THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES f r-. 1 fvU \>f LUCK; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. % Obale of m ittutcs. BT CHARLES MACKAY. AUTHOR OF " BARON GRIMBOSH," " UNDER THE BLUE SKY,' " A man's heart," etc., etc. YOL. I. LONDON: W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. S.W. 1881. (All rights reserved.) LCINDON : PEINTED BT W. H. AlAKN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO P1.ACK. I/. / INTHODUCTIO^. If the gentlest of gentle readers who may be attracted by the title of this story expect to find in it any unconscionable amount of what is erroneously called " sensation," if they hanker after details of bigamy, seduction, or mysterious murder, if they desire to sigh over the un- merited afflictions of a beautiful governess, or to admire the all but superhuman skill, in- genuity, and cunning of a detective police officer, with more brains in his head than Lord Thur- low, or any other Lord Chancellor, who looked wiser than it was possible for any legal luminary to be, he or she need not turn the page. But if he or she can be interested in anything so common as the loves, the hopes, the fears, the joys, the sorrows, the fortunes, the misfortunes, the ups and downs, the reverses and the suc- cesses of the sons and daughters of an ordinary Enghsh household, told in language that, if un- pretending, aspires to be good English, with every word in its proper place, and no words SG4504 IV INTEODUCTION. too many, they can read on, and find such entertainment as they may. It is "a plain, unvarnished tale," that the author has told, and if here and there the incidents may appear to be extravagant, the extravagance, if such it be, is not to be attributed to the invention of the writer, but to his perhaps too obstinate and literal adherence to a fact which he knew to be a fact ; that is to say, if he or anybody else knows anything to be a real, indubitable fact, which is far more than the author would like to assert of anything. Anyhow, he has not written the book idly, but with as much conscientiousness as any Arch- bishop ever put into a sermon. Not that he considers, or wishes any reader, gentle or un- gentle, to consider his novel to be a sermon, or anything like one. Perhaps, like the epistle of Robert Burns to his " young friend," one of the hnest of his immortal poems, there may be more of song in it than of sermon, and more of a faithful portrayal of the virtues and the follies of human life in our day and society than of either. Vogue la galere. March 7, 1881. LUCK; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. CHAPTER I. It was five or six weeks before the close of the Parliamentary session of 1869, that a somewhat portly and highly respectable Englishman was sitting one fine afternoon in the reading-room of the Hotel du Louvre at Paris, awaiting the dilatory proceedings of his wife and two daugh- ters above-stairs, who were adorning themselves after the fashion of their sex to accompany him to a little dinner in the Palais Royal, at a well- known restaurant especially famous for its good I. 1 2 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. cookery and its superexcellent white Hermitage. He was engrossed with his " GaKgnani," or seemed to be, when a page entered with a tele- gram for "Monsieur Haughton." Taking the do- cument, and wonderina; whether it contained o-ood news or bad, but supposing it likely, as most people do when such a missive arrives unex- pectedly, that its contents would be unpleasant, he opened it and read: " Pendleton is dying; return immediately ! " The recipient of the message was Mr. Archibald Haughton, of Mill Haughton, near Swinston, in the Fens, and the sender Avas Mr. Octavius Little, the principal partner in the firm of Fargo and Little, the leading and highly respected solicitors in the town of Swinston aforesaid. Mr. Hauo:hton did not receive the document with any particular satisfaction. It interfered with the arrange- ments he had made for his annual holiday, which he had well earned by sedulous attention to his business for eleven months, and whatever might be the case with Madame, his mfe, he was luck; and what oame op it. 3 tolerably certain that it would greatly ruffle the inward serenity of Mesdemoiselles, his daughters, even although they resigned themselves, as they were bound to do, after a straggle more or less severe, to Fate and to necessity. It was, he thouo-ht, somewhat inconsiderate and unkind ni' Mr. Pendleton to die just at that particular time ; and Mr. Haughton in his secret heart would have been very much obliged to him, if he had postponed the event to the close of the holiday season. It was a pardonable characteristic of Mr. Hausfhton to banish from his mind at dinner time all thoughts of business, and all sorts of unpleasantnesses, in whatever they might consist. He therefore resolved to say nothing of the telegram until after that meal was over, or until in the regular course they had arrived at the dessert, the cafe noir and the jpetit verve. When he thought the proper moment had come, Mr. Haughton showed the telegram to his wife. That lady comprehended the situation in a moment, and advised her husband to take the 1 ♦ 4 luck; and what came of it. early train next morning for Boulogne. " In fact," she said with a pleasant Scottish accent, " 3^e should go the night, were it possible, and leave me and the lasses here for a week or so, until ye either send for us, or come back to us : a begun turn, ye see, Archie, is half ended." " Yes, yes ! " said Mr. Haughton, " but, as you sometimes say in your incurable Doric, "it is better to be sonsy than soon up." " Oh you'll be sonsy enough, Archie, never fear, and soon up as vveel. So haud awa' hame, and be no later in startin' than the morn's mornin'." Mr. Haughton, being a sensible man, took his wife's advice, with all the greater readiness per- haps because it was whully in accordance with his own opinion. And while he is on his way to Swinston, viaFolkstone and London, it will be as well to let the reader know Avho Mr. and Mrs. Haughton were, and how the probable death of Mr. Pendleton affected them. Mr. Pendleton was the sitting member for the Borough of Swinston, and Mr. Octavius LUCK : AND WHAT GAME OF IT. Little knew that, in the event of a vacancy, his client, Mr. Haughton, would very much like to fill it, with or without a contest. Mr. Haughton, at the age of five-and-twenty, had succeeded to the business of his father, a miller and malt- ster. And a very comfortable business it was — even without the thirty thousand pounds and upwards in ready money which his father had left behind him. To that business he had added, at the midway station between his thirtieth and fortieth year, a manufactory of agricultural machinery and implements, which had prospered so well in his hands, by the time at Avhich we make his acquaintance, that he gave employ- ment to about tw^o hundred people. His father was the portionless younger son of an English baron of ancient family, a certain Lord Ravelstone, who was unfortunate enous-h to possess a ver}^ large amount of pride and a very small amount of income. In early life, towards the end of the eighteenth century, this son of a poor lord, who was a freer and a happier man 6 luck; and what came of it. than his father, inasmuch as he had no burden of pride or of debt to stagger under, and thought that no honest work however apparently mean could be dishonourable, had betaken him- self to America, where, after a year or two of wandering and of experiments in the art of earning a good deal of money and living upon very little, he had become the possessor of a saw- mill, a corn and gristmill, and a valuable " water privilege," on the James River in Virginia. He married a Virginian lady with some property, and was so well pleased with America that he would have been contented to live and die there had the health of his wife permitted. But seven years after marriage — during which he had greatly prospered — the repeated and anxiously expressed desire of Mrs. Haughton to visit England induced him to sell his lands and his mills, and convert his property into ready money, with the view of relinquishing business, and of travelling for awhile in, or per- haps of permanently residing in, the land of his lock; and what came or it. 7 ancestors. Jt was at first his intention to li^e quietly on the interest of his money, but after a lew months of travel through the old scenes, familiar to him in his youthful days, and which were celebrated in the history, poetry and tradition of his native land, he found that his time began to hang heavily upon his hands, lie was a man of active habits, and though by no means devoid of literary taste or intellectual resources, he pined for occupation. He had tw^o sons and a daughter, born to him in America, for whom he desired to provide for- tune and position. He consequently determined to resume business, without very much caring what the business might be, provided that it profitably employed his time, his talents, and his capital. By accident he heard of a property to be disposed of near Swdnston, on the death of the proprietor, consisting of a freehold farm of two hundred and forty acres, of a water-mill, and a windmill. The late occupant had been farmer, miller, and maltster, all in one, and it suited the tastes of 8 luck; and what came of it. Mr. Haughtoii to continue the same pursuits, all of which he w^ell understood. The good fortune that attends on good management, good sense, and economy, followed him in England as it had done in America ; and Mr. Haughton of Mill Haughton became a prosperous citizen. Nobody knew that he was the son of a lord, he had never assumed the courtesy title of " Honourable," and not the least suspicion was entertained by his neighbours and customers of his aristocratic descent. Tn short, nobody knew anything of his family, except his wife and his confidential lawyers, Messrs. Fargo and Little, all of whom had his instructions to keep their own counsel, and say nothing. To have letters addressed to the Honourable Archibald Haughton, miller and maltster, did not suit either his commercial or his democratic ideas ; and even the conventional title of Esquire, which everybody accepts, seemed to him to be ridiculous. His eldest son — who succeeded to his business and to a third share of his personal fortune, in luck; and what came of it. 9 the year 1841, the gentleman whose holiday tour was interrupted at Paris in the manner and for the purposes already described — shared in all the democratic tastes and ideas of his father. At the time our story opens he was in his fiftieth year, but looked younger. He was above the medium heig'ht, had a fresh rosv countenance, thick dark-brown hair, without a grey streak, or even a suspicion of approaching baldness. To please Mrs. Haughton, wdio thought that men wath much hair on the jaw^s never had much on the top of their heads, he w^ore no beard. He had quick grey eyes, a delicate white complexion, a mouth and nose that were neither " cut '" nor " chiselled," though the great Mrs. Slipslop and other fashionable lady novelists would very likely so describe them if they were telling this storv : but the features aforesaid were formed by bountiful mother Nature, in such a manner as to convey the impression, w^hich was not erroneous, of the possession by their owner of intellect and good humour, not unmingled wdth 10 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. some degree of irascibility and an impatience of contradiction. He was a handsome man, as every woman admitted ; and he was a manly man, as his own sex admitted also, if they ever thought or spoke about him, which was not often except in the way of business. Mr. Haughton had married for love. He was not ashamed to confess, and he had never had occasion to regret the fact. His marriage came about very simply and naturally. The year after his father's death he had made a pedestrian ex- cursion through the Highlands of Dumfriesshire, and at the close of a long summer day, when footsore and weary, and faint for want of food, lie found himself unable to walk five miles fur- ther to the nearest inn. He made bold to knock at the door of a farm-house, somewhat above the average in size and a])pearance, and to ask for food and lodging for the night. The door was opened by a handsome young woman of twenty, bright, blooming, and cheery. She wore the kirtle and the snood, was scrupulously clean and luck; and what came of it. 11 neat, and, as was the custom in Scotland anion sr the young of the rural population, wore neither shoe nor stocking;. The latter circumstance did not surprise, but rather pleased the traveller, for the exhibition of the pretty feet and shapely legs and ancles which it permitted. In answer to her inquiry, in very broad Scotch, of " What's your wull ? " he explained his dilemma ; on which, without further parley, but with a look which seemed to grant the hospitality demanded, she bade him " Come ben," while she made known his arrival to her father. Her father, Mr. John Rutherford, was the Laird of Knock- shoggle, a little farm and estate, that derived its name from two Gaelic words, signifying "the hill of barley." Knockshoggle himself, who was better known by that title than by his patrony- mic, was mixing his second tumbler of whisk}- toddy, preparatory to his retirement for the night, when his eldest daughter — for such the barefooted lassie proved to be — ani^.ounced the stranger's arrival and his wants. Knockshoggle 12 luck; and what came of it. would not have refused a common tramp a night's lodging under the circumstances, much less a gentleman. "Come awa', ben!" he said, " and the good wife will gie you your supper ; and I 'm thinking je '11 be none the waur o' a tumbler." The young traveller was of the same opinion, and followed where the Laird led him to the presence of Mrs. Rutherford. Like the goodman's wife in the " Cotter's Saturday- night," that lady had a keen eye for "a strappan' 3'outh," and received the stranger with the un- affected cordiality which is so common in remote and solitary districts in Scotland, and among agricultural people. The night was both a pleasant and an event- ful one for the roving bachelor. He did not know his fate at the time, did not even think about it ; and had not even the remotest suspicion tliat even his fancy was greatly struck by the charms of Miss Jeanie, much less that his heart had received a lasting im])ression. Next year, instead of going to France as he luck; and what came of it. 13 had intended, he took his annual hoUday in Dumfriesshire, and did not fail to pay his re- spects at Knockshoggle, and make the better acquaintance of the Laird and his lady, of Miss Jeanie, and her six brothers and sisters — but especially of Miss Jeanie. The Laird was "well- to-do," and as proud of his birth and little estate as if he had been a duke or a marquis, with tens of thousands of broad acres. Mrs. Rutherford, like most Scottish ladies who are wives of landed proprietors, great or small, was an accomplished genealogist, and could trace |)eople's cousins mto the remotest corners. Knockshoggle himself claimed to be related to the Bruces of history and tradition, and the Stuarts ; though, as Jeanie sometimes remarked when the fact was mentioned, " A' Stuarts are no sib to the king"; and Knockshoggle's lady was of the Grahams of Montrose, and half-a-dozen other Highland famihes of renown. All this was very amusing but not in the least distasteful to Mr. Archibald liaughton, 14 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. and the day before his departure to England, after a pleasant fortnight at Knockshoggle, secure beforehand of the lady's heart, he made a formal demand of her hand in marriage to her father and mother. They were " cannie " folk, and had a keen eye to the main chance, but nevertheless did not look over favourably on the claims of a man who, however handsome, rich, and amiable, was only a miller. But the love- smitten wooer had made known to the lady of his heart the fact of his parentage ; not that he was proud of being related to a lord, but because he thought the little bit of family history would favour his suit with the Laird of Knock- shoo-o^le. The calculation showed his knowledo:e of Scotch human nature. Mrs. Rutherford, well disposed towards him, miller or no miller, no sooner satisfied herself that he was of the Ravel- stone family, than she set herself to the task of overcoming the prejudices of the Laird, and succeeded — as women generally do when they have made up their minds to conquer. And in luck; and what came op it. 15 due time Archibald Hauo-hton, of Mill Hausfh- ton, was married to Jean Rutherford, of Knock- shoggle, and took her home to Lincolnshire, where she was cordially received and greatly liked by the bridegroom's mother, who had re- covered her health in England, and gave promise of Ions; life. The new Mrs. Hauo;hton was not only beautiful in person, but was possessed of the more endurins; charm of common sense, lighted up by a racy and agreeable humour, to which her native Doric — which she never tried to amend — lent a peculiar charm, somewhat grotesque at times but always agreeable. She Avas a capital manager, moreover, — could be liberal, and generous even, in the extreme, when occasion called, but looked fast and close to the observance of the golden calculation that two and two are four only ; and that, as she tersely expressed it, " Ye couldna' get mair out of a mutchkin than ye pat into it." As a wife she was a friend and a counsellor, whom it was a pleasure to her husband to consult in difficulty. 16 luck; and what came of it. As a mother she was affectionate mthout being weak. As a friend she would leave no honour- able means untried to serve the person on whom her friendship was bestowed ; and in the fulness of a loving heart had no hatred for anything but lying, meanness, hypocrisy, and false pre- tence. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Haughton consisted of one son — Herbert, who had mani- fested an early desire to become an artist — and of two daughters — Euphemia and Hester, com- monly called Effie and Ettie. Mr. Herbert Haughton was twenty-three years of age, and the two daughters were of the respective ages, at the time our story opens, of twenty and eighteen. Mr. Haughton's younger brother having no relish for trade, had after some debate decided upon going into the army, where he had served with some credit, had gone through the Crimean war, and attahied the rank of Colonel. He was now on half-pay, and managed to live a gay, and in some respects, a splendid bachelor life, and supplemented that not very handsome income luck; and what came op it. 17 by the interest of the money which he had in- herited from his father. He was a member of three London clubs, and took life in the easiest possible manner, and with the greatest amount of enjoyment which he could extract out of it, without permitting himself the luxury of too much sympathy with anybody. He had no great grievances or sorrows to trouble him, but he managed to make himself uncomfortable, if not unhappy, by small ones, and once groaned for a whole day over his miserable fate, in having had a woodcock served him for his breakfast, instead of a partridge which he had ordered, and on the enjojdng of which he had particularly set his mind ! Unlike his brother in this and many other respects, he was particularly unlike him in being proud of his ancestral connections with the Ravelstones. Everybody in the circle of his friends and acquaintances knew his descent from the ninth Baron Ravelstone. Withm the circle of the miller and maltster, as we have already 2 18 luck; and what came of it. stated, nobody knew anything of this fact except the members of his own family, who were not particularly proud of it. The one sister of these two brothers, having a portion of thu'ty thousand pounds, and a fair share of good looks, had not been long in the matrimonial market, before she was invaded by a host of suitors. In due time she bestowed herself and her money upon a tall, stiiF, erect, middle-aged gentleman with a small nose and a wide upper lip, who was both a baronet and a clergyman ; a baronet without a shilUng to support that dig- nity, and a clergyman with a benefice of less than a hundred pounds per annum. But the Rev. Sir Lancelot Wyld, Bart., in his marriage with Virginia Haughton (named Virgmia in honour of the land of her mother's nativity) made a bargain not only convenient to him- self, but happy enough for the lady. Sir Lancelot was of the high, the very high church party, and Lady Wyld's ideas, if she had any, were supposed to be as high as her husband's j luck; and what came of it. 19 so that on that point there was complete ac- cord between them. They were easy-gomg, unambitious people, and had all the good things of the world at their command. The only drop of bitterness in the pleasant matri- monial cup of this worthy but by no means brilliant couple, was the very improper turn of mind of their only son Lancelot, who delighted in the society of betting men, and had actually made a book on the Derby. To add to the atrocity of the conduct of this young gentleman, he smoked excessively, and had fallen in love with the farrier's daughter at Braxford, the village of which Sir Lancelot was vicar. Both his father and mother thought this was a very wicked thing, wickeder than the smoking and the betting ; because the girl had no money, and because, as a matter of course, no son of the Rev. Sir Lance- lot Wyld, Bart., could possibly commit an act so improper, so unnatural, so abominable, so wrong, and " all that sort of thmg," as to marry the daughter of so common a man as a farrier. 2 * 20 luck; and what came of it. There was desecration in the very thought ; and some stringent measures would have to be adopted, and that forthwith, if the ancient and respectable house of Wyld were not to be irre- trievably disgraced. Not that anything could dis- grace such a house permanently, but still as the Eev. Sir Lancelot thought, Lady Wyld being entirely of his opinion, the Wylds were in the position of Cesar's wife, so great, so pure, so high, that even a suspicion against their immaculate whiteness almost amounted to high treason. And now the reader knows all that it is neces- sary to tell of the Ravelstones, the Haughtons, the Wylds, and their surroundings, at the time when this story commences. Mr. Archibald Haughton is on his way to Swinston from Paris, and Mr. Pendleton, Member of Parliament for that ancient borough, is very ill, so very ill, as fully to justify Mr. Octavius Little in sending for his ambitious client, and Mr. Haughton for taking his wife's advice, and his own way in travelling home as fast as steam could carry him. luck; and what game of it. 21 CHAPTER II. When Mr. Hauo:hton arrived at Mill Hauo-hton he found his friend Mr. Little awaiting him. Mr. Pendleton it was thought could not survive the day ; and the best thing that Mr. Haughton could do under the circumstances was, in Mr. Little's opinion, and his own, to sit do^vn and prepare an address to the free and independent electors, very few of whom were either the one or the other, so as to be ready for publication in the " S^vinston Dove" and the " Swinston Scorpion," as soon after the death of the sitting member as social courtesy would allow. Mr. 22 luck; and what came of it. Little had not been idle during the previous two days, and it was generally known in the borough that Mr. Haughton would certainly present himself in the Liberal interest. It was as confidently asserted that that gentleman would not be allowed to walk over the course. A walk over the course was a thing not only highly unpopular, but almost unprecented in Smnston. The "free and independent electors" expected money to circulate on such occasions, and the more candidates there were to circulate it the better for the borough, and for all the honest souls who expected to win an honest or a dishonest penny, directly or indirectly, by the exercise of their political rights. Perhaps a second Liberal candidate might appear in the field, and if such an event occurred, a Conservative would certainly take advantage of it. This was almost the only chance the Conservatives had in this essentially radical borough; and everyone knew that the Conservatives would make the most of it. In fact it was known to a few choice spirits, who luck; and what came of it. 23 thought they knew everything, that an emissary of the Carlton Club was at that very moment in Swinston, making no fuss, but looking about him. Mr. Little, though an attorney — knowing all or at least a good many of the secrects of the place, and conversant with the dark as well as the bright side ot the characters of everybody in Swinston, from the parson, the doctor, and the wholesale grocer, down to the veriest pauper in the Union — was a popular man. He was past the prime of life, had a pleasant personal pre- sence, a kindly and courteous manner, a love of right as well as of peace ; and a clear, penetrative intellect, that could pick out logical needles from illogical bundles of straw, with a quickness that was the wonder of his friends, the terror of his foes and of all who sought to deceive him. There was no trace of the pettifogger about him ; and one of the greatest pleasures of his hfe was to heal up differences among his chents, and prevent lawsuits in the borough. The firm was an old and wealthy one, and had quite as much busmess 24 luck; and what came of it. as it needed in the management of the ordinary affairs of life within a large surrounding district, the wdlls, the marriage settlements, the transfers, the leases, the bankruptcies, the accommoda- tions, the mortgages, and all the multifarious business in which a lawyer's skill and intelligence are so necessary, and required no lawsuits to keep it going. It throve upon peace, not upon war. There was of course a Conservative as well as a Liberal lawy^er in the borough ; not that Mr. Little was not a good Conservative in heart — • most elderly gentlemen are — but professionally he always acted in elections in the Liberal in- terest. Mr. Smedley, the Conservative lawyer, was a younger man, and had graduated in ths office of Fargo and Little. He consequently knew the weight, influence, and ramifications of that firm too well to be discontented with the comparatively subordinate rank which he knew that his own, or any other legal establishment in the borough, must occupy as long as Fargo and Little carried on business within its limits. luck; and what came of it. 25 Mr. Little and Mr. Smedley met in the High Street on the day of Mr. Haughton's return home, and exchanged greetings as cordially as if they had not been, for the nonce, political and legal foes. "Pendleton can't outlive the night," said Smedley. " I know it," said Little. " You're ready with your man, of course," said Little. " Of course, and you with yours," said Smedley. " Ready, and sure to win," said Little. " Not sure," said Smedley, "for I hear that you will have two strings to your bow, two Simon Pures, tAVo Dromios, one of whom will be certain to eat up the other." *' Aye, aye," said Little, " some furtive Liberal or other, with more vanity than reputation, will come and smell at the toasted cheese ; but he won't bite when he knows how strong a mouse is in possession." 26 luck; and what came of it. And so they parted. That night Mr. Pendleton died ; and that night, by the advice of Mr. Little, the tele- graphic wii'es summoned Mrs. Haughton and her two daughters back to their home. " We can't get on without the ladies on such occasions," said the lawyer. " They can do more impudent things than men, and can ask for favours when any male creature would rather fight a dragon. No canvas is worth a dump without the women." " Hang the canvas ! " said Mr. Haughton im- patiently. " If there is one thing in the world which I detest, it is canvassing. It is a dirty door by which men enter into Parliament ; and how I am to go and sneak, and palaver, and humbug, and lie, and ask people for their votes, who ought to give them to me without asking, if they share my political opinions, and are fit to exercise political privileges, I scarcely know. I wish it were a penal offence on the part of a candidate to ask a man for his vote." luck; and what came of it. 27 " But it ain't," replied Mr. Little ; " and if you want to get into Parliament, you must go through the door that leads to it, dirty or not dirty, and hold up your coat-tails or not, as you may see fit." Mr. Haughton groaned. " I am in for it and shall go through with it. I must shake hands with fellows I despise ; hob- nob with drunken vagabonds ; admire the ugly old wives of disreputable cads ; kiss the dirty- nosed children of boosy mechanics ; and, worse than all, submit to be catechised by fools in public meetmgs about matters of public policy, which the fools don't understand. But as I said, I am in for it : and once I make up my mind to do a thing, it is my principle and my policy to do it." In due time Mr. Haughton' s address to the " Free and Independent Electors " covered all the vacant walls in the borough, — was exhibited in all the shops of which the keepers considered themselves as belonging to the Liberal party, where it had the place of honour ; and in some other 28 luck; and what came of it. shops, of which the keepers were Conservative, where it was not so conspicuously exhibited ; was praised in the " Swinston Dove," and de- nounced in the " Swinston Scorpion," the one finding it sound, strong, admirable, and states- manlike, and the other looking upon it as poor, weak in style and argument, and detestable in its principles. Mr. Gladstone was in power, and the main duty of a liberal representative in that day was to support that statesman — quand meme — to make things pleasant, and to put off the evil day that everybody thought Avould come, sooner or later, upon the Liberal party. The Emperor Napoleon was in the height of his glory and power, and most people thought that he had a firm hold on the favour of the masses of the nation, and that his dynasty was permanently established. The three great ques- tions that for the moment particularly excited the political mind in Swinston — Conservatives and Liberals — were the Education question, the Alabama claims, and the further reform of Par- luok; and what came of it. 29 liament ; and as Mr. Haughton had the mis- fortune to disagree with the Radical — or extreme party — on two of them, it was thought that he would have to play his cards very cleverly if he had made up his mind to win. It was, how- ever, a characteristic of Mr. Haughton that he had the courage to speak his mind and to be loyal to his convictions, and those who knew him best knew that he would rather be defeated than be false to his own conscience on any political or moral question whatsoever. The day after Mr. Haughton's address ap- peared in the London newspapers the great Mr. Wordy, the fashionable novelist, who imitates so prettily the gabble of girls, anxious for a seat in Parhament, arrived at Swinston to feel his way — invited, it afterwards turned out, by Mr. Barnaby the grocer, a lay preacher among the Methodists, who thought a negro was not only as good as a white man, but a great deal better ; and who maintained that all the liberties enjoyed by the British people were of small account 30 luck; and what came of it. compared with that great liberty which was persistently denied them by the base Whigs and the still baser Tories, — the right of giving their votes secretly. Mr. Wordy 's arrival was no sooner divulged than the Tories held a meeting at the " Red Bull," the well-known Tory house, where the county balls were held, and where the landlady made such excellent cheese-cakes that her renown extended in a circle of forty miles in diameter to half a dozen neio-hbourino: counties. In Swinston the Tory colour was pink and the Liberal colour blue ; and the pink banner no sooner floated from the first-floor window, over the door of the " Red Bull," than every voter in the borough — whatever his party — rubbed his hands in glee, or would have done so had the spirit prompted him, at the thought of a contest. That very evening, a highly Con- servative address, swearing by Lord Derby and Mr. D' Israeli, was issued by Lord O'Monoghan — an Irish peer, but in the eyes of the law and of Parliament only a commoner, like the late luck; and what game of it. 31 Lord Palmerston. The " Swinston Dove " — the Liberal mouth-piece — roared its wrath, as if it had been a raging lion, against this document, and the " Swinston Scorpion " — the Conservative organ — forgetting that its function was to sting, came forth with columns of the blandest and sweetest words, extolling the wisdom and the statesmanship of the Irish lord, and conjuring all friends of our glorious constitution in church and state to support him early at the poll, and, in this manner, save "the ship of State from being wrecked among the rocks and breakers into the midst of which that incompetent Captain and renegade, Mr. Gladstone, and his revolution- ary crew had led it, to meet certain destruction, unless such a pilot as Lord O'Monaghan should be sent to the rescue by the independent and enlightened borough of Swinston — a borough upon which the eyes, not only of all England, but of all Europe — and, indeed, of the whole world, if not the sun and moon and all the planets — would be fixed during the next fortnight." 32 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. And while this paper war was raging in Swinston with the great intensity of wars that break out in small places, a certain important section of the " free and independent electors " was summoned, by secret missive, to meet at the old appointed rendezvous — a little public-house with the sign of the " Dunderhead." This sec- tion of voters were generally known and called, from their place of meeting, the " Dunderheads." These gentlemen, to the number of ninety- two, were not only " free and independent electors," but " free men of the borough " — free because they had served their apprenticeship of seven years to various trades within the borough boun- daries, and possessed a vote in virtue of that fact, irrespective of the amount of annual rent they paid, if they paid any at all, or of their contributions, direct or indirect, to the taxation of the country. Individually they may have had principles and ideas, though the supposition is extremely hazardous ; collectively they had none except the one great, paramount, and ruling LCCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 33 principle— that votes were worth money ; and that it was the duty of every Dunderhead to stand by his brother, and of all the Dunderheads to stand together in extorting from one or other of the candidates — no matter which — the utmost possible amount of hard cash, as a gratuity (some might call it payment, and stigmatise it as bribery — they didn't), which the hopes, the fears, or the generosity of said candidate — Whig, Radical, or Tory, constructive or destructive — might induce him to part with. The chairman of the Dunderheads was one Blobb, a shoemaker ; and Blobb, on this occasion, feeling the full dignity and responsibility of his office, summoned his friends to council. Their council was secret, thou oh its result was not. Between a Liberal and a Conservative — if the contest were pretty close — they the ninety-two Dunderheads could turn the scale of victory to whichever side they pleased, if they all acted together — and when did a Dunderhead desert a Dunderhead ? and, for the victory, would fifty I. 3 34 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. pounds per Dunderhead be too dear ? No, said Blobb ; it would be cheap at a little more — say five thousand pounds in one lump. And all the Dunderheads agreed with him. To obtain the payment of this sum — or as much of it as pos- siole — it was the bounden duty of all true Dun- derheads "to set their shoulders to the wheel, with a long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether." These were the very words of the great Blobb in the speech which he delivered to the " brethren " on the very night after it had become certain that the Tory candidate meant to contest the seat with the Reformer — words which were received with very vehement ap- plause — the knocking of hands upon the table in the parlour where the Dunderheads assembled, with all the secresy and much of the formality'' of a Masonic lodge. Meanwhile Mr. Haughton and his committee, and Lord O'Monaghan and his committee, were alike cognisant of the doings and the plottiugs and the expectations of Mr. Blobb and his col- LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 35 leagues, and fully determined to do without the aid of such auxiliaries if the fortunes of the electioneering war allowed. Mr. Wordy, seeinof no chance of success, ^vithdrew from the contest, leaving behind him a graceful address to the " free and independent," informing them of his determination not to imperil the success of a brother Liberal ; and recommending them to vote early for Mr. Haughton, and give him such an overwhelming majority at the outset as would prove to all parties that corruption and Toryism had no chance in Swinston. This was a blow intended to hit the Dunderheads as well as the Conservatives, though the Dunder- heads, as before said, were as utterly innocent of a political predilection as of a moral con- science. Mr. Haughton canvassed vigorously. Mrs. Haughton aided effectually, and the youngest of the young ladies did her very best in the way of wheedling and coaxing the shopkeepers. The elder took little or no mterest in the contest, 3 * 30 luck; and what came of it. and held aloof. As the household accounts of Mr. Haughton were regularly paid every month and larger orders in future were promised ; and, moreover, as Mr. Haughton was popular as a large employer of labour, whose men, as yet, had given no threat or even hint of a strike, the work was not so difficult as Lord O'Monaghan found it. True, he was a lord — though only an Irish one — and a "lordship" has always more or less of an advantage in a political contest in places such as Swinston, where there were no lords resident within a circuit of fifty miles. He had also the advantage of the "gift of the gab" — that pernicious gift which, according to a discontented Philadelphian, is the curse of America, and of all free coun- tries ; had kissed the Blarney stone ; could take the sting out of an argument which he could not refute by an irrelevent joke, and make the worse appear the better reason by a mingling of "chaff" and banter and stale old wit, and sometimes a happy stroke of new humour, all cemented and LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 37 held together in his speeches by a good nature that was as a^enial as the day. He kissed an old woman for her sons' and her husband's vote, with as much gallantry, and apparent pleasure in his eyes and in every action, as he would have kissed the prettiest girl in the borough ; and more than all, he was a handsome man, was not vain of the fact, and did not even seem to know it. No wonder Lord O'Monaghan made a favourable im- pression in the borough. Mr. Smedley was proud of him ; Mr. Little pooh-pooh'd his preten- tions, but was afraid of him nevertheless, and bethought him, occasionally, that if the contest should be very close, and the worst come to the worst, the Dunderheads might be found useful to counteract Lord O'Monaghan's blarney and his winning ways ; not that he thought their pre- vious votes ought to cost fifty pounds a Dun- derhead, or even a tenth part of the money. But the matter was Avorth thinking of as — as a pis-aller, or weapon in reserve. The friends of Lord O'Monaghan circulated a 88 LirCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. report, before the day of nomination, that Mr. Haughton, bv his agents, had plainly made known to all his workpeople that he expected their votes, under penalty of dismissal from his employment. On the other hand the friends of Mr. Haughton circulated a report that Lord O'Monaghan was involved in sundry bill-trans- actions, that he was " hard up," that he was a political adventurer, and that he only wanted to enter Parliament to sell himself for a Colonial Governorship, or any other snug little thing that might offer itself for his acceptance, when Mr. Disraeli came into power. Mr. Haughton was iudio:nant at both of these assertions. He had given no countenance or encouragement to the dissemination of any aspersions upon the private character of his opponent, and would rather not enter Parliament at all than be guilty of winninof a seat bv fio-htino; an unfair battle. And he held it as unfair to attempt to influence his own workpeople by threats as to slander his antagonist. Lord O'Monaghan treated the LUCK ; AND TVHAT CAME OF IT. 39 attacks upon himself with the greatest good- humour. " Let them say what they like," said his Lordship, " they won't hurt me. And suppose I do want a place — what of it ? Does not my respected chief, Mr. Disraeli, want a place — and the best place of all ? and don't I, and all of us wish he may get it ? I won't deny that I'd take the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, if they would give it me ; and small blame to me ! As for bills and bill transactions, I must own that I think it's dirt}" to talk about them, and I shan't oblige the gentlemen on the other side by imi- tating their example." Mr. Haughton was less tolerant of calumny, and at the closing of the factory, on the after- noon of the day when the opposition made their charo-e ao;ainst him, he asked all his hands to remain five minutes while he addressed them on a subject in which they might be interested. His speech was short and to the point. "My friends," he said, "you know my political prin- 40 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. ciples ; if yon sympathise with me, vote for me. If you don't like my principles, vote for Lord O'Monoghan. Those who vote for me, shall be none the better, for I scorn to bribe ; those who oppose me shall be none the worse, for I scorn to bear a grudge agamst a man for acting accord- ing to his convictions. In my establishment every man is and shall be free, as long as I am at the head of it, to entertain and act upon what political convictions he pleases. I am a working man myself, and work, I can assure you, quite as hard as any of you. I feel that if I have rights, you have rights also, and that your rights are as good as mine. Need I say more ? " Loud applause followed this speech, and the men dispersed with as much good feeling as it is possible for a recipient of wages in the nina- teenth century to entertain for the man who pays them ; and Mr. Haughton, caring very little whether his work-peo])le voted for or against him, was pretty confident in his own mind that LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 41 he had gained rather than lost by the frankness of his procedure. On the morning of the day of nomination all Swinston was in the state of excitement, or fuddlement, w^hich in free countries is usual on such occasions. The " White Lion," the Liberal headquarters, was as blue as the blue sky from basement to roof, and half the cabs in the town were painted, jpro hac vice, of the same refreshing colour. But the blues had not the monopoly. Whole streets gushed out into pink, like gardens of roses in June ; pink cabs, omnibuses, and carts were as plentiful as the blue. And the head- quarters of Mr. Haughton's Committee at the "White Horse" were bedizened with blue placards and blue flags to such an extent that people imagined that the whole stock of blue stuiF and silks in the town must have been put into requi- sition that morning; and possibly this large supply of the important colour had arrived during the night from London. Aklerman Pog- ram — who had thrice served the office of Mayor, 42 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. and had made a cozy little fortune in a double- fronted shop in the High Street, on one side of which he sold stationery, sealing-wax, almanacks, religious literature, and newspapers, and on the other, quack medicines, soap and tooth-brushes — was chosen for Mr. Haughton's proposer. He was an octogenarian, who had suffered for his opinions in the days of his youth, when Sir Francis Bur- dett, Major Cartwright, and Mr. Gale Jones, were leaders of Radical opinion. He never omitted to boast of his early acquaintance with those gentlemen, when he found or could make an opportunity. In like manner he never omitted to denounce the " bloody Castlereagh," and the Peterloo Massacre. He was very popular in the borough. He was too old for anybody to quarrel with, and despite the failing power of his voice he could speak effectually. The task of proposing Lord O'Monaghan devolved on Mr. Barnard Strutt, the senior- partner of the old and respectable banking house (" The Bank," par excellence) of Strutt, LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 43 Blodgett and Co., who scorned to describe his politics by so weak an epithet as Conservative, but avowed himself to be " an out and out Tory • — one of the old school. Sir — Church and State, Sir — the Bible and the Throne, Sir, and no surrender ! " Mr. Strutt wore a queue, and was known as the last of the Pigtails. He was a thin spare man of about sixty-five, whose linen was always spotlessly white — whose clothes were of the clerical cut and colour, and whose hair, neither long nor short, was as white as his linen. He thought that Liberal and Atheist were synonymous terms, and that Old England was rapidly " going to the dogs," for want of statesmanship of the old school, to hold, as he said, the " rascal mob " in order. These two gentlemen made such speeches as everybody expected of them. Major Cart- wright and Lord Castlereagh were duly ex- ploited (the reader must excuse the useful French word, for the Eno^lish lano:ua(2:e does not possess its equivalent) by the worthy Alderman; and Pitt, and George HL and French principles 44 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. were as duly made the most of by the other. Mr. Haughton made a short speech — earnest, practical, and soundly Liberal in its politics — steering clear, however, of the Ballot, and of the American war. Lord O'Monaghan made a much better speech, and kept the audience laughing for a full half- hour, fending off ugly questions with irrelevant jests, meeting chaff with chaff, and joke with joke, but failing, as everyone knew he would, to secure the show of hands. It was pre-arranged and foreknown that the show would be in favour of Mr. Haughton, and a poll, as a matter of course, was demanded by the friends of Lord O'Monau'han. On the day of polling, Mr. Haughton at the end of the first hour was upward of one hundred in advance of his opponent ; at the second hour his majority had risen to a hundred and thirty, at noon to one hundred and fifty. Mr. Blobb and the Dunderlieads were digasted. If Lord O'Monaghan and his friends bought up the LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 45 whole lot of them, Mr. Haughton would still be so much in advance as to be sure of his elec- tion. The calculation was formidable. Mr. flaughton's friends were delighted ; — Lord O'Monaghan's saw no chance of retrieving the fortunes of the day, and were not inclined to risk even a sovereign per Dunderhead, to purchase their votes en masse. What was to be done ? Blobb had an idea, and waited upon Mr. Smedley about half-past twelve in the day, accompanied by his friends and faithful adherents. Miff and Muff, the one a tailor and the other a plasterer, to pro- pose terms of accommodation. What passed was never very exactly known in Swinston, though perhaps it was very correctly surmised. Mr. Blobb came from the presence chamber of the agent, looking not only unhappy but savage, and was heard to mutter something about the political ruin of Swinston as an inevitable thino; if a vote was not considered worth even five shillings. But Blobb was not very easily conquered, although liable to discouragement, and sought another interview 46 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. with the plenipotentiary of Lord O'Monaghan, about three o'clock, to make a final proposition. " If you must be beaten," said he, " why not be beaten with credit ? Take all our votes, and the t'other side won't have such a thunderin<j' majority as they have now. It will look better for the party. Say five sliillings a head — dirt cheap." " Yes," said Smedley, " but dirt may be bought too dear, even at the lowest possible price." " Now, hang it," said Blobb, " what's the good of having a vote, if a fellow's to be treated in this manner? which I don't hesitate to say it — hang it all — is a sell and a shame, and downright dis- graceful, and enough to ruin the country ! " What the ultimate price paid, if it were paid, Avas not known. But all the Dunderheads voted at the last moment for Lord O'Monaghan, and Mr. Haughton came in at the head of the poll by near upon two hundred, mstead of the three hundred which he might have had, if the LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 47 Dunderheads had any political conscience, for they all in private avowed themselves to be Liberals. Rumour had it — and though rumour very commonly lies, the general impression in Swin- ston on this occasion, and the confident belief of the wiser and best informed few, was that rumour told the actual truth, — that, rather than gain nothing at all by their votes, the Dunder- heads at the last moment accepted, with sore hearts but thirsty throttles, a pint of ale a piece, as a recognition of the bestowal of their suffrages upon Lord O'Monaghan. Had his lordship gained the election, these pints of ale might have cost him his seat, and his friends some thousands of pounds. But as he was thoroughly defeated, it was worth nobody's while to look up the Dunderheads, or stir about in such a dirty puddle. So the matter dropped. That afternoon, immediately that the result of the poll was declared, Mr. Haughton paid a visit to his venerable mother, in her own house 48 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. in S^vinston, where she lived in the style of a lady of the olden times, for she had been left very handsomely provided for. He received her bles- sings and congratulations on the event, which made him a meml:)er of the British Legislature. The bells in old St. S within' s Church rang a merry peal, price eight guineas, and unlimited beer to the bell-ringers ; and all Swinston sat up to a late hour, boozing, fuddling, jollifying, the Liberals drinking because they were trium- phant, the Conservatives domg the same because they were defeated. LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 49 CHAPTER III. Mr. Haughton decided next morning at the breakfast-table, if he had not previously decided in the vigils of the night, that he would imme- diately proceed to London and take his seat. " And take us all with you, Papa," Miss Euphemia said. " It's very dull down here at Smnston, and our holiday trip has been ruined by the election." " Oh, yes," said her sister, " and take us to balls and theatres, and to Mrs. Gladstone's parties, and to the Queen's receptions, if there ever are to be any more. Won't it be awfully joUy?" I. 4 50 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. " Ettie ! " said the new member, with a severe tone, which he assumed towards his youngest daughter at times, " if anj^thing will prevent me from taking you to London it will be yoiu' constant use of slang expressions. Why is it awful to go to a ball or a theatre, and how can anything be awful and jolhj at the same time?" " Well, Pa dear," said the young lady, " I will try and speak according to the dictionary, and to Mrs. Chapone, but it is so dreadful slow in this miserable village, no wonder one learns to talk fast, just to be in the fashion of better places, and prepare ourselves for going there." " You're an incorrigible little minx," said her father; "what is there dreadful about it? Do you know what dreadful means?" " I do ; it means the atmosphere of Swinston, the look of the streets, the ways of the people, and everything about it," said Esther. " I dearly love to get out of Swinston for a couple or three months every year," said Euphemia, but I don't think I should like to live LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 51 in London all the year. That might be really dreadful." " \Yeel, lasses," said Mrs. Haughton, "ye '11 just live where your father and I live, until ye get married, and then your lords and masters will have to choose for you, ye ken." *' Lords and masters ! " said Miss Esther, with a curl of her lip, if not of her nose, " I should dreadfully like to see the man who would be my master." *' Nae doot, my dear, ye 'd like to see him," replied Mrs. Haughton, " but he's no turned up yet, the more 's the pity for your father and me as well as for yoursel' ! " And then, addressing herself to her husband, she added, " Archie, we'll no gang up to London wi' ye. The season 's about over, everybody is awa' that can gang awa,' and why should we be landed high and dry on the shore of fashion when the tide has gone out. Just gang by yoursel' and tak' your seat in Parliament like an honest man, and then come hame, and we'll carry out our first intention 52 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. of a holiday, and take it in the Scottish High- lands instead of in Switzerland." This little matter had been previously settled between the pair, so the member for Swinston had nothing to do but to confirm his wife's arrangements. " Next season," said he to the girls, " we'll go to London, after Christmas, in time for the meeting of Parliament. This season we'll go to the Highlands ; so that 's settled." " That 's jolly," said Miss Esther. And while Mr. Haughton is on his way to AA'estminster, we may as well say a little more than has been said already about the ladies of his family. Mrs. Haughton was still beautiful with the beauty that springs from « contented mind, easy circumstances, a naturally loving and cheerful disposition, a sense of duty, and a good constitu- tion. She looked always on the bright side of things, and had a kind word for everybody. On the ordinar}' failings of men and women she luck; and what came of it. 53 looked with a merciful iudgment, especially on those which leaned to virtue's side. She set herself heartily against the most glaring of the modern fashions of her sex ; yielded a little, in self-defence, to the crinoline and the hoop ; but resolutely rejected the chignon, or, as she per- sisted in calling it, the cockernonie. " If my head," she said, " ever gets as bald as a parridge- pat, I'll wear a wig, but while my own hair lasts, whatever its colour — and its no grey yet — I'll never mix the hair of dead or living people along Avith it. None o' your cockernoni'^s for me ' " Euphemia, the eldest of Mr. Haughton*s daughters, resembled her mother in form and feature, and in the possession of serviceable and elastic common sense ; but, while the mother was practical, and somewhat prosaic, the daughter was poetical and romantic. She felt deeply, could love and hate with equal force, and had literary aspirations. Her rich brown hair i'ell hi luxuriant masses over her shouldei^s, and w^ould 54 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. have so fallen had fashion permitted. She was of the medium lieioht of women, was affectionate and sensitive, but at the same time very — per- haps exceptionally — proud. Her eyes were blue- grey; her hands and feet very small, but not kept small by idleness or want of exercise, for she worked and Avalked, thus performing two little duties which modern belles are apt to for- get. Though she was accomplished in the lighter graces of girlhood and womanhood, she was not unaccomplished in the utilities, inasmuch as she could cook, and could prepare, almost as well as her mother, an omelette aux fines herbes, and dress a curry and a salad — two very difficult yet easy arts to those who have learned and studied. She could perform on the pianoforte (every little ninny can do that), but what is more, she could perform Avith feeling, which is better than dex- terity, and could sing as if she had a soul in her larynx, which the little ninnies cannot. She was not, however, a paragon of nature — who is? — or anything but a true little woman ; not up to LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 55 the height of the angels, though, in the estima- tion of some people, who will appear in our story hereafter, she was better than an angel, for the satisfactory reason that she was not too angehc. Her sister Esther, otherwise Ettie, was not so much like her as to be comparable to a cherry grown upon the same stalk. She was a pretty girl — or would have been — or might have been — if she had not been afflicted with the desire of imitating all the affectations and frivolities of dress and language, of thought and behaviour, of the ultra fashionables of her time. She was taller and fairer than her elder sister, louder in speech, and, as the Americans would say, m costume; and, to some extent — more than one lady said to a large extent — aggressive. Her whole behaviour seemed to say to the male sex, " Propose to me, and let me pass you in review. If I like you, I will flirt with you. If I like you very much, I may possibly, but I am not sure, marry you ; and, if I don't like you, I 56 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. will pretend to, if I can get any pleasure, or even a pair of gloves in a bet, by a clisdainful, or, if need be, a seemingly kind glance of eyes that I know to be bright by the reflection of ray looking-glass." This young lady's chignon was what she herself would have called "awful," and almost tit to match in bulk with the bear- skin hat of the Grenadier Guards. She had no serious love aflkir on hand — or ever had — as far as anybody knew, and if anyone had known it would have been her sister. Mention has already been made of another member of the Haughton family, the younger brother of the miller and machinist, and conse- quently the uncle of these two young ladies. Reginald Haughton, though he had never married, was still marriageable, and, as he had not dissipated or thrown away in youthful folly and extravagance more than ten thousand out of his original thirty thousand pounds, he was still looked upon by fashionable mothers as by no means an ineligible bridegroom, especially as LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 57 he was good-looking, tall, erect, and of soldierlike bearing. But, as the reader must have already suspected from the little affair of the partridge, the Colonel loved himself much too dearly to have much love to spare for anybody else, and was not particularly inclined towards matri- mony. In the mellow autumn of his life his self-love had taken the shape of gastronomy, and he prided himself as being the most accom- plished and most scientific and philosophical gourmet of his time. He was not only a judge of cooking, but a cook ; and boasted that if, by any mischance or perversity of Fate, he was reduced to Ithe necessity of earning his own livelihood, he could command as high a salary as ever was paid to a chef, and that he could teach Francatelli a thing or two which Francatelli would be glad to learn if so great a master con- descended to instruct him. The Colonel spent three hours every day of his life in studying what he should have for dinner ; and how was it to be expected that a man like this could throw 58 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. himself away upon matrimony, unless, indeed, such a paragon of a woman could be found who possessed youth, beauty, good temper, and good fortune, and a devotion to cookery equal to his own? Till such an angel could be found the Colonel thought he would remain single. The junior branch of the Haughton family had loner been estrano-ed from and unknown to the elder line. The fact was that when the present Mr. Haughton, the new M.P., was in his infancy, an attempt made by Lord Ravel- stone's father, who was miserably poor, upon the pocket of his opulent brother, had ended so disastrously that Haughton the miller had resolved, for the future, to have nothing whatever to do with Haughton the Lord, whose conduct in their sole pecuniary business together seemed, in his respectable eyes, to be no better than downright robbery and s^^'indling. "■ I have lost ten thousand pounds by his Lordship," said the miller. " That milk is hopelessly spilt; but I wiU take excellently good care that not another drop LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 59 of milk, not even a pennyworth shall be spilt in that quarter. Henceforward and for ever ' His Lordship ' may bestow his favours in other directions. Extravagance I can forgive, but fraud and lies are not to be tolerated; and all I ask of Lord Ravelstone and his kin is that he and mine may, as Shakespear says, 'be very o-ood strano^ers.' " The present Lord Ravelstone was a man close upon sixty years of age, and in his youth had set himself the task of looking out for a wife, to whom and to whose family the possession of rank and title would be as valuable as a fortune would be to him. He did not much care who the lady was, provided she had a few thousands — say ten thousand — a year ; he would not, he thought, sell himself for less, and would take as much more as he could find in the market. Neither did he care m the least degree how her wealth, or that of her father or grandfather, or other relatives, had been acquired. He was of tlie opinion of the Roman Emperor, who levied a tax upon an 60 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. article scarcely ever mentioned except by doc- tors, nurses, farmers, and the manufacturers of guano, that " money did not smell," and that all gold honestly acquired — and even with a slight but not provable suspicion of being not alto- gether honestly acquired — was a good thing, and a thing that the future Lady Ravelstone was bound to possess. Lord Ravelstone was not a man of any particular talent. He was a British peer, and as such could support or oppose the minister of the day; but he cared little about politics, and had never m his life attempted to make a speech, without breaking down in the middle of it in hopeless confusion and bewilder- ment alike of words and ideas. He was therefore not worth a minister's purchase, for all his good and all his harm was confined to his single vote, which did not count for so much in the Mouse in which it was his privilege to sit as it mio^ht have done in the other. He had self- knowledge enough to be aware that politics were not in his line, and, in fact, that nothing was LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 61 particularly in his line — except a good income and a quiet life — fashionable or unfashionable as it might turn out, but anyhow, with abundance of leisure to hunt, to shoot, and to fish, and to *' loaf" about the Contmental cities — a mode of passing or killing his time which had grown into a habit, and to which he first resorted in his favourite pursuit of heiress hunting. Nor was his sport in this respect ultimately fruitless. He had made several false moves, and been more than once nearly caught in matrimonial toils by pretty girls, reputed to be heiresses, but who were not heiresses to anything like the extent that he deemed necessary in a woman who was ehgible to the rank and position of Lady Ravelstone. At last, being then in his thirtieth year, he met the predestined person at Paris, a good-look- ing young woman of five-and- twenty, well educated and of good manners. She was the only daughter of a tailor retired from business, and the father was both able and willing to settle fifty thousand pounds upon her, on her marriage, 62 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. if she married accorclino- to his wishes. In addition to this, she had the prospect of as much more when her father died. Mr. Molyneux, the tailor in question, had not amassed all his wealth in the strict line of his business, but had done a good deal of quiet and lucrative bill-discounting for his customers, and was kno^vTl. in the slang ot the day, to be a " warm " man long before he finally shut up his shop and betook himself to the enjoyment of his money. Lilias Molyneux had been two or three times in love, or had fancied so, before she met Lord Ravelstone, but her heart was whole ; and she not only liked the young nobleman, who pretended to love her for herself alone, without reference to *' dirty dross," but highly enjoyed the idea of becoming a peeress. At the time this story opens, Lilias Molyneux liad been Lady Ravelstone for thirty years, and liad borne to his lordship six daughters and one son, the latter being the youngest of the flock, and in his twentieth year. Mr. Molyneux had been well satisfied with the match which his LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 63 daughter had made, and, being desirous of main- tainmg the Ravelstone peerage in becoming dignity in the person of his daughter's only son, had bequeathed that young gentleman the hand- some sum of one hundred thousand pounds, to be paid to him on reaching his majority. Bearing in mind the possibility that the young man might die before that time, he left the money, in the event of his decease, to the heir of the peerage, thinking that his daughter might yet bear another or several sons, and not taking into account the fact that, if that or those events did not occur, his hundred thousand pounds might go into hands which he had no desire to befriend, and of whose existence, present and proximate, he was wholly unaware. But being his own lawyer in the matter of will- making, this little possibility escaped his atten- tion. Mr. Molyneux was not ashamed of his business. He mamtained that tailoring was, next to gar- dening, the most ancient and respectable of 64 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. callings, and that all the Kings, Emperors, Popes, Princes, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Barons, Baronets, &c. were descended from Adam, a man who was both a tailor and a gardener, and Avas compelled by the hard necessities of his existence to be both. He served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex, being opposed bv another candidate who had made a fortune as a saddler. The saddler affected to despise the business of a tailor, and thought it would be a disgrace to the great city of London if such a man were elected to so dignified an office. " I don't see the disgrace," said Mr. Moly- neux, "and if there be any disgrace in the matter it would be in the election of a saddler. A saddler makes clothes for horses, whereas a tailor makes clothes for men ! which is clearly a higher and more dignified calling." Mr. Moly- neux died just before his grandson, the heir to the peerage, had attained his fifteenth year, so that the handsome sum he bequeathed to him would be increased, by the time he came of age, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. by the careful accumulations of six years. The young man was very unlike, or very superior to his father. His university career was highly distinguished ; and he manifested a decided in- clination as well as aptitude for political life, and continually expressed a desire to enter parlia- ment. It was his opinion that the growth of democratic ideas was so rapid in England, that no public man could properly do his duty to his country, and understand the tendencies of modern political and religious thought, who had not studied the working of extreme principles in the government of the United States. He also desired to make the grand tour, not as our grandfathers understood the word, but as the moderns in the second half of the nineteenth century understand it, the tour round the habit- able globe, from London to Cairo, Calcutta, Canton, Yeddo, Melbourne, San Francisco, 'New York, to Liverpool, and all the places that lie between. Lord Ravelstone was not originally a very lovable or loving man, but a wife who I. 5 66 luck; and what came of it. had turned out a great deal better than he had any right to expect under the cn'cumstances, a fan' income, good health, and a handsome family, had developed the dormant good qualities in his nature ; and he had ended by becoming a very good husband and father. But if he loved one object on the earth more than any other, or than all others combined, it was the long-desired son, the heh' to his title, who promised in the fulness of time, not to draw lustre from, but to confer lustre upon it. To this boy he would deny nothing, and as all the young man's wishes were reasonable, and, in fact commendable, there was no necessity for putting any curb upon his in- clinations, and when his son expressed a strong desire to travel round the world, and spend a few months in the United States, in studying the working of the great political machine in that mighty Republic, before he presented himself before an English constituency as a candidate for parliamentary honours, the father resolved that he should have his way, and that he himself LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 67 would be the companion of his journey. Lady Ravelstoae strongly objected; but if she had had no daughters to attend to, would have made up her mind to accompany her husband and son. But this could not be accomplished, and she reluctantly consented to be left behind, for the eight or nine months during which, if all went well, the journey could be accomplished. The father and son had been absent for six months at the time when Mr. Haughton was elected to the representation of Swmston. Lady Ravel- stone knew nothing whatever of the younger twigs of the Haughton tree, or that his lord- ship had any relations, for he never mentioned them ; she had seen the announcement in the newspapers that a Mr. Haughton, a miller, had been elected to parliament, and had wondered for a moment whether he might not be some remote connection of the family. "But Haughton is a common enough name," thought her ladyship, " and not nearly so aristocratic as Molyneux." And so she dismissed the subject from her 5 * 68 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. mind, and never thought anything more about it. Behold some of the dramatis personce of our story! others, and possibly of more importance and of more interest than these, will appear in due course. In the meantime, the loves, the hopes, the fears, the ambitions, the schemes, and the complications amid which these entangle themselves, will unfold themselves as we proceed. 69 CHAPTER IV. Possibly at this stage the reader, if she be of the fair sex, will ask, " Who is to be the hero? It cannot be that hard, respectable, prosaic elderly gentleman, just elected to Parliament, or that still more prosaic and odious old sybarite, his brother? Can it be young Lancelot Haughton Wyld, who loves Patty Tidy, the farrier's daughter? Perhaps it is neither of these, but somebody who is yet to be evolved out of the progress of events ? " Nous verrons. "And who is to be the heroine? Or is there to be a pair of them ? " We shall see that also as the 70 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. narrative flows along, becoming a river instead of a rill. Meanwhile, our immediate business is with the new member, with all his blushing honours thick upon him. Mr. Haughton, the " baby of the House," as the last-elected member is called until his nose is put out of joint by one still newer, took the oath and his seat, was duly introduced to Mr. Speaker, and to Mr. Glyn, from whom he received a cordial shake of the hand, and a kindly greeting. Mr. Glyn knew what to ex- pect from Mr. Haughton, by his address to the electors of Swinston, and, though the urbane and accomplished whip was told that the new member was thoroughly independent, a man who neither wanted place nor dignity, and who had a will and a way of his own, he thought he might depend upon him on all great occa- sions to support Mr. Gladstone. In this Mr. Glyn was right; and although the new member shied a little, and was occasionally restive about small matters, he was on the ^vhole a trust- LUCK ; Ai\D WHAT CAME OF IT. 71 worthy voter. Mr. Haughton found several communications addressed to him at the House, with the beautiful letters M.P. after his name (for in those early days of his parliamentary career, he did see a very great charm in those two con- sonants), and was somewhat surprised and dis- gusted to find that more than half of them were printed circulars from certain rival dealers in waste-paper, offering him the highest market price for his Parliamentary Papers and Blue Books. " This is abominable ! " said Mr. Haughton to himself. " If these books are in request for the butter- shops and the trunk-makers, or for the paper-mills to grind them into pulp again, before they are read, why should they be printed? It costs the nation three or four hundred thousand pounds a year to issue the parliamentary docu- ments that come to these base uses. I shall inquire into this matter, and reform it." And the new member, being determined to distinguish himself, made a note in his pocket-book, for future reference. 72 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OP IT. That evening he dined by invitation with an old acquaintance, Mr. Rigglesby, Member for the Irish borough of Kihnacnoise, at the Whig- gamore Club in Pall Mall. His brother, the Colonel, and his late rival. Lord O'Monaghan, had been invited to meet him. There were good dinners to be had at the Whiggamore, recherche dinners, in fact, such as the Colonel loved; and as he had been consulted by Mr. Rigglesby in the morning, and allowed to draw up the menu regardless of expense, the dinner seemed much too elaborate, or, as he called it, " longwinded," to be altogether satisfactory to Mr. Haughton, who by no means shared the epi- curean tastes of his brother. Lord O'Monaghan, always glad of a good dinner when there was nothing to pay, pronounced it a great success, and the Colonel, who thought far more of the dinner than of the meeting with his brother, which gave occasion for it, was equally delighted. Mr. Haughton and the Colonel had few ideas in common. The Colonel was an aristocrat, a Torv, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 73 and a high churchman; the new member an advanced Liberal, and a latitudinarian of the most tolerant description. The Colonel despised trade and commerce, though he might have had to keep a shop himself if it had not been for the successful trade and commerce of his father. He thought it a great pity that his brother did not retire upon the fortune he had made, and live like a gentleman. The brother, on the other hand, had no such notions, and thought that he was a gentleman in spite of his mill and his factory, and maintained that in England everybody was more or less of a trader, except the Queen and the members of the Royal Family, and that were it not for trade there might be no Queen and no Royal Family to support. The Duke of Broad- lands was a breeder of and dealer in sheep, oxen, and horses. The Marquis De Fitzadam never gave away a pheasant or a partridge, but sent the whole produce of his own and his friends guns to London, and sold them to the poultry dealers in Leadenhall and New^^ate markets. 74 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Lord Brooks and Rivers dealt largely in salmon, and drew three or four thousand pounds a year out of that noble fish, though he would not like to be called a fishmonger ; and Trumbull, Baronet, sold the wood that grew in his groves and plan- tations, and netted some hundreds per annum by the sale of his hot-house fruits, and the pears, apples, and cherries in his orchards. " And besides, most of your mighty fine people," he said, " who turned up their noses at trade, were partners under the Limited Liability Act, in all sorts of enterprises. They were carriers and coach proprietors if they held railway shares, and dealers in mutton chops, glasses of ale, beer, and wine, and sleeping accomodation, if they had invested in the Charing Cross, the Cannon Street, the Langham, and other big Hotels. When they lent their names, for a consideration, as Directors and chairmen of Railways, Mines, Banks, Muck Companies, Gas Companies and other projects, were they not dealers in their own titles?" LUCK ; AND "WHAT CAME OF IT. 75 The Colonel did not see matters in this light. In fact there were very few subjects on which they could agree; and the brothers, who had seldom occasion to meet, had very little to talk about when they did. But Mr. Haughton's election to Parliament was agreeable to both of them. It added to the Colonel's dignity, as well as to that of his brother and of the whole family, and met with the gallant gentleman's most cor- dial approval. " You must be put up for one of the clubs," said the Colonel. " 1 suppose for the Whig- gamore; you cannot get into any of our clubs, or mto the Tag Rag and Bobtail, because you are not a soldier, or a sailor, nor in the Antedi- diluvium, because you are not a Bishop, nor a swell, nor a great philosopher." " How did you get into it ? " inquired Mr. Haughton ; " for the middle reason, I suppose ? And why is it called the Antediluvium ?" " Latin word," interposed O'Monaghan, "which means ' slow, old-fashioned, dull ' — highly appro- 76 LUCE ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. priate title. But Mr. Haughton must go into the Whiggamore. That's his proper club, and he needs no other." " There 's a lot of black-balling at the Whig- gamore, isn't there ? '' inquired the Colonel, of Rigglesby. " I have heard that some candidates are pilled because they have red hau' ; some because they have black or grey ; some because they are bald ; some because their wigs are too juvenile for their faces ; some because they are barristers, and some because they are not bar- risters. Not that the Whiggamore is worse than others ; for at my club a very gallant officer was pilled — he lost his leg in battle — because he would not go to the expense of a cork leg, but insisted upon wearing a wooden one — like a crossing-sweeper, you know ! And another good fellow was pilled — true, on my honour ! only because he Avore straps to his trousers, after the fashion of thirty or forty years ago ! " " There 's no fear of Mr. Haughton at the Whiggamore," said Rigglesby ; "though he LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 11 must not expect to be elected without opposition. Everybody is opposed. The more eminent a man is the more black balls he gets. I was asked only the other day to vote against a man named Jenkins. ' Why ? ' I asked ; ' he is a good man, and a fit man for the club.' ' That may be,' said my questioner, ' but his name 's Jenkins. That 's enough for me. I once lost ten thousand pounds by a man of the name of Jenkins, and no Jenkins shall come into this club if I can help it.' Jenkins got in however." " I don't like secret voting at all," said Mr. Haughton ; " whether at clubs or at the polling- booths. I would have everythmg done by show of hands — the good old English method." " That would only be fair if there were uni- versal suffrage. But open voting would never answer at the Whiggamore," said Rigglesby. " Nor in any other club," said the Colonel. " By the bye, Archie," he continued, addressing himself more particularly to his brother, " there is a story about the ballot at the Antediluvium 78 LUCK ; A.ND WHAT CAME OF IT. — a stupid clulj ; I think I shall give it up, for I can't ask a friend to dine with me — which I suppose has not yet penetrated into the dull BcBotian county in which Swinston is situated. A very fussy gentleman, full of self-importance — I won't mention his name, I '11 call him Jones — had set his heart upon being a member of the Managing Committee. He was already an Ante- diluvian, but wanted to serve on the Committee. It is a kind of social distinction to be a member of a club committee — almost the oidy social dis- tinction within the reach of some small people — and Jones being a candidate solicited every- body he knew to vote for him. I never vote for a man who asks me, and think it odious bad taste to canvas, even for a friend. Jones re- ceived a good many promises, but when the day of election came and the balls, or rather the corks, were counted, it was discovered that only one ball had been cast for him. The Honourable Tom Spriggins, a very good-natured fellow, who seldom says ' No ' to anybody, went up to Jones LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 79 when the result was announced, to condole with him on his disappointment. ' I wouldn't mind it if I were you,' he said ; ' people are so false ! But at all events, I kept faith.' ' No you didn't,' said Jones ferociously ; 'I cast that ball myself!' The Honourable Tom would have blushed if he could, but he couldn't, and so he pumped up a laugh to hide his confusion. He and Jones have never spoken to one another since, and Jones scowls at him as if he longed to challenge him to the duello, every time that he ' noses ' him in the lobby." " I admire neither of the two characters in your little drama," said Mr. Haughton, " and I 'm not sure whether I shall be put u]3 at the Whiggamore. What do I want with a club ? Is not the House of Commons a club in itself, and a very good club too ? Is there not a dining room, a reading room, a writing room, a tea room, a library ; every convenience that one can expect in the best club in London. Thanks to the electors of Swinston, I am a member of that club, and 80 luck; and what came of it. cannot be ' pilled ' there, as you call it. Why should I be bothered with another ? " " Oh you must," replied Rigglesby ; " you owe it to your party to support the party club ; and you '11 be sure to come in. What signify a few black balls ? He who is not bio: enouo;h to excite some degree of opposition must be a little nobody, whom nobody ever heard of. Get a good projDoser and seconder and you '11 be all right. I '11 neither propose you nor second you myself, for they once ' pilled ' a very good man merely because I proposed him ; but I '11 can- vas for you, and work for you, and get you in, or my name 's not Rigglesby." As the character and career of Mr. John Rigglesby were destined to excite a considerable influence upon the fortunes of several personages of our story, it may be well to take the present opportunity of explaining who and what Mr. Rigglesby was. Mr. Rigglesby was a person of no common power and energy. Though still in the prime of his bodily and mental vigour he luck; and what came of it. 81 had been twenty years in Parliament, where he had acquired a reputation as a good speaker, who always spoke to the point and with full know- ledge of his subject. He was reputed to have a marvellous talent for organisation, and for the manipulation of minorities. He was once a member of what was called the " Pope's brass band" — a little clique of Roman Catholic mem- bers, who, by always acting together, had the power when divisions ran close of turning the scale of victory to one side or the other, as their wishes or their personal interests might incline, and who were hated and courted accordingly both by the Liberals and the Conservatives. Though a Roman Catholic his religion did not sit heavily on his conscience. All the priestly influence of Kilmacnoise, and Ireland generally, was exerted in his favour at each successive elec- tion at which he was returned, and his vote in all matters affecting his church was *'true as the needle to the pole," or truer, for the needle deflects sometimes and he deflected never. I. 6 82 luck; and what came of it. He was a tall, saturnine, very dark com- plexioned man, about forty-five years of age, with a broad brow and lips and chin that mani- fested decision. He generally spoke in short incisive sentences, sometimes smiled grimly, but was never known to give utterance to a hearty honest laugh. He was chairman of a bank and of a railway company, a director of silver mines in Nevada and Utah, and a gold mine in California, and was reputed to be wealthy. He was not known to be married : some said he was, some said that he was not ; but what lent credibility to the latter supposition was that all his habits were those of a bachelor, and that during the session of Parliament he breakfasted ever^^ morning, and dined nearly every day, at the Whiggamore. He was not frank and convivial in his manners like his countryman, Lord O'Monaghan, and never asked anybody to dine \vith him, except for a reason — that he wanted his vote, his in- fluence, his assistance, or to make use of him as luck; and what came of it. 83 a stepping stone towards an introduction to somebody. He had many acquaintances — few men had more — but he had no friends. There was that in his manner which repelled friend- ship, but he was always deferential to rich men, and rich men liked him because they thought he was one of them, and they had faith in his sagacity. On the occasion of this particular dinner, which he had arranged for the purpose of ren- dering more intimate the previous acquaintance Avhich he had with the new member for Swin- ston, Mr. Rigglesby was almost genial in his manner, especially to Mr. Haughton and to Lord O'Monaghan (who owed him money). For Colonel Haughton, as an idler, and a trifler, and a worshipper of his dinner, he felt little but con- tempt, a contempt which was not diminished by the discovery that in all matters of money, except the necessary expenditure incurred upon his back and his stomach, his tailor, and his cook, he was mean, miserly and niggardly in 6 * 84 luck; and what came of it. the extreme. He was not a sybarite himself, and although he loved money (few men loved it so much) it was not for the purpose of selfish or personal indulgence, or even for the sake of amassing it, but for the sake of the power it gave him over the minds and fortunes of his fellow men. If Mr. Rigglesby had a heart (in the metaphorical sense, which most people doubted) and anything was dear to it, it was power. He would have made an unflinching despot if he had been born in the purple of sultanship. In his lower sphere of activity, knowledge w^as power, only inasmuch as it was the power of acquiring wealth, and to that end all his knowledge of men and things was directed. In the rare moments when he did, by accident rather than by design, unbend in the society of a man on whom he desired to create a favourable impression, he was accustomed to boast of himself as the favourite of fortune. " I never undertake anything," he would sa}^, " that does not succeed. I never toss a farthing into luck; and what came of it. 85 the air, that does not come do^vn a gumea ! I am a lucky man ! " On one of these occasions, though long before the little dinner, Mr. Haugh- ton had said: "You know the ancient story? — I have forgotten all the Greek that ever was drummed or thrashed into me, but you will possibly find it in Plutarch — I think it was Cre- sus, king of Lydia, who boasted of his good for- tune to Solon, who replied that he could call no man fortunate until he knew the end of him, or something to that effect. For my part, I don't like to boast of Fortune, I am superstitious enough to think that Fortune takes pleasure in playing saucy tricks on those who talk too much of her favours. That is to say, I might think so, if I believed in Fortune or Luck, which I don't. Conduct is fate. That is my maxim. ' " But don't you think some men are born to good luck?" asked Rigglesby. "No, I don't; some men, no doubt, appear to be lucky. A fool may seem born to good luck, if he is born into a great and wealthy 86 luck; and what came of it. family, but he may be a very unfortunate fool for all that. His folly is itself a misfortune; it fact, my notion is that the lot of man and woman in the world, whether they are rich or poor, is pretty nearly equal, and that each is as fortunate or unfortunate as he deserves to be, and no further." But the four gentlemen who dined together at the Whiggamore on that evening, held no long discourse on this matter, for Mr. Rigglesby had not sufficient respect for the intellect of either Colonel Haughton or Lord O'Monaghan, to talk upon serious subjects to them, especiallj'^ upon subjects that concerned himself. He liked very well the conversation of Lord O'Monaghan, for his lordship was full of animal spirits and fun, and he amused him ; which on his part Lord O'Mona- ghan was very willing to do, for he had not only borrowed money of Rigglesby, but expected to borrow more, if he kept in the saturnine man's good graces. Mr. Rigglesby liked him, for the reason that he had power over him, and that luck; and what came of it. 87 he could exercise it whenever it was, as it was generally with Lord O'Monaghan, a question of money, present or prospective. The talk soon drifted into politics, though there were two upon one side and two upon the other, and they spoke of the Education Bill, of the Ballot, of the Irish Church, and of the Alabama question; on all of which, except on the latter, the new member's opinions were entirely in accordance with those of Rigglesby and the minister of the day. The Colonel cared little about any public question whatever, except the long-threatened reform of the army, the mere discussion of which he thought a proof that the country was gomg to the devil. Lord O'Monaghan's politics lay as easy on his mind as Mr. Rigglesby's religion on his. " Bedad," he said in jest, but with an earnest- ness at the bottom of it that Mr. Rigglesby quite appreciated, " though I tried to get in for Swinston, in Mr. Haughton's place, and on the ■opposite side, I'd think Mr. Gladstone as good a SS LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. minister as ^Ir. Disraeli, if he'd give me a Colo- nial governorship and five thousand a year ; I 'd accept Canada, for instance, which I think i& worth seven thousand." " Why don't you come over to the Liberals at once," said Kigglesby. " How an Irishman and a Catholic can be a Tory, I can't make out." " Make it worth my while," said his Lordship. " But so far 1 am a Liberal already. The Conservatives are more liberal than the Whigs? Show me a better reformer, for instance, than Mr. Disraeli." Mr. Haughton, as a semi or a demisemi American, assumed to speak with authority on the Alabama Question, and held, though he found but few to agree with him, that Great Britain committed a mistake in condescendinof to negotiate at all upon the question, and that Earl Russell was right in asserting that the govern- ment of the day had done all that it could legally do in the matter of the escape of the Alabama, and that it was the business of the LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 89 United States to catch that formidable cruiser, and hang or shoot every man on board, if they could do so; and by no means the business of Great Britain to pay a single farthing for any damao-e she mio;ht have inflicted. But Mr. Haughton was born in Virginia, and was a Southern man in all respects, except in the belief in the goodness and necessity of negro slavery. " Slavery," he said, turning first to Mr. Rig- glesby and then to Lord O'Monaghan, " was a very bad thing for the white men of the South- ern States, and I am very glad it has been abolished. I don't admire the way in which it was done, but that is nothing. It 's gone, never to be revived, and I rejoice at the fact; though as regards the poor niggers, I think it a great misfortune for them that one of them was ever landed in America. But Great Britain intro- duced them, and her Liberal party during the Civil War ou2;ht to have been more tolerant of the South for not exactly knowing what to do with them." 90 luck; and what came of it. "Why," asked Rigglesby, "do the Irish m America disHke the negroes so much, and why do the negroes dislike them ! " " Somebody once said, I think he was a Boston Yankee," replied Mr. Haughton, "that he wished every Irishman in America would kill a nigger and be huno- for it." " By my faith, now, and that's not original," said Lord O'Monaghan. " Didn't Anarchasis Clootz, or Robespierre, or Camille Desmoulins, or some other fellow of the kind, during the first French Revolution, say that he wished every priest in France would kill a la^vyer and be guillotined for it ? " " Perhaps ! I don't know, but it's very likely," replied Mr. Haughton, " and its hard to light upon a truly original sajdng. But I was going to explain that this mutual dislike is all a ques- tion of wages. The real American prefers head work to hand work, unless it be the work of the farm, and as the Irish and the negroes do all the coarse work and the domestic service between luck; and what came of it. 91 them, they are competitors in the labour-market, and the Irish think that the negroes work for less money than they do; hence the hostility. I think the Irish are wrong. A nigger's work is the worst of work, dear at any price; and I believe all the work of the Southern States will at no distant day be accomplished by white men. " Then what's to become of the negroes ? " said Rigglesby. "I can't tell. If I had my will I would settle them all in the Sea Islands that fringe the Atlantic coast from Charleston to the mouths of the Mississippi, and give them the land to cultivate and grow Sea Island cotton. No Avhite man can live in those islands, except in the winter months. The negroes can live there all the year round withuut fear of yellow or any other fever, and fatten in the deadly climate. In that region, left to themselves, they might become a happy and a prosperous commu- nity, untroubled by white superiority or Irish jealousy." 92 luck; and what came of it. "Oh, bother the nigger!" said the Colonel, " try this Romanee Conti, it is the best in the Whiggamore cellars — superb! And decanted superbly, too." " Ah," said Lord O'Monaghan, holding his full glass to the light, " what a pity it is that a fellow cannot drink such wine every day, even if he could afford it ! Which I grieve to say I can't. And it is not only dear, but it is gouty. Claret after all is the only safe drink, except whisky! though I prefer the claret. Once in a way, however. Burgundy is a divine drink." " I think Bass's bitter beer is just as good," said Mr. Haughton, " at least for a regular drink, and that it has done more for the cause of temperance than all the Maine Liquor Laws that were ever tried, and all the teetotal speeches that were ever delivered." Before the company separated, Mr. Haughton ao^reed to become a candidate for the Whisfoca- more, and Mr. Rigglesby undertook to find him a safe and influential proposer and seconder. luck; and what came of it. 93 And when the party broke up, Mr. Haughton was of opinion that he rather liked Lord O'Mona- ghan, and Lord O'Monaghan was of opinion that his former rival was a capital good fellow. If Mr. Haughton had not been a Member of Parliament he might have had to wait for a couple of years before obtaining a chance of being blackballed or "pilled" at the Whigga- more; but on the other side, if he had not been a Member of Parliament, he Avould have never thought of entering that establishment. But things being as they were, his position as a legis- lator gave him precedence over other candidates and in a fortnight after he had been proposed and seconded, he was duly elected, though more than a dozen black balls were counted against him, why or wherefore he knew not. By this time the festival of St. Grouse was close at hand, everybody who loved shooting was preparing fo^' the moors, Parliament was but scantily attended, and Mr. Haughton, not being required by any pressure of public business to 94 luck; and what came op it. vote with his i)arty, returned to Mill Haughton and prepared to take his wife and daughters to the West Highlands of Scotland according to promise. 95 CHAPTER V. The member for Swinston did not think it his duty, merely because he had emancipated him- self for a while from the cares of business, and was bent upon enjoying the pleasures of rest, to dress himself in Highland costume, or in knickerbockers with red or green stockings to show oiF his legs, and otherwise to make himself conspicuous and ridiculous, as is too much the custom of the English tourist. Neither did his wife consider it necessary, merely because she was going to Scotland, to take a collection of Alpenstocks along with her, as if she were 96 luck; and what came of it. bound on an expedition to the top of Mont Blanc. The younger Miss Haughton thought differently, and, as she herself expressed it, had a " swell " chignon, a " swell" hat, and sundry " swell " accessories of costume, including a whole quiver of Alpenstocks, to prove to the profane vulgar that she was going to enjoy her- self, away from home. The elder Miss Haugh- ton had diffigrent ideas, and attired herself like a lady, as she was, without contravension of the fashion, or any semi-insane attempt to go be- yond it. To please his wife, who was a thorough Scots- woman in heart and sentiment, and who thought the capital city of her native land the finest city on the face of the globe, Mr. Haughton took Edinburgh on his way, and greatly pleased he was with it ; but as this is a narrative of incident and character, and not a panorama of scenery, its course need not be interrupted by an}' descrip- tion of the city, or what the family saw there, and how they liked it. But on the second day luck; and what came of it. 97 after their arrival, while they were still engaged in visiting whatever was most remarkable for its antiquity or its historical associations in a city in which almost every square yard has its legend, its history, its poetry, and its romance. Mr. Haughton was surprised to find at MacGregor's Eoyal Hotel, where he had put up, his parlia- mentary acquaintance Mr. Rigglesby. Mr. Haughton's first impression was that the meeting was not by any means so accidental as it ap- peared, and, in fact, that Mr. Rigglesby had pur- posely placed himself in his way. But he banished the idea as soon as formed, and never afterwards recurred to it. " Are you off to the moors, Rigglesby ? " he inquired. " Yes; but not to shoot, I hate fire-arms. I am too contemplative a man, I suppose, to love the noise of guns, and the yelping of dogs, and prefer the quiet amusement of the lake and the river. I am going to waltonize, that is to fish in the Spey." I. 7 98 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. " Have you rented the river, or any part of it?" " Not so foolish ! Young Topheavy, the mem- ber for Middlecombe, who has plenty of money, and overflows with good nature, has given me an invite to his fishing and shooting, and I have accepted both, intending to devote myself to the first only. And you, whither are you bound? " " To the West Highlands, but neither to fish nor to shoot, but to walk, to row, to climb the hills, to inhale the fresh breezes of the sea and the mountains, and to do nothmg but get up a good appetite for the day, and a good sleep for the night. I never kill anything when I go out for a holiday, except time ; indeed, I don't think I kill even that, for I enjoy time, and respect it." "Happy man!" replied Rigglesby. "When 1 am tired of salmo ferox and his cousin the trout, or if I am not successful in deceiving any fish with my treacherous flies, I shall, per- haps, find you out. The West Highlands, you said? Oban, I suppose ? " LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OJb' IT. 99 *' Oban, yes ; my headquarters for a month, provided it does not rain all the time, in which unhappy case I shall travel to the eastern coast, and try Aberdeenshire." " Your late opponent. Lord O'Monaghan, is going to Topheavy's shooting box. His Lordship likes free quarters, and sport, and good whisky, galore, as he says, all of which Topheavy vnW hospitably provide for him. Are the ladies with you?" "Yes; they are shopping in Princes Street, buying all sorts of useless tartans in wool, in silk, and in velvet; and all sorts of useless broaches, work-boxes, and knick-knackeries. My wife declares that Princes Street is the finest street in the world, whether for shopping pui'- poses or the enjoyment of the picturesque. "She is quite right," said Rigglesby. "Edm- burgh is a beautiful city. Everybody admires it. But I not only admire Edinburgh and Scot- land, I love the people. Were I not an Irish- man I think I should like to be a Scotsman."^ 7 * 100 luck; and what came of it. " There are two sorts of Scots," replied Haughton, " the Saxon Scots and the Celtic Scots; which of these do you mean?" " Oh, the Celtic Scots, of course ; I don't care for the Sassanach, whether Scotch or English, though the two sorts of Scots have got so mixed and mingled, and jumbled up together in the course of centuries, that a genuine Celt is hard to find. But I am off, and " (looking at his watch) "have not five minutes to spare. So good- bye for the present ; and if we meet at Oban, as I hope, I will off'er myself as your comrade for a tramp to the top of Ben More, or Ben Crua- chan, or a visit to the old Serpent of Lochnell. Farewell, in the meantime." So the two members of parliament parted ; and the next morning Mr. Haughton and the three ladies took the early train for Greenock, avoiding Glasgow, and between nine and ten o'clock in the forenoon found themselves snugly on board the steamship lona, amid a motle}'' multitude of people bound for Ardrishahg, and the Western LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 101 Coast. The clay was lovely, the sky was with- out a cloud, and the magnificent mountain scenery of the Estuary of the Clyde, stood out in clear sharp tracery against the horizon. " A glorious sea it was, a glorious shore," and to Euphemia and Esther, who had never before visited their mother's native land, upon the un- paralled beauty of which the good lady was never tired of expatiating, it seemed to more than justify all the praises she had heaped u^^on it. Mr. Haughton had not been five minutes on board before he saw Lord O'Monaghan, engaged in conversation with an ancient lady, with un- commonly bright eyes and a large nose, who bore upon her countenance the visible traces of a beauty that in her youth must have been remarkable. The eyes of the lord and the commoner met, and the nod of recognition followed. "I wonder who the leddy is," said Mrs. Haughton, " that Lord O'Monaghan is talking to, His mother, perhaps." 102 luck; and what came of it. "I should say it is more likely to be his grand- mother,"' said Miss Esther, "she looks as if she were close upon a hundred." On her part, the old lady was equally in- quisitive, and asked O'Monaghan, as he escorted her down to breakfast, who his acquaintance was. " Oh, Mr. Haughton, the new member for Swinston, my opponent, who won the day over me, as you may have heard. But his politics apart he's a right good fellow. The ladies are his wife and two daughters. I think the youngest a very pretty girl, don't you? " " I don't know yet, I have not had a good look at her or any of the family. Are they in society?" " Not exactly ; but I suppose they will wish to be, the ladies especially." " What is Mr, Haughton, a country gentle- man, a lawyer, a brewer, or a banker?" " Neither the one nor the other. He is a manu- facturer of agricultural implements. Rich, and ambitious tc make a figure in political life, in luck; and what came of it. 103 which design I don't think he will succeed. He is too honest and independent, speaks his mind too freely, and would vote against Gladstone and his party if he thought them in the wrong. But that 's not my way of doing business ! If my party 's in the right, it doesn't particularly want my vote. But if it 's wrong, my vote becomes of double importance." " Introduce Mr. Haughton to me, when you have an opportunity." Lord O'Monaghan promised, and thought, though he did not say so, that her Ladyship had a very keen eye to business. While awaiting the opportunity that will soon present itself for the introduction suggested, it may as well be explained what Lord O'Mona- ghan meant by his unuttered thought, and who her Ladyship was, and how she had a keen eye to "business." Lady Augusta Pippins was the daughter of an Earl, who in her early youth, when very handsome and impulsive, had com- mitted the indiscretion of allying herself in 104 luck; and what came of it. marriage, all for love, and not at all for money, to a very goocl-lookinjo;, and very clever youiig barrister, with a rising practice. Their marriage was a happy one, but the husband died in early middle life, leaving no family, and only a very moderate, indeed, a very small independency, to his widow. So the Earl, her father, who was very fashionable, but not very rich, had to sup- plement her income by a small additional annuity ; and the two combined enabled Lady Augusta, who was a great favourite in every society in which she moved, to hold her head up among her equals in rank, though her superiors in for- tune, and to give occasional cozy little parties, to which every one invited thought it a great treat to be enabled to attend. At the close of the London season. Lady Augusta set forth on her autumnal visits to great houses, where she was always a welcome guest, and thus managed to spend economically and comfortably, and sometimes splendidly, four months of the year with no other expenses but her railway fares, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 105 tiiicl "tips" to the servants. She had led this kind of life for thirty years, and had never again accepted an offer of marriage, though five or six had been made to her. She was now about seventy, had a ready tongue, a well-furnished mind, a fluent wit flavoured with a piquant and not at all disagreeable cynicism, and could not only hold her own in an argument or a wit com- bat with a man or a woman, but could perplex a Sergeant Doubleside, or an Attorney General, if she were minded to sharpen her wits against his, in the attrition of either logic or persiflage. She was fond of the society of young people, and was the depositary of more love secrets and other small matters than most women of her time. Among others of Lady Augusta's characteristics, she was noted for plain speaking, and called things by their right names whenever she was in the humour to do so, which was pretty nearly always. Add to this, as Lord O'Monaghan had remarked to himself, that she had a keen eye for business, and you have the pliysical and 106 luck; and what came op it. moral portraiture of Lady Augusta Pippins, one of the prime favourites of the town, or that por- tion of the town (and in autumn, of the coun- try) which calls itself " Society," which looks upon all the rest of the world as the profane vulgar. But what, it may be asked, was the kind of business for which her Ladyship had an eye so keen ? She will herself explain it before she leaves the lona, in a confidential tete a tete with her new friend Mrs. Haughton, to whom and to whose husband and daughters she had been formally introduced by Lord O'Monaghan. " Very glad, I am sure, to make your acquaint- ance, Mr. Haughton, though I am told you are a wicked Liberal, and I am a righteous Tory, and still more glad to make the acquaintance of your wife and your charming daughters. Of course you will, that is to say, you must pass the next season in town?" " / must," replied Mr. Haughton, " but no similar necessity weighs upon the ladies." " Oh, but it does though, papa," said Miss LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 107 Esther. "If you were to go to town to attend to your parliamentary duties, and not take us along with you, it would be positively dreadful." " So it would, my dear," said her Ladyship, and not only dreadful, but unkind." " Awfully unkind," said Esther. " There could be nothing very awful or very dreadful about it," said Mrs. Haughton, "but as your father has made up his mind to give us a season in London, there 's no use in fashin' our- selves about what would ha2:>pen if he had de- cided otherwise ! " "Of course," said Lady Augusta, "you and your daughters will pay your respects to Her Majesty at her first drawing room?" " Weel," said Mrs. Haughton, relapsing into broad Scotch, which she always did when she was more than usually interested. " I wadna mind, but wha should I get to present us ? " " Get 7ne ! " said Lady Augusta, " I will do it for you with the greatest pleasure." " Oh you dear, delightful, (old lady, Mi«s 108 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Esther was going to say, but she stopped short at the objectionable words, and substituted) darhng! That will be nice." " Awfully nice ! I suppose you mean," said her father. " Well, yes ! awfully nice and immensely jolly, and all that sort of thing. What 's the use of mincing words? I mean all that I say, and a great deal more. Won't it be splendid fun ? " asked Esther, turning to her sister. Miss Euphemia was not a young lady of the period, and had as much objection to slang as her father, and replied that she saw no particular "fun " in it, but that it would be very pleasant to be presented to the Queen and the Princess of Wales, and to go to the opera and the theatres, and to balls, by way of a change from the stagnation of Swinston. But for my part," she added, " I am not quite sure that I do not like this Scottish trip amid this glorious scenery better than T shall like all the gaieties of London." luck; and what came of it. 109 " Oh, but you 're so immensely slow," said her sister ; and turning to Lord O'Monaghan, she inquired suddenly, " Do you like slow people? " "Well," said his Lordship, "not too slow, but not too fast. ' In moderation placing all my glory, the Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory ! ' The juste milwu for me. I like gravity ; I like hght-heartedness. In short, I like a pretty girl, in any mood, except in an ill- temper, and I'm not sure if I don't like her even then." Somewdiat later in the day, and before dis- embarking to change steamers at the Crinan Canal, Lady Augusta had a private conversation with Mrs. Haughton, which, in the mind of the latter, threw an unexpected light upon the world and the world's ways, and upon the com- mercial characteristics of an eminently commer- cial people. Lady Augusta very soon gave her to understand that the services which she might render to her and her family during the next London season were not to be gratuitous; that she would give two or three parties to the best 110 luck; and what came of it. people, the elite of the elite^ to introduce them ; that such parties would cost money, and that whatever she did, she did well, and expected to be well paid for it. Mrs. Haughton looked sur- prised, and was about to speak when Lady Augusta went on to say : *' You are rich, Mrs. Haughton, and I am poor. And, though I might do much pour Vamour de vos beaux yeux^ if our cases were reversed, you see that I can't afford to be stupidly generous and absurdly sentimental. But you need not be surprised at me, if I sell what I have to sell. Your husband sells what he has to sell, his mill power, his skill in his business, and his agricultural implements. I sell the only thing I have to sell, my influence and connection in society. I would not sell that to everybody, however well they might pay me ; for some might do me discredit after I had received their money. I only sell to those who are in a position to reflect honour on my intro- duction." luck; and what came of it. Ill " But," said Mrs. Haughton apologetically, and half ashamed of her own bluntness, " Is not this something new in the great world?" " Lord love you ! " said Lady Augusta ; " how simple and how good you are. The great world is the greatest trader going. The great world never gives anything away that it can turn a honest penny by. You great manufacturers, and cotton-spinners, and merchants, and contractors, and railway directors, and shipowners, and coal- owners, have become so disgracefully rich that you throw the wealth of the aristocracy into the shade — I mean the tag rag and bobtail of the aristocracy, and all such as have not the fortunes of a Russell, a Gower, or a Grosvenor. Many a cheesemonger now-a-days is richer than an Earl, and my butcher has an income five or six times greater than mine, ditto my fishmonger ! " " But," said Mrs. Haughton again — " But me no buts," said Lady Augusta. " We must take the world as we find it, and make the best of it we can. Time was, when I 112 luck; and what came of it. was young, that a person of my father's rank and position, gave away his pheasants and partridges to his friends. Nobody gives away his game now- a-days ; and if Lord Barrenmore permits a friend to enjoy a day's shooting on his estates, the friend is not allowed to bag his grouse, pheasants, or partridges for his own consumption. The friend only acts the part of the journeyman poulterer, and the game goes to the London markets, and forms a necessary part of his Lordship's income." " I think it's mean" said Mrs. Haughton. " Mean! it 's not so mean as insolvency, is it? But you are young in the ways of the world ! you know nothing down at Swinston. In London everything is for sale. I knew a man who made a thousand pouuds because Mr. Gladstone shook hands with him in Pall Mall, and stopped for three minutes talking to him. That little feat procured him a seat at the Board of a Limited Liability Company, which he had long striven to attain, and ineffectually, until chance threw LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 113 this oppoi'tunity in his ^vay, when, like a wise man, he made the best of it." "Weel," said Mrs. Haiighton, relapsing into Scotch, " it does not seem to me to be owre cannie or respectable." " Oh, it's quite right," rejoined her Lady- ship, " though I must say if I had been Mr. Gladstone, and knew of the profit made out of me, I should have expected my percentage." Mrs Haughton laughed. "I didn't know that the world was so very worldly." " Oh, you don't knoAV half or a quarter of what 3^ou will know after you have been a season in London. How do you think that our friend Lord O'Monaghan lives?" " Upon the rental of his estates, no doubt." "Upon the rental of his wits! He's a guinea- pig!" " Lord save us I and what may that be ? " inquired Mrs. Haughton. "Being a Lord, though only an Irish one, he has discovered that his title has a certain I. 8 114 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. commercial value. He is a director, qualified by the promoters, of half-a-dozen Limited Lia- bility Companies for bottling sunshme, for converting old shoes into sugar, for the com- pression of sawdust into a substance harder and more beautiful than granite, and for work- ing the long abandoned gold mines of Abderah- man in Spain, and others. For an hour's attendance or less at the Board Meetings of these various comj)anies he receives his guinea fee, as if he were a doctor visiting a patient." " Weel," said Mrs. Haughton, " I suppose my youngest daughter would call me ' awfully green ' for not knowing these matters ; but green or no green, I have been instructed by your Leddyship. But here we are at Ardrishaig. Are you going any further ? " " I am going to Skye," said Lady Augusta, and shall be your fellow-passenger as far as Oban." '^ Oh then, we can have a little further crack luck; and what came of it. 115 on these matters," said Mrs. Haughton, who had made up her mind to keep on good terms with Lady Augusta, in view of all the contingencies of the London season and the presentations and introductions which she thought might be of advantage to her daughters. " Pardon me," inquired Lady Augusta, " but you said craclc. What is crack? " "It is for you to pardon me," said Mrs. Haughton, " for talking what my husband some- times calls my ' native Doric' Crack is just a good old Scotch word for talk, gossip, conversa- tion, confabulation, and is always used in a friendly sense." " I always like to be learning,'' replied Lady Augusta ; and a new word is sometimes a new pleasure. So I shall remember ' crack.' I was delighted some time as^o with the word skedaddle that came over to us from America during the great Civil war." " And that 's a Scotch word too, your Leddy- ship, which I have often heard in Dumfriesshire 8 * 116 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. m my young days, when I helped the farm-lasses to milk my father's coos." "Coos! ah, you mean coios^" said Lady Augusta. And so you have milked the cows, have you? How pastoral, how primitive, how imiocent ! I don't think I should have skill or courage to milk a cow, if anyone gave me a thousand pounds to do it. And did you like the job?" " I did na' mind. Everything is right that is necessary." " Yes," said Lady Augusta, " that's the true wisdom. The great Duke of Wellington told me that he had often cleaned his own boots in his youthful time." " An' what for no? " said Mrs. Haughton, "if he had nobody to do it for him ? " The " lona " was by this time moored to the pier at Ardrishaig, and the passengers were swarming out like bees fi'om a hive to take their places on board the small canal steam-tug that seemed hardly capacious enough to contam the LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 117 multitude, but which managed to comfortably accommodate them all. Leavino- our friends and acquaintances to continue their journey through the lovely scenery amid which for nine miles the Crinan canal has been cut, and pur- posing to rejoin them hereafter at Oban, we turn to the fortunes of some other persons who have already figured in our story. 118 luck; and what came of it. CHAPTER VI. It was a beautiful evening in August, a few daj-s after the commencement of the annual slaughtoi- of grouse on the moors, that the Reverend Sir Lancelot Wyld, Bart., who was no sportsman, and could not conveniently get away from home, took a w^alk, and saw a sight that greatly dis- pleased him. He was thinking of his son Lancelot — the darling of his mother's heart, who seemed to love him the more ardently the more obstinately he departed from rightful courses — when he suddenly caught sight of that young gentleman in a rural lane with lofty elms on either side, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 119 engaged in conversation with pretty Patty Tidy, the farrier's daughter. Now the Eeverend Sir Lancelot Wyld, Baronet, had no objection to pretty Patty, loer se, for she was a very good girl — and might even be called beautiful — but he had, as the reader has already been informed, a great objection to any courtship or flirtation between her and his son. As he did not wish to mterrupt their billing and cooing there and then — if they luere billing and cooing — and, as he had no intention of making war upon them collec- tively, he lingered behind until they had passed out of sight, making up his mind in the interval to declare war upon them separately, and conquer them seriatim by forbidding any fui'ther inter- course with the young woman on the part of his son, and by attempting to procure a correspond- ing result by his influence, if he could manage to exert any, over the mind of the young woman's father. His son had no pride : he knew that; but Tidy the farrier had a great deal, and he resolved to work upon it to prevent a 120 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. possible marriage between the young and unsuit- able pair. And he walked slowly home to Lady Wyld, cogitating as he went. It had been the wish of Sir Lancelot and his Avife that their son might marry one of his cousins, the daughters of Mr. Haughton, of Mill Haughton; they did not care which. They seemed, however, to be of opinion that union mth Miss Esther would be more suitable than union with ]\liss Euphemia, for the reason that their son was horsy, slangy, fast ; and that Miss Esther would be a more suitable match for so abnormal a person than the graver and gentler sister. But if the young man himself had had anything to say on the subject — which he had not — he would probably have inclined more decidedly to the pensive and sweet Euphemia, because she was so unlike himself, than to the other sister who was too much like him, and mirrored to a mild extent in her own character some of the thino:s that he least admired in his own. But these matters scarcely entered into his mind ; luck; and what came of it. 121 and such heart as he had was so fully engrossed by pretty Patty as to leave no room in its small compass for thoughts of any other woman. On the evenmg in question when observed by Sir Lancelot there was not much love spoken between the pair. None at all on Patty's side, for she had frankly told him that her father dis- approved of their courtship, that Ms father was of the same mind, and that she did not suffi- ciently care for him (Lancelot) to risk any un- pleasantness or be guilty of any disobedience on his behalf. In short, she thought she wished to break off her intercourse Avith him, and had partly resolved if there were no other means of freeing herself from his further attentions, to leave the village, to seek service in London or elsewhere, as her father might think best. " Well, Patty," he said, '• you're the nicest o'irl I ever saw or want to see, and it 's rather hard lines upon a fellow who loves you so much to be turned adrift, as if he were no better than a groom. What have I done to you ? " 122 luck; and what came of it. *' You have done nothing but make my hfe miserable ever since I saw you, and got me into trouble with my father, and my mother too, though she is not so very hard as he is. Even my brother Joe says things of you which I don't care to repeat." " I'll knock your brother Joe's teeth down his throat, see if I don't, if he dares to say anything about me, good, bad, or indifferent. I don't care to know what he says. Let him keep out of my way, that's all — a poachhig rascal. I could get him three months any day, if I liked. He's a poacher, and I can prove it." " Yes, and if you can, or could, though I don't believe it, that's just another reason why you and I should go different ways. A baronet's son is no fit husband for a poacher's sister. The style of life of me and my people is not the style of life of you and your people, and I feel that father is right when he says that birds of a feather should flock together ; and that luck; and what came op it. 123 your feathers are not our feathers. ' Sparrows and rats are no fit mates,' he says." " What does the stupid old bloke mean by ' sparrows and rats ? ' Is he a rat, I wonder, or [you ? or does he mean me ? Sparrow be hanged. I'm neither a rat nor a sparrow, nor you either; you're a dove and an angel." " No matter what he means — except that he means that your folly (perhaps my folly) has gone far enough, and that it is time there should be an end of it. I think Sir Lancelot is of the same opinion. There he comes up the lane. I have just caught sight of him. Shall we wait here till he catches up to us, and ask him the question ?" " Dang it, no," said Lancelot. " My governor is a harder man than your governor, and I don't want to talk with him on that subject or any other, for he never can talk without preaching to me or at me, both of which operations I detest. But I 'm more than twenty years of age now, and shall be my own master one of these early days. 124 luck; and what came of it. Let 's make a bargain, Patty. You don't know your own mind. I know mine. Wait six months for me, and I'll wait six months for you. Honour bright ! And that's a fair offer ! Why should we be bothered with fathers in things that they have nothing to do with, or that they ought not to have ? Give me your hand upon it, Patty, and I won't deceive you — no, not to win the Derby ! " " I '11 wait six months," said Patty, " if } ou like. Though not because you like, but because I like. And I won't wait merely because of you; I '11 wait because it pleases me, and because I 'm in no hurry to be married. I 'm only nineteen, and I don't see that there's any occasion to accept the first man that offers ? " '* Am / the first ? " said Lancelot. " I shan't tell you," said Patty. "Patty," said Lancelot, throwing away the end of a cigar that he had been twiddling in his fingers ever since the conversation began, " I believe you do it on purpose to make a fool of a luck; and what came of it. 125 fellow ; and you look so pretty when you 're saucy that I feel inclined to kiss you to death. Now, there ! " " Xow, tliere ! " she replied, with a look of affected disdain. I 'd much rather you thrashed ine, for then you might be locked up, which might be pleasant to many people besides me." " Will you meet me here, to-morrow ? " he asked. " Neither here, nor there, nor anywhere else, neither to-morrow nor any other time ! " And so saying, she tripped lightly away, and was safe in her father's parlour before her bewildered lover quite recovered the self-possession which she had overthrown. When young Lancelot returned home that evening, very shortly after this unsatisfactory interview with Patty, he found both Sir Lancelot and Lady Wyld in no very amiable mood to- wards him. His mother appeared to have been reading, and as he entered the room, raised her eyes but for a single moment, and then bent 126 luck; and what came of it. lliem again on the volume which lay on the table. Sir Lancelot was supping a cup of coffee, which he put clown on the tray as he caught sight of his son, and turned towards him a look that was ominous of what his son irre- verently called, in his own mind, a " preachiiica- tion." " Sit down, Lancelot," said the father, "I want to talk to you, though you smell so horribly of bad tobacco, that I must make what I have to say as short as possible. I saw you this evening in the lane talking to Miss Tidy I I suppose I must call her Miss ! I speak to you as a father, and as a minister of the Gospel, and I command you in both characters to cease your intercourse with that young person." " And I intreat you as your mother," said Lady Wyld, " to think no more of her. She is not in the station wlierein you should choose a wife ; and I cannot think so ill of you as to imagine you would seek to gain the affections of any young woman without intending to marry her." luck; and what came of it. 127 " I ■wouldn't mind marrying her," said Lance- lot, doggedly. " Indeed, I should like to marry her. She 's good enough for me." " A great deal too good," said Sir Lancelot. " It seems to me that in the idle life you are leading, you have become absolutely good for nothing. Did I not send you to Cambridge ? and did you not turn out to be the biggest dolt ever seen there? And what is more, did you not incur a heavy amount of debt, for extrava- gant and useless tomfooleries of every kind — a debt. Sir, for which I am threatened with an action?" " But which I will pay hereafter," said Lancelot. " Out of what funds, Sir, tell me tlmt^^^ replied Sir Lancelot, sharply. " You have no money, unless you make it by gambling — a mode of life, I should reckon, in which you are much more likely to lose than to gain, unless you become a card-sharper and a blackleg." Lady Wyld interposed. " No, my dear," she said, " Lancie may be foolish, but he is not 128 luck; and what came of it. wicked ; and I must ask you as a favour to myself, not again to employ such very improper words to my child. He has not your wisdom yet, but he may have some day." Sir Lancelot thought that his anger might have carried him too far. " All I meant to say," he added, " is that the boy ought to choose some course of honourable business, or some profession, and stick to it ; that he ought, in fact, to be more mdependent than to rely entirely upon such allowance as I — or rather you, for it is your money — can make him. I lived upon a hundred a year, and earned it, when I was not three years older than he is. Why can't he try to imitate my example ? And at that age, though as susceptible of beauty as other people, I did not go falling in love "with servant girls, or farriers' daughters, however pretty they might be. The fact is, such silly love is born of idleness and dissipation of mind, and Lancelot is the idlest and most purposeless }oung man I ever heard of." LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 129 " Nothing would give me greater pleasure," said Lancelot, speaking to his mother, " than to find some profitable work which would put lots of tin in my pocket and make me independent. But what can I do ? I 'm not fitted for the church, or for the law, or for medicine, or for trade, but I think I could become a tolerably good farmer. But then I should want ^a wife, and Patty would just suit me." The father frowned. The mother frowned also. Lancelot noticed the black looks, and went on as if he had not done so. " But perhaps there is the stuff in me for a soldier, when a wife would not be quite so necessary. Buy me a commission, pay my Cam- bridge debts — they are only a few hundreds, after all — and allow me such a sum in addition to my regimental pay as will enable me to live like the eldest son of a Baronet, and I will try to be as good as a bishop." " I think," said Lady Wyld, turning to her I. 9 130 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. husband, "that I can manage Lancie without gettmg into a temper. Young people are gene- rally foolish; and young people who are noc foolish are apt to turn what they think their wisdom into wickedness. " Lancie ! " she added, looking at her son, " give me your hand, and promise me, not to say another word to Patty Tidy, nor see her, nor write to her, until you and I have had some more serious conversation than we have had this evening." " T can't and I won't promise," said Lancelot. " Hang it all ! I could not be so cruel to a girl who has done me no harm, even if I had to break off with her at last. No ; 1 won't do it ; it 's not fiair play." "Then Lancie," said his mother, "I won't pi-ess you to-night. Think over it for a day or two, and then decide. So long as you are not fool enough to marry the girl, or knave enough to do her a wrong, you ma}' manage to break off with her as gently as you like." " I 've .M notion," replied Lancelot, " that you LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 131 are both of you giving yourselves a lot of" trouble for nothing, and that she 's a great deal more likely to jilt me than I am to quarrel with her. In short, she as much as told me to-day that she would have nothing further to say to me." " Sensible girl ! " said Sir Lancelot. "Perhaps she doesn't mean what she says," said Lady Wyld, " and perhaps if she does mean it, she knows somebody that she likes better than you. Anyhow, Ave shan't talk about it any more to-night; and your father and I will think over the matter of the commission. Is it to be horse, foot, or artillery ? ' ' " Not artillery, certainly," said Sir Lancelot, "for merit is the thing there, not purchase- money." And the reverend gentleman was quite pleased Avith himself for this little bit of ill-nature, and dismissed his son from his presence with a smile, which he had not worn on his face all the evening. The young gentleman retired to his bedroom, 9 * 132 luck; and what came of it. resolved to have a smoke to allay the irritation and clear up the perplexities which beset him. And he thought — as far as he could think — very long and earnestly about himself and his future prospects, and tried to make up his mind as to "wliat was ^best to be done. He could not but thuik that Sir Lancelot and his mother were right in the matter of Patty. Not that he thought Patty was beneath him, as they did, but because he had no money and no profession, and could not support her in comfort, if he could support her at all — if his father were so offended as to withdraw or diminish the not very brilliant allowance which he made him. But then, Patty was such a pretty girl ! And it was such a plea- sure to look at her, to talk to her, and even to be snubbed by her. No, he would not give up Patty. He could not, that was plain ; and if she gave him up, why, he 'd emigrate, he 'd go to the diggings, he 'd hang himself No ! he would not do that, because after a spell at the diggings he might recover his peace of mind, and perhaps LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 133 find another girl, with better taste, or more kind-heartedness than she had. But what was the use of bother? He shouldn't bother. There was no hurry. After all, he was an only son. There was money in the family, and it would come to him in the end, if he lived long enough ; and he had his mother to plead for him, if his father "cut up to too rough," as he expressed it ; and it was of no use for a fellow to make the worst of things. And having finished his cigar, he went to bed and slept comfortably till three hours after daylight. From all this it might be inferred that the young man w^as in reality not nearly so much in love as he thought he was, that his philosophy inclined rather to the optimist than the pessimist side of Life's pendulum, and that his mind was far too shallow a water to be vexed by any great storms, either now or hereafter. All of which inferences might or might not be accurate. 134 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. CHAPTEH VII. The clergyman and the baronet did not assimilate very well together, in one homogeneous w^hole as it were, in the character of the Reverend Sir Lancelot AVyld. When he was a poor curate, he wns meek and lowly, as befitted the position of one who had but a hundred a year, and small chance of ever possessing any more. But when he married a lady of fortune, for the sake of her money, the Baronet developed itself within him at the expense of the parson to such a degree as almost to choke the parson out of existence. As a parson he could not take exception to so virtuous and pretty a girl as Patty Tidy ; but as a Baronet, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 135 he looked upon the possibility, the dreadful possi- bility, of her becoming his daughter-in-law with the greatest aversion. As for her father, Tom Tidy, the parson and the Baronet were in thorou.o-h agreement, and looked upon him as a most dangerous and improper person. Tom Tidy spoke disrespectfully of jMoses and Abraham, read Bishop Colenso, and the Enghsh version of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, never came near the parish church, and avowed himself to be a Unitarian, which, in the opinion of the Reverend Sir Lancelot Wyld, was as bad as if he had acknowledged himself to be an Atheist. How could he as a clergyman tolerate such a man, unless he Avould listen to argument and show a willingness to be converted to a better faith ? Sir Lancelot had tried Mr. Tidy when he first came to the parish, and had been severely worsted in disputations which he himself had provoked, and had finally given him up with a groan, as a lost sheep, whom it was utterly hopeless to attempt to lead back into the fold. 1^6 luck; and what came of it. And then Tom Tidy was a sturdy Democrat, who objected altogether to hereditary titles of nobility, and thought that of all such titles the silliest and most unmeanmg was that of a Baronet, and that it became even worse than unmeaning when bestowed upon or inherited by a minister of the Gospel. A minister of the Gospel was supposed to De a man of peace ; but a Baronet, whose heraldic device was a bloody hand holding a murderous dagger, was a representative of the warlike rather than of the peaceful element of civilisation. So in politics as well as in religion, the Baronet and his stubborn parishioner were wholly at variance, and stood at opposite poles of the social globe with a waste and a wilderness between them. " If," said the Baronet to himself, on going downstairs to breakfast on the morning after tlie interview with his son, recorded in the last chapter, " that degenerate boy were to mnrry the daughter of such a man as Tidy, whose son, to make matters worse, bids fair to be hanged, I LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 137 would not leave him a shilling. But then," and he sighed agam, " that cannot be. I have no money but his mother's money, and she can do as she likes with it. But I '11 go and have a talk with old Tidy, though I 'd as soon face Beelzebub." The farrier dhied at one o'clock, and for an hour after the dispatch of this meal usually sat, in fine weather, at the porch of his cottage, smoked a long clay pipe, took a supplementary glass of ale, and read his newspaper. The Baronet knew his habits (everything about evervbodv is known in the villa2:es and small towns of England), and resolved to pay his visit as soon after two o'clock as possible. Mr Tidy's cottage was in harmony with his name; and an air of neatness and com- fort, showing the presence of a good house- wife within, pervaded the whole place. The window-blinds and curtains were as white as snow. Healthy flowers carefully attended to adorned the window-sills ; and the little garden 138 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. was in trim and excellent order. The old- fashioned porch, with a fixed seat or wooden bench on each side, seemed expressly constructed for social converse, and was overgrown with care- fully trailed clamberino; roses, intermingled witli nasturtiums, canariensis, and other creeping plants, " What a pity," thought the Rector to himself, as he came in sio^ht of the cottae^e and saw its master sitting cosily in the porch, spec- tacles on nose, pipe in mouth, a newspaper in hand, and a jug of ale before him, " that the fellow is an unbeliever and a revolutionist, and so stubborn in his wrong opinions. I most cordially msh that his lot had not been cast in my parish." The farrier caught a glimpse of Sir Lancelot as he walked leisurely along, and wondered whether he were to be bored with a visit or dunned for a subscription, or whether the Rector was merely taking an afternoon constitu- tional. His first idea was to go indoors, but he LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 139 thought this would seem rude, and, after all, what did he care if the reverend gentleman chose to call upon him? If he came begging for money to help to buv a new organ, or a new stained glass window, or for a contribution to support some heathen mission or other, a flat refusal should await him; or if it were to assist in some case of misery in the parish, which had nothing to do with theology, and only with Christian charity, he might, perhaps, if thorouglily satisfied with the genumeness of the purpose, be good for half-a-crown, or even for five shillings. And then he recollected suddenly that he wanted to unburthen his mind to the Rector on a grievance that (as he said) '' riled him," and was rather glad than otherwise that the opportunity should present itself by the Rector's seeking and not by his own. ]\Ir. Tidy was physically a man after the type of Chaucer's Miller, " a stout carle for the nonce " in brain as well as in bones, and had a fresh red and white face, bright grey eyes, black 140 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. bushy eye-brows, a high forehead, and a crop of thick, stubbly snow-white hair. He wore whiskers, but no beard. There was great deter- mination about the mouth, and over the whole face there was a kind of semi-defiant expression; such as might have befitted the Miller of the Dee, who cared for nothing and nobody except his mill and his independence. The Rector came up straight to the garden- gate, undid the latch, and walked in, touching his hat as his eye first met that of his parishioner. " Good morning, Mr. Tidy," he said, " I 've come to have a chat with you for ten minutes, if you 're not too busy and you don't object." " Oh no," said Tidy, " I don't object, and T 'm not busy, and shall not be for half an hour. Will you walk in? " " I think I will," said Sir Lancelot. There was nobody in the snug little parlour^ Mrs. Tidy and Patty having both caught sight of the Rector as he undid the latch of the gate, and LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 141 retired to their household duties. The Rector noticed as he entered that there was a book- case in the room that might contain about a hundred and fifty volumes, and that there was upon the table, besides sundry newspapers, a popular treatise on the wonders of astronomy, and a copy of Combe's " Constitution of Man." " I am glad you are come," said the farrier, motionino' Sir Lancelot to a seat and takino- one himself, " for I 've long wanted to tell you a bit of my mind, and I shall, with your leave, tell it you now." '" Mr. Tidy," said the Baronet, somewhat alarmed, " I hope you are not gomg to broach any theoloo;ical topics with me, because it 's utterly impossible that I can ever persuade you to see things as I do, and induce you to submit your poor, paltry human reason, of which you are so vain, to the guidance of the faith that transcends reason." " I don't despise reason as you do. As far as reason goes, it is our best guide, though it can't 142 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. account for everything. But I don't want to argue about theology. 1 want to talk with you about the poor rate. There 's no theology in that as I know of." " But I don't make the rate," said the Rector apologetically, "and have nothing to do with it." " But you have to do with it. And Lady Wyld has to do with it, and the two Miss Molly- grubs and the Dorcas Society have to do with it. Why, 1 ask you as a reasonable man, should these ladies, for want of somebody in the parish to preach at (why ladies should want to preach at all, I don't know. There 's a deal too much preaching in the world, and too little real religion, that 's my notion) — why these ladies, as I was going to say, should import a family of paupers from America into this parish, for no other reason than to coddle them, and cram them with tracts, and rum, and flannel, and cheap coals — all seasoned with theology, I cannot imagine." "I don't quite understand you," said Sir Lancelot. LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 148 " I '11 make it clear," said Tidy. " You know Buggins, and Mrs. Buggins, and the seven young Bugginses, who are, each and all of them, a burthen on this parish, don't you? " "Well, I know Buggins and his family, of course; a very unfortunate man, a very good man, unable to earn his bread from disease and weakness, far gone in consumption, and who cannot with his family be allowed to starve in this Christian land." "But he was out of this Christian land with his family, three or four thousand miles away in America — where his numerous family might have been useful to him after a time, for they want more people there, and here we don't — if the pious ladies of this parish had not im- ported him." " Imported him ! " " Yes, imported him! and imposed upon me and the other rate-payers of the parish the duty, no, not the duty, but the disagreeable obligation, of supporting him. Why didn't they let him 144 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. stay in America ? He would have been better off there than here." '* Really, Mr. Tidy, you are too uncharit- able." " On the contrary, it is the preaching ladies, or as some call them, the ' goody ' ladies, who are uncharitable, in providing this man and his family with the means of coming over here to oppress the rate-payers. Buggins is an impostor. He laughs at the goody ladies when he has suffered the infliction of their sermons, as soon as their backs are turned. He drives a profitable trade, does Buggins, and takes care to make the most of his cough. He is consumptive, that I admit. The parish doctor orders him a bottle of rum every week, and he sends his wife for it as regu- larly as clockwork every Saturday. Then he has an outdoor allowance of food and money and coals, and keeps a lodger ; and his wife, a great, strong, strapping woman, who could work if she liked, is scarcely ever in a position to go out charing or washing, because she is nearly always luck; and what came of it. .145 in what is called 'an interesting situation,' or engaged in suckling a fresh young pauper for me and other people to keep. I think — I do not know what you think — that if Buggins and his wife are strong enough to increase the population of this parish by a boy or a girl per annum, Buo^o^ins and his wife ouo-ht to be strono; enouo-h to earn their own bread, and ashamed of them- selves for being paupers. If not, it's my belief that the whole family should be taken into the workhouse, and Buggins and his wife separated, until they choose to relieve the rate-payers from the necessity of supporting them." The farrier seldom made so long a speech as this; but the subject excited him, and he would have expatiated still further upon it, if the Rector had not endeavoured to cut the matter short. " Mr. Tidy," said he, " whatever I may think, I can tell you that no possible good can come of discusshig the subject with me. ^Vhy do you not discuss it publicly when the time I. 10 146 LUCK ; A.ND WHAT CAME OF IT. comes for imposing the next rate ? I quite agree with you on the immoraUty of such pauperism as that of Buggins ; and I think that he might have been prudently left on the other side of the A tlantic. But he is here, you see ; and I don't understand how we are to get rid of him." " Stop his rum," replied Tidy, " or send him to the infirmary away from Mrs. Bug- gms. " I can't argue the matter any further, Mr. Tidy ; it is of no use at least at present. Every system of poor law is liable to abuse, and Bug- gins' case is possibly an abuse ; but, even if it be, I can't remedy it. You have quite as much power as I have ; and what power you have, I advise you to exercise it." " Which I certainly shall," said Tidy. " And now, excuse me, Sir Lancelot, if I ask you what has procured me the honour of this visit, and also to excuse me for having pushed forward my business first." " I will come to the point at once," replied LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 147 Sir Lancelot. "The matter refers to my son and your daughter, and to the necessity that weighs upon both of them, that no more nonsense should be allowed between them." " I am entirely of your opinion," said the farrier, " the sooner they become strangers the better. My daughter is no fit match for your son." *' Thank you, Mr. Tidy, thank you, heartily." " But not in the sense you give to my words," added Tidy. " My daughter is far above your son in everything. Your son is not worthy to clean her boots." " Mr. Tidy, Mr. Tidy ! you are going a little too far," said the Baronet, mildly. " I have not a word to say against your daughter, but " " Leave out your buts," said Tidy, an- grily. " If anybody dares to say a word against Martha Tidy, there '11 be— never mind what there'll be— but I '11— I tell you— it'll be unpleasant." 10 * 148 LUOK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. " I say nothing, and never intended to say anything, against her," said Sir Lancelot. " She is a very comely, and, I beheve, a very good girl. But my son is not a fit match for her." " Don't I know it, and haven't I said it?" re- plied Tidy. " If there was not another husband to be had in the world, and my daughter had set her mind upon him, she should not marry him with my consent, nor any such worthless, idle, gambling, betting " "Hush, hush! Mr. Tidy," said the Baronet; " you wound my feelings as a father. I certainly have not come to wound yours. All I wanted to know is whether your daughter has your sanction for keeping company with my son." " Certainly not. I have told you so a score of times. What more do you want? " " I want no more, Mr. Tidy ; I am quite satisfied. That is to say, with the tact, and not with your reasons for it. But let all tliis pass. My son is not fit to marry anyone. He has his way to make in the world. He has a profession luck; and what came of it. 149 to choose ; and if he thinks of marriage ten years hence, it will be quite early enough." ** Send him to America or Australia," said Tidy; " there 's room for him there. He would do better than Buggins, provided he would apply himself to anything useful when he got there." The Baronet was not at all pleased that Mr. Tidy should presume to give him this, or any other advice, but he concealed his annoyance as well as he was able, in consideration of the com- fort he derived from kno\ving that Patty's father was so thoroughly earnest in his disapproval of and opposition to the courtship that had too long continued. The interview, though painful to Sir Lancelot, had on the whole been satisfactory, and he took leave of Tidy with a kinder feelmg than he had ever yet experienced towards one against whose religious and political opinions entertained the utmost repugnance. The Clergyman rose to depart. " Pardon me, Sir Lancelot, if you think I have 1^0 luck; and what came of it. shown any undue heat in the matter of Buggins. I have as kind a heart for the poor as any man, but I hate impostors. And if the widow Topham, who is near upon ninety, wants any extra comforts for Christmas time, Tom Tidy has half-a-sovereign to spare for her." The clergyman held out his hand to the farrier, who shook it to the Clergyman's satis- faction ; but the Baronet, a moment after- wards, thought he had perhaps been a little too hasty in offering this act of courtesy. Which feeling gained the mastery, it is hard to say ; but the Baronet, as he walked from the farrier's porch and reached the outer gate of the garden, rubbed his right hand upon the coat- sleeve of his left arm — no doubt instinctively and unconsciously. The Clergyman after awhile came to the rescue, and said to the Baronet, with the still small voice, " I am not quite so proud as that. I really did not mean it." luck; and what came of it. 151 CHAPTER YIII. Lady Augusta Pippins, after having concluded a treaty, or an entente cordiale, with Mrs. Haughton for the London season of 1870 — a treaty signifying fashionable service to be ren- dered for an equivalent — has gone off, highly satisfied with her dear friend the new member's wife, to Glenaladale, somewhere near the Ultima Thule of the British Isles, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of that name, where she is to remain, and where letters will find her, for a couple of months. Mr. Haughton, glad to be rid of the mill and the factory for a time, is still in the West High- 152 luck; and what came ov it. lands, climbing the hills, taking long walking exercises, and amusing himself in the delicious atmosphere of the "far niente." Mrs. Haughton and her daughter Effie are rowing in the Bay of Oban, pretending to fish, but not greatly caring for fish, or any- thing else. Miss Ettie is flirting more or less severely with Lord. O'Monoghan, who has left his friend Topheavy's hunting-box in Inver- nesshire, and established himself, for a time, whether it will be long or short he does not know, in the same little town that contains that provoking Miss Ettie and Miss Ettie's father, Mr. Rigglesby, M.P., has written to say that he wall be in Oban in a few days; and Mr. Haughton, M.P., expects him — he neither knows nor cares to question why. Meanwhile events are taking place in Swin- ston and the neighbourhood of Mill Haughton which would interest Mr. Haughton exceedingly, if he knew of them — which he does not — and would probably have the effect of shortening luck; and what came of it. 153 his holiday for the second time in the year, and of greatly inconveniencing his wife and daughters, who are all delighted — each in her several way, in being anywhere else than in S^vinston. There must now enter a new person into our Comedy of Human Life. Is it to be a comedy? Is it to be a tragedy? And is there to be a flavour of farce in it ? "We shall see. Mean- while, our new character must be introduced to the reader. Is it possible he is to be the hero of the story? We shall see that also in due course of the narrative. But hero or no hero, let him enter. He enters in the person of Oscar Lebrun, aged twenty-five or thereabouts ; handsome, of a dark complexion, with dark eyes and dark hair, not so much curly as wavy ; a well-made man, standing five feet ten, with an aristocratic air and bear- ing that impress people favourably, inasmuch as there is no assumption or presumption about him, but the grace of a gentleman, who seems to have 154 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. been born a gentleman, and to be maintained in that rank by his innate qualities and not by externals. Oscar Lebrun is a Frenchman — a Frenchman of the South — but he speaks English as well as an Englishman, and has been two years in the service of j\Ir. Haughton in his machine depart- ment, where he occupies the position of a fore- man among the skilled artisans, and is known to be an inventor. He is a man of talent in his business, and has taken out one or two patents of his own. But Democrat as Mr. Haughton is, he has never associated with this chief of his workmen in any other capacity than that of employer towards the employed. He has noticed him as a superior person, well conducted, sober and indus- trious, and respects him accordingly; but has made no step with regard to this young man, or indeed any other dependent on him, to bridge over the gulf which separates class from class, or rather caste from caste, in England, LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 155 where the leaven of aristocracy leavens the lump, not only of the aristocratic, but of the commercial community. Mr. Lebrun sat alone in his room, a decently furnished lodoino- on the first floor over the grocer's shop in the High Street of Smnston — a room which owed much more of the little elegancies which pervaded it, to his taste than to that of his landlady, the grocer's wife. ^Ir. Lebrun' s apartment, to judge from the side- table between the windows, on which a mass of correspondence, duly ticketed and labelled, was displayed, looked like that of a lawyer or a literary man. There was a pianoforte in the room, on which instrument, Mr. Lebrun, ac- cording to the statement of Mrs. Stebbings, his landlady, w^as no mean performer, and on which, like a good young man, as she said he was, he amused himself in the evening instead of going to the public-house along with the un- married or married men in Mi\ Haughton's employ. The good woman had often expressed 156 luck; and what oame of it. her wonder to her husband, who was a pious man, and a lay preacher, why Mr. Lebrown, as she called him, did not get married, so steady as he was, and so handsome ; and why he had never condescended to pay even a passing compliment- to her daughter Ameha, who, she thought, was a more than usually pretty girl. Mr. Lebrun never appeared to have enter- tained this idea; and certainly did not think her prettier than half-a-hundred other girls in Swinston. The explanation was not known to Mrs. Stebbings ; but the fact was that Oscar Lebrun's heart was no longer his own, and that he had parted with it long ago — to one, whom he consi- dered the most beautiful and fascinating of her sex. He and this fascinating person had not exchanged vows of eternal constancy, inasmuch as the fascinating person only suspected the ad- miration of which she was the object, and did not know that the river of admiration had broadened^ deepened into a sea of love ; and he, on his and LUOK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 157 part, had lacked the courage or the opportunity to declare himself. He had possessed himself of the photograph of the young lady, not as a gift from herself, but by bribing the Swinston photo- grapher to print an extra one from the negative. The photograph thus irregularly obtained lay before him on his writing-table at the time when the reader makes his acquaintance — a photograph that did the fair original but scanty justice. Indeed the photographs of the lovely are, as a rule, not complimentary ; and only the very ugly come out well under the terrible manipulations of those who try to make an artist of the sun, and too often spoil his workmanship. Mr. Lebrun was an amateur artist as well as a musi- cian, and had coloured the photograph into a more favourable resemblance than the ungallant sun or the bungling photographer had succeeded in producing. The portrait was that of a lady known to everybod}' in Swinston, and recognised by all as that of the best and sweetest woman who had ever trodden the streets of that town. 158 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. and who had a kmd word and a kmd thought for everybody. If the people of Swinston had known the love secret of Mr. Oscar Lebrun, they would have said that he had looked much too high. But no one knew his love but himself, not even the object of it. Euphemia Haughton — for the portrait was hers — was, however, not so unobservant as to be utterly unaware that the handsome Frenchman admired her, or that a tell-tale blush mounted to his cheek whenever he happened to pass her in public places, and lifted his hat to her with a courtesy unknown to Englishmen of his station, or indeed of any other station in our day. She had also observed on Sundaj^s that on going to or coming out of church, Mr. Lebrun seemed, though not obtrusively so, to watch for the opportunity of making the usual obeisance, and that his cheeks flushed and his eyes sparkled as he looked upon her. She was the divinity, he was the worshipper; and she felt, by a fine luck: and what came of it. 159 instinct, that such were the occult relations that existed between them. Nor was she offended that he, socially so much lower do^yn m the scale than she was, presumed to admire her. Admiration, if genuine and respectful — and the eyes can declare whether it is so or not — is always gratifying to the recipient ; and Euphemia Haughton would have been far less of a woman, and far more of a disagreeable sort of angel than she will appear in these pages, if she had resented the respectful, the deep, the silent homao^e of the best behaved and handsomest 3^oung man in Swinston. Mr. Lebrun had looked upon the portrait -svith an air that seemed to say, " How poor a thing is art when it tries to represent the masterpieces of nature," and had put it aside, as if it distracted his attention from other matters that required it, which was indeed the case. He took a packet of letters from the table — all duly endorsed in the most business-like manner, with the dates, and the names of the senders. 160 luck; and what came of it. He had been eno-aofed with them for some time — he did not know how long — when Amelia Stebbings tapped gently at his door, and an- nounced " that two gentlemen from Paris " wished to see him. " Let them come up," said Mr. Lebrun, which he need not have said, for they had come up, and were in the room ahnost before he had raised his head from his correspondence. The fair Amelia, on her part, was not able to report to her father and mother anything lurther that had happened, except that Mr. Oscar was evidently surprised to see his visitors, that they both kissed him on the cheek, which she thought a highly improper and unbecoming thing in men ; and that they all three spoke a foreign language, which she supposed to be French. Of the two strangers, the younger was a man of military aspect — sun-browned, erect, and about forty years of age. The other appeared to be about sixty, was slightly bald, and had a handsome beard, snow white, with a tinge of luck; and what came op it. 161 gold upon its tips, which would have been plea- sant to the eyes of an artist. The younger man had rough large hands, as of one accustomed to manual labour -, the elder man had the delicate hands of a lady or a student. Both of them made themselves at home in the apartment of their friend, who had evidently not expected their visit. After a few inquiries and salutations had been exchanged between them, Mr. Lebrun proposed coffee — coffee such as Frenchmen love and which Englishmen seldom taste, unless in Brussels or Paris — or wine — the best he could afford — which was but vin ordinaire. His friends pleaded hurry, for refusmg the coffee which they would have preferred had time permitted its prepara- tion ; and glasses having been rung for and pro- vided, not by Amelia, but by Mrs. Stebbings herself, who had the curiosity to see what kind of men they were who had called upon her lodger, and who had the odd fashion of kissing one another as if they had been women, the three friends — for friends they were and not I. 11 162 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. acquaintances merely — drew round the table and prepared, as Mrs. Stebbings thought, for a night either of business or pleasure. It was of no use for her to attempt to listen to their discussion, as they spoke French, for which piece of bad taste or stubbornness she bore them no good will. She therefore retired to her lower regions, ^vith the charitable hope that the strangers had not come to the town for a bad purpose, and that they would not stay too late and keep honest women out of their beds to shut the door after them. Oscar Lebrun did not smoke. His two visitors did. While they are smoking and drinking temperately, and preparmg the way for the busi- ness on which they are to converse — for it is business, and very serious business, which brings the two strangers to such an out-of-the-way place as Swinston-in-the-Fens — the reader shall learn the secret of their names and purposes. The elder — he of the snowy beard, the philosophic head, the mild and gentlemanly de- luck; and what came of it. 163 meanour, and the small white hands — was one M. Oasimir Desmoulins, of Paris, the reddest of red repubhcans, a violent orator, partly Fourierist, partly Prud'hommist, partly Socialist, and alto- gether a Communist, who worshipped but one God, which he called Labour, and who was of the opinion that labourers and thinkers, if they could but be persuaded, induced, or forced to combine together for mutual advantage, would establish a new and more glorious civilisation than the world had ever seen, and abolish idle- ness, vice, poverty, and misery, from an earth for the first time made happy, and fit for the abode of innocent and reasonable beings. His companion, M. Anastase Adolphe, was also of the Commune — one of the three or four idols of the working men of Paris, who set up idols very rapidly and quite as rapidly demolish them, and followed the respectable calling of a compositor — 'Or setter up of types — in the printing office of a great Parisian journal. He had large ideas about the organisation of labour and what he 11 * 164 luck; and what came op it. called the detestable tyranny of capital, and longed to reconstruct Society ujDon the veritable and extreme doctrine of Liberty, Equality, and Praternity, allowing no man to be better housed, fed, or clothed than any other man — even if he laboured more, and threw the proceeds of his extra labour into a common fund for the benefit of his less sturdy, less healthy, and less indus- trious fellow-workers. Mr. Lebrun knew them both well, was affiliated with them in the Grand Central Committee of Labour, that had its headquarters at Paris, and shared many of their sentiments. The two were delegates from this important body, appointed to visit the principal centres of iiidustry in Europe, to collect information as to the wishes, wants, and feelings of the working classes. The possibility of uniting all the workers of the world in one great " League of Justice and Humanity," and the abolition of kingcraft, priestcraft, moneycraft, lawcraft, head- craft, and every other craft except handicraft. LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 1 65 was an idea seriously entertained at Paris, and which had its apostles and emissaries in e very- capital and iQ many hundreds of smaller to"svns throughout Europe. And it was upon this sub- ject that M. Casimir Desmoulins and M. Anastase Adolphe — deputed by the superior authority of the great and inscrutable " Maireann," or " The Perpetual " erroneously called Mary Anne — came to consult Mr, Lebrun. After the 'petit vin had circulated for awhile, cheering but in no degree inebriating, and after the decomposition into ashes and smoke of two tolerably good cigars by the delegates, the busi- ness of the evening commenced, informally, by a friendly discussion on the attitude likely to be assumed by the English working classes in the event of a general uprising or strike of the workers throughout Christendom. The object of the proposed strike was to raise the status or the wages of the working classes — meaning the handicraft classes — and lower the status and the earnings of the thinking classes, and of all 166 luck; and what came of it. classes that were too proud and too aristocratic to labour with their hands. It was the idea of M. Casimir Desmoulins to establish once and for ever what he called the true Christian idea — the Commune, the commu- nity, the anthill, the beehive, the sacred society of Maireann, or " The Perpetual," in which there should be neither high nor low, neither rich nor poor, and in which all men should stand on the same level. M. Casimir Desmoulins was of opinion that the time was approaching when the Commune, crushed under the cannon-balls of Generals Cavaignac and Changarnier in 1848-49, and kept down for twenty years by the heavy hand of a person whom he contemptuously called Citizen Buonaparte, would have another opportunity of declaring itself. Buonaparte, he said, was relaxing his grasp, not from intention, but from weakness, physical and mental, and the signs of the end were obvious. M. Anastase Adolphe was of the same opinion, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 167 and judged that the Millennium of Labour was at hand, when soldiers, priests, lawyers, auto- crats, emperors, and kings should all become honest workers, diggers and delvers, builders and spinners, or be put out of a world with the ideas and wishes of which they were no longer in har- mony. " These are our notions in Paris — notions which prevail in Moscow and St. Petersburg," said M. Adolphe. '' What do they say in England ? " "English workmen," replied Lebrun, "are not like French workmen. They have no ideas except to do as little work as they can, for as much money as they can get. Their esprit de corps is limited to their own trades. The demon of drunkenness has taken possession of too many of them. They are bemuddled mth beer. They don't see things as we see them, and have no large-hearted loyalty to the work- ing men of other countries. The organisa- tion of labour, which to us is a new gospel, the most beneficent ever preached to humanity, is to them but a means of screwing a few more 168 luck; and what came of it. shillrngs per week out of the pockets of their employers, which shillings are to be expended, not for the elevation of themselves and their fellows in the scale of humanity, not for educa- tion, or even for healthy and undegrading amusement, but in beer — beer — nothing but beer and tobacco, occasionally varied with gin." " It may have been so in the old days, but are they not improving?" argued Casimir Des- moulins, " are they not learning from intercourse with the people of other countries to take grander views of themselves, and of the com- munity of labour to which they belong ? Have they never heard of the solidarity of the peoples, and of the solidarity of work ? " " I think there is not one English workman out of a hundred who knows what ' solidarity ' means. There is no such word in the ordinaiy English language. They can't embrace any greater idea than that of their Union, and their union is strictly confined to their own craft, what- soever it may happen to be." luck; and what came of it. 169 " Do not the members of one trade sympathise with the members of another trade that may be on strike ? " " Yes, vaguely, and after a fashion ; but not to the extent of manifesting their sympathy by their deeds, or by large contributions in money. The builders care little for the grievances of the shoemakers, and the engineers take no heed of the strikes or the miseries of the tailors, and vice versa. The fact is that the English in all these matters are what they are on the map of the world, insulaires., nothmg but insulairesy "Time was," said Desmoulins, "when our French workmen were almost as ignorant and selfish, but a beneficent change has been recently wrought, and I don't despair in this age of great ideas that the new gospel of labour will convert the Ens;lish as well as all the other nations of the world," *' But the English are a slow people ! " said Lebrun. " They don't take kindly and readily to new ideas, and, as I have said before, they 170 luck; and what came of it. worship the fat Bacchus that sits astride the beer barrel. Why in this very town of Swin- ston, the Dunderheads, a society of working men, free men as they call themselves, have sold their votes and independence, scores of them, for a glass of ale apiece. What good present or future can be expected from sots of this sort?" " Not much at present," said the hopeful Desmoulins, " but I don't despair even of such pigs (cochons) as those. A new generation is arising, filled with nobler ideas, and the future will right the inequalities and wipe away the degradations of the present and the past." *' But," said Lebrun, " the solidity is equal to the stolidity of the English workman, and perhaps the one quality is twin born with the other ; and linked to it, Hke the two unfortunate Siamese twins. There will be no great change in the labour question in England, until England, like France, shall have passed through the fire and blood of a social Kevolution. And the time luck; and what came of it. 171 for that is not yet ; believe me. But it is coming, nevertheless. I see it : and the govern- ing classes and the rich classes see it, and endeavour in small and petty ways to retard the evil day. Drunkenness and pauperism on one side, and on the other a base money w^orship, are eating out the heart and spirit of a once great and noble people. The rich are afraid of the poor, and, instead of elevating them and instruct- ing them, pauperise them by eleemosynary soup and coals, and religious tracts, teaching them that the first duty of man and woman is sub- mission to constituted authority, whether that authority be right or wrong, wise or foolish, clement or cruel. Add to this, that the rich treat the poor as if they were children, and that the legislature forbids amusement and recreation on the only possible day when poor people have the leisure to enjoy themselves, and you have a national picture which does not appear to me to be a pleasant one, and which accounts for much in the English character which was not 172 luck; and what came of it. intelligible to me when I first came to live in. this country. When the English do arise, their uprising will be terrible ! " *' In the event of a general strike in the engineer's trade," inquired Desmoulins, " will the people in Mr. Haughton's employ cast in their lot with their fellows ? " " Yes, most likely with their fellows in England ; but not with their fellows in France, Belgium, or Germany. The Englishman is less of a cosmopolitan than any man in the world." " And now my dear friend Oscar," said Desmoulins, " to come to the real point, the matter which brought us here. Are you pre- pared to give up your employment with Mr. Haughton, and return to Paris, to work with us and for Maireann ? " Oscar's face turned pale. " There may be," he said, " many reasons why I should obey the call, and only one why I should not ; but that one is very powerful, and exercises a paramount influence over me." luck; and what game of it. 173 " An affair of the heart ? " " Perhaps," — and Oscar Lebrun blushed like a gu'l; but he went on to say, "let us talk no more. Doubtless you will find me ready when I am wanted." " Alas ! " said Desmoulins, " the great apostles and saviours of humanity, who are destined to lead it out of the heavy ruts into which its chariot wheels have stuck fast for so many ages, ought to have no hearts except for their work. And I thought you were one of them." " I am not one of them ; though at one time I thought I might be." "You are one of them," said Desmoulins. " I know you better than you know yourself. But you will come to Paris when sent for ? We want your report on English labour, and all feel that it will be an able one." " You shall have it as correctly as I can make it," replied Lebrun. "' Is the time now ? " " Not exactly now," replied Desmoulins, " but fast approaching. We are its precursors 174} luck; and what came op it. to you. Adieu, Camarade ! Adieu, clier con- citoyen ! Vive I'egalit^ ! Vive la liberie ! Vive la fraternite! " Oscar saw his visitors to their hotel, and returned to his lodging so pre-occupied with his own thoughts that he did not hear Amelia Stebbings wish him good-night when she opened the door, and handed him a candle. He went dreamily to a sleepless couch, thinking far more of Euphemia Haughton than of the rights and wrongs of the working classes, of the in- scrutable, awful, Maireann, or of the possible Red Republic, of which he was expected to be one of the founders. ** Perhaps," he thought, " I may be one of the victims. But of what use is thinking? Fate is Fate, and mine is dragging me whither it must," And he took the portrait of Euphemia Haughton from under the pillow where he always placed it at night, and pressed it fervently to his lips. luck; and what came of it. 175 CHAPTEE IX. We have seen nothing as yet of Mr. Herbert Haughton, only son of Mr. Haughton of Mill Haughton, and as he is to be one of the charac- ters in our life drama, and may possibly play a considerable part in it, we proceed to make his acquaintance. He was, as has been said, in his twenty-third year, and, in his mother's eyes, was as beautiful as Apollo, or Antinous. In his father's eyes, he was a presentable enough kind of young man. In his elder sister's eyes, he was a srenius, and she cared more for genius than for good looks. In his younger sister's estimation, he was what she called a " tease," 176 luck; and what came of it. because, following his mother's example, he sometimes jeered at her irrepressible chignon. He was decidedly clever, and fancied that he knew and had studied more of London life in all its phases, high and low, than any other young man of his age, and that he had gone through and handled a vast amount of dirt and pitch, without having defiled himself. He loved art with a sincere affection, and as any sincere affection tends to preserve the fresh- ness and the purity of the mind, he congratu- lated himself amid the loneliness of his London life, that he had higher aspirations than the passing day could satisfy, and that he had his art to love, if he had nothing else. His father made him a fair, indeed a liberal allowance, to help him along the thorny byways and the flinty highways that lead to celebrity, an allow- ance with which it would have been the greatest pleasure of his life, if he could have dispensed. He was a sculptor, and had sold one statuette for fifty pounds, and in the greatness of his joy luck; and what came of tt. 177 at being able, or seeing a prospect of being able, to earn his daily bread by his own talents, he had cashed the cheque, by which it was paid for, into sovereigns, and spread them out upon a little table in his studio, and actually danced and capered around it, exclaiming, in the exhu- berance of his delight, " Xow I shall be inde- pendent of my father and of all the world. Now I am a man for the first time. Hurra! Hurra ! " He told the story himself, Avithout concealment of his weakness, to his uncle the Colonel the same evening at the Colonel's Club, and the Colonel, notwithstanding that he himself was about the most unenthusiastic and selfish of men, thought he liked his nephew all the better for his little bit of eccen- tricity. This young gentleman, having resolved to take a holiday in the West Highlands, partly because his family were there, and partly because he had been long anxious to study nature in the sublime solitudes of those regions, found I. 12 178 LUT'K; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. himself at Oban a week after liis father's arrival. He had not been there a day before he dis- covered two stransrers — strano-ers at least to him — who had established an intimacy in the household. The one was Lord O'Monaghan, whoAi he very soon perceived was attracted by his father's daughter. The other was Mr. Rigglesby, M.P., who, he perceived, though not quite so speedily, was attracted by his father's money. So he made up his mind to study these two gentlemen at his leisure, and discover, if he could, whether the one was worthy of his sister, and Avhether the designs of the other upon his father's i)urse were legitimate. A day or two before his arrival it had been proposed by Lord O'Monaghan, that the whole party, on the first clear calm day, should take passage to lona, in one of the steamers of the Hutcheson fleet, that they should stay all night on the island, and inspect its antiquities at their leisure. The proposal was enthusiastically received, and duly communicated to the new- luck; and what came of it. 179 comer. He, on his part, entered into it with as much zest and relish as the rest. " I am told," said Rigglesby, " that if we want anything to drink in lona, except water or ginger beer, we must take it with us, as the Duke of Clan Campbell, who owns the whole island, and acts as if he owned the people, will not allow a drop of anything stronger than ginger beer or milk to be sold on its sacred soil." " I've enquired about that," said O'Monaghan, " and the story 's near upon true, though not exactly. The Duke allows beer to be sold, but not whiskey, so if any of us want whiskey — and 1 know I should like a drop, especially if I m forbidden to taste it — we must take it with us." " A piece of abominable tyranny," said the ^lember for Swinston. " For my part, I don't want any whiskey, but 1 shall take a bottle, or two bottles, or as many bottles as it pleases me, if it be only to show m}' independence." " My opinion, and my determination also," said Rigglesby. " I don't care if I don't taste 12 * 180 luck; axd what came of it. whiskey once in a twelvemonth, but the once in a twelvemonth shall be the night I pass in lona. The Duke would make an excellent Sultan if lona were as big as Turkey." " I have heard of the Duke's doings," said young Mr. Herbert. " The Colonel told me the last time I dined with him at the Rag, that m another island, the whole of which also belongs to a great Scottish proprietor, the factor or agent affixed a notice to the Church door, setting forth that any tenant of his Lordship who paid a less rental than thirty pounds per annum, who should be guilty of drinking whiskey, gin, rum, brandy, or any other spirituous liquor, at christenings, marriages, funerals, or an}^ social gatherings whatsoever, should be dispossessed of his farm, without appeal, at the next term, or quarter-day." " Bedad ! and that 's clever," said Lord O'Monaghan. " Clever ? " replied Herbert. " I think it's an unwarrantable stretch of arbitrary authority ! " " Not n. bit of it ! you 're too severe, my LUOK ; AND WHAT CAME Oi' IT. l8l young friend. It 's only Scotch canniness, and no Irishman or Englishman would ever have thought of it. It 's his Lordship's fun, you see ; the comical, and I must say the very original way he has of raising the rents of the poor people. The Scotch must have their whiskey — that's to be taken for granted. If they will pay thirty-five pounds per annum — or for the matter of that, thirty-one pounds — they can have their whiskey, and drink as much of it as they please ! " Lord O'Monaghan laughed at his own joke, and so did Miss Esther, and indeed most of the company, except the elder Mr. Haughton, who was too indignant at what he deemed an in- fringement of the liberty of the subject to share the merriment that Lord O'Monaghan's inuendo had provoked. It was agreed, however, by the gentlemen, nemine contradicpite^ that among the ^ ( stores for their excursion, a sufficient if not bountiful supply of Gillies' s best Oban whiskey should be provided, if it were only to show 182 LUCK ; AKD WHAT CAME OF IT. that the Duke's sumptuary laws w^ere inope- rative ; and whether or not the Duke's objections applied to Champagne, that a due supply of that beverage should be laid in at the same time, for the consumption of the ladies. " ] wish the Dukes, and the Earls, and the Bishops, and the Deans, and the Baronets, and all the big people who are so fuss}^ about the drinking habits of small people, would let the small people alone," said Mr. Haughton to Mr. Rigglesby, as they sat in front of the Alexandra Hotel, and listened more or less attentively to the strains of the German band that yearly favours Oban with its company, and to the music of which the ladies delight to pace up and down in the long delicious summer evenings. " The poor have as much right to eat and drink what they please as the rich have. I detest drunkenness, but I equally detest any suggested remedy that presupposes a man to be either a baby or an idiot, who has to be looked after lest he should do himself an injury. For- luck; and what came of it. 183 merly it was the rich Avho disgraced themselves by getting habitually and enormously drunk and the poor who were habitually sober. Now the case is reversed. It was not Parliamentary laws, or the shutting up of wine shops, or gin shops, or beer shops, or the imposition of penalties upon offenders that wrought the change. It was the social law, stronger than Parliamentary law, that made it disgraceful in a man of position to be seen drunk, that pro- duced a remedy — slow but sure. I believe the same results will be obtahied in the case of the poor, il the poor be educated, and especially if they be spared the insolent interference of the rich." "So do I," said Rigglesby, "and more than all, I believe that if good wine were as cheap as small beer — which it might be — the Avliole people, rich and poor, would become as sober as the French or the Spaniards." "I quite agree witli you," rejohied ^Ir. Haughton, " and the Maine Liquor Law fellows and the Permissive Bill fellow^s shall have my 184 LUCK ; a:nd what caaie of it. constant opposition, though the affable whip himself should ask me to vote for them." " The whole case of the Permissive Bill is well put in a song which I heard when I was in Edinburgh," said Rigglesby. '' Do you remember it ? " " I took do'svn one stanza — here it is," and Riojolesbv drew a memorandum book from his pocket and read If I have wealth aud means enousrh To import a pipe of wine, While you one glass of humbler stuff Must purchase when you dine ; then I '11 run my little Bill While wetting well my i>rog, To permit me to prevent you From buying a glass of grog. it 's a little simple Bill That seeks to pass incog., To permit me to prevent you From having a glass of grog ! " The whole gist and marrow of the matter," said Haughton ; " who is the author ? " "' One of the Scottish Judges, whose name 1 am not at liberty to mention." LUOK; AND WHAT CAAli; 0¥ IT. 185 '" Oh, nothing 's a secret now-a-days. I will lind him out and endeavour to make his acquaintance if I return home through Edin- burgh." " You won't find him. Nobody that is any- body is to be found m Edinburgh at this season, or for tlie next two months." " Ah, I didn't think of the season. But another time, perhaps. I have heard that the Scottish Judges and Sheriffs are jolly boys, as we say in England — comical souls, good at a song or a story, or a jest, and the best of all good com- pany, if they meet with congenial comrades." "No," said Riggiesby, "not now ; that's a tradition of the past. There are exceptions, and the author of this song is one. But the ex- ceptions are few, and growing old ; and no new men are rising to fill their places. We are all growing stifi' and staid, and stupid and solemn. Company is not the company that it used to be, and still is in some countries. In fact, there is no company in England. Conviviality is as 186 luck; and what came op it. dead as the Heptarchy. Goodfellowship has given up the ghost. The stolid Anglo-Saxon — I beg you to remember that I am a Celt, or a Kelt — would think at a dinner table or at des- sert that you had a malicious and long pre- arranged intention to insult him if you asked him to sing a song. ' Is thy servant a dog, or a play-actor, or a professional singer, that you should ask him to do this thing? ' We are all prigs, we are all humbugs, and stuck-up noodles, who think it our duty to look grave and respect- able ; though our only qualiti cation for gravity and respectability is our dense, crass, Anglo- Saxon stupidity." " Come, come ! " said Mr. Haughton, " none of your jibes at the Anglo-Saxons. I am an Anglo-Saxon." "Not entirely," replied Rigglesby, "you must be more or less of a Kelt. There never was a pure unadulterated Anglo- Saxon that was fit for anything but to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, or if he were a livelier luck; A^^I) WHAT CA3IE OF IT. 187 Anglo-Saxon than usual, to kick his wife with ]iis heaviest boots on — and think he was gaining her love bv it. Bah I The Analo-Saxons are the dullest people in the world." " Nonsense I " said Mr, Haughton. " Think of" Shakespeare. Was he not an Anglo-Saxon ? "1 do think of Shakspeare, and I think of Milton, and I think of Byron. All Kelts, every one of them. You are not ' up ' on this subject, I am ! The Saxons, erroneously called the Anglo-Saxons, never, in their so-called conquest of England, penetrated beyond the maritime counties. They never got into the heart of the country I Warwickshire was as free from the Saxons of the seventh century as Ireland Avas. Shakspeare was a Kelt." " But his name ? " interposed Mr. Haughton. " I don't care for his name ; names, or more properly surnames, are of recent origin, not older than the thirteenth century. 'J'he Saxon name signifies nothing. iSames, that is to say surnames, are of accidental growth. Christian 188 luck; and what came ot* IT. names are one thing — sanctified by the Church at baptism, and remahi unchanoeable for the lifetime of the recipient — but surnames are ar- bitrary, and always have been. My surname is exactly what I choose it shall be. I am Smith to day ; 1 may be Brown to-morrow, and I may be Robinson the day after." " Are you not wild ? are you not rambling ? " " Not a bit of it. In my youth I was wit- ness in a cause in the Court of Common Pleas, and heard one of the wisest and noblest of English Judges, the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal lay down the whole law on the subject, and I never forgot it." " Then what is the law ? " " The law is that your name is whatever you choose to call yourself ; that no one's consent to your changing your name is necessary but your own." " Then why do people ask the Queen's con- sent to such change, or register it in the Herald's College." luck; and what came of it. 189 " Only to advertise more widely the fact of the change, and neither step is necessary. A private notification to all your friends, or an advertisement in the * Times ' or ' Daily Tele- graph ' would answer all the purposes. So you see that if the Celtic fathers or grandfathers of Shakspeare had conferred upon them, or con- ferred upon themselves, the Saxon name of Shakspeare — or WagstafFe — it would be no proof thnt they were of Saxon lineage. I once knew a man of the name of Catt, who was in love with a beautiful girl, but who refused to marr}^ him on the plea that she should not like to be called Mrs. Catt, and, if she had a family, to be asked after the ' kittens.' He changed his name to Montmorency, and the fair lady accepted him. Shakspeare was a Kelt." If Rigglesby had a monomania it was for Celticism ; and Haughton having acquired the knowledge of his weakness forbore to prolong a discussion, that if but gently encouraged he foresaw might become interminable. 190 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. "Let's join O'Monaghan and the women folk," he said, rising from his seat. " By all means," said Rigglesby ; " bnt in the meantime, before we come up with them, let me ask you if you do not observe that his Lordship seems ' sweet ' upon your youngest daughter." "I am going to speak to my wife to-night upon that very subject," said Mr. Haughton. "Do you know much of Lord O'Monaghan? Does he bear a good character ? " " The best of characters ; a right good, warm- hearted generous specimen of an Irish gentle- man of the best class, but somewhat impe- cunious — that is, occasionally. He has long been on the lookout for a Colonial Governorship, and when Mr. Disraeli returns to power I daresay he will get what he wants. He has rendered services to his party, and the Tories, I must say, are far more grateful to their friends than the Whigs and Radicals." " Has he any property at all ? " " Oh yes ; the remains of an excellent pro- LUCK ; AND What came op it. 191 perty. But what 's a couple of thousands a year if your expenses are double ? However, if he got a governorship he might leave his little bit of property to nurse until he came home. I never thought him to be a marrying man, but, as j^'ou must have seen, he is more or less smitten with Miss Esther." It was Mr. Haughton's private opinion, though he said nothing upon the subject, that the pair would not be ill- matched. What he had to say he reserved for the private ear of Mrs. Haugh- ton. 192 CHAPTER X. The clay appointed for the excursion to StafFa and lona dawned as pleasantly as the most hope- ful holiday-maker could have desired. The lovely bay of Oban sparkled in the light of the morning sun. The hills of Kerrera looked green and grey and brown and purple in the varying depths and heights of glen and crag, and the dark outlines of the noble mountains of Mull and the still nobler mountains of Ardg'our traced themselves clearly against the unclouded skv, solemn and silent, but lookino' of smaller altitude than they actually were, in the ab- sence f)f the cloud and mist which lend such LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 193 gloomy magnificence to the hills of the western Highlands. Not one of the party had ever made this voyage before, but everyone had heard or read of the beauties and sublimities of the scenery, and one in particular knew every foot of the ground and every wave of the water with which a leo;end or a tradition was associated. Euphemia Haughton had been a diligent reader of the poetry and romances of Sir Walter Scott, and these scenes, familiar to her imagi- nation, burst upon her delighted eyes in all their physical reality, infusing her whole being with a sense of joy and of anticipation realised, with which she found no one to sympathise so completely as her brother. He, with an artist's eye, saw at every turn the innumerable beauties of sea and rock for which the whole coast is celebrated, and formed the resolution to travel as little in steam- boats as he could while in Scotland, and to be as much on the tramp as possible, Avith his staff in his hand and his sketch-book in his pocket. I. 13 ]94 luck; and wftat c.kmk of it. Nor were Mr. and Mrs. Haughton by any means insensible to the natural beauties of the landscape. Mrs. Hauo'hton was what her hus- band sometimes called a fanatical Scot, and thouofht there were no mountains like Scotch mountains, no rivers, no burnies, no lochs, no seas like those of Scotland, and no rains, nor mists, nor storms comparable to those of her dearly beloved native land. Mr. Haughton, though well read, had been too busy a man to retain his youthful delight in literature, and listened with pleased and attentive interest as his daughter recalled the poetical, legendary, or historical incidents associated with each me- morable spot. On one side were the undulating hills of Kerrera, where Haco King of Norway encamped with a large army in the thirteenth centur}^ when bent on the subjugation of Scot- land, in that mighty expedition which ended so disastrously for him and so gloriously for Scotland at the battle of Largs. On the other stood the grim ruins of DunoUy Castle, high LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME 0¥ IT. 195 perched upon a crag, the ancient stronghold of the Lords of the Isles. Before them, as the steamer sped on her way across the Linnhe Loch stretched the broad expanse of the Sound of Mull. At its entrance, within sight of the ancient Castle of Duart, just showing its head above the waves, was the Lady's Rock, looking not much larger than a dining table, whither Maclean of Duart conveyed his wife, one of the Campells of Lorn, and left her to perish m the rising tide. The incident is commemorated by Thomas Campbell in his " Ballad of Glenara," and by Joanna Baillie in her tragedy of " The Family Legend." Beyond Duart on the Morven shore, or mainland of Scotland, Ardtornish came into view, and next again Aros in Mull, and man}' other castles celebrated m immortal verse. Effie read from Anderson's " Guide to the High- lands " — a model of what a guide-book ought to be — a general description of these robber eyries, these picturesque remnants of times and manners long since passed away, and of which 13 * 196 luck; and what came of it. the gloomy shores of Mull and Morven contain so many. Nothmo; can be more wild than the situa- tions chosen for these fortresses ; sometimes on detached islets or pinnacles ; more generally on promontories surrounded on three sides by the sea ; and on high precipitous rocks command- ing an extensive view and a ready communi- cation with the water. Straight and narrow stairs, little better than stone ladders, and arched vaults, are a frequent mode of access ; and in some cases, between the top of these stairs and the mam building, yawning chasms intervene, across which, as occasion required, a slender drawbridge was lowered. Rude but strong buttresses propped up the walls, which occasionally were continued to a distance from the principal keep, so as to form a court or ballium. But great extent is not to be looked for in these buildings. Their dimensions are small, and their accommodations slender and simple compared with the edifices which in LUCfe: ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. l97 the south remain to attest the warlike propen- sities and state of ancient times. " What untold, and untellable romances," said Euphemia, " are hidden in these old ruins — un- tellable, that is, unless a new Walter Scott should arise to magnetise them into life." " No one," said Herbert, " would read them in our day if there were a second Walter Scott. The modern world has grown weary of those antique revivals, and wants to know something of itself." " And a very praiseworthy want too ! " said his father. Passing into and out of the little sheltered harbour of Tobermory — where one of the finest ships of the Spanish Armada was scuttled, local tradition says, by the agency of the Witch of Mull, a formidable old beldame who dwelt on the slopes of Benmore — the steamer breasted the wild waves of the Ardnamurchan shore, floated out into the great Atlantic, and thence bending her course to the south, skirted the rugged western shores of Mull. 198 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. A German Professor from the University of Heidelberg was on board, and got into conver- sation with Mr. Haughton. " I think," said the Professor, " that you English people — I presume you are English, sir?" (Mr. Haughton bowed.) — "are very wrong to go to the Rhme and to France when you have such a country as this to visit. There is nothing equal to this in Europe, not even in Switzerland. Switzerland is grand, very grand, 1 admit ; but it wants the sea. Here you have mountains, not so high as the Swiss moimtains, it is true, but which look higher because they have their feet in the ocean, and you can see them in their full lieioht without intervenino; obstacles ; and then you have the sea itself — the most magnificent object m nature," " Very true I " replied Mr. Haughton ; *' I like Scotland, and always have liked it. I think with you, that the intermingling of sea and mountain is the great charm of Scottish scenery. What do you tViirik Lord O'Monaghan?" he LtJCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 199 asked, as that gentleman joined the group, accompanied by Miss Ettie ; "we have been comparing Switzerland with Scotland — as re- gards picturesqueness and sublimity — and given the palm to Scotland." " I give the palm to Scotland, and most de- cidedly. I know nothing grander than Scotland, except the Lakes of Killarney and the Bay of Bantry." " True enough." said Mr. Haughton ; " Kil- larney is very well ; but then you have only one Killarney. Here in Scotland we have five hundred lakes, each as beautiful as Killarney ; and as for the Bay of Bantry, it is nothing to the Estuary of the Clyde, or to the Sound of Mull." " I have been in Ireland," said the German Professor, " and found it a beautiful country, inhabited by a fine ])eople — the most patient people in the world, notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary. But still Scot- land seems tu me to be far more interesting. 200 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. The country is grand and the people are grand. I admire the scene^ of the one ; I admire and reverence the history of the other. A small people in point of numbers the Scotch have alwaj'^s been ; but what a mark they have made in the world I England itself is more Scotch than English." " Oh how delighted I am to hear you sa}' so," interposed Euphemia, almost afraid of the sound of her own voice. " But they are not better than the Irish, are they ?" asked Esther. " Thank you, darlin', lor that sensible ques- tion," interposed O'Monaghan ; "if you will excuse me saying darlin' — and you must, for I could not help it — and besides, I apologise if I have done wrong." " No wrons:," said Esther, " I like a man who sticks up for his country. I wonder why the EngHsh don't stick up for theii- country, as the Scotch and Irish do ? " " Well ! " said his Lordship ; " it 's because luck; and what came of it. 201 they have got so little to stick up for except their wealth, and that speaks! for itself. It does not become a man to boast of his riches." "It's not that exactly," said Rigglesby ; " England is strong in the consciousness of power, and does not need to assert herself as we poor Irish must if we would be held of any account whatever." " But that does not explain the self-assertion of the Scotch," said the German Professor. " Scotland has no complaint to make of England, and holds her own as equal to equal, though the smaller country." " I'm no so sure that Scotland is smaller," said Mrs. Haughton; "and it 's just doubtful, as Peter Robertson used to say (Lord Robertson, ye ken), that if the hills of Scotland were a' squeezed down to the flatness of Lincolnshire Scotland wad be kroner than Enoiand." The whole party laughed, and the German Professor, who was making notes of his tour — probably with a view to a volume of travels to 202 LUCK; AND WHAT CAME Ol^ IT. be published in the Fatherland — took his me- morandum book from his pocket and entered the old joke. By this time the steamer was making her way past the Treshnish Isles — isles of all fantastic forms, amongst which one called the Dutch- man's Cap, from its supposed resemblance to that article of head-gear, was conspicuous ; and StafFa, like a huge lump, appeared in the dis- tance. " 1 wonder where the island got the name of StafFa ? " said Mr. Haughton. " It sounds English — something like StaiFord. The Cave of Fingal is of course a merely fanciful name : it might as well be the Cave of Ossian or Cu- chullin or Brian Boru." " I don't know," replied Rigglesby ; " I am no philologist." " I don't speak the language ol my ances- tors — the more's the shame to me," said Lord O'Monaghan, " but I have no doubt the name is Gaelic." luck; ANt> WHAT CAME OF IT. 203 " It is Gaelic," said the German Professor, " and is derived from the two Gaelic words, stuadh (stua), columns, and uamh or wa/, a cave; whence Stua-ufa, corrupted to Staffa, which means the Cave of Columns." '* I think that it is not creditable to any of us," said Mr. Haughton, " that a stranger should know more of the original language of the people of these regions than we do." "Yes," replied the Professor ; "it is aston- ishing to us in Germany, who know how ancient, how rich, and how beautiful a language the Gaelic is, to see with what contempt or neglect it has been treated by English philolo- gists. English philology is at a low ebb. Your very best philologist is a countryman of my oAvn, Max Miiller ; and he know^s less of Gaelic than he does of Sanscrit ; but Gaelic is per- haps the older language of the two." *' I suspect it is Dr. Johnson, the author of the Dictionary — a very prejudiced man," said Mr. Haughton, " who is responsible for having 204 LUCK: AND WHAT CAME OP IT. brought the language of the Gaels into dis- repute in England. He called it, I believe, the barbarous jargon of savages." " ^r I'oar ein dummer Esel! '^ said the Ger- man Professor. " No such ignorant man as he was ever before, or I think since, attempted the compilation of a dictionary." " I wonder if we shall row right into the cave, or whether we shall have to clamber over the rocks," interrupted Miss Esther, to whom this philological discourse was not in the slightest degree interesting. " The boats cannot enter, there 's too much swell," said the mate of the steamer, who was to accompany the party. " We shall have to land, but the climbing 's not so difficult as it looks." " Oh, but I 'm an awful bad climber," said Esther Haughton. " And I 'm an awful good climber," replied O'Monaghan, " and it 's myself that '11 be well pleased to help you along, if you will do me the honour to accept my assistance." luck; and what came of it. 205 " And I '11 look after my mother," said Her- bert. " And I after Effie," said Mr. Haughton. " And I after myself," said Mr. Rigglesby. By this time the steamer had come to a stop, and the passengers had opportunity for a full view of the Island, and its singular formation of basaltic rock, and could for the first time form an estimate of the true proportions of the splendid cave, which they were about to enter. There were near upon a hundred passengers, who after a little preliminary confusion, conse- ' quent upon the hustling and bustling always caused by people who want to be first when there is no necessity why they should be either first or second, were all comfortably stowed in the boats, and as comfortably landed upon the pavement of pentagonal rocks that form the strand or shore of Staffa. The ladies, as they wound their way sometimes up and sometimes down the stones towards the great entrance of the cave — gallantly assisted by the gentlemen — 206 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. lit up the whole scene with the brilliant colours of their costumes — I'ed, white, and blue, like flowers in a garden when shaken by the wind. The scene when ths whole party was gathered along the perilous ledge of rock that leads to the exetremity of this Cathedral of the Sea was one to make an impression on the most careless mind, and to be long treasured in the memory of every lover of beauty. Herbert Haughton at one moment felt inclined to shout for joy at the spectacle, and at another to hush his breath for reverence. Miss Euphemia had hold of his hand and pressed it, as she whispered, " This exceeds all 1 had ever ima- gined ? " Even her usually careless and in- considerate sister was awed into admiration. One of the tourists, a venerable person, who looked like an English clergyman, proposed that the whole party should join in the Doxology ; and leading off in a deep sonorous voice, he was quickly joined by nearly all present. The effect was grand and solemn, and the noise of the LCCK : AND WHAT C'AME OF IT. 207 rushing waters as they flowed into the cave, heard distinctly but a moment before, became inaudible as the deep bass tones of the male part of the company, and the loud clear and silvery voices of the women, pervaded and filled the natural temple of the Divinity in which they stood. The voice of Euphemia rang clear and loud above them all, and seemed to be as easily distinguishable amid the rest, as a velvet braid on a web of wool. Lord O'Monaghan had not much poetry in his nature, but what little he possessed was excited within him by the scene and its accessories. " I wish we had all this to ourselves," he whispered to Miss Esther, who clung close to him on the ledge of rock on which they stood. "What !" said Esther, "^^dthout Pa and Ma and Eflie, and Herbert and your friend Mr. Rigglesby ? Do you know," she added, " I don't like Mr. Rigglesby. I don't know why. Do you like him ? " " Well," said his Lordship, " T suppose 1 208 luck; and what came of it. ought to like him — no, that 's not it. T mean I ought to hate him, for I owe him money and can't pay him back." " Oh, you bad man," said Esther laughing ; " but this is not a place to talk about money in, is it ? " " Oh no ; and as for that, 1 hate to talk about money at all, anywhere, anywhen, anyhow. Mind how you go, darling ! " he added, for by this time the whole party, marshalled by the mate, were leaving the cave to visit the other curiosities of the island, and like a preiix chevalier he guided her over the rough rocks, and the slippery stones, holding her by the hand as if she had been a child ; and Miss Esther rather liked to be so treated and to be called " darling," though at first she thought he was somewhat presumptuous in using the word. Had he been an Englishman she might not have apj)roved of the epithet so much, but it sounded natural in an Irishman. She was so little displeased that she told her sister in strict LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 209 confidence that she thought Lord O'Monaghan was an awfully agreeable person." All that is really worth seeing in Staffa is to be seen in the cave and its approaches, and the tramp over bog and mire at the top of the island does not repay the fatigue incurred. The Haughton ]iarty were duly informed of this fact, as was the German Professor, who, finding in Miss Euphemia and her brother spirits more or less congenial with his own, kept as close to them as possible, and returned with them to the steamer. " I think I shall take more pleasure m lona," said the German Professor, " than I took in Staffa. Staffa is a wonder of nature, but lona is a wonder of history. When Europe, after the fall of the Roman Empire, had relapsed into semi-barbarism — when learning was all but quenched in the fairer reoions ,of the Continent — relia-ion and civilisation foutt^sp home in this remote and all but inaccessible corner of the world — in the small bare island of lona, scarcely three miles I. 14 210 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. long and one broad — and made of it a light to shine through the thick darkness of the fifth and sixth centuries." "What a sweet name it has," said Euphemia^ " so soft and musical. It would almost seem as if it were Italian." " No," said the Professor ; " it is Gaelic, that venerable Asiatic language that was once spoken all over Europe, and that has given names to the mountains, the rivers, the lakes, and to the oldest towns and cities of the world." " I had no idea that Gaelic, or as it is often called Erse, was so old, or so widely spread," said Mr. Haugliton. " The English, as I remarked before, are no great philologists," said the Professor, "We in Germany, long debarred from politics and public life in which the; English take so much delight, and having no other spheres of mental activity open -fc us, under the despotic form of government imposed upon us, until very lately, by our Kings and Kaisers and LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 211 petty Grand Dukes, took to metaphysics and philology. Our progress in metaphysics has not been satisfactory. Metaphysics can satisf}' nobody ; but as regards philology, 1 think we may boast that we are the most advanced people in the world." "lorant it." said Mr. Hauo;hton, "and will ask of your superior knowledge the meaning of lona ? " " The Holy Island," said the Professor ; " from two Gaelic words, so called long before the time of St. Columba, possibly long before the commencement of the Christian era. Rome itself, one of the most ancient cities in the world, has a Gaelic name." " How so ? " inquired Riggiesby. " I thought it received its name from Romulus, brother of Remus." " All a delusion of ignorance. There pro- bably never was either a Romulus or a Remus. All these myths ought to be allowed to perish out of remembrance. The first builders of 14 * 212 LUCK ; A.ND WHAT CAME OP IT. Rome, after they had built it, appear to have simply declared it, in the Celtic language which they spoke, to be ' Roma,' which means, ' very good.' " " If the explanation is not correct," said Lord O'Monaghan, " it sounds as if it were. I know a few words of Irish myself — a very few, the more 's the pity — and ro means ' very,' and maith or mai means ' good ' to this day in my country." By this time they were fast approaching the little islet in the " melancholy main " on which it was the intention of the Haughton party, and as it soon afterwards appeared, of the German Professor, to pass a few days. Leaving the tourists to the tender mercies of the guide, who proceeded to escort them to the ruins of the Cathedral, and threading their way through groups of ragged children, all intent upon selling sliells, fern-roots, green pebbles, and sea-urchins, and speaking no word of English but " shilling " and " penny," the prices of their wares, the luck; and what came of it. 213 party made their way to the Columba Hotel, formerly the manse or residence of the "minister" or clergyman. Here they were soon installed, and found themselves exceedingly comfortable. Let us leave them for awhile, ere we proceed to the next link in the chain of our stor3^ 214 CHAPTER XL The visit to lona affected the company iii very different ways. Mr. Haughton and Mr. Rigglesby, as Members of Parliament, and Liberals, had studied the principles of Political Economy, and thought more of the social than of the poetical aspects of the island. Lord O'Mona- ghan, for the time being, thought more of the fair Esther than of anything else, and wondered whether, if he were hardy enough to propose to her, the lady would accept, and what for- tune her father would give her. Mrs. Haugh- ton along with her eldest daughter, and Her- bert, were engrossed with the romance and tradition of the spot, and deep in the history LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 215 of St. Columba and the Caldees. The German Professor kept aloof from all companionship, explored the island alone, and evidently en- joyed himself. Mr. Haughton and Mr. Riggiesby sat together over the whiskey-todd}^, which they drank partly to show they were not to be dictated to by the Duke of Clan Campbell or anybody else, and partly because they liked it, while the rest of the party amused themselves after their own fashion out of doors. In this tete-a-tete some very im- portant business was transacted between them — business which coloured the future life of the two gentlemen, and led to consequences which neither of them anticipated. Mr. Haughton was rich, but wanted to be richer — a not uncommon occurrence — and Mr. Riggiesby Avith all the outward appearance of wealth was in reality in a state of pecuniary embarrassment, and earnestly desired — a thmg not at all to be wondered at — to be poor no longer. Mr. Rigglesb}' had long had his eye 216 luck; and what came of it. upon Mr. Haughton, and thought he knew his man, and had once before endeavoured to impress him with the value of" the shares of the Great British and Universal Bank, of which he was the chairman. The Bank was represented as paying a yearly dividend of eighteen per cent., and Mr. Haughton, by the friendly influence of ]\[r. Rigglesby, could have two hundred shares of a hundred pounds each at par, and be accom- modated, moreover, with a seat on the Board of Direction. Mr. Haughton had taken time to reflect on the proposal, and Anally decided to accept it. " My daughters," he thought, " will be for marrying one of these days, and these Bank shares would be a tidy marriage portion, and bring in three thousand six hundred pounds a year." Mr. Rigglesby was in high spirits. " I should like to buy this island," said he to Haughton, " and expend a few thousand pounds upon it to make it habitable. Such wretched LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 217 hovels as those of this poor people I never saw. The whole place seems sinking into primitive barbarism. If but a thousand pounds were spent in draining it, its small agricultural capa- bilities would be greatly improved. The whole place swarms with midges and horse-flies, or as the Scotch call them, ' cleggs.' The agriculture is of the poore?;t kind. The people are ragged and dirty. An air of squalor and poverty hangs over them. What is the amount of the popu- lation ? " " Somewhere about three hundred, I believe.'* " And the rental ? " *' Somewhere about three hundred pounds." " And how do the poor people manage to live and pay it ? " " That 's more than I can tell. I suppose they get somethmg by fishing, as well as by farmino- thouoh if their fishino; be not better than their farming, they must fare but badly. But what would you give for the island, sup- posing it were in the market ? " 218 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. " Well, to anyone who had the ambition to be Lord of lona, and to act as a sort of Pro- vidence to the poor people, iive or six thousand pounds would not be too much for the fee simple." " I expect the Duke does not want to sell, or can't sell, or something of that sort. I must say, however, that if he does nothing more for the people than prevent them from having whiskey, he does not do much. And I doubt whether he really prevents them from having whiskey after all. It is in humjm nature to hanker after the forbidden." The Clerman Professor entered the room at this period of the conversation, and being asked to partake of the " toddy " he at once consented, and sat down to mix a tumbler, which he did secundem artem, like one familiar with the manner. " This island," he said, " is a great deal more r(imarkable than I thous>-ht it was. It has a double history, of which J was wholly unaware. LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 219 What do 3'ou think, now, of the man who has written a guide-book to this little gem of a place — that was the refuge of learning, Christianity, and civilisation fourteen hundred years ago — if I tell you that he does not know, or seem to know, that it had a history ages before St. Columba and his monks came to settle upon it ? and that the guides who show strangers the graves of saints and kings and warriors, are as io-norant as himself ? " " How so ? " inquired Mr. Haughton. " I went with the other tourists to the ruins of the Cathedral, to Eelig Grain, a most re- markable burial-place, and admired, as all the world must, the venerable cross of St. Martin, the oldest and most touching memorial in the island, a perfect gem of stone w^orkmanship — and was never told that there was anything else of interest to be visited." » And is there ? " " Yes ; there is. A Druidical circle in the midst of an undrained morass, between the 220 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Cathedral and the sea-shore. I discovered it by the merest accident. The guide-book makes no mention of it. 1 wonder if the author ever heard that the Druids had a seminary here, ages before St. Columba was born ? I had hard work to make my way through the bog ; had to clamber dykes and fences, and got ankle-deep in slush before I could fairly exploi'e the circle, but I was rewarded for my pains at last. The word Culdees, as applied to the early Christians who came hither with St. Columba, has always puzzled me. But now I think it must mean the Chaldeans. The Druids, and in fact all the original populations of these wonderful islands, came from the remote East, the birth-place of the human race — emigrated here, in fact, when the old hive of humanity became too densely peopled, and brought their tine old religion along with them." " Fine old religion do you call it ? " asked Mr. Haughton, dubiously. "Yes, fine," replied the Professor. " They wor- LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 221 shipped the Great Creator, not through images of violent, passionate, lustful, immoral gods and goddesses, like the vulgar Greeks and Romans, but through the sun and moon and planets, which they looked upon as the visible manifes- tations of the Divine power and glory ! " But they offered up human sacrifices ! " "Did they?" said the Professor. "Perhaps they did ; perhaps they did not : there is no proof. But supposing it were so —which I don't admit — did not the Hebrews perform human sacrifices ? Did not Jephtha put his daughter to death in fulfilment of his vow ? Was not Abraham commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac? And does not Christianity rest upon the neces- sitv of a sacrifice ? 1 '11 write a book on the subject. lona was Druidical and civilised a thousand years before it was Christianised by St. Columba, and I '11 prove it." "But are there materials for such a book?" inquired Mr. Haughton. " Abundance of materials for those who know 222 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. where to look. The religion of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Phenicians was Druidical. I thought of leaving this place to- morrow. I shall stay a week and perhaps a month. But hark ! was not that a peal of thunder ? " It icas a peal of thunder, and seemed to shake the house. Mrs. Haughton, Effie, and Herbert entered the room at the moment, and announced the approa.ching storm, Mrs. Haughton express- ing her anxiety for Ettie, who had gone with Lord O'Monaghan to climb the hill knoAvii by the name of Dun 1 — the " hill of the island." A few large rain drops began to patter against the window panes and a dark cloud covered up ihe. evening sky. Mr. Hauo'hton went to the door to look forth, (juickly returning mth the information that Esther and O'Monaghan were at hand, and making all possible speed to reach the shelter of the inn. "They'll not be much the worse for the little wetting they '11 get, and may think them- luck; and what came of it. 223 selves lucky that they were not on the hill-top when the storm began." " I think it is very fortunate that a thunder- storm, such as this promises to be," said the Professor, "has broken forth while we are on the island — the very scene for an uproar of the elements. Hark ! that was a grander peal than the last ; and lo ! as your great poet Byron says, ' from crag to crag leaps the live thunder ! * It is glorious ! " " Aye," said Herbert, " most glorious. I would not have missed such a storm in such a place for all the other scenery in Scotland. It was sent on purpose for us." " It is wicked to say so," said a thin, trembling voice, which was that of Mr. Rigglesby, Avho had shd from his chair to the ground in mortal terror, his eyes glaruig wide, and his cheeks as yellow as parchment. At this moment there was another peal, immediately succeeded by a vivid flash, as if the storm had burst imme- diately over the house, and threatened to bring 224 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. it in crumbling ruins over their heads. Rig- giesby writhed helplessly on the floor, as if he had been struck by the lightnijig and were in the death agony. Mr. Haughton and Herbert sprang to his aid, and the former endeavoured to pour down his throat a glass of the raAv whiskey that stood conveniently upon the table ; while Mrs. Haughton, forgetting for the moment her anxiety for her absent daughter, undid the fainting man's necktie, and chafed his cold hands between her own. It was soon apparent that no lightning stroke had wrought the mischief, and that Mr. Rigglesby's condition was simply caused by the extremity of terror. Reviving a little, and seeing the friendly faces around him, he asked feebly for brandy. There l)eing- no brandy, another dose of whiskey was substituted with good effect. After a minute or two, (hiring wliich Miss Esther and Lord O'Monaghan entered the room, oblivious of their own little wetting in the interest excited by the scene indoors, Mr. Jxigglesby so far recovered liimself as to rise with LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 225 assistance from the ground, and seat himself on the chair from which he had fallen. "Forgive me," he said, "for my weakness. It is constitutional with me. I cannot tell you the horror I feel during a storm. The roar of the thunder seems to curdle my blood. The blue flash of the lightning seems to paralyse the action of my heart. I am better now. Hark ! there it is again. May Heaven forgive me all my sins and transgressions ! " And as the thunder once more sounded, but less loudly than before, and the lightning flash lit up the room with evanescent splendour, he grasped the table tightly to prevent himself fi'om falling a second time. "Take another glass of whisky," said Lord O'Monaghan, "and go to bed ! I have seenhhu like this once before," he added, as he poured out the spirit and put the glass in his hand. *' The storm is passmg over. Let me lead you." He led Rigglesby upstairs ; and Rigglesby, I. 15 226 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. declining any further assistance, went to bed as advised. Meanwhile, the rain having ceased, the Ger- man Professor and Herbert Hauohton, accom- panied by Euphemia, went outside to watch the last expiring beauties of the storm, as an occa- sional flash lit up the red rocks of the Ross of Mull, immediately in the foreground, and the dark mass of the Mull mountains in the dis- tance. " And this," said Euphemia, quoting Byron to the great admiration of the Professor, " ' Is in the night ! Most glorious night, Thou wert not sent for shimber ! Let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, A portion of the tempest and of thee ! ' " " I never saw anything grander! " said Herbert, " and Byron's lines are as grand as the storm itself. Shall we ever have another Byron, I wonder ? How tall, erect, and godlike he stands, compared with the little fashionable versifiers of our day, who mince the English luck; and what game op it. 227 language, with delicate little phrases, and think that because they write verse they write poetry." "A common mistake," said the Professor. " How T envy England the possession of Shak- speare and Byron. My country has no writer that can cornpare with either of them, and I'm afraid it never will. We cannot even match Robert Burns, whose Tarn O'Shanter rivals Shak- speare, and stands unsurpassed for its beautiful blending of the grand, the tender, the humorous, the grotesque, the awful, and the horrible, per- vaded by a strong under-running current of wit and common sense. But look ! how this flash has lighted up air and earth and sea ! Beautiful — exceedingly ! " "It is very fine," said Herbert. " It seems to me," he added, after a pause, " that all great, pure, and noble natures revel in the magnificence and sublimity of a thunderstorm, and that there must be something not only physically but morally and intellectually wrong in a man or woman who gives way to such abject and cowardly 15 * 228 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. terror as that just exhibited by Mr. Kigglesby. Don't you think so, Effie ? " " I may be wrong," she replied, " I hope I am, but there is something about Mr. Rigglesby that impresses me unfavourably. I can't say what it is. I feel towards him, without knowing why, what I suppose I should feel towards a snake. I could not help thinking, as I saw him on the floor, of the old superstition that thunder was the voice of God speaking to the wicked, and that this was a wicked man who knew Avhat was said to him." " Our father seems to believe in him, and to like him," said Herbert, " and he is a shrewd man. But I agree with you to some extent, und think of the old lines ' 1 do not like ther, Doctor Fell,' but you know the rest. I shall be glad when we and he part company." " Yes," said the German Professor, as if solilo- (juising, " there are such things as instinctive dislikes, or prejudices, and if they come strongly and unaccountably upon one they ought not LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 229 to be lightly dismissed. They may be warnings ; for after all, instinct is higher than reason. Reason may go wrong ; instinct never does. And now," he added, " the storm having passed over, I will go in and finish my tod-dee " (so he pronounced it) " with Mr. Haughton." That evening, before retiring to rest, Miss Esther informed her mother that Lord O'Mona- ghan had proposed to her, "and in such a dread- fully funny place," she said, " in Fingal's cave, in Staffa, on a ledge of rock where there was scarcely room to stand. Wasn't he a goose?" " Weel, he may have been," replied her mother. " But what did you say ?" "I referred him to Pa, and to you," said Miss Esther; " what more could I do ? " " Weel," said Mrs. Haughton, " he 's young and no bad looking, and a Lord, and your father and I Avill just talk it over, ye ken. But — I suppose we are to understand that you dhma object?" "I think I don't object too awfully much. 230 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Indeed, I think he 's awfully nice ; and I hope he 's rich enough to keep a yacht. But he 's only an Irish Lord, you know, not a Peer. Wouldn't it be dreadfully jolly to be a Peeress ?" " I dinna ken about jolly," said Mrs. Haugh- ton, " but it 's a good thing for a woman to have a good husband, whether he 's a Peer or a souter." '' A souter, and what 's a souter ? " " A cobbler they ca' him in England," replied her mother. " Oh my ! " said Miss Esther, " who 'd marry a cobbler ? " " Many a honest lass might but ye 're no come to that, and if Lord O'Monaghan likes you, and you like Lord O'Monaghan, and if he 's a man of good character, and can keep you like a leddy, I'se no mak muckle objection to the bargain. But your father kens best, and we '11 just talk it over thegither." Lord O'Monaghan felt sure of the daughter, and was not afraid of the mother. He did not, LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 231 however, feel quite sure of the father, and it was necessary that he should be pleased, or what was to be done about the money? 232 luck; and what came of it. CHAPTER XII. The brief holiday of the Haughtons has come and gone. The family are back again m Swin- ston, and have resumed the usual occupations. Mr. Haughton, in consequence of his new po- sition as a Member of Parliament, has been made a justice of the peace, and has found that in England increase of dignity means increase of work. Mr. and Mrs. Haughton, in family council assembled, have decided to raise no ob- jection to the match between their daughter Ettie and Lord O'Monaghan, but knowing the character of the young lady, are not without misgivings that she has been somewhat hasty in LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 283 her acceptance of one of whom she knows so little. Mr. Haughton's inqiuries into the ante- cedents of his Lordship have elicited much that speaks w^ell for him, and nothing to his dis- credit — except a chronic indebtedness, the result rather of carelessness than of dishonesty. Upon this point the prudent father inclines to the opinion that it will be well to settle upon the lady herself what money he can afford to give her, though he is not quite sure upon reflection that such a settlement has not a tendency to lower the husband in the estimation of the wife, and thereby lessen or imperil his legitimate authority in his own household. However, he decides that there is no particular huny, until he learns the true position of Lord O'Mona- ghan's affairs, which will not be, perhaps, until he goes to town in February to attend to his Parliamentary duties. Lord O'Monaghan is of opinion " that happy is the wooino- that 's not too long^ a-doins:," but as Ettie does not seem over anxious on the 234 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. subject, he curbs as well as he can his own hn- patience. It must be added that when his Lord- ship examines his 0"wn conscience, he finds that if it were not for the money involved there would be no great desire on his part to hurry on the business any faster than the lady and her friends thought requisite. It will thus be seen that he was not a particularly ardent lover, and not at all a romantic one. " But she 's a handsome girl," thought his Lordship, " a stylish girl ; and if I -were a rich man, bedad ! I don't think I should mind if I married her without a penny!" And in this way he tried to lull to sleep the wakeful conscience that told him he was no true lover at heart, but a mercenary fortune-hunter. His friend Rigglesby has gone to Kilmacnoise, to look after his affairs and to keep his consti- tuents in ffood humour. Mr. Herbert Haughton has returned to town, and has accepted an invitation from the German Professor, Dr. Emilius Von Straubenfeldt, to LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 235 visit huu at Heidelberg if he should ever find himself in that seat of learning. Miss Euphemia is sometimes seen ui Swins- ton, along with her mother, both ladies engaged in the old-fashioned business of marketing for the household, one which seems to find little favour wnth the ladies, whether young or old, of the present era. On such occasions it sometimes happens that she meets a handsome young man, Avho takes off his hat to her and passes on, receiv- ing in acknowledgment of his courtesy a sweet thouo'h someAvhat sad smile, which he thinks the nearest approach to angelic loveliness ever ex- hibited in the world. Oscar Lebrun is in love, and has never admitted the secret save to his own heart, and even yet is not quite convinced that such is the real, true, irreversible, and eternal fact. Yet though he has never breathed a word of this to anybody, or scarcely dared to think that the day would ever come which would find him possessed of courage enough to tell it to the person whom he most wislied to 236 luck; and what came of it. know it, and who at the same time he most feared to let it be known to, lest his dreamy, golden, glowing, gorgeous hopes should be dissipated like the clouds of sunset into thin and colourless mist and vapour of nonentity — she suspects his secret — in fact, knows it — and is not offended by it. 'On the contrary she is flattered, she is pleased, she is gratified, and wonders whether he will ever remain the same shy yet bold, modest but yet confident admirer, who treats her in these rare and chance encounters as if she were the Queen and Empress of the world, and he a devoted slave who would cheerfully go to the death in her cause, if he could but be rewarded with a smile, a look, or a word of recognition. It is Christmas time, or near upon it, and Sir Lancelot and Lady Wyld have notified their intention to visit their relations the Hausfhtons at Mill Haughton for two or three days during the Christmas week, and to bring their son and lieir along with them. The visit is one of di- luck; and what came op it. 237 plomacy, as well as of courtesy and relationship. The Wylds know nothing as yet of the little affair between Miss Esther and Lord O'Mona- ghan, and think that possibly a strengthening of the social intercourse between the families might be of good effect upon the mind and character of young Lancelot, and drive out of his silly imagination the charms of Patty Tidy, by com- panionship with the superior charms of his cousins Euphemia and Esther. The young man has been duly tutored by his mother, and the propriety of a match with one or other of the ladies, if he should be fortunate enough to im- press either of them favourably, has been ex- hibited to him from every point of view, with a persistent iteration that for many weeks has rendered his life a burden and a weariness. He would fain escape the infliction of a visit to Mill Haughton, which he has made up his mind shall result in nothing as far as he is concerned ; but as he does not care to enter into any argument on the subje3t with his father or mother — and 238 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. more especially with his father — he says nothing. But he thinks the more. The vision of sweet Patty Tidy, so pretty in her simulated anger or indifference, so fills his imagination and his heart, that there is no room in either to admit the possibility of even so much as a liking for any other woman. " They shan't, and they can't, compel me to marry any woman I don't care for. I don't care for either of my cousins. And I hope neither of them cares, or ever will care for me. People ought to make their own marriages. I shall ; and if I can't marry Patty, I won't marry at all. I hope my cousins will hate me, or what Avould be better still, I hope they are both en- gaged. They may be, although my mother may know nothing about it. I should like that way of settling the matter, for then the Governor couldn't grumble at me, and my mother would see that it wasn't my fault. By Jove ! I hope their hearts are no longer their own ! If I were only sure, pop sure, that they would refuse me LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 239 for that or uny other reason, I would propose to them both m succession. Hang me it" I wouldn't ! But to propose and be accepted would be awk- ward, by Jove ! But it 's of no use bothering about it. I have bothered myself enough al- ready. I 'm bound to go to Mill Haughton, any way. I can't get out of that. I wonder if either of the girls suspects the precious errand I am made to go upon ? I hope they do, for they '11 be sure to dislike me for it. I would, if I were a woman, object to any fellow who was shot off at me like an arrow at a target. Oh, Patty ! Patty ! if you had not been such a bewitching little minx, I might have pleased Sir Lancelot and my mother too, married a cousin, had my debts paid, and Uved like a dull dog all the rest of my life." It was thus Lancelot soliloquized, a cigar in his mouth, and his hands in his pockets, as he sauntered from the stable to the garden, and from the garden back to the stable, on the morn- ing which had been fixed for the departure for 240 LUCE ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Mill Hauohtoii. His reflections oave him com- fort. It is always a i^elief to make up one's mind and to feel like a combatant who is determined to win. Doubts are always disagreeable, and it is better to know and to face the worst than to know nothing, decide nothing, and face a phan- tom, more terrible than a reality. Before Sir Lancelot and Lady VVyld had been half an hour at Mill Haughton they were informed of the state of Ettie's affairs oy the mother of that young lady; and before the party assembled for dinner Lady Wyld found an oppor- tunity of making her son acquainted with the fact that one of his cousins was not likely to be had, and that it was well for him that the handsomer of the two was still free and un- trammelled. Lancelot pretended to be of opinion that EfiBe was not the handsomer of the two, and hinted that if he had had any choice in the matter he would have given the preference to the one with the chignon. This he said with the treacherous purpose of lettuig his mother under- LUOF{ ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 241 stand that if nothing came of her plans, things might liave turned out differently if that pro- voking Ettie had been available. This, how- ever, was a somewhat danuerous o-ame for the young gentleman to play, and being aware of the fact he took care not to overdo his pro- testations, locking himself up meanwhile in the armour of a real indifference towards both of the young ladies. Mrs. Haughton, as the reader knows, was a plain-spoken woman, about whom there was no guile, and Euphemia was her favourite child. Long before the Wyld party arrived she had told her daughter frankly the reason why they were honoured with the visit, and the notion that possessed the minds of Sir Lancelot and Lady Wyld, that a match between her and their son Lancelot would be advisable and prudent. " Not that I want to guide you, Etfie ; you maun just judge for yoursel'. He 's heir to a baronetcy, ye ken, and that 's something, and being an only son he will inherit a' the gear." I. 16 242 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. " I don't care for the baronetcy," said Effie; "and I don't care for his money. I hope the young gentleman won't hke me, for I know I shan't like him. He can't have any proper spirit to be guided in this way. And mamma ! did not you choose for yourself ?" " 'Deed, an' I did," said Mrs. Haughton ; "and a better choice no lassie ever made. Mind Effie, I 'm only telling you tlie state of the case. I'm no guiding you or advising you.'' " And what says papa ab(jut it ? " " Weel, he does not think the young man likely to take your fancy even if you should take his." " Papa is always right, and I must say, from the little I have seen of Mr. Wyld, that I never knew a (gentleman to look and talk so like a groom. I only hope if he is going to propose to me that he will do it soon, and I '11 put him out of suspense by such an emphatic No, as Avill convince him that I am in earnest." " Weel, Etiie, ye '11 do right if ye have so LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME 01' 11'. 243 decided. Ye 're no the kind o' lass that 's bound to take the tirst ofter. And it 's no that sure that Mr. Wyld will make you an offer at all. And to tell you the truth, my wee lammie," (that was the most endearino- expression that Mrs. Haughton ever used, and which she reserved exclusively for her eldest daughter) " it '11 be a sair day for me, the day that ye 're married, and my bonnie birdie flies awa' to a new nest. But it 's nature, and I '11 no complain. Onl}', ye see, I 'm in no hurry." " Nor I, my sweet mother," said Effie, throw- ing her arms around her neck ; "and at all events there 's no danger that the nest of Mr. Lancelot Wyld will ever be my nest." At the dinner, the day of the arrival, it fell to the lot of Mr. Lancelot to escort Miss Enphemia from the drawing-room to the dining- room, during which short period, and the whole time of dinner, the thoughts of the young- people, if each could have known what was passing in the mind of the other, would speedily 16 * 244 luck; and what came of it. have brouoht them to a comfortable imcler- standino-. There was a certain straio;htforward- ness about Lancelot, which was the best part of his character ; but he was in reality so over- awed by the majestic and serious beauty of his cousin, that he would have no more thought of proposing to her, than to a Princess of the Blood Royal. " Too grand for me by half," he thought. "T feel like a nobody beside her. But I '11 tell her my mind, though, tlie very first opportunity I can find or make — see if I don't. I 'm not going to be played by other people as if I were a pawn on a chess-board. This pawn will speak out. And it will move itself, too, instead of being moved by others — see if it won't, by Jove ! " Lancelot had not long to wait for his oppor- tunity, for, like a skilful general, he made it, and when made, he profited by it. Finding himself left alone with his cousin, as it seemed by accident, but as he suspected by design, he went boldly to the point. l.UCK; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 245 " Cousin Euphemia," he said, " I am not clever, but I don't think I am very bad, nor very foohsh when 1 once take hold of an idea. If }'ou and I were to be married we should be miserable. In the first place, I am not good enough for you. In the second place, I love somebody else, and intend to go on loving her as long as there 's life in my body." " Cousin Lancelot," said Euphemia, while a bright smile suffused her countenance, and her eyes sparkled with unconcealed pleasure, "you and I shall be A\arm friends for ever after this. Give me your hand." He gave it. " You have reUeved me from a great embar- rassment by your plain speaking, and I thank )^ou for it. I hope the love you have bestowed, no doubt Avorthily, is worthily returned, and that you will be happy with her, whoever she is." "It's Patty Tidy," said Lancelot, "the prettiest girl in the shire ; but my father looks down on her because her lather i& a larrier. 246 luck; and avjiat camk of it. She can't help tliat, yon know. And where 's the harm in being a farrier ? They 're deuced useful fellows; and how, I should like to know, could the horses ever get on without them ? But as I like to do things regular, I hereby make you an offer of my hand, if you will accept it without mv heai't. 1 must be able to tell the Governor that you have refused me, point blank, and won't have anything to do with me, or I shall lead such a life of it, as I don't like to think of." luiphemia laughed outright. " 1 won't accept your hand. Sir, even if you were to give your heart idong with it. My refusal is positive and final." " Thank you," he rejilied, " and my heart 's in tlie thanks, anyhow. By Jove, ] 'm the happiest fellow alive. But you '11 stick to it, won't you ? " " Through thick and thin," replied his cousin, still lauirliino:. " And is } our heart as hopelessly gone as mine?" said Lancelot ; ''but liaiig it, T beg par- don, I have no right to ask, and 1 ho[)e you'll LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME 01' IT. 247 consider that I didn't ask. Do you forgive me?" "Oh 3^es," said Euphemia; "I would have let you into my conhdence as freely as you have let me into yours, but I know nothing about my heart as yet, and can't say Avhether it is gone or not. So you see that I 'm frank with you, having nothing either to tell or to reveal, except that I am relieved of a weight of anxiety, by knowing that you and I are free to be good strangers, or good friends, just as we please. So let us be good friends, nor more nor less. We don't want to be anything else." " Exactly," said Lancelot. " You're a jolly good girl, by Jove ! and if you'll excuse me, I '11 go outside and have a smoke." Next morning the refusal of Lancelot by Miss Euphemia was known to all the family circle. Sir Lancelot bore the result with equanimity, in which he was equalled if not excelled l)y Lady Wjdd. Mr. Haughton and his wife were rather glad than otherwise. 248 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. And Enphemia ? She had a dream in her heart, a dream of Oscar Lebruu, a dream of joy, yet of sadness, a dream of freedom, yet of bond- age, a dream of love unspoken, but of love none the less real because it had never been divulged. 249 CHAPTEli XIII. The fast approaching departure ol" Mr. Haugh- ton and his family, to pass the season in London, as Mr. Haughton's parliamentary duties com- pelled, was a source of many melancholy reflec- tions to two persons in Swinston, Mr. Lebrun and the Rev. Hope Smithers. " If Euphemia Haughton," thought Mr. Lebrun, •' were to pass out of my little horizon into the larger world of London life and society, shall I ever see her agam, or if 1 do, shall I see her the wife, or the betrothed, of some of the magnates of the great world of fashion or of ])olitics ?" This was a too probable consumma- tion. The more he thought about it, the more 250 luck; and what came of it. unhappy he felt, until by dint of constant brood- . ing on the subject, he wrought himself into a state of excitement, which he sometimes hoped and sometimes feared would force him into a declaration of the passion that was consuming him, a declaration whose results would be either the happiness or misery of his life. The Rev. Hope Smithers, curate of St. Swithin's, was a young man of twenty-three, whom all the ladies of the parish, Miss Euphe- mia Haughton excepted, thought exceedingly handsome. It must be admitted that in this respect the curate agreed with the ladies, in fact more than agreed, a circumstance Avhich put its impress upon his eyes, upon his lips, upon the tip of his nose, upon his whole face, and generally upon his whole behaviour, and made him a shade less handsome than he might otherwise have been. The Rev. Hope Smithers, plump, florid, and five feet ten, with beautiful white teeth and luxuriant liair, and having the example of the Rev. Sir Lancelot Wyld before his eyes, and LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 251 being in a position very similar to that in which that clerical Baronet had found himself" before his marriage to a lady possessed of thii'ty thousand pounds, bethono'ht himself that Miss Euphemia Haughton would be an excellent match for one who drew no more than sixty pounds a year from his curacy, and was only enabled to live and dress like a gentleman on a sujjplementary allowance from his father. If rumour spoke the truth, Mr. Haughton was likely to settle £1,500 a year on each of his daughters, so that, as the Curate said, either would be an excellent " catch." It woidd not have greatly, if at all, signified to Mr. Smithers which of the two had fallen to his lot, thouirh if he had a shadow of preference, it ^vas for Miss Euphemia. As soon as the news was spread abroad, and news runs rapidly in small towns, that Lord O'Monaghan had proposed for Ettie. the shadowy preference hardened into consistency ; and from that time forward it became a conviction in his 252 luck; and what came ok' it. mind, notwithstanding the cool indifference which the lady exhibited towards him, that he had but to ask for her hand in order to obtain it. Oscar Lebrun, on the contrary, could lay no such balm to his perturbed bosom, lie had his hopes, or he could not have been in love half so deeply, but his fears overbalanced them ; and he so greatly dreaded a refusal that might put a final extinguisher on his happy dreams, that he preferred doubt and uncertainty, with a sweet modicum of hope to leaven all, to risking a decision that possibly might reward him for all the anxieties and sorrows of hope deferred, but that far more probably might di'ive him to despair. The Rev. Hope Smithers, with the courage of intense conceit and a superbly favourable opinion of himself, found means and opportu- nity to make the magnanimous offer (so he thought it) of his hand and liea,rt to the beau- tiful Euphemia. lie received an answer which he declared in strict conlidence to his beloved LUOK ; AND WHAT CAMK OF IT. 258 self to be partly rude an cl wholly final. He had made a mistake, fJutt was evident ; and was abject enough to ask her as a particular favour that she would never divulge to anyone what had happened between them. She contemptu- ously promised to do as he required, and scarcely mentioned even to her mother that the reverend gentleman had indulged himself in the vain de- lusion that he could win her affection. " He is a very pretty man," she thought to herself ; " a great deal too pretty for a man, and almost pretty enough to be a woman. 1 don't like pretty men, and this pretty man spends more time at the lookino'-olass than I do ! Men of this sort bestow so much fond love upon themselves that they have none left for any- body else. If I cannot be Avon for myself, and not for papa's money, I will not be won at all." Miss Eu])hemia was right ; and went on to contrast him with one who had never yet spoken to her, who ardently, who enthusiastically, almost painfully, longed to speak to her, and tell 254 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. her the burn mo; secret of his heart ; one whom she ahnost fancied she could be angry with be- cause he would not and did not take courage to declare himself. But in Oscar Lebrun's case the supposed money was not the attraction, but the bar and the hindrance. Had Miss Haugh- ton been a poor girl, or moved hi a station in- ferior to or on an equality with his own, he would Ion"" ao-o have found a tono'ue to si^eak and eloquence to support his suit ; but he was Xkx^ most unmercenary of men, and feared even to be suspected of what he considered the meanness of inuratiatino- himself into the affections of a ricli man's daughter — not for the sake of the daughter, but for the sake of the cash. " Ah," he said to himself, " if Mr. Haughton were bankru|)t to-moirow, to-morrow I would unburthen my soul. If his daughter were with- out a sixpence in the world, it should be my jo)-, my pride, to offer her the siq)|)ort of my right arm, my energy, m)- intelligence, and shield her, LUCK ; AND WHAT (l\ME OF IT. 255 if she would share my fortunes, from all the shocks and buffets of the world." Thus he dreamed, thus he thought, thus he reasoned, but never could muster up courage to ssij as much, or half as much, or anything at all to the one most interested. At last, however, an accidental circumstance compelled him to speak out. It was towards the close of the month of January 1870, when the Haughton family were packing up their effects to proceed to London for the meeting of Parliament in February, when Mr. Oscar Lebrun received a missive from Paris which he had long expected, and which was destined to influence the whole course of his future life — a summons from his friends Messieurs Casimir Desmoulins, and Anas- tase Adolphe, to ])roceed immediately to Paris, on the urgent business of the " Marianne." To receive this summons was to obey it. There was no room for deliberation had he ^\^shed • to deliberate. His sole desire was, before leaving England, to seek an interview with l']uj)hemia 256 LTTGK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Haiighton, aiid to learn from her lips whether hope was allowed him. If he mio;ht hope he would return to England and claim its fulfil- ment at her hands ; if there were no hope, he would remain in France to live and die as Fate mio;ht determine. The first thino: he had to do was to ask Mr. Haugh ton's permission to absent himself from his employment for a month, that lie might proceed to Paris on pressing and im- portant business — business, he said, that pos- sibly might prevent his return. Mr. Haus:hton was anxious to know the reason of this sudden determination, nnd whether it were caused by any dissatisfaction with his employer, or his wages, or with his fellow-workmen, but was assured tliat on none of these ])oints had he the slightest reason for complaint, but on the contrary every reason to be satisfied. He exjiressed his very great sor- row — which he certainly felt — at leaving Eng- Lnid, l)ut witliout lotting Mr. Haughton into the true secret of liis departure — simply ex- LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 257 plained that urgent circumstances, personal to himself, compelled him, much agaiast his will, but in pursuance of an imperative sense of duty, to go to Paris. Mr. Haughton was satisfied ; and, on the supposition that family affairs deprived him of the services of the most esteemed and ablest of his workpeople, shook him cordially by the hand for the first time in his life, wished him success in all his undertakings, and promised to keep his place open for him for the month specified. Mr. Haughton did not think the matter of sufficient importance to mention to his wife and daughters, but the news spread rapidly through the workshops, and from the workshops to the town, Avhence in due course it reached the ears of Mrs. and Miss Haughton. Effie's face grew pale when she heard it ; but as she had no confidant, not even her mother (how could she have in a matter of love unspoken on both sides, and that on one side might not be love at all ? ), she had to keep her sorrow to I. 17 258 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. herself, and brood over it in solitude. Her medi- tations that day were conflicting and harassing. " Why," she said to herself, " should this man's movements distress me ? He has not even spoken to me. What am I to him, or he to me ? That I have taken his fancy and smitten his imagination is likely enough, I see it in his face, but that is a circumstance which does not con- cern me. A hundred men might have the same feelings, the Rev. Hope Smithers for example, and Mr. Barnard Strutt, junior, who is always so polite and attentive, and is such a great favourite with papa. Ah, but then, this man is so different — so handsome, so intelligent, so modest, such a thorough gentlemen, though only a mechanic. But then papa is himself a mechanic, or one who lives by the labour of mechanics, which is the same thing. And Oscar Lebrun, so careful and well behaved as he is, is sure to rise in the world, and to become an employer of labour, like papa. Yes, yes, all this is very true ; but again, what is it to me ? Why will luck; and what came of it. 259 he not speak ? Is he afraid of me ? I am sure there is no occasion for fear. And yet somehow I Hke him all the better for it. He is not one of your vain conceited people, like Mr. Smithers, whose only love is self-love, nor one of those forward presuming young men who think that any woman ought to be proud to be so much as looked at by them. No, he is very different. Ah me, ah me ! I should like to know what he is going away for." Happy would Mr. Oscar Lebrun have been if he had known, or could have suspected the thoughts that were passing through Miss Haughton's mind. The flood-gates of his eloquence would have been opened, and he would have poured out his admiration and adoration with a vehemence all the o^reater for his long and self-inforced silence. One thing was clear to him, he would not leave England without seeing or writing to her. " Is there," he said to himself, " such a thing as chance? and if there be, why should 260 luck; and what came op it. not chance befriend me, and place her in my way, so that I may speak to her, without appearing to have sought the opportunity, with- out thrusting myself into her pi'esence, and without solicitino; that which I most desire, ten minutes of her company alone, in order that my pent up thoughts may express themselves to her, Avho is the mistress of them alj ! " It was the morning but one prior to his departure from Swinston when the coveted chance presented itself He had settled all his aiFairs, had finally bidden adieu to his comrades, and was walking in melancholy mood along the banks of the muddy river that runs through S^vinston down into the great Lincolnshire Wash, but that when the tide is flowing runs up from the sea into the Fens, mth a majestic swell and current of clear water, when he saw the figure of a woman advancing seaward like himself, and all alone. He saw at the first glance that it was Miss Haughton, and quickened his pace so as to walk faster than she did, but not so lock; and what came of it. 261 fast as to appear as if he were anxious to overtake her. But he might have saved him- self the exertion, for, turning suddenly round, and retracing her steps towards home, Miss Haughton met him face to face, blushed deeply, and hesitated, or appeared to hesitate, whether she should stand still or continue her walk. Oscar Lebrun saw his chance, the great chance that he had prayed for, longed for, dreamed of, supplicated, yearned for ; and took advantag^e of it. He raised his hat and held it in his hand as he spoke. " Madame," he said, " I am leaving Swinston, perhaps for ever ; and though it may be pre- sumptuous in me to say so, I bless the happy fortune that has enabled me to say to you this day with what sorrow I go." " Then why go," she replied in a sweet low voice that seemed to him like a remembered melody ; " were you not happy here ? " " I was most happy, but never so happy as I am to-day, when I dare to tell you, even should 262 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. I die for my temerity, that I, a workman in your father's employ, but a gentleman neverthe- less, have looked so high as to admire you above all women that I ever saw, or hope to see." " Stay," she said, " I must not listen ; " and she turned round and walked seaward again, as if inviting further speech, although seeming to deprecate it. " Forgive me, if I have offended ; ray heart was full, and I could not choose but speak." " You have not offended me, Mr. Lebrun," she said ; " put on your hat, and allow me to take so much interest in your future welfare as to ask whether you are going to France, which I understand is your native country, to better your fortunes ? " " I am more than half an Englishman," he replied, "and I am proud to belong even partially to the country that gave you birth." " But are you going to better yourself in France ? " again enquired the young lady. " No," he replied, *' T am going to Paris on luck; and what came op it. 2CtS public affairs which will scarcely benefit me, but which if they do will only benefit me as one of millions. I think that you would sympathise with my cause, if you knew it." " And mai/ I know it ? " " You may, all the world may know it, all the world shall know it. It is the cause of labour, the cause of the poor man condemned to toil that he may live, but unable to gain the proper means of living, let him toil as hard, and as long, and as patiently as he will — the cause of the manv against the few, the cause of the underfed against the overfed, the cause of the working bees against the drones of the hive, the cause of the women and the children, and of the great majority of the human race against the receivers of interest and the monopolisers of the earth, and that which is under the earth ; the cause of education and the elevation of the human race to a higher standard of life than it has ever yet attained. Excuse me, madame, if I speak too much." 264 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. " You are eloquent, Mr. Lebrun," replied Miss Haugliton, "and we women know little of the subject on which you speak. But I will study it. But can you not help your cause by remainino^ in England? " " Not at present, but I may hereafter if I return to England, as I fervently hope I may. The seeds of this great and beneficent social revolution, of which I am one of the humblest of preachers, have been sown in France. I am sufficient of an Eno;lishman to understand the English character far better than my country- men. The English want imagination and enthu- siasm, and without these no great cause can advance much, if it advance at all. England will awaken in due time. But France is the home of generous ideas and noble aspirations, and to France I am summoned by authority that I may not resist. May I trust, Miss Haugh- ton, that your good wishes may go along with me?" " Not my good wishes onl}-, but my very best luck; and what came of it. 265 of wishes. I feel that your cause must be a high one, or you would not make sacrifices for it." " There is but one sacrifice I would not make for it," replied Oscar, placing his hand on his heart, in a manner she could not mistake. 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