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PART L
CHAPTER VI. (continued:)
In many ways, therefore, the party had
gained by Otlilie’s arrival. The Captain
and Edward kept regularly to the hours,
even to the minutes, for their genera
meeting together. They never kept the
others wailing for them either for din
ner or tea, or for*their walks; and they
were in less hasie. This did not escape
Charlotte’s observation; she watched
them both, to see whether one more than
the other was the occasion of it. But she
could not perceive any difference. They
Lad both become more companionable.
In their conversation they seemed to con
sider what was beet adapted to interest
Otlilie; what was moat on a level with
her capacities and her general knowl
edge. If she left the room when they
were reading or telling stories, they
would wait till she returned. They had
grown softer and altogether more united.
In return for this, Ottilie’s anxiety to be
of use increased every day; the more she.
came to understand the bouse, its inmates,
and their circumstances, the more eagerly
she entered into everything, caught eve
ry look and every motion ; half a word,
a sound, was enough for her. With her
calm attentiveness, and her easy, unexcit-
ed activity, she was always the same. Sit
ting, rising up, going, coming, fetching,
carrying, returning to her place again, it
was always in tbb most perfect repose; a
constant change, a constant agreeable
movement; while, at the same time, she
went about so lightly that her step was
almost inaudible.
This cheerful obligingness in Ottilie
gave Charlotte the greatest pleasure.
There was one thing, however, which she
did not exactly like, of which she had to
speak to her.
“It is very polite you,” she said one day
to her, ‘/when people let anything fall
from their band, to be so quick in stoop
ing and picking it up for them; at the
same time, it is a sort of confession that
they have a right to require such atten
tion, and in the world we are expected to
be careful to whom we pay it. Towards
women, I will not prescribe any rule as
to how you should conduct yourself.
You are young. To those above, and old-
Or than you, services of this sort are a
duly; towards your equals they are po
lite; to those younger.than yourself and
your inferiors you may show yourself
kind and good-natured by such things,—
only it is not becoming in a young lady to
do them for men.” «
“1 will try to forget the habit,” replied
Ottilie; “I think, however, you will in
the meantime forgive me my want of
manners, when I tell you how I came by
it. We were taught history at school ; I
have not gained as much out of it as I
ought, for I never knew what use I was
was to make of it; a few little things,
however, made a deep impression upon
me, among which was the following:
When Charles the First of England was
standing before his so called judges, the
gold top came off the stick which he bad
in his band, and fell down. Accustomed
as be bad been on such occasions to have
everything done for him, he seemed to
look round and expect that .this time 100
some one would do this little service. No
one stirred, and he stooped down lor it
himself. It struck me as so piteous ; that
from that moment I have never been able
to see any one let a thing fall without
myself picking it up. But, of course, as
it is not always proper, and as I cannot,”
she continued, smiling, “tell my story
every thne I do it, in future I will try and
contain myself.”
In the meantime the fine arrangements
which the two friends had been led to
make for themselves, went uninterrupted
ly forward. Every day they found some
thing new to think about and undertake.
One day as they were walking together
through the village, they had. to remark
with dissatisfaction how far behindhand
it was in order and cleanliness, compared
to villages where the inhabitants were
compelled by the expense of building
ground to be careful about such things.
‘‘You remember a wish we once ex
pressed when we were traveling together
in Switzerland,” said the Captain, “that
we might have the laying out of some
country park, and how beautiful.we
would make it by introducing into some
village situated like this, not the Swiss
style of building, but the Swiss order and
neatness which so much improve it.”
“And how well it would answer here !
The hill on which the castle stands, slopes
down to that projecting angle. The vil
lage, you see, is built in a semicircle, reg
ularly enough, just opposite to it. The.
brook runs between. It is liable to floods;
and do observe the way the people set
about protecting themselves from them ;
one with stones, another with stakes ; the
next puts up a boarding, and a fourth
lies beams and planks; no one. of course,
doing any good to another with his ar
rangements, but only hurting himself and
the rest ton. And then there is the road
going along just in the clumsiest way pos
sible —up hill and down, through the wa
ter, and over the stones. If the people
would only lay their hands to the busi
nos together, it would cost them nothing
but a little labor to run a semicircular
wall along here, take the road in behind
it, raising it to the level of the housts,
and so give themselves a fair open space
in front, making the whole place clean,
and getting I’id, once for all, in one good
general work, of all their little trifling in
effectual mahjesbifts.”
“Let us try it,” said the Captain, as he
ran his eyes jover the lay of the ground,,
and saw quickly what was to be done. , ‘
“l ean undertake nothing in company
with peasants and shopkeepers,” replied
Edward, “unless I may have unrestricted
authority over them.”
“You are dot so wrong in that,” return
ed the Captain; “I have experienced too
much trouble myself in life in matters of
that kind, ikow difficult it is to prevail
on a man to jventure boldly on making a
sacrifice for an after advantage I How
bard to get hjim to deaire an end, and not
hesitate at the means 1 So many people
confuse meads with ends; they keep bang
ing over the first, without having the oth
er before tbepr eyes. Every evil is to be
cured at the place where it comes to the
surface, and they jvill not trouble them
selves to look for the cause which produ
ces it or the remote effect which results
from it. This is why it is so difficult to
get advice listened to, especially among
the many; jhey can see clearly enough
from day to day, but their scope seldom
reaches beypnd the morrow; and if It
comes to a point where with some gener-,
a] arrangement one person will gain while
another will lose, there is ud prevailing
on them to strike a balance. Works of
public advaptage can only be carried
through by an uncontrolled absolute au
thority.”
“While they were standing and talk
ing, a man came up and begged of them.
He looked more impudent than really in
want, and Edward, who was annoyed at
being interrupted, after two or three
fruitless attempts to get rid of him by a
gentler refusal, spoke sharply to him.
The fellow began to grumble and matter
abusively; he went off with short steps,
talking about tb right of beggars. It was
all very well to refuse them an aims, but
that was no reason why they shculd be
insulted. A beggar, and everybody else,
too,was as ranch under God’s protection as
a lord It pat Edward ont of all patience.
The Captain, to pacify him, said:
“Let us make use of this as an occasion
for extending our rural police arrange
ments to such cases. We are bound to
give away money, but we do belter in
not giving in person, especially at home.
We should be moderate and uniform in
everything, in charities as in all else; too
great liberality attracts beggars instead
of helping them on their way. At the
same time there is no harm when one is
on a journey, or passing through a strange
place, in appearing to a poor man in the
street in the form of a chance deity of
fortune, and make him some present
which shall surprise him. The position
of the village and of the castle makes it
easy for us tb put our charities here on
a proper footing. I have thought about
it before. The public-house is at one end
of the village, a respectable old couple
live at the other. At each of these places
deposit a small sum of money, and let
every beggar, not as be comes in, but as
he goes out, receive something. Both
bouses lie on the road which leads to the
castle, so that any one who goes there can
btTreferred to one or the other”
“Come,” said Edward, “we will settle
that on the spot. The exact sum can be
made up another time.”
They went to the innkeeper, and to the
old couple, and the thing was done.
“I know very well,” Edward said, as
they walking up the hill to the castle to
gether, “that everything in this world
depends on distinctness of idea and firm
ness of purpose. Your judgment of what
my wife has been doing in the park was
entirely right; and you have already giv
en me a hint-how it might be improved.
I will not deny that I told her of it.”
“So I have been led to suspect,” replied
the Captain : and I could not approve of
your having done so. You have perplex
ed her. She has left off doing anything ;
and on this one subject she is vexed with
us. She avoids speaking o 1 it. She has
never since invited us to go with her to
the summer-house, although at odd hours
she goes up there with Ottilie.”
“We must not allow ourselves to be de
terred by that,” answered Edward. “If I
am once convinced about anything good,
which could and should be done, I can
never rest till I see it done. We are
clever enough at other limes in introduc
ing what we want, into the general con
versation ; suppose we have out some de
scriptions of English parks, with copper
plates, for our evening’s amusement.
Then we can follow with your plan. We
will treat It first problematically, and as
if we were only in jest. There will be
no difficulty in passing into earnest.”
The scheme was concerted, and the
books were opened. In each group of
designs they first saw a ground-plan of
the spot* with the general character i.f the
landscape, drawn in its rude, nalura
state. Then followed others, showing the
changes which had been produced by art,
to employ and set off the natural advan
tages of the locality. From these to their
own property and their own grounds, the
transition was easy.
Everybody was pleased. The chart
which the Captain had sketched was
brought and spread out. The only diffi
culty was, that they could not entirely
free themselves of the plan in which
i Charlotte had begun. Howeaer, an eas
iierway up the hill was a lodge
j was suggested to he built on the height at
, the edge of the cliff, which was tn have an
tsspecial reference to li e castle. I was 'o
THE RADICAL; FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1873.
form a consplcuousobject fthnktbe castle
windows, and from it the spectator was.
to be able to overlook, both the castleand
the garden. ■' ,
- The Captain bad thought it all catti
ly over, and taken his meMttrhmentPj and
now he brought up again his tillage road
and the wall by the brook, and the g round
which was to be raised behind ft
“Here you see,” said he, “while I make
this charming walk up the height, I gain
exactly the quanity of stone which I »•
quire for that wall. Let one piece of work
help the other, and both will be carried
out most satisfactorily and most rapidly.”
“But now,” said Charlotte, ‘‘comes my
side of the business. A. certain definite
outlay of money will have to be made.
We ought to know bow ; will be
wanted for such a purpose, and then we
can apportion it out—so much work, and
so much money, if hot by weeks, at least
bv months. The cash-box is under my
charge. I pay the bills, I keep the ac
counts.”
“You do not appear to have overmuch
confidence in us,” said Edward..
••I have not much in arbitrary matters,”
Charlotte answered. “Where it is a case
of inclination, we women know better
how to control ourselves than you.”
It was settled; the dispositions were
made, and the work was begun at once.
The Captain being always on the spot,
Charlotte was almost a daily witness to
the strength and clearness of his under
standing.' He, too, learnt to know her
better; and it became easy for them both
to work together, and thus bring some
thing to completeness. It is work as w ith
dancing; persons who keep the same step
must grow indispensable to one another.
Out of this mutual kindly feeling will ne
cessarily arise; and Charlotte had a real
kind feeling towards the Captain, after
she came to know him better, was suffl
ciently proved by her allowing him to de
stroy her pretty seat, which in her first
plans she had taken such pains in orna
menting, because It was it wan in the way
of his own, without experiencing the
slightest feeling about matter-
chapter vn.
Now that Charlotte was.occupied with
the Captain, it was a natural consequence
that Edward should attach himself more
to Ottilie. Independently of this, in
deed, for some lime past he had begun to
feel a silent kind of attraction towards
her. Obliging and attentive she was to
everyone, but his self-love whispered that
towards him she was particularly so. She
had observed his little fancies about his
f md. She knew exactly what things he
liked, aud*the way in which he liked
them to be prepared ; the quantity of su
gar which liked in his tea; and so on.
Moreover, she was particularly careful to
prevent draughts, about which he was ex
cessively sensitive, and, indeed, Abp.ut
which, with his wife, who cou-td nearer
have air enough, he was often at variance.
So, too, she had come to know abbut fruit
gardens, and flower-gardens; whatever he
liked, it was her constant effort to pro
cure for him, and to keep away whatever
annoyed him ; so that very soon
indispensable to him —she became like his
guardian angel, and be felt it keenly
whenever she was absent. Besides all
this, too, she appeared to grow more open
and conversable as soon as they were alone
together.
Edward, as he had advanced in life, had
retained something childish about him-
self, which corresponded singularly well
with the youthfulness of Ottilie. They
liked talking of early times, when they
had first seen each other ; and theSe rem
iniscences led them up to the first epoch
of Edward’s affect ion for Charlotte. Ot
tilie declared that she remembered them
both as the handsomest pair about the
court; and when Edward would question
the possibility of this, when she must
have been so exceedingly young, she in
sisted that she recollected one particular
incident as clearly as possible. He had
cotfie into the room where her aunt was,
and she had hid her face in Charlotte’s
lap—not from fear, but from a childish
surprise. She might have added, because
he had made so strong and impression
upon her —because she had liked him so
much.
While they were occupied in this way,
much of the business which the two ]
friends had .undertaken together' 1 had
come to a stand still; so that they found
it necessary to inspect how things were
going on—<tq work up a few designs and
get letters written. • For this purpose,
they betook themselves to their office,
where they found their old copyist at his
desk. They set themselves to their work,
and soon gave the old man enough to 1 do,
without observing that they were laying
tpany things on his shoulders which at
other times they bad- always done them
selves. At the same lime, the first design
the Captain tried would not answer, and
Edward was as unsuccessful with h is first
letter. They fretted for a while, plan
ning and erasing, till at last Edward, who
was getting on the worst, asked what
o’clock it was. And then it appeared
that the Captain had forgotten; for, the'
first time for many years, to wind up his 1
chronometer.; and they seemed, if not to
feel, at least to have a dim perception,
that time was beginning to be indifferent
to them.
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