MISERY2 is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues3 are as various as the hues of that arch, — as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived4 a type of unloveliness? — from the covenant5 of peace a simile6 of sorrow? But as, in ethics7, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss8 is the anguish9 of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies10 which might have been.
My baptismal name is Egaeus; that of my family I will not mention. Yet there are no towers in the land more time-honored than my gloomy, gray, hereditary11 halls. Our line has been called a race of visionaries; and in many striking particulars — in the character of the family mansion12 — in the frescos of the chief saloon — in the tapestries13 of the dormitories — in the chiselling14 of some buttresses15 in the armory16 — but more especially in the gallery of antique paintings — in the fashion of the library chamber17 — and, lastly, in the very peculiar18 nature of the library’s contents, there is more than sufficient evidence to warrant the belief.
The recollections of my earliest years are connected with that chamber, and with its volumes — of which latter I will say no more. Here died my mother. Herein was I born. But it is mere19 idleness to say that I had not lived before — that the soul has no previous existence. You deny it? — let us not argue the matter. Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. There is, however, a remembrance of aerial forms — of spiritual and meaning eyes — of sounds, musical yet sad — a remembrance which will not be excluded; a memory like a shadow, vague, variable, indefinite, unsteady; and like a shadow, too, in the impossibility of my getting rid of it while the sunlight of my reason shall exist.
In that chamber was I born. Thus awaking from the long night of what seemed, but was not, nonentity20, at once into the very regions of fairy-land — into a palace of imagination — into the wild dominions21 of monastic thought and erudition — it is not singular that I gazed around me with a startled and ardent22 eye — that I loitered away my boyhood in books, and dissipated my youth in reverie; but it is singular that as years rolled away, and the noon of manhood found me still in the mansion of my fathers — it is wonderful what stagnation23 there fell upon the springs of my life — wonderful how total an inversion24 took place in the character of my commonest thought. The realities of the world affected25 me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, — not the material of my every-day existence-but in very deed that existence utterly26 and solely27 in itself.
Berenice and I were cousins, and we grew up together in my paternal28 halls. Yet differently we grew — I ill of health, and buried in gloom — she agile29, graceful30, and overflowing31 with energy; hers the ramble32 on the hill-side — mine the studies of the cloister33 — I living within my own heart, and addicted34 body and soul to the most intense and painful meditation35 — she roaming carelessly through life with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-winged hours. Berenice! — I call upon her name — Berenice! — and from the gray ruins of memory a thousand tumultuous recollections are startled at the sound! Ah! vividly36 is her image before me now, as in the early days of her light-heartedness and joy! Oh! gorgeous yet fantastic beauty! Oh! sylph amid the shrubberies of Arnheim! — Oh! Naiad among its fountains! — and then — then all is mystery and terror, and a tale which should not be told. Disease — a fatal disease — fell like the simoom upon her frame, and, even while I gazed upon her, the spirit of change swept, over her, pervading37 her mind, her habits, and her character, and, in a manner the most subtle and terrible, disturbing even the identity of her person! Alas38! the destroyer came and went, and the victim — where was she, I knew her not — or knew her no longer as Berenice.
Among the numerous train of maladies superinduced by that fatal and primary one which effected a revolution of so horrible a kind in the moral and physical being of my cousin, may be mentioned as the most distressing39 and obstinate40 in its nature, a species of epilepsy not unfrequently terminating in trance itself — trance very nearly resembling positive dissolution, and from which her manner of recovery was in most instances, startlingly abrupt41. In the mean time my own disease — for I have been told that I should call it by no other appelation — my own disease, then, grew rapidly upon me, and assumed finally a monomaniac character of a novel and extraordinary form — hourly and momently gaining vigor42 — and at length obtaining over me the most incomprehensible ascendancy43. This monomania, if I must so term it, consisted in a morbid44 irritability45 of those properties of the mind in metaphysical science termed the attentive46. It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity47 of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
To muse48 for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted49 to some frivolous50 device on the margin51, or in the topography of a book; to become absorbed for the better part of a summer’s day, in a quaint52 shadow falling aslant53 upon the tapestry54, or upon the door; to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire; to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower; to repeat monotonously55 some common word, until the sound, by dint56 of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind; to lose all sense of motion or physical existence, by means of absolute bodily quiescence57 long and obstinately58 persevered59 in; — such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries60 induced by a condition of the mental faculties61, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance62 to anything like analysis or explanation.
Yet let me not be misapprehended. — The undue63, earnest, and morbid attention thus excited by objects in their own nature frivolous, must not be confounded in character with that ruminating64 propensity65 common to all mankind, and more especially indulged in by persons of ardent imagination. It was not even, as might be at first supposed, an extreme condition or exaggeration of such propensity, but primarily and essentially66 distinct and different. In the one instance, the dreamer, or enthusiast67, being interested by an object usually not frivolous, imperceptibly loses sight of this object in a wilderness68 of deductions69 and suggestions issuing therefrom, until, at the conclusion of a day dream often replete70 with luxury, he finds the incitamentum or first cause of his musings entirely71 vanished and forgotten. In my case the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance. Few deductions, if any, were made; and those few pertinaciously72 returning in upon the original object as a centre. The meditations73 were never pleasurable; and, at the termination of the reverie, the first cause, so far from being out of sight, had attained74 that supernaturally exaggerated interest which was the prevailing75 feature of the disease. In a word, the powers of mind more particularly exercised were, with me, as I have said before, the attentive, and are, with the day-dreamer, the speculative76.
My books, at this epoch77, if they did not actually serve to irritate the disorder78, partook, it will be perceived, largely, in their imaginative and inconsequential nature, of the characteristic qualities of the disorder itself. I well remember, among others, the treatise79 of the noble Italian Coelius Secundus Curio “de Amplitudine Beati Regni dei”; St. Austin’s great work, the “City of God”; and Tertullian “de Carne Christi,” in which the paradoxical sentence “Mortuus est Dei filius; credible80 est quia ineptum est: et sepultus resurrexit; certum est quia impossibile est” occupied my undivided time, for many weeks of laborious81 and fruitless investigation82.
Thus it will appear that, shaken from its balance only by trivial things, my reason bore resemblance to that ocean-crag spoken of by Ptolemy Hephestion, which steadily84 resisting the attacks of human violence, and the fiercer fury of the waters and the winds, trembled only to the touch of the flower called Asphodel. And although, to a careless thinker, it might appear a matter beyond doubt, that the alteration85 produced by her unhappy malady86, in the moral condition of Berenice, would afford me many objects for the exercise of that intense and abnormal meditation whose nature I have been at some trouble in explaining, yet such was not in any degree the case. In the lucid87 intervals88 of my infirmity, her calamity89, indeed, gave me pain, and, taking deeply to heart that total wreck90 of her fair and gentle life, I did not fall to ponder frequently and bitterly upon the wonder-working means by which so strange a revolution had been so suddenly brought to pass. But these reflections partook not of the idiosyncrasy of my disease, and were such as would have occurred, under similar circumstances, to the ordinary mass of mankind. True to its own character, my disorder revelled91 in the less important but more startling changes wrought92 in the physical frame of Berenice — in the singular and most appalling93 distortion of her personal identity.
During the brightest days of her unparalleled beauty, most surely I had never loved her. In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me, had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind. Through the gray of the early morning — among the trellissed shadows of the forest at noonday — and in the silence of my library at night, she had flitted by my eyes, and I had seen her — not as the living and breathing Berenice, but as the Berenice of a dream — not as a being of the earth, earthy, but as the abstraction of such a being-not as a thing to admire, but to analyze94 — not as an object of love, but as the theme of the most abstruse95 although desultory96 speculation97. And now — now I shuddered98 in her presence, and grew pale at her approach; yet bitterly lamenting100 her fallen and desolate101 condition, I called to mind that she had loved me long, and, in an evil moment, I spoke83 to her of marriage.
And at length the period of our nuptials102 was approaching, when, upon an afternoon in the winter of the year, — one of those unseasonably warm, calm, and misty103 days which are the nurse of the beautiful Halcyon1, — I sat, (and sat, as I thought, alone,) in the inner apartment of the library. But uplifting my eyes I saw that Berenice stood before me.
1For as Jove, during the winter season, gives twice seven days of warmth, men have called this clement105 and temperate106 time the nurse of the beautiful Halcyon104 — Simonides.
Was it my own excited imagination — or the misty influence of the atmosphere — or the uncertain twilight107 of the chamber — or the gray draperies which fell around her figure — that caused in it so vacillating and indistinct an outline? I could not tell. She spoke no word, I— not for worlds could I have uttered a syllable108. An icy chill ran through my frame; a sense of insufferable anxiety oppressed me; a consuming curiosity pervaded109 my soul; and sinking back upon the chair, I remained for some time breathless and motionless, with my eyes riveted upon her person. Alas! its emaciation110 was excessive, and not one vestige111 of the former being, lurked112 in any single line of the contour. My burning glances at length fell upon the face.
The forehead was high, and very pale, and singularly placid113; and the once jetty hair fell partially114 over it, and overshadowed the hollow temples with innumerable ringlets now of a vivid yellow, and Jarring discordantly115, in their fantastic character, with the reigning116 melancholy117 of the countenance118. The eyes were lifeless, and lustreless119, and seemingly pupil-less, and I shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to the contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips. They parted; and in a smile of peculiar meaning, the teeth of the changed Berenice disclosed themselves slowly to my view. Would to God that I had never beheld120 them, or that, having done so, I had died!
The shutting of a door disturbed me, and, looking up, I found that my cousin had departed from the chamber. But from the disordered chamber of my brain, had not, alas! departed, and would not be driven away, the white and ghastly spectrum121 of the teeth. Not a speck122 on their surface — not a shade on their enamel123 — not an indenture124 in their edges — but what that period of her smile had sufficed to brand in upon my memory. I saw them now even more unequivocally than I beheld them then. The teeth! — the teeth! — they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing125 about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development. Then came the full fury of my monomania, and I struggled in vain against its strange and irresistible126 influence. In the multiplied objects of the external world I had no thoughts but for the teeth. For these I longed with a phrenzied desire. All other matters and all different interests became absorbed in their single contemplation. They — they alone were present to the mental eye, and they, in their sole individuality, became the essence of my mental life. I held them in every light. I turned them in every attitude. I surveyed their characteristics. I dwelt upon their peculiarities127. I pondered upon their conformation. I mused128 upon the alteration in their nature. I shuddered as I assigned to them in imagination a sensitive and sentient129 power, and even when unassisted by the lips, a capability130 of moral expression. Of Mad’selle Salle it has been well said, “que tous ses pas etaient des sentiments,” and of Berenice I more seriously believed que toutes ses dents131 etaient des idees. Des idees! — ah here was the idiotic132 thought that destroyed me! Des idees! — ah therefore it was that I coveted133 them so madly! I felt that their possession could alone ever restore me to peace, in giving me back to reason.
And the evening closed in upon me thus-and then the darkness came, and tarried, and went — and the day again dawned — and the mists of a second night were now gathering134 around — and still I sat motionless in that solitary135 room; and still I sat buried in meditation, and still the phantasma of the teeth maintained its terrible ascendancy as, with the most vivid hideous136 distinctness, it floated about amid the changing lights and shadows of the chamber. At length there broke in upon my dreams a cry as of horror and dismay; and thereunto, after a pause, succeeded the sound of troubled voices, intermingled with many low moanings of sorrow, or of pain. I arose from my seat and, throwing open one of the doors of the library, saw standing137 out in the antechamber a servant maiden138, all in tears, who told me that Berenice was — no more. She had been seized with epilepsy in the early morning, and now, at the closing in of the night, the grave was ready for its tenant139, and all the preparations for the burial were completed.
I found myself sitting in the library, and again sitting there alone. It seemed that I had newly awakened140 from a confused and exciting dream. I knew that it was now midnight, and I was well aware that since the setting of the sun Berenice had been interred141. But of that dreary142 period which intervened I had no positive — at least no definite comprehension. Yet its memory was replete with horror — horror more horrible from being vague, and terror more terrible from ambiguity143. It was a fearful page in the record my existence, written all over with dim, and hideous, and unintelligible144 recollections. I strived to decypher them, but in vain; while ever and anon, like the spirit of a departed sound, the shrill145 and piercing shriek146 of a female voice seemed to be ringing in my ears. I had done a deed — what was it? I asked myself the question aloud, and the whispering echoes of the chamber answered me, “what was it?”
On the table beside me burned a lamp, and near it lay a little box. It was of no remarkable147 character, and I had seen it frequently before, for it was the property of the family physician; but how came it there, upon my table, and why did I shudder99 in regarding it? These things were in no manner to be accounted for, and my eyes at length dropped to the open pages of a book, and to a sentence underscored therein. The words were the singular but simple ones of the poet Ebn Zaiat, “Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.” Why then, as I perused148 them, did the hairs of my head erect149 themselves on end, and the blood of my body become congealed150 within my veins151?
There came a light tap at the library door, and pale as the tenant of a tomb, a menial entered upon tiptoe. His looks were wild with terror, and he spoke to me in a voice tremulous, husky, and very low. What said he? — some broken sentences I heard. He told of a wild cry disturbing the silence of the night — of the gathering together of the household-of a search in the direction of the sound; — and then his tones grew thrillingly distinct as he whispered me of a violated grave — of a disfigured body enshrouded, yet still breathing, still palpitating, still alive!
He pointed152 to garments;-they were muddy and clotted153 with gore154. I spoke not, and he took me gently by the hand; — it was indented155 with the impress of human nails. He directed my attention to some object against the wall; — I looked at it for some minutes; — it was a spade. With a shriek I bounded to the table, and grasped the box that lay upon it. But I could not force it open; and in my tremor156 it slipped from my hands, and fell heavily, and burst into pieces; and from it, with a rattling157 sound, there rolled out some instruments of dental surgery, intermingled with thirty-two small, white and ivory-looking substances that were scattered158 to and fro about the floor.
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disorder
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alteration
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malady
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desultory
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speculation
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clement
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twilight
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placid
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melancholy
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indenture
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