A CALM, pure summer moonlight fell upon the Ayrshire mosses1 and deans, but did not silver, as far as we are concerned, the Carrick Castle of Bruce, nor Cameron's lair2 amidst the heather, nor landward Tintock, nor even seagirt Ailsa Craig, but only the rolling waves of the Atlantic and a grey turreted4 mansion-house built on a promontory5 running abruptly6 into the water. The dim ivory light illuminated7 a gay company met in the dwelling8 with little thought of stillness or solemnity, but with their own sense of effect, grouped carelessly, yet not ungracefully, in an old-fashioned, though not unsuitable drawing-room.
They needed relief, these brilliant supple9 figures; they demanded the background of grey hangings, scant10 carpet, spindle-legged chairs, and hard sombre prints. To these very cultivated, very artificial and picturesque11 personages, a family sitting-room12 was but a stage, where lively, capricious, yet calculating actors were engaged in playing their parts.
The party were mostly French, from the mass of gallant13, [Page 203]dauntless emigrants14, many of whom were thus entertained with grateful, commiserating15 hospitality in households whose members had but lately basked16 in the sparkling geniality17 of the southern atmosphere, now lurid18 and surcharged with thunder.
There was a Marquise, worldly, light, and vain, whom adversity had not broken, and could not sour; an Abbé, bland19 and double, but gentle and kindly20 in his way; a soldier, volatile21, hot-headed, brave as a lion, simple as a child; an older man, sad, sneering22, indifferent to this world and the next, but with the wrecks23 of a noble head, and, God help him, a noble heart.
Of the three individuals present of a different nation and creed24, two closely resembled the others with only that vague, impalpable, but perceptible distinction of those whose rearing affords a superficial growth which overspreads but does not annihilate25 the original plant. The one was a young man, buoyant, flippant, and reckless as the French soldier, but with a bold defiance26 in his tone which was all his own; the other a young girl, coquettish and vivacious27 as the Marquise, but with a deep consciousness under her feigning28, an undercurrent of watchful29 pride and passion, of which her model was destitute30. The last of the circle was a fair-haired, broad-shouldered lad, who stood apart from the others, big, shy, silent:—but he was earnest amid their shallowness, noble amid their hollowness, and devoted31 amid their fickleness32. How he gazed on the arch, haughty33 girl, with her lilies and roses, her pencilled brows, her magnificent hair magnificently arranged, with her rich silk and airy lace, and muslin folded and gathered and [Page 204]falling into lines which were the very poetry of attire34, unless where a piquant35 provoking frill, band, or peak, reminded the gazer that the princess was a woman, a mocking mischievous36 woman, as well as a radiant lady! How he listened to her contradictory37 words, witty38 and liquid even in their most worthless accents! how he drank in her songs, the notes of her harp39, the rustle40 of her dress, the fall of her foot! how he started if she moved! how he saw her, though his eyes were on the ground, and though his head was in his hands, while she marked him ceaselessly, half with cruel triumph, half with a flutter and faintness which she angrily and scornfully resisted and denied.
A few more gay bons mots and repartees, a last epigram from the Abbé, a court anecdote41 from the Marquise which might have figured in one of those letters of Madame de Sévigné where the freshness of the haymaker of Les Rochers survives the glare and the terrible staleness of the Versailles of Louis XV., a blunt camp jest from the soldier, a sarcasm42 from the philosopher, a joyous43 barcarole, strangely succeeded by a snatch from that lament44 of woe45 wrung46 forth47 by the fatal field of Flodden, and the company dispersed48. The horse's hoofs49 of the single stranger of the evening rung on the causeway, as he made for the smooth sands of the bay, the lights one by one leaping out, and the pale moon remaining mistress of Earlscraig as when the warder on yon tower peered out over the waters for the boats of the savage50 Irish kern, or lit the bale-fire that summoned Montgomery and Muir to ride and run for the love or the fear of Boswell of Earlscraig.
Had these old-world times returned by magic? had a [Page 205]crazed serving-man revived the vanished duties of his warlike predecessor51? was the wraith52 of seneschal or man-at-arms conjuring53 up a ghostly beacon54 to stream into the soft air? was an evil spirit about to bewilder and mislead a fated ship to meet its doom55 on the jagged rocks beneath the dead calm of that glassy sea? So dense56 was the vapour that suddenly gathered over Earlscraig, till like an electric flash, a jet of flame sprang from a high casement57 and lit up the gathering58 obscurity. No horn blew, no bugle59 sounded, no tramp of horse or hurrying feet broke the silence; the house lay in profound rest, and the sleepers60 slept on, though truly that was no phantom61 glare, no marsh62 gleam, but the near presence of an awful foe63.
And the smoke burst forth in thicker, more suffocating64 volume; the red streamers shot up again and again, and the burning embers fell like thickest swarms65 of fire-flies, before a single hasty step roused an echo already lost in the roar and crackle of fire. A scared, half-dressed servant ran out into the court, flung up his hands as he looked around him, then hurried back, and suddenly the great bell pealed66 out its faithful alarum. "Good folk, good folk, danger is at the door! For Jesu's sake and your dear lives, up and flee! The angels hold out their hands, Sodom is around you—away, away!"
The summons was not in vain. Within a few seconds clamorous67 outcries, shrieks68 of dismay, the dashing open of doors and windows, answered the proclamation. A horror-struck crowd assembled rapidly in the court; but notwithstanding that the Abbé's wan71 face and shaven crown appeared speedily, and the soldier shouted, "Who is in [Page 206]danger? mes camarades, suivez-moi!" the philosopher instinctively72 elected himself commander; he rose, tall and erect73, over the heads of his fellows; his face flushed and brightened; and he spoke74 words of wisdom and resolution whose spirit men recognised through the veil of his frozen tongue; while cravens shrank back, brave men rallied round him!
"Where is Boswell? Mon Dieu! the house is burning and the master is not found! Adolphe, sauve la Marquise, cet escalier n'est pas perdu. But where is Boswell? Show his room to me—the nearest way—quick, or he perishes. Ah, le voilà!"
Down a flight of side steps stumbled the butler and a favourite groom75, bearing between them the young laird, motionless, senseless, his dress dishevelled, but unscathed by flame, and unstained by blood; still breathing, but his marked imperious features were unconscious, heavy, and lethargic77.
The Abbé and his elder friend exchanged glances. The brow of the latter contracted in disgust and gloom.
"Adolphe and he played billiards78 against my desire, as if he were not bête enough already," he said in an undertone. "Lay him here, my friends," to the servants, "and listen to me. If you love the Seigneur, let him never know that thus it happened this night. Cover him with a mantle79; he will awake to see his chateau80 a ruin. Mais, n'importe, we will do our best. Carry out what is most precious; bring up buckets of water. Ma foi! there is enough at hand."
Yes; at their feet, but by a few fathoms81 unavailable, [Page 207]lay the broad sea, sufficient to extinguish the conflagration82 of a thousand cities, while the house above was rent with fierce heat, which reddened the sea like blood.
The Marquise was rescued sobbing83 and shivering, but she shared her blanket with one of the poor servant-girls. Even the old bed-ridden nurse, so blind and stupid with age that none could satisfy her of the cause of the tumult84 and din70, was carried out, and placed on the grass terrace beside the master; where no sooner did she apprehend85 intuitively the neighbourhood of her proudly cherished nursling, than she left off her weak wailing86, and began to croon over him as fondly and contentedly87 as when he lay an innocent babe in his cradle:
"Are you weary, Earlscraig? Have you come back sorely tired from the hunt or the race? Weary fa' the men folk that let you lie down with the dew-draps on your bonny curls—bonnier than Miss Alice's, for a' their fleechin'—as if it were high noon. No but noontide has its ills, too; but you would never heed88 a bonnet89, neither for sun nor wind. A wild laddie, a wild laddie, Earlscraig!"
Eager but ignorant hands were piling up heaps of miscellaneous goods—pictures, feather-beds, old armour90, plate, mirrors, harness, carpets, and wearing apparel. All were tossed together in wild confusion. The moon was hidden; air, earth, and water were lurid; a hot blast blew in men's faces, which alone remained white and haggard, when a murmur91 and question, a doubt and frenzy92, first stirred and fast convulsed the mass. "Where is Miss Alice?" Ay, where was Miss Alice? Who had seen her? Speak, in [Page 208]God's name!—shout her name until her voice replies, and men's shuddering93 souls are freed from this ghastly nightmare.
Miss Alice! Alice Boswell! are you safe, lamenting94 unseen the home of your fathers? Or are you within that turret3 whose foundation rock descends95 sheer into the sea—that turret close by which the demon96 began his work, where his forked tongue is now licking each loophole and outlet97, where beams are bursting and the yawning jaws98 of hell are about to swallow up the rapid wreck—forgotten, forsaken—the queen of hearts, the wooed and worshipped beauty; fair and sweet, ripe and rare, the sole daughter of the race; the charm and delight of its grey heads?
Oh, Father, thou art terrible in thy decrees! Oh, men, ye are miserable99 fools! She is there by the blazing framework of the window of her chamber100, which she has never quitted; her hair loose, some portion of her dress cast about her, her eyes wide open and glazing101 with terror, but strangely beautiful—with a glory behind and about her; an unearthly brightness upon brow and cheek, and white arms stretched out imploringly102, despairingly for help in her utmost need.
They pressed forward; they looked up in anguish103; old men who had followed her when a fairy child, friends of long standing69, acquaintances of yesterday. Again and again the gallant soldier penetrated104 the low doorway105; again and again he swerved106 and recoiled107 from the furnace fumes108 that met him—a more fearful encounter than the fury of the sans-culottes and the reeking109 pools beneath the guillotine.
[Page 209]"Courage, soldats! Vive la mort, pour la femme et pour la gloire!" and with a shout half-exulting, half-maddened, the Gallic blood again fired to the desperate feat76. Then there was a diversion—a rush to the opposite side of the building—a ladder might be of use there. A notion of forcing open a closed-up and disused gallery of communication, seized hold of these agitated110 minds, and this afforded a vent111 to the pent-up sympathy and distress112. New energy supplanted113 stupor114; and through the deep hush115 of the fire could be distinguished116 the blows of axe117 and hammer, wielded118 lustily by stalwart and devoted arms, eager to clear a way of life and liberty for the captive.
But this was a work of time, and louder crackled and hissed119 the flames. A fiercer blaze filled the sky, and glittered back from the waves; the serpent tongues drew together, and shot up through the room in a yellow pyramid. In vain! in vain! The zealous120 labourers panted in the sickness of horror and the chill of great awe121.
"A boat! a boat!" called a voice from the outer circle. The thinker, the scorner, stood on the verge122 of the rocks above the illuminated sea, his head bare, his coat stripped off. "Let Mademoiselle cast herself from the casement instantly; it is her only hope. I can swim; I will hold her up until a boat is launched. Courage, Mademoiselle! trust in God and in me."
"Yes, Marquise," he whispered for a second to his countrywoman near him; "I have lost God for many a day; I have found him again in this hour. A Te Deum for my requiem123!" and looking aghast upon his face in the great light, the Marquise crossed herself, and averred124 ever after[Page 210]wards that it was transformed like unto that of his patron saint, St. Francis. The next moment he plunged125 into the midnight sea. Those who witnessed the action declared that the reflection of the burning was so strong that he seemed to sink into a lake of fire, where he rose again presently, and breasted the waters stoutly126.
The girl saw the design; she comprehended it, and the hoarse127 murmur of encouragement that hailed its presence of mind. The concentration of the flames, which threatened every moment to bring down a portion of the ponderous128 roof in one destroying crash, left a freer passage. She advanced quickly—she put her foot on the smouldering sill; she paused, hesitated. It was a fearful alternative.
"Leap down, leap down, Miss Alice; a drowning man has two lives, a burning man but one. Down, down, or you are lost!"
But another cry mingled129 with the vehement130 appeal—a piercing, confident cry, that would have vibrated on the dull ear of the dying, though it said only, "I am coming. Alice Boswell: I am coming!"
He was there, on his panting, foam-flecked horse: he flung himself from his saddle; he heard her answer, "Hector Garret, save me, save me!"
He broke the circle as Samson burst the green withes: he paralysed all remonstrance131; he vanished into the abyss which the great staircase presented. He must have borne a charmed life to reach thus far—when a mightier132 roar, a perfect column of fire, a thundering avalanche133 of glowing timber and huge stones descended134 with a shock of an [Page 211]earthquake, and rebounded135 into the sea, engulfing136 for ever the fair slight form within.
By daring and magnanimous effort and main force, other arms bore back Hector Garret from the tottering137 walls and shaken foundation: and the boat rowed out and delivered the heroic Frenchman. The sinking in of the turret roof satiated the destroyer, so that the further wing of the house was preserved. Its master lived unharmed, to rouse himself from his portentous138 slumber139 and face his calamity140, while the lover lay writhing141 and raging in the clutch of wild fever.
But the summer sun shining down on the sea, once more blue and clear as heaven, fell on black yawning gaps and mounds142 of ashes; on shivered glass and strewn relics143 of former luxury; on the very grass of the promontory, brown and withered144, and trodden into the earth for many a yard; on the horrible grave of the maiden145 who had watched her own image in the crystal pools, lilted her siren songs to the break of the waves, woven at once chains for her adorers and the web of that destiny which buried her there, unshrouded and uncoffined.
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sneering
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woe
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savage
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predecessor
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beacon
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