England again: sullen8 skies and the sullen atmosphere of Saltire society! Autumn had passed in a wizard blaze of gold. Sympathies had clashed at the outset like brazen9 cymbals10. At Paris millinery had appealed to the one, the Louvre had possessed11 the other. At Rome the feminine mind had yawned under the shadow of St. Peter’s, while the male had moved musingly12 amid ruins. Florence had proffered13 nothing to Ophelia save opportunities for grumbling14 over the table d’h?te; Raphael and the great Michael had called to Gabriel from the Accademia delle Bell’ Arti. At Ravenna the man had meditated15 over the tomb of Dante. At Venice the brackish16 flavor of the canals had eliminated the least leaning towards romance in the Honorable Ophelia’s skull17. The affair had proved to her one long progress of monotonies. She had yawned through Italy as she would have yawned through the pages of The Pilgrim’s Progress. The antique exasperated18 her beyond belief; its dim philosophy offended the sensuous19 greed of the present. She had more than once suggested to Gabriel that he had been formed by nature to be a frowsy curio dealer20, hoarding21 medi?valisms in a dusty shop. The temper of neither had improved during the sojourn22 amid vineyards and olive thickets23. The woman’s mood had grown symbolical24 of Etna; the man’s had ascended25 towards Alpine26 regions of perpetual snow.
An irreligious man may be a very passable creature; an irreligious woman is a production more sinister27 than a double-headed leopard28. Love and the adoration29 of a deity30 should be woven up in a true woman’s heart like the purple and gold threads of a sacramental garment. Atheism31 in a woman is an offence against the spirit of maternity32. The Gusset girls had been bred upon an apathetic33 culture-ground and fostered on certain pert ethical34 concoctions35 that based a complacent36 liberty on reason. They went to church on occasions, and encouraged the bourgeois37 folk in a creed38 that they had been taught to regard with benignant condescension39. Lord Gerald detested40 lengthy41 sermons and anything bordering on Calvinism. In the one brief burst of mental energy of youth he had imbibed42 the tenets of a certain philosophical43 school, and these rather flimsy convictions had propped45 him in an amiable46 epicureanism for the remainder of his earthly existence.
That she may escape the inherent perversity47 of her nature, a woman without a creed must indeed be possessed by phenomenal instincts towards saintliness. Nor was Ophelia Strong anything of a saint, even in the most lax rendering48 of the epithet49. She was a woman of the world; a very modern production, an admixture of the extreme pleasurableness of imperial Rome with the cool and impertinent independence of the moneyed scion50 of contemporary life. The smart lady of fashion cannot be expected to garb51 herself in dowdy52 and bourgeois morality. The domestic virtues54 are becoming obsolete55 in many feminine brains. They are to be classed with samplers, crochet-work, cookery books, tracts56, and other relics57 of vulgar superstition58. Ophelia Strong was one of those ladies who live to the minute, revel59 in sensations, and believe in the employment of certain fashionable and shady members of the medical profession.
There was little cause for wonder that Gabriel and his wife should have discovered traces of mutual60 incompatibility61 before many months had elapsed. The one lived for the life within, the other for the life without. Marry an Acrasia to a St. Christopher and you will provide material enough to keep cynics employed for a century. There is no inherent unreason in strife62 under particular circumstances. A man may as well attempt to cultivate the Sahara as to perfect home life with a woman pledged to the demon63 worship of all that is vain and artificial. The modern fashionable person is an enlightened and independent spirit. A splendid emancipation64 scoffs66 at the barbarous ethics67 of the parlor68. ?sthetic and piquant69 mischief70 is preferred to sincerity71 garbed72 in black bonnet73, mackintosh, and galoshes.
Thus it may be recorded without exaggeration that a four months’ honeymoon74 on the Continent had not bourgeoned into deep marital75 blessedness. Gabriel and his wife had returned to Saltire in a certain dubious76 temper that did not flatter the future with prospects77 of peace. There were errors on both sides; inconsistencies in either character. A look of heavy petulance78 reigned79 on the woman’s face, and she had become addicted80 to hysterical81 outbursts of passion. Gabriel still wore his melancholy82, Werther-like smile. The evolutions of marriage had not astonished his reason. The first squabble in a Parisian hotel had prepared him for the mockery that was to be. He was a man who could distil83 a species of melancholy intoxication84 from his own troubles. They barred him in upon himself and intensified85 to his mind the face of the girl who had stirred his blood in the summer that had gone. It is only when night comes that man beholds86 the stars.
Saltire had welcomed the couple with quivering tongues. Mrs. Marjoy’s spectacles had glimmered87 feverishly88 in the Saltire drawing-rooms, and her charity had dipped its forked irony89 in vinegar as of yore. The Misses Snodley were sentimental90 and expectant. Even John Strong’s enthusiasm was still rosy91 as a peony and bathotic as stale beer. He and Lord Gerald were much at dinner together, and political problems hung heavy over these Titanic92 minds. It was decreed as a matter of course that the young folk were supremely93 contented94, bathed in a dotage95 of sensuous bliss96. The Misses Snodley declared that Ophelia looked twice the woman since the hallowed influence of marriage had breathed upon her soul. As for Gabriel, they could vow97 that he had the orthodox joy of paternity gravely writ98 upon his face. And yet Mrs. Marjoy licked her teeth and sneered99.
It was winter, late in January, with snow on the ground and no wind moving. The Saltire hills were white under the moon, checkered100 with the black umbrage101 of the woods. Stars gemmed102 the bare trees, that rose gaunt, tumultuous, and morose about the tiled roofs of The Friary. A warm glow streamed betwixt damask curtains, tincturing the snow. A ghostly quiet brooded calm and passionless in the night. The dark pines on the hills stood like a silent host, watchful104, multitudinous, mute.
Gabriel and his wife were at dinner, embalmed105 in the sanctity of matrimonial solitude106. A shaven-faced man-servant stood behind Gabriel’s chair. Candles were burning on the table under red lace shades. A silver epergne full of Christmas roses stood upon a richly embroidered107 centre of green and gold. Glass and silver scintillated108 on the immaculate cloth. The greater part of the room lay in shadow.
Ophelia, in a light blue tea-gown, sipped109 her claret and looked unseraphically at the man half hidden from her by flowers. Tension had arisen that day over certain very minor110 matters, domestic and otherwise. The conversation during dinner had been unimaginative and monosyllabic. The starched111 and glazed112 man-servant by the sideboard had stood, chin in air, staring into space.
Ophelia dispelled113 at last a silence that had lasted for some minutes.
“Going skating to-morrow?”
“Possibly.”
The wife toyed with a savory114 and looked at her plate.
“Do you ever make up your mind on any subject under the sun?” she remarked, with a crude curl of her long lip.
“I never trouble my brain, dear, over trifles.”
“What a limp animal you are. Pah, there’s too much pepper in this stuff! Take it away, James. And you can go. Leave the crumbs115; we’ll picnic over dessert.”
The man whisked the plates away, set wines and liqueurs on the table, and departed, closing the door gently. Ophelia pulled a dish of preserved fruit towards her and nibbled116 irritably117.
“Look here, Gabriel,” she said.
Her husband began handling a pair of silver nut-crackers.
“Well, dear?”
“I wish you wouldn’t be so curt103 before the servants. They might think we’d been married ten years by your manners. You never seem to consider me. If I wish a thing you immediately contradict me. I suppose my very wishing it is enough to set your temper on edge. You never seem to think I need amusing.”
“My dear girl, I suppose I am dull at times.”
“Dull! You put it mildly.”
“Indeed!”
“For Heaven’s sake, stop cracking those nuts. I have a beastly headache, and you fidget me to death. You men are so abominably118 selfish. Do you ever realize that we have been stuffed down in this place a month; I am getting sick of being bored out of my skin every hour of the day. I tell you, I can’t stand it; it’s getting on my nerves. We must rake up a house-party or do something outrageous119. I never imagined you could be such a brutal120 dullard.”
The man laughed half cynically121. The philosophic44 part of him was amused despite the occasion.
“You forget that we have become orthodox and respectable,” he said, “that we are expected to rent a pew in church, subscribe122 to missionary123 enterprises, exist on hash for lunch, and renounce124 the devil and all his angels. I am sorry I have contrived125 to become so abominably orthodox. I am only endeavoring to live up to middle-class ideals, dumpling-and-treacle philosophy, the ethics of top-hats and mid-day dinners on Sunday. Perhaps you might suggest some new and original piece of wickedness.”
The sally had no emollient126 effect upon Ophelia’s petulance. Her claws were out; and she was not a woman who could regain127 her amiability128 within half a day. She could lose most things, even her purse, with facility, but a grievance129 clung like a rubefacient plaster.
“One would think you had married me to be amused,” she said.
“Yours is the Eve’s part of the compact.”
“As a matter of fact, you seem to care more for a shilling volume of essays than for my company.”
“Really!”
“No woman should allow a library to exist in her house.”
“My dear girl, you are surely not jealous of Schopenhauer?”
“I have never heard of the fellow.”
“Perhaps it is as well; he is somewhat caustic130.”
The wife gathered her gown and prepared to depart to the drawing-room. Gabriel opened the door for her. She gave him a look as she went out.
“I shall expect you in half an hour for billiards131.”
“I will attempt to be punctual. Tell James to serve my coffee in the library.”
“Drat the library.” came the retort.
Now whether it was pure perversity on Gabriel’s part, or the romantic mesmerism of the work on which he was engaged, an honest eighty minutes had passed before he appeared in the red-and-white salon132. Clouds had blackened still further the spiritual atmosphere. The fire had died to embers; a cheap novel lay dishevelled on the hearth-rug as though precipitated133 there in a moment of irritation134. Ophelia was sitting with her feet on the fender, her chin resting on her clinched135 fists.
Gabriel closed the door gently, picked up the book, appropriated a chair, and sat down. He was even impolitic enough to yawn behind his hand. The storm seethed136 two paces away, gathering137 satirical bitterness over the listless fire.
“I hope you have amused yourself.”
The man glanced up, more surprise than apology upon his face. He was in a conciliatory mood; his wife’s voice was more than ominous138 of injured sentiment.
“I have been writing,” he said; “the hour after dinner is one of my most enlightened periods. My imagination kindles139.”
“Imagination!”
The twinge of irony was admirable.
“You surely don’t consider such stuff literature?”
“I have hopes for myself.”
The lady tittered amiably140 and exhaled141 transcendent pity.
“Your conceit142 is really very amusing,” she remarked. “It is really too funny to think that you take yourself seriously. You—an author! My dear Gabriel, you are really too absurd.”
Now a man perhaps is never so sensitive as in the matter of mental acumen143. Scoff65 at his ability as at a fond and fatuous144 delusion145, a ridiculous piece of egotism, and you bid fair to touch his vanity to the quick. You may insult his figure with impunity146, but it is dangerous to blaspheme against his mind.
“My dear girl, I hardly expect you to sympathize with me on such subjects.”
“Naturally you consider me beneath your notice.”
“You are not a competent critic.”
“No, I am a woman with common-sense.”
Gabriel stared hard at the fire.
“Can I expect you to understand the deeper side of my soul?” he said.
“Well, dear, the domestic side is shallow enough for me to form a fair estimate of the literary.”
The man winced147 despite himself.
“You are very kind,” he said.
“I only want to protest against your abominable148 selfishness.”
“Selfishness!”
The wife flung herself back upon her cushions.
“Perhaps you think yourself insulted,” she said. “You marry a woman, neglect her, treat her to inconceivable dulness on all possible occasions. You give her the residuum of your intellect, the lees of your leisure. Books, books, twaddle, twaddle, from morning to night. I did not marry a library or a second-hand149 book-store. Do you ever consider my position?”
The man still stared into the grate.
“I have given you a home and myself,” he said. “You cannot expect me to dangle150 at your skirts all day long. I have lived much with books and my own thoughts till now; you must understand that I cannot give up all that was great in my mind before our marriage. Is all the selfishness on my side?”
“At any rate, all the dulness seems on mine.”
“What more do you desire me to give you?”
“A little consideration might be courteous151. Am I to be boxed up in a country-house with a tea merchant’s son who thinks he is a genius and leaves me to exist on novels and coffee. You forget that I am not a frump of fifty. I want to live, although you have married me.”
“Live, by all means,” said the man.
“I want some pleasure in life.”
“Excitement and fashionable bonbons152, I suppose.”
The woman lost the remnant of her temper and flashed up on the instant.
“Gabriel, I won’t be jeered153 at like this. You are an utter brute154. Stay here and grub in your books like a hermit155. I am not going to be a martyr156 to your vanity. I’m sick of your sour face. Thank Heaven, I can find amiability outside my own home. I shall take a holiday.”
The man stood up and still stared apathetically157 at the fire. His shoulders drooped158 and he looked sullenly159 dejected.
“Try a change, dear, by all means,” he said; “you seem to need it. I am a bit of a bookworm, I know. You must make allowance for me. I suppose you don’t want such a dull dog to travel with you.”
“Thanks. I can enjoy myself better alone.”
“Very good.”
“There is no need for me to come between you and your genius. No. I am not so vain as to desire that.”
A quarter of an hour later Gabriel had drawn160 back the curtains and thrown open the French window that looked out upon the lawns. Snow sparkled at his feet. The trees rose dark and solemn from the immaculate plain of winter; the stars were frost-brilliant in the heavens. Near stood a tall cypress161 with its shelving ledges162 gleaming white with snow. The keen breath of the night wrapped the man in a clear and spiritual atmosphere.
Snow upon the trees and on the hills! Snow, pure, passionless, and silent, flickered163 over by the faint wisdom of the stars! All the sweat and turmoil164 of the world seemed congealed165 into soundless sleep. The blood of the earth lay frozen in its great passionate166 heart. Love, hardened into ice, stood a purple pool of lifeless wine. A million centuries might have elapsed till the sun had waned167 into a half-molten sphere; and the earth, cold and immaculate at last, rushed icy-bosomed through perpetual night. A dead planet, a ghost world, a moon staring spectre-like on the blood-red passions of living stars! A dead planet, treading the universal cycle, cold, sunless, and without sin! The million atomic struggles tombed; the ant-heap of humanity petrified168 in the past! What, then, are the woes169 of man, when God’s eyes have watched the death agony of a thousand worlds!
And yet this microcosm outvapors the universe. His passions aspire171 to stir the faintest ripples172 of the most infinite ether. Framed in the likeness173 of God, his sphere is limitless, his future unfathomed. The old mythologies174 raised him amid the stars. Mayhap in ages to come he is transmogrified into a radiant being moving amid the vapors170 of a more stupendous sun.
And Gabriel! Gabriel thought on matters less sidereal175 at that moment. The stars were given sedilia whence they might stare upon the portentous176 tragedy working in the soul of a minor poet. The man had married clay, clay hot from the kiln177 of fleshliness; it had warmed him, but now it was as cold as the very snow. He had bartered178 away the spirit, and materialism179 had him wrist and ankle. The small stars of idealism had toppled out of the heavens. He was setting them back one by one like an artist frescoing the dome53 of a temple. Still, a woman held him by the loins; the Church had blessed the embrace, for the perpetuation180 of demi-gods and the unctuous181 preservation182 of morality. The problem was threadbare enough in all truth, and yet problems possess the power of perpetual rejuvenescence. Sin, error, and pain, those elixirs183 of life, keep the world quivering in the primal184 throes of existence. The Christian185 and the Buddhist186 tug187 at humanity, head and tail, while Death throws pebbles188 into an open grave.
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| [复数]鹅卵石； 沙砾； 卵石，小圆石( pebble的名词复数 ) | |
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