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Updated: June 14, 2025
She was awfully pretty. I don't remember her. She died when I was born. She was only nineteen." The utter calmness, and freedom from embarrassment, with which these announcements were made, almost shook Miss Belinda's faith in her own identity.
Mr. Hervey had felt gratuitous confidence in Virginia's innocence; but on Belinda's prudence, which he had opportunities of seeing tried, he gradually learned to feel a different and a higher species of reliance, which it is neither in our power to bestow nor to refuse. The virtues of Virginia sprang from sentiment; those of Belinda from reason.
From the gossip of her friends she learns that his real name is Lord , and from one of the ladies she hears such stories of his villainy that she can no longer doubt him to be a monster. Worthly, meanwhile, has recovered from his wound and weds Belinda's sister. Lysander and Courtal prove to be in reality the same bland villain, the inconstant Bellamy.
Weston, coming in from the barn, heard Belinda's words and saw her frightened face. With a grave expression in his kind gray eyes, he said, "There, there mother, I wouldn't get too frightened. Prue's out of sight? Well, I'll start out ter find her, and we'll hope that she is not so far off but that I shall soon bring her home." But to the mare he muttered as he adjusted the harness,
"Are you better now?" said he, in a gentle tone. "Oh, do not speak do not look so kindly!" cried Virginia. "I am well quite well better than I deserve to be;" and she pressed Belinda's hand, as if to thank her for assisting and supporting her. "We may safely leave her now," whispered Belinda to Lady Delacour; "we are strangers, and our presence only distresses her." They withdrew.
When she came to herself, and heard the soothing tone of Belinda's voice, she looked up timidly in her face for a few moments without being able to speak. "And are you really here once more, my dear Belinda?" cried she at last; "and may I still call you my friend? and do you forgive me? Yes, I see you do and from you I can endure the humiliation of being forgiven.
After this Virginia Hartley confessed to her attachment for one Captain Sunderland, and Clarence was free to avow his passion for Belinda. "And what is Miss Portman to believe," cried one of Belinda's friends, "when she has seen you on the very eve of marriage with another lady?"
The tranquillity of Belinda's mind was gradually restored by the society that she enjoyed at Oakly-park. She found herself in the midst of a large and cheerful family, with whose domestic happiness she could not forbear to sympathize. There was an affectionate confidence, an unconstrained gaiety in this house, which forcibly struck her, from its contrast with what she had seen at Lady Delacour's.
Pity succeeded to disgust and displeasure in Belinda's mind, and she could hardly refrain from tears, whilst she saw this unhappy creature, with forced smiles, endeavour to hide the real anguish of her soul: she could only say, "But, my dear Lady Delacour, do not you think that your little Helena, who seems to have a most affectionate disposition, would add to your happiness at home?"
Hervey's letters, her ladyship was dissatisfied with the measured terms of Belinda's approbation, and she said, with a sarcastic smile, "So, they have made a complete philosopher of you at Oakly-park! You are perfect in the first lesson not to admire. And is the torch of Cupid to be extinguished on the altar of Reason?"
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