And do me right with your sword, sir, as becomes
One gentleman of honour to another;
All this is fair, sir — let us make no days on’t,
I’ll lead your way.
Love’s pilgrimage.
The look and sign of warning which the Sub-Prior gave to Halbert Glendinning as they parted, went to his heart; for although he had profited much less than Edward by the good man’s instructions, he had a sincere reverence1 for his person; and even the short time he had for deliberation tended to show him he was embarked2 in a perilous3 adventure. The nature of the provocation4 which he had given to Sir Piercie Shafton he could not even conjecture5; but he saw that it was of a mortal quality, and he was now to abide6 the consequences.
That he might not force these consequences forward by any premature7 renewal8 of their quarrel, he resolved to walk apart for an hour, and consider on what terms he was to meet this haughty9 foreigner. The time seemed propitious10 for his doing so without having the appearance of wilfully11 shunning12 the stranger, as all the members of the little household were dispersing13 either to perform such tasks as had been interrupted by the arrival of the dignitaries, or to put in order what had been deranged14 by their visit.
Leaving the tower, therefore, and descending15, unobserved as he thought, the knoll17 on which it stood, Halbert gained the little piece of level ground which extended betwixt the descent of the hill, and the first sweep made by the brook18 after washing the foot of the eminence19 on which the tower was situated20, where a few straggling birch and oak-trees served to secure him from observation. But scarcely had he reached the spot, when he was surprised to feel a smart tap upon the shoulder, and, turning around, he perceived he had been closely followed by Sir Piercie Shafton. When, whether from our state of animal spirits, want of confidence in the justice of our cause, or any other motive22, our own courage happens to be in a wavering condition, nothing tends so much altogether to disconcert us, as a great appearance of promptitude on the part of our antagonist23. Halbert Glendinning, both morally and constitutionally intrepid24, was nevertheless somewhat troubled at seeing the stranger, whose resentment25 he had provoked, appear at once before him, and with an aspect which boded26 hostility27. But though his heart might beat somewhat thicker, he was too high-spirited to exhibit any external signs of emotion. —“What is your pleasure, Sir Piercie?” he said to the English knight28, enduring without apparent discomposure all the terrors which his antagonist had summoned into his aspect.
“What is my pleasure!” answered Sir Piercie; “a goodly question after the part you have acted towards me! — Young man, I know not what infatuation has led thee to place thyself in direct and insolent29 opposition30 to one who is a guest of thy liege-lord the Abbot, and who, even from the courtesy due to thy mother’s roof, had a right to remain there without meeting insult. Neither do I ask, or care, by what means thou hast become possessed31 of the fatal secret by which thou hast dared to offer me open shame. But I must now tell thee, that the possession of it has cost thee thy life.”
“Not, I trust, if my hand and sword can defend it,” replied Halbert, boldly.
“True,” said the Englishman, “I mean not to deprive thee of thy fair chance of self-defence. I am only sorry to think, that, young and country-bred as thou art, it can but little avail thee. But thou must be well aware, that in this quarrel I shall use no terms of quarter.”
“Rely on it, proud man,” answered the youth, “that I shall ask none; and although thou speakest as if I lay already at thy feet, trust me, that as I am determined32 never to ask thy mercy, so I am not fearful of needing it.”
“Thou wilt33, then,” said the knight, “do nothing to avert34 the certain fate which thou hast provoked with such wantonness?”
“And how were that to be purchased?” replied Halbert Glendinning, more with the wish of obtaining some farther insight into the terms on which he stood with this stranger, than to make him the submission35 which he might require.
“Explain to me instantly,” said Sir Piercie, “without equivocation36 or delay, by what means thou wert enabled to wound my honour so deeply — and shouldst thou point out to me by so doing an enemy more worthy37 of my resentment, I will permit thine own obscure insignificance38 to draw a veil over thine insolence39.”
“This is too high a flight,” said Glendinning, fiercely, “for thine own presumption40 to soar without being checked. Thou hast come to my father’s house, as well as I can guess, a fugitive41 and an exile, and thy first greeting to its inhabitants has been that of contempt and injury. By what means I have been able to retort that contempt, let thine own conscience tell thee. Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scotchman, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.”
“It is well, then,” said Sir Piercie Shafton; “we will dispute this matter tomorrow morning with our swords. Let the time be daybreak, and do thou assign the place. We will go forth42 as if to strike a deer.”
“Content,” replied Halbert Glendinning: “I will guide thee to a spot where an hundred men might fight and fall without any chance of interruption.”
“It is well,” answered Sir Piercie Shafton. “Here then we part. — Many will say, that in thus indulging the right of a gentleman to the son of a clod-breaking peasant, I derogate43 from my sphere, even as the blessed sun would derogate should he condescend44 to compare and match his golden beams with the twinkle of a pale, blinking, expiring, gross-fed taper45. But no consideration of rank shall prevent my avenging46 the insult thou hast offered me. We bear a smooth face, observe me, Sir Villagio, before the worshipful inmates47 of yonder cabin, and tomorrow we try conclusions with our swords.” So saying, he turned away towards the tower.
It may not be unworthy of notice, that in the last speech only, had Sir Piercie used some of those flowers of rhetoric48 which characterized the usual style of his conversation. Apparently49, a sense of wounded honour, and the deep desire of vindicating50 his injured feelings, had proved too strong for the fantastic affectation of his acquired habits. Indeed, such is usually the influence of energy of mind, when called forth and exerted, that Sir Piercie Shafton had never appeared in the eyes of his youthful antagonist half so much deserving of esteem51 and respect as in this brief dialogue, by which they exchanged mutual52 defiance53. As he followed him slowly to the tower, he could not help thinking to himself, that, had the English knight always displayed this superior tone of bearing and feeling, he would not probably have felt so earnestly disposed to take offence at his hand. Mortal offence, however, had been exchanged, and the matter was to be put to mortal arbitrement.
The family met at the evening meal, when Sir Piercie Shafton extended the benignity54 of his countenance55 and the graces of his conversation far more generally over the party than he had hitherto condescended56 to do. The greater part of his attention was, of course, still engrossed57 by his divine inimitable Discretion58, as he chose to term Mary Avenel; but, nevertheless there were interjectional flourishes to the Maid of the Mill, under the title of Comely59 Damsel, and to the Dame60, under that of Worthy Matron. Nay61, lest he should fail to excite their admiration62 by the graces of his rhetoric, he generously, and without solicitation63, added those of his voice; and after regretting bitterly the absence of his viol-degamba, he regaled them with a song, “which,” said he, “the inimitable Astrophel, whom mortals call Philip Sidney, composed in the nonage of his muse64, to show the world what they are to expect from his riper years, and which will one day see the light in that not-to-be-paralleled perfection of human wit, which he has addressed to his sister, the matchless Parthenope, whom men call Countess of Pembroke; a work,” he continued, “whereof his friendship hath permitted me, though unworthy, to be an occasional partaker, and whereof I may well say, that the deep afflictive65 tale which awakeneth our sorrows, is so relieved with brilliant similitudes, dulcet66 descriptions, pleasant poems, and engaging interludes, that they seem as the stars of the firmament67, beautifying the dusky robe of night. And though I wot well how much the lovely and quaint68 language will suffer by my widowed voice, widowed in that it is no longer matched by my beloved viol-degamba, I will essay to give you a taste of the ravishing sweetness of the poesy of the unto-be-imitated Astrophel.”
So saying, he sung without mercy or remorse69 about five hundred verses, of which the two first and the four last may suffice for a specimen70 —
“What tongue can her perfections tell,
On whose each part all pens may dwell.
Of whose high praise arid71 praiseful bliss72,
Goodness the pen. Heaven paper is;
The ink immortal73 fame doth send,
As I began so I must end.”
As Sir Piercie Shafton always sung with his eyes half shut, it was not until, agreeably to the promise of poetry, he had fairly made an end, that looking round, he discovered that the greater part of his audience had, in the meanwhile, yielded to the charms of repose74. Mary Avenel, indeed, from a natural sense of politeness, had contrived75 to keep awake through all the perplexities of the divine Astrophel; but Mysie was transported in dreams back to the dusty atmosphere of her father’s mill. Edward himself, who had given his attention for some time, had at length fallen fast asleep; and the good dame’s nose, could its tones have been put in regulation, might have supplied the bass76 of the lamented77 viol-degamba. Halbert, however, who had no temptation to give way to the charms of slumber78, remained awake with his eyes fixed79 on the songster; not that he was better entertained with the words, or more ravished with the execution, than the rest of the company, but rather because he admired, or perhaps envied, the composure, which could thus spend the evening in interminable madrigals, when the next morning was to be devoted80 to deadly combat. Yet it struck his natural acuteness of observation, that the eye of the gallant81 cavalier did now and then, furtively82 as it were, seek a glance of his countenance, as if to discover how he was taking the exhibition of his antagonist’s composure and serenity83 of mind.
He shall read nothing in my countenance, thought Halbert, proudly, that can make him think my indifference84 less than his own.
And taking from the shelf a bag full of miscellaneous matters collected for the purpose, he began with great industry to dress hooks, and had finished half-a-dozen of flies (we are enabled, for the benefit of those who admire the antiquities85 of the gentle art of angling, to state that they were brown hackles) by the time that Sir Piercie had arrived at the conclusion of his long-winded strophes of the divine Astrophel. So that he also testified a magnanimous contempt of that which tomorrow should bring forth.
As it now waxed late, the family of Glendearg separated for the evening; Sir Piercie first saying to the dame, that “her son Albert —”
“Halbert,” said Elspeth, with emphasis, “Halbert, after his goodsire, Halbert Brydone.”
“Well, then, I have prayed your son, Halbert, that we may strive tomorrow, with the sun’s earliness, to wake a stag from his lair86, that I may see whether he be as prompt at that sport as fame bespeaks87 him.”
“Alas! sir,” answered Dame Elspeth, “he is but too prompt, an you talk of promptitude, at any thing that has steel at one end of it, and mischief88 at the other. But he is at your honourable89 disposal, and I trust you will teach him how obedience90 is due to our venerable father and lord, the Abbot, and prevail with him to take the bow-bearer’s place in fee; for, as the two worthy monks91 said, it will be a great help to a widow-woman.”
“Trust me, good dame,” replied Sir Piercie, “it is my purpose so to indoctrinate him. touching92 his conduct and bearing towards his betters, that he shall not lightly depart from the reverence due to them. — We meet, then, beneath the birch-trees in the plain,” he said, looking to Halbert, “so soon as the eye of day hath opened its lids.”— Halbert answered with a sign of acquiescence93, and the knight proceeded, “And now, having wished to my fairest Discretion those pleasant dreams which wave their pinions94 around the couch of sleeping beauty, and to this comely damsel the bounties95 of Morpheus, and to all others the common good-night, I will crave96 you leave to depart to my place of rest, though I may say with the poet,
‘Ah rest! — no rest but change of place and posture97:
Ah sleep! — no sleep but worn-out Nature’s swooning;
Ah bed! — no bed but cushion fill’d with stones:
Rest, sleep, nor bed, await not on an exile.’”
With a delicate obeisance98 he left the room, evading99 Dame Glendinning, who hastened to assure him he would find his accommodations for repose much more agreeable than they had been the night before, there having been store of warm coverlets, and a soft feather-bed, sent up from the Abbey. But the good knight probably thought that the grace and effect of his exit would be diminished, if he were recalled from his heroics to discuss such sublunary and domestic topics, and therefore hastened away without waiting to hear her out.
“A pleasant gentleman,” said Dame Glendinning; “but I will warrant him an humorous 50 — And sings a sweet song, though it is somewhat of the longest. — Well, I make mine avow100 he is goodly company — I wonder when he will go away.”
Having thus expressed her respect for her guest, not without intimation that she was heartily101 tired of his company, the good dame gave the signal for the family to disperse102, and laid her injunctions on Halbert to attend Sir Piercie Shafton at daybreak, as he required.
When stretched on his pallet by his brother’s side, Halbert had no small cause to envy the sound sleep which instantly settled on the eyes of Edward, but refused him any share of its influence. He saw now too well what the spirit had darkly indicated, that, in granting the boon103 which he had asked so unadvisedly, she had contributed more to his harm than his good. He was now sensible, too late, of the various dangers and inconveniences with which his dearest friends were threatened, alike by his discomfiture104 or his success in the approaching duel105. If he fell, he might say personally, “good-night all.” But it was not the less certain that he should leave a dreadful legacy106 of distress107 and embarrassment108 to his mother and family — an anticipation109 which by no means tended to render the front of death, in itself a grisly object, more agreeable to his imagination. The vengeance110 of the Abbot, his conscience told him, was sure to descend16 on his mother and brother, or could only be averted111 by the generosity112 of the victor — And Mary Avenel — he should have shown himself, if he succumbed113 in the present combat, as inefficient114 in protecting her, as he had been unnecessarily active in bringing disaster on her, and on the house in which she had been protected from infancy115. And to this view of the case were to be added all those imbittered and anxious feelings with which the bravest men, even in a better or less doubtful quarrel, regard the issue of a dubious116 conflict, the first time when it has been their fate to engage in an affair of that nature.
But however disconsolate117 the prospect118 seemed in the event of his being conquered, Halbert could expect from victory little more than the safety of his own life, and the gratification of his wounded pride. To his friends — to his mother and brother — especially to Mary Avenel — the consequences of his triumph would be more certain destruction than the contingency119 of his defeat and death. If the English knight survived, he might in courtesy extend his protection to them; but if he fell, nothing was likely to screen them from the vindictive120 measures which the Abbot and convent would surely adopt against the violation121 of the peace of the Halidome, and the slaughter122 of a protected guest by one of their own vassals123, within whose house they had lodged124 him for shelter. These thoughts, in which neither view of the case augured125 aught short of ruin to his family, and that ruin entirely126 brought on by his own rashness, were thorns in Halbert Glendinning’s pillow, and deprived his soul of peace and his eyes of slumber.
There appeared no middle course, saving one which was marked by degradation127, and which, even if he stooped to it, was by no means free of danger. He might indeed confess to the English knight the strange circumstances which led to his presenting him with that token which the White Lady (in her displeasure as it now seemed) had given him, that he might offer it to Sir Piercie Shafton. But to this avowal128 his pride could not stoop, and reason, who is wonderfully ready to be of counsel with pride on such occasions, offered many arguments to show it would be useless as well as mean so far to degrade himself. “If I tell a tale so wonderful,” thought he, “shall I not either be stigmatized129 as a liar130, or punished as a wizard? — Were Sir Piercie Shafton generous, noble, and benevolent131, as the champions of whom we hear in romance, I might indeed gain his ear, and, without demeaning myself, escape from the situation in which I am placed. But as he is, or at least seems to be, self-conceited, arrogant132, vain, and presumptuous133 — I should but humble134 myself in vain — and I will not humble myself!” he said, starting out of bed, grasping his broadsword, and brandishing135 it in the light of the moon, which streamed through the deep niche136 that served them as a window; when, to his extreme surprise and terror, an airy form stood in the moonlight, but intercepted137 not the reflection on the floor. Dimly as it was expressed, the sound of the voice soon made him sensible he saw the White Lady.
At no time had her presence seemed so terrific to him; for when he had invoked139 her, it was with the expectation of the apparition140, and the determination to abide the issue. But now she had come uncalled, and her presence impressed him with a sense of approaching misfortune, and with the hideous141 apprehension142 that he had associated himself with a demon143, over whose motions he had no control, and of whose powers and quality he had no certain knowledge. He remained, therefore, in mere144 terror, gazing on the apparition, which chanted or recited in cadence145 the following lines —
“He whose heart for vengeance sued,
Must not shrink from shedding blood
The knot that thou hast tied with word,
Thou must loose by edge of sword.”
“Avaunt thee, false Spirit!” said Halbert Glendinning; “I have bought thy advice too dearly already — Begone in the name of God!”
The Spirit laughed; and the cold unnatural146 sound of her laughter had something in it more fearful than the usually melancholy147 tones of her voice. She then replied —
“You have summon’d me once — you have summoned me twice,
And without e’er a summons I come to you thrice;
Unask’d for, unsued for, you came to my glen;
Unsued and unask’d I am with you again.”
Halbert Glendinning gave way for a moment to terror, and called on his brother, “Edward! waken, waken, for Our Lady’s sake!”
Edward awaked accordingly, and asked what he wanted.
“Look out,” said Halbert, “look up! seest thou no one in the room?”
“No, upon my good word,” said Edward, looking out.
“What! seest thou nothing in the moonshine upon the floor there?”
“No, nothing,” answered Edward, “save thyself resting on thy naked sword. I tell thee, Halbert, thou shouldst trust more to thy spiritual arms, and less to those of steel and iron. For this many a night hast thou started and moaned, and cried out of fighting, and of spectres, and of goblins — thy sleep hath not refreshed thee — thy waking hath been a dream. — Credit me, dear Halbert, say the Pater and Credo, resign thyself to the protection of God, and thou wilt sleep sound and wake in comfort.”
“It may be,” said Halbert slowly, and having his eye still bent148 on the female form which to him seemed distinctly visible — “it may be. But tell me, dear Edward, seest thou no one on the chamber149 floor but me?”
“No one,” answered Edward, raising himself on his elbow; “dear brother, lay aside thy weapon, say thy prayers, and lay thee down to rest.”
While he thus spoke150, the Spirit smiled at Halbert as if in scorn; her wan21 cheek faded in the wan moonlight even before the smile had passed away, and Halbert himself no longer beheld151 the vision to which he had so anxiously solicited152 his brother’s attention. “May God preserve my wits!” he said, as, laying aside his weapon, he again threw himself on his bed.
“Amen! my dearest brother,” answered Edward; “but we must not provoke that Heaven in our wantonness which we invoke138 in our misery153. — Be not angry with me, my dear brother — I know not why you have totally of late estranged154 yourself from me — It is true, I am neither so athletic155 in body, nor so alert in courage, as you have been from your infancy; yet, till lately, you have not absolutely cast off my society — Believe me, I have wept in secret, though I forbore to intrude156 myself on your privacy. The time has been — when you held me not so cheap; and — when, if I could not follow the game so closely, or mark it so truly as you, I could fill up our intervals157 of pastime with pleasant tales of the olden times, which I had read or heard, and which excited even your attention as we sate158 and ate our provision by some pleasant spring — but now I have, though I know not why, lost thy regard and affection. — Nay, toss not thy arms about thee thus wildly,” said the younger brother; “from thy strange dreams, I fear some touch of fever hath affected159 thy blood — let me draw closer around thee thy mantle160.”
“Forbear,” said Halbert —“your care is needless — your complaints are without reason — your fears on my account are in vain.”
“Nay, but hear me, brother,” said Edward. “Your speech in sleep, and now even your waking dreams, are of beings which belong not to this world, or to our race — Our good Father Eustace says, that howbeit we may not do well to receive all idle tales of goblins and spectres, yet there is warrant from holy Scripture161 to believe, that the fiends haunt waste and solitary162 places; and that those who frequent such wildernesses163 alone, are the prey164, or the sport, of these wandering demons165. And therefore, I pray thee, brother, let me go with you when you go next up the glen, where, as you well know, there be places of evil reputation — Thou carest not for my escort; but, Halbert, such dangers are more safely encountered by the wise in judgment166, than by the bold in bosom167; and though I have small cause to boast of my own wisdom, yet I have that which ariseth from the written knowledge of elder times.”
There was a moment during this discourse168, when Halbert had well-nigh come to the resolution of disburdening his own breast, by intrusting Edward with all that weighed upon it. But when his brother reminded him that this was the morning of a high holiday, and that, setting aside all other business or pleasure, he ought to go to the Monastery169 and shrive himself before Father Eustace, who would that day occupy the confessional, pride stepped in and confirmed his wavering resolution. “I will not avow,” he thought, “a tale so extraordinary, that I may be considered as an impostor or something worse — I will not fly from this Englishman, whose arm and sword may be no better than my own. My fathers have faced his betters, were he as much distinguished170 in battle as he is by his quaint discourse.”
Pride, which has been said to save man, and woman too, from falling, has yet a stronger influence on the mind when it embraces the cause of passion, and seldom fails to render it victorious171 over conscience and reason. Halbert, once determined, though not to the better course, at length slept soundly, and was only awakened172 by the dawn of day.
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bespeaks
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