Each fiery1 passion, every strong affection,
All sense of outward ill and inward sorrow,
Are fled at once from the pale trunk before me;
And I have given that which spoke2 and moved,
Thought, acted, suffer’d as a living man,
To be a ghastly form of bloody3 clay,
Soon the foul4 food for reptiles5.
Old play.
I believe few successful duellists (if the word successful can be applied7 to a superiority so fatal) have beheld8 their dead antagonist9 stretched on the earth at their feet, without wishing they could redeem10 with their own blood that which it has been their fate to spill. Least of all could such indifference11 be the lot of so young a man as Halbert Glendinning, who, unused to the sight of human blood, was not only struck with sorrow, but with terror, when he beheld Sir Piercie Shafton lie stretched on the green-sward before him, vomiting12 gore13 as if impelled14 by the strokes of a pump. He threw his bloody sword on the ground, and hastened to kneel and support him, vainly striving, at the same time, to stanch15 his wound, which seemed rather to bleed inwardly than externally.
The unfortunate knight16 spoke at intervals17, when the syncope would permit him, and his words, so far as intelligible18, partook of his affected19 and conceited20, yet not ungenerous character.
“Most rustical youth,” he said, “thy fortune hath prevailed over knightly21 skill — and Audacity22 hath overcome Condescension23, even as the kite hath sometimes hawked24 at and struck down the falcon25-gentle. — Fly and save thyself! — Take my purse — it is in the nether26 pocket of my carnation-coloured hose — and is worth a clown’s acceptance. See that my mails, with my vestments, be sent to the Monastery27 of Saint Mary’s”—(here his voice grew weak, and his mind and recollection seemed to waver)—“I bestow28 the cut velvet29 jerkin, with close breeches conforming — for — oh! — the good of my soul.”
“Be of good comfort, sir,” said Halbert, half distracted with his agony of pity and remorse30. “I trust you shall yet do well — Oh for a leech31!”
“Were there twenty physicians, O most generous Audacity, and that were a grave spectacle — I might not survive, my life is ebbing32 fast. — Commend me to the rustical nymph whom I called my Discretion33 — O Claridiana! — true empress of this bleeding heart — which now bleedeth in sad earnest! — Place me on the ground at my length, most rustical victor, born to quench34 the pride of the burning light of the most felicitous35 court of Feliciana — O saints and angels —— knights36 and ladies — masques and theatres — quaint37 devices — chain-work and broidery — love, honour, and beauty! ——”
While muttering these last words, which slid from him, as it were unawares, while doubtless he was calling to mind the glories of the English court, the gallant38 Sir Piercie Shafton stretched out his limbs — groaned39 deeply, shut his eyes, and became motionless.
The victor tore his hair for very sorrow, as he looked on the pale countenance40 of his victim. Life, he thought, had not utterly41 fled, but without better aid than his own, he saw not how it could be preserved.
“Why,” he exclaimed in vain penitence42, “why did I provoke him to an issue so fatal! Would to God I had submitted to the worst insult man could receive from man, rather than be the bloody instrument of this bloody deed — and doubly cursed be this evil-boding spot, which, haunted as I knew it to be by a witch or a devil, I yet chose for the place of combat! In any other place, save this, there had been help to be gotten by speed of foot, or by uplifting of voice — but here there is no one to be found by search, no one to hear my shouts, save the evil spirit who has counselled this mischief43. It is not her hour — I will essay the spell howsoever; and if she can give me aid, she shall do it, or know of what a madman is capable even against those of another world!”
He spurned44 his bloody shoe from his foot, and repeated the spell with which the reader is well acquainted; but there was neither voice, apparition45, nor signal of answer. The youth, in the impatience46 of his despair, and with the rash hardihood which formed the basis of his character, shouted aloud, “Witch — Sorceress — Fiend! — art thou deaf to my cries of help, and so ready to appear and answer those of vengeance47? Arise and speak to me, or I will choke up thy fountain, tear down thy hollybush, and leave thy haunt as waste and bare as thy fatal assistance has made me waste of comfort and bare of counsel!”— This furious and raving48 invocation was suddenly interrupted by a distant sound, resembling a hollo, from the gorge49 of the ravine. “Now may Saint Mary be praised,” said the youth, hastily fastening his sandal, “I hear the voice of some living man, who may give me counsel and help in this fearful extremity50.”
Having donned his sandal, Halbert Glendinning, hallooing at intervals, in answer to the sound which he had heard, ran with the speed of a hunted buck51 down the rugged52 defile53, as if paradise had been before him, hell and all her furies behind, and his eternal happiness or misery54 had depended upon the speed which he exerted. In a space incredibly short for any one but a Scottish mountaineer having his nerves strung by the deepest and most passionate55 interest, the youth reached the entrance of the ravine, through which the rill that flows down Corri-nan-shian discharges itself, and unites with the brook56 that waters the little valley of Glendearg.
Here he paused, and looked around him upwards57 and downwards58 through the glen, without perceiving a human form. His heart sank within him. But the windings59 of the glen intercepted60 his prospect61, and the person, whose voice he had heard, might therefore, be at no great distance, though not obvious to his sight. The branches of an oak-tree, which shot straight out from the face of a tall cliff, proffered62 to his bold spirit, steady head, and active limbs, the means of ascending63 it as a place of out-look, although the enterprise was what most men would have shrunk from. But by one bound from the earth, the active youth caught hold of the lower branch, and swung himself up into the tree, and in a minute more gained the top of the cliff, from which he could easily descry64 a human figure descending65 the valley. It was not that of a shepherd, or of a hunter, and scarcely any others used to traverse this deserted66 solitude67, especially coming from the north, since the reader may remember that the brook took its rise from an extensive and dangerous morass68 which lay in that direction.
But Halbert Glendinning did not pause to consider who the traveller might be, or what might be the purpose of his journey. To know that he saw a human being, and might receive, in the extremity of his distress69, the countenance and advice of a fellow-creature, was enough for him at the moment. He threw himself from the pinnacle70 of the cliff once more into the arms of the projecting oak-tree, whose boughs71 waved in middle air, anchored by the roots in a huge rift72 or chasm73 of the rock. Catching74 at the branch which was nearest to him, he dropped himself from that height upon the ground; and such was the athletic75 springiness of his youthful sinews, that he pitched there as lightly, and with as little injury, as the falcon stooping from her wheel.
To resume his race at full speed up the glen, was the work of an instant; and as he turned angle after angle of the indented76 banks of the valley, without meeting that which he sought, he became half afraid that the form which he had seen at such a distance had already melted into thin air, and was either a deception77 of his own imagination, or of the elementary spirits by which the valley was supposed to be haunted.
But to his inexpressible joy, as he turned round the base of a huge and distinguished78 crag, he saw, straight before and very near to him, a person, whose dress, as he viewed it hastily, resembled that of a pilgrim.
He was a man of advanced life, and wearing a long beard, having on his head a large slouched hat, without either band or brooch. His dress was a tunic79 of black serge, which, like those commonly called hussar-cloaks, had an upper part, which covered the arms and fell down on the lower; a small scrip and bottle, which hung at his back, with a stout80 staff in his hand, completed his equipage. His step was feeble, like that of one exhausted81 by a toilsome journey.
“Save ye, good father!” said the youth. “God and Our Lady have sent you to my assistance.”
“And in what, my son, can so frail82 a creature as I am, be of service to you?” said the old man, not a little surprised at being thus accosted83 by so handsome a youth, his features discomposed by anxiety, his face flushed with exertion84, his hands and much of his dress stained with blood. “A man bleeds to death in the valley here, hard by. Come with me — come with me! You are aged85 — you have experience — you have at least your senses — and mine have well nigh left me.”
“A man — and bleeding to death — and here in this desolate86 spot!” said the stranger.
“Stay not to question it, father,” said the youth, “but come instantly to his rescue. Follow me — follow me, without an instant’s delay.”
“Nay87, but, my son,” said the old man, “we do not lightly follow the guides who present themselves thus suddenly in the bosom88 of a howling wilderness89. Ere I follow thee, thou must expound90 to me thy name, thy purpose, and thy cause.”
“There is no time to expound any thing,” said Halbert; “I tell thee a man’s life is at stake, and thou must come to aid him, or I will carry thee thither91 by force!”
“Nay, thou shalt not need,” said the traveller; “if it indeed be as thou sayest, I will follow thee of free-will — the rather that I am not wholly unskilled in leech-craft, and have in my scrip that which may do thy friend a service — Yet walk more slowly, I pray thee, for I am already well-nigh forespent with travel.”
With the indignant impatience of the fiery steed when compelled by his rider to keep pace with some slow drudge92 upon the highway, Halbert accompanied the wayfarer93, burning with anxiety which he endeavoured to subdue94, that he might not alarm his companion, who was obviously afraid to trust him. When they reached the place where they were to turn off the wider glen into the Corri, the traveller made a doubtful pause, as if unwilling95 to leave the broader path —“Young man,” he said, “if thou meanest aught but good to these gray hairs, thou wilt96 gain little by thy cruelty — I have no earthly treasure to tempt97 either robber or murderer.”
“And I,” said the youth, “am neither — and yet — God of Heaven! — I may be a murderer, unless your aid comes in time to this wounded wretch98!”
“Is it even so,” said the traveller; “and do human passions disturb the breast of nature, even in her deepest solitude? — Yet why should I marvel99 that where darkness abides100 the works of darkness should abound101? — By its fruits is the tree known — Lead on, unhappy youth — I follow thee!”
And with better will to the journey than he had evinced hitherto, the stranger exerted himself to the uttermost, and seemed to forget his own fatigue102 in his efforts to keep pace with his impatient guide.
What was the surprise of Halbert Glendinning, when, upon arriving at the fatal spot, he saw no appearance of the body of Sir Piercie Shafton! The traces of the fray103 were otherwise sufficiently104 visible. The knight’s cloak had indeed vanished as well as his body, but his doublet remained where he had laid it down, and the turf on which he had been stretched was stained with blood in many a dark crimson105 spot.
As he gazed round him in terror and astonishment106, Halbert’s eyes fell upon the place of sepulture which had so lately appeared to gape107 for a victim. It was no longer open, and it seemed that earth had received the expected tenant108; for the usual narrow hillock was piled over what had lately been an open grave, and the green sod was adjusted over all with the accuracy of an experienced sexton. Halbert stood aghast. The idea rushed on his mind irresistibly109, that the earth-heap before him enclosed what had lately been a living, moving, and sentient110 fellow-creature, whom, on little provocation111, his fell act had reduced to a clod of the valley, as senseless and as cold as the turf under which he rested. The hand that scooped112 the grave had completed its word; and whose hand could it be save that of the mysterious being of doubtful quality, whom his rashness had invoked113, and whom he had suffered to intermingle in his destinies?
As he stood with clasped hands and uplifted eyes, bitterly ruing114 his rashness, he was roused by the voice of the stranger, whose suspicions of his guide had again been awakened115 by finding the scene so different from what Halbert had led him to expect. —“Young man,” he said, “hast thou baited thy tongue with falsehood to cut perhaps only a few days from the life of one whom Nature will soon call home, without guilt116 on thy part to hasten his journey?”
“By the blessed Heaven! — by our dear Lady!” ejaculated Halbert —
“Swear not at all!” said the stranger, interrupting him, “neither by Heaven, for it is God’s throne, nor by earth, for it is his footstool — nor by the creatures whom he hath made, for they are but earth and clay as we are. Let thy yea be yea, and thy nay, nay. Tell me in a word, why and for what purpose thou hast feigned117 a tale, to lead a bewildered traveller yet farther astray?”
“As I am a Christian118 man,” said Glendinning, “I left him here bleeding to death — and now I nowhere spy him, and much I doubt that the tomb that thou seest has closed on his mortal remains119.”
“And who is he for whose fate thou art so anxious?” said the stranger; “or how is it possible that this wounded man could have been either removed from, or interred120 in, a place so solitary121?”
“His name,” said Halbert, after a moment’s pause, “is Piercie Shafton — there, on that very spot I left him bleeding; and what power has conveyed him hence, I know no more than thou dost.”
“Piercie Shafton?” said the stranger; “Sir Piercie Shafton of Wilverton, a kinsman122, as it is said, of the great Piercie of Northumberland? If thou hast slain123 him, to return to the territories of the proud Abbot is to give thy neck to the gallows124. He is well known, that Piercie Shafton; the meddling125 tool of wiser plotters — a harebrained trafficker in treason — a champion of the Pope, employed as a forlorn hope by those more politic126 heads, who have more will to work mischief, than valour to encounter danger. — Come with me, youth, and save thyself from the evil consequences of this deed — Guide me to the Castle of Avenel, and thy reward shall be protection and safety.”
Again Halbert paused, and summoned his mind to a hasty council. The vengeance with which the Abbot was likely to visit the slaughter127 of Shafton, his friend, and in some measure his guest, was likely to be severe; yet, in the various contingencies128 which he had considered previous to their duel6, he had unaccountably omitted to reflect what was to be his line of conduct in case of Sir Piercie falling by his hand. If he returned to Glendearg, he was sure to draw on his whole family, including Mary Avenel, the resentment129 of the Abbot and community, whereas it was possible that flight might make him be regarded as the sole author of the deed, and might avert130 the indignation of the monks131 from the rest of the inhabitants of his paternal132 tower. Halbert recollected133 also the favour expressed for the household, and especially for Edward, by the Sub-Prior; and he conceived that he could, by communicating his own guilt to that worthy134 ecclesiastic135, when at a distance from Glendearg, secure his powerful interposition in favour of his family. These thoughts rapidly passed through his mind, and he determined136 on flight. The stranger’s company and his promised protection came in aid of that resolution; but he was unable to reconcile the invitation which the old man gave him to accompany him for safety to the Castle of Avenel, with the connexions of Julian, the present usurper137 of that inheritance.
“Good father,” he said, “I fear that you mistake the man with whom you wish me to harbour. Avenel guided Piercie Shafton into Scotland, and his henchman, Christie of the Clinthill, brought the Southron hither.”
“Of that,” said the old man, “I am well aware. Yet if thou wilt trust to me, as I have shown no reluctance138 to confide139 in thee, thou shalt find with Julian Avenel welcome, or at least safety.”
“Father,” replied Halbert, “though I can ill reconcile what thou sayest with what Julian Avenel hath done, yet caring little about the safety of a creature so lost as myself, and as thy words seem those of truth and honesty, and finally, as thou didst render thyself frankly140 up to my conduct, I will return the confidence thou hast shown, and accompany thee to the Castle of Avenel by a road which thou thyself couldst never have discovered.” He led the way, and the old man followed for some time in silence.
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reptiles
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duel
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beheld
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antagonist
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redeem
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indifference
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impelled
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knight
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intervals
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knightly
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nether
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discretion
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utterly
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mischief
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apparition
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impatience
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vengeance
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gorge
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extremity
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buck
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defile
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misery
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