Oswald. — If speech be only in accented sounds,
Framed by the tongue and lips, the maiden1’s dumb;
But if by quick and apprehensive2 look,
By motion, sign, and glance, to give each meaning,
Express as clothed in language, be term’d speech,
She hath that wondrous3 faculty4; for her eyes,
Like the bright stars of heaven, can hold discourse5,
Though it be mute and soundless.
OLD PLAY.
At the head of the first flight of steps which descended8 towards the difficult and well-defended entrance of the Castle of Holm-Peel, Peveril was met and stopped by the Countess’s train-bearer. This little creature — for she was of the least and slightest size of womankind — was exquisitely10 well formed in all her limbs, which the dress she usually wore (a green silk tunic11, of a peculiar12 form) set off to the best advantage. Her face was darker than the usual hue13 of Europeans; and the profusion14 of long and silken hair, which, when she undid15 the braids in which she commonly wore it, fell down almost to her ankles, was also rather a foreign attribute. Her countenance16 resembled a most beautiful miniature; and there was a quickness, decision, and fire, in Fenella’s look, and especially in her eyes, which was probably rendered yet more alert and acute, because, through the imperfection of her other organs, it was only by sight that she could obtain information of what passed around her.
The pretty mute was mistress of many little accomplishments17, which the Countess had caused to be taught to her in compassion18 for her forlorn situation, and which she learned with the most surprising quickness. Thus, for example, she was exquisite9 in the use of the needle, and so ready and ingenious a draughtswoman, that, like the ancient Mexicans, she sometimes made a hasty sketch19 with her pencil the means of conveying her ideas, either by direct or emblematical20 representation. Above all, in the art of ornamental21 writing, much studied at that period, Fenella was so great a proficient22, as to rival the fame of Messrs. Snow, Shelley, and other masters of the pen, whose copybooks, preserved in the libraries of the curious, still show the artists smiling on the frontispiece in all the honours of flowing gowns and full-bottomed wigs23, to the eternal glory of caligraphy.
The little maiden had, besides these accomplishments, much ready wit and acuteness of intellect. With Lady Derby, and with the two young gentlemen, she was a great favourite, and used much freedom in conversing24 with them, by means of a system of signs which had been gradually established amongst them, and which served all ordinary purposes of communication.
But, though happy in the indulgence and favour of her mistress, from whom indeed she was seldom separate, Fenella was by no means a favourite with the rest of the household. In fact, it seemed that her temper, exasperated25 perhaps by a sense of her misfortune, was by no means equal to her abilities. She was very haughty26 in her demeanour, even towards the upper domestics, who in that establishment were of a much higher rank and better birth than in the families of the nobility in general. These often complained, not only of her pride and reserve, but of her high and irascible temper and vindictive27 disposition28. Her passionate29 propensity30 had been indeed idly encouraged by the young men, and particularly by the Earl, who sometimes amused himself with teasing her, that he might enjoy the various singular motions and murmurs31 by which she expressed her resentment32. Towards him, these were of course only petulant33 and whimsical indications of pettish34 anger. But when she was angry with others of inferior degree — before whom she did not control herself — the expression of her passion, unable to display itself in language, had something even frightful35, so singular were the tones, contortions36, and gestures, to which she had recourse. The lower domestics, to whom she was liberal almost beyond her apparent means, observed her with much deference37 and respect, but much more from fear than from any real attachment38; for the caprices of her temper displayed themselves even in her gifts; and those who most frequently shared her bounty39, seemed by no means assured of the benevolence40 of the motives41 which dictated42 her liberality.
All these peculiarities43 led to a conclusion consonant44 with Manx superstition45. Devout46 believers in all the legends of fairies so dear to the Celtic tribes, the Manx people held it for certainty that the elves were in the habit of carrying off mortal children before baptism, and leaving in the cradle of the new born babe one of their own brood, which was almost always imperfect in some one or other of the organs proper to humanity. Such a being they conceived Fenella to be; and the smallness of her size, her dark complexion47, her long locks of silken hair, the singularity of her manners and tones, as well as the caprices of her temper, were to their thinking all attributes of the irritable48, fickle49, and dangerous race from which they supposed her to be sprung. And it seemed, that although no jest appeared to offend her more than when Lord Derby called her in sport the Elfin Queen, or otherwise alluded50 to her supposed connection with “the pigmy folk,” yet still her perpetually affecting to wear the colour of green, proper to the fairies, as well as some other peculiarities, seemed voluntarily assumed by her, in order to countenance the superstition, perhaps because it gave her more authority among the lower orders.
Many were the tales circulated respecting the Countess’s Elf, as Fenella was currently called in the island; and the malcontents of the stricter persuasion51 were convinced, that no one but a Papist and a malignant52 would have kept near her person a creature of such doubtful origin. They conceived that Fenella’s deafness and dumbness were only towards those of this world, and that she had been heard talking, and singing, and laughing most elvishly, with the invisibles of her own race. They alleged53, also, that she had a Double, a sort of apparition54 resembling her, which slept in the Countess’s ante-room, or bore her train, or wrought55 in her cabinet, while the real Fenella joined the song of the mermaids56 on the moonlight sands, or the dance of the fairies in the haunted valley of Glenmoy, or on the heights of Snawfell and Barool. The sentinels, too, would have sworn they had seen the little maiden trip past them in their solitary57 night walks, without their having it in their power to challenge her, any more than if they had been as mute as herself. To all this mass of absurdities58 the better informed paid no more attention than to the usual idle exaggerations of the vulgar, which so frequently connect that which is unusual with what is supernatural.
Such, in form and habits, was the little female, who, holding in her hand a small old-fashioned ebony rod, which might have passed for a divining wand, confronted Julian on the top of the flight of steps which led down the rock from the Castle court. We ought to observe, that as Julian’s manner to the unfortunate girl had been always gentle, and free from those teasing jests in which his gay friend indulged, with less regard to the peculiarity59 of her situation and feelings; so Fenella, on her part, had usually shown much greater deference to him than to any of the household, her mistress, the Countess, always excepted.
On the present occasion, planting herself in the very midst of the narrow descent, so as to make it impossible for Peveril to pass by her, she proceeded to put him to the question by a series of gestures, which we will endeavour to describe. She commenced by extending her hand slightly, accompanied with the sharp inquisitive60 look which served her as a note of interrogation. This was meant as an inquiry61 whether he was going to a distance. Julian, in reply, extended his arm more than half, to intimate that the distance was considerable. Fenella looked grave, shook her head, and pointed62 to the Countess’s window, which was visible from the spot where they stood. Peveril smiled, and nodded, to intimate there was no danger in quitting her mistress for a short space. The little maiden next touched an eagle’s feather which she wore in her hair, a sign which she usually employed to designate the Earl, and then looked inquisitively64 at Julian once more, as if to say, “Goes he with you?” Peveril shook his head, and, somewhat wearied by these interrogatories, smiled, and made an effort to pass. Fenella frowned, struck the end of her ebony rod perpendicularly65 on the ground, and again shook her head, as if opposing his departure. But finding that Julian persevered66 in his purpose, she suddenly assumed another and milder mood, held him by the skirt of his cloak with one hand, and raised the other in an imploring67 attitude, whilst every feature of her lively countenance was composed into the like expression of supplication68; and the fire of the large dark eyes, which seemed in general so keen and piercing as almost to over-animate the little sphere to which they belonged, seemed quenched69, for the moment, in the large drops which hung on her long eyelashes, but without falling.
Julian Peveril was far from being void of sympathy towards the poor girl, whose motives in opposing his departure appeared to be her affectionate apprehension70 for her mistress’s safety. He endeavoured to reassure71 by smiles, and, at the same time, by such signs as he could devise, to intimate that there was no danger, and that he would return presently; and having succeeded in extricating72 his cloak from her grasp, and in passing her on the stair, he began to descend7 the steps as speedily as he could, in order to avoid farther importunity73.
But with activity much greater than his, the dumb maiden hastened to intercept74 him, and succeeded by throwing herself, at the imminent75 risk of life and limb, a second time into the pass which he was descending76, so as to interrupt his purpose. In order to achieve this, she was obliged to let herself drop a considerable height from the wall of a small flanking battery, where two patereroes were placed to scour6 the pass, in case any enemy could have mounted so high. Julian had scarce time to shudder77 at her purpose, as he beheld78 her about to spring from the parapet, ere, like a thing of gossamer79, she stood light and uninjured on the rocky platform below. He endeavoured, by the gravity of his look and gesture, to make her understand how much he blamed her rashness; but the reproof80, though obviously quite intelligible81, was entirely82 thrown away. A hasty wave of her hand intimated how she contemned83 the danger and the remonstrance84; while, at the same time, she instantly resumed, with more eagerness than before, the earnest and impressive gestures by which she endeavoured to detain him in the fortress85.
Julian was somewhat staggered by her pertinacity86. “Is it possible,” he thought, “that any danger can approach the Countess, of which this poor maiden has, by the extreme acuteness of her observation, obtained knowledge which has escaped others?”
He signed to Fenella hastily to give him the tablets and the pencil which she usually carried with her, and wrote on them the question, “Is there danger near to your mistress, that you thus stop me?”
“There is danger around the Countess,” was the answer instantly written down; “but there is much more in your own purpose.”
“How? — what? — what know you of my purpose?” said Julian, forgetting, in his surprise, that the party he addressed had neither ear to comprehend, nor voice to reply to uttered language. She had regained87 her book in the meantime, and sketched88, with a rapid pencil, on one of the leaves, a scene which she showed to Julian. To his infinite surprise he recognised Goddard Crovan’s Stone, a remarkable89 monument, of which she had given the outline with sufficient accuracy; together with a male and female figure, which, though only indicated by a few slight touches of the pencil, bore yet, he thought, some resemblance to himself and Alice Bridgenorth.
When he had gazed on the sketch for an instant with surprise, Fenella took the book from his hand, laid her finger upon the drawing, and slowly and sternly shook her head, with a frown which seemed to prohibit the meeting which was there represented. Julian, however, though disconcerted, was in no shape disposed to submit to the authority of his monitress. By whatever means she, who so seldom stirred from the Countess’s apartment, had become acquainted with a secret which he thought entirely his own, he esteemed90 it the more necessary to keep the appointed rendezvous91, that he might learn from Alice, if possible, how the secret had transpired92. He had also formed the intention of seeking out Bridgenorth; entertaining an idea that a person so reasonable and calm as he had shown himself in their late conference, might be persuaded, when he understood that the Countess was aware of his intrigues93, to put an end to her danger and his own, by withdrawing from the island. And could he succeed in this point, he should at once, he thought, render a material benefit to the father of his beloved Alice — remove the Earl from his state of anxiety — save the Countess from a second time putting her feudal94 jurisdiction95 in opposition96 to that of the Crown of England — and secure quiet possession of the island to her and her family.
With this scheme of mediation97 on his mind, Peveril determined98 to rid himself of the opposition of Fenella to his departure, with less ceremony than he had hitherto observed towards her; and suddenly lifting up the damsel in his arms before she was aware of his purpose, he turned about, set her down on the steps above him, and began to descend the pass himself as speedily as possible. It was then that the dumb maiden gave full course to the vehemence99 of her disposition; and clapping her hands repeatedly, expressed her displeasure in sound, or rather a shriek100, so extremely dissonant101, that it resembled more the cry of a wild creature, than anything which could have been uttered by female organs. Peveril was so astounded102 at the scream as it rung through the living rocks, that he could not help stopping and looking back in alarm, to satisfy himself that she had not sustained some injury. He saw her, however, perfectly103 safe, though her face seemed inflamed104 and distorted with passion. She stamped at him with her foot, shook her clenched105 hand, and turning her back upon him, without further adieu, ran up the rude steps as lightly as a kid could have tripped up that rugged106 ascent107, and paused for a moment at the summit of the first flight.
Julian could feel nothing but wonder and compassion for the impotent passion of a being so unfortunately circumstanced, cut off, as it were, from the rest of mankind, and incapable108 of receiving in childhood that moral discipline which teaches us mastery of our wayward passions, ere yet they have attained109 their meridian110 strength and violence. He waved his hand to her, in token of amicable111 farewell; but she only replied by once more menacing him with her little hand clenched; and then ascending112 the rocky staircase with almost preternatural speed, was soon out of sight.
Julian, on his part, gave no farther consideration to her conduct or its motives, but hastening to the village on the mainland, where the stables of the Castle were situated113, he again took his palfrey from the stall, and was soon mounted and on his way to the appointed place of rendezvous, much marvelling114, as he ambled115 forward with speed far greater than was promised by the diminutive116 size of the animal he was mounted on, what could have happened to produce so great a change in Alice’s conduct towards him, that in place of enjoining117 his absence as usual, or recommending his departure from the island, she should now voluntarily invite him to a meeting. Under impression of the various doubts which succeeded each other in his imagination, he sometimes pressed Fairy’s sides with his legs; sometimes laid his holly118 rod lightly on her neck; sometimes incited119 her by his voice, for the mettled animal needed neither whip nor spur, and achieved the distance betwixt the Castle of Holm-Peel and the stone at Goddard Crovan, at the rate of twelve miles within the hour.
The monumental stone, designed to commemorate120 some feat63 of an ancient King of Man, which had been long forgotten, was erected121 on the side of a narrow lonely valley, or rather glen, secluded122 from observation by the steepness of its banks, upon a projection123 of which stood the tall, shapeless, solitary rock, frowning, like a shrouded124 giant, over the brawling125 of the small rivulet126 which watered the ravine.
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wondrous
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discourse
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scour
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exquisite
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tunic
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peculiar
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hue
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profusion
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Undid
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countenance
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compassion
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sketch
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haughty
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superstition
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