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‘One wild moment of yelling agony, — one flash of a fierce and fiery2 light, that seemed to envelope and wither3 me soul and body, — one sound, that swept through my ears and brain like the last trumpet4, as it will thrill on the senses of those who slept in guilt5, and awake in despair, — one such moment, that condenses and crowds all imaginable sufferings in one brief and intense pang6, and appears exhausted7 itself by the blow it has struck, — one such moment I remember, and no more. Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck8, and be felt as one. I have a dim recollection of refusing food, of resisting change of place, &c. but they were like the faint and successless attempts we make under the burden of the night-mare; and those with whom I had to do, probably regarded any opposition9 I could make no more than the tossings of a restless sleeper10.
‘From dates that I have since been enabled to collect, I must have been four months at least in this state; and ordinary persecutors would have given me up as a hopeless subject for any further sufferings; but religious malignity11 is too industrious12, and too ingenious, to resign the hope of a victim but with life. If the fire is extinguished, it sits and watches the embers. If the strings13 of the heart crack in its hearing, it listens if it be the last that has broken. It is a spirit that delights to ride on the tenth wave, and view it whelm and bury the sufferer for ever. * * * * *
‘Many changes had taken place, without any consciousness on my part of them. Perhaps the profound tranquillity14 of my last abode15 contributed more than any thing else to the recovery of my reason. I distinctly remember awaking at once to the full exercise of my senses and reason, and finding myself in a place which I examined with the most amazed and jealous curiosity. My memory did not molest16 me in the least. Why I was there? or what I had suffered before I was brought there? it never occurred to me to inquire. The return of the intellectual powers came slowly in, like the waves of an advancing tide, and happily for me memory was the last, — the occupation of my senses was at first quite enough for me. You must expect no romance-horrors, Sir, from my narrative17. Perhaps a life like mine may revolt the taste that has feasted to fastidiousness; but truth sometimes gives full and dreadful compensation, in presenting us facts instead of images.
‘I found myself lying on a bed, not very different from that in my cell, but the apartment was wholly unlike the latter. It was somewhat larger, and covered with matting. There was neither crucifix, painting, or vessel18 for holy water; — the bed, a coarse table which supported a lighted lamp, and a vessel containing water for the purpose, were all the furniture. There was no window; and some iron knobs in the door, to which the light of the lamp gave a kind of dismal19 distinctness and prominence20, proved that it was strongly secured. I raised myself on my arm, and gazed round me with the apprehensiveness21 of one who fears that the slightest motion may dissolve the spell, and plunge22 him again in darkness. At that moment the recollection of all the past struck me like a thunder-bolt. I uttered a cry, that seemed to drain me of breath and being at once, and fell back on the bed, not senseless but exhausted. I remembered every event in a moment, with an intenseness that could only be equalled by actual and present agency in them, — my escape, — my safety, — my despair. I felt Juan’s embrace, — then I felt his blood stream over me. I saw his eyes turn in despair, before they closed for ever, and I uttered another cry, such as had never before been heard within those walls. At the repetition of this sound the door opened, and a person, in a habit I had never seen before, approached, and signified to me by signs, that I must observe the most profound silence. Nothing, indeed, could be more expressive23 of this meaning, than his denying himself the use of his voice to convey it. I gazed on this apparition24 in silence, — my amazement25 had all the effect of an apparent submission26 to his injunctions. He retired27, and I began to wonder where I was. Was it among the dead? or some subterranean28 world of the mute and voiceless, where there was no air to convey sounds, and no echo to repeat them, and the famished29 ear waited in vain for its sweetest banquet, — the voice of man? These wanderings were dispelled30 by the re-entrance of the person. He placed bread, water, and a small portion of meat on the table, motioned me to approach, (which I did mechanically), and, when I was seated, whispered me, That my unhappy situation having hitherto rendered me incapable31 of understanding the regulations of the place where I was, he had been compelled to postpone32 acquainting me with them; but now he was obliged to warn me, that my voice must never be raised beyond the key in which he addressed me, and which was sufficient for all proper purposes of communication; finally, he assured me that cries, exclamations34 of any kind, or even coughing too loud,1 (which might be interpreted as a signal), would be considered as an attempt on the inviolable habits of the place, and punished with the utmost severity. To my repeated questions of ‘Where am I? what is this place, with its mysterious regulations?’ he replied in a whisper, that his business was to issue orders, not to answer questions; and so saying he departed. However extraordinary these injunctions appeared, the manner in which they were issued was so imposing35, peremptory36, and habitual37, — it seemed so little a thing of local contrivance and temporary display, — so much like the established language of an absolute and long-fixed38 system, that obedience39 to it seemed inevitable40. I threw myself on the bed, and murmured to myself, ‘Where am I?’ till sleep overcame me.
1 This is a fact well established.
‘I have heard that the first sleep of a recovered maniac41 is intensely profound. Mine was not so, it was broken by many troubled dreams. One, in particular, brought me back to the convent. I thought I was a boarder in it, and studying Virgil. I was reading that passage in the second book, where the vision of Hector appears to ?neas in his dream, and his ghastly and dishonoured42 form suggests the mournful exclamation33,
‘ — Heu quantum mutatus ab illo, —
— Quibus ab oris, Hector expectate venis?
Then I thought Juan was Hector, — that the same pale and bloody43 phantom44 stood calling me to fly — ‘Heu fuge,’ while I vainly tried to obey him. Oh that dreary45 mixture of truth and delirium46, of the real and visionary, of the conscious and unconscious parts of existence, that visits the dreams of the unhappy! He was Pantheus, and murmured,
‘Venit summa dies, et ineluctabile tempus.’
I appeared to weep and struggle in my dream. I addressed the figure that stood before me sometimes as Juan, and sometimes as the image of the Trojan vision. At last the figure uttered, with a kind of querulous shriek47, — that vox stridula which we hear only in dreams,
‘Proximus ardet Ucalegon,’
and I started up fully48 awake, in all the horrors of an expected conflagration49.
‘It is incredible, Sir, how the senses and the mind can operate thus, during the apparent suspension of both; how sound can affect organs that seem to be shut, and objects affect the sight, while its sense appears to be closed, — can impress on its dreaming consciousness, images more horribly vivid than even reality ever presented. I awoke with the idea that flames were raging in contact with my eye-balls, and I saw only a pale light, held by a paler hand — close to my eyes indeed, but withdrawn50 the moment I awoke. The person who held it shrouded51 it for a moment, and then advanced and flashed its full light on me, and along with it — the person of my companion. The associations of our last meeting rushed on me. I started up, and said, ‘Are we free, then?’ — ‘Hush, — one of us is free; but you must not speak so loud.’ — ‘Well, I have heard that before, but I cannot comprehend the necessity of this whispering secrecy52. If I am free, tell me so, and tell me whether Juan has survived that last horrible moment, — my intellect is but just respiring. Tell me how Juan fares.’ — ‘Oh, sumptuously53. No prince in all the land reposes54 under a more gorgeous canopy55, — marble pillars, waving banners, and nodding plumes56. He had music too, but he did not seem to heed57 it. He lay stretched on velvet58 and gold, but he appeared insensible of all these luxuries. There was a curl on his cold white lip, too, that seemed to breathe ineffable59 scorn on all that was going on, — but he was proud enough even in his life-time.’ — ‘His life-time!’ I shrieked60; ‘then he is dead?’ — ‘Can you doubt that, when you know who struck the blow? None of my victims ever gave me the trouble of a second.’ — ‘You, — you?’ I swam for some moments in a sea of flames and blood. My frenzy61 returned, and I remember only uttering curses that would have exhausted divine vengeance62 in all its plenitude to fulfil. I might have continued to rave63 till my reason was totally lost, but I was silenced and stunned64 by his laugh bursting out amid my curses, and overwhelming them.
‘That laugh made me cease, and lift up my eyes to him, as if I expected to see another being, — it was still the same. ‘And you dreamt,’ he cried, ‘in your temerity65, you dreamt of setting the vigilance of a convent at defiance66? Two boys, one the fool of fear, and the other of temerity, were fit antagonists67 for that stupendous system, whose roots are in the bowels68 of the earth, and whose head is among the stars, — you escape from a convent! you defy a power that has defied sovereigns! A power whose influence is unlimited69, indefinable, and unknown, even to those who exercise it, as there are mansions70 so vast, that their inmates71, to their last hour, have never visited all the apartments; — a power whose operation is like its motto, — one and indivisible. The soul of the Vatican breathes in the humblest convent in Spain, — and you, an insect perched on a wheel of this vast machine, imagined you were able to arrest its progress, while its rotation73 was hurrying on to crush you to atoms.’ While he was uttering these words, with a rapidity and energy inconceivable, (a rapidity that literally74 made one word seem to devour75 another), I tried, with that effort of intellect which seems like the gasping76 respiration77 of one whose breath has long been forcibly suppressed or suspended, to comprehend and follow him. The first thought that struck me was one not very improbable in my situation, that he was not the person he appeared to be, — that it was not the companion of my escape who now addressed me; and I summoned all the remains78 of my intellect to ascertain79 this. A few questions must determine this point, if I had breath to utter them. ‘Were you not the agent in my escape? Were you not the man who — What tempted80 you to this step, in the defeat of which you appear to rejoice?’ — ‘A bribe81.’ — ‘And you have betrayed me, you say, and boast of your treachery, — what tempted you to this?’ — ‘A higher bribe. Your brother gave gold, but the convent promised me salvation82, — a business I was very willing to commit to their hands, as I was totally incompetent83 to manage it myself.’ — ‘Salvation, for treachery and murder?’ — ‘Treachery and murder, — hard words. Now, to talk sense, was not yours the vilest84 treachery? You reclaimed86 your vows87, — you declared before God and man, that the words you uttered before both were the babble88 of an infant; then you seduced89 your brother from his duty to his and your parents, — you connived90 at his intriguing91 against the peace and sanctity of a monastic institution, and dare you talk of treachery? And did you not, with a callosity of conscience unexampled in one so young, accept, nay92, cling to an associate in your escape whom you knew you were seducing93 from his vows, — from all that man reveres94 as holy, and all that God (if there be a God) must regard as binding95 on man? You knew my crime, you knew my atrocity96, yet you brandished97 me as your banner of defiance against the Almighty98, though its inscription99 was, in glaring characters, — impiety100 — parricide102 — irreligion. Torn as the banner was, it still hung near the altar, till you dragged it away, to wrap yourself from detection in its folds, — and you talk of treachery? — there is not a more traitorous103 wretch104 on earth than yourself. Suppose that I was all that is vile85 and culpable105, was it for you to double-dye the hue106 of my crime in the crimson107 of your sacrilege and apostacy? And for murder, I know I am a parricide. I cut my father’s throat, but he never felt the blow, — nor did I, — I was intoxicated108 with wine, with passion, with blood, — no matter which; but you, with cold deliberate blows, struck at the hearts of father and mother. You killed by inches, — I murdered at a blow, — which of us is the murderer? — And you prate110 of treachery and murder? I am as innocent as the child that is born this hour, compared to you. Your father and mother have separated, — she is gone into a convent, to hide her despair and shame at your unnatural111 conduct, — your father is plunging112 successively into the abysses of voluptuousness113 and penitence114, wretched in both; your brother, in his desperate attempt to liberate109 you, has perished, — you have scattered115 desolation over a whole family, — you have stabbed the peace and heart of each of them, with a hand that deliberated and paused on its blow, and then struck it calmly, — and you dare to talk of treachery and murder? You are a thousand times more culpable than I am, guilty as you think me. I stand a blasted tree, — I am struck to the heart, to the root, — I wither alone, — but you are the Upas, under whose poisonous droppings all things living have perished, — father — mother — brother, and last yourself; — the erosions of the poison, having nothing left to consume, strike inward, and prey116 on your own heart. Wretch, condemned117 beyond the sympathy of man, beyond the redemption of the Saviour118, what can you say to this?’ — I answered only, ‘Is Juan dead, and were you his murderer, — were you indeed? I believe all you say, I must be very guilty, but is Juan dead?’ As I spoke119, I lifted up to him eyes that no longer seemed to see, — a countenance120 that bore no expression but that of the stupefaction of intense grief. I could neither utter nor feel reproaches, — I had suffered beyond the power of complaint. I awaited his answer; he was silent, but his diabolical121 silence spoke. ‘And my mother retired to a convent?’ he nodded. ‘And my father?’ he smiled, and I closed my eyes. I could bear any thing but his smile. I raised my head a few moments after, and saw him, with an habitual motion, (it could not have been more), make the sign of the cross, as a clock in some distant passage struck. This sight reminded me of the play so often acted in Madrid, and which I had seen in my few days of liberation, — El diablo Predicador. You smile, Sir, at such a recollection operating at such a moment, but it is a fact; and had you witnessed that play under the singular circumstances I did, you would not wonder at my being struck with the coincidence. In this performance the infernal spirit is the hero, and in the disguise of a monk122 he appears in a convent, where he torments124 and persecutes125 the community with a mixture of malignity and mirth truly Satanic. One night that I saw it performed, a groupe of monks127 were carrying the Host to a dying person; the walls of the theatre were so slight, that we could distinctly hear the sound of the bell which they ring on that occasion. In an instant, actors, audience, and all, were on their knees, and the devil, who happened to be on the stage, knelt among the rest, and crossed himself with visible marks of a devotion equally singular and edifying128. You will allow the coincidence to be irresistibly129 striking.
‘When he had finished his monstrous130 profanation131 of the holy sign, I fixed my eyes on him with an expression not to be mistaken. He saw it. There is not so bitter a reproach on earth as silence, for it always seems to refer the guilty to their own hearts, whose eloquence132 seldom fails to fill up the pause very little to the satisfaction of the accused. My look threw him into a rage, that I am now convinced not the most bitter upbraidings could have caused. The utmost fury of imprecation would have fallen on his ear like the most lulling133 harmony; — it would have convinced him that his victim was suffering all he could possibly inflict134. He betrayed this in the violence of his exclamations. ‘What, wretch!’ he cried; — ‘Do you think it was for your masses and your mummeries, your vigils, and fasts, and mumbling135 over senseless unconsoling beads136, and losing my rest all night watching for the matins, and then quitting my frozen mat to nail my knees to stone till they grew there, — till I thought the whole pavement would rise with me when I rose, — do you think it was for the sake of listening to sermons that the preachers did not believe, — and prayers that the lips that uttered them yawned at in the listlessness of their infidelity, — and penances137 that might be hired out to a lay-brother to undergo for a pound of coffee or of snuff, — and the vilest subserviencies to the caprice and passion of a Superior, — and the listening to men with God for ever in their mouths, and the world for ever in their hearts, — men who think of nothing but the aggrandizement138 of their temporal distinction, and screen, under the most revolting affectation of a concern in spiritualities, their ravening139 cupidity140 after earthly eminence141:— Wretch! do you dream that it was for this? — that this atheism142 of bigotry143, — this creed144 of all the priests that ever have existed in connexion with the state, and in hope of extending their interest by that connexion, — could have any influence over me? I had sounded every depth in the mine of depravity before them. I knew them, — I despised them. I crouched145 before them in body, I spurned146 them in my soul. With all their sanctimony147, they had hearts so worldly, that it was scarce worth while to watch their hypocrisy148, the secret developed itself so soon. There was no discovery to be made, no place for detection. I have seen them on their high festivals, prelates, and abbots, and priests, in all their pomp of office, appearing to the laity149 like descended150 gods, blazing in gems151 and gold, amid the lustre152 of tapers153 and the floating splendour of an irradiated atmosphere alive with light, and all soft and delicate harmonies and delicious odours, till, as they disappeared amid the clouds of incense154 so gracefully155 tossed from the gilded156 censers, the intoxicated eye dreamed it saw them ascending157 to Paradise. Such was the scene, but what was behind the scene? — I saw it all. Two or three of them would rush from service into the vestry together, under the pretence159 of changing their vestments. One would imagine that these men would have at least the decency160 to refrain, while in the intervals161 of the holy mass. No, I overheard them. While shifting their robes, they talked incessantly162 of promotions163 and appointments, — of this or that prelate, dying or dead, — of a wealthy benefice being vacant, — of one dignitary having bargained hard with the state for the promotion164 of a relative, — of another who had well-founded hopes of obtaining a bishoprick, for what? neither for learning or piety101, or one feature of the pastoral character, but because he had valuable benefices to resign in exchange, that might be divided among numerous candidates. Such was their conversation, — such and such only were their thoughts, till the last thunders of the allelujah from the church made them start, and hurry to resume their places at the altar. Oh what a compound of meanness and pride, of imbecillity and pretension165, of sanctimony so transparently166 and awkwardly worn, that the naked frame of the natural mind was visible to every eye beneath it, — that mind which is ‘earthly, sensual, devilish.’ Was it to live among such wretches167, who, all-villain as I was, made me hug myself with the thought that at least I was not like them, a passionless prone168 reptile169, — a thing made of forms and dressings170, half satin and shreds171, half ave’s and credo’s, — bloated and abject172, — creeping and aspiring173, — winding174 up and up the pedestal of power at the rate of an inch a day, and tracking its advance to eminence by the flexibility175 of its writhings, the obliquity176 of its course, and the filth177 of its slime, — was it for this?’ — he paused, half-choaked with his emotions.
‘This man might have been a better being under better circumstances; he had at least a disdain178 of all that was mean in vice158, with a wild avidity for all that was atrocious. ‘Was it for this,’ he continued, ‘that I have sold myself to work their works of darkness, — that I have become in this life as it were an apprentice179 to Satan, to take anticipated lessons of torture, — that I have sealed those indentures180 here, which must be fulfilled below? No, I despise — I loathe181 it all, the agents and the system, — the men and their matters. But it is the creed of that system, (and true or false it avails not, — some kind of creed is necessary, and the falser perhaps the better, for falsehood at least flatters), that the greatest criminal may expiate182 his offences, by vigilantly183 watching, and severely184 punishing, those of the enemies of heaven. Every offender185 may purchase his immunity186, by consenting to become the executioner of the offender whom he betrays and denounces. In the language of the laws of another country, they may turn ‘king’s evidence,’ and buy their own lives at the price of another’s, — a bargain which every man is very ready to make. But, in religious life, this kind of transfer, this substitutional suffering, is adopted with an avidity indescribable. How we love to punish those whom the church calls the enemies of God, while conscious that, though our enmity against him is infinitely187 greater, we become acceptable in his sight by tormenting188 those who may be less guilty, but who are in our power! I hate you, not because I have any natural or social cause to do so, but because the exhaustion189 of my resentment190 on you, may diminish that of the Deity191 towards me. If I persecute126 and torment123 the enemies of God, must I not be the friend of God? Must not every pang I inflict on another, be recorded in the book of the All-remembering, as an expurgation of at least one of the pangs192 that await me hereafter? I have no religion, I believe in no God, I repeat no creed, but I have that superstition193 of fear and of futurity, that seeks its wild and hopeless mitigation in the sufferings of others when our own are exhausted, or when (a much more common case) we are unwilling194 to undergo them. I am convinced that my own crimes will be obliterated195, by whatever crimes of others I can promote or punish. Had I not, then, every motive196 to urge you to crime? Had I not every motive to watch and aggravate197 your punishment? Every coal of fire that I heaped on your head, was removing one from that fire that burns for ever and ever for mine. Every drop of water that I withheld198 from your burning tongue, I expect will be repaid to me in slaking199 the fire and brimstone into which I must one day be hurled200. Every tear that I draw, every groan201 that I extort202, will, I am convinced, be repaid me in the remission of my own! — guess what a price I set on yours, or those of any other victim. The man in ancient story trembled and paused over the scattered limbs of his child, and failed in the pursuit, — the true penitent203 rushes over the mangled204 members of nature and passion, collects them with a hand in which there is no pulse, and a heart in which there is no feeling, and holds them up in the face of the Divinity as a peace-offering. Mine is the best theology, — the theology of utter hostility205 to all beings whose sufferings may mitigate206 mine. In this flattering theory, your crimes become my virtues207, — I need not any of my own. Guilty as I am of the crime that outrages208 nature, your crimes (the crimes of those who offend against the church) are of a much more heinous209 order. But your guilt is my exculpation210, your sufferings are my triumph. I need not repent211, I need not believe; if you suffer, I am saved, — that is enough for me. How glorious and easy it is to erect212 at once the trophy213 of our salvation, on the trampled214 and buried hopes of another’s! How subtle and sublime215 that alchemy, that can convert the iron of another’s contumacy and impenitence216 into the precious gold of your own redemption! I have literally worked out my salvation by your fear and trembling. With this hope I appeared to concur217 in the plan laid by your brother, every feature of which was in its progress disclosed to the Superior. With this hope I passed that wretched night and day in the dungeon218 with you, for, to have effected our escape by daylight, would have startled credulity as gross as even yours. But all the time I was feeling the dagger219 I bore in my breast, and which I had received for a purpose amply accomplished220. As for you, — the Superior consented to your attempt to escape, merely that he might have you more in his power. He and the community were tired of you, they saw you would never make a monk, — your appeal had brought disgrace on them, your presence was a reproach and a burden to them. The sight of you was as thorns in their eyes, — they judged you would make a better victim than a proselyte, and they judged well. You are a much fitter inmate72 for your present abode than your last, and from hence there is no danger of your escaping.’ — ‘And where, then, am I?’ — ‘You are in the prison of the Inquisition.’
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