Whose little body lodged2 a mighty3 mind.
ILIAD.
Left quiet at least, if not alone, for the first time after the events of this troubled and varied4 day, Julian threw himself on an old oaken seat, beside the embers of a sea-coal fire, and began to muse5 on the miserable6 situation of anxiety and danger in which he was placed; where, whether he contemplated7 the interests of his love, his family affections, or his friendships, all seemed such a prospect8 as that of a sailor who looks upon breakers on every hand, from the deck of a vessel9 which no longer obeys the helm.
As Peveril sat sunk in despondency, his companion in misfortune drew a chair to the opposite side of the chimney-corner, and began to gaze at him with a sort of solemn earnestness, which at length compelled him, though almost in spite of himself, to pay some attention to the singular figure who seemed so much engrossed10 with contemplating11 him.
Geoffrey Hudson (we drop occasionally the title of knighthood, which the King had bestowed13 on him in a frolic, but which might introduce some confusion into our history), although a dwarf14 of the least possible size, had nothing positively15 ugly in his countenance16, or actually distorted in his limbs. His head, hands, and feet were indeed large, and disproportioned to the height of his body, and his body itself much thicker than was consistent with symmetry, but in a degree which was rather ludicrous than disagreeable to look upon. His countenance, in particular, had he been a little taller, would have been accounted, in youth, handsome, and now, in age, striking and expressive17; it was but the uncommon18 disproportion betwixt the head and the trunk which made the features seem whimsical and bizarre — an effect which was considerably19 increased by the dwarf’s moustaches, which it was his pleasure to wear so large, that they almost twisted back amongst, and mingled20 with, his grizzled hair.
The dress of this singular wight announced that he was not entirely21 free from the unhappy taste which frequently induces those whom nature has marked by personal deformity, to distinguish, and at the same time to render themselves ridiculous, by the use of showy colours, and garments fantastically and extraordinarily22 fashioned. But poor Geoffrey Hudson’s laces, embroideries23, and the rest of his finery, were sorely worn and tarnished24 by the time which he had spent in jail, under the vague and malicious25 accusation26 that he was somehow or other an accomplice27 in this all-involving, all-devouring whirlpool of a Popish conspiracy28 — an impeachment29 which, if pronounced by a mouth the foulest30 and most malicious, was at that time sufficiently31 predominant to sully the fairest reputation. It will presently appear, that in the poor man’s manner of thinking, and tone of conversation, there was something analogous32 to his absurd fashion of apparel; for, as in the latter, good stuff and valuable decorations were rendered ludicrous by the fantastic fashion in which they were made up; so, such glimmerings of good sense and honourable33 feeling as the little man often evinced, were made ridiculous by a restless desire to assume certain airs of importance, and a great jealousy34 of being despised, on account of the peculiarity35 of his outward form.
After the fellow-prisoners had looked at each other for some time in silence, the dwarf, conscious of his dignity as first owner of their joint36 apartment, thought it necessary to do the honours of it to the new-comer. “Sir,” he said, modifying the alternate harsh and squeaking37 tones of his voice into accents as harmonious38 as they could attain39, “I understand you to be the son of my worthy40 namesake, and ancient acquaintance, the stout41 Sir Geoffrey Peveril of the Peak. I promise you, I have seen your father where blows have been going more plenty than gold pieces; and for a tall heavy man, who lacked, as we martialists thought, some of the lightness and activity of our more slightly made Cavaliers, he performed his duty as a man might desire. I am happy to see you, his son; and, though by a mistake, I am glad we are to share this comfortless cabin together.”
Julian bowed, and thanked his courtesy; and Geoffrey Hudson, having broken the ice, preceded to question him without further ceremony. “You are no courtier, I presume, young gentleman?”
Julian replied in the negative.
“I thought so,” continued the dwarf; “for although I have now no official duty at Court, the region in which my early years were spent, and where I once held a considerable office, yet I still, when I had my liberty, visited the Presence from time to time, as in duty bound for former service; and am wont42, from old habit, to take some note of the courtly gallants, those choice spirits of the age, among whom I was once enrolled44. You are, not to compliment you, a marked figure, Master Peveril — though something of the tallest, as was your father’s case; I think, I could scarce have seen you anywhere without remembering you.”
Peveril thought he might, with great justice, have returned the compliment, but contented45 himself with saying, “he had scarce seen the British Court.”
“Tis pity,” said Hudson; “a gallant43 can hardly be formed without frequenting it. But you have been perhaps in a rougher school; you have served, doubtless?”
“My Maker46, I hope,” said Julian.
“Fie on it, you mistake. I meant,” said Hudson, “á la Fran?ois — you have served in the army?”
“No. I have not yet had that honour,” said Julian.
“What! neither courtier nor soldier, Master Peveril?” said the important little man: “your father is to blame. By cock and pie he is, Master Peveril! How shall a man be known, or distinguished47, unless by his bearing in peace and war? I tell you, sir, that at Newberry, where I charged with my troop abreast48 with Prince Rupert, and when, as you may have heard, we were both beaten off by those cuckoldly hinds49 the Trained Bands of London — we did what men could; and I think it was a matter of three or four minutes after most of our gentlemen had been driven off, that his Highness and I continued to cut at their long pikes with our swords; and I think might have broken in, but that I had a tall, long-legged brute50 of a horse, and my sword was somewhat short — in fine, at last we were obliged to make volte-face, and then, as I was going to say, the fellows were so glad to get rid of us, that they set up a great jubilee51 cry of ‘There goes Prince Robin52 and Cock Robin!’— Ay, ay, every scoundrel among them knew me well. But those days are over. — And where were you educated, young gentleman?”
Peveril named the household of the Countess of Derby.
“A most honourable lady, upon my word as a gentleman,” said Hudson. — “I knew the noble Countess well when I was about the person of my royal mistress, Henrietta Maria. She was then the very muster53 of all that was noble, loyal, and lovely. She was, indeed, one of the fifteen fair ones of the Court, whom I permitted to call me Piccoluomini — a foolish jest on my somewhat diminutive54 figure, which always distinguished me from ordinary beings, even when I was young — I have now lost much stature55 by stooping; but, always the ladies had their jest at me. — Perhaps, young man, I had my own amends56 of some of them somewhere, and somehow or other — I say nothing if I had or no; far less do I insinuate57 disrespect to the noble Countess. She was daughter of the Duc de la Tremouille, or, more correctly, des Thouars. But certainly to serve the ladies, and condescend58 to their humours, even when somewhat too free, or too fantastic, is the true decorum of gentle blood.”
Depressed59 as his spirits were, Peveril could scarce forbear smiling when he looked at the pigmy creature, who told these stories with infinite complacency, and appeared disposed to proclaim, as his own herald60, that he had been a very model of valour and gallantry, though love and arms seemed to be pursuits totally irreconcilable61 to his shrivelled, weather-beaten countenance, and wasted limbs. Julian was, however, so careful to avoid giving his companion pain, that he endeavoured to humour him, by saying, that, “unquestionably, one bred up like Sir Geoffrey Hudson, in court and camps, knew exactly when to suffer personal freedoms, and when to control them.”
The little Knight12, with great vivacity62, though with some difficulty, began to drag his seat from the side of the fire opposite to that where Julian was seated, and at length succeeded in bringing it near him, in token of increasing cordiality.
“You say well, Master Peveril,” said the dwarf; “and I have given proofs both of bearing and forbearing. Yes, sir, there was not that thing which my most royal mistress, Henrietta Maria, could have required of me, that I would not have complied with, sir; I was her sworn servant, both in war and in festival, in battle and pageant63, sir. At her Majesty’s particular request, I once condescended64 to become — ladies, you know, have strange fancies — to become the tenant65, for a time, of the interior of a pie.”
“Of a pie?” said Julian, somewhat amazed.
“Yes, sir, of a pie. I hope you find nothing risible66 in my complaisance67?” replied his companion, something jealously.
“Not I, sir,” said Peveril; “I have other matters than laughter in my head at present.”
“So had I,” said the dwarfish68 champion, “when I found myself imprisoned69 in a huge platter, of no ordinary dimensions you may be assured, since I could lie at length in it, and when I was entombed, as it were, in walls of standing70 crust, and a huge cover of pastry71, the whole constituting a sort of sarcophagus, of size enough to have recorded the epitaph of a general officer or an archbishop on the lid. Sir, notwithstanding the conveniences which were made to give me air, it was more like being buried alive than aught else which I could think of.”
“I conceive it, sir,” said Julian.
“Moreover, sir,” continued the dwarf, “there were few in the secret, which was contrived72 for the Queen’s divertisement; for advancing of which I would have crept into a filbert nut, had it been possible; and few, as I said, being private in the scheme, there was a risk of accidents. I doubted, while in my darksome abode73, whether some awkward attendant might not have let me fall, as I have seen happen to a venison pasty; or whether some hungry guest might not anticipate the moment of my resurrection, by sticking his knife into my upper crust. And though I had my weapons about me, young man, as has been my custom in every case of peril74, yet, if such a rash person had plunged75 deep into the bowels76 of the supposed pasty, my sword and dagger77 could barely have served me to avenge78, assuredly not to prevent, either of these catastrophes79.”
“Certainly I do so understand it,” said Julian, who began, however, to feel that the company of little Hudson, talkative as he showed himself, was likely rather to aggravate80 than to alleviate81 the inconveniences of a prison.
“Nay82,” continued the little man, enlarging on his former topic, “I had other subjects of apprehension83; for it pleased my Lord of Buckingham, his Grace’s father who now bears the title, in his plenitude of Court favour, to command the pasty to be carried down to the office, and committed anew to the oven, alleging84 preposterously85 that it was better to be eaten warm than cold.”
“And did this, sir, not disturb your equanimity86?” said Julian.
“My young friend,” said Geoffrey Hudson, “I cannot deny it. — Nature will claim her rights from the best and boldest of us. — I thought of Nebuchadnezzar and his fiery87 furnace; and I waxed warm with apprehension. — But, I thank Heaven, I also thought of my sworn duty to my royal mistress; and was thereby88 obliged and enabled to resist all temptations to make myself prematurely89 known. Nevertheless, the Duke — if of malice90, may Heaven forgive him — followed down into the office himself, and urged the master-cook very hard that the pasty should be heated, were it but for five minutes. But the master-cook, being privy91 to the very different intentions of my royal mistress, did most manfully resist the order; and I was again reconveyed in safety to the royal table.”
“And in due time liberated92 from your confinement93, I doubt not?” said Peveril.
“Yes, sir; that happy, and I may say, glorious moment, at length arrived,” continued the dwarf. “The upper crust was removed — I started up to the sound of trumpet94 and clarion95, like the soul of a warrior96 when the last summons shall sound — or rather (if that simile97 be over audacious), like a spell-bound champion relieved from his enchanted98 state. It was then that, with my buckler on my arm, and my trusty Bilboa in my hand, I executed a sort of warlike dance, in which my skill and agility99 then rendered me pre-eminent, displaying, at the same time my postures100, both of defence and offence, in a manner so totally inimitable, that I was almost deafened101 with the applause of all around me, and half-drowned by the scented102 waters with which the ladies of the Court deluged103 me from their casting bottles. I had amends of his Grace of Buckingham also; for as I tripped a hasty morris hither and thither104 upon the dining-table, now offering my blade, now recovering it, I made a blow at his nose — a sort of estrama?on — the dexterity105 of which consists in coming mighty near to the object you seem to aim at, yet not attaining106 it. You may have seen a barber make such a flourish with his razor. I promise you his Grace sprung back a half-yard at least. He was pleased to threaten to brain me with a chicken-bone, as he disdainfully expressed it; but the King said, ‘George, you have but a Rowland for an Oliver.’ And so I tripped on, showing a bold heedlessness of his displeasure, which few dared to have done at that time, albeit107 countenanced108 to the utmost like me by the smiles of the brave and the fair. But, well-a-day! sir, youth, its fashions, its follies109, its frolics, and all its pomp and pride, are as idle and transitory as the crackling of thorns under a pot.”
“The flower that is cast into the oven were a better simile,” thought Peveril. “Good God, that a man should live to regret not being young enough to be still treated as baked meat, and served up in a pie!”
His companion, whose tongue had for many days been as closely imprisoned as his person, seemed resolved to indemnify his loquacity110, by continuing to indulge it on the present occasion at his companion’s expense. He proceeded, therefore, in a solemn tone, to moralise on the adventure which he had narrated111.
“Young men will no doubt think one to be envied,” he said, “who was thus enabled to be the darling and admiration112 of the Court”—(Julian internally stood self-exculpated from the suspicion)—“and yet it is better to possess fewer means of distinction, and remain free from the backbiting113, the slander114, and the odium, which are always the share of Court favour. Men who had no other cause, cast reflections upon me because my size varied somewhat from the common proportion; and jests were sometimes unthinkingly passed upon me by those I was bound to, who did not in that case, peradventure, sufficiently consider that the wren115 is made by the same hand which formed the bustard, and that the diamond, though small in size, out-values ten thousand-fold the rude granite116. Nevertheless, they proceeded in the vein117 of humour; and as I could not in duty or gratitude118 retort upon nobles and princes, I was compelled to cast about in my mind how to vindicate119 my honour towards those, who, being in the same rank with myself, as servants and courtiers, nevertheless bore themselves towards me as if they were of a superior class in the rank of honour, as well as in the accidental circumstance of stature. And as a lesson to my own pride, and that of others, it so happened, that the pageant which I have but just narrated — which I justly reckon the most honourable moment of my life, excepting perhaps my distinguished share in the battle of Round-way-down — became the cause of a most tragic120 event, in which I acknowledge the greatest misfortune of my existence.”
The dwarf here paused, fetched a sigh, big at once with regret, and with the importance becoming the subject of a tragic history; then proceeded as follows:—
“You would have thought in your simplicity121, young gentleman, that the pretty pageant I have mentioned could only have been quoted to my advantage, as a rare masking frolic, prettily122 devised, and not less deftly123 executed; and yet the malice of the courtiers, who maligned124 and envied me, made them strain their wit, and exhaust their ingenuity125, in putting false and ridiculous constructions upon it. In short, my ears were so much offended with allusions126 to pies, puff-paste, ovens, and the like, that I was compelled to prohibit such subject of mirth, under penalty of my instant and severe displeasure. But it happ’d there was then a gallant about the Court, a man of good quality, son to a knight baronet, and in high esteem127 with the best in that sphere, also a familiar friend of mine own, from whom, therefore, I had no reason to expect any of that species of gibing128 which I had intimated my purpose to treat as offensive. Howbeit, it pleased the Honourable Mr. Crofts, so was this youth called and designed, one night, at the Groom129 Porter’s being full of wine and waggery, to introduce this threadbare subject, and to say something concerning a goose-pie, which I could not but consider as levelled at me. Nevertheless, I did but calmly and solidly pray him to choose a different subject; failing which, I let him know I should be sudden in my resentment130. Notwithstanding, he continued in the same tone, and even aggravated131 the offence, by speaking of a tomtit, and other unnecessary and obnoxious132 comparisons; whereupon I was compelled to send him a cartel, and we met accordingly. Now, as I really loved the youth, it was my intention only to correct him by a flesh wound or two; and I would willingly that he had named the sword for his weapon. Nevertheless, he made pistols his election; and being on horseback, he produced by way of his own weapon, a foolish engine, which children are wont, in their roguery, to use for spouting133 water; a — a — in short, I forget the name.”
“A squirt, doubtless,” said Peveril, who began to recollect134 having heard something of this adventure.
“You are right,” said the dwarf; “you have indeed the name of the little engine, of which I have had experience in passing the yards at Westminster. — Well, sir, this token of slight regard compelled me to give the gentleman such language, as soon rendered it necessary for him to make more serious arms. We fought on horseback — breaking ground, and advancing by signal; and, as I never miss aim, I had the misadventure to kill the Honourable Master Crofts at the first shot. I would not wish my worst foe135 the pain which I felt, when I saw him reel on his saddle, and so fall down to the earth! — and, when I perceived that the life-blood was pouring fast, I could not but wish to Heaven that it had been my own instead of his. Thus fell youth, hopes, and bravery, a sacrifice to a silly and thoughtless jest; yet, alas136! wherein had I choice, seeing that honour is, as it were, the very breath in our nostrils137; and that in no sense can we be said to live, if we permit ourselves to be deprived of it?”
The tone of feeling in which the dwarfish hero concluded his story, gave Julian a better opinion of his heart, and even of his understanding, than he had been able to form of one who gloried in having, upon a grand occasion, formed the contents of a pasty. He was indeed enabled to conjecture138 that the little champion was seduced139 into such exhibitions, by the necessity attached to his condition, by his own vanity, and by the flattery bestowed on him by those who sought pleasure in practical jokes. The fate of the unlucky Master Crofts, however, as well as various exploits of this diminutive person during the Civil Wars, in which he actually, and with great gallantry, commanded a troop of horse, rendered most men cautious of openly rallying him; which was indeed the less necessary, as, when left alone, he seldom failed voluntarily to show himself on the ludicrous side.
At one hour after noon, the turnkey, true to his word, supplied the prisoners with a very tolerable dinner and a flask140 of well-flavoured though light claret; which the old man, who was something of a bon-vivant, regretted to observe, was nearly as diminutive as himself. The evening also passed away, but not without continued symptoms of garrulity141 on the part of Geoffrey Hudson.
It is true these were of a graver character than he had hitherto exhibited, for when the flask was empty, he repeated a long Latin prayer. But the religious act in which he had been engaged, only gave his discourse142 a more serious turn than belonged to his former themes, of war, lady’s love, and courtly splendour.
The little Knight harangued143, at first on polemical points of divinity, and diverged144 from this thorny145 path, into the neighbouring and twilight146 walk of mysticism. He talked of secret warnings — of the predictions of sad-eyed prophets — of the visits of monitory spirits, and the Rosicrucian secrets of the Cabala; all which topics he treated of with such apparent conviction, nay, with so many appeals to personal experience, that one would have supposed him a member of the fraternity of gnomes147, or fairies, whom he resembled so much in point of size.
In short, he persevered148 for a stricken hour in such a torrent149 of unnecessary tattle, as determined150 Peveril, at all events, to endeavour to procure151 a separate lodging152. Having repeated his evening prayers in Latin, as formerly153 (for the old gentleman was a Catholic, which was the sole cause of his falling under suspicion), he set off on a new score, as they were undressing, and continued to prattle154 until he had fairly talked both himself and his companion to sleep.
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