THE village of Saltire straggled red-roofed up a green valley that branched northward1 from the shimmering2 ringlets of the Mallan. It was a sensuous3 patch of color, smothered4 up in woodland, warm and sun-steeped, overrun with roses. On either flank hills ascended5, barriering the Saltire homesteads with tiers of trees. Sun and moon climbed over nebulous pines and larches6 to shine on red roof and flower-enamelled garden. Southward, moorland and meadow stretched towards the port of Rilchester and the sea.
Antiquarians had found in Saltire relics7 of considerable arch?ological interest. The guide-books expatiated8 sentimentally9 upon the wonders of St. Winifred’s Well, and on the church whose Norman nave11 had attached unto itself an Early English choir12. Saltire was one of the wondrous13 few churches of repute where Cromwell had not stabled his horses. Sundry14 fine brasses15 blazoned16 the walls. Two crusaders slept cross-kneed in the chancel. Even a poet of distinction had written an ode under the patriarchal yew17-tree in the churchyard. As for the cottages huddled18 under the benediction19 of the tower, they were as varied20 in humor as the centuries that had given them birth. Elizabethan, Jacobite, Georgian, a museum of British bourgeois21 architecture. There were only two new buildings in the village—a bald, blatant22, granite-eyed chapel23 and a tavern24, florid and cheerful. At the two village shops you could purchase all manner of merchandise, teething-powders and stationery25, boot-polish and bacon.
Though the woodland valley above the Mallan burned a glorious Arcady, worthy26 of the glimmering27 armor of Arthurian princes, its inhabitants could hardly boast much kinship with such ?sthetic surroundings. The Saltire folk, big-wigs and boors28 alike, were far from being Utopian either in morality or in creed29. An oppressive narrowness took its text from the pulpit. For the Saltire sinners hell flamed with all its puerile30 and astounding31 fury. An atmosphere of stolid32 self-satisfaction pervaded33 the social ethics34 of the place. The philosophy of the local potentates35 smacked36 of vinegar; the average intelligence recalled the biblical “needle’s eye,” since nothing bulky could pass through it. There were clerical sermons on a Sunday and clerical arrogances during the week, flavored with an apathetic38 egotism and sour charity. The ladies of the village indulged largely in sundry Christian39 philanthropies, and yet were consistently unchristian in every larger sense. The laboring40 folk toiled41, drank, and begot42 children. Suns came and went, but Saltire endured in pristine43 narrowness of soul.
The local celebrities44 were well differentiated45 and quaintly47 characteristic. There was the Reverend Jacob Mince48, the vicar, lean, complacent49, uxorious50, and parsonic, a man who intoned through his nose, patronized creation, and was very wise concerning cabbages. Mrs. Mince, the vicaress, big, pallid51, with a melancholy52 air of dilapidated Protestantism, contrasted with Mrs. Marjoy, the doctor’s wife, whose red face tilted53 its spectacles in the defence of virtue54. Then there were the three Misses Snodley, maiden55 ladies of irreproachable56 morals, who drove a donkey chaise, delighted in scandal, and indulged in missionary57 work at a discreet58 distance. Lastly stood Mrs. Jumble59, the intellectual light of the village, a most precise and pompous60 person, who read Shakespeare and delivered decretals on the conduct of life generally. In truth, there were numberless folk whose virtues61 it would be wearisome to chronicle and whose vices62 were inevitable63 and commonplace. Saltire was an orthodox and Christian village. It knew not Spinoza and would have martyred Kant.
Saltire Hall stood on a bluff64, oak-girdled hill-side that sloped southward towards the water-meadows of the Mallan. Elizabethan in mood and feature, its tall chimney-stacks towered above the trees, its casements65 glimmered66 silver through the green. A rose-flecked terrace, archaic68 gardens, fish-ponds, and a wild fragment of park-land maintained a sympathetic setting to the house, over whose eaves a quaint46 melancholy brooded, as though the old manor69 found the Victorian present incompatible70 with the past.
There was a considerable gradation between bewigged and dark-featured Jacobites and the person of John Strong, Esq., a brazen71 bullionist, plump with the prosperity of a successful mercantile career. Saltire Hall—armor, ancestors, memories included—had fallen into the callous72 hands of a nineteenth-century tea merchant. John Strong, Esq., in the plenitude of years had gotten unto himself a picturesque73 and peaceful habitation. He had embarked74 his family upon the duck-pond of county society. He had become a power in Christendom, a ponderous75 autocrat76 heading the notabilities of an English village. He was a great man so long as he remained within two leagues of the village pump.
John Strong lived a British patriarch in his own household. His philosophy bulwarked itself upon solid state principles. He was orthodox to the backbone77, a discreet and conventional Christian, an upholder of the monarchy78, and a most punctilious79 church-warden. He possessed80 the arrogance37 of conviction begotten81 of long success. He could forgive a debt, but could not pardon any impropriety that based its being upon original intuition. His prejudices were like caltrops strewn before the advance of any unfamiliar82 philosophy. Question his convictions and he would vote you a fool or a prig, according to your age. He was as incapable83 of stomaching argument as a Jew of breakfasting off bacon.
John Strong numbered among his household chattels84 a daughter and a son. Twenty years had elapsed since their mother had been clamped down under a marble slab85 in a suburban86 cemetery87. Judith, the daughter, mistressed the house Martha-like under her father’s supervision88. Gabriel, the son, basked89 in the sunshine of parental90 favor and accepted with indolent resignation the somewhat enervating91 ease of fatherly patronage92.
Gabriel Strong had emerged from a university circle when a certain sensuous ?stheticism had claimed many disciples93 from the ripening94 generation. He had imbibed95 certain fine sentimentalities, some affectations, much psychical96 color, and not a little genuine idealism. A contemplative and somewhat lazy youth, he was a member of the romantic school, a man tinged97 with a tender Celtic melancholy, something of a fatalist regarding the materialisms of life, and not very fervent98 over any particular creed. His father, who believed in culture without comprehending its significance, simultaneously99 admired and patronized his son. John Strong had received his education at a third-rate boarding-school, and yet appreciated in an obtuse100 and mercenary manner the social advantages of Eton and Oxford101. He had considered culture as a creditable investment in the person of his heir. He intended him to be a gentleman of independence, singularity, and distinction. Strangely enough, he had no desire to make a mercantile Stylites of him on an office-stool.
Now Gabriel Strong had eccentricities102; and he was something of a poet. Not that a poetic103 inclination104 can be considered as an eccentricity105 in these days when the knack106 is too universal to be genuine. Gabriel had much of the Maurice de Guérin about him. He would trudge107 miles to see the sea on a moonlight night, or tumble up at dawn to watch the sun rise over the woods. He was mobile, impressionable, sensitive as dew swinging on the gossamer108 of a spider’s web. This very sensitiveness tempted109 to make him weak and pusillanimous110 in the minor111 affairs of life. Living largely in his own mental atmosphere, he approached actual existence with a listless apathy112 born of contempt. The past with its golden pageantry of splendor113 and romance alone inspired in him the desire of being.
On a certain April morning the master of Saltire Hall stood watching several workmen who were laying the foundations of a new cow-house at the home farm attached to the estate. The local bailiff had been listening with discreet reverence114 to the tea merchant’s views on certain agricultural technicalities. John Strong delighted in Arcadian hobbies and devoured115 much scientific literature on the subject. He had his own beasts, pigs, and poultry116; his own crops; his own dairy; his own drainage system, septic tank included. Possibly he lost some hundreds a year in his farming, but that was a detail in his expenditure117 that gave him no qualms118 of conscience.
Having meditated119 sufficiently120 over the new cow-house walls, Squire121 Strong, as he loved to be called, plodded122 back alone over the meadows towards the oak-trees dewing the park. John Strong was in an ambitious mood. His cogitations rose from the contemplation of liquid manure123 to the consideration of matrimony as a social investment. John Strong had many choice schemes—agricultural, matrimonial, ethical124: he had promised a new vestry to the Reverend Jacob Mince. He had purchased sundry prize bullocks for the improvement of his stock. Moreover, he had cast an eye upon the luxurious125 comeliness126 of the Honorable Ophelia Gusset, and was inclined to purchase her as a mate for Gabriel, his son.
John Strong, threading the rose-garden and passing betwixt high hedges of yew, climbed the western stairway that led to the terrace fronting the house. The morning rejoiced in mild heat, and John Strong was corpulent and somewhat asthmatic. As he stood wiping his forehead with a red silk handkerchief his son Gabriel emerged from the French window of the library, the pockets of his Norfolk jacket padded with a sketch-book, a paint-box, matches and tobacco, and a volume of Swinburne’s poems. Tall and slim as a cypress127, with a finely chiselled128 face, a sallow yet bronzed complexion129, Gabriel Strong won admiration130 even from the dispassionate glance of a father. A red scarf was knotted under the collar of his flannel132 shirt. There was a certain Dantesque air about him. He reminded one of some slim and romantic figure taken from a pre-Raphaelite wood-cut.
“Off sketching133, eh?”
“To Cambron Head.”
“A ten-mile walk. Young blood runs brisk. I suppose the Saltire bounds are too narrow for the new generation. You young folk are too damned expansive, too sentimental10. No man ever earned good dollars by sentiment. You’ll be back to dinner?”
“Perhaps.”
The elder gentleman, with his hands thrust deep into his pockets, had established himself against the balustrading of the southern stairway of the terrace. Sentiment did not express itself vividly134 upon his countenance135. He had a big, clean-shaven jaw136, a thick, protuberant137 lower lip, a somewhat Semitic nose, and gray, lustreless138 eyes. A rough tweed suit, a soft felt hat, and buck-skin gaiters constituted an attire139 that John Strong deemed in keeping with his rustic140 habits. He was a short man, thick-set, with a certain solid arrogance of demeanor141. His keen northern nature took life prosaically142 upon business principles.
“Stent’s getting on fast with the cow-house,” he remarked. “I’m having twenty stalls, each to hold a couple of beasts. The drinking-troughs are to be on the self-replenishing system. Stent advises a ‘Stafford-brick’ floor. I think they’re going to overstep the estimate. Still, I sha’n’t worry about fifty pounds or so. Work well done is worth cash.”
Gabriel Strong received the news with an air of languid and exotic enthusiasm. His father’s farming ventures did not interest him vastly; even the excellences143 of artificial manure awoke no joy in him. Father and son were always colliding dismally144 on such topics. Gabriel found it a perpetual trial of filial respect to escape from appearing bored by his father’s hobbies.
“Those heifers are to come from Heatherstoke at the end of the week,” the elder man continued. “I shall drive into Rilchester and take you with me. I want to see Murchison about that fencing. And, by-the-way, I heard from the major by the morning’s post. He sent me Mold & Company’s price-list; I have been looking it over; their prices are ten per cent. more reasonable than those of that London firm. These Americans bust145 our manufacturers. Be back to dinner, now.”
Thirty years of tyranny over his commercial minions146 had developed in John Strong a certain abrupt147 and peremptory148 method of address. He often spoke149 to his son with something of the air he would unconsciously have adopted to his office-boy. It was unintentional, but it often irritated.
“I may be late,” quoth Gabriel, looking out over wood, hill, and meadow towards the sea.
“The Gussets and Colonel Delaware are dining with us at seven. Don’t forget it.”
“I had, as a matter of fact.”
“What a memory you have for actualities. I believe you’d let this place go to rack and ruin in six months.”
“Bad farming produces artistic150 effects. I should as a matter of principle let my thorn hedges grow as they liked, and I should welcome red poppies into my fields of wheat.”
“And grow beans for the scent151, I suppose. Reserve your eccentricities for dinner-time; Ophelia Gusset will expect to be entertained.”
John Strong scrutinized152 his son’s face for any confession153 of color or confusion.
“I have a great admiration for Ophelia,” he suggested. “Really fine women are rare in the country—women of style and spirit. A smart girl is a relief after giggling154 children bred in parsonages and flouncing hoydens fit only for milk-pans.”
Gabriel retorted monosyllabically. He rarely indulged in filial confidences.
“Ophelia Gusset won’t be a spinster long,” resumed the pandar. “If I were a youngster, by George! I’d make a bid for the girl. Don’t fag yourself or you’ll be sleepy to-night. You must talk, you know; girls don’t like a dull dog, and the Gussets are up to date.”
Gabriel moved slowly down the steps.
“I shall be back by six,” he said.
“Very good. Don’t go and break your neck on those damned cliffs.”
The day was lusty with the red sap of youth. A myriad155 shafts156 of gold streamed upon the bourgeoning woods. The earth piled flowers in her green lap and gemmed157 her bosom158 glorious with many colors. Poplars waved their stately towers of amber159 athwart the blue. Wind flowers shivered in the breeze. Nature seemed a Greek girl flashing a primrose160 kirtle over emerald lawns. Flowers, purple and red, burned where her white feet had smitten161 the earth with desire.
Gabriel Strong strode on towards the sea, a young Paris red and radiant from the solemn sigh of Ida’s pines. It was the man now who wandered through the meadows, threaded the woods, and climbed gaunt moorland smiting162 into a golden south—the man of fire and fibre, the passionate131 pilgrim following the wild torch of desire. Legend lore163 and love were brilliant in his being. In solitude164 he found his own strength, his own soul. Elsewhere, like the damsel in some ancient fable165, it changed suddenly into a withered166, morose167, and quaking hag.
As a man of leisure, Gabriel Strong had suffered in strength from the enervation168 of parental patronage. Like many men of considerable mental culture, he was content to endure the small tryannies of life, not troubling to assert his individuality against people by whom he was misunderstood. Silence is the best harness to baffle fools. He was free in his own world of thought, a serf in the domain169 of domestic trifles. He was amiable170, somewhat indolent, a detester171 of argument. His father’s platitudes172 bored but did not rouse him. He was sleepily indifferent to trivial criticism. Consequently he had earned in the domestic circle a reputation for docility173 which was undeserved. The parental prejudices were beneath his horizon. He ignored them by being reservedly amiable. It was not in his nature to quarrel about the number of pips in an orange.
A two hours’ pilgrimage, and the cliffs rose solemn and stupendous above the azured silver of the sea. Sinuously174 strong the waves rolled with lambent thunder upon the black bosoms175 of the rocks. Gulls176 winged pearl-bright over the blue. Arcs of smooth greensward cut the heavens. A solemn noise, like the superstitious177 murmurs178 of a world, rose with a multitudinous monotony from the strand179.
Gabriel, weary yet exultant180, stretched himself on a hillock that verged181 the cliff. To the east dense182 banks of gorse were bursting into flame. To the west a deep indenture183 in the rocks crescented a bay whose threshold of foam184 and pavement of gilded185 sand stretched solemn under the adamantine shadows of the cliffs. Bulwarked by great buttresses186 of stone, a small lagoon187 lay sheltered from the waves. Amber, purple, and green, it glimmered in the manifold lights and shadows of the place. At flood the sea poured strife188 into its calm; at ebb189, a fathom190 deep, it took its temper from the sky.
Gabriel Strong lay and stared at the clouds in a stupor191 of sensuous delight. The sun beat upon him warm and beneficent, a guerdon of gold. The sea sang like a Norse giant; the wind tossed the torches of the gorse upon the downs. Liberty seemed to tread the waves; her feet smote192 foam from the green, brilliant billows.
The heart of the man upon the cliff expanded in the sunshine; his soul awoke in the wind and pinioned193 through a more splendid atmosphere. He read lyrics194, sang, shouted to the sea, saw gulls wheeling at the sound of his voice. Snatches of Shakespearian verse, stately and tender, moved in his brain. He could fancy Tristram’s sails rising out of the west or Spanish galleons195 ploughing solemn under the sun.
Possibly he had never comprehended to the full the prophetic pain of his own emotions. As yet he had suffered no bruising196 by the world; nor had he learned the ignominies that assail197 a generous instinct and sentiment too rich for barter198. Sad are the revelations that meet the idealist in the Gehenna of actuality. Like Dante, he will often discover himself an exile wandering through the world with eyes fixed199 on a dream face cloistered200 in heaven.
Coincidences astonish us; we smite201 our breasts and call upon that mysterious genius named of men Providence202. Gabriel, turning upon his elbow and resting his head on his palm, gazed absorbedly at the sea and sand clasped by the black crescent of the rocks. As from the illumined pages of a book, a poem in the flesh gleamed out to confront his philosophy.
The bay shone solitary203 as some inlet echoing to a primeval sea. Yet sudden from behind a giant bowlder stranded204 under the umbrage205 of the cliff a white figure came pillaring the yellow sand. With hair blowing over bosom, stringing the breeze with golden scourges206, a girl ran towards the margin207 of the lagoon. Her limbs gleamed snowy in the sun. The waters received her with a gush208 of foam, and a myriad dimples tonguing diamond-like over the pool. White arms glimmered amid a wheel of streaming hair. The man on the cliff crouched209 low and crimsoned210 like one caught in the act of theft.
Again, bewildered as a mortal who had seen Diana bathing in some forest mere67, he watched the girl rise pure and radiant from the waters. He saw her wring211 the salt sea from her streaming hair, her large, fair face turned wistfully towards the south. He saw all this, conceived great awe212 and sudden sanctity of soul. And when the rocks had hidden her from sight, he arose and turned homeward towards Saltire and the woods, a strange melancholy, an indefinite sadness burdening his being.
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bosoms
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stupor
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| v.昏迷；不省人事 | |
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