The room fronted the west, but a black cloud, barred with red, robbed the hour of twilight's tranquil1 charm. Shadows haunted it, lurking2 in corners like spies set there to watch the man who stood among them mute and motionless as if himself a shadow. His eye turned often to the window with a glance both vigilant3 and eager, yet saw nothing but a tropical luxuriance of foliage4 scarcely stirred by the sultry air heavy with odors that seemed to oppress not refresh. He listened with the same intentness, yet heard only the clamor of voices, the tramp of feet, the chime of bells, the varied5 turmoil6 of a city when night is defrauded7 of its peace by being turned to day. He watched and waited for something; presently it came. A viewless visitant, welcomed by longing8 soul and body as the man, with extended arms and parted lips received the voiceless greeting of the breeze that came winging its way across the broad Atlantic, full of healthful cheer for a home-sick heart. Far out he leaned; held back the thick-leaved boughs9 already rustling10 with a grateful stir, chid11 the shrill12 bird beating its flame-colored breast against its prison bars, and drank deep draughts14 of the blessed wind that seemed to cool the fever of his blood and give him back the vigor15 he had lost.
A sudden light shone out behind him filling the room with a glow that left no shadow in it. But he did not see the change, nor hear the step that broke the hush16, nor turn to meet the woman who stood waiting for a lover's welcome. An indefinable air of sumptuous17 life surrounded her, and made the brilliant room a fitting frame for the figure standing18 there with warm-hued muslins blowing in the wind. A figure full of the affluent19 beauty of womanhood in its prime, bearing unmistakable marks of the polished pupil of the world in the grace that flowed through every motion, the art which taught each feature to play its part with the ease of second nature and made dress the foil to loveliness. The face was delicate and dark as a fine bronze, a low forehead set in shadowy waves of hair, eyes full of slumberous21 fire, and a passionate22 yet haughty23 mouth that seemed shaped alike for caresses24 and commands.
A moment she watched the man before her, while over her countenance25 passed rapid variations of pride, resentment26, and tenderness. Then with a stealthy step, an assured smile, she went to him and touched his hand, saying, in a voice inured27 to that language which seems made for lovers' lips--
With a slight recoil29, a glance of soft detestation veiled and yet visible, Warwick answered like a satiric30 echo--
"Only a month betrothed, and yet so fond and jealous, Ottila!"
Unchilled by the action, undaunted by the look, the white arm took him captive, the beautiful face drew nearer, and the persuasive32 voice asked wistfully--
"Was it of me you thought when you turned with that longing in your eye?"
"No."
"Was it of a fairer or a dearer friend than I?"
"Yes."
The black brows contracted ominously33, the mouth grew hard, the eyes glittered, the arm became a closer bond, the entreaty34 a command.
"Let me know the name, Adam."
"Self-respect."
She laughed low to herself, and the mobile features softened35 to their former tenderness as she looked up into that other face so full of an accusing significance which she would not understand.
"I have waited two long hours; have you no kinder greeting, love?"
"I have no truer one. Ottila, if a man has done unwittingly a weak, unwise, or wicked act, what should he do when he discovers it?"
"Confess, dear sinner; I will shrive you and grant absolution for the past, whatever it may be."
"How much would you do for love of me?"
"Anything for you, Adam."
"Then give me back my liberty."
He rose erect39 and stretched his hands to her with a gesture of entreaty, an expression of intense desire. Ottila fell back as if the forceful words and action swept her from him. The smile died on her lips, a foreboding fear looked out at her eyes, and she asked incredulously--
"Do you mean it?"
If he had lifted his strong arm and struck her, it would not have daunted31 with such pale dismay. An instant she stood like one who saw a chasm41 widening before her, which she had no power to cross. Then as if disappointment was a thing impossible and unknown, she seized the imploring42 hands in a grasp that turned them white with its passionate pressure as she cried--
"No, I will not! I have waited for your love so long I cannot give it up; you shall not take it from me!"
But as if the words had made the deed irrevocable, Warwick put her away, speaking with the stern accent of one who fears a traitor43 in himself.
"I cannot take from you what you never had. Stand there and hear me. No; I will have no blandishments to keep me from my purpose, no soft words to silence the hard ones I mean to speak, no more illusions to hide us from each other and ourselves."
"Adam, you are cruel."
"Better seem cruel than be treacherous44; better wound your pride now than your heart hereafter, when too late you discover that I married you without confidence, respect, or love. For once in your life you shall hear the truth as plain as words can make it. You shall see me at my best as at my worst; you shall know what I have learned to find in you; shall look back into the life behind us, forward into the life before us, and if there be any candor45 in you I will wring46 from you an acknowledgment that you have led me into an unrighteous compact. Unrighteous, because you have deceived me in yourself, appealed to the baser, not the nobler instincts in me, and on such a foundation there can be no abiding47 happiness."
"Go on, I will hear you." And conscious that she could not control the will now thoroughly48 aroused, Ottila bent49 before it as if meekly50 ready to hear all things for love's sake.
A disdainful smile passed over Warwick's face, as with an eye that fixed51 and held her own, he rapidly went on, never pausing to choose smooth phrases or soften36 facts, but seeming to find a relish52 in the utterance53 of bitter truths after the honeyed falsehood he had listened to so long. Yet through all the harshness glowed the courage of an upright soul, the fervor54 of a generous heart.
"I know little of such things and care less; but I think few lovers pass through a scene such as this is to be, because few have known lives like ours, or one such as we. You a woman stronger for good or ill than those about you, I a man untamed by any law but that of my own will. Strength is royal, we both possess it; as kings and queens drop their titles in their closets, let us drop all disguises and see each other as God sees us. This compact must be broken; let me show you why. Three months ago I came here to take the chill of an Arctic winter out of blood and brain. I have done so and am the worse for it. In melting frost I have kindled55 fire; a fire that will burn all virtue56 out of me unless I quench57 it at once. I mean to do so, because I will not keep the ten commandments before men's eyes and break them every hour in my heart."
He paused a moment, as if hotter words rose to his lips than generosity58 would let him utter, and when he spoke59 again there was more reproach than anger in his voice.
"Ottila, till I knew you I loved no woman but my mother; I wooed no wife, bought no mistress, desired no friend, but led a life austere60 as any monk's, asking only freedom and my work. Could you not let me keep my independence? Were there not men enough who would find no degradation61 in a spiritual slavery like this? Would nothing but my subjection satisfy your unconquerable appetite for power?"
"Did I seek you, Adam?"
"Yes! Not openly, I grant, your art was too fine for that; you shunned62 me that I might seek you to ask why. In interviews that seemed to come by chance, you tried every wile63 a woman owns, and they are many. You wooed me as such as you alone can woo the hearts they know are hardest to be won. You made your society a refreshment64 in this climate of the passions; you hid your real self and feigned65 that for which I felt most honor. You entertained my beliefs with largest hospitality; encouraged my ambitions with a sympathy so genial66 that I thought it genuine; professed67 my scorn for shammery, and seemed an earnest woman, eager to find the true, to do the right; a fit wife for any man who desired a helpmate, not a toy. It showed much strength of wit and will to conceive and execute the design. It proved your knowledge of the virtues68 you could counterfeit69 so well, else I never should have been where I am now."
"Your commendation is deserved, though so ungently given, Adam."
"There will be no more of it. If I am ungentle, it is because I despise deceit, and you possess a guile70 that has given me my first taste of self-contempt, and the draught13 is bitter. Hear me out; for this reminiscence is my justification71; you must listen to the one and accept the other. You seemed all this, but under the honest friendliness72 you showed lurked73 the purpose you have since avowed74, to conquer most entirely the man who denied your right to rule by the supremacy76 of beauty or of sex alone. You saw the unsuspected fascination77 that detained me here when my better self said 'Go.' You allured78 my eye with loveliness, my ear with music; piqued79 curiosity, pampered80 pride, and subdued81 will by flatteries subtly administered. Beginning afar off, you let all influences do their work till the moment came for the effective stroke. Then you made a crowning sacrifice of maiden82 modesty83 and owned you loved me."
Shame burned red on Ottila's dark cheek, and ire flamed up in her eyes, as the untamable spirit of the woman answered against her will--
"It was not made in vain; for, rebellious84 as you are, it subdued you, and with your own weapon, the bare truth."
He had said truly, "You shall see me at my best as at worst." She did, for putting pride underneath85 his feet he showed her a brave sincerity86, which she could admire but never imitate, and in owning a defeat achieved a victory.
"You think I shall deny this. I do not, but acknowledge to the uttermost that, in spite of all resistance, I was conquered by a woman. If it affords you satisfaction to hear this, to know that it is hard to say, harder still to feel, take the ungenerous delight; I give it to you as an alms. But remember that if I have failed, no less have you. For in that stormy heart of yours there is no sentiment more powerful than that you feel for me, and through it you will receive the retribution you have brought upon yourself. You were elated with success, and forgot too soon the character you had so well supported. You thought love blinded me, but there was no love; and during this month I have learned to know you as you are. A woman of strong passions and weak principles; hungry for power and intent on pleasure; accomplished87 in deceit and reckless in trampling88 on the nobler instincts of a gifted but neglected nature. Ottila, I have no faith in you, feel no respect for the passion you inspire, own no allegiance to the dominion89 you assert."
"You cannot throw it off; it is too late."
It was a rash defiance90; she saw that as it passed her lips, and would have given much to have recalled it. The stern gravity of Warwick's face flashed into a stern indignation. His eye shone like steel, but his voice dropped lower and his hand closed like a vice91 as he said, with the air of one who cannot conceal92 but can control sudden wrath93 at a taunt94 to which past weakness gives a double sting--
"It never is too late. If the priest stood ready, and I had sworn to marry you within the hour, I would break the oath, and God would pardon it, for no man has a right to embrace temptation and damn himself by a life-long lie. You choose to make it a hard battle for me; you are neither an honest friend nor a generous foe95. No matter, I have fallen into an ambuscade and must cut my way out as I can, and as I will, for there is enough of this Devil's work in the world without our adding to it."
"You cannot escape with honor, Adam."
"I cannot remain with honor. Do not try me too hardly, Ottila. I am not patient, but I do desire to be just. I confess my weakness; will not that satisfy you? Blazon96 your wrong as you esteem97 it; ask sympathy of those who see not as I see; reproach, defy, lament98. I will bear it all, will make any other sacrifice as an atonement, but I will 'hold fast mine integrity' and obey a higher law than your world recognizes, both for your sake and my own."
She watched him as he spoke, and to herself confessed a slavery more absolute than any he had known, for with a pang99 she felt that she had indeed fallen into the snare100 she spread for him, and in this man, who dared to own his weakness and her power, she had found a master. Was it too late to keep him? She knew that soft appeals were vain, tears like water on a rock, and with the skill that had subdued him once she endeavored to retrieve101 her blunder by an equanimity102 which had more effect than prayers or protestations. Warwick had read her well, had shown her herself stripped of all disguises, and left her no defence but tardy103 candor. She had the wisdom to see this, the wit to use it and restore the shadow of the power whose substance she had lost. Leaving her beauty to its silent work, she fixed on him eyes whose lustre104 was quenched105 in unshed tears, and said with an earnest, humble106 voice--
"I, too, desire to be just. I will not reproach, defy, or lament, but leave my fate to you. I am all you say, yet in your judgment107 remember mercy, and believe that at twenty-five there is still hope for the noble but neglected nature, still time to repair the faults of birth, education, and orphanhood108. You say, I have a daring will, a love of conquest. Can I not will to overcome myself and do it? Can I not learn to be the woman I have seemed? Love has worked greater miracles, may it not work this? I have longed to be a truer creature than I am; have seen my wasted gifts, felt my capacity for better things, and looked for help from many sources, but never found it till you came. Do you wonder that I tried to make it mine? Adam, you are a self-elected missionary109 to the world's afflicted110; you can look beyond external poverty and see the indigence111 of souls. I am a pauper112 in your eyes; stretch out your hand and save me from myself."
Straight through the one vulnerable point in the man's pride went this appeal to the man's pity. Indignation could not turn it aside, contempt blunt its edge, or wounded feeling lessen113 its force; and yet it failed: for in Adam Warwick justice was stronger than mercy, reason than impulse, head than heart. Experience was a teacher whom he trusted; he had weighed this woman and found her wanting; truth was not in her; the patient endeavor, the hard-won success so possible to many was hardly so to her, and a union between them could bring no lasting114 good to either. He knew this; had decided115 it in a calmer hour than the present, and by that decision he would now abide116 proof against all attacks from without or from within. More gently, but as inflexibly117 as before, he said--
"I do put out my hand and offer you the same bitter draught of self-contempt that proved a tonic118 to my own weak will. I can help, pity, and forgive you heartily119, but I dare not marry you. The tie that binds120 us is a passion of the senses, not a love of the soul. You lack the moral sentiment that makes all gifts and graces subservient121 to the virtues that render womanhood a thing to honor as well as love. I can relinquish122 youth, beauty, worldly advantages, but I must reverence123 above all others the woman whom I marry, and feel an affection that elevates me by quickening all that is noblest and manliest124 in me. With you I should be either a tyrant125 or a slave. I will be neither, but go solitary126 all my life rather than rashly mortgage the freedom kept inviolate127 so long, or let the impulse of an hour mar20 the worth of coming years."
Bent and broken by the unanswerable accusations128 of what seemed a conscience in human shape, Ottila had sunk down before him with an abandonment as native to her as the indomitable will which still refused to relinquish hope even in despair.
"Go," she said, "I am not worthy129 of salvation130. Yet it is hard, very hard, to lose the one motive131 strong enough to save me, the one sincere affection of my life."
Warwick had expected a tempestuous132 outbreak at his decision; this entire submission133 touched him, for in the last words of her brief lament he detected the accent of truth, and longed to answer it. He paused, searching for the just thing to be done. Ottila, with hidden face, watched while she wept, and waited hopefully for the relenting sign. In silence the two, a modern Samson and Delilah, waged the old war that has gone on ever since the strong locks were shorn and the temple fell; a war which fills the world with unmated pairs and the long train of evils arising from marriages made from impulse, and not principle. As usual, the most generous was worsted. The silence pleaded well for Ottila, and when Warwick spoke it was to say impetuously--
"You are right! It is hard that when two err134 one alone should suffer. I should have been wise enough to see the danger, brave enough to fly from it. I was not, and I owe you some reparation for the pain my folly135 brings you. I offer you the best, because the hardest, sacrifice that I can make. You say love can work miracles, and that yours is the sincerest affection of your life; prove it. In three months you conquered me; can you conquer yourself in twelve?"
"Try me!"
"I will. Nature takes a year for her harvests; I give you the same for yours. If you will devote one half the energy and care to this work that you devoted136 to that other,--will earnestly endeavor to cherish all that is womanly and noble in yourself, and through desire for another's respect earn your own,--I, too, will try to make myself a fitter mate for any woman, and keep our troth unbroken for a year. Can I do more?"
"I dared not ask so much! I have not deserved it, but I will. Only love me, Adam, and let me save myself through you."
Flushed and trembling with delight she rose, sure the trial was safely passed, but found that for herself a new one had begun. Warwick offered his hand.
"Farewell, then."
"No; if your desire has any worth you can work it out alone. We should be hindrances138 to one another, and the labor139 be ill done."
"Where will you go? Not far, Adam."
"Straight to the North. This luxurious140 life enervates141 me; the pestilence142 of slavery lurks143 in the air and infects me; I must build myself up anew and find again the man I was."
"When must you go? Not soon."
"At once."
"I shall hear from you?"
"Not till I come."
"But I shall need encouragement, shall grow hungry for a word, a thought from you. A year is very long to wait and work alone."
Eloquently144 she pleaded with voice and eyes and tender lips, but Warwick did not yield.
"If the test be tried at all it must be fairly tried. We must stand entirely apart and see what saving virtue lies in self-denial and self-help."
"You will forget me, Adam. Some woman with a calmer heart than mine will teach you to love as you desire to love, and when my work is done it will be all in vain."
"Never in vain if it be well done, for such labor is its own reward. Have no fear; one such lesson will last a lifetime. Do your part heartily, and I will keep my pledge until the year is out."
"And then, what then?"
"If I see in you the progress both should desire, if this tie bears the test of time and absence, and we find any basis for an abiding union, then, Ottila, I will marry you."
"But if meanwhile that colder, calmer woman comes to you, what then?"
"Then I will not marry you."
"I think you may have. There will be no time for more folly; I must repair the loss of many wasted days,--nay, not wasted if I have learned this lesson well. Rest secure; it is impossible that I should love."
"You believed that three months ago and yet you are a lover now."
Ottila smiled an exultant145 smile, and Warwick acknowledged his proven fallibility by a haughty flush and a frank amendment146.
"Let it stand, then, that if I love again I am to wait in silence till the year is out and you absolve147 me from my pledge. Does that satisfy you?"
"It must. But you will come, whatever changes may befall you? Promise me this."
"I promise it."
"Going so soon? Oh, wait a little!"
"When a duty is to be done, do it at once; delay is dangerous. Good night."
"Give me some remembrance of you. I have nothing, for you are not a generous lover."
"Generous in deeds, Ottila. I have given you a year's liberty, a dear gift from one who values it more than life. Now I add this."
He drew her to him, kissed the red mouth and looked down upon her with a glance that made his man's face as pitiful as any woman's as he let her lean there happy in the hope given at such cost. For a moment nothing stirred in the room but the soft whisper of the wind. For a moment Warwick's austere life looked hard to him, love seemed sweet, submission possible; for in all the world this was the only woman who clung to him, and it was beautiful to cherish and be cherished after years of solitude148. A long sigh of desire and regret broke from him, and at the sound a stealthy smile touched Ottila's lips as she whispered, with a velvet149 cheek against his own--
"Love, you will stay?"
"I will not stay!"
And like one who cries out sharply within himself, "Get thee behind me!" he broke away.
"Adam, come back to me! Come back!"
He looked over his shoulder, saw the fair woman in the heart of the warm glow, heard her cry of love and longing, knew the life of luxurious ease that waited for him, but steadily150 went out into the night, only answering--
"In a year."
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