And vends1 them forth3 as knaves4 vend2 gilded5 counters,
Which wise men scorn, and fools accept in payment.
Old play.
In the morning Christie of the Clinthill was nowhere to be seen. As this worthy6 personage did seldom pique8 himself on sounding a trumpet9 before his movements, no one was surprised at his moonlight departure, though some alarm was excited lest he had not made it empty-handed. So, in the language of the national ballad10,
Some ran to cupboard, and some to kist,
But nought11 was away that could be mist.
All was in order, the key of the stable left above the door, and that of the iron-grate in the inside of the lock. In short, the retreat had been made with scrupulous12 attention to the security of the garrison13, and so far Christie left them nothing to complain of.
The safety of the premises14 was ascertained16 by Halbert, who instead of catching17 up a gun or cross-bow, and sallying out for the day as had been his frequent custom, now, with a gravity beyond his years, took a survey of all around the tower, and then returned to the spence, or public apartment, in which, at the early hour of seven, the morning meal was prepared.
There he found the Euphuist in the same elegant posture18 of abstruse19 calculation which he had exhibited on the preceding evening, his arms folded in the same angle, his eyes turned up to the same cobwebs, and his heels resting on the ground as before. Tired of this affectation of indolent importance, and not much flattered with his guest’s persevering20 in it to the last, Halbert resolved at once to break the ice, being determined21 to know what circumstance had brought to the tower of Glendinning a guest at once so supercilious22 and so silent.
“Sir Knight23,” he said with some firmness, “I have twice given you good morning, to which the absence of your mind hath, I presume, prevented you from yielding attention, or from making return. This exchange of courtesy is at your pleasure to give or withhold25 — But, as what I have further to say concerns your comfort and your motions in an especial manner, I will entreat26 you to give me some signs of attention, that I may be sure I am not wasting my words on a monumental image.”
At this unexpected address, Sir Piercie Shafton opened his eyes, and afforded the speaker a broad stare; but as Halbert returned the glance without either confusion or dismay, the knight thought proper to change his posture, draw in his legs, raise his eyes, fix them on young Glendinning, and assume the appearance of one who listens to what is said to him. Nay27, to make his purpose more evident, he gave voice to his resolution in these words, “Speak! we do hear.”
“Sir Knight,” said the youth, “it is the custom of this Halidome, or patrimony28 of St. Mary’s, to trouble with inquiries29 no guests who receive our hospitality, providing they tarry in our house only for a single revolution of the sun. We know that both criminals and debtors30 come hither for sanctuary31, and we scorn to extort32 from the pilgrim, whom chance may make our guest, an avowal33 of the cause of his pilgrimage and penance34. But when one so high above our rank as yourself, Sir Knight, and especially one to whom the possession of such pre-eminence is not indifferent, shows his determination to be our guest for a longer time, it is our usage to inquire of him whence he comes, and what is the cause of his journey?”
The English knight gaped35 twice or thrice before he answered, and then replied in a bantering36 tone, “Truly, good villagio, your question hath in it somewhat of embarrassment37, for you ask me of things concerning which I am not as yet altogether determined what answer I may find it convenient to make. Let it suffice thee, kind juvenal, that thou hast the Lord Abbot’s authority for treating me to the best of that power of thine, which, indeed, may not always so well suffice for my accommodation as either of us would desire.”
“I must have a more precise answer than this, Sir Knight,” said the young Glendinning.
“Friend,” said the knight, “be not outrageous38. It may suit your northern manners thus to press harshly upon the secrets of thy betters; but believe me, that even as the lute39, struck by an unskilful hand, doth produce discords40, so ——” At this moment the door of the apartment opened, and Mary Avenel presented herself —“But who can talk of discords,” said the knight, assuming his complimentary41 vein42 and humour, “when the soul of harmony descends43 upon us in the presence of surpassing beauty! For even as foxes, wolves, and other animals void of sense and reason, do fly from the presence of the resplendent sun of heaven when he arises in his glory, so do strife44, wrath45, and all ireful passions retreat, and, as it were, scud46 away, from the face which now beams upon us, with power to compose our angry passions, illuminate47 our errors and difficulties, soothe48 our wounded minds, and lull49 to rest our disorderly apprehensions50; for as the heat and warmth of the eye of day is to the material and physical world, so is the eye which I now bow down before to that of the intellectual microcosm.”
He concluded with a profound bow; and Mary Avenel, gazing from one to the other, and plainly seeing that something was amiss, could only say, “For heaven’s sake, what is the meaning of this?”
The newly-acquired tact51 and intelligence of her foster-brother was as yet insufficient52 to enable him to give an answer. He was quite uncertain how he ought to deal with a guest, who preserving a singularly high tone of assumed superiority and importance, seemed nevertheless so little serious in what he said, that it was quite impossible to discern with accuracy whether he was in jest or earnest.
Forming, however, the internal resolution to bring Sir Piercie Shafton to a reckoning at a more fit place and season, he resolved to prosecute53 the matter no farther at present; and the entrance of his mother with the damsel of the Mill, and the return of the honest Miller54 from the stack-yard, where he had been numbering and calculating the probable amount of the season’s grist, rendered farther discussion impossible for the moment.
In the course of the calculation it could not but strike the man of meal and grindstones, that after the church’s dues were paid, and after all which he himself could by any means deduct55 from the crop, still the residue56 which must revert57 to Dame58 Glendinning could not be less than considerable. I wot not if this led the honest Miller to nourish any plans similar to those adopted by Elspeth; but it is certain that he accepted with grateful alacrity59 an invitation which the dame gave to his daughter, to remain a week or two as her guest at Glendearg.
The principal persons being thus in high good humour with each other, all business gave place to the hilarity60 of the morning repast; and so much did Sir Piercie appear gratified by the attention which was paid to every word that he uttered by the nut-brown Mysie, that, notwithstanding his high birth and distinguished61 quality, he bestowed62 on her some of the more ordinary and second-rate tropes of his elocution.
Mary Avenel, when relieved from the awkwardness of feeling the full weight of his conversation addressed to herself, enjoyed it much more; and the good knight, encouraged by those conciliating marks of approbation63 from the sex, for whose sake he cultivated his oratorical64 talents, made speedy intimation of his purpose to be more communicative than he had shown himself in his conversation with Halbert Glendinning, and gave them to understand, that it was in consequence of some pressing danger that he was at present their involuntary guest.
The conclusion of the breakfast was a signal for the separation of the company. The Miller went to prepare for his departure; his daughter to arrange matters for her unexpected stay; Edward was summoned to consultation65 by Martin concerning some agricultural matter, in which Halbert could not be brought to interest himself; the dame left the room upon her household concerns, and Mary was in the act of following her, when she suddenly recollected66, that if she did so, the strange knight and Halbert must be left alone together, at the risk of another quarrel.
The maiden67 no sooner observed this circumstance, than she instantly returned from the door of the apartment, and, seating herself in a small stone window-seat, resolved to maintain that curb68 which she was sensible her presence imposed on Halbert Glendinning, of whose quick temper she had some apprehensions.
The stranger marked her motions, and, either interpreting them as inviting69 his society, or obedient to those laws of gallantry which permitted him not to leave a lady in silence and solitude71, he instantly placed himself near to her side and opened the conversation as follows:—
“Credit me, fair lady” he said, addressing Mary Avenel, “it much rejoiceth me, being, as I am, a banished72 man from the delights of mine own country, that I shall find here in this obscure and silvan cottage of the north, a fair form and a candid73 soul, with whom I may explain my mutual74 sentiments. And let me pray you in particular, lovely lady, that, according to the universal custom now predominant in our court, the garden of superior wits, you will exchange with me some epithet75 whereby you may mark my devotion to your service. Be henceforward named, for example, my Protection, and let me be your Affability.”
“Our northern and country manners, Sir Knight, do not permit us to exchange epithets76 with those to whom we are strangers,” replied Mary Avenel.
“Nay, but see now,” said the knight, “how you are startled! even as the unbroken steed, which swerves77 aside from the shaking of a handkerchief, though he must in time encounter the waving of a pennon. This courtly exchange of epithets of honour, is no more than the compliments which pass between valour and beauty, wherever they meet, and under whatever circumstances. Elizabeth of England herself calls Philip Sydney her Courage, and he in return calls that princess his Inspiration. Wherefore, my fair Protection, for by such epithet it shall be mine to denominate you —”
“Not without the young lady’s consent, sir!” interrupted Halbert; “most truly do I hope your courtly and quaint78 breeding will not so far prevail over the more ordinary rules of civil behaviour.”
“Fair tenant79 of an indifferent copyhold,” replied the knight, with the same coolness and civility of mien80, but in a tone somewhat more lofty than he used to the young lady, “we do not in the southern parts, much intermingle discourse81, save with those with whom we may stand on some footing of equality; and I must, in all discretion82, remind you, that the necessity which makes us inhabitants of the same cabin, doth not place us otherwise on a level with each other.”
“By Saint Mary,” replied young Glendinning, “it is my thought that it does; for plain men hold, that he who asks the shelter is indebted to him who gives it; and so far, therefore, is our rank equalized while this roof covers us both.”
“Thou art altogether deceived,” answered Sir Piercie; “and that thou mayst fully83 adapt thyself to our relative condition, know that I account not myself thy guest, but that of thy master, the Lord Abbot of Saint Mary’s, who, for reasons best known to himself and me, chooseth to administer his hospitality to me through the means of thee, his servant and vassal84, who art, therefore, in good truth, as passive an instrument of my accommodation as this ill-made and rugged85 joint-stool on which I sit, or as the wooden trencher from which I eat my coarse commons. Wherefore,” he added, turning to Mary, “fairest mistress, or rather, as I said before, most lovely Protection —” 39
Mary Avenel was about to reply to him, when the stern, fierce, and resentful expression of voice and countenance86 with which Halbert exclaimed, “not from the King of Scotland, did he live, would I brook87 such terms!” induced her to throw herself between him and the stranger, exclaiming, “for God’s sake, Halbert, beware what you do!”
“Fear not, fairest Protection,” replied Sir Piercie, with the utmost serenity88, “that I can be provoked by this rustical and mistaught juvenal to do aught misbecoming your presence or mine own dignity; for as soon shall the gunner’s linstock give fire unto the icicle, as the spark of passion inflame89 my blood, tempered as it is to serenity by the respect due to the presence of my gracious Protection.”
“You may well call her your protection, Sir Knight” said Halbert; “by Saint Andrew, it is the only sensible word I have heard you speak! But we may meet where her protection shall no longer afford you shelter.”
“Fairest Protection,” continued the courtier, not even honouring with a look, far less with a direct reply, the threat of the incensed90 Halbert, “doubt not that thy faithful Affability will be more commoved by the speech of this rudesby, than the bright and serene91 moon is perturbed92 by the baying of the cottage-cur, proud of the height of his own dunghill, which, in his conceit93, lifteth him nearer unto the majestic94 luminary95.”
To what lengths so unsavoury a simile96 might have driven Halbert’s indignation, is left uncertain; for at that moment Edward rushed into the apartment with the intelligence that two most important officers of the Convent, the Kitchener and Refectioner, were just arrived with a sumpter-mule, loaded with provisions, announcing that the Lord Abbot, the Sub-Prior, and the Sacristan, were on their way thither97. A circumstance so very extraordinary had never been recorded in the annals of Saint Mary’s, or in the traditions of Glendearg, though there was a faint legendary98 report that a certain Abbot had dined there in old days, after having been bewildered in a hunting expedition amongst the wilds which lie to the northward99. But that the present Lord Abbot should have taken a voluntary journey to so wild and dreary100 a spot, the very Kamtschatka of the Halidome, was a thing never dreamt of; and the news excited the greatest surprise in all the members of the family saving Halbert alone.
This fiery101 youth was too full of the insult he had received to think of anything as unconnected with it. “I am glad of it,” he exclaimed; “I am glad the Abbot comes hither. I will know of him by what right this stranger is sent hither to domineer over us under our father’s roof, as if we were slaves and not freemen. I will tell the proud priest to his beard —”
“Alas102! alas! my brother,” said Edward, “think what these words may cost thee!”
“And what will, or what can they cost me,” said Halbert, “that I should sacrifice my human feelings and my justifiable103 resentment104 to the fear of what the Abbot can do?”
“Our mother — our mother!” exclaimed Edward; “think, if she is deprived of her home, expelled from her property, how can you amend105 what your rashness may ruin?”
“It is too true, by Heaven!” said Halbert, striking his forehead. Then, stamping his foot against the floor to express the full energy of the passion to which he dared no longer give vent24, he turned round and left the apartment.
Mary Avenel looked at the stranger knight, while she was endeavouring to frame a request that he would not report the intemperate106 violence of her foster-brother to the prejudice of his family, in the mind of the Abbot. But Sir Piercie, the very pink of courtesy, conjectured107 her meaning from her embarrassment, and waited not to be entreated108.
“Credit me, fairest Protection,” said he, “your Affability is less than capable of seeing or hearing, far less of reciting or reiterating109, aught of an unseemly nature which may have chanced while I enjoyed the Elysium of your presence. The winds of idle passion may indeed rudely agitate110 the bosom111 of the rude; but the heart of the courtier is polished to resist them. As the frozen lake receives not the influence of the breeze, even so —”
The voice of Dame Glendinning, in shrill112 summons, here demanded Mary Avenel’s attendance, who instantly obeyed, not a little glad to escape from the compliments and similes113 of this courtlike gallant70. Nor was it apparently114 less a relief on his part; for no sooner was she past the threshold of the room, than he exchanged the look of formal and elaborate politeness which had accompanied each word he had uttered hitherto, for an expression of the utmost lassitude and ennui115; and after indulging in one or two portentous116 yawns, broke forth into a soliloquy.
“What the foul117 fiend sent this wench hither? As if it were not sufficient plague to be harboured in a hovel that would hardly serve for a dog’s kennel118 in England, baited by a rude peasant-boy, and dependent on the faith of a mercenary ruffian, but I cannot even have time to muse119 over my own mishap120, but must come aloft, frisk, fidget, and make speeches, to please this pale hectic121 phantom122, because she has gentle blood in her veins123? By mine honour, setting prejudice aside, the mill-wench is the more attractive of the two — But patienza, Piercie Shafton; thou must not lose thy well-earned claim to be accounted a devout124 servant of the fair sex, a witty125-brained, prompt, and accomplished126 courtier. Rather thank heaven, Piercie Shafton, which hath sent thee a subject, wherein, without derogating from thy rank, (since the honours of the Avenel family are beyond dispute,) thou mayest find a whetstone for thy witty compliments, a strop whereon to sharpen thine acute engine, a butt127 whereat to shoot the arrows of thy gallantry. For even as a Bilboa blade, the more it is rubbed, the brighter and the sharper will it prove, so — But what need I waste my stock of similitudes in holding converse128 with myself? — Yonder comes the monkish129 retinue130, like some half score of crows winging their way slowly up the valley — I hope, a’gad, they have not forgotten my trunk-mails of apparel amid the ample provision they have made for their own belly-timber — Mercy, a’gad, I were finely helped up if the vesture has miscarried among the thievish Borderers!”
Stung by this reflection, he ran hastily down stairs, and caused his horse to be saddled, that he might, as soon as possible, ascertain15 this important point, by meeting the Lord Abbot and his retinue as they came up the glen. He had not ridden a mile before he met them advancing with the slowness and decorum which became persons of their dignity and profession. The knight failed not to greet the Lord Abbot with all the formal compliments with which men of rank at that period exchanged courtesies. He had the good fortune to find that his mails were numbered among the train of baggage which attended upon the party; and, satisfied in that particular, he turned his horse’s head, and accompanied the Abbot to the Tower of Glendearg.
Great, in the meanwhile, had been the turmoil131 of the good Dame Elspeth and her coadjutors, to prepare for the fitting reception of the Father Lord Abbot and his retinue. The monks132 had indeed taken care not to trust too much to the state of her pantry; but she was not the less anxious to make such additions as might enable her to claim the thanks of her feudal133 lord and spiritual father. Meeting Halbert, as, with his blood on fire, he returned from his altercation134 with her guest, she commanded him instantly to go forth to the hill, and not to return without venison; reminding him that he was apt enough to go thither for his own pleasure, and must now do so for the credit of the house.
The Miller, who was now hastening his journey homewards, promised to send up some salmon135 by his own servant. Dame Elspeth, who by this time thought she had guests enough, had begun to repent136 of her invitation to poor Mysie, and was just considering by what means, short of giving offence, she could send off the Maid of the Mill behind her father, and adjourn137 all her own aerial architecture till some future opportunity, when this unexpected generosity138 on the part of the sire rendered any present attempt to return his daughter on his hands too highly ungracious to be farther thought on. So the Miller departed alone on his homeward journey.
Dame Elspeth’s sense of hospitality proved in this instance its own reward; for Mysie had dwelt too near the Convent to be altogether ignorant of the noble art of cookery, which her father patronized to the extent of consuming on festival days such dainties as his daughter could prepare in emulation139 of the luxuries of the Abbot’s kitchen. Laying aside, therefore, her holiday kirtle, and adopting a dress more suitable to the occasion, the good-humored maiden bared her snowy arms above the elbows; and, as Elspeth acknowledged, in the language of the time and country, took “entire and aefauld part with her” in the labours of the day; showing unparalleled talent, and indefatigable140 industry, in the preparation of mortreux, blanc-manger, and heaven knows what delicacies141 besides, which Dame Glendinning, unassisted by her skill, dared not even have dreamt of presenting. Leaving this able substitute in the kitchen, and regretting that Mary Avenel was so brought up, that she could intrust nothing to her care, unless it might be seeing the great chamber142 strewed143 with rushes, and ornamented144 with such flowers and branches as the season afforded, Dame Elspeth hastily donned her best attire145, and with a beating heart presented herself at the door of her little tower, to make her obeisance146 to the Lord Abbot as he crossed her humble147 threshold. Edward stood by his mother, and felt the same palpitation, which his philosophy was at a loss to account for. He was yet to learn how long it is ere our reason is enabled to triumph over the force of external circumstances, and how much our feelings are affected148 by novelty, and blunted by use and habit.
On the present occasion, he witnessed with wonder and awe149 the approach of some half-score of riders, sober men upon sober palfreys, muffled150 in their long black garments, and only relieved by their white scapularies, showing more like a funeral procession than aught else, and not quickening their pace beyond that which permitted easy conversation and easy digestion151. The sobriety of the scene was indeed somewhat enlivened by the presence of Sir Piercie Shafton, who, to show that his skill in the manege was not inferior to his other accomplishments152, kept alternately pressing and checking his gay courser, forcing him to piaffe, to caracole, to passage, and to do all the other feats153 of the school, to the great annoyance154 of the Lord Abbot, the wonted sobriety of whose palfrey became at length discomposed by the vivacity155 of its companion, while the dignitary kept crying out in bodily alarm, “I do pray you — Sir Knight — good now, Sir Piercie — Be quiet, Benedict, there is a good steed — soh, poor fellow” and uttering all the other precatory and soothing156 exclamations157 by which a timid horseman usually bespeaks158 the favour of a frisky159 companion, or of his own unquiet nag7, and concluding the bead-roll with a sincere Deo gratias so soon as he alighted in the court-yard of the Tower of Glendearg.
The inhabitants unanimously knelt down to kiss the hand of the Lord Abbot, a ceremony which even the monks were often condemned160 to. Good Abbot Boniface was too much fluttered by the incidents of the latter part of his journey, to go through this ceremony with much solemnity, or indeed with much patience. He kept wiping his brow with a snow-white handkerchief with one hand, while another was abandoned to the homage161 of his vassals162; and then signing the cross with his outstretched arm, and exclaiming, “Bless ye — bless ye, my children” he hastened into the house, and murmured not a little at the darkness and steepness of the rugged winding163 stair, whereby he at length scaled the spence destined164 for his entertainment, and, overcome with fatigue165, threw himself, I do not say into an easy chair, but into the easiest the apartment afforded.
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