Along the mountain path I’ll wander,
And wind my solitary1 way
To the sad shrine2 that courts me yonder.
There, in the calm monastic shade,
All injuries may be forgiven;
And there for thee, obdurate3 maid,
My orisons shall rise to heaven.
The Cruel Lady of the Mountains.
The first words which Edward uttered were — “My brother is safe, reverend father — he is safe, thank God, and lives! — There is not in Corri-nan-shian a grave, nor a vestige4 of a grave. The turf around the fountain has neither been disturbed by pick-axe, spade, nor mattock, since the deer’s-hair first sprang there. He lives as surely as I live!”
The earnestness of the youth — the vivacity5 with which he looked and moved — the springy step, outstretched hand, and ardent6 eye, reminded Henry Warden7 of Halbert, so lately his guide. The brothers had indeed a strong family resemblance, though Halbert was far more athletic8 and active in his person, taller and better knit in the limbs, and though Edward had, on ordinary occasions, a look of more habitual9 acuteness and more profound reflection. The preacher was interested as well as the Sub-Prior.
“Of whom do you speak, my son?” he said, in a tone as unconcerned as if his own fate had not been at the same instant trembling in the balance, and as if a dungeon10 and death did not appear to be his instant doom11 —“Of whom, I say, speak you? If of a youth somewhat older than you seem to be — brown-haired, open-featured, taller and stronger than you appear, yet having much of the same air and of the same tone of voice — if such a one is the brother whom you seek, it may be I can tell you news of him.”
“Speak, then, for Heaven’s sake,” said Edward —“life or death lies on thy tongue!”
The Sub-Prior joined eagerly in the same request, and, without waiting to be urged, the preacher gave so minute an account of the circumstances under which he met the elder Glendinning, with so exact a description of his person, that there remained no doubt as to his identity. When he mentioned that Halbert Glendinning had conducted him to a dell in which they found the grass bloody12, and a grave newly closed, and told how the youth accused himself of the slaughter13 of Sir Piercie Shafton, the Sub-Prior looked on Edward with astonishment14.
“Didst thou not say, even now,” he said, “that there was no vestige of a grave in that spot?”
“No more vestige of the earth having been removed than if the turf had grown there since the days of Adam,” replied Edward Glendinning. “It is true,” he added, “that the adjacent grass was trampled15 and bloody.”
“These are delusions16 of the Enemy,” said the Sub-Prior, crossing himself. —“Christian men may no longer doubt of it.”
“But an it be so,” said Warden, “Christian men might better guard themselves by the sword of prayer than by the idle form of a cabalistical spell.”
“The badge of our salvation,” said the Sub-Prior, “cannot be so termed — the sign of the cross disarmeth all evil spirits.”
“Ay,” answered Henry Warden, apt and armed for controversy17, “but it should be borne in the heart, not scored with the fingers in the air. That very impassive air, through which your hand passes, shall as soon bear the imprint18 of your action, as the external action shall avail the fond bigot who substitutes vain motions of the body, idle genuflections, and signs of the cross, for the living and heart-born duties of faith and good works.”
“I pity thee,” said the Sub-Prior, as actively19 ready for polemics20 as himself — “I pity thee, Henry, and reply not to thee. Thou mayest as well winnow21 forth22 and measure the ocean with a sieve23, as mete24 out the power of holy words, deeds, and signs, by the erring25 gauge26 of thine own reason.”
“Not by mine own reason would I mete them,” said Warden; “but by His holy Word, that unfading and unerring lamp of our paths, compared to which human reason is but as a glimmering27 and fading taper28, and your boasted tradition only a misleading wildfire. Show me your Scripture29 warrant for ascribing virtue30 to such vain signs and motions!”
“I offered thee a fair field of debate,” said the Sub-Prior, “which thou didst refuse. I will not at present resume the controversy.”
“Were these my last accents,” said the reformer, “and were they uttered at the stake, half-choked with smoke, and as the fagots kindled31 into a blaze around me, with that last utterance32 I would testify against the superstitious33 devices of Rome.”
The Sub-Prior suppressed with pain the controversial answer which arose to his lips, and, turning to Edward Glendinning, he said, “there could be now no doubt that his mother ought presently to be informed that her son lived.”
“I told you that two hours since,” said Christie of the Clinthill, “an you would have believed me. But it seems you are more willing to take the word of an old gray sorner, whose life has been spent in pattering heresy34, than mine, though I never rode a foray in my life without duly saying my paternoster.”
“Go then,” said Father Eustace to Edward; “let thy sorrowing mother know that her son is restored to her from the grave, like the child of the widow of Zarephath; at the intercession,” he added, looking at Henry Warden, “of the blessed Saint whom I invoked35 in his behalf.”
“Deceived thyself,” said Warden, instantly, “thou art a deceiver of others. It was no dead man, no creature of clay, whom the blessed Tishbite invoked, when, stung by the reproach of the Shunamite woman, he prayed that her son’s soul might come into him again.”
“It was by his intercession, however,” repeated the Sub-Prior; “for what says the Vulgate? Thus it is written: ‘Et exaudivit Dominus vocem Helie; et reversa est anima pueri intra cum, et revixit;’— and thinkest thou the intercession of a glorified36 saint is more feeble than when he walks on earth, shrouded37 in a tabernacle of clay, and seeing but with the eye of flesh?”
During this controversy Edward Glendinning appeared restless and impatient, agitated38 by some internal feeling, but whether of joy, grief, or expectation, his countenance39 did not expressly declare. He took now the unusual freedom to break in upon the discourse40 of the Sub-Prior, who, notwithstanding his resolution to the contrary, was obviously kindling42 in the spirit of controversy, which Edward diverted by conjuring43 his reverence44 to allow him to speak a few words with him in private.
“Remove the prisoner,” said the Sub-Prior to Christie; “look to him carefully that he escape not; but for thy life do him no injury.”
His commands being obeyed, Edward and the monk45 were left alone, when the Sub-Prior thus addressed him:
“What hath come over thee, Edward, that thy eye kindles47 so wildly, and thy cheek is thus changing from scarlet48 to pale? Why didst thou break in so hastily and unadvisedly upon the argument with which I was prostrating49 yonder heretic? And wherefore dost thou not tell thy mother that her son is restored to her by the intercession, as Holy Church well warrants us to believe, of Blessed Saint Benedict, the patron of our Order? For if ever my prayers were put forth to him with zeal50, it hath been in behalf of this house, and thine eyes have seen the result — go tell it to thy mother.”
“I must tell her then,” said Edward, “that if she has regained51 one son, another is lost to her.”
“What meanest thou, Edward? what language is this?” said the Sub-Prior.
“Father,” said the youth, kneeling down to him, “my sin and my shame shall be told thee, and thou shalt witness my penance52 with thine own eyes.”
“I comprehend thee not,” said the Sub-Prior. “What canst thou have done to deserve such self-accusation? — Hast thou too listened,” he added, knitting his brows, “to the demon53 of heresy, ever most effectual tempter of those, who, like yonder unhappy man, are distinguished54 by their love of knowledge?”
“I am guiltless in that matter,” answered Glendinning, “nor have presumed to think otherwise than thou, my kind father, hast taught me, and than the Church allows.”
“And what is it then, my son,” said the Sub-Prior, kindly55, “which thus afflicts56 thy conscience? speak it to me, that I may answer thee in the words of comfort; for the Church’s mercy is great to those obedient children who doubt not her power.”
“My confession57 will require her mercy,” replied Edward. “My brother Halbert — so kind, so brave, so gentle, who spoke58 not, thought not, acted not, but in love to me, whose hand had aided me in every difficulty, whose eye watched over me like the eagle’s over her nestlings, when they prove their first flight from the eyry — this brother, so kind, so gently affectionate — I heard of his sudden, his bloody, his violent death, and I rejoiced — I heard of his unexpected restoration, and I sorrowed!”
“Edward,” said the father, “thou art beside thyself — what could urge thee to such odious59 ingratitude60? — In your hurry of spirits you have mistaken the confused tenor61 of your feelings — Go, my son, pray and compose thy mind — we will speak of this another time.”
“No, father, no,” said Edward, vehemently62, “now or never! — I will find the means to tame this rebellious63 heart of mine, or I will tear it out of my bosom64 — Mistake its passions? — No, father, grief can ill be mistaken for joy — All wept, all shrieked65 around me — my mother — the menials — she too, the cause of my crime — all wept — and I— I could hardly disguise my brutal66 and insane joy under the appearance of revenge — Brother, I said, I cannot give thee tears, but I will give thee blood — Yes, father, as I counted hour after hour, while I kept watch upon the English prisoner, and said, I am an hour nearer to hope and to happiness ——”
“I understand thee not, Edward,” said the monk, “nor can I conceive in what way thy brother’s supposed murder should have affected67 thee with such unnatural68 joy — Surely the sordid69 desire to succeed him in his small possessions ——”
“Perish the paltry70 trash!” said Edward, with the same emotion. “No, father, it was rivalry71 — it was jealous rage — it was the love of Mary Avenel, that rendered me the unnatural wretch72 I confess myself!”
“Of Mary Avenel!” said the Priest —“of a lady so high above either of you in name and in rank? How dared Halbert — how dared you, to presume to lift your eye to her but in honour and respect, as a superior of another degree from yours?”
“When did love wait for the sanction of heraldry?” replied Edward; “and in what but a line of dead ancestors was Mary, our mother’s guest and foster-child, different from us, with whom she was brought up? — Enough, we loved — we both loved her! But the passion of Halbert was requited73. He knew it not, he saw it not — but I was sharper-eyed. I saw that even when I was more approved, Halbert was more beloved. With me she would sit for hours at our common task with the cold simplicity74 and indifference75 of a sister, but with Halbert she trusted not herself. She changed colour, she was fluttered when he approached her; and when he left her, she was sad, pensive76, and solitary. I bore all this — I saw my rival’s advancing progress in her affections — I bore it, father, and yet I hated him not — I could not hate him!”
“And well for thee that thou didst not,” said the father; “wild and headstrong as thou art, wouldst thou hate thy brother for partaking in thine own folly77?”
“Father,” replied Edward, “the world esteems78 thee wise, and holds thy knowledge of mankind high; but thy question shows that thou hast never loved. It was by an effort that I saved myself from hating my kind and affectionate brother, who, all unsuspicious of my rivalry, was perpetually loading me with kindness. Nay79, there were moods of my mind, in which I could return that kindness for a time with energetic enthusiasm. Never did I feel this so strongly as on the night which parted us. But I could not help rejoicing when he was swept from my path — could not help sorrowing when he was again restored to be a stumbling-block in my paths.”
“May God be gracious to thee, my son!” said the monk; “this is an awful state of mind. Even in such evil mood did the first murderer rise up against his brother, because Abel’s was the more acceptable sacrifice.”
“I will wrestle80 with the demon which has haunted me, father,” replied the youth, firmly —“I will wrestle with him, and I will subdue81 him. But first I must remove from the scenes which are to follow here. I cannot endure that I should see Mary Avenel’s eyes again flash with joy at the restoration of her lover. It were a sight to make indeed a second Cain of me! My fierce, turbid82, and transitory joy discharged itself in a thirst to commit homicide, and how can I estimate the frenzy83 of my despair?”
“Madman!” said the Sub-Prior, “at what dreadful crime does thy fury drive?”
“My lot is determined85, father,” said Edward, in a resolute86 tone; “I will embrace the spiritual state which you have so oft recommended. It is my purpose to return with you to Saint Mary’s, and, with the permission of the Holy Virgin87 and of Saint Benedict, to offer my profession to the Abbot.”
“Not now, my son,” said the Sub-Prior, “not in this distemperature of mind. The wise and good accept not gifts which are made in heat of blood, and which may be after repented88 of; and shall we make our offerings to wisdom and to goodness itself with less of solemn resolution and deep devotion of mind, than is necessary to make them acceptable to our own frail89 companions in this valley of darkness? This I say to thee, my son, not as meaning to deter84 thee from the good path thou art now inclined to prefer, but that thou mayst make thy vocation90 and thine election sure.”
“There are actions, father,” returned Edward, “which brook91 no delay, and this is one. It must be done this very now; or it may never be done. Let me go with you; let me not behold92 the return of Halbert into this house. Shame, and the sense of the injustice93 I have already done him, will join with these dreadful passions which urge me to do him yet farther wrong. Let me then go with you.”
“With me, my son,” said the Sub-Prior, “thou shalt surely go; but our rule, as well as reason and good order, require that you should dwell a space with us as a probationer, or novice94, before taking upon thee those final vows95, which, sequestering96 thee for ever from the world, dedicate thee to the service of Heaven.”
“And when shall we set forth, father?” said the youth, as eagerly as if the journey which he was now undertaking97 led to the pleasures of a summer holiday.
“Even now, if thou wilt98,” said the Sub-Prior, yielding to his impetuosity —“go, then, and command them to prepare for our departure. — Yet stay,” he said, as Edward, with all the awakened99 enthusiasm of his character, hastened from his presence, “come hither, my son, and kneel down.”
Edward obeyed, and kneeled down before him. Notwithstanding his slight figure and thin features, the Sub-Prior could, from the energy of his tone, and the earnestness of his devotional manner, impress his pupils and his penitents100 with no ordinary feelings of personal reverence. His heart always was, as well as seemed to be, in the duty which he was immediately performing; and the spiritual guide who thus shows a deep conviction of the importance of his office, seldom fails to impress a similar feeling upon his hearers. Upon such occasions as the present, his puny102 body seemed to assume more majestic103 stature104 — his spare and emaciated105 countenance bore a bolder, loftier, and more commanding port — his voice, always beautiful, trembled as labouring under the immediate101 impulse of the Divinity — and his whole demeanour seemed to bespeak106, not the mere107 ordinary man, but the organ of the Church in which she had vested her high power for delivering sinners from their load of iniquity108.
“Hast thou, my fair son,” said he, “faithfully recounted the circumstances which have thus suddenly determined thee to a religious life?”
“The sins I have confessed, my father,” answered Edward, “but I have not yet told of a strange appearance, which, acting109 in my mind, hath, I think, aided to determine my resolution.”
“Tell it, then, now,” returned the Sub-Prior; “it is thy duty to leave me uninstructed in nought110, so that thereby111 I may understand the temptation that besets112 thee.”
“I tell it with unwillingness,” said Edward; “for although, God wot, I speak but the mere truth, yet even while my tongue speaks it as truth, my own ears receive it as fable113.”
“Yet say the whole,” said Father Eustace; “neither fear rebuke114 from me, seeing I may know reasons for receiving as true that which others might regard as fabulous115.”
“Know, then, father,” replied Edward, “that betwixt hope and despair — and, heavens! what a hope! — the hope to find the corpse116 mangled117 and crushed hastily in amongst the bloody clay which the foot of the scornful victor had trod down upon my good, my gentle, my courageous118 brother — I sped to the glen called Corri-nan-shian; but, as your reverence has been already informed, neither the grave, which my unhallowed wishes had in spite of my better self longed to see, nor any appearance of the earth having been opened, was visible in the solitary spot where Martin had, at morning yesterday, seen the fatal hillock. You know your dalesmen, father. The place hath an evil name, and this deception119 of the sight inclined them to leave it. My companions became affrighted, and hastened down the glen as men caught in trespass120. My hopes were too much blighted121, my mind too much agitated, to fear either the living or the dead. I descended123 the glen more slowly than they, often looking back, and not ill pleased with the poltroonery124 of my companions, which left me to my own perplexed125 and moody126 humour, and induced them to hasten into the broader dale. They were already out of sight, and lost amongst the windings127 of the glen, when, looking back, I saw a female form standing41 beside the fountain ——”
“How, my fair son?” said the Sub-Prior, “beware you jest not with your present situation!”
“I jest not, father,” answered the youth; “it may be I shall never jest again — surely not for many a day. I saw, I say, the form of a female clad in white, such as the Spirit which haunts the house of Avenel is supposed to be. Believe me, my father, for, by heaven and earth, I say nought but what I saw with these eyes!”
“I believe thee, my son,” said the monk; “proceed in thy strange story.”
“The apparition,” said Edward Glendinning, “sung, and thus ran her lay; for, strange as it may seem to you, her words abide128 by my remembrance as if they had been sung to me from infancy129 upward:—
‘Thou who seek’st my fountain lone46,
With thoughts and hopes thou dar’st not own;
Whose heart within leap’d wildly glad
When most his brow seem’d dark and sad;
Hie thee back, thou find’st not here
Corpse or coffin130, grave or bier;
The Dead Alive is gone and fled —
Go thou, and join the Living Dead!
‘The Living Dead, whose sober brow
Oft shrouds131 such thoughts as thou hast now,
Whose hearts within are seldom cured
Of passions by their vows abjured132;
Where, under sad and solemn show,
Vain hopes are nursed, wild wishes glow.
Seek the convent’s vaulted133 room,
Prayer and vigil be thy doom;
Doff134 the green, and don the gray,
To the cloister135 hence away!’”
“’Tis a wild lay,” said the Sub-Prior, “and chanted, I fear me, with no good end. But we have power to turn the machinations of Satan to his shame. Edward, thou shalt go with me as thou desirest; thou shalt prove the life for which I have long thought thee best fitted — thou shalt aid, my son, this trembling hand of mine to sustain the Holy Ark, which bold unhallowed men press rashly forward to touch and to profane136. — Wilt thou not first see thy mother?”
“I will see no one,” said Edward, hastily; “I will risk nothing that may shake the purpose of my heart. From Saint Mary’s they shall learn my destination — all of them shall learn it. My mother — Mary Avenel — my restored and happy brother — they shall all know that Edward lives no longer to the world to be a clog137 on their happiness. Mary shall no longer need to constrain138 her looks and expressions to coldness because I am nigh. She shall no longer ——”
“My son,” said the Sub-Prior, interrupting him, “it is not by looking back on the vanities and vexations of this world, that we fit ourselves for the discharge of duties which are not of it. Go, get our horses ready, and, as we descend122 the glen together, I will teach thee the truths through which the fathers and wise men of old had that precious alchemy, which can convert suffering into happiness.”
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