At Saltire Hall many tables were spread. John Strong, confident in purse and wine-cellar, revelled7 in his son’s publicity8 with a British pride. The coming oracle9 was himself modestly solemn and inclined towards silence. He kept Judith at his side, feeling in her nearness a peculiar10 yet powerful sense of comfort. The air was oleaginous with flattery and unction. Gabriel responded after lunch to the toast of his own success with a certain shy deference11 and timidity. He was one of those men apt to efface12 their convictions in the presence of strangers. His personality only unveiled itself to the intelligent sympathy of elect souls.
Many of the Saltire worthies13 were in attendance, attracted more as blue-bottles to fish-bones than being drawn14 thither15 by any superabundance of political fervor16. Here were Mr. Mince17, sublimely18 didactic and full of egregious19 hauteur20; Dr. Marjoy, debonair21 and practice-pushing; Mr. Lang, the local notary22, a shrivelled shred23 of sardonic24 whimsicality, a veritable wasp25, forever marring the mellifluous26 productions of the vicar’s tongue. Mrs. Mince, who had favored champagne27 and salmon28 mayonnaise, had retired29 to the hall with an overladen look, and Mrs. Marjoy was seated beside her on one of the lounges. The two ladies were as critical as ever, even after the benign30 influence of lunch. They were very eager to detect any evidence that might reveal to them the productiveness of their most Christian31 epistle.
“The poet fellow looks a bit worried,” said Mrs. Marjoy, fanning herself with her handkerchief.
“Any man ought to look worried,” declared the vicaress, “who is leading a shockingly evil and double-faced life. We cannot escape from the prick32 of conscience, my dear. God’s laws move slowly, but oh—they are sure. I wonder why on earth they don’t bring us some coffee.”
The florid lady entered upon a further disquisition concerning the iniquities33 of mankind at large. Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent35 with a pleasant sense of satiety36. She responded in monosyllables to Mrs. Marjoy’s dithyrambics on morals.
Sir Hercules Dimsdale, a hook-nosed veteran with a fine head of snowy hair, had drawn Gabriel aside into the conservatory37 for the purpose of political counsel. The baronet was a very pithy38 old gentleman, having imbibed39 a certain genial40 cynicism during his many years of political campaigning. Like a free lance, he had fought perhaps more for the love of fighting than from any intense enthusiasm of purpose.
“Ha, my boy, are you one of those rare young beings capable of listening to an old man’s patter?”
“I can take advice,” said Gabriel, with a smile.
“Then you are a paragon41 for your age. Don’t be too diffident to-day; arrogance42 counts for strength with the average Britisher. Stand up and talk like a Beaconsfield. Self-confidence is an Excalibur when the wielder43 is worthy44. Above all things you must pretend to convictions, even if you don’t believe half you say. Talk as though you thought every man on the other side the most infernal jackass that ever chewed carrots.”
“I will strive not to hide my light under a bushel,” said the neophyte45.
“Have you your crackers46 ready?”
“The customary gibes47, Sir Hercules.”
“Your comic condiments48. Always raise a laugh; it is nearly as effective as offering free drinks all round. And don’t forget to blarney the beggars. Stroke the local big-wigs the right way and they’ll purr like tom-cats; flatter their opinions; make ’em think they’re all statesmen.”
“I will do my best.”
“And then the catch sentiments, the gallery rhetoric—”
“Such as these: The grand and glorious future of our British empire! The splendid tenacity49 of the Anglo-Saxon race! Our stupendous commercial energy! The magnificent heroism50 of our army!”
“That’s it, that’s it. Always superlatives.”
“Claim all the fine statesmanship ever witnessed in the island as the special heirloom of our own party.”
“Exactly. And promise ’em everything, in reason and out of reason—old-age pensions, acres and cows, the moon, the immortal51 cherubim, anything, only be generous.”
“I will,” said the novice52; “it is very easy to promise. And afterwards—”
“Oh, hang the afterwards! Win the seat. That’s what you’re talking for.”
At three o’clock Gabriel and his patrons were caught up into glory and carried towards Rilchester by a coach and four. There was a lavish53 following of friendly chariots along the old Roman highway. It was down hill to Rilchester, and the procession rattled54 through Saltire with horns blowing and a great jingling55 of harness. Sir Hercules was still playing the Nestor in the body of the coach; the reminiscences of forty years had bubbled up under the airy touch of John Strong’s champagne.
Politics have bulked largely on occasions in the literary stock-pot; much of the material has been sucked to the marrow56. Nor was the pageant57 at Rilchester that day less commonplace or more unusual than any tramp can see for the shoving, perhaps ten times in his mortal career. There was a scattered58 gathering59 in the streets, bunting overhead, a moderate mob outside the public hall, a portrait of the Queen loyally pilloried60 over the stone balcony. Within there was the inevitable61 gathering of local somebodies on the platform, the usual assemblage of local nobodies in the hall. There was the eternal green baize table, the array of bent62-cane chairs behind a bulwark63 of palms and flowers with the florist’s card carefully inserted amid the decorations. There were the usual smiling dames, the usual earnest patricians64.
The proceedings65 may be summarized on account of the dismal66 prosaicisms of such a scene. Sir Hercules Dimsdale, as chairman, taking his applause with dignity, prepared to warm the hearts of those assembled towards the person of the projected candidate. With his usual genial wit and solid complacency he professed68 himself confident of the enthusiastic support of the meeting. There was never a more promising69 politician than the gentleman now presenting himself to the constituency. In Sir Hercules’ belief this young man was marked out by fortune for a brilliant and valuable career. Rilchester would be proud in the future of having given parliamentary birth to one of the ablest men of the younger generation.
It was after some such florid preamble70 that Gabriel stood up to face the most patriotic71 electors of Rilchester. He was palpably nervous, in a modest fashion that appealed perhaps to the parental72 instincts of his auditors73. And yet a certain circumstance had come near marring his first serious public attempt at oratory74. Looking down, he had seen suddenly under the fringe of palms a girl’s face staring up to his, a face aureoled with gold, the face of Joan Gildersedge, that Beatrice from the Rilchester hills.
Joan had heard incidentally from Gabriel of the affair, and had plotted in her heart how to behold75 the man’s triumph. She had come into Rilchester on foot and waited for an hour outside closed doors to gain good vantage. As she sat in the dingy76 hall she seemed to hallow it into a cedarn77 temple. There was a species of celestial78 pride upon her face and an eagerness that was almost pained in its intense thirst for the man’s triumph. To her the whole affair was vividly79 impressive, a most solemn conclave80 gathered for great ends. The chicanery81, the stultiloquent bathos of much of it was hid from her ken34. She took the applause as demonstrating enthusiasm and soulfulness, and hyperbolical oratory as expressing grandeur82 of conviction.
The recognition staggered Gabriel’s brain. Like a glare of light the girl’s face blinded thought for the moment. He was conscious only of her presence, the solemn stare of her gray eyes, the straining eagerness upon her lips. She was leaning forward like one who waits to catch the first notes of some noble song. Gabriel stood stiffly with head thrown back and shoulders squared, the fingers of his right hand fidgeting his notes. Strain as he would the thread of speech had broken on his tongue. Those on the platform, taking his silence for a lapse83 of memory, applauded zealously84, an acclaim85 that was echoed through the hall.
Gabriel looked again at Joan and found his manhood on her face. Intuition spoke86 to him of the jealous pride that burned within her woman’s heart; she had come to see him triumph; it was enough. The wistful face aureoled with gold lifted him inspiredly above the present, transfigured the prosaic67 building into a shrine87 of grandeur, elevated the occasion above the common concourse to which it pandered88. A breath as from Olympus touched his lips. He spoke, kindled89, and held his theme.
Even the local socialists90 present were not averse91 to acknowledging the virtues92 of an honest optimism. As for the Primrose Dames, they were clapping their gloved hands with the furor93 of enthusiastic amateurs at a public rehearsal94. The electors of Rilchester thundered approbation95; Sir Hercules beamed on the assembly like a Moses. Thirty eloquent96 minutes had not caught Gabriel’s tongue wavering; he had flown from flight to finish. The reporter of the Rilchester Guardian97, sucking inspiration from his pencil, jotted98 down certain euphemistical phrases—“the new Demosthenes,” “Burke redivivus,” and the like.
Questions were launched and answered; amiable99 passes of humor glittered, rapier-like, in the air. The assemblage with hoof100 and hand expressed itself enraptured101, chanted “Rule Britannia” with great fervor, listened with docility102 to the meanderings of various local comets, applauded, and dispersed103 with glee. For Gabriel, keen of brain and flushed of face, there was a single trophy104, the triumph fire in a woman’s eyes. For him a golden head moved through the press, sunning the prosaic shadows with Olympian gold.
“Excellent,” said Sir Hercules to John Strong, who was paternally105 elated; “a most inspiring oration2, though a trifle bold. Thought the boy had stage fright at the first push. Excellent.”
“A slap-up jaw,” quoth the Conservative agent to a gentleman who wore a red carnation106 and yellow gaiters. “Fine young stallion. Well run him in with a ‘thou’ to the good, you bet.”
“Who would have thought it!” said Mrs. Mince. “Why, he spoke quite intelligently, though, of course, after Jacob’s eloquence107 it sounded flat and dull to me. I wonder who gave him all his ideas?”
“Dissolute young men have oily tongues,” said Mrs. Marjoy. “There will be a big crash in the Strong ‘market’ some day,” and she leered suggestively.
At Saltire Hall there was much decking of tables and shimmering108 of glass that night. Success spoke in the breath of the flowers and the bubbling mirth of champagne. Wines, white and red, flooded many dainty lips. Silks shivered and elaborate coiffures glimmered109 under the lamps. The panelled hall was a green gloom of shrubs110 and palms. The stairways shone with color. Luxury smiled in silver and gold, from the gleaming, snowy tables, from tapestries111 purple and green, from parquetry burnished112 like brass113. Music moved in the air. Amethyst114, diamond, and ruby115 breathed on the bosoms116 of women. Laughter, like a carillon of bells, ran through the well-thronged rooms.
The noise of an ephemeral triumph rang loud in Gabriel’s ears that night. The gilt117 card of social excellence118 was proffered119 to his fingers; the perfume of a facile and flattering life ascended120 into his nostrils121. And yet through the gilded122 meshes123 of the net the one face gazed, fair as Truth, with eyes looking straight to the heart. Eyes, crystal bright, yet dim with immortal dreams!
Thus it came about that before the rout124 grew silent John Strong missed his son from the glare of the many lamps. Judith, his sister, went in search of him, clad in a rust-red gown that made more vivid the beauty of her hair and the white brilliance125 of her skin. In the library she found him, with a solitary126 candle burning on the mantel-shelf and the room in gloom. He was standing127 by an open window with the wind sweeping128 in as he looked out into the night.
“Gabriel,” she said, as she touched his sleeve.
He started, for he had not heard her enter and thought himself alone.
“Why have you left us?”
He did not look at her, but still stared out into the dark.
“I am tired,” he said.
“Of course, dear.”
“Is the nonsense over?”
Judith took his hand between hers and he did not resist her. Her voice was restful as a quiet wind through trees.
“What is the matter?” she asked him.
“Nothing.”
“Can you not tell me, your sister?”
He stood with slouched shoulders and face darkened in the shadows. The candle smoked and flickered129 on the mantel-shelf; the books glimmered gilt-lettered in the gloom like parables130 half cloaked in mystery.
“I am very weary of all this,” he said.
“When you have done so splendidly!”
“Splendidly, indeed!”
“Yes.”
“It was not I, but the soul of another in me.”
“Still these dark sayings.”
“All is dark, dear, save for the stars in the vault131, and I have one star.”
“Gabriel!”
“All this is glare and mockery and discord132. I hate, I loathe133 it. Only to be in the dark alone—that is all I desire. Leave me alone, dear, to-night.”
“But your father and the others?”
“They are content after their lights, so am I—here.”
“Come for my sake.”
“No, dear.”
“Not even for me?”
He bent and kissed her forehead.
“I obey my thoughts,” he said, “and they are too sacred for anything save solitude134. Darkness is good in its season. We see less of earth, more of the universe. Good-night.”
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trophy
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