North and south

The Project Gutenberg eBook, North and South, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: North and South Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Release Date: July, 2003 [Etext #4276] [This file was first posted on December 26, 2001] [Most recently updated: December 12, 2006] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NORTH AND SOUTH*** E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo NORTH AND SOUTH by ELIZABETH GASKELL First published in serial form in Household Words in 1854-1855 and in volume form in 1855 VOLUME I On its appearance in ‘Household Words,’ this tale was obliged to conform to the conditions imposed by the requirements of a weekly publication, and likewise to confine itself within certain advertised limits, in order that faith might be kept with the public Although these conditions were made as light as they well could be, the author found it impossible to develope the story in the manner originally intended, and, more especially, was compelled to hurry on events with an improbable rapidity towards the close In some degree to remedy this obvious defect, various short passages have been inserted, and several new chapters added With this brief explanation, the tale is commended to the kindness of the reader; ‘Beseking hym lowly, of mercy and pite, Of its rude makyng to have compassion.’ CHAPTER I ‘HASTE TO THE WEDDING’ ‘Wooed and married and a’.’ ‘Edith!’ said Margaret, gently, ‘Edith!’ But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons If Titania had ever been dressed in white muslin and blue ribbons, and had fallen asleep on a crimson damask sofa in a back drawingroom, Edith might have been taken for her Margaret was struck afresh by her cousin’s beauty They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness; but Margaret had never thought about it until the last few days, when the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed They had been talking about wedding dresses, and wedding ceremonies; and Captain Lennox, and what he had told Edith about her future life at Corfu, where his regiment was stationed; and the difficulty of keeping a piano in good tune (a difficulty which Edith seemed to consider as one of the most formidable that could befall her in her married life), and what gowns she should want in the visits to Scotland, which would immediately succeed her marriage; but the whispered tone had latterly become more drowsy; and Margaret, after a pause of a few minutes, found, as she fancied, that in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap Margaret had been on the point of telling her cousin of some of the plans and visions which she entertained as to her future life in the country parsonage, where her father and mother lived; and where her bright holidays had always been passed, though for the last ten years her aunt Shaw’s house had been considered as her home But in default of a listener, she had to brood over the change in her life silently as heretofore It was a happy brooding, although tinged with regret at being separated for an indefinite time from her gentle aunt and dear cousin As she thought of the delight of filling the important post of only daughter in Helstone parsonage, pieces of the conversation out of the next room came upon her ears Her aunt Shaw was talking to the five or six ladies who had been dining there, and whose husbands were still in the dining-room They were the familiar acquaintances of the house; neighbours whom Mrs Shaw called friends, because she happened to dine with them more frequently than with any other people, and because if she or Edith wanted anything from them, or they from her, they did not scruple to make a call at each other’s houses before luncheon These ladies and their husbands were invited, in their capacity of friends, to eat a farewell dinner in honour of Edith’s approaching marriage Edith had rather objected to this arrangement, for Captain Lennox was expected to arrive by a late train this very evening; but, although she was a spoiled child, she was too careless and idle to have a very strong will of her own, and gave way when she found that her mother had absolutely ordered those extra delicacies of the season which are always supposed to be efficacious against immoderate grief at farewell dinners She contented herself by leaning back in her chair, merely playing with the food on her plate, and looking grave and absent; while all around her were enjoying the mots of Mr Grey, the gentleman who always took the bottom of the table at Mrs Shaw’s dinner parties, and asked Edith to give them some music in the drawing-room Mr Grey was particularly agreeable over this farewell dinner, and the gentlemen staid down stairs longer than usual It was very well they did—to judge from the fragments of conversation which Margaret overheard ‘I suffered too much myself; not that I was not extremely happy with the poor dear General, but still disparity of age is a drawback; one that I was resolved Edith should not have to encounter Of course, without any maternal partiality, I foresaw that the dear child was likely to marry early; indeed, I had often said that I was sure she would be married before she was nineteen I had quite a prophetic feeling when Captain Lennox’—and here the voice dropped into a whisper, but Margaret could easily supply the blank The course of true love in Edith’s case had run remarkably smooth Mrs Shaw had given way to the presentiment, as she expressed it; and had rather urged on the marriage, although it was below the expectations which many of Edith’s acquaintances had formed for her, a young and pretty heiress But Mrs Shaw said that her only child should marry for love, —and sighed emphatically, as if love had not been her motive for marrying the General Mrs Shaw enjoyed the romance of the present engagement rather more than her daughter Not but that Edith was very thoroughly and properly in love; still she would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia, to all the picturesqueness of the life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu The very parts which made Margaret glow as she listened, Edith pretended to shiver and shudder at; partly for the pleasure she had in being coaxed out of her dislike by her fond lover, and partly because anything of a gipsy or makeshift life was really distasteful to her Yet had any one come with a fine house, and a fine estate, and a fine title to boot, Edith would still have clung to Captain Lennox while the temptation lasted; when it was over, it is possible she might have had little qualms of ill-concealed regret that Captain Lennox could not have united in his person everything that was desirable In this she was but her mother’s child; who, after deliberately marrying General Shaw with no warmer feeling than respect for his character and establishment, was constantly, though quietly, bemoaning her hard lot in being united to one whom she could not love ‘I have spared no expense in her trousseau,’ were the next words Margaret heard ‘She has all the beautiful Indian shawls and scarfs the General gave to me, but which I shall never wear again.’ ‘She is a lucky girl,’ replied another voice, which Margaret knew to be that of Mrs Gibson, a lady who was taking a double interest in the conversation, from the fact of one of her daughters having been married within the last few weeks ‘Helen had set her heart upon an Indian shawl, but really when I found what an extravagant price was asked, I was obliged to refuse her She will be quite envious when she hears of Edith having Indian shawls What kind are they? Delhi? with the lovely little borders?’ Margaret heard her aunt’s voice again, but this time it was as if she had raised herself up from her half-recumbent position, and were looking into the more dimly lighted back drawing-room ‘Edith! Edith!’ cried she; and then she sank as if wearied by the exertion Margaret stepped forward ‘Edith is asleep, Aunt Shaw Is it anything I can do?’ All the ladies said ‘Poor child!’ on receiving this distressing intelligence about Edith; and the minute lap-dog in Mrs Shaw’s arms began to bark, as if excited by the burst of pity ‘Hush, Tiny! you naughty little girl! you will waken your mistress It was only to ask Edith if she would tell Newton to bring down her shawls: perhaps you would go, Margaret dear?’ Margaret went up into the old nursery at the very top of the house, where Newton was busy getting up some laces which were required for the wedding While Newton went (not without a muttered grumbling) to undo the shawls, which had already been exhibited four or five times that day, Margaret looked round upon the nursery; the first room in that house with which she had become familiar nine years ago, when she was brought, all untamed from the forest, to share the home, the play, and the lessons of her cousin Edith She remembered the dark, dim look of the London nursery, presided over by an austere and ceremonious nurse, who was terribly particular about clean hands and torn frocks She recollected the first tea up there—separate from her father and aunt, who were dining somewhere down below an infinite depth of stairs; for unless she were up in the sky (the child thought), they must be deep down in the bowels of the earth At home—before she came to live in Harley Street—her mother’s dressing-room had been her nursery; and, as they kept early hours in the country parsonage, Margaret had always had her meals with her father and mother Oh! well did the tall stately girl of eighteen remember the tears shed with such wild passion of grief by the little girl of nine, as she hid her face under the bedclothes, in that first night; and how she was bidden not to cry by the nurse, because it would disturb Miss Edith; and how she had cried as bitterly, but more quietly, till her newly-seen, grand, pretty aunt had come softly upstairs with Mr Hale to show him his little sleeping daughter Then the little Margaret had hushed her sobs, and tried to lie quiet as if asleep, for fear of making her father unhappy by her grief, which she dared not express before her aunt, and which she rather thought it was wrong to feel at all after the long hoping, and planning, and contriving they had gone through at home, before her wardrobe could be arranged so as to suit her grander circumstances, and before papa could leave his parish to come up to London, even for a few days Now she had got to love the old nursery, though it was but a dismantled place; and she looked all round, with a kind of cat-like regret, at the idea of leaving it for ever in three days ‘Ah Newton!’ said she, ‘I think we shall all be sorry to leave this dear old room.’ ‘Indeed, miss, I shan’t for one My eyes are not so good as they were, and the light here is so bad that I can’t see to mend laces except just at the window, where there’s always a shocking draught—enough to give one one’s death of cold.’ Well, I dare say you will have both good light and plenty of warmth at Naples You must keep as much of your darning as you can till then Thank you, Newton, I can take them down—you’re busy.’ So Margaret went down laden with shawls, and snuffing up their spicy Eastern smell Her aunt asked her to stand as a sort of lay figure on which to display them, as Edith was still asleep No one thought about it; but Margaret’s tall, finely made figure, in the black silk dress which she was wearing as mourning for some distant relative of her father’s, set off the long beautiful folds of the gorgeous shawls that would have half-smothered Edith Margaret stood right under the chandelier, quite silent and passive, while her aunt adjusted the draperies Occasionally, as she was turned round, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror over the chimney-piece, and smiled at her own appearance therethe familiar features in the usual garb of a princess She touched the shawls gently as they hung around her, and took a pleasure in their soft feel and their brilliant colours, and rather liked to be dressed in such splendour—enjoying it much as a child would do, with a quiet pleased smile on her lips Just then the door opened, and Mr Henry Lennox was suddenly announced Some of the ladies started back, as if half-ashamed of their feminine interest in dress Mrs Shaw held out her hand to the new-comer; Margaret stood perfectly still, thinking she might be yet wanted as a sort of block for the shawls; but looking at Mr Lennox with a bright, amused face, as if sure of his sympathy in her sense of the ludicrousness at being thus surprised Her aunt was so much absorbed in asking Mr Henry Lennox—who had not been able to come to dinner—all sorts of questions about his brother the bridegroom, his sister the bridesmaid (coming with the Captain from Scotland for the occasion), and various other members of the Lennox family, that Margaret saw she was no more wanted as shawl-bearer, and devoted herself to the amusement of the other visitors, whom her aunt had for the moment forgotten Almost immediately, Edith came in from the back drawing-room, winking and blinking her eyes at the stronger light, shaking back her slightly-ruffled curls, and altogether looking like the Sleeping Beauty just startled from her dreams Even in her slumber she had instinctively felt that a Lennox was worth rousing herself for; and she had a multitude of questions to ask about dear Janet, the future, unseen sister-in-law, for whom she professed so much affection, that if Margaret had not been very proud she might have almost felt jealous of the mushroom rival As Margaret sank rather more into the background on her aunt’s joining the conversation, she saw Henry Lennox directing his look towards a vacant seat near her; and she knew perfectly well that as soon as Edith released him from her questioning, he would take possession of that chair She had not been quite sure, from her aunt’s rather confused account of his engagements, whether he would come that night; it was almost a surprise to see him; and now she was sure of a pleasant evening He liked and disliked pretty nearly the same things that she did Margaret’s face was lightened up into an honest, open brightness Byand-by he came She received him with a smile which had not a tinge of shyness or self-consciousness in it ‘Well, I suppose you are all in the depths of business—ladies’ business, I mean Very different to my business, which is the real true law business Playing with shawls is very different work to drawing up settlements ‘Ah, I knew how you would be amused to find us all so occupied in admiring finery But really Indian shawls are very perfect things of their kind.’ ‘I have no doubt they are Their prices are very perfect, too Nothing wanting.’ The gentlemen came dropping in one by one, and the buzz and noise deepened in tone ‘This is your last dinner-party, is it not? There are no more before Thursday?’ ‘No I think after this evening we shall feel at rest, which I am sure I have not done for many weeks; at least, that kind of rest when the hands have nothing more to do, and all the arrangements are complete for an event which must occupy one’s head and heart I shall be glad to have time to think, and I am sure Edith will.’ ‘I am not so sure about her; but I can fancy that you will whenever I have seen you lately, you have been carried away by a whirlwind of some other person’s making.’ ‘Yes,’ said Margaret, rather sadly, remembering the never-ending commotion about trifles that had been going on for more than a month past: ‘I wonder if a marriage must always be preceded by what you call a whirlwind, or whether in some cases there might not rather be a calm and peaceful time just before it.’ ‘Cinderella’s godmother ordering the trousseau, the wedding-breakfast, writing is the very breath of life A working man can hardly be made to feel and know how much his employer may have laboured in his study at plans for the benefit of his workpeople A complete plan emerges like a piece of machinery, apparently fitted for every emergency But the hands accept it as they do machinery, without understanding the intense mental labour and forethought required to bring it to such perfection But I would take an idea, the working out of which would necessitate personal intercourse; it might not go well at first, but at every hitch interest would be felt by an increasing number of men, and at last its success in working come to be desired by all, as all had borne a part in the formation of the plan; and even then I am sure that it would lose its vitality, cease to be living, as soon as it was no longer carried on by that sort of common interest which invariably makes people find means and ways of seeing each other, and becoming acquainted with each others’ characters and persons, and even tricks of temper and modes of speech We should understand each other better, and I’ll venture to say we should like each other more.’ ‘And you think they may prevent the recurrence of strikes?’ ‘Not at all My utmost expectation only goes so far as this—that they may render strikes not the bitter, venomous sources of hatred they have hitherto been A more hopeful man might imagine that a closer and more genial intercourse between classes might do away with strikes But I am not a hopeful man.’ Suddenly, as if a new idea had struck him, he crossed over to where Margaret was sitting, and began, without preface, as if he knew she had been listening to all that had passed: ‘Miss Hale, I had a round-robin from some of my men—I suspect in Higgins’ handwriting—stating their wish to work for me, if ever I was in a position to employ men again on my own behalf That was good, wasn’t it?’ ‘Yes Just right I am glad of it,’ said Margaret, looking up straight into his face with her speaking eyes, and then dropping them under his eloquent glance He gazed back at her for a minute, as if he did not know exactly what he was about Then sighed; and saying, ‘I knew you would like it,’ he turned away, and never spoke to her again until he bid her a formal ‘good night.’ As Mr Lennox took his departure, Margaret said, with a blush that she could not repress, and with some hesitation, ‘Can I speak to you to-morrow? I want your help about—something.’ ‘Certainly I will come at whatever time you name You cannot give me a greater pleasure than by making me of any use At eleven? Very well.’ His eye brightened with exultation How she was learning to depend upon him! It seemed as if any day now might give him the certainty, without having which he had determined never to offer to her again CHAPTER LII ‘PACK CLOUDS AWAY’ ‘For joy or grief, for hope or fear, For all hereafter, as for here, In peace or strife, in storm or shine.’ ANON Edith went about on tip-toe, and checked Sholto in all loud speaking that next morning, as if any sudden noise would interrupt the conference that was taking place in the drawing-room Two o’clock came; and they still sate there with closed doors Then there was a man’s footstep running down stairs; and Edith peeped out of the drawing-room ‘Well, Henry?’ said she, with a look of interrogation ‘Well!’ said he, rather shortly ‘Come in to lunch!’ ‘No, thank you, I can’t I’ve lost too much time here already.’ ‘Then it’s not all settled,’ said Edith despondingly ‘No! not at all It never will be settled, if the “it” is what I conjecture you mean That will never be, Edith, so give up thinking about it.’ ‘But it would be so nice for us all,’ pleaded Edith ‘I should always feel comfortable about the children, if I had Margaret settled down near me As it is, I am always afraid of her going off to Cadiz.’ ‘I will try, when I marry, to look out for a young lady who has a knowledge of the management of children That is all I can do Miss Hale would not have me And I shall not ask her.’ ‘Then, what have you been talking about?’ ‘A thousand things you would not understand: investments, and leases, and value of land.’ ‘Oh, go away if that’s all You and she will be unbearably stupid, if you’ve been talking all this time about such weary things.’ ‘Very well I’m coming again to-morrow, and bringing Mr Thornton with me, to have some more talk with Miss Hale.’ ‘Mr Thornton! What has he to do with it?’ ‘He is Miss Hale’s tenant,’ said Mr Lennox, turning away ‘And he wishes to give up his lease.’ ‘Oh! very well I can’t understand details, so don’t give them me.’ ‘The only detail I want you to understand is, to let us have the back drawingroom undisturbed, as it was to-day In general, the children and servants are so in and out, that I can never get any business satisfactorily explained; and the arrangements we have to make to-morrow are of importance.’ No one ever knew why Mr Lennox did not keep to his appointment on the following day Mr Thornton came true to his time; and, after keeping him waiting for nearly an hour, Margaret came in looking very white and anxious She began hurriedly: ‘I am so sorry Mr Lennox is not here,—he could have done it so much better than I can He is my adviser in this’–‘I am sorry that I came, if it troubles you Shall I go to Mr Lennox’s chambers and try and find him?’ ‘No, thank you I wanted to tell you, how grieved I was to find that I am to lose you as a tenant But, Mr Lennox says, things are sure to brighten’–‘Mr Lennox knows little about it,’ said Mr Thornton quietly ‘Happy and fortunate in all a man cares for, he does not understand what it is to find oneself no longer young—yet thrown back to the starting-point which requires the hopeful energy of youth—to feel one half of life gone, and nothing done— nothing remaining of wasted opportunity, but the bitter recollection that it has been Miss Hale, I would rather not hear Mr Lennox’s opinion of my affairs Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.’ ‘You are unjust,’ said Margaret, gently ‘Mr Lennox has only spoken of the great probability which he believes there to be of your redeeming—your more than redeeming what you have lost—don’t speak till I have ended—pray don’t!’ And collecting herself once more, she went on rapidly turning over some law papers, and statements of accounts in a trembling hurried manner ‘Oh! here it is! and— he drew me out a proposal—I wish he was here to explain it—showing that if you would take some money of mine, eighteen thousand and fifty-seven pounds, lying just at this moment unused in the bank, and bringing me in only two and a half per cent.—you could pay me much better interest, and might go on working Marlborough Mills.’ Her voice had cleared itself and become more steady Mr Thornton did not speak, and she went on looking for some paper on which were written down the proposals for security; for she was most anxious to have it all looked upon in the light of a mere business arrangement, in which the principal advantage would be on her side While she sought for this paper, her very heartpulse was arrested by the tone in which Mr Thornton spoke His voice was hoarse, and trembling with tender passion, as he said:— ‘Margaret!’ For an instant she looked up; and then sought to veil her luminous eyes by dropping her forehead on her hands Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name ‘Margaret!’ Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her He came close to her He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words:— ‘Take care.—If you do not speak—I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.—Send me away at once, if I must go;—Margaret!—’ At that third call she turned her face, still covered with her small white hands, towards him, and laid it on his shoulder, hiding it even there; and it was too delicious to feel her soft cheek against his, for him to wish to see either deep blushes or loving eyes He clasped her close But they both kept silence At length she murmured in a broken voice: ‘Oh, Mr Thornton, I am not good enough!’ ‘Not good enough! Don’t mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.’ After a minute or two, he gently disengaged her hands from her face, and laid her arms as they had once before been placed to protect him from the rioters ‘Do you remember, love?’ he murmured ‘And how I requited you with my insolence the next day?’ ‘I remember how wrongly I spoke to you,—that is all.’ ‘Look here! Lift up your head I have something to show you!’ She slowly faced him, glowing with beautiful shame ‘Do you know these roses?’ he said, drawing out his pocket-book, in which were treasured up some dead flowers ‘No!’ she replied, with innocent curiosity ‘Did I give them to you?’ ‘No! Vanity; you did not You may have worn sister roses very probably.’ She looked at them, wondering for a minute, then she smiled a little as she said — ‘They are from Helstone, are they not? I know the deep indentations round the leaves Oh! have you been there? When were you there?’ ‘I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine I went there on my return from Havre.’ ‘You must give them to me,’ she said, trying to take them out of his hand with gentle violence ‘Very well Only you must pay me for them!’ ‘How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?’ she whispered, after some time of delicious silence ‘Let me speak to her.’ ‘Oh, no! I owe to her,—but what will she say?’ ‘I can guess Her first exclamation will be, “That man!”’ ‘Hush!’ said Margaret, ‘or I shall try and show you your mother’s indignant tones as she says, “That woman!”’ ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NORTH AND SOUTH*** ******This file should be named ecgns10.txt or ecgns10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, ecgns11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, ecgns10a.txt Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark Project 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