A lady
So fair, and fastened to an empery,
Would make the great'st king double.
CYMBELINE.
The family of Don Gaspar de Luna consisted of his wife, whom we have already noticed as a native of Mexico, and two daughters, Antonia and Carlota, who were rather pretty for Creole girls, and, like the generality of Creoles, especially when one half is Spanish, extremely ignorant and vulgar in their language and manners; the last trait being somewhat characteristic of the Spanish-American women, if we may believe travellers, to which I may add my own somewhat limited observation. They are, however, by way of amends2, more civilized3 and sociable4 in their behaviour to strangers, and much more intelligent, than the men.
The lovely niece of the governor, the orphan5 daughter of his brother, made up the list of his family. As we have no great concern with the old lady and her two daughters, we have mentioned them first, in order to get them out of our way; but as the fair Isabella will make some figure in our pages, we can do no less than devote a chapter, or part of a chapter, to giving some account and description of her, more particularly as she differs, toto coelo, from her cousins, morally, and, in many respects, physically6.
Isabella de Luna was the daughter of Signor Anastasio de Luna, the only brother of Don Gaspar. He was an eminent7 merchant of Cadiz, who, having found it necessary to go to London on business, had afterwards found it equally necessary to remain there for some time, to attend to his mercantile affairs. Here he became acquainted with a Miss Campbell, a Scotch8 lady of about thirty years of age, very beautiful, but poor. Her father had been taken prisoner at the defeat of the Pretender's army at Culloden, in which army he was an officer, and immediately executed without a trial, by the blood-thirsty and infamous10 Duke of Cumberland. Her mother died of grief a few months afterwards, leaving her an infant, and the sole surviving member of a proscribed11 and ruined family. She was taken, from mere12 compassion13, by a distant relation of her father, and carefully brought up in the Protestant faith, her parents having been Catholics.
When about twenty years old, she accompanied her relation to London, and had resided there some years, when she was introduced to and captivated Signor Anastasio, and after a long courtship, and considerable reluctance14 on the part of the lady, because the lover was at least nominally15 a Catholic, she became his wife. They lived long and happily together, for whether Anastasio's religious opinions had undergone any change or not, by associating so many years with Protestants, he never interfered16 with his wife's religious creed17 or devotions, and permitted her to educate, in the Protestant faith, their only child Isabella.
I would advise all husbands to do likewise, in some measure; that is, if the wife thinks proper to perform her devotions in a Pagan temple, a Mahometan mosque18, a Jewish synagogue, or a Christian19 church, why, let her, and welcome, unless the husband is particularly anxious to get into hot water, and commit suicide upon his domestic happiness; for nothing so effectually disturbs the tranquillity20 of a family, as open opposition21 of religious creeds22. Women become religious, in the every-day acceptation of the word, from any motive23 rather than a conviction of the truth or reasonableness of any particular creed. It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to define the motive that carries women into the pale of any particular church. I have heard of an old lady, who was very anxious to be permitted to carry her knitting-work to meeting, "because it was such a steadiment to the mind." Perhaps joining the church has the same effect upon women in general. I have seen so much discomfort24 in families from conflicting religious opinions, that I cannot help hoping that the destinies will so contrive25 it, that my wife, if they ever mean to send me one at all, shall be a member of the Episcopal church. There is about that church, what attaches to no other sect26, a sort of dignified27 reserve, that never breaks out in four-day meetings, revivals28, or any other similar ebullition of fanaticism29 and absurdity30.
When Isabella was in her fourteenth year, her father returned to his native country, taking his family with him, having given up his mercantile business, and retiring from it very wealthy. The priests, as might have been expected, were soon around him, like sharks around a slave-ship, all eager to discover, in his conversation and manners, the contamination of heresy31, with which they took it for granted he was infected, from having dwelt so long among those obstinate32 and perverse33 heretics, the English; but Anastasio was too well acquainted with human nature, and with the ways of the world, to be thrown off his guard. He gave most munificently34 to the church; and, in spite of all their attempts to place Isabella in a convent, as a boarder, succeeded in retaining her under the immediate9 care of her excellent mother.
In making this arrangement, he was much assisted by a priest, whom he had formerly35 been acquainted with, and whom he now took into his family, as father confessor. In short, by the judicious36 management of pretty large sums of money, that he was able to spare, in less than a year after his return to Spain, Anastasio de Luna obtained the character of a good Catholic, who had kept fast the integrity of his faith, during a long residence among heretics. As for Madame de Luna, after having delivered her over in trust to the devil, the clergy37 gave themselves little or no concern about her; though her liberal charity, and the mildness and sweetness of her disposition38, made her friends of all who knew her. Many a saint, of the present day, holds his character for sanctity by as slight a tenure39, as Anastasio did his as an orthodox Catholic; and many a modest, unpretending female, has been, like Madame de Luna, regarded as an infidel, and a vessel40 of wrath41, for not sounding a trumpet42 before her, in the exercise of unassuming virtues43.
In about three years after his return to his native country, Anastasio died, bequeathing a large sum to the church, not from any violent partiality to the Catholic faith, but in order to secure peace to his wife and daughter. His widow intended to return to England; but her health was failing rapidly, and in a little more than a year after her husband's death, she followed him to the grave, with her last breath enjoining44 upon her daughter never to part with the faith in which she had been educated, and never to marry a Catholic, unless she was sure of the purity and goodness of his morals. This might seem illiberal45 in her; but there is no accounting46 for the prejudices of people, especially upon religious subjects.
After her mother's death, Isabella had no alternative left, but to take refuge in the family of her uncle, Don Gaspar, who had already shown great fondness for her, and who received her with great cordiality and affection. In this family she was permitted to do much as she pleased; her gentle and amiable47 disposition soon won the warmest affections of her aunt and cousins, and her time passed agreeably, except that she was sometimes teased by the reverend clergy to enter a convent, and to "dedicate herself to God;" but as the young lady thought she could serve God to better purpose out of a convent than in one, she civilly declined their polite invitations to shut herself in a dungeon48.
The same priest who befriended her father, extended his kindness to the daughter. He was a very influential49 clergyman, secretly of very liberal and enlightened views, on the subject of religion; but, not perceiving any pressing necessity for giving his body to be burnt, he had thought best to keep his religious notions to himself. He might very easily have "gained a martyr's glorious name," if he had only been one of those
"Stubborn saints, whom all men grant
but he was not; and, besides, martyrdom is not near so fashionable as it was during the time of the Roman emperors, when one saint insisted upon being crucified heels uppermost; and another, who was very comfortably broiling51 on a gridiron, sung out to be turned, when he thought he was cooked enough on one side. Our clergy are a grave, serious, set of men, who scorn such mad pranks52; they have no idea of suffering martyrdom, or any thing else, if they can help it. I believe there have been no martyrs53 since the commencement of the nineteenth century, except Mr. Wolff, who was bastinadoed by the Pacha of Egypt, for interfering54 with what did not concern him, and some ten or a dozen missionaries55, that would not do something the Cochin-Chinese bid them, and were, in consequence, made shorter by the head.
The good priest interposed his good offices, and influence, in Isabella's behalf, and gave her instructions in such branches of education as he thought were suited to her sex. But, in about a year after her mother's death, Don Gaspar received his appointment, as military commander of St. Blas, which, as I have already observed, was then a royal depot56 and arsenal57; and, though but seldom visited by Spanish men-of-war, because there were but very few, besides guarda-costas, in the Pacific, was a place of considerable importance. Isabella cheerfully accompanied him to America; for, though neither giddy, nor thoughtless, all places were alike to her, provided she could be always surrounded with her uncle's family, with whom she enjoyed quiet happiness.
In the priests of Mexico, she saw nothing but ignorance, sensuality, bigotry58, and indolence, nothing calculated to shake her faith as a Protestant, or cause her to forget her mother's first injunction; while the foppishness, frivolity59, insolence60, ignorance, and pride, of the men, by whom she was surrounded, most effectually protected her from the remotest thought of disobeying the second. The men, on the other hand, regarded her with the coolest indifference61; accustomed to admire the black eyes, and hair, and colorless complexions62 of the Spanish and native, or Creole, women, varying from a sort of dirty cream color, to a deep and beautiful copper64, Isabella's rather lightish brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion63, and cheeks rosy65 with health and cheerfulness, had no charms for them; and, while her cousins had lovers, or danglers, by the dozen, Isabella found herself, to her infinite satisfaction, completely deserted66 and neglected, by all the starched67 and pompous68 fools that visited her uncle, during a stay of some months in the city of Mexico.
She had, on the arrival of the family at St. Blas, contrived69 to employ her time in cultivating such female accomplishments70 as her mother had instructed her in, and was, at the time we introduce her to the reader's notice, in her twentieth year. In person, she was about the medium height of women, or, perhaps, a little below it; and would be called, in New England, rather a small woman. Her form was exceedingly well-proportioned and beautiful, although, what may seem incredible, it had never been cramped71, crushed, and distorted, by tight lacing, of which her mother had a very reasonable horror; and, in consequence, her movements were free, graceful72, and unconfined.
I know very well that the idea of a lady's form being beautiful, unless moulded by corsets into the form of a ship's half-minute glass, will be scouted73 as absurd and impossible; but to the ridicule74 that such a proposition must necessarily excite, I can oppose my own observation, leaving antiquity75, with its faultless statues and sculptures, to shift for itself. The Hindoo women, of whom I have seen hundreds at once bathing in the Hoogly, of all ages, from childhood to decrepitude76, have extremely fine forms, when young, that is from twelve to twenty-two or three, at which period they have all the marks of old age. As they bathe with only a single thin cotton garment, which, when wet, sticks close to their bodies, and developes their forms most completely, any body that visits Calcutta can satisfy himself of the correctness of this fact, and yet they tolerate no sort of confinement77 whatever about the person.
Isabella's face was of an oval form, with an exquisitely78 delicate and fair complexion; when her features were at rest, the expression was quiet and serious, rather bordering upon the pensive79, a cast of countenance80 that she inherited from her mother; but her smile was exceedingly attractive, with an air of frankness and innocence81 attending it, that made it perfectly82 fascinating. Her eyes were of a deep blue, that, in conversation or when any emotion agitated83 the tranquillity of their owner, were extremely lively, animated84, and sparkling. Her eyebrows85 were very delicately traced, slightly curved but not arched, as poets and others rave1 about--I never saw a pair that were, on forehead male or female, except among the Chinese, and they, in consequence, looked like--no matter who--nor can I imagine how arched brows can be beautiful.
It was not the fashion, forty years since, for girls to cut off their hair and sell it to a barber for fifty cents, and then give ten dollars for a set of artificial curls, nor was it fashionable in Mexico to wear false hair; if it had been, nature had been so bountiful to Isabella in that beautiful ornament86 and pride (it ought to be) of a woman, that she could save the expense by the arrangement of her own luxuriant tresses.
Her temper was mild, and by no means easily ruffled87; her disposition was gentle, humane88, amiable, and cheerful, though seldom or never breaking out into extravagant89 gaiety. Like all young ladies of her age, who have much unemployed90 time on their hands, and I believe the same remark will apply to young men similarly situated91, she had experienced a void, a want of something in the heart, that she felt acutely enough, but could neither describe nor account for; that peculiar92 feeling that certainly is not love, but a symptom of the wish to love and be beloved; it is that state of the heart when the affections go forth93, like Noah's dove, and finding no object on which to repose94, return weary and dejected to their lonely prison.
It is an old adage95, that "when the devil finds a man idle, he sets him to work;" when love finds a heart unoccupied, he soon finds it a tenant96, for it always has been, is now, and always will be true, that
"Love is a fire that burns and sparkles,
Isabella, almost without knowing it, and without the faintest suspicion of the real state of the case, gradually neglected and ceased to take pleasure in her usual occupations; her books, her music, her needle, and her flowers, all seemed to be equally tiresome98 and unpleasant. While in this unhappy state of ennui99 and loneliness of feeling, peculiar to the youthful days, or some portion of them, of both sexes, when the mind, like Hudibras' sword,
"Eats into itself, for lack
she was thrown into unspeakable grief and consternation101, by her uncle one day proposing to her to receive and encourage the addresses of Don Gregorio, as her future husband.
To her passionate102 tears and entreaties103 to be spared such a dreadful calamity104, that she declared was infinitely105 worse than death, the old Don replied, that it was natural for a girl to be frightened at the idea of leaving a comfortable home, to become the mistress of a family; that he only wished to provide for her, and see her well settled in life, that the proposed husband was handsome, rich, and connected by blood with the viceroy; and also urged many other reasons "too numerous to mention." To all which, the weeping and agonized106 girl replied, as soon as her uncle was out of breath, and she had an opportunity of speaking, "But, my dear uncle, you know his character, and why, oh! why, will you sacrifice me, whom you have always treated with so much affection and kindness, to one whom every one knows to be a fool and a coward?"
The Don was somewhat startled by this appeal. He was certainly aware that Isabella was perfectly right in so calling her proposed lover, who he knew was both a silly coxcomb107 and a despicable coward, but it was altogether past his comprehension how his modest, retiring, gentle niece, had found out two such very important points in the character of a man, whom he had noticed she seemed to avoid more than any one who visited his house. But after a few days, seeing that her dejection was extreme, that her appetite and animation108 had failed, and she was sinking under the weight of her grief, and being likewise severely109 rated by the wife of his bosom110, in a curtain lecture, he relented, and calling Isabella to him one morning, with many expressions of fondness, bade her cheer up, for though he wished to see her well married, he would by no means force her inclinations111, and she should please herself in the article of matrimony.
This intelligence soothed112 and consoled her, and the rosy hue113 of health once more revisited her sweet countenance; her eyes once more sparkled with much of her wonted animation and cheerfulness, but still there was a shade upon her mind amounting almost to sadness; her uncle had unmasked his battery, and she felt that she was doomed114 to much persecution115, on what, under existing circumstances, was to her a most painful subject. But the destinies, that manage matrimonial affairs infinitely better than free agents, were busy on her behalf.
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