Down to a favorite nook by the side of the church strolled John Rolfe and Pocahontas for the daily lesson.
“Tell Pocahontas again of the Son of the Great Spirit.”
In fervent4, glowing words he repeated the story of the sacrifice of the Incarnate5 Son of God. Springing to her feet and throwing up her arms she cried, “Pocahontas loves the Royal Christ,” then falling to her knees she faltered6 out, “Pocahontas would serve Him as the pale faces do.”
A deep joy filled the heart of the young teacher. One more soul for the angels to sing over.
There was great rejoicing among the colonists7 when they heard that Pocahontas was to be baptized, and Anne Laydon155 elected herself as one of her god-mothers. When it came to choosing a god-father, Pocahontas settled the matter by saying, “Adam be god-father—Pocahontas hurt Adam—called him Okee. Pocahontas sorry.”
Those who assembled to witness Pocahontas the Indian maid changed into Rebecca the Christian8 could not hear the echo of the priest’s voice which more than twenty years before had baptized her mother, Virginia Dare, on Roanoke Island. The echo was there, nevertheless.
Lingering fall paled slowly into the drab-hued tints9 of winter. Brown stalks of dead nettles10 stood stiffly up in soldierly array from the dry stubble around their feet. Somber11 cedars12 added a mournful note to the cheerless scene around the churchyard. Back and forth13 paced Rolfe muffled14 in his cloak, with a soft dark hat pulled low over his brow. The depressing note sounded by winter found a ready echo within his heart, a heart compounded of a curious mingling15 of Puritan and Cavalier.
In teaching Pocahontas to speak the English language he had unwittingly learned another language himself—the hitherto156 unknown language of love. His uncertain steps carried him past the grave where the wife who had forsaken16 all to follow him across to Virginia rested. Thoughts of her and his early life in England rose up like an accusing voice to confront the love he was nurturing17 in his heart.
Why had it been their misfortune that their lands stepped together in old England? Why were they betrothed18 in childhood, when neither knew what the future might bring forth? Why had he weakly yielded to the will of his father? Then he did not care, no love had been between him and the woman lying there; here an accusing voice made itself heard—alas, she had cared. Looks and loving attentions ranged themselves in a phantom19 picture to testify to her love.
He remembered his disapproval20 of the pretty colors she had worn to try to make herself comely21 in his eyes. Her face did not possess the alluring22 attraction of beautiful features, and was only redeemed23 from plainness by the changeful expression, indexing faithfully the varying emotions of the heart. How plain she had seemed when at his command she dressed in sober gray, and tight bands of straw-colored hair lay where157 the fluffy24 curls had strayed. In those days he had not thought it beseeming a godly matron to use the crisping pins or deck the sinful body in gay-colored robes.
A wave of pity for her, born of his love for another, swept over him at the remembrance of her words at the birth of their little daughter on the island of Bermuda.
“I would that it had been a boy, John. Then perhaps you might have learned to love the mother.”
No words of tender assurance and comfort had come to his lips; there was nothing in his heart to prompt them. His answer had been another blow to her hungry heart.
“We must make the best of it, wife,” he had replied, as he gravely kissed her brow, ignoring her loving lips.
Then the little Bermuda died on the voyage from the island to Virginia, and the mother followed soon after they reached Jamestown. The learned doctor spoke26 wisely of a frail27 constitution, worn out by the hardships of the voyage and wreck28 of the ship. The wise Hippocrates might have been mistaken—perhaps her heart had died for lack of nourishment29. He paused beside the long grave, and resting his hand upon158 the marble cross, held communion with his unloved dead.
“Wife, you know what it is to love, to feel the heart beat to suffocation30 in the presence of the beloved. It was not my fault that I could not give you what you craved31. Love will not go or come at the bidding of the will. In the clearer light in which you live let your pity and compassion32 cover my sins of neglect.”
A sense of comfort stole over him which he interpreted as forgiveness from the spirit dwelling33 where there is no marrying or giving in marriage. He felt free to think of his love for Pocahontas.
Hardly had he settled this matter with his conscience than Pride awoke and demanded a hearing. Many were the weary battles he fought with it. What would his equals think of a marriage between him and the Indian maiden34? He felt a just pride in his honorable line of ancestry35. Would he be stooping to a mesalliance? There were fair ladies in England whom he could wed25, for he had much influence to back him. They would bring name and fortune to add to his.
“Pocahontas is a princess, daughter of the King of Virginia,” whispered Inclination36.
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“True,” retorted Pride, “but can an Indian princess match with the house of Rolfe?”
Through the rest of the winter Inclination and Pride wrestled37 for the mastery, using the mind and body of Rolfe as a battleground. When spring came Pride gathered its forces and took a determined38 stand for its last great effort. Both in front and on the flank it brought up overwhelming arguments and charged down upon Rolfe as he sat under a copper39 beech40, alone with his thoughts.
“Listen to the contemptuous comments of the council and the grieved reproaches of your relations at home,” exhorted41 Pride. “Hear them saying, ‘Who would have thought that the stately and dignified42 Rolfe could have stooped to mingle43 his proud blood with that of a savage44, when he could have wedded45 with some gifted lady of England?’ Think of the example set the men of the colony. They will think that with such an illustrious precedent46 any Indian woman will be a fit mate. No need to wait for the coming of damsels from the mother country. Families of Indian squaws and half-breeds will be the fashion in Virginia.”
But Inclination brought the thousand calls of birds, and flowers with love-tipped160 darts48 to withstand the shock of the armies of Pride. Far away in the distance sounded the sweet call of the partridge to its mate; flocks of pigeons sailing overhead settled down on the eaves of the cabins to prune49 their silver breasts and lean their heads confidingly50 together; up in the tree above, a mocking-bird sang a love song of surpassing beauty to the coy mate brooding on a branch below, and its liquid notes, filled with passionate51 sweetness drawn52 from the deep wells of the heart, swept the routed ranks of Pride from the hard-fought field, leaving Inclination victor.
Throwing back his head, Rolfe cried aloud to the silence surrounding him:
“Let the world say what it will, I do not care! I have my own life to lead, and will not bow to the dictates53 of any human being.” Over his countenance54 flashed a look of exultation55. “I love her! Love her! Love her! She shall be mine that I may drink of her sweetness.”
The slowly dying sun, resting on a bank of lurid56 clouds, blazed up once more to welcome the new disciple57 of the god of love.
“Come, Lily,” said Rolfe on the ensuing morning, “let us take the canoe and go over to the pond where the lilies are in bloom.”
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As long as they were in sight of the palisades surrounding the settlement he rowed with strong vigorous strokes, but when the winding58 of the shore hid them from view he ceased and let the boat drift idly that he might feast his eyes on the glowing beauty of Pocahontas, who with half averted59 face was trailing a slender hand through the amber60 water. How exquisite61 was the line of beauty sweeping62 from the nape of her neck along the graceful63 curve of the spine64! What could rival the pomegranate flower upon her cheek?
“Fool, fool,” muttered Rolfe inwardly to himself, “to weigh for one single moment love for that flower with cold critical Pride.”
Picking up the paddles again, he sent the canoe into a shadowed pond filled with water-lilies, and canopied65 in green foliage66 picked out in golden sunbeams. Close by the bank the water-lilies grew thickest. There he rested again, while Pocahontas filled her lap with the blossoms. Gathering67 two or three, she held them off at arm’s length to admire their beauty, bestowing68 on them a loving glance that gave a jealous pang69 to Rolfe. A green and gold hummingbird70 darted71 down on gauzy wings to sip72 the honey glittering like dewdrops within their162 powdered stamens. Pocahontas held herself motionless, hardly breathing lest the tiny sprite should dart47 away. A faint tremor73 of her arm, and lo, it was gone.
Leaning forward and fixing his burning gaze upon her, Rolfe said:
“Lily does not look at John as she used to do. Her eyes hide away under the fringed lashes74. Is she angry with him?”
“Pocahontas could not be angry with her friend,” she murmured, busying herself with the lilies lying in her lap.
“Will Lily care when John leaves Jamestown, and goes to England, never to return?”
“John leave Pocahontas alone?” gasped75 the fear-stricken girl, clutching at her breast and scattering76 the lilies in every direction.
“Nay, Lily, John did not mean it; he was only trying to see if you cared as he did,” he exclaimed, springing to her side and crushing the lily petals78 under foot in his haste to reach her.
Drawing her to his breast, he pressed his cheek against her hair. “John loves you better than life. Will you come to his cabin and be his dearly loved wife?”
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For a few moments she lay on his breast as if stunned79, without power to move or speak. In one brief instant he has stabbed her with pain and offered her his love.
“Lily has not answered John.”
Raising her head she said with a mournful smile, “Pocahontas was exceeding sorrowful when her ‘father’ went away, but no knife pierced her heart as it did just now.” She stroked his cheek with a caressing80 hand, and outlining his lips with a dainty forefinger81 continued, “Let these lips say again, ‘John will not leave Pocahontas alone.’ She will fade away as the flowers do when the frost spirit lays his black hand upon them.”
“John could not leave his treasure alone,” he replied, crushing her to his breast and covering her face and hands with passionate kisses. “My heart’s darling, John could not live unless he could see the light in these dear eyes. Thus and thus he loves them,” imprinting82 a kiss on each. Bending back her head, his lips sought in a long clinging pressure the cupid’s kiss nestling in the hollow of her throat. “Now let my darling say she loves John better than all else in the world.”
Leaning over the boat as far as his jealous arm would let her, she gathered a164 tightly closed bud, a half-open one and a full-blown lily. Laying them on her lap, she said in a low sweet voice:
“Pocahontas will give John his answer in the language of the lily. Many moons ago—ah, so many moons it seems to the lily—a tightly closed bud slumbered83 upon its bed of green leaves, not knowing or caring for the world beyond. One morning a sunbeam came from the east and showered its smile upon her. New throbs84 of life pulsated85 in her heart as she rocked upon the ripples86. Under its sunny smile the green mantle87 parted and showed the white satin petals beneath. She called the sunbeam ‘father.’ A dark cloud arose and hid the sunbeam, leaving the half-awakened lily to breast the storm of sorrow and loneliness. Rude hands tore her from her resting-place to plant in strange waters. Longing88 for the father sunbeam beat the lily downward on its red brown stem. Then came another sunbeam and sent its cheering warmth straight to the heart of the lily. Stronger and stronger grew the sunbeam as the day grew older. Light, hope, and joy thrust apart the green mantle and trembling petals, laying bare the quivering golden heart wide open to the sun. Has Pocahontas answered John?”
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Bowing his head upon his breast, he murmured, “O God, I am not worthy89 of the great love of two such woman hearts.”
Love had taught him how to measure the rich gift of his dead wife’s heart.
It was with great reluctance90 that he left this earthly Eden to row back to Jamestown. He must write to Governor Dale and obtain his consent to his marriage with Pocahontas, now the Christian maid Rebecca.
Much to his surprise, a speedy answer giving consent to the nuptials91 came from the bluff92 Governor. An early day was appointed for the wedding and an invitation sent to Powhatan.
That grim old veteran had been filled with rage when he learned of his daughter’s capture by Argall. Messengers sent to barter93 for her ransom94 had been chased from his doors. Nevertheless, during her two years of captivity95 the murder of the colonists ceased. Security and peace had been brought to the settlement by the “Blessed Pocahontas.”
Rallying his fast-failing powers, he now attempted a dignified oration96 in which he gave his consent to Pocahontas’s marriage, but ere he reached its end, love for the long-absent daughter and the loneliness of old166 age, shattered his feeble attempt at dignity. His voice trailed away in a plaintive97 lament98.
“Powhatan is old, his days are few. Let there be peace between the real man and the pale-face. Opechancanough shall come with Nantaquas, bearing wedding garments for Pocahontas and presents for the new son, Rolfe.” Raising his palsied hands, only to let them fall helplessly into his lap again, he murmured in a far-away voice, “Powhatan is weary—the warriors99 are calling to him from the happy hunting-grounds. Let the pale faces depart.”
On the appointed day Anne Laydon, resplendent in matronly dignity, dressed the bride in the Indian costume which she was to wear for the last time.
A mantle of pigeon feathers, gleaming in iridescent100 colors against a shimmering101 gray background, covered a fawn-colored skirt embroidered102 in ruby-colored beads103. Her flowing black hair was held in place by the rope of pearls she wore when first she met Captain Smith.
The interior of the church had been decorated with great branches of laurel and trailing honeysuckle. Fragrant104 water lilies were banked upon the altar.
Up the aisle105 stalked Opechancanough and Nantaquas, son of Pocahontas, both167 decorated in all the glory of the Indian brave. Faces and arms were tattooed106 in birds and reptiles107 to do honor to the marriage of the Pearl of the Powhatans.
As Rolfe placed the plain gold band upon her finger he felt her hand tremble and pressed it to give her courage. Did she feel the imaginary circlet which long ago Smith had traced upon her finger?
“I pronounce you man and wife. Whomsoever God has joined together, let no man put asunder,” said the priest. As he ceased a quivering shaft108 of sunlight poured through the altar window, wrapping the kneeling couple in a shimmering veil of gold.
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nurturing
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warriors
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