To wait our pleasure at the castle gates.
Douglas.
Under the reign1 of the last Stewarts, there was an anxious wish on the part of government to counteract2, by every means in their power, the strict or puritanical3 spirit which had been the chief characteristic of the republican government, and to revive those feudal4 institutions which united the vassal5 to the liege lord, and both to the crown. Frequent musters7 and assemblies of the people, both for military exercise and for sports and pastimes, were appointed by authority. The interference, in the latter case, was impolitic, to say the least; for, as usual on such occasions, the consciences which were at first only scrupulous8, became confirmed in their opinions, instead of giving way to the terrors of authority; and the youth of both sexes, to whom the pipe and tabor in England, or the bagpipe9 in Scotland, would have been in themselves an irresistible10 temptation, were enabled to set them at defiance11, from the proud consciousness that they were, at the same time, resisting an act of council. To compel men to dance and be merry by authority, has rarely succeeded even on board of slave-ships, where it was formerly12 sometimes attempted by way of inducing the wretched captives to agitate13 their limbs and restore the circulation, during the few minutes they were permitted to enjoy the fresh air upon deck. The rigour of the strict Calvinists increased, in proportion to the wishes of the government that it should be relaxed. A judaical observance of the Sabbath — a supercilious14 condemnation15 of all manly16 pastimes and harmless recreations, as well as of the profane17 custom of promiscuous18 dancing, that is, of men and women dancing together in the same party (for I believe they admitted that the exercise might be inoffensive if practised by the parties separately)— distinguishing those who professed19 a more than ordinary share of sanctity, they discouraged, as far as lay in their power, even the ancient wappen-schaws, as they were termed, when the feudal array of the county was called out, and each crown-vassal was required to appear with such muster6 of men and armour21 as he was bound to make by his fief, and that under high statutory penalties. The Covenanters were the more jealous of those assemblies, as the lord lieutenants22 and sheriffs under whom they were held had instructions from the government to spare no pains which might render them agreeable to the young men who were thus summoned together, upon whom the military exercise of the morning, and the sports which usually closed the evening, might naturally be supposed to have a seductive effect.
The preachers and proselytes of the more rigid25 presbyterians laboured, therefore, by caution, remonstrance26, and authority, to diminish the attendance upon these summonses, conscious that in doing so, they lessened27 not only the apparent, but the actual strength of the government, by impeding28 the extension of that esprit de corps29 which soon unites young men who are in the habit of meeting together for manly sport, or military exercise. They, therefore, exerted themselves earnestly to prevent attendance on these occasions by those who could find any possible excuse for absence, and were especially severe upon such of their hearers as mere30 curiosity led to be spectators, or love of exercise to be partakers, of the array and the sports which took place. Such of the gentry31 as acceded32 to these doctrines33 were not always, however, in a situation to be ruled by them. The commands of the law were imperative34; and the privy35 council, who administered the executive power in Scotland, were severe in enforcing the statutory penalties against the crown-vassals36 who did not appear at the periodical wappen-schaw. The landholders were compelled, therefore, to send their sons, tenants24, and vassals to the rendezvous37, to the number of horses, men, and spears, at which they were rated; and it frequently happened, that notwithstanding the strict charge of their elders, to return as soon as the formal inspection38 was over, the young men-at-arms were unable to resist the temptation of sharing in the sports which succeeded the muster, or to avoid listening to the prayers read in the churches on these occasions, and thus, in the opinion of their repining parents, meddling39 with the accursed thing which is an abomination in the sight of the Lord.
The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward40 of Clydesdale, on a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough41, the name of which is no way essential to my story, on the morning of the 5th of May, 1679, when our narrative42 commences. When the musters had been made, and duly reported, the young men, as was usual, were to mix in various sports, of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay, an ancient game formerly practised with archery, but at this period with fire-arms. 2
This was the figure of a bird, decked with party-coloured feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay or parrot. It was suspended to a pole, and served for a mark, at which the competitors discharged their fusees and carabines in rotation43, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality44, conducted under his auspices45, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
It will, of course, be supposed, that the ladies of the country assembled to witness this gallant46 strife47, those excepted who held the stricter tenets of puritanism, and would therefore have deemed it criminal to afford countenance48 to the profane gambols49 of the malignants. Landaus, barouches, or tilburies, there were none in those simple days. The lord lieutenant23 of the county (a personage of ducal rank) alone pretended to the magnificence of a wheel-carriage, a thing covered with tarnished50 gilding51 and sculpture, in shape like the vulgar picture of Noah’s ark, dragged by eight long-tailed Flanders mares, bearing eight insides and six outsides. The insides were their graces in person, two maids of honour, two children, a chaplain stuffed into a sort of lateral52 recess53, formed by a projection54 at the door of the vehicle, and called, from its appearance, the boot, and an equerry to his Grace ensconced in the corresponding convenience on the opposite side. A coachman and three postilions, who wore short swords, and tie-wigs with three tails, had blunderbusses slung55 behind them, and pistols at their saddle-bow, conducted the equipage. On the foot-board, behind this moving mansion-house, stood, or rather hung, in triple file, six lacqueys in rich liveries, armed up to the teeth. The rest of the gentry, men and women, old and young, were on horseback followed by their servants; but the company, for the reasons already assigned, was rather select than numerous.
Near to the enormous leathern vehicle which we have attempted to describe, vindicating56 her title to precedence over the untitled gentry of the country, might be seen the sober palfrey of Lady Margaret Bellenden, bearing the erect57 and primitive58 form of Lady Margaret herself, decked in those widow’s weeds which the good lady had never laid aside, since the execution of her husband for his adherence59 to Montrose.
Her grand-daughter, and only earthly care, the fair-haired Edith, who was generally allowed to be the prettiest lass in the Upper Ward, appeared beside her aged20 relative like Spring placed close to Winter. Her black Spanish jennet, which she managed with much grace, her gay riding-dress, and laced side-saddle, had been anxiously prepared to set her forth60 to the best advantage. But the clustering profusion61 of ringlets, which, escaping from under her cap, were only confined by a green ribbon from wantoning over her shoulders; her cast of features, soft and feminine, yet not without a certain expression of playful archness, which redeemed62 their sweetness from the charge of insipidity63, sometimes brought against blondes and blue-eyed beauties — these attracted more admiration64 from the western youth than either the splendour of her equipments or the figure of her palfrey.
The attendance of these distinguished65 ladies was rather inferior to their birth and fashion in those times, as it consisted only of two servants on horseback. The truth was, that the good old lady had been obliged to make all her domestic servants turn out to complete the quota66 which her barony ought to furnish for the muster, and in which she would not for the universe have been found deficient67. The old steward68, who, in steel cap and jack-boots, led forth her array, had, as he said, sweated blood and water in his efforts to overcome the scruples69 and evasions70 of the moorland farmers, who ought to have furnished men, horse, and harness, on these occasions. At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities71, the incensed72 episcopalian bestowing73 on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication. What was to be done? To punish the refractory74 tenants would have been easy enough. The privy council would readily have imposed fines, and sent a troop of horse to collect them. But this would have been calling the huntsman and hounds into the garden to kill the hare.
“For,” said Harrison to himself, “the carles have little eneugh gear at ony rate, and if I call in the red-coats and take away what little they have, how is my worshipful lady to get her rents paid at Candlemas, which is but a difficult matter to bring round even in the best of times?”
So he armed the fowler, and falconer, the footman, and the ploughman, at the home farm, with an old drunken cavaliering butler, who had served with the late Sir Richard under Montrose, and stunned75 the family nightly with his exploits at Kilsythe and Tippermoor, and who was the only man in the party that had the smallest zeal76 for the work in hand. In this manner, and by recruiting one or two latitudinarian poachers and black-fishers, Mr Harrison completed the quota of men which fell to the share of Lady Margaret Bellenden, as life-rentrix of the barony of Tillietudlem and others. But when the steward, on the morning of the eventful day, had mustered77 his troupe78 dore before the iron gate of the tower, the mother of Cuddie Headrigg the ploughman appeared, loaded with the jackboots, buff coat, and other accoutrements which had been issued forth for the service of the day, and laid them before the steward; demurely79 assuring him, that “whether it were the colic, or a qualm of conscience, she couldna tak upon her to decide, but sure it was, Cuddie had been in sair straits a’ night, and she couldna say he was muckle better this morning. The finger of Heaven,” she said, “was in it, and her bairn should gang on nae sic errands.” Pains, penalties, and threats of dismission, were denounced in vain; the mother was obstinate80, and Cuddie, who underwent a domiciliary visitation for the purpose of verifying his state of body, could, or would, answer only by deep groans81. Mause, who had been an ancient domestic in the family, was a sort of favourite with Lady Margaret, and presumed accordingly. Lady Margaret had herself set forth, and her authority could not be appealed to. In this dilemma82, the good genius of the old butler suggested an expedient83.
“He had seen mony a braw callant, far less than Guse Gibbie, fight brawly under Montrose. What for no tak Guse Gibbie?”
This was a half-witted lad, of very small stature84, who had a kind of charge of the poultry85 under the old henwife; for in a Scottish family of that day there was a wonderful substitution of labour. This urchin86 being sent for from the stubble-field, was hastily muffled87 in the buff coat, and girded rather to than with the sword of a full-grown man, his little legs plunged88 into jack-boots, and a steel cap put upon his head, which seemed, from its size, as if it had been intended to extinguish him. Thus accoutred, he was hoisted89, at his own earnest request, upon the quietest horse of the party; and, prompted and supported by old Gudyill the butler, as his front file, he passed muster tolerably enough; the sheriff not caring to examine too closely the recruits of so well-affected a person as Lady Margaret Bellenden.
To the above cause it was owing that the personal retinue90 of Lady Margaret, on this eventful day, amounted only to two lacqueys, with which diminished train she would, on any other occasion, have been much ashamed to appear in public. But, for the cause of royalty91, she was ready at any time to have made the most unreserved personal sacrifices. She had lost her husband and two promising92 sons in the civil wars of that unhappy period; but she had received her reward, for, on his route through the west of Scotland to meet Cromwell in the unfortunate field of Worcester, Charles the Second had actually breakfasted at the Tower of Tillietudlem; an incident which formed, from that moment, an important era in the life of Lady Margaret, who seldom afterwards partook of that meal, either at home or abroad, without detailing the whole circumstances of the royal visit, not forgetting the salutation which his majesty93 conferred on each side of her face, though she sometimes omitted to notice that he bestowed94 the same favour on two buxom95 serving-wenches who appeared at her back, elevated for the day into the capacity of waiting gentlewomen.
Tillietudlem Castle
Tillietudlem Castle
These instances of royal favour were decisive; and if Lady Margaret had not been a confirmed royalist already, from sense of high birth, influence of education, and hatred96 to the opposite party, through whom she had suffered such domestic calamity97, the having given a breakfast to majesty, and received the royal salute98 in return, were honours enough of themselves to unite her exclusively to the fortunes of the Stewarts. These were now, in all appearance, triumphant99; but Lady Margaret’s zeal had adhered to them through the worst of times, and was ready to sustain the same severities of fortune should their scale once more kick the beam. At present she enjoyed, in full extent, the military display of the force which stood ready to support the crown, and stifled100, as well as she could, the mortification101 she felt at the unworthy desertion of her own retainers.
Many civilities passed between her ladyship and the representatives of sundry102 ancient loyal families who were upon the ground, by whom she was held in high reverence103; and not a young man of rank passed by them in the course of the muster, but he carried his body more erect in the saddle, and threw his horse upon its haunches, to display his own horsemanship and the perfect bitting of his steed to the best advantage in the eyes of Miss Edith Bellenden. But the young cavaliers, distinguished by high descent and undoubted loyalty104, attracted no more attention from Edith than the laws of courtesy peremptorily105 demanded; and she turned an indifferent ear to the compliments with which she was addressed, most of which were little the worse for the wear, though borrowed for the nonce from the laborious106 and long-winded romances of Calprenede and Scuderi, the mirrors in which the youth of that age delighted to dress themselves, ere Folly107 had thrown her ballast overboard, and cut down her vessels108 of the first-rate, such as the romances of Cyrus, Cleopatra, and others, into small craft, drawing as little water, or, to speak more plainly, consuming as little time as the little cockboat in which the gentle reader has deigned109 to embark110. It was, however, the decree of fate that Miss Bellenden should not continue to evince the same equanimity111 till the conclusion of the day.
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88 plunged | |
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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89 hoisted | |
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90 retinue | |
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91 royalty | |
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92 promising | |
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93 majesty | |
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95 buxom | |
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96 hatred | |
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97 calamity | |
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98 salute | |
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99 triumphant | |
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101 mortification | |
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102 sundry | |
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103 reverence | |
n.敬畏,尊敬,尊严;Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称;v.尊敬,敬畏,崇敬 | |
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104 loyalty | |
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105 peremptorily | |
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106 laborious | |
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107 folly | |
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话 | |
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n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人 | |
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109 deigned | |
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110 embark | |
vi.乘船,着手,从事,上飞机 | |
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