“Emily Bellaire is sharp, ingenious,
and accomplished in the routine of fashion
—giddy and thoughtless in the world.
Qualities of very little use in a wife?—
- Yes; but she has twenty thousand
pounds. .
“Emily Bellaire has no great advan-
tages in her birth, family, or connec-
tions; her expectations very few, her
acquaintanceneither possessed of interest
nor consequence. These things are not
wanted in a mistress?—No ; but she has
twenty thousand pounds.
“ Do I want money 2–No. ... *
“If I marry her, can she be supported
without it ?—No.
H 3 “If
150 INFERNAL Quixote.
“ If she is my mistress, will not her
own fortune be sufficient?—Yes, in a
little time.
“And when I come to the Dukedom,
will the interest of twenty thousand
pounds support the Duchess of Silsbury?
—No, no, no. * {
“What then shall I gain upon the
whole by matrimony —Nothing.
“What shall I lose by making her
my mistress?—Nothing. 4.
“ By r which shall I triumph most
successfully over the carpenter's son —
Not by matrimony.
“By which shall I gain most eclat in
the eyes of the world —Not by matri-
mony.
“By which shall I be most free, most
independent, and unincumbered?—Not
by matrimony. ~ -
- “Well,
\ -
1N FERNAL QUIxotº. 151
“Well, then, my lovely Emily, un-
cramped by foolish ties, thou shalt be
mine. If I marry thee, I may repent,
and cannot change my destiny. With-
* out matrimony I shall have no need for
repentance, and may change my mind
whenever I think proper.”
Mr. Marauder, having reasoned upon
this business, was finally determined by
reading the will of Mr. Bellaire, Miss
Emily's father.
** I leave to my dear daughters, Emily
and Fanny Bellaire, the whole of my
property, which, on account of my chil-
dren being both females, I have invested
H 4 in
152 INFERNAL QUIX OTE,
in the public funds :- namely, forty
thousand pounds in the Three per Cent.
Consols. That is, to each of my daugh-
ters twenty thousand pounds, &c. &c.
&c. &c.” - *A -
Mr. Marauder was satisfied; and duly
considerin gthat twenty thousandpounds
Three per Cent, stock, greatly weakened
the only argument for matrimony, drew
his conclusion in a negative on the sub-
ject. . .
Neither was the young man ignorant
of the wonderful arguments of William
Godwin; but Marauder, though, if it
suited his purpose, he would make use of
. . . . . . . ~ the
1NFERNAL QUIxo TE. 153
* the conceit and folly of another, had
too much sense to be led by them him-
When he pointed out to Emily,
Godwin's wise arguments, that * * * it is
absurd to expect the inclinations and
wishes of two human bein gs to coincide
through any long period of time. To
oblige them to act and to live together, is
tosubject themtosome inevitable portion
of thwarting, bickering, and unhappi-
ness,”—Marauder laughed athis author;
.- and when he afterwards read page - 499,
vol. 2.-‘‘So long as I seek by despotic
* The words of this contemptible writer are here and
in other places quoted word for word,---See vol. ii.
Political Juſtice, page 497. -
- H 5 and
154. IN FERNAL QUIXOTE,
and artificial means to engross a woman
to myself, and to prohibit my neigh-
bour from proving his superior claim, I
am guilty of the most odious selfishness ;”
he would exclaim—“Dear Emily, I
am the most selfish man breathing !”
Yet still the poison, however loathsome
it might appear, could not fail, in some
degree, to contaminate so young and
inexperienced a mind.
To Emily Bellaire, so lovely and so
beautiful, it was of more consequence -
that her guardian and his wife were
weak, silly, fashionable people, than if
she had not possessed those personal -
attractions. What vanity and fashion-
able folly induced the credulous fair-
one to believe, Mrs. Vasaley, whose
4 judgment
-
inyennai. QUIxote. 155
. judgment was most light and trifling,
countenanced and approved. As for
- Mr. Vasaley, he might have been a very
worthy, good kind of a man, if he had
never acted from his own judgment and
abilities; and, instead of being the master
of a family, had passed through life
without ever possessing a will of his own.
*.
a 6 CHAP.
156 INFERNAL QUIxote
CHAP. XIV.
MARAUDER, having fully reasoned
upon the point of matrimony, next laid
out a regular plan to forward his views
without it.
- As he revolved these things in his ride
to Mr. Vasaley's, he remarked—“I
presume it will keep me a few weeks
- longer from possession. Matrimony T
might have to-morrow.” • *
According to the plan he had adopted,
INFERNAL Quixote. 157
the moment he arrived at Mr. Vasaley's,
Marauder looked unusually grave. .
As soon aS the lovers were alone,
Miss Emily could not fail remarking it.
After many attempts at an evasion to
make the lady more anxious, Marauder -
produced a letter, saying—“ Last night
I received this cursed epistle t. If I
thought Wilson had been advising his
Grace, I would blow his brains out.”
Miss Emily was alarmed, and read—
- “ SIR, - * .
“I have undoubted intelligence that
you are entering into a matrimonial
engagement, Let me forewaru you—if
- s yout
158 Infernal Quixote,
you ally yourself to one, however beau- ‘’’ ‘,
tiful and rich, that has not a family and
alliance to boast such as the Duke of
Silsbury might expect, you will for ever
forfeit the favour of one already greatly
displeased.
“ To shew, • exclaimed Marauder,
“my dearest Emily, .* how I despise :- the
writer, how I love the subject, if she
will deign to accept my hand, to-mor-
row, by the Parson's assistance, we
will bid him defiance! Oh most lovely
of your sex there is nothing I would
not sacrifice to - gain your smiles - and
favour ! Infamous scrawl!” seizing sud-
s,
{ is
INFE RNAL QUIxote. I59
denly the paper, “thus, thus let me
. - tear thee to atoms l’
Emily, flattered at his warmth, pleased
with his ardour, strongly protested
against so hasty a marriage. Her lover,
on the other hand, as eagerly pressed for
it, though in so general a manner, that
had the fair-one unexpectedly consent-
ed, every arrangement still remained to
be settled, and a thousand means were
open to defer it.
Mr. Marauder now burst forth into
a violent abuse against the Duke
and Wilson ; neither of whom, I need
not inform the reader, knew no more of
the letter than Dr. Line's friend in the
moon
Turning
160 INFERNAL ourkorr. -
Turning the course of his oratory
from satire to praise, Marauder declared,
in the most solemn terms, that in every
respect he considered a match with his
beloved Emily infinitely beyond his
expectations. -
“Pardon me, lovely girl, if rseem to
flatter you :—you know my sincerity.
Such beauty alone deserves the first
rank; but, with the sense, the judg-
ment, the abilities my dear girl possesses, -
the first Prince in Europe would be
most highly honoured with her hand;
and when to these is added a splendid
fortune, such as falls to my Emily'slot,
- where is the parent who, even in cold,
prudential reasons, would not rejoice in
the alliance for his son? Believe me
INFERNAL QUIxof E. 16f
that cursed writing was all maliee and
revenge. 'Tis true, for I will conceal
nothing from my Emily, there are a few
estates the Duke has promised to leave
with the title, and which are in his own
disposal; and, as the wretch cannot live
long, it might, in a worldly light, be
better
that would debar me for one moment of
No, nothing can be better
the possession of her who is more dear
to me than all the titles, honours, or
riches the whole world can ever give t”
With a deep sigh he pressed her to his
bosom.
Emily was really affected; and the
tempter perceived that opportunity only
was wanting to make sure of his prey.
& With
162 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
With well-dissembled sorrow, Mr.
Marauderaffectionately kissed the pearly
drops from her lovely face, and they
returned together into the drawing-
TOOm,
Mr. Marauder had dined at Mr.
Vasaley's; much company was expected
in the evening: he therefore seized on a
few minutes for the foregoing scene,
rightly judging that the confusion of a
large assembly was best adapted to pre-
vent any regular judgment in the mind
of his fair mistress.
ſ Mr. Marauder was indebted to Nature
for a fine and handsome person, and to
Art for a judicious display of it. He
was tallin stature, and of a commanding
} aspects
INFERNAL quixote. 163
aspect, aquiline nose, a bold and full
eye, large mouth, strong and well
limbed, haughty in his usual gait, and
very erect. He spoke the living lan-
guages, particularly French and Italian,
fluently; was well versed in modern
literature, politics, history, and geo-
graphy. A constant smile exhilarated
his features, which varied to..a COIl-
temptuous sneer, or an insinuating blan-
dishment, as the different human pas-
sions affected him. Other particularities
of his character have appeared before,
and will more fully expand themselves
in the continuation of this narrative.
Mr. Marauder was nearly the same age
as Emily; and in a knowledge of the
female heart was a most wonderful adept.
Nor is it a matter of any surprise, when
*. - - *. We
164 IN FERN A I, QUIXOTE,
we consider that his education had been
among a series of gallantry.)
From his youth too every thing had
been subservient to him. His haughty,
ambitious soul could never brook re-
straint from any one.
His tutors had not led his mind to
what they thought most proper, but had
improved it in those points in which he
thought proper to be instructed.
Literature, as it is generally called,
he despised. He chiefly prided himself
upon that insight he had gained into
the passions and foibles of mankind.
He never formed an acquaintance,
but
TN FERN AI, QUIXOTE. 165
but his first study was to discover
his weakness and failings; and on these
points he secretly, constantly attacked
him. *- -
To Mr. Vasaley he kept up his dig-
nity; but with occasional condescen-
sions, made him believe he greatly
esteemed him,
To Wilson he assumed an air of open-
ness and ease,
To Mrs. Vasaley, direct or indirect
flattery was his sole conversation; but
to little Fanny, whom, as a sweet bud
of beauty, he could not fail of regard-
ing, by all his wiles he could never
make himself an object of favour.
With
166 IN FERN A L Q.U I XOTE.
With a spirited modesty she damped his
kindness, and checked his freedom;
when, at last, finding all his arts baffled,
he affected an indifference which was
foreign to his real sentiments.
According to the plan Marauder had
formed in his own mind, he took every
opportunity of insinuating these prim-
ciples he conceived necessary for his
purpose into the mind of the too cre-
dulous Emily. Flattery ever took the
lead in the conversation, and softened
the heart for what was to follow.
One day, to a very strong and expres-
sive panegyric on the female character,
Miss Emily replied-–" The ladies, I am
sure, are very much obliged to you for
being so able a defender.”
** Not
IN FERN A. L. QUIX OTE. 167
“Not in the least, my dear girl; I
speak but the simple truth. All men,
if they would but confessit, know it so;
therefore it is, they have made laws
to give man the superiority, and pretend
oftentimes to call these laws by the
name of religion.—What is matrimony?
But a catch to decoy the poor female to
the obedience of an insolent man.”
“Oh if you talk in this way, you'll
absolutely frighten me.”
“No, my dearest Emily, it is only
that I love you too well to deceive you.
After all the abuse we have given our
neighbours, the French, they have nobly
broken through this foolish tie, and
generously given, to the female that
freedom she so well knows how to use.”
** I never
168 INFERNAL QUIxote.
“I never was in France, yet I have
always understood that they were the
most polite and gallant nation in the
world; but I thought now they had
killed their King, they were no better
than Savages.” . -
Marauder, in the most plausible terms,
attributed this infamous act to a few
individuals; and then, in terms the most
glowing, pointed out the present method ---
of contracting alliances in that king-
dom. - • •
IIe did not explain to the fair Emily
to what an humiliating condition the
female sex is now reduced in France– -
that there is not a single act of the
Governmentin which they are considered
as havin g an y rights whatever,
IIc
IN FERNAL QUIX.O.T.E. 169
IIe did not tell her that women were
no longer regarded, but as objects of
sensual pleasure, <
**
•
He did not inform her that they had
ne voice, no authority, no vote in the
meetings, the councils, or any part of
the legislature.
***
He did not explain that the beloved
rights and privileges which the fair sex
claim, as mothers, daughters, wives,
sisters, were perishing every day; that
the virtuous woman and the prostitute,
the wife of the Magistrate and the Opera
girl were all ranked together in a pes-
tilential den of degenerating equality.
No: he expatiated on the generous
WQL, I, T principle
170 , INFERNAL QUIxoTE.
&
principle of the French, which made no
distinction between the sexes, which
gave equal liberty to both the parties to
annul the marriage contract, and which
left the fair-one to her own free-will,
unshackled by the arbitrary restraints of
a tyrannical husband. *.. ---,
All this was quite new to Miss Emily;
the pleasing side was alone exhibited;
and she admired the candour and gene-
rosity of the man who could, tell her
bold truths—a favourite explanatory
term of Mr. Marauder, -
The following sentiment—of that first
of writers, that rational, philosophical,
learned, modest, and ingenious of
all human naturals, William Godwin
& , -Wà S.
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IN FERN A L QUIXOT E. j71.
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—was most familiar to Mr. Marauder;
but though Marauder knew better than
to quote the sentiment in the wise-man’s-
own words, I cannot refrain from gra-
tifying the reader with them, literally,
taken from his scientific work—“The
History of the Intrigues of his own
Wife.” * *
** It is difficuit,” says Mr. Godwin,
“ to recommend any thing to indiscri-
Sº,
/*
minate adoption, contrary to the esta-
blished rules and prejudices of mankind;
but certainly nothing can be so ridicu-
lous upon the face of it, or so contrary
to the genuine march of sentiment, as to
require the overflowings of the soul to
wait upoli. a, ceremony, and that which,
wherever delicacy and imagination exist,
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172 INFERNAL QUIxor E. -
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is of all things most sacredly private, to s
blow a trumpet before it, and to record
the moment when it is arrived at its
climax.” sº
When this sentiment, in a less phi-
losophical form, came from the tongue
of Mr. Marauder, whether there was
(what Mr. Godwin just before calls)
“ a period of throes and resolute expla-
nation attendant on the tale,” in any
of the love scenes between Miss Emily
and the to-be Duke, I cannot say; for
this simple reason, that I am not able,
with the whole powers of my mind, to
comprehend what the ingenious Philo-
sopher Godwin means. Perhaps in a
future edition of the memoirs of his
wife, ei-devant mistress, he will favour -
* the
INFERNAL QUIXOTE. 173
the anti-illuminati with an explanation
after each sentence—if it be possible.
-
With or without (whicheverit was)
“aperiod of throes and resolute explana-
tion attendant on the tale,” Mr. Ma-
rauder did more than his author; he
made himself clearly understood by his
fair hearer.
º
ºr.
Miss Emily's learning was chiefly
confined to a knowledge of the French
language. Mr. Marauder frequently
conversed with her in that tongue—the
very language of deceit.
ſAmong many other writings which
Marauder recommended and brought for
Emily's perusal, were the celebrated
*
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174 IN FERNAL QUIxo‘FE.
*e.
works of Rousseau. Miss Emily read
them with a wonderful avidity and satis-
faction, favoured by many marginal
notes of her attentive lover. \
*.
Many other original French Novels,
such as Voltaire's Tales, Diderot's
Novels, hestudious y selected; and where
the sentiments appeared too strong, he
would soften, and explain them. The
English ºitings, except a few chosen
morceaus, were a fund of satire for
Marauder; he ridiculed their confined .
notions, their very dread of speaking
the truth, their ignorance of the human
* : - *
heart, their prejūdices in favour of their
own country,
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By conversing with Miss Emily in
- ... French,
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1N #E RNAL QUIxo TE. 175.
French, under, the idea of improving her
|
in that language, they were under less
restraints in the company of the oblig-
ing Vasaley and his wife who affected
indeed not to be ignorant of so fashion-
able an accomplishment, but whose
knowledge was only of the parrot-kind. --
**
*
Butlestany of these new notions should,
in any degree, alarm his fair convert, he
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... ever spoke in the most rapturous terms
**.
* *,
of that day when his beloved Emily
should be advanced to a station in life
º, she was born to adorn, and should Shirie
in: the first circles of fashióñ. as the
Duchess of Silsbury. * * , ,
&
“When Mr. Marauder first made love
to Emily Bellaire, there was a boldness,
a freedom, an ease in his manners, a
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176 , IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
self-conceit and hauteur which were
stamped on his character; now he was all
softness, diffidence, humility—his love
was almost adoration;—he cautiously
avoided what might be termed taking
the smallest liberty; and by the time he
had entangled the lovely maid most
completely in his toil, did he appear to
be the most humble of her captives. A
* -º-
When in company with Wilson, this
behaviour had more the appearance of
despondency than success, and proved
the best means he could possibly have
£ºr e - o §.
adopted to deceive all parties. * *
Miss Emily, of course, thought her
ascendency greater than ever. He easily
made her believe that it was her interest
that
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE, 177
that prevented his instantly and publicly
marrying her. Again and again! did he
press her to consent—despise the anger
of his uncle—swear, in the most sacred
terms, that it was for her dear sake alone
he did not openly claim her as his wife;
and, generally, he finished a love-scene
with the most insinuating, though re-
spectful endearments, and with vows
innumerable, and most solemnly uttered.
For however he might think in religious
matters, in this case he was by no means
deficient in sacred vows and professions;
and with the most enrapt enthusiasm
did he call on every power above to
attest his vows of everlasting love and
constancy, while Miss Emily thought
not of the poet's maxim—
“But if he swears, he'll certainly deceive you.”
1 5 Thus
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178 IN FERNAL QUIXOTEs.
Thus did Marauder use every agency
of heaven and earth that he was able to
employ, to make the fair Emily believe
that his love of her was the sole reason:
for delaying their nuptials : yet, at
times, so anxious did he seem for an
hasty marriage, in defiance of all ob-
stacles, that he once waited upon her
with a licence in his pocket. Whether .
or not it was a real one is no matter, as
it was never intended to be used.
Miss Emily, not to be outdone in
generosity, strenuously insisted against
such hasty proceedings; but it pro-
duced the proper effect which Mr. Ma-
rauder intended–of throwing Miss
Emily more and more off her guard.
!
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CHAP,
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CHAP. XV.
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4.
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*
.* AT last the period arrived when
Marauder was to give the finishing blow
to his ingenious stratagems, when the
grand scheme he had so deeply planned
was to be put in execution.
It was determined that he was to carry
his beloved Emily to town, and there to
be privately, married; but to deceive.
, the Duke and his party in the country,
* I 6 she
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180 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE
she was to elope from Mr. Vasaley's,
and to live with Marauder as his mistress
till after the death of his Grace.
Had Emily Bellaire been a poor, por-
tionless girl, she probably might have
had some doubt of the sincerity of her
lover, in defiance of all his fine speeches;
but so highly had she been buoyed up
with her own consequence, her great ºr
riches, and so forth, that she entertained *
not the remotest idea that Marauder
considered her in any respect as his
inferior. The mean revenge andjealousy
of Wilson, she conceived, had misled
the Duke ; and so well woven was the
tale, that had she even had any person
to apply to as a confidant, most probably
she had never discovered the deceit.
... ** Still
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ºf . 1syrusal quixote. 181
Still it may be a matter of some sur-
prise that Wilson came to be so easily
deceived; but it was agreed to, between
Mr. , Marauder and his fair-one, that
she should encourage Wilson's pretences, sº
as a blind to deceive the Duke.
Not that the Duke of Silsbury knew
or cared the least about it; but it an-
swered his dutiful nephew's views to
pretend that he did. *
In deceiving Wilson they found little
difficulty, as Marauder (it has been
said) never carried himself as the favour-
ed lover before company; and, from
the very origin of their acquaintante,
he always professed himself an admirer.
Marauder
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1.89 IN FER.N.A.I., oysore
Marauder, too, generally contrived to .
visit Miss Emily in a morning—a time
of the day when his rival was almost
always engaged. The Duke's children
necessarily required part of his time,
and he rarely failed, twice a week at
least, attending his Grace on his hunt-
ingparties;–theseavocations of business
arid pleasure fully occupied his morn-
{
ings.
Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley, Indeed, had
some suspicion ; yet Miss Emily disco-
vered neither to them nor her sister more
than she could possibly help.
/- -
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Her guardian and his fashionable cara
sposa perceived with pleasure the prospect
of a connection with a man, who, in the
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... INFERNAL Quixote. 183
course of a few years, would undoubt-
edly be a Duke; and, as they had before
favoured Wilson's pretensions, they
were not so anxious for any communi-
cations on the subject as they otherwise
2 * *š. * º, – . . . .
would have been. They stood in great
awe of Wilson, and were fearful he sº
might suspect them of double dealing.
- - - \ - *: *. ... * * * . ~~ - -
—So naturally does Virtue claim the
eommand over low and cunning spirits.
. yº
**.
With a secret joy, then, they saw
the intimacy increase with a person of
. Mr. Marauder's family, without know-
ing to what height it was carried; and
not a little did they pride themselves in
that connection, which, by their beau-
tiful ward's alliance with him, should so
greatly. increase their own consequence. .
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—And, this is the motive that induces
parents and guardians, and they who
are commonly called friends, so con-
tinually to prefer lucrative marriages in
the persons of their children or wards,
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even when in their own individual cases
they would act very differently. For as
the love of self is, alas ! the prevailing
motive in all our actions, so it easily
accounts for their conduct in this
3 ×
respect. , &
sº
A parent, guardian, or friend mentally
reasons in this way; and for the sake of
the argument, we will suppose it is a
father in the disposal of his daughter.
“What benefit,” says he to himself,
“ accrues to me by marrying my child
* to
*
§ IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 185 .
to a plain, honest, good-tempered man,
with little consequence or fortune?
To be sure, she will have every chance
of common happiness; but it will be
entirely confined to herself—it will not
influence her family. \
“Now if I marry her to a man of
consequence and riches, however dis-
agreeable in mind and person, yet the
good things of this world that he is pos-
sessed of, I shall in some degree par-
ticipate. S
“Am I fond of riding in splendid car-,
riages, of being seen in noble company,
*
º;
of reeeiving that notice which is ever
paid to those allied to wealth and
honours, -or am I fond of excellent
dinners, of fine wines, of admiration,
envy, superiority? Here I am gratified
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a something directly or indirectly ; and
then my child may not, after all, be
unhappy; and I, at least, can say that
I have done my part to provide her with
in some, or all of these; here then I gain
those necessary comforts of life all my-
kind are seeking after.
“In a low and humble marriage I am
degraded in the eyes of the world; by
allying myself to greatness of any kind,
I am exalted by it. "The world will
commend my conduct—not for the
rºman, but the things; and, in either
gase, the individual, man does not affect
me, and should he prose unpleasant, I
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can separate myself from him.”
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's Such-like arguments, with a hundred
other, alloriginating in self, pass through
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INFERNAL QUIxotº. 187
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the mind of mankind, and are the great
motives that influence them in those
incongruous and preposterous matches
which too frequently take place; and
kinsfolk, friends, and acquaintance of
the Vasaley-kind will most commonly
be met with.
*
* ** *
-*
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Without a * that looks for-
ward to something, better than the
things of this wofid-sunless the consider-
ation of what is just and right, instead
of what is seff agreeable and pleasant,
first takes place, the duty 6f those who
hºwe the superintendence of young
*ads will be very badly performed.
In these and other cases I am not to
think what the world concludes right,
a ! * * but

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188 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
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but I am to promote those measures that
will most conduce to virtue, religion,
and happiness,
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THE morning on which it was de gr-
mined for Miss Emily to elope with Mr.
Marauder to town, her lover called, a
he frequently did, at Mr. Vasaley's."
ask the ladies to take a ride.
Wilson, they knew, was otherwise
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IN FERNAL Q.U IXOTE. 189
engaged with the Duke, in a part of the
country far distant from their route.
Miss Fanny, who was not partial to
Mr. Marauder's company, chose to stay
at home, but Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley rode
out with them.
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Mrs. Vasaley was a very indifferent -
horsewoman, and rode slow ; Mr. Ma-
rauder and the fair lady cantered on
before. * -
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A chaise and four was in waiting for
them at the next market town, and they
were offin it immediately they arrived
there.
* -
Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley, after riding a
& few
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190 IN FERN A E, QUIX OTE.
*
few miles, returned home, thinking Miss
, Emily and her beau would soon follow
, them. The young couple having often
done so before, they had not the small-
est apprehension. from their absence;
but when dinner-time arrived, and no
Emily appeared, they began to bealarmed.
A note from the bold heroine to Mr.
Vasaley soon explained the affair.
ſº
\ .*
** MY DEAR SIR,
“I have thought proper at last to
foſſºw the dictates of my heart, and to
accept the protection of the only man I
ever truly loved. • Time will explain my
motives. If a person means töbe happy,
, they must learn to think and act for
themselves,
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INFERNAL QUIxoTE. 191
themselves. The prejudices of a mis-
jadging World I despise. Tell Fanny,
assoon as I am settled in my own house,
both my dear Mr. Marauder and myself
hope she will make it her home, where
we shall rejoice also to welcome our kind
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley.
4 4 The servant, who brings this, will
take the care of my cloaths. Health and
happin essto my dear sister, Mrs. Vasaley,
and yourself. From their beloved
&
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* ... ‘‘ EMILY.”
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Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley read the note
With many expressions of sorrow; but,
in truth, with great indifference; poor
little Fanny scarcely said a word, yet
felt more than can be described. She
passed a restless night drowned in tears,
t inconsolable
192 INFERNAL quixote.
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inconsolable for the fate of her sister,
* fearing the worst, yet ignorant of the .
&
extent of her fears.
* The next evening Wilson called.
* Fanny saw him coming, and, with her
eyes streaming with the pearly dew,
rushed out of the house to meet him.
Overcome with her sorrow, she drop
ped almost lifeless in his armi,
Greatly surprised and concerned at
her grief, he, with the affection of a
* beloved brother, gently enquired the
cause. ”, º
*
“Oh Mr. Wilson that wicked—
my poor sister. Yesterday they rode
out,
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#NFERNAL QUIxoTE. 193
out, and she is gone away with him to
London.” - -
“Your sister, my dearest Fanny,”
…”
guessing very easily the person, “car-
ried off by Mr. Marauder ?—Insolent
rascall but I will instantly pursue and
retake her. Who had he to assist him
in forcing her away?”
“Mr. Vasaley has received a letter
from Emily. She does not appear to
have been taken away against her will.”
Wilson appeared thunderstruck.
Pausing for a few moments, he ex-
claimed—“Not taken away against her
will ?—Impossible, Fanny For what
purpose could she elope? If she had
thought proper to accept Mr. Marauder,
who could prevent her?”
VOL. 1, . K Mr.
31.94 IN FERNAL -QUIxotº,
Mr. Vasaley now came up, and with
very few words gave Wilson Emily’s
inote.
Hastily he read it over.
Again and again he more clearly
perused it.
“Yes, it is your sister's hand-writ:
$ng; it does not seem forced, or even
constrained. Are these her sentiments
—‘not happy unless we think and act
for ourselves?”—Alas ! I fear if she fole
lows that maxim, she never will be happy.
What,” turning to Mr. Vasaley, “ did
none of you know of this?”
Mr. Vasaley made a lame speech,
professing
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professing his ignorance of her partiality
for Mr. Marauder, but spoke boldly
and clearly concerning his not knowing
her intention of running away.
Wilson, being unable to get any in-
sight into this mysterious affair, and
extremely hurt at every part of Miss
£mily's conduct, soon took his leave.
Fanny followed him to the door.—
“I am afraid, Mr. Wilson, you are
displeased with me. Indeed I knew
nothing of it.”
“My dear, my kind Fanny, you are
the last person in the world I could
blame. Do not distress yourself, my
lovely girl. To see you unhappy, will
afflict mé more than all the rest. I have
R 2 lately
196 IN FERNAL QU IX OTE.
lately suspected some mystery in your
sister, and came this evening on put-
pose to gain a final answer. This un-
kind behaviour I cannot but feel; yet,
believe me, dear Fanny, that Emily's
- conduct shall never alienate my love
and affection for you. If my good girl
at any time wants a friend or adviser,
in me she shall find one that will never
forsake her.”
“Thank you, dear Mr. Wilson ; but
when shall I see you again P I have
got a great deal to say and to ask you.”
“Tomorrow, in the afternoon, I will
certainly be here; and hope my Fanny
will dry up her tears, for I am afraid her
sister does not deserve them.”
H 6 CHAP.
RNE ERNAL QUIX O'FF. 197
\
CHAP, XVII.
*r
RETURN we to the lovers, who, borne
on the soft winds which the sportive
deity had raised, flew rapidly away.
Whether the rumbling of a four-
wheeled carriage inspires the tender pas-
sion, I am not casuist enough to deter-
mine; but it certainly is most excel-
lently adapted, in many respects, for
that kind of oratory which the gay
votaries of Cupid excel in.
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198. IN FERNAL QUIXOTE.
Those breaks—pauses—unfinished,
sentences are wonderfully assisted by
the irregular motion of the vehicle.
The intervals of sighs, aspiration, re-
spiration, consideration, dubitation, and,
all of this kind are extremely well filled
up by the music of those quadruple
spheres,
It may be called that desideratum of
all languages—“A sound that is an
echo to the sense.”
Whileitaidsso powerfully the speaker,
it is equally efficacious to the hearer.
It produces that state of inaction on the
mind which is so necessary to attention,
All which whether Mr. Marauder
thought or understood is no matter,
•A * > . but
I.N FERNAL QUIXOTE. 199
But he certainly made the very best use
of it.
“After violent professions of everlast-
ing love and constancy, after a volu-
bility of praises to his fair companion for
that independency of mind which soars
beyond the notions of the vulgar, and
can break asunder the fetters of preju-
dice, he lamented the vast numbers of
people who were still slaves to the idle
opinion of the world.
“How few do I find like my beloved
Emily, whose good sense and clear rea-
son can so soon distinguish what is right
in defiance of foolish customs, and
whose minds are strong enough to per-
form it ! * -
-- K 4. “Among
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“Among those who pretend to teach
others, scarcely do I know where to find
one *** black coat,” Mr. Marauder's
most moderate term for a Clergyman,
“ that I dare trust the secret of our
marriage to. Of all bigotted wretches
* How we'l does Miſs Hannah Moore in her “ Stric-
tures on Female Education,” deſcribe this I-84 That cold
compound of irony, irreligiön, selfishneſs, and sneer, which
make up what the French, from whom we borrow the
word, express by the term persiflage, has of late years
made an incredible progress in blasting the opening buds
of piety in young persons of fashion.
“A cold pleasantry, a temporary cant-word, the jargon.
of the day, for the great vulgar have their jargon, blights
the first promise of seriousness. The ladies of ton have
certain watch-words, which may be detected as indications
of this spirit. The Clergy are spoken of under the ludi-
erous appellation of the Parsons. Some ludicrous associ-
ation is infallibly combined with every idea of religion,
&c. &c. &c.—See vol. 1. page 15.
*
those
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those are the worst *. If the Duke
should hear we are privately married, it
were as well that I publicly claimed, and
that I should at once glory in my hea-
venly prize in the open face of the
World.”
At this moment Smack went the pos-
tillions’ whips, and away they rattled over
some new-laid stones. The long pause
was not lost on Miss Emily. Mr.
Marauder proceeded—“Oh my dearest
girl! it is on your strength of mind I
* As a specimen of the jargon of the low vulgar, hear
Tom Pain in one of his civillest keys—Age of Reason,
part ii. page 87.-‘‘The sum total of a parson's learn-
ing, with a few exceptions, is a b, ab—and hic, haec, hoc 5.
and their knowledge of science is, three times three is
one.”—Mr. Pain has lately set up a new religion
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202 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE:
rely. Blest man. that I am to have met
with such an angel !
The carriage gave a spring.
“Perhaps there may be women in the
world not much inferior in the human
face divine; it is possible there may be
some who pretend to be your equal in
form and grace; but I defy the whole
world to produce one with so sublime a
soul, who has sacrificed every thing to.
the man she thought worthy to be bless-
ed with her affections.”
The drivers came to the brow of a
steep hill, and dashed down it with such
spirit, that they seemed to fly over the
soil.
5 Pooy
rNFERNAL QUIXOTE. 903
Poor Emily believed herself a little
deity; and was ready, with a complete
stock of modern philosophy, to be the
victim of any vice the sophistry of her
lover might point out.
The horses pulling gently up, as they -
ascended the next rise, Mr. Marauder'
seized the opportunity, in the softest,
the kindest, most humble and affec-
tionate terms, gradually to unfold his
intentions, which, as they became more
añd more glaring, so was he himself
more and more respectful in his manner
and address. In short, the purport of
Mr. Marauder's oratorical flattery was
to persuade the fair Emily to live with
him, without having recourse to a sham
marriage; for a real one was totally out.'
of the question. -
K.6 - Yet,
204 IN FERNAL Q.U IX OTE,
Yet, with all Marauder's art, his,
impudence, and plausibility, he did not
openly dare to propose a thing of this
Rind, much less did he venture the
smallest hint of it before they set off.
He wished the offer indirectly to come
from Miss Emily herself, or, at least, to
get her in that frame of mind which,
would preclude all danger of a repulse.
But, after all, in either case he ran no.
risk; for if the fair maid insisted on,
the ceremony of their marriage, the
ceremony of their marriage was to take
place the moment they came to, town.
If he could prevail on Miss Emily to
suppose that there was great danger in
trusting the secret of their marriage to
any one, and to despise such unmeaning
3 forms,
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N.
forms, which were of no real use, but
only subjected themselves to discovery,
he should then save himself the trouble
of a deception, which might perhaps
produce some unpleasant circumstances
in the detection. /
It was a long time before he could
inspire such very noble and free sen-
timents in his fair-one's breast.
Skilled in the human passions, he
assailed them in every shape, and at
last succeeded.
But I verily believe if the fleeting
thoughts that passed through the mind
of the lovely victim, ere she resigned
herself to the sacrifice, were to be
clearly
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clearly analyzed, that this consideration:
—“I have already gone too far to:
think of receding,” was the one that
finally influenced the decision.
In ancient times Necessity was a
famous maker of virtues. Among the
juggles of the modern Philosophers, and
their new selection of virtues, I believes
Necessity may again step forward, and "
put in a bold claim for the far greater.
number.
“Answer me,” she may say, “yeº
spirits of independent heroes in France?
Answerme, ye Philosophers, Legislators,
and Warriors? Answer me, all ye who
worship the GoDDESS REASON by .
name, but spurn her in spirit.” Say, ,
A what.
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 207
what inspired that firmness of mind;.
that unconquerable greatness of Soul,
that desperate serenity which poured.
out the poison, which grasped the dag-
ger, or which fired the annihilating
pistol, and thus, rising above difficulties,
and sufferings, stamped on your carcases.
the all-conquering virtue of suicide 2.
—Was it not Necessity ?
“Was it not that which makes the
Coward, fight—which, makes the thief
honest—the murderer, no assassin P
“Was it not Necessity, the softener
and excuser of every vice?”
“Avºyº. 8de Seol waxovr&; ;”—says the
old Greek proverb.
I am not willing any further to
particularize.
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particularize the fall of this beautiful,
young woman—the giddy, the incau-
tious Emily Bellaire. .
The machinations of the arch-fiend
too well succeeded. As the poor victim
gave a faint and tacit consent—“Dear
Marauder, on you alone I trust; for you
I give up all that the world holds dear!”
the fell destroyer dropped upon his
knee; and, in terms the most solemn and
saéred his tongue could utter, he called
on the Almighty Deity to witness his
everlasting vows of truth and constancy;
and imprecated every evil upon his own
head, if he betrayed the trust she had so
generously reposed in him. — — —
The
If N FERN A. E. & J FK QTE. 209:
- ſ
* The words passed away from his lips
as the unsubstantial visions of the night;
but they were recorded, with an iron
pen, on that eternal tablet of brass,
never to be erased or obliterated,
CHAP,
ºl O. I-N FERNAP, QUIX 6) TE:
CHAP. XVIII.
WHy should I describe the sensa-
tions of Emily upon the conduct she
had pursued, or relate how little the coot
moments of reflection applauded the
sacrifices she had made to the gaudy
phantom of a generous disinterestedness?
Soon, very soon, did she begin to try
not to perceive that the fuel of flattery,
which had so liberally supplied her
K * romantic
IN FERNAL QU IX OTE. 2 I f
romantic flame, was now more sparingly
bestowed. Time for thought was not
wanting.
Mr. Marauder, whose whole life was
already become a bustle of politieal
intrigue, was necessarily at times long
absent from home : most irksome were
such moments to the lovely enthusiast.
Mr. Marauder's connections, both by
birth and fortune, were great and
splendid; and, it may be said, by his,
talents were become much more so.
With great reason was he considered,
by the leading men in power, as a
youth of most promising abilities.
That commanding air, that undaunted:
address,
2 #2 IN FERNAL QUIXO'FE \
address, and determined behaviour,
which so eminently distinguished him,
Were, as it might be, the passport of his
abilities.
Too wise to shew himself as yet of any
party, before he had the means of adding
weight to his opinions, he privately and
alternately seemed to favour each.
The Roman Catholic interest was
totally out of the question, as he had
professed to embrace these principles for
no other reason than to gain the favour
of the Duke; and his motives in this case
had been at once perceived by the
politicians on both sides.
IIis
{N FERN A L QUIX OTE. $213
His acquaintance, therefore, was not
confined to any party or set of men.
Ministerialists and Anti-ministerialists,
Aristocrats, Freethinkers, and Sectaries
of all denominations, occasionally fre-
quented his table; and the gentlemen,
who'had more particularly the honour
of knowing him, were soon convinced,
that neither religious nor political bigotry
would ever balk his preferment.
Though his watchful prudence had
thus prevented his enslaving himself to
a party, before he had the power or
full means to be a principal, yet he
could not hide that hauteur and pride,
which his high birth, his daily expect-
ations, flattered him he should soon see
gratified.
Arrived
$214 I.N FERNAL (EU IX OTE,
Arrived at the end of his twenty-first
year, he took upon himself the sole
command of his own fortunes.
The parsimony of his father, and the
excellent management of his trustees,
had increased the sum total to twenty
thousand a year.
Lady James Marauder departed this
lifesoon after he had run away with Emily
to town, and thus left him in full pos-
session of the whole. To a man like
Marauder, who had studied in the stoical
school with such success, needless lament-
ations and sorrow were not even affect-
ed. A splendid burial and a superb
monument were the testimonials to the
world both of his sorrow and his great-
$16SS:
Most
Yºn FERN A.L C. UIX:OTSE, 21.5
Most of his time he spent in London;
and his house, his establishments, and
his table were among the first at the
west end of the town,
At first he was somewhat at a loss
how to introduce Emily to his acquaint-
ance; but when he considered upon
the subject, he saw many advantages
accruing to himself even from the un--
pleasantness of her situation.
Among the French Emigrants who
flocked to this country, Marauder had
thought proper to notice some, the most
conspicuous for their consequence and
abilities.
Dukes and Nobles of the first rank
thought
$216 IN FETRN AL QU IX OTE.
thought themselves honoured by his
invitations; and Madame la Duchesse,
without any squeamishness, never re-
fused the company of la belle Emily.
That there were many of the ci-devant
inferior Nobility, and even pauvre
Madames refugees, who would have
refused his favours, is most true; but
they were not the people Mr. Marauder
thought worthy his acquaintance.
Emily, who was much better read in
the French than English writers, found
the society of the lively emigrés much
to her taste; and she very soon became
an adept in the Voltairian philosophy,
which a charming Marchioness assisted
in explaining to her.
Exclusive
f NFERNAL QUIXOTE. 217
Exclusive of the Marchioness and her
husband, I shall here mention a few
other persons, whom, at this period,
Miss Emily got acquainted with.
*
*
And first, a Mr. Rattle, a young man
of about one-and-twenty. He was in
possession of a handsome independent
fortune, by the death of an elder bro-
ther ; was intended, by his friends, for
the law, and had been some years an
inhabitant of the Temple. Yet, of all
studies, this he most neglected and
detested; and, from the moment he came
of age, vowed he would resign his cham-
bers, and no longer keep up the appear-
ance of it.
Like Mr. Shandy's creeking door,
VG L. I. L. that
218 IN FERNAL QUIX.O.T.E.
that he had determined to oil for the
last ten years of his life, were Mr.
Rattle's apartments; and, day after day
succeeded—Mr. Rattle vowed—to-
morrow never came, and he was still an
inhabitant of the Temple. So great
was his antipathy to men of law, that he
frequently made himself ridiculous, for
fear of being taken for one ; yet the
moment he recollected himself, he was
the first to ridicule his own prejudices,
This prejudice, indeed, was the weaker
side of his character, which was most
strange and eccentric. In abilities by
no means deficient; in learning too
inconstant to be deep; quick, hasty,
and sanguine, his thoughts and deter-
minations upon a subject came all toge-
ther,
IN FERNAL QUIxot E. 219
ther. His mind seemed to be an alem-
bic, in which every thing came out
ready analyzed. Never prejudiced on
any other subject, as before said, but
the law, he spoke exactly as he thought
at the moment, never forming his opi-
nion by others, ancient or modern.
Vulgar errors, like Sir Thomas Brown,
M. D. he exploded. Whether of men
or things, he judged for himself. From
the smallest niceties of a person's con-
duct would he in a moment give the
most decided opinion of him. He would
positively pronounce an unknown lady
to be a fool, because he had seen a laced
frill on her son's shirt; and he has been
known to call a man the most cruel
wretch on the face of the earth, from
L 2 the
g29 I.N.F.ERNAL QUí28.04 E.
the first view of his horse or his dog.
His likes, or dislikes were as quickly
formed; and often, as soon as a stran-
ger's name was mentioned, he acted
concerning the person, and spoke of
him as if he had been acquainted with
him for years.
- As an instance—Mr. Marauder one
day asked him if he knew a Mr. Callis.
** Who is he P” said Rattle.
“The gentleman that seconded Dick,
the bruiser, on a sudden quarrel at
Margate.”
“No ; is he, a very young man P’’
“I believe not.”
“Then,”, concluded Rattle, “he
must be both a fool and a blackguard.”
Another
TN FERNAL Qū IX O'FF. 921.
Another time Rattle was desirous of
being introduced to Sir Gravely Sapient,
the great Naturalist. Unluckily at the
time Sir Gravely was peeling a nectarine.
Rattle made a most kow bow, looked
very solemn, and was off before the
Baronet could finish his fruit. He
told the friend who introduced him, that
he was sufficiently satisfied of Sir
Gravely Sapient's abilities, and he has
never visited the Naturalist since.
When Rattle first came to town, he
was to write in the office of an eminent
solicitor. Rattle went but once. His
guardian called upon him at his cham-
bers, and enquired the reason he did not
continue his attendance; he answered
—“He had no opinion of the man; he
L 3 did
222 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE,
did not like his character; he had every
reason to doubt his principles.”
To his guardian's assertions, that the
lawyer was a man of respectability,
honesty, and so forth, Rattle shook his
head.—“I never knew an honest lawyer
that abused my Lord Kenyon.”
His guardian was obliged to give up.
the point,
Rattle was once in the company of
the learned Dr. Lexicon. The Doctor
spokeofasuperb edition of Aristophanes,
that was soon to be published with
notes, &c. &c. &c.
“Pray, Doctor,” said Rattle, “can
you
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. ØØ3.
you inform me of any modern author
that equals Aristophanes in these three
points,”—The Doctor was all attention.
—“ for impertinence, indecency, and
blåsphemy Pº
Dr. Lexicon said not another word
*
concerning the work.
In politics Rattle was of no party,
indiscriminately attacking them all;
rarely a defender of any one, and more
rarely of the great. He spoke with a
volubility that nothing could stop, and
in a tone nervous and animating. He
never took offence at any severe reply
that was made him, and therefore in a
great degree precluded others from
being offended with him. Other par-
L 4. ticulars.
9:24, INFERNAL QUIXOTE,
ticulars of this eccentric genius will more
clearly open themselves in the following:
pages,
Two other gentlemen, whom Emily
met at Mr. Marauder's table, were a
Mr. Arnon and his son.
The father about fifty—the son six-
and-twenty. The son was lately arrived
from America, therefore Mr. Marauder
had not, personally, known him iong;
but with the father he was very intimate.
The free and liberal notions, as he
always called them, which Mr. Marau-
der entertained, he was greatly indebted
to Mr. Arnon for maturing and giving
a form to.
Mr.
INFERNAL Quixotz: 225,
Mr. Arnon had some knowledge of
most of the seiences, was a cool and
wary politician, having been in many of
the Courts of Europe; and he was deeply
read in metaphysical writings, and per-
fectly conversant in the works of
Spinoza, Hobbs, Shaftsbury, Hume,
Voltaire, Diderot, Alembert, and the
whole gang of modern seeptics in the
English, French, and German langua-
3eSi. 3.
He had brought up his son according
to their principles; and at twelve years
of age would frequently produce him:
among his acquaintance as a young
philosopher, (a very clever boy he cer-
tainly was), and beasted that the child.
had Îiever looked in a Bible in his life.
I, 5 At:
226 INFERNAL QUIxote
At this age he was sent to a public
school, where he remained between three
and four years, and then accompanied his
father to France, and was present with
him at most of the principal scenes at the
commencement of the Revolution.
Some dreadful circumstances, which
particularly came under their own notice,
so shocked the son, that he hastily left
France, and the father soon after
followed him. **
The young man had then shewn such
promising abilities, joined with such
good sense and judgment, that Mr.
Arnon immediately entrusted him with
a mercantile commission of very con-
siderable consequence. This the son
had
INFERNAE, QUIxoTE. 227
had executed greatly to the satisfaction
of his father, and was lately returned
to England.
The elder Mr. Arnon was, shrewd,
artful, and enterprising ; bold, though,
considerate ; mild, though determined;
rarely affected by his passions, never
swayed against his interest. The
younger, whose other name was Hamb-
den, was more learned, but far less,
scheming and enterprising; open, brave;.
undesigning, friendly, generous. In
short, it was not the least of the merits.
of the father that the other was his son.
At the commencement of the Ame-
rican war, Mr. Arnon and a particular
friend of his, a gentleman of large
L 6, property.
228 IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
property in this country, had been sus-
pected of holding secret correspondence
with the enemy. They had before sig-
malized themselves in their writings, and
declared their principles.
Having received timely notice that
Government intended to arrest them,
they destroyed all their papers, and left
the country. After many hardships they
were wrecked on a distant coast. Mr.
Arnon's friend died there; and having
lost his only child by a fever in their
passage, he left his whole property in
America and in England to Mr. Arnon,
and entailed it on the little Hambden.
The suspicions against the gentlemen
Government was not able to prove.
3 Mr.
IN FERNAT, Qt, IXOTE. £93:
Mr. Arnon remained abroad in different
countries till the war was ended, and
then returned home, and took possession.
of his property without any opposition;
and it was to look after the American
estates that his son had lately been
abroad.
The junior Mr. Arnon, who was most
generally known under the name of
Hambden, and whom, to distinguish
from his father, we shall so call, was
named in compliment to the deceased
friend, in whose company he had left
the kingdom, Mr. John Hambden, who
boasted himself a regular descendant
of the celebrated patriot of that name,
A-
ze” CHAP.
.330, I.N FERNAL, QUIX OTE.,
CHAP. XIX.
MR. ARNON rarely gave vent to
those strong democratical principles for
which he was famous, at Mr. Marauder's
table, as he knew his young friend to:
be so decidedly in the aristocratical'
interest; yet they frequently disputed’
with great civility on the use and abuse:
of titles, and so forth.
In deference, too, to the ci-devanā:
Nobility,
: INFERNAL QUIXOTE. 23.4
Nobility, Mr. Arnon often avoided the
subject, though, it must be confessed,
they cared very little about the matter;
and, from the conversation, of many of
them, a stranger might suppose they
were of the democratical party.
On anti-religious subjects Mr. Arnon
was not so choice. Mr. Marauder lis-
tened and joined in the discourse, in
defiance of his having renounced his
Protestant errors, and embraced the
Roman Catholic faith.
Hambden was not fond of that con-
tinual satire his father indulged in; and
Rattle, who dashed at every subject, was
Sure to oppose them all.
It
£3% *NFERN A. L Q U TXOTE
It may be proper to remark that Mr.
Marauder affected in his house more of
the French than English customs; the
ladies, therefore, were partakers of their
debates, and put in their claim of pet-
ticoat Philosophers.
Mr. Arnon was one day describing the
attack of the Bastile, at which, with his.
son, he was present.
“There fell,” cried he, “the mighty
bulwark of tyranny and superstition l’”
“Mighty! indeed!”exclaimed Rattle;
“there was not a priest or a prisoner
within the walls. Mr. Arnon, you was
never in a greater error in your life.
The French Government, unlike the
Spanish, instead of being superstitious,
had.
INFERNAL quixote. 233.
had long before this not a grain of
religion heft; and so far from being
tyrannous, it was the want of what
you call tyranny that overthrew the
State.”
“What, Sir, do you call lettres de
cachet & What, Sir, will you say con-
cerning the exorbitant power of the
Noblesse 2"
“Exorbitant power | Where the devil.
was it? Yes, they made a most glorious.
struggle ! You either must allow that
the French Nobles were greater fools
than all the scum of the country, which,
considering they were all Voltairian
philosophers, you’ll not very readily
grant, or that they had no power at all.
As for the lettres de cachet, how many
prisoners did you find in durance by
them **
º Mr.
234. IN FERNAL QUT XOTE.
Mr. Arnon, not being able to enu-
merate many, replied concerning the
Noblesse—“Thatmany of the very first
abilities joined the popular cause.”
“Fine abilities 1 through greater
cowardice l’”
The Marquis grinned applause.
“What say you,” retorted Mr.
Arnon, “concerning Fayette P”
“That all his abilities consisted in.
twice playing the rogue, and once the
fool. - The greatest bungler in your
whole set ! A private in Cromwell's
crew would have made a better hero.
He hadn’t sense enough even to be con-
sistent; and I firmly believe, the only
reason the French rulers.admire him, is
Out:
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 235.
out of their enthusiastic love of oppo-
sition. Dumourier did what Fayette
ought to have done. Enough of this
fellow. But, Mr. Arnon, is it true that
the French dressed up a pretty girl as
the Goddess of Reason, and deified her ?”
“Most assuredly and what more
worthy of our adoration than a beau-
tiful woman P’—Mr. Arnon, looking
at the ladies, who began to be
interested in the conversation, and
attentively listened, continued—“Ma-
dame Montmoro" was the charming
representative. Nature pointed out to
her disciples how best to worship her.
Here was no vague, wandering, uncer-
tain, blind enthusiasm; no inanimate
* Madame Barlier was exhibited in the ſame manner,
says Professor Robinson, page 252.
idol.
236 INFERNAL QUIxey TE:
idol was presented us, but a masterpiece
of Nature, a sacred image, enough to
inflame all hearts. Where Philosophy
had first informed us, our senses sooft
convinced us we acted right. We saw,
we were convinced, and we adored.”
“Did you ever see,” said Rattle,
“Dr. Graham's Hygeia, or Goddess of
Health P”
“Where?" asked Mr. Arnon.
“In this noble metropolis. I have
not the smallest doubt that the French
borrowed their idea from an English
Quack Doctor.” *
The ladies looked displeased. Rattle,
not observing them, continued—“By
- the by, Mr. Arnon, the speech the
Doctor used to make, was very like your
rhapsody, which I also remember was
similar
rNFERNAL ourkoTE. 837
similar to the one used at Paris. Whe-
ther the Doctor's regimen and medicines
destroyed his Goddess of Health, I can't
say. Your worthies, I know, in spite
of all their love and adoration, chopped
off the head of their rational Divinity,
poor Madame Montmoro !”
The ladies shuddered.
Said Hambden—“You must hot
confound, Rattle, the infafhous factions
of France with the first noble emanci-
pators of their country.”
“ Ez pede Herculem. Do you,
Hambden, defend the Goddess of Rea-
son P”
* “No,” replied Hambdāh, with a
smile, “unless we take one of the present
company for a representative.”
“And
$238 IN FERNAL QUIx0 TE,
“And then,” said Rattle, “even I
shall become an idolator.”
The conversation would have turned
to other subjects, had not certain ideas
met the mind of Emily, which she could
not so easily dismiss.
Mr. Marauder had often told his fair
victim this pretty story of the Goddess of
Reason. He had dressed the tale up
well. He had called Emily his Goddess
of Reason, but the catastrophe he had
ever omitted.
Heperceived, therefore, thatshelooked
very grave; and he was unwilling to
give up the Goddess of Reason so easily
as Hambden had.
** The
if N FERNAL QUIXOTE. 239
“The improbable stories which were
told afterwards,” said Mr. Marauder,
“whether true or false, can never in-
validate the liberal actions of those who
profess to worship no other deity than
their reason. Instead of unmeaning
ceremonies, and needless prayers to a
being they neither see nor know any
thing about, these men, who took Nature
for their guide, paid their obeisance to
that which must delight every man,
and warm the breast of the coldest and
veriest cynic—the most perfect of
Nature's works, a woman in the prime
of beauty. They worshipped her as
Reason evenplified, not as the gaudy
image of an imaginary being.”
Rattle replied, endeavouring to look
grave, and to argue coolly on the subject;
but
*240 IN FERNAL QUI XOTE.
p
fout in a moment or two he flew off in
the same manner as usual—“I must
sparehalf my arguments, Mr. Marauder,
when I consider that you are not, like
me, a plain Protestant, an abominator
of image and figure-worship altogether,
But if the French worshipped their idol
as the representative of a certain set of
ideas, if they only personified their
thoughts, and put them into a practical
outside, there was something more than
knavery in the case—complete Folly.
That latter Goddess, too, I believe they
have already got with her cap and bells,
endeavouring to assume the appearance,
as well as the name, of Liberty. But
since they are sofond of dressing up their
fancies into a real form, I recommend to
their study an author they don't yet very
well understand—Shakespeare.
“Observe
f
IN FERN A L 'QUIXOTE, 241
** Observe his Midsummer's Night's
3Dream.—The Grecian Clowns; Bottom,
the Weaver ; Quince, the Carpenter;
Snug, the Joiner; Flute, the Bellows-
mender ; Snout, the Tinker; and Starve-
ling, the Tailor, would make, I find,
excellent French Philosophers. Their
personification of a wall, or moonshine,
‘equals at least our Gallic neighbours’
reason.— ‘ Some 'man or other,’ says
Philosopher Bottom, ‘must present Wall,
‘and let him have some plaster, or some
dime, or some rough-cast about him to
signify HVall; and again, one must come
in with a bush of thorns and a lanthorn,
and say he comes to disfigure, or to
present the person of Moonshine.’—You
see, Mr. Marauder, how pat my simile
is ?”
WOL. I. Mſ ** No
242 {N FERNAL QUIX OTE.
“No doubt, Mr. Rattle, you think
so ; but I can inform you the French
borrowed their's from the Ancients.”
“You mean, my dear Sir, as to that
notable exhibition of their's, the deifi-
cation of Monsieur Voltaire. These
fellows, at the moment they affect to
despise religion, are guilty of the grossest
idolatry; an unenlightened set of
savages would have been ashamed of it.
After having collected together the
wisdom of I know not how many cen-
turies, they glory in a species of know-
ledge that an heathen three thousand
years ago had considered beneath his
notice. That deification, which the
degeneracy of Rome, under the infa-
tuated tyranny of its Emperors, yielded
to, and which they copied from the
primitive
IN FERN A L QUIX OTE, 243
*
primitive customs of man ere yet he
was civilized, have these pretended sons
of Freedom voluntarily bestowed on a
conceited poet, well known as a rank
poltroon, a false historian, and an ignorant
sceptic.”
“You are so violent, Rattle,” said
Mr. Marauder, having got off from the
Goddess of Reason, and wishing to con-
clude the argument, “ so very violent
in your opinions, that I cannot possibly
dispute with you. Yet this merit you
cannot deny the French, of overturning
with complete success the old super-
stition.” *
“Does Mr. Marauder call it super-
Stition ?”
“I speak,” replied Mr. Marauder,
affecting indifference, “not as a reli-
gious party, but as an impartial observer.”
M 2 “If
244 *IN FERNAL QUIX OTE,
*
“If the highwaymen of this country,”
continued Rattle, “were to get the
upper hand, I presume they would pull
down the gibbets, and most probably
celebrate aféte on Hounslow Heath.”
‘‘I find, Rattle, I must give up the
Herculean task of convincing you. As
this argument cannot be very entertain-
ing to the ladies, give us your opinion
of the new play we have all been to see.”
CHAP)
$NFERNAL QUIX OTE. 245
CHAP. xx.
THE conversation now took a turn
more adapted to the fair Emily and her
female friends, till from having tho-
roughly canvassed the new play, the
eld ones came upon the tapis. Shakes-
peare of course was mentioned, and
universally applauded. Here Mr. Ma-
rauder made sure that Rattle would join
in his praise, as he had often heard him
speak of that great genius in the highest
terms of rapture.
M 3. “It’s
246 INFERNAL QUIxot E.
“It’s all very true,” said Rattle, with
a bit of a sigh, “but he spoils all for
want of feeling.”
Every gentleman and every lady in
company attacked Mr. Rattle most
severely. He stood the storm very
patiently : when it had a little subsided,
he continued—
“Ah, poor Falstaff! Harry of Mon-
mouth would never have treated thee as
the Prince of the Drama has made him.”
“No, Rattle,” said Hambden, taking
up the defence of his favourite, “this
old cavil shall not avail you. A writer
you greatly admire, the ingenious author
of an Essay on the Dramatic Character
of Sir J ohn, confesses that the punish-
ment of Falstaff is but poetical justice.”
“Morgan
INFERNAL QUIxOTE. 247
“Morgan spake not from his heart:
* he tells us not to complain ; that Sir
John is finally given up to shame and
dishonour. A very clear reason this,
that there was a cause for complaint.
Shakespeare seems to have perceived it
himself, when he makes Fluellen, the
Welchman, compare the Prince's conduct
to Falstaff, to Alexander’s to Clitus; the
excuse afterwards is evidently very bad.
But allowing this cursed poetical justice,
why was Bardolf to be hanged for steal-
ing a pix?” *
“Can the punishment of such a
fellow be an excuse for condemning
Shakespeare for want of feeling?”
* See an Essay on the Dramatic Charaćter of Sir
John Falstaff, page 179.
M 4 “Yes;
248 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE,
“Yes; after all their jokes on his
fiery nose—after making him a compa-
nion with the Prince, and an object for
his wit and ridicule—after confessing
him by the voices of all the gang to be
the best of the three worthies—poor
Bardolf! for the sake of the old joke,
Fluellen says—‘ One Bardolf, if your
Majesty knows the man; his face is alk
bubuckles and whelks, and knobs, and
flames of fire, and his lips blow at his
nose, and it is like a coal of fire, some-
times blue, and sometimes red; but his
nose is executed, and his fire's out.’—
Qn this account the poor fellow is with
great indifference fixed upon, in allu-
sion to an old legend, as the most proper
person to be hanged for stealing a pix.
“Shakespeare draws Bardolf himself, .
with
, INFERNAL quixotº. 249'
with much more feeling than the Prince
when he hears of Falstaff's death.-‘ I.
would I were with him, wherever he is,
either in Heaven or in Hell !' – Had
Shakespeare felt this sentiment so well as
he has placed it in the mouth of a repro-
bate, I am well assured he would never
have hanged the poor devil at last. If
these will not satisfy you, I have at least
half a hundred others. There's littles
poetical justice, I believe, in the deaths.
of Ophelia, or her poor father; but as .
for the murder of the dutiful, lovely,
and innocent Cordelia—let Shakespeare.
answer for it.”
Hambden, finding it in vain to argue
with so determined an adversary, thought
he had better turn the virulence of his
M 5 friend:
950 IN FERN A L QUIXOTE
friend Rattle's satire to some other sub-
ject.
They canvassed, therefore, the merits
of the other dramatic favourites, whom
Rattle praised or condemned with equal
intemperance,
“One of the best things in the
English language,” said Rattle, “is
Steele's Conscious Lovers; every sen-
timent is interesting, and pregnant with
religion, honour, and virtue.”
“All borrowed l’’ replied Hambden,
who was determined to attack him in his
own way. “I mean to say it is no
better than a decent translation of
Terence's Andrian: but what think you
of Sheridan's School for Scandal? There's
originality
INFERNAL Q. UIXOTE: 25 +
originality for you, with genuine wit
and humour.”
“Positively,” exclaimed Rattle,
“ the very worst thing in the English
language—a disgrace to the nation to
Have had it acted.”
Every one of the company laughed
most heartily at Mr. Rattle for his vio-
lent abuse of so famous a work, each
striving who should most commend it.
“But,” concluded Mr. Arnon, “the
astonishing run it has had, is a sufficient
instance of its merit.”
“Pshaw - you may as well argue that
way in defence of half the trash upon
the town. I say the principle of the
School for Scandal is an artful attack
M 6. against
252 INFERNAf, QUIXOTE,
against all religion and morality. The
chief characters, the Brothers, are bor-
rowed from Tom Jones and Blifield;
and its plot is taken from an excellent old
Novel called Sidney Biddulph, where a
rich old codger, Mr. Warner, comes
from abroad, and disguises himself as a
poor man, to make trial of his relations,
Sir George and Mrs. Arnold. The suc-
cess is the same as in the play.
“The generosity of the hero Charles,
is at the expence of his justice—a virtue
that seems despised by the author. In
short, all that can be said in favour of it
is—that open vice is better 22
“Mr. Rattle,” said Emily, “I can
bear it no longer—you are too bad ; I
don't know when I shall forgive you for
abusing my favourite play.”
** If
IN FERNAL Q UIXOTE. 25.3%
“If Mrs. Marauder is against me,”
said Rattle, (for, though it was totally
contrary to the principle by which Mr.
Marauder deceived Emily, she was
always called by his name)—“if Mrs.
Marauder is against me, I give up the
argument; and as the School for Scanda}
is so far honoured as to be her favourite,
Ihenceforth declare, againstall opposers,
that it is possessed of wit, honour, and,
i.e.:- - 1:4-7. **
originality.
Rattle was one of the warmest admi-
rers of the fair sex, and Emily's bright
eyes had shot him through and through.
In truth, the pleasure of seeing her was
the great inducement that now brought
him frequently to Mr. Marauder's table
—a man he was far from feeling any
particular friendship for.
3 From
254 ENFERNAL OU IX OTE.
From plays the subject descended to
players.
Mrs. Siddons met with universal
approbation. Emily spoke of her in the
highest terms; and, perceiving Rattle
was silent, she required his opinion.
Rattle hummed and hawed.—“ Un-
doubtedly she was most excellent; her
voice clear; her expression just; hel,
manners easy and noble; her shriek
most inimitable; and what is superior
to every thing, if you see her in one
character, you see her in all. Upon my
honour, Ma'am, she is a most capital
actress.”
“Of her elder brother no doubt you
have full food for satire?” said. Mr.
Marauder.
** He's,
INFERNAL QUIxo'ſ E. 255
“He’s, without exception, the best
improvement upon harsh nature I ever
met with in my life.”
“And what of her younger ?”
“A wonderful instance of the influ-
ence of the family.”
“What think you of Mrs. Jordan?”
“Anything but majesty.”
‘‘ Bannister?”
“Two very great faults—modesty
and good-nature.”
** How so P” Q
“Both together induce him to act
low parts, beneath the scope of his
abilities.”
“Quick?”
“His squeak is most excellent; but
we've rather too much of it.”
“Mr. Rattle,” said Emily, “not a
- word
256 INFERNAL QUIxote.
Word more, if such are your remarks on:
the first comic actors that ever trod the .
stage.” *
• ‘ I differ from you, Rattle,” said:
Mr. Marauder, “in almost every re-
mark you have made.”
Marauder, who knew Emily's taste,
began to canvass their merits in a very
different manner, and, with great judg-.
ment, gave them that praise so well,
known, so deservedly their due.
The ladies retired.
Mr. Arnon entered upon more learned:
subjects; and, from a neat discourse upon.
the improvement in the arts and sci-
ences, he soon came round to his.
favourite.
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 257
favourite subject—the praise of the
French.
‘‘ One of their Generals reconnoitered
the enemy's camp in an air-balloon P’’
asked Rattle.
“A ridiculous story !” said Mr.
Arnon, conceiving Rattle was ready to
laugh at it; “I doubt if it ever hap-
pened.”
“I have heard from very good au-
thority it is true,” replied the other,
“and I think greatly to his credit. It
has been the fashion of this country for
every fool to laugh at the air-balloon ;
but I conceive it to be the best practical
exhibition of a bold and useful theory
which the age can produce.”
&
The-
258 INFERNAL QUIxoTE.
The rest of the company knew not
whether Rattle was in jest or earnest.
He continued—“James Sadler, a pastry
cook at Oxford, had the spirit himself
to make the bold experiment in the
midst of that learned seminary. For
an act which reflected honour on his
abilities, as well as his courage, what
reward did the sons of Apollo bestow P
—A few shillings to gratify their cu-
riosity I Had the circumstance took
place at Cambridge, probably he had
made his fortune; had it happened in
former days, we should have had him
among the stars.”
“And you really mean to commend
it?” said Marauder, sneeringly. *,
“If science is none the worse for
courage to put it in practice.”
“Surely,”
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 259
... “ Surely,” said Mr. Arnon, “the
French have the first merit in this, as
well as in the telegraph.”—Mr. Arnon
began to exult.—“Their superior genius
still takes the lead; but the most noble,
1m0St glorious thing this age has pro-
duced, is the emendation and perfection,
I may say, of the calendar by these
sons of Freedom.” - . *
“The offspring of Folly!” exclaimed
Rattle, with an air of triumph, “the
poorest astronomers in the Julian period
would have called them. Mr. Arnon,
I beg of you to point out in what the
excellence consists.”
Mr. Arnon's praise had transcended
his reason; but he replied—“In the
more equal division of the months, and
the more equal distribution of time.”
- “When
26Q, IN FERNAL QUIXOTE:
“When I understood,” said Rattle,
trying to speak deliberately, “that
these Philosophers had altered the calen-
dar, I naturally presumed that, without
regarding party distinctions, accidental
circumstances, or their own prejudices,
they had accommodated it to the
seasons of the year, as the different con-
stellations point them out to us; but to :
my extreme surprise, and what gives me
the most contemptible opinion of the
learned Nation, all their philosophy,
mathematical knowledge, astronomical
wisdom is contained in this grand point
—that Royalty was abolished on the
21st of September, therefore their year.
is to begin on the next day, the 22d.
Again, instead of dividing the months
as near as possible according to the
1110OIlS,.
TN FERNAL QUIX OTE. 261
moons, their months consist of 30 days
each, 10 days to a week, and 3 weeks to
a month : now 30 times 12 being only
360, five days still remain, and these -
(which I have no doubt is a very good
joke in France) are called the days
without breeches / and so there is an
end of the Frenchman's year. If a revo-
lution should ever take place in Ireland,
they may make as great a blunder; but
it is impossible for them to evince greater
conceit and folly.”
“What can be more imperfect and
irregular than our own year 2" asked
Mr. Arnon, who, though he knew him-
self in the wrong, was not willing to
resign the point.
“No alteration,” replied Rattle, “I
should have supposed, had not the
French
wº *
362 IN FERN A L QUIX OTE, *
French convinced me otherwise. As
yet every cmendation had been an im-
provement upon the wisdom of former
ages, till a French astronomer * came,
P. F. N. Fabre d'Eglantine, a player
and poet. To this man was the task
assigned of altering the calendar—to a
* But it is unjust and invidious to judge of the literary
sapience of the Great Nation under the despotism of
Robespierre, &c. &c. &c. &c. Monthly Magazine for
April 1800, page 276.-‘‘ At the death of Voltaire, the
apothecary, charged with embalming him, had permiſſion to
retain that part of his brain which the French call cervelet,
(cerebellum). It was preserved by him in spil its of wine,
with a sort of religious care, from that time till the death
of the possessor, the son of whom has just made an offer
of it to Government, who has accepted it. This interesting
remain of the Patriarch of Fermey is to be included in a
monument, and conventently placed in the midst of the
chef d’aeuvres of his works, with which the Public
Library is enriched,”—See the end of the last chapter.
wretch.
INFERNAL QUIxoTE. 263
wretch whose character has been thus
ably defined—‘A weak critic, a trifling
writer, an ignorant Philosopher, and an
irresolute Atheist.”—These fellows are
determined to think and act for them-
selves, and are daily tumbling backward
in every virtue and every science.
Hambden,” continued Rattle, “ you
understand these things; am I not right
in the calendar P’’
“It is so seldom you are, I will not
deny it at present. Now, in return, let
me ask you what you think of their new
Jazy 8°
“D–n their law l’ exclaimed
Battle.
The company enjoyed his momentary
confusion, and the laugh went com-
pletely against him.
Marauder
$264 IN FERNAL QU'I XOTE.
Marauder particularly enjoyed it, and
continued the blow.—“ Nay, nay,
Rattle, don’t be ashamed of your pro-
fession. What, in France, can equal
the glorious uncertainty of the English
law P And then, for our venerable Court
of Chancery, cool and deliberate rea-
soning supplies the place of hasty
decision. Shall I recal to your recol-
lection your favourite subject—Mr.
Hastings's trial; or does the elegant,
ingenious, learned, and intelligible man-
iner in which the Chancery suits are
conducted, meet your approbation bet-
ter P”
“I love my country,” replied Rattle
warmly, “ and therefore I feel for her
faults. I’ll give you for answer, Sir, a
scrap of paper I tore from a new port-
manteau,
IF FERNAL OU IXOTE. 265
manteau which came home this morn-
ing.”—He read the paper.—‘ Behold,
ye Englishmen, the blessings of an
hasty reformation 1 See how private
villains undertake to manage the public
good. See and learn.—The French
have, in truth, destroyed the old rusty
fetters which had long ceased to gall;
but have they substituted none in their
stead? Yes, new and gilded, which
rankle to the very bone ! They have
in a moment destroyed the tedious for-
malities of the law; and now suspicion,
apprehension, and death follow without
a word. Slow Justice is gone, and hasty
Murder has taken her place. The long
catalogue of useless prayers, unmeaning
ceremonies, and days of fasting, are
gone by ; and, in their place, a still
VO L. I. N longer
266 In FERNAL &UIX OTE.
longer catalogue of recorded perjuries,
ceremonies—would I could say un-
oneaning !—and days, not of voluntary
fasting, indeed, but of want and misery.' .
—I have sent, to the trunk-maker's, and
hope some day or other to favour you
with the remainder.” *
“It is a favour I will very willingly
dispense with,” said Marauder.
“Well, Rattle,” said Hambden,
laughing, “I think, indeed, our Eng-
lish laws shine best by comparison;
and if ever I see you my Lord Chan- . .
cellor, I shall hope to have our suit
determined.” §
*
. A small estate, which came to Mr.
Arnon from his late friend, was still
disputed in the Court of Chancery,
and to which Hambden referred.
“I confess,
INFERNAL QUIxOTE. 267
“I confess,” exclaimed Mr. Arnon,
with a sneer, “after all Mr. Rattle's
arguments, I should prefer justice with-
out law, to law without justice; for, as
95
Mr. Pain says $
“Do you really mean, my dear Sir;”
asked Rattle, hastily, “to quote that
worthy, respectable writer in earnest ?”
Mr. Arnon was ashamed of hisintended .
authority. He knew in what a con-
temptible light his son always considered
this great man, and he replied—“There
is no need of any quotation to
strengthen what I have advanced—it
is an axiom of itself.”
“How quickly you resign that man.
of modestyand veracity!” replied Rattle,
recovering his usual flow of spirits; ,
N 2 “but
268 INFERNAL QUIxote.
|
“but let me introduce him to your
notice in an epigram from . Martial,
which my younger brother sent me from
Cambridge the other day, and which,
in my opinion, is very comprehensive
and conclusive, $
“ Eſt niger et nequam, cum sis cognomine nequam;
** Nigrior esse potes, nequior esse nequis.”
To Thomas Pain. :
. Both Vice and Pain art thou—for Pain's thy name;
Thy vice increases, Pain is still the same.”
INFERNAL. QUIxor E, 269
*&
*
CHAP. XXI.
SINCE Emily's elopement, Mr. and
Mrs. Vasaley's family was in no respects
a desirable situation for a young girl at
the very age of improvement,
Fanny, who had never felt any par-
tiality for Mr. Vasaley or his spouse,
could not but determine it in her own
mind that they had acted very improperly
in their conduct concerning Mr.
N 3. Marauder
270 INFERNAL QUIx O.T.E.
Marauder and her sister: for, although.
neither the guardian nor his lady ever
suspected that Mr. Marauder, would
carry their fair ward away, yet they
privately encouraged his addresses
when they knew she was in a manner
engaged to Wilson. -
Mr. Townsend, an elderly man, and
* * * , an old bachelor, their other guardian,
** was, of course, informed of the elope--
ment of Miss Emily. He came to Mr.
Vasaley's immediately. . . . . .
Fanny, who had before mentioned it
to her friend Wilson, signified her wish
to Mr. Townsend to be in a situation.
where she mightimprove herself in those
accomplishments, she had superficially
. . . learned
INFERNAL QUIXOTE. 271
learned at school, and which she had
left, at the death of her mother, to be a
companion for her sister Emily, who,
in return, used frequently to talk of
instructing her younger sister herself.
Mr. Townsend, before his departure,
promised to look out for an eligible
situation; and in a few weeks wrote
word that he had prevailed upon a widow .
* * + * * * * x * , , * * *
..” “kady, near his own residence, to take his
young ward as one of her family.
When Lady Berwick accompanied
her husband to his command in the East
Indies, she left her three young daugh-
ters under the care of her friend, Mrs.
Mountford, a Clergyman's widow, and
the half-sister of Lady Berwick's mother.
- N 4 . This
272 INFERNAL QUIxote.
This lady had two daughters and
a son of her own, which, with the
three Miss Berwicks, composed the
society into which Fanny Bellaire was to
be admitted.
When the time approached for her
departure, Fanny, not without many a º
tear, prepared to leave the spot. It has
been before said how little she liked or
*N. respected the Vasaleys; and had the
cause of her tears been nicely inves-
tigated, she would have scarcely
been able to have given a good reason.
even to herself.
The truth was, she was unwilling to
..eave Wilson—a person she had once
expected to be her brother, one who
* had
INFERNAL QUIxOTE. 273
had warmly professed and shewed him-
'self to be her friend—who had directed
that excellent genius, for which she had
been early conspicuous, to proper objects
—who, so far from treating her like, an
ignorant young female, with unmeaning
praises and destructive flattery, had
assisted her opening mind in the attain-
ment of true excellence, a knowledge of
virtue, morality, and religion.
Fanny, considering Wilson in this
Tight, and knowing also that he prac-
tised himself those duties he recom-
mended to others, could not part with
such a friend, without feeling a sensation
much more interesting than usually
accompanies the term.
M 5 She
'974 IN FERNAL &U IXOTE
She had no relations nearer allied to
her than the Vasaleys and Mr. Town-
send. Mrs. Vasaley was her father's
first cousin; and Mr. Townsend stood
in the same degree of kindred to her.
mother. Wilson therefore had been as
father, guardian, kinsman, friend, every
thing dear that her young mind had yet .
felt the want of.
Mr. Townsend came to Mr. Vasaley's
house the day before Fanny was to leave
it. Wilson called in the evening to
wish her a good journey.
Mr. and Mrs. Vasaley were in the
room when he entered. Mr. Townsend
was acquainted with him, and well knew
his character; and the Vasaleys, to
3 * make
IN FERNA. L. QUIXOTE. 275
make up for their former conduct and
partiality towards Marauder, had been
most profuse in his praise.
After the usual compliments had
passed, and he had been seated a few
minutes, he asked for Miss Fanny.
“The poorgirl,” said Mr. Townsend,
“is very sorrowful at leaving her good
friends here; and she was afraid of not
seeing you before she departed.”
Fanny entered.
Wilson had determined to ask fier
permission, in the presence of her guar-
dians, occasionally to write to her, and
to beg the favour of her answer; yet
: N 6 3. delicacy
276 IN FERNAL QUIXOTE,
a delicacy of feeling, he could not
account for, a long time prevented him.
In vain he reasoned with himself on the
subject; he felt an interest in her fate
more than a mere friend can feel, and
feared, as if it was a thing of the great-
est moment, the possibility of a refusal.
That he loved her otherwise than as a
sister he had not the remotest idea,
though Emily herself had always per-
ceived their great partiality for each
other. There was a delicacy, a tender-
ness, a chasteness, an anxiety that daily
increased upon him whenever he ad-
dressed Fanny, and now was more con-
spicuous than ever it had been before.
With Emily, beautifuland fascinating,
his
INFERNAL QUIXOTIE, 277
his passions had been interested, and he
thought himself deeply in love; but
with Fanny his heart was caught, and
he was ignorant it was even in danger.
That a young Philosopher of one-
and-twenty should be in love with a
pretty child of fourteen, was a paradox he
could not conceive possible; yet Emily,
in her giddy, laughing way, had often
told him so, and Wilson had as often
turned it to a compliment upon herself.
The gay Marauder also had been equally
affected by the fascinating graces of
the mind and person whichadorned Fanny
Bellaire, but not with equal ignorance
upon the occasion. From hence a
corollary may be drawn, more correct
than any from the long-shaken brain of
the
*.
278 INFERNAL QUrx6"re.
the author of Political Justice—that the
purity of love is in proportion to its
ignorance. & g
After many a hem! and many an ah?
Wilson found courage to take the oppor-
tunity of Fanny's calling him her friend
Mr. Wilson, to propose the correspond-
ence—“You havekindly, Miss Fanny,
thought proper, to honour me with the
name of friend; may I, under that name, *
hope to have the liberty of writing to
& you, and will you sometimes favour me .
with your answer?”
T. Fanny, artless and innocent, had not
yet learned to conceal her feelings. She
was hurt at the cold and formal manner
in which, in her opinion, so simple a
favour
IN FERNAL QUIXOTE. 279
t;
favour had been asked. The tears stood
in her eyes as she answered—“I fear,:
... Mr. Wilson, you must think me very
º ungrateful not to be always happy to
hear from you. I am greatly indebted
to you for the kindness and friendship
you have shewn me ever since I have
been here; and the treatment you have
had from our family, has been very un-
kind in return. I am sure you have
been as a brother to me; and one time
I was in hopes I might have really
called you so.”
“I am afraid I shall lose my other
ward if this is the case,” said Mr.
Townsend, laughingly. “But, my
dear little girl,” continued he, taking
Fanny by the hand, “though we have
not the happiness to be allied to Mr.
*
Wilson, …,
280 INFERNAL Qū Ixo'TE
Wilson, I hope you will always consider
him as a brother, as I shall a friend of
the family; and, whoever is the happy
man that one day or other is to be
blessed with my Fanny, he will have
reason to thank Mr. Wilson for the
care he has taken of you.”
Wilson therefore frequently received
a letter from his young pupil; and while
he admired the expanding beauties of
her mind, he soon began to remark that
she grew more and more cautious and
reserved in her expressions towards him.
Had he read over his own letters with
the like attention, he could not have
failed to make a similar remark in them,
\
CHAP,
INFERNAL QUIxoTE. -- 281
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THE summer after Marauder came of
age, Emily passed at Brighton; and,
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amid,ºplendour of beauty and
fashiºghadorned its shores, shone
forth avowedly as the first constellation
in every eye. .
In taste, in style, in elegance, in the
richness of equipages and dress, the chere
amies of Princes, Dukes, and Lords were
left far behind.
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282 INFERNAL QUIxote.
. The admiration she excited could not
but gratify. her. vanity in the highest
degree; yet, strange as it may appear,
she felt sensations, whiêh already told
her that all was vexation of spirit. The
pride of Marauder joyfūlly received the
incense—that pride whigh waited but
for one event to be at its full powers.
...Early in the winter they returned to
town. Marauder was...more
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Emily drooping and pining fast away;
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around theºûmpregnated fluids of this
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congenial mindshād commenced between
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when the GRAND EyFNT, the great
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284. INFERNAL QUIxote.
volumes turn, so long expected, so ar-
dently desired, took place.
The DUKE of SILSBURY, without a
fall from his horse, was, to thé surprise
of every body, carried off in the midst
of a long frost by an apoplectic fit,
which the Physicians agreed was occa-
sioned by the want of his necessary
exercise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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An Irish servant, who waited upon
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Wilson, made a very judicióus reimark
upon this opinion of the learned Doc-
tors.-‘‘They may talk what they will,
Master, upon we Irish blunderers, but,
by Jasus ! this is the most complete
thing I ever heard in my born days—
that his Grace should have ventured his
... * neck
IN FERNAL, QUIXOTE. 285
neck to have insured his life. Faith !
a pretty way of living to run the risk of
dying.” 4”
No sooner was the Duke's death
known, than the bailiff or steward of
Mr. Marauder set off post to town.
Without ceremony he rushed into the
room, where his master sat with a few
French Nobility, some English gentry,
and the adored Emily.
The host turned his head round, sur-
prised at the rudeness of his servant,
who, walking boldly to the table, poured
out a glass of wine, and drank—“Long
life to the Duke of Silsbury ſ”
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e- w 'The
286 INFERNAL, QUIxoTE.
The young heir, with a joy that burst
even the fetters of his pride, caught his
meaning, and applauded the insolent
hint.
He immediately rang the bell vio-
lently.—“Order my carriage and horses
this moment l” said he. “Mr. Grinder,
you'll follow me as quick as possible.
No, you shall accompany me.”—Recol-
lecting h imself, he politely apologized to º
the company;-nay, a very nice observer
might have thought that he seemed to
be a little ashamed of his own intemper-
ate behaviour, and the gross exultation .
of his servant; but his gratified pride
soon smothered it all, and he hastily
took his leave, and departed. .
• ?
Poof
INFERNAL ou IxoTE. 287
Poor Emily was like one thunder-
struck.—“Good night, and sweet
dreams to my lovely girl!” was the great
anan’s address as he left the room.
Instead of hailing her as his lovely
Duchess, a term he was formerly very
fond of using, he had departed with a
familiar nod, such as a superior, highly
gratified, bestowson an inferior.—“My
lovely girl” left a shuddering at her
breast that crushed in a moment the
airy palaces she had so arduously reared,
"and scattered the whole fabric at the
instant it seemed to be realized.
At the first place where they changed
horses, the new Duke thought proper to
send Emily a note by the post, more for
- the
288 INFERNAL QUIxote.
the sake of giving some vent to his
exulting pride, than from any particular
love, though he certainly meant it as a
hint to check any fond hopes she might
have still entertained of participating
in the title. .The following is the letter.
«sº
Aer
“For one moment, my charming
Emily, ambition took place of love,
when I flew this nightfrom your bewitch-
ing arms to investmyself with the family
honours. *
“I shall be at the Castle early in the
morning. Ere you receive this, a certain
pretender will have lost his little con-
sequence, and may provide himself with
a situation far more fit as a journeyman
carpenter.
“I will try to bring our Fanny back
with me to the land of Love, where
with
INFERNAL QUIXOTE. 289
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with my Emily she shall enjoy its
delights. We must make your lovely
sister a convert to the religion of Reason
and Truth!—Ye Gods whata glorious
idea to be the Priest of such Goddesses f
“Blest, ever blest, ye free enchant-
ments of the mind Curse, Oh curse
again and again the rankling fetters,
which foolish Parsons and Politicians
rivet upon slaves ten times more foolish
- than themselves 1 º
“ So contrary to nature is compulsion,
that were I compelled to love even my
Emily, I fear I should be disobedient.
“Health, love, and freedom €Ver
attend on the Goddess of my vows!
From her constant adorer,
6, 4 SIESBURY.”
W. O.I. I. " () Emily
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290 INFERNAL Quixote
Emily read the note with somewhat,
more than surprise. She perused it
again and again. Something new, some-
thing more and more unpleasant alarmed
her spirits, and chilled her trembling
heart, - -
A little recovered, she called her new
philosophy to her aid, and attempted to
reason with herself upon the subject.
Could she doubt the honour of the man
to whom she had sacrificed every thing? .
—Ah! no.
She read the letter once more. Yes,
she did doubt it.
Long had Emily felt the irksomeness.
of her situation; and the hope that she
should soon be instated in her proper
sphere.
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INFERNAL QUIxoTE. 29 I
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sphere alone supported her spirits. This
letter seemed to destroy it all; and for
the first time the mental vision began
to open upon the dreary prospectaround
her. - ty
When once secrecy supplies the place
of candour in the female breast, the
approach of Vice is made easy;-the
words of Deceit prevail—“She forsak-
eth the guide of her youth, and forget-
teth the covenant of her God;” and
ruin, remorse, and repentance range.
successively through the soul.
Let me hasten to the castle to intro-
duce the new Duke.
Iº ND OF WOL., F. y
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that the writer is not unacquainted with the viciſſitudes of the
literary world. The ſtory of the Novel poſſeſſes a degree of
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