Revolving1 these thoughts, he strolled on near the railings of the quay2, broad-chested, without a stoop, as though his big shoulders had never felt the burden of the loads that must be carried between the cradle and the grave. No single betraying fold or line of care disfigured the reposeful3 modeling of his face. It was full and untanned; and the upper part emerged, massively quiet, out of the downward flow of silvery hair, with the striking delicacy4 of its clear complexion5 and the powerful width of the forehead. The first cast of his glance fell on you candid6 and swift, like a boy’s; but because of the ragged7 snowy thatch8 of the eyebrows9 the affability of his attention acquired the character of a dark and searching scrutiny10. With age he had put on flesh a little, had increased his girth like an old tree presenting no symptoms of decay; and even the opulent, lustrous12 ripple13 of white hairs upon his chest seemed an attribute of unquenchable vitality14 and vigor15.
Once rather proud of his great bodily strength, and even of his personal appearance, conscious of his worth, and firm in his rectitude, there had remained to him, like the heritage of departed prosperity, the tranquil16 bearing of a man who had proved himself fit in every sort of way for the life of his choice. He strode on squarely under the projecting brim of an ancient Panama hat. It had a low crown, a crease11 through its whole diameter, a narrow black ribbon. Imperishable and a little discolored, this headgear made it easy to pick him out from afar on thronged18 wharves19 and in the busy streets. He had never adopted the comparatively modern fashion of pipeclayed cork20 helmets. He disliked the form; and he hoped he could manage to keep a cool head to the end of his life without all these contrivances for hygienic ventilation. His hair was cropped close, his linen21 always of immaculate whiteness; a suit of thin gray flannel22, worn threadbare but scrupulously23 brushed, floated about his burly limbs, adding to his bulk by the looseness of its cut. The years had mellowed24 the good-humored, imperturbable25 audacity26 of his prime into a temper carelessly serene27; and the leisurely28 tapping of his iron-shod stick accompanied his footfalls with a self-confident sound on the flagstones. It was impossible to connect such a fine presence and this unruffled aspect with the belittling29 troubles of poverty; the man’s whole existence appeared to pass before you, facile and large, in the freedom of means as ample as the clothing of his body.
The irrational30 dread31 of having to break into his five hundred pounds for personal expenses in the hotel disturbed the steady poise32 of his mind. There was no time to lose. The bill was running up. He nourished the hope that this five hundred would perhaps be the means, if everything else failed, of obtaining some work which, keeping his body and soul together (not a matter of great outlay), would enable him to be of use to his daughter. To his mind it was her own money which he employed, as it were, in backing her father and solely33 for her benefit. Once at work, he would help her with the greater part of his earnings34; he was good for many years yet, and this boarding-house business, he argued to himself, whatever the prospects35, could not be much of a gold-mine from the first start. But what work? He was ready to lay hold of anything in an honest way so that it came quickly to his hand; because the five hundred pounds must be preserved intact for eventual36 use. That was the great point. With the entire five hundred one felt a substance at one’s back; but it seemed to him that should he let it dwindle37 to four-fifty or even four-eighty, all the efficiency would be gone out of the money, as though there were some magic power in the round figure. But what sort of work?
Confronted by that haunting question as by an uneasy ghost, for whom he had no exorcising formula, Captain Whalley stopped short on the apex39 of a small bridge spanning steeply the bed of a canalized creek41 with granite42 shores. Moored43 between the square blocks a sea-going Malay prau floated half hidden under the arch of masonry44, with her spars lowered down, without a sound of life on board, and covered from stem to stern with a ridge40 of palm-leaf mats. He had left behind him the overheated pavements bordered by the stone frontages that, like the sheer face of cliffs, followed the sweep of the quays45; and an unconfined spaciousness46 of orderly and sylvan47 aspect opened before him its wide plots of rolled grass, like pieces of green carpet smoothly48 pegged49 out, its long ranges of trees lined up in colossal50 porticos of dark shafts51 roofed with a vault52 of branches.
Some of these avenues ended at the sea. It was a terraced shore; and beyond, upon the level expanse, profound and glistening53 like the gaze of a dark-blue eye, an oblique54 band of stippled55 purple lengthened56 itself indefinitely through the gap between a couple of verdant57 twin islets. The masts and spars of a few ships far away, hull58 down in the outer roads, sprang straight from the water in a fine maze59 of rosy60 lines penciled on the clear shadow of the eastern board. Captain Whalley gave them a long glance. The ship, once his own, was anchored out there. It was staggering to think that it was open to him no longer to take a boat at the jetty and get himself pulled off to her when the evening came. To no ship. Perhaps never more. Before the sale was concluded, and till the purchase-money had been paid, he had spent daily some time on board the Fair Maid. The money had been paid this very morning, and now, all at once, there was positively61 no ship that he could go on board of when he liked; no ship that would need his presence in order to do her work — to live. It seemed an incredible state of affairs, something too bizarre to last. And the sea was full of craft of all sorts. There was that prau lying so still swathed in her shroud62 of sewn palm-leaves — she too had her indispensable man. They lived through each other, this Malay he had never seen, and this high-sterned thing of no size that seemed to be resting after a long journey. And of all the ships in sight, near and far, each was provided with a man, the man without whom the finest ship is a dead thing, a floating and purposeless log.
After his one glance at the roadstead he went on, since there was nothing to turn back for, and the time must be got through somehow. The avenues of big trees ran straight over the Esplanade, cutting each other at diverse angles, columnar below and luxuriant above. The interlaced boughs63 high up there seemed to slumber64; not a leaf stirred overhead: and the reedy cast-iron lamp-posts in the middle of the road, gilt65 like scepters, diminished in a long perspective, with their globes of white porcelain66 atop, resembling a barbarous decoration of ostriches’ eggs displayed in a row. The flaming sky kindled67 a tiny crimson68 spark upon the glistening surface of each glassy shell.
With his chin sunk a little, his hands behind his back, and the end of his stick marking the gravel69 with a faint wavering line at his heels, Captain Whalley reflected that if a ship without a man was like a body without a soul, a sailor without a ship was of not much more account in this world than an aimless log adrift upon the sea. The log might be sound enough by itself, tough of fiber70, and hard to destroy — but what of that! And a sudden sense of irremediable idleness weighted his feet like a great fatigue71.
A succession of open carriages came bowling72 along the newly opened sea-road. You could see across the wide grass-plots the discs of vibration73 made by the spokes74. The bright domes75 of the parasols swayed lightly outwards76 like full-blown blossoms on the rim17 of a vase; and the quiet sheet of dark-blue water, crossed by a bar of purple, made a background for the spinning wheels and the high action of the horses, whilst the turbaned heads of the Indian servants elevated above the line of the sea horizon glided77 rapidly on the paler blue of the sky. In an open space near the little bridge each turn-out trotted78 smartly in a wide curve away from the sunset; then pulling up sharp, entered the main alley38 in a long slow-moving file with the great red stillness of the sky at the back. The trunks of mighty79 trees stood all touched with red on the same side, the air seemed aflame under the high foliage80, the very ground under the hoofs81 of the horses was red. The wheels turned solemnly; one after another the sunshades drooped82, folding their colors like gorgeous flowers shutting their petals83 at the end of the day. In the whole half-mile of human beings no voice uttered a distinct word, only a faint thudding noise went on mingled84 with slight jingling85 sounds, and the motionless heads and shoulders of men and women sitting in couples emerged stolidly86 above the lowered hoods87 — as if wooden. But one carriage and pair coming late did not join the line.
It fled along in a noiseless roll; but on entering the avenue one of the dark bays snorted, arching his neck and shying against the steel-tipped pole; a flake88 of foam89 fell from the bit upon the point of a satiny shoulder, and the dusky face of the coachman leaned forward at once over the hands taking a fresh grip of the reins90. It was a long dark-green landau, having a dignified91 and buoyant motion between the sharply curved C-springs, and a sort of strictly92 official majesty93 in its supreme94 elegance95. It seemed more roomy than is usual, its horses seemed slightly bigger, the appointments a shade more perfect, the servants perched somewhat higher on the box. The dresses of three women — two young and pretty, and one, handsome, large, of mature age — seemed to fill completely the shallow body of the carriage. The fourth face was that of a man, heavy lidded, distinguished96 and sallow, with a somber97, thick, iron-gray imperial and mustaches, which somehow had the air of solid appendages98. His Excellency —
The rapid motion of that one equipage made all the others appear utterly99 inferior, blighted100, and reduced to crawl painfully at a snail’s pace. The landau distanced the whole file in a sort of sustained rush; the features of the occupant whirling out of sight left behind an impression of fixed101 stares and impassive vacancy102; and after it had vanished in full flight as it were, notwithstanding the long line of vehicles hugging the curb103 at a walk, the whole lofty vista104 of the avenue seemed to lie open and emptied of life in the enlarged impression of an august solitude105.
Captain Whalley had lifted his head to look, and his mind, disturbed in its meditation106, turned with wonder (as men’s minds will do) to matters of no importance. It struck him that it was to this port, where he had just sold his last ship, that he had come with the very first he had ever owned, and with his head full of a plan for opening a new trade with a distant part of the Archipelago. The then governor had given him no end of encouragement. No Excellency he — this Mr. Denham — this governor with his jacket off; a man who tended night and day, so to speak, the growing prosperity of the settlement with the self-forgetful devotion of a nurse for a child she loves; a lone107 bachelor who lived as in a camp with the few servants and his three dogs in what was called then the Government Bungalow108: a low-roofed structure on the half-cleared slope of a hill, with a new flagstaff in front and a police orderly on the veranda109. He remembered toiling110 up that hill under a heavy sun for his audience; the unfurnished aspect of the cool shaded room; the long table covered at one end with piles of papers, and with two guns, a brass111 telescope, a small bottle of oil with a feather stuck in the neck at the other — and the flattering attention given to him by the man in power. It was an undertaking112 full of risk he had come to expound113, but a twenty minutes’ talk in the Government Bungalow on the hill had made it go smoothly from the start. And as he was retiring Mr. Denham, already seated before the papers, called out after him, “Next month the Dido starts for a cruise that way, and I shall request her captain officially to give you a look in and see how you get on.” The Dido was one of the smart frigates114 on the China station — and five-and-thirty years make a big slice of time. Five-and-thirty years ago an enterprise like his had for the colony enough importance to be looked after by a Queen’s ship. A big slice of time. Individuals were of some account then. Men like himself; men, too, like poor Evans, for instance, with his red face, his coal-black whiskers, and his restless eyes, who had set up the first patent slip for repairing small ships, on the edge of the forest, in a lonely bay three miles up the coast. Mr. Denham had encouraged that enterprise too, and yet somehow poor Evans had ended by dying at home deucedly hard up. His son, they said, was squeezing oil out of cocoa-nuts for a living on some God-forsaken islet of the Indian Ocean; but it was from that patent slip in a lonely wooded bay that had sprung the workshops of the Consolidated115 Docks Company, with its three graving basins carved out of solid rock, its wharves, its jetties, its electric-light plant, its steam-power houses — with its gigantic sheer-legs, fit to lift the heaviest weight ever carried afloat, and whose head could be seen like the top of a queer white monument peeping over bushy points of land and sandy promontories116, as you approached the New Harbor from the west.
There had been a time when men counted: there were not so many carriages in the colony then, though Mr. Denham, he fancied, had a buggy. And Captain Whalley seemed to be swept out of the great avenue by the swirl117 of a mental backwash. He remembered muddy shores, a harbor without quays, the one solitary118 wooden pier119 (but that was a public work) jutting120 out crookedly121, the first coal-sheds erected122 on Monkey Point, that caught fire mysteriously and smoldered123 for days, so that amazed ships came into a roadstead full of sulphurous smoke, and the sun hung blood-red at midday. He remembered the things, the faces, and something more besides — like the faint flavor of a cup quaffed124 to the bottom, like a subtle sparkle of the air that was not to be found in the atmosphere of to-day.
In this evocation125, swift and full of detail like a flash of magnesium126 light into the niches127 of a dark memorial hall, Captain Whalley contemplated128 things once important, the efforts of small men, the growth of a great place, but now robbed of all consequence by the greatness of accomplished129 facts, by hopes greater still; and they gave him for a moment such an almost physical grip upon time, such a comprehension of our unchangeable feelings, that he stopped short, struck the ground with his stick, and ejaculated mentally, “What the devil am I doing here!” He seemed lost in a sort of surprise; but he heard his name called out in wheezy tones once, twice — and turned on his heels slowly.
He beheld130 then, waddling131 towards him autocratically, a man of an old-fashioned and gouty aspect, with hair as white as his own, but with shaved, florid cheeks, wearing a necktie — almost a neckcloth — whose stiff ends projected far beyond his chin; with round legs, round arms, a round body, a round face — generally producing the effect of his short figure having been distended132 by means of an air-pump as much as the seams of his clothing would stand. This was the Master-Attendant of the port. A master-attendant is a superior sort of harbor-master; a person, out in the East, of some consequence in his sphere; a Government official, a magistrate133 for the waters of the port, and possessed134 of vast but ill-defined disciplinary authority over seamen135 of all classes. This particular Master-Attendant was reported to consider it miserably136 inadequate137, on the ground that it did not include the power of life and death. This was a jocular exaggeration. Captain Eliott was fairly satisfied with his position, and nursed no inconsiderable sense of such power as he had. His conceited138 and tyrannical disposition139 did not allow him to let it dwindle in his hands for want of use. The uproarious, choleric140 frankness of his comments on people’s character and conduct caused him to be feared at bottom; though in conversation many pretended not to mind him in the least, others would only smile sourly at the mention of his name, and there were even some who dared to pronounce him “a meddlesome141 old ruffian.” But for almost all of them one of Captain Eliott’s outbreaks was nearly as distasteful to face as a chance of annihilation.
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flake
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majesty
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vacancy
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vista
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solitude
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lone
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bungalow
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veranda
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brass
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undertaking
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evocation
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magnesium
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