“Oh! how sweet to feel and know
E. Taylor.
“Henceforth I learn that to obey is best,
And love with fear the only God; to walk
As in His presence; ever to observe
His providence3, and on Him sole depend,
Merciful over all His works, with good
Still overcoming evil, and by small
Accomplishing great things, by things deemed weak
Subverting4 worldly strong, and worldly wise
Milton.
It is the darkest hour of night, that hour which precedes the dawn. A thousand stars are spangling the deep azure6 of the sky, looking down, like angels’ eyes, on a world of sin and sorrow. Augustine’s gaze is fixed7 upon one beauteous planet, which, in its calm light, outshines the tremulous glory of the constellations8. Mabel has wearily fallen asleep where she sits, resting her head on her arm, the piercing cold of the upper air making her slumber9 the deeper. The earl, still stretched at the bottom of the car, is also finding a short oblivion of woe11, and in dreams is wandering again upon the warm, bright, joyous12 earth, with Annabella at his side.
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Augustine, on his dizzy height, in the stillness of the hour, feels himself alone with his God. The conversation held at the vicarage with his brother now recurs13 to his mind with a deep and solemn effect. Augustine draws a mental parallel between his own present awful position and that in which his soul has for so long unfearingly remained. Has he not been, as it were, floating between earth and heaven, carried up by his pride, full inflated14 as that swollen15 ball which is at this moment bearing him onward16 perhaps to destruction! Has he any reason to rejoice that he has risen high above the mass of his fellow-creatures, if his very exaltation prove the means of his deeper fall!
“Yes, fool that I was! I believed my intellect formed to pierce through the mists, to rise above the clouds, to find for itself a path that no mortal had discovered before! With proud presumption17 I refused the guidance of Faith in those regions to which Faith alone has access. I trusted to reason—philosophy—genius!—what have they done for me here? I have proved unequal even to the task of regulating the motions of this silken machine, yet I feared not to steer18 my own way through the vast mysteries of spiritual knowledge! As regards the soul as well as its mortal tenement19, I have been the sport of the changing winds, enwrapt in the seething20 mist, struggling on through thickening darkness—and to what point now have I reached? I see the[224] calm, still stars above me, shining like the eternal truths which audacious Pride once dared to question; I view the orbs21 which for ages unnumbered have kept their steady course through infinite space, upheld by the Power and Wisdom whose mysteries I vainly sought to fathom22; earth’s lights have all faded and gone, the brightest illumine no more, the clearest throw no ray on this darkness,—the gems23 of the firmament24 alone, unchanged and unapproachable by man, are glittering over me still!
“Yes, I feel myself an atom in the vast universe which is filled by God! And yet man’s moral responsibility—the awful trust of an immortal25, an accountable soul—give a fearful dignity to him still! Am I fit to appear in the presence of Him before whose throne I so soon may stand? Is there anything in myself to which I can cling for support in the day of judgment26? Can I plead my merits—my virtues—my works? No; the truth is forced upon me here, which mortal presumption so long refused to acknowledge. As well might I fling myself from this car, and falling a thousand fathoms27 hope to reach the earth uninjured, as trust to find safety for a guilty and sentenced soul without the one sacrifice for sin, the atonement provided for those who with child-like faith rest upon it, and it only!”
As Augustine pursued his solemn meditations28, gradually the stars became dimmer at the approach of the dawn, even as the heavenly lights vouchsafed[225] to guide us here, will pale in the radiance of a more perfect knowledge of a more glorious day; the deep blue sky assumed a somewhat lighter29 hue30, and the looming31 outline of the balloon was seen more distinctly against it.
“Do my eyes deceive me,” thought Augustine, “or is the curve of that outline less bold than it appeared in the light of the setting sun? It may be but fancy, but it seems as though the ball were less fully32 inflated; I could imagine that I even perceive what resembles a wrinkle in the silk. God in mercy grant that this new hope be not an illusion!” As he spoke33, something like the smoke-wreath from the mouth of a discharged cannon34 floated upwards35 not far from the car, then another and another, all ascending36 lightly from beneath, and mounting high above the balloon.
“The clouds appear to rise!” exclaimed Augustine eagerly; “a sure sign that we ourselves are descending37!” He started from his seat, and grasping a rope, looked over into the abyss.
The dim grey twilight38 scarcely yet sufficed to show objects distinctly, though not a single cloud now obscured the wide spreading prospect39 below. Augustine strained his eyes with gazing for several minutes before he became fully assured of the nature of what lay beneath him. One long faint streak40 of red at length clearly defined the line where the sky met the rounded horizon; there was no object, not[226] the smallest, to break that hard sharp line which separated misty41 blue from deepening crimson42; nor swelling43 hill, nor rising mountain was there; Augustine’s pulse beat quicker and he gasped44 as for breath, for he was now convinced of two facts, each of thrilling importance,—that the Eaglet was quickly descending, and that it was descending into the sea!
“The breeze must have borne us above the Channel, and may bear us across it, if for but one or two hours we can keep the balloon aloft! But the gas is evidently fast escaping, and unless I lighten the car, we shall soon be precipitated45 into the wide waste of waters beneath!”
With almost the rapidity of thought, Augustine caught up the large bag of ballast and flung it out of the car. In the lapse46 of—as it seemed—two or three minutes, a splashing sound distinctly came from below, the first noise exterior47 to the car which had reached the ear of Augustine for many a weary hour. Slight as it was, it seemed sufficient to startle the earl from his sleep; he opened his eyes, and gave a little start of horror at the sight of the vast ball above him, which in an instant brought back to him the consciousness of what had occurred.
“It is very, very cold,” she murmured drowsily49; “and is the night really gone, and the beautiful[227] morning breaking? These soft rosy50 clouds are above us now, perhaps we may see—”
“Do not look down, Mabel!” cried her uncle.
But the word came too late,—the trembling girl was already surveying the broad, smooth ocean plain.
“Where can we be going?” she exclaimed; “it is one flat blue expanse below, and there is a scent51 as if from the sea!”
“We must be over the Channel,” said Dashleigh; “Augustine Aumerle, what are you doing?”
His friend had lifted up his box of instruments and flung it over the side; the basket then followed. Augustine laid his hand on the grappling irons, but paused, till, at a shorter interval52 than before, the splash was heard from the sea.
“Are we sinking down?” exclaimed Mabel and Dashleigh as if with one breath.
Augustine nodded an assent53, and threw over the grappling irons. Nothing remained in the car which could be flung away to lighten the balloon.
“Oh! what will become of us?—what will become of us?” exclaimed Mabel, clasping her hands in terror, as death in a new form stared her in the face.
“Nothing will keep the balloon up,” said Augustine Aumerle; “we must commend our souls to a merciful God.”
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“Can you see no ship?” cried the earl; “no object moving on the waters?” and starting up in the eagerness of hope, he himself looked over the side of the car, but almost sickening at the dizzy prospect, sank back again to his place.
How gloriously burst the bright rays streaming from the eastern horizon! how splendidly rose the sun as a monarch54 rejoicing in his might, crimsoning55 the floating clouds, and casting across the waters a path of quivering gold! It struck the trembling Mabel with a sense of awful beauty, as nearer and nearer the Eaglet dropped toward ocean’s liquid grave! Again the coloured stripes of the ball shone bright in the light of day, but it was with something of horror that the travellers now regarded that which Mabel had once playfully spoken of as an emblem56 of swollen pride. It had carried them aloft through the clouds to dreary57, deathlike isolation58, but failed to support them now in the hour of peril59 and distress60.
Down—down—down—yet with more rapid and breathless descent, not in perpendicular61 fall, but borne sideways by the freshening sea breeze, sank the once towering Eaglet. The white crests62 of the billows could now be distinguished63, and even the fin10 of a porpoise64 that flashed in the sunbeam.
“Might not the car float?” exclaimed Mabel; “it is so buoyant and light!”
“It possibly might for a time,” replied Augustine,[229] “were it not attached to this frightful65 incumbrance. Dashleigh,” he asked suddenly, “have you a knife? I parted yesterday with mine.”
“For what use?” inquired the earl, as he gave a large one which he happened to have on his person.
There is no time for reply, the Eaglet is nearing the sea; down—down—down—till with a violent shock which splashes the spray many feet into the air, the car strikes the waves and rebounds66 again, its dripping, gasping68 occupants clinging hard to prevent themselves from being flung out into the sea.
Down again—still with terrific violence; it is a frightful scene! The spirit of a demon69 appears to animate70 the balloon,—a spirit that delights in torturing its miserable71 victims, as it goes sweeping72, dashing, whirling on, now skimming at some height above the surface of the waters, now suddenly dipping so low that the half uttered shriek73 of Mabel is stifled74 in the gasping sob75 of suffocation76! No wretch77 fastened to a wild horse plunging78, rearing, bounding on its way, with steaming nostril79 and foaming80 breath, ever endured the horrors of those dragged onward by that terrific engine of death, while the half submerged car leaves a long white bubbling track on the ocean!
Augustine alone loses not his presence of mind in this crisis of unutterable horror. Though the violent,[230] plunging, unsteady motion of the partly exhausted81 balloon makes it difficult for his half drowned companions to keep their seats, he manages to retain his footing without clinging, for both his hands are engaged in a desperate effort to cut asunder82 the cords of the balloon. It is their only chance of life,—a miserable chance indeed, but better even to sink at once in the watery83 depths, than to be thus given again and again a horrible taste of death, to be snatched away from it for a moment, only to be precipitated downwards84 once more! With the energy of despair the drowning man wields85 the flashing knife, one after another the ropes are cut, each that gives way rendering86 more fearful the danger of the party—for at length the horizontal position of the car is actually reversed, the wicker is suspended by a single cord, and it is only by clasping and clinging with strained muscles and desperate grasp, that the terrified ones can retain hold of this, the one frail87 barrier between themselves and destruction!
Augustine awaits the moment when the lower end of the car just touches the waves, and then the last cord is severed88! In an instant the light frame is dashed on the billows, the waves splashing around and over it and the three who almost miraculously89 have retained their places within it. The car of wicker work lined with oil-skin is not ill calculated on an emergency to act the part of a boat, but it is[231] nearly full of water, and it is only by almost superhuman efforts in baling out the brine with Mabel’s straw hat and Dashleigh’s beaver90 (Augustine’s is floating far on the waves) that the little shell can be kept afloat.
In the meantime the balloon, released from the weight of the car, bursts upwards like a bird of prey91 soaring from a field of blood; or, to repeat my former figure, as if the demon of pride, baffled and wounded like Apollyon in his conflict with Christian93, had “spread his dark wings on the blast, and fled away to his own habitation!” A wild sensation of joy, even in the midst of her terror, flashed across the mind of Mabel, as she saw that terrible minister of destruction borne far away—and for ever!
Perilous94 as was the situation of the voyagers in their fragile boat, drenched95 as they were with salt water, hungry, exhausted, their throats and lips parched96 with burning thirst, they seemed but to have exchanged one form of misery97 for another. And yet the change from their late frightful position brought with it some sense of relief. They were touching98, though not solid earth, yet some portion of their native sphere; they were no longer floating in an ocean of air, cut off by an impassable gulf99 from the faintest hope of human assistance. There was comfort in the sight of the lank100 brown sea-weed borne on the floating waves, comfort in the sight of[232] the white winged birds that dipped in the flashing brine!
But as the day advanced endurance was sorely tried. Without rudder to steer the little car, or oar92 to propel, the sufferers could not shut out the prospect before them of almost certain death. The perpetual baling out of the water which leaked into their crazy boat, became an exhausting effort which their fainting frames could not for many hours sustain. Even Augustine’s features began to acquire the rigid101 sternness of despair; and the earl, in silent supplication102, commended a young widow to God.
Suddenly Mabel exclaimed with wild transport: “A sail, a sail in the horizon!”
“But a sea-gull floating on the waves,” replied Augustine, shading his eyes with his hand from the glare of a meridian103 sun.
The earl stretched out his blue corpse-like fingers in the direction indicated by Mabel, and then, raising his hand on high, exclaimed, “It is a sail—help is near—God be praised! God be praised!”
Then followed a time of intense, almost maddening excitement. Augustine stood erect104 in the car, his tall form raised to its utmost height, as he waved again and again a kerchief as a signal of distress.
“Oh, if they should not see it!” exclaimed Mabel
“Or seeing, disregard it,” murmured the earl.
Again and again a shrill105 cry for help sounded[233] over the blue expanse. If the freshening breeze bore back that cry, so that it reached not the ears for which it was intended, that same breeze was filling the canvas and bringing near and more near the wished for,—the prayed for relief!
“I think that they see us!” cried Augustine, for the first time during that terrible day a gleam of joy relaxing his features.
“We must not relax our efforts,” said her uncle, “or we shall perish even in the view of safety.”
She speeds on,—the gallant107 bark,—dashing onwards “like a thing of life;” the figure of the steersman is now distinctly visible at her prow108, his rough hail rings clear over the water,—was ever sight so welcome, was ever sound so sweet! Joy in that never-to-be-forgotten moment proves more overpowering even than terror, and the firmness which had stood the strain of most intense anxiety and fear gives way in the rebound67 of rapturous thanksgiving and delight!
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inflated
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