Our various belongings—somewhat disreputable and travel-stained by this time—having been conveyed from the trap, we were told that tea was ready in the drawing-room, and followed the servant through two deep doorways2 into another room, also medi?val and panelled. “What is so rare as a day in June?” asks Mr. Lowell. Nothing, we can confidently reply, except a fire in July, and there on the brick hearth3 we saw with gloating, incredulous eyes a heap of burning turf sending a warm, dry glow into the room, and making red reflections in the antique silver tea-service that was placed on a table near it. For ever quelled4 were our vague anticipations5 of the hotel drawing-room and its fetishes, the ornate mirrors, the glass-shaded clocks, and the alabaster6 chimney ornaments7; and as we extended our muddy boots to the blaze, and sipped8 hot tea through a heavy coating of cream, we felt reconciled to the loss of an ideal.{141}
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After the clank of our tea-cups had continued for a few minutes, there was a stir under the frilled petticoat of the sofa, and a small black-and-tan head was put forth9 with an expression of modest but anxious inquiry10, the raised flounces making a poke11 bonnet12 round the face, and giving it an old-ladyish absurdity13, of which its owner was happily unaware14. We laughed—an unkindness which was followed by an expression of deep but amiable15 embarrassment16, and a{142} tapping on the floor that told of deprecatory tail waggings. We simultaneously17 extended a piece of bread-and-butter, and an animal, allied18 apparently19 to the houses of black-and-tan terrier and dachshund, at once came forward with its best manner and took our offerings with suave20 good breeding and friendliness21. A trick of sitting up and waving the fore-paws as a request for food was exhibited to us without delay, and further researches discovered a proficiency22 in that accomplishment23 of “trust” and “paid for,” which must be the bitterest problem in dog-education, and perhaps gives in later dog-life some free-thinking ideas about the unpractical nature of the exercise, and the flippancy24 of supreme25 beings generally. We said all this to each other, luxuriously26 and at great length, and had some pleasure in contrasting the refined behaviour of the Renvyle dog with the brutal27 cynicism of the Recess28 penwiper and the blasé effeteness29 of its fox-terrier. Under the influences of dark mahogany panelling and a low Queen Anne window we became mellow30 and thought{143}ful, and sank into soothing31 reflection on our natural affinity32 to what is cultured and artistic33. I am sure, at least, that my second cousin felt like that; she always has since the disastrous34 day on which a chiromantist looked at her hand and told her that it was essential to her to have nice surroundings.
I was beginning to feel a little acrid35 at this recollection when the door-handle turned in its place high up in the panels, and Mrs. Blake came in to see her visitors. That my cousin belonged to her county seemed to her a full and sufficient reason that she should welcome us as friends, and perhaps it gave us throughout our stay an advantage over the ordinary tourist in the more intimate kindnesses and opportunities for conversation that fell to our lot.
We looked as hard at Mrs. Blake as politeness would permit, while the broad columns of the Times seemed to rise before our mind’s eye, with the story sprinkled down it through examination and cross-examination of what she had gone through in the first years of the agitation36. It required an effort to{144} imagine her, with her refined, intellectual face and delicate physique, taking a stick in her hand and going out day after day to drive off her land the trespassing37 cattle, sheep, and horses that were as regularly driven on to it again as soon as her back was turned. We did not say these things to Mrs. Blake, but we thought about them a good deal while we sat and talked to her, and noticed the worn look of her face and the anxious furrows38 above her benevolent39 brows.
It was some time before we went up to see the two rooms of which we had been offered a choice. Both were low and panelled, both had low, long windows; in fact it will save trouble if we say at once that everything at Renvyle was long and low and panelled. The first room looked to the front of the house, and out over the Atlantic towards the muffled40 ghosts of Innis Boffin and Achill Islands; a fine view on a fine day, and impressive even at its worst; but to us, the room’s chiefest attraction was the four-poster bed, a magnificent kind of upper chamber41, like a{145} sumptuous42 private box, with gilded43 pillars, and carved work, and stretched canopy44; something to admire with the help of a catalogue at South Kensington. We felt, as we were taken down two long passages to view the other room, that it was a mere45 matter of form, and that the golden bed was too regal a circumstance to be abandoned. But before my cousin’s eye-glasses were fairly adjusted for the inspection46, we had begun to waver. The other bed was brass47 instead of gold, there was no denying that; but these windows looked out to a great ridge48 of mountains, crowded about the head of the bay, roses climbed to the sill, and the grassy49 stretch below was cut out in gaudy50 flower-beds. A peacock screamed just under the windows, and we saw him with his meek51 spouse52 trailing his tail about the grass among the flower-beds that were wired in from his ravaging53 beak54. I think it was the broad window seat in conjunction with the mountains that turned the scale—(the peacock also turned the scale, but in a different way, generally turning it at C in alt; but, as Mr. Rudyard{146} Kipling says, that is another story). We forewent the golden glories of the new Jerusalem bed, and remained where we were.
There was unconfessed peace in the certainty that it was not an afternoon for sight-seeing; rather for fervent55 shin-roasting at the drawing-room fire, blended with leisurely56, unsystematic assimilation of the Times for the last four days. Fishermen, apparently, take a holiday from newspapers, along with their other duties when they go a-fishing, and expose themselves to nothing more severe in the way of literature than the Field or Land and Water; at all events, these and a pre-historic Illustrated57 London News had been our only opportunities for keeping ourselves in touch with the outer world since we had left it. Boaconstrictor-like, we slowly gorged58 ourselves with solid facts, and then subsided59 into a ruminative60 torpor61, misanthropically62 delighted at the fact that we had chanced upon an intermediate period as to tourists, and that the owners of the letters and telegrams that we had seen in the hall had not arrived to claim{147}
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“SHE WAS AN AMERICAN LADY.”
Our most salient recollections of the rest of the evening are connected with the velvet64 delicacy65 of the lobster66 soup at dinner, and the tortured bashfulness of the English youth, who crept, mouse-like, into the room after the rest of the small party were seated, and raised neither his eyes nor his voice till the meal was ended. Directly he had finished, he hurried from the room and was seen no more. A lady who sat next us volunteered the information that he always acted just so, and that he spent his days, so far as anyone could guess, in slinking around the mountains. “He’s so shy,” she concluded, “that he’ll scrape a hole in his plate trying to get the last mite67 of butter off it rather than ask me to pass{150} the cooler.” It appeared that she was an American lady who had come to Renvyle to inquire into the advantages of the Land League and other kindred institutions, which was perhaps why she was in the habit of noticing little things. She certainly seemed to have noticed the Englishman a good deal.
Given a sloping, sunshiny bank of shingle68, a mass of yellow lichen-covered rocks between it and a purple-and-emerald streaked69 sea, a large empty morning, and a cock-shot, there is no reason why one should ever stop throwing stones. That is how my second cousin and I occupied ourselves the morning after our arrival at Renvyle. We had started early, with sketching70 materials and luncheon71, full of a high resolve to explore several miles of coastline, beginning with the famous Grace O’Malley’s Castle, and ending with afternoon tea and well-earned repose72.
No one can accuse these papers of a superfluity of local information. We have exercised a noble reticence73 in this respect, owing partly to a sympathetic dislike of being instructive, and partly also to the cir{151}cumstance that we never seemed able to collect any facts. We have questioned waiters, and found that they came from Dublin, and bothered oldest inhabitants only to find that they were either deaf or “had no English.” But Grace O’Malley is a lady of too pronounced a type to be ignored, and even our very superficial acquaintance with her history compels us at least to express our regret that such a female suffragist as she would have made has been lost to our century. If she had lived now she would have stormed her way into the London County Council, and sat upon that body in every sense of the word; and had the University of Oxford74 refused to allow her to graduate as whatever she wished, she would indubitably have sacked the town, and borne into captivity75 all the flower of the Dons. In the reign76 of Elizabeth, however, her energies were confined to the more remunerative77 pursuit of piracy78. She is known to have had a husband, but he does not seem to have occupied public attention to any extent, except secondarily, as when it is recorded that “the Lady{152} Grace O’Malley went to England to make a treaty with the Queen, and took her husband with her.” One of her strongholds was this square tower, that looks down with such amiable picturesqueness79 on the waters of Renvyle Bay, and we were told that on those rare occasions when she condescended80 to sleep ashore81 instead of afloat, a hawser82 leading from her ship was fastened to her bedpost, and the skipper had orders to haul on it if anything piratically promising83 should turn up.
I think we had begun to discuss this energetic Grace and her probable action in modern politics as we strolled across the fields between Renvyle and the sea. At all events, something beguiled84 us to sit down upon that slope of small round stones, when we were as yet but a quarter of a mile from the hotel, and then a flaunting85 tuft of white bladder campion on a point of yellow rock offered itself irresistibly86 as an object for stone-throwing. As we write this we are sensible of its disappointing vulgarity. The word “sketch,” if not, indeed, “sonnet,” should have closed the sentence;{153} but the humiliating fact remains87 that we simply lay there and pelted88 it till we had used up all the available pebbles89, and stiffened90 our shoulders for the next three days, and still the bladder campion flaunted91 in our despite. We crawled from that too fascinating shingle beach to the grass above it, and stretched ourselves there in heated fractiousness. How hot the sun was! How blue and green the sea! And how enchantingly the purple gloom of the mountains showed between the grey hairy legs of the thistles! And after an interval92 of healing torpor, how admirable was luncheon!
But after luncheon Grace O’Malley’s tower seemed farther off than ever, and relinquishing93 the vigorous projects of our morning start, we began to drift along the shore towards the pale stretches of the sands. We dawdled94 luxuriously across a low headland, where the mouths of the rabbit-burrows made yellow sandy patches in the coarse grass, and we slid down the crumbling95 slope on to the hard, perfect surface of the sand. Its creamy smoothness had something of the{154} romance of new-fallen snow, and none of its horrors. An insane and infantine ardour possessed96 us—to run, to build castles, to paddle! We came very near paddling, forgetful of our age, our petticoats, and the fact that no one ever yet was able to paddle as deep as they wanted to. In fact, we resolved that we would paddle, and we set off down the slanting97 glistening98 plane towards the far-off line of foam99. Here and there the blue sky lay reflected in the wet patches of sand, Achill Island was a cloudy possibility of the horizon, Croagh Patrick and Mweelrea, immense certainties of the north-eastern middle distance, and at our feet were laid lovely realities of long lace-like scarves of red seaweed, flattened100 out with such prim101 precision that we expected to find their Latin and English names written beneath them on the sand.
Another fifty yards would have brought us to the water’s verge102, when suddenly crossing our path at right angles, we came upon a long line of footmarks, masculine in size, pointed103 in shape, fraught104 with{155} sinister105 suggestion of spying eyes. A group of immense rocks, the leaders of a procession of boulders106 trailing glacier-wise from the mountains to the sea, easily suggested an ambush107, and the footmarks, as far as we could see, led in their direction. The same thought of the hidden watcher struck us both, and instantly and for ever abandoning the paddling scheme, we resolved to follow up the track of the footprints until we had routed the unworthy foot-printer from his lair108. Little prods109, as of a stick in the sand, accompanied the boot-marks, and at one spot certain rudimentary efforts in both art and literature made me think that the wearer of the boots was guiltless of object in his retreat upon the rocks. Suddenly, however, the marks lost their almost complacent110 evenness, and became extended and irregular, as if their owner had given himself over to ungoverned flight.
“What did I tell you?” remarked my cousin; “he was rushing off to hide before we should see him!”
We reached the rocks, and, with eyes that must have imparted to her pince-nez the destructive quality{156} of burning glasses, my cousin swept their weedy crevices111 to discover some indication of the spy.
“He must be at the other side,” she began, when our eyes simultaneously fell upon a small white object.
It was a sandwich.
It lay between two big rocks that leaned to each other, leaving just room for a slim person to squeeze through; and looking through the aperture112, we saw a long narrow vista113 of the sands, and on them a solitary114 flying speck—the Englishman.
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possessed
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