They proceeded over many a hill and plain, and found that the same withering8 touch of desolation had burned up and overwhelmed the country. Wallace saw that his troops were faint for want of food; cheering them, he promised that Ormsby should provide them a feast in Perth; and, with reawakened spirits, they took the River Tay at its fords, and were soon before the walls of that well-armed city. But it was governed by a coward, and Ormsby fled to Dundee at the first sight of the Scottish army. His flight might have warranted the garrison9 to surrender without a blow, but a braver man being his lieutenant10, sharp was the conflict before Wallace could compel that officer to abandon the ramparts and to sue for the very terms he had at first rejected.
After the fall of Perth, the young regent made a rapid progress through that part of the country; driving the southron garrisons11 out of Scone12, and all the embattled towns; expelling them from the castles of Kincain, Elcho, Kinfauns, and Doune; and then proceeding13 to the marine14 fortresses16 (those avenues by which the ships of England had poured its legions on the eastern coast), he compelled Dundee, Cupar, Glamis, Montrose, and Aberdeen, all to acknowledge the power of his arms. He seized most of the English ships in those ports, and manning them with Scots, soon cleared the seas of the vessels17 which had escaped, taking some, and putting others to flight; and one of the latter was the fugitive18 Ormsby.
This enterprise achieved, Wallace, with a host of prisoners, turned his steps toward the Forth19; but ere he left the banks of the Tay and Dee, he detached three thousand men under the command of Lord Ruthven, giving him a commission to range the country from the Carse of Gowrie to remotest Sutherland, and in all that tract20 reduce every town and castle which had admitted a Southron garrison. Wallace took leave of Lord Ruthven at Huntingtower, and that worthy21 nobleman, when he assumed, with the government of Perth, this extensive command, said, as he grasped the regent’s hand, “I say not, bravest of Scots, what is my gratitude22 for thus making me an arm of my country, but deeds will show!”
He then bade a father’s adieu to his son, counseling him to regard Wallace as the light in his path; and, embracing him, they parted.
A rapid march, round by Fifeshire (through which victory followed their steps), brought the conqueror23 and his troops again within sight of the towers of Stirling. It was on the eve of the day on which he had promised Earl de Warenne should see the English prisoners depart for the borders. No doubt of his arriving at the appointed time was entertained by the Scots or by the Southrons in the castle; the one knew the sacredness of his word, and the other having felt his prowess, would not so far disparage25 their own as to suppose that any could withstand him by whom they were beaten.
De Warenne, as he stood on the battlements of the keep, beheld26 from afar the long line of Scottish soldiers as they descended27 the Ochil Hills. When he pointed24 it out to De Valence, that nobleman (who, in proportion as he wished to check the arms of Wallace, had flattered himself that it might happen), against the evidence of his eyesight, contradicted the observation of the veteran earl.
“Your sight deceives you,” said he, “it is only the sunbeams playing on the cliffs.”
“Then those cliffs are moving ones,” cried De Warenne, “which, I fear, have ground our countrymen on the coast to powder! We shall find Wallace here by sunset, to show us how he has resented the affront28 our ill-advised prince cast on his jealous honor.”
“His honor,” returned De Valence, “is like that of his countrymen’s-an enemy alike to his own interest and to that of others. Had it allowed him to accept the crown of Scotland, and so have fought Edward with the concentrating arm of a king; or would he even now offer peace to our sovereign, granting his prerogative29 as liege lord of the country, all might go well; but as the honor you speak of prevents his using these means of ending the contest, destruction must close his career.”
“And what quarrel,” demanded De Warenne, “can you, my Lord de Valence, have against this nice honor of Sir William Wallace, since you allow it secures the final success of our cause?”
“His honor and himself are hateful to me!” impatiently answered De Valence; “he crosses me in my wishes, public and private; and for the sake of my king and myself, I might almost be tempted-” He turned pale as he spoke30, and met the penetrating31 glance of De Warenne. He paused.
“Tempted to what?” asked De Warenne.
“To a Brutus mode of ridding the state of an enemy.”
“That might be noble in a Roman citizen,” returned De Warenne, “which would be villainous in an English lord, treated as you have been by a generous victor, not the usurper32 of any country’s liberties, but rather a Brutus in defense33 of his own. Which man of us all, from the general to the meanest follower34 in our camps, has he injured?”
Lord Aymer frowned. “Did he not expose me, threaten me with an ignominious35 death, on the walls of Stirling?”
“But was it before he saw the Earl of Mar15, with his hapless family, brought, with halters on their necks, to be suspended from this very tower? Ah! what a tale has the lovely countess told me of that direful scene! What he then did was to check the sanguinary Cressingham from imbruiting his hands in the blood of female and infant innocence36.”
“I care not,” cried De Valence, “what are or are not the offenses37 of this domineering Wallace, but I hate him; and my respect for his advocates cannot but correspond with that feeling.” As he spoke, that he might not be further molested38 by the arguments of De Warenne, he abruptly39 turned away, and left the battlements.
Pride would not allow the enraged40 earl to confess his private reasons for this vehement41 enmity against the Scottish chief. A conference which he had held the preceding evening with Lord Mar, was the cause of this augmented42 hatred43; and, from that moment, the haughty44 Southron vowed45 the destruction of Wallace, by open attack, or secret treachery. Ambition, and the base counterfeit46 of love, those two master passions in untempered minds, were the springs of this antipathy47. The instant in which he knew that the young creature whom at a distance he discerned clinging around the Earl of Mar’s neck in the streets of Stirling, was the same Lady Helen on whose account Lord Soulis had poured on him such undeserved invectives in Bothwell Castle; curious to have a nearer view of one whose transcendent beauty he had often heard celebrated48 by others, he ordered her to be immediately conveyed to his apartments in the citadel49.
On their first interview he was more struck by her personal charms than he had ever been with any woman’s, although few were so noted50 for gallantry in the English court as himself. He could hardly understand the nature of his feelings while discoursing51 with her. To all others of her sex he had declared his enamored wishes with as much ease as vivacity52, but when he looked on Helen the admiration53 her loveliness inspired was checked by an indescribable awe54. No word of passion escaped his lips; he sought to win her by a deportment consonant55 with her own dignity of manner, and obeyed all her wishes, excepting when they pointed to any communication with her parents. He feared the wary56 eyes of the Earl of Mar. But nothing of this reverence57 of Helen was grounded on any principle within the heart of De Valence. His idea of virtue58 was so erroneous that he believed, by the short assumption of its semblance59, he might so steal on the confidence of his victim as to induce her to forget all the world-nay, heaven itself-in his sophistry60 and blandishments. To facilitate this end he at first designed to precipitate61 the condemnation62 of the earl, that he might be rid of a father’s existence, holding, in dread63 of his censure64, the perhaps otherwise yielding heart of his lovely intended mistress.
The unprincipled and impure65 can have no idea what virtue or delicacy66 are other than vestments of disguise or of ornament67, to be thrown off at will; and therefore, to reason with such minds is to talk to the winds-to tell a man who is born blind to decide between two colors. In short, a libertine68 heart is the same in all ages of the world. De Valence, therefore, seeing the anguish69 of her fears for her father, and hearing the fervor70 with which she implored71 for his life, adopted the plan of granting the earl reprieves72 from day to day; and in spite of the remonstrances73 of Cressingham, he intended (after having worked upon the terrors of Helen), to grant to her her father’s release, on condition of her yielding herself to be his. He had even meditated74 that the accomplishment75 of this device should have taken place the very night in which Wallace’s first appearance before Stirling had called its garrison to arms.
Impelled76 by vengeance77 against the man who had driven him from Dumbarton and from Ayr, and irritated at being delayed in the moment when his passion was to seize its object, De Valence thought to end all by a coup78 de main-and rushing out of the gates, was taken prisoner. Such was the situation of things, when Wallace first became master of the place.
Now when the whole of the English army were in the same captivity79 with himself, when he saw the lately proscribed80 Lord Mar, Governor of Stirling, and that the Scottish cause seemed triumphant81 on every side, De Valence changed his former illicit82 views on Helen, and bethought him of making her his wife. Ambition, as well as love, impelled him to this resolution; and he foresaw that the vast influence which his marriage with the daughter of Mar must give him in the country, would be a decisive argument with the King of England.
To this purpose, not doubting the Scottish’s earl acceptance of such a son-in-law, on the very day that Wallace marched toward the coast, De Valence sent to request an hour’s private audience of Lord Mar. He could not then grant it; but at noon, next day, they met in the governor’s apartments.
The Southron, without much preface, opened his wishes, and proffered83 his hand for the Lady Helen. “I’ll make her the proudest lady in Great Britain,” continued he; “for she shall have a court in my Welsh province, little inferior to that of Edward’s queen.”
“Pomp would have no sway with my daughter,” replied the earl; “it is the princely mind she values, not its pagentry. Whomsoever she prefers the tribute will be paid to the merit of the object, not to his rank; and therefore, earl, should it be you, the greater will be your pledge of happiness. I shall repeat to her what you have said; and to-morrow deliver her answer.”
Not deeming it possible that it should be otherwise than favorable, De Valence allowed his imagination to roam over every anticipated delight. He exulted84 in the pride with which he would show this perfection of northern beauty to the fair of England; how would the simple graces of her seraphic form, which looked more like a being of air than of earth, put to shame the labored85 beauties of the court? And then it was not only the artless charms of a wood-nymph he would present to the wondering throng86, but a being whose majesty87 of soul proclaimed her high descent and peerless virtues88. How did he congratulate himself, in contemplating89 this unsullied temple of virgin90 innocence, that he had never, by even the vapor91 of one impassioned sigh, contaminated her pure ear, or broken the magic spell, which seemed fated to crown him with happiness unknown, with honor unexampled! To be so blessed, so distinguished92, so envied, was to him a dream of triumph, that wafted93 away all remembrance of his late defeat; and he believed, in taking Helen from Scotland, he should bear away a richer prize than any he could leave behind.
Full of these anticipations94, he attended the Governor of Stirling the next day, to hear his daughter’s answer. But unwilling95 to give the earl that advantage over him which a knowledge of his views in the matter might occasion, he affected96 a composure he did not feel; and with a lofty air entered the room as if he were come rather to confer than to beg a favor. This deportment did not lessen97 the satisfaction with which the brave Scot opened his mission.
“My lord, I have just seen my daughter. She duly appreciates the honor you would confer on her; she is grateful for all your courtesies whilst she was your prisoner, but beyond that sentiment, her heart, attached to her native land, cannot sympathize with your wishes.”
De Valence started. He did not expect anything in the shape of a denial; but supposing that perhaps a little of his own art was tried by the father to enhance the value of his daughter’s yielding, he threw himself into a chair, and affecting chagrin98 at a disappointment (which he did not believe was seriously intended), exclaimed with vehemence99, “Surely, Lord Mar, this is not meant as a refusal? I cannot receive it as such, for I know Lady Helen’s gentleness, I know the sweet tenderness of her nature would plead for me, were she to see me at her feet, and hear me pour forth the most ardent100 passion that ever burned in a human breast. Oh, my gracious lord, if it be her attachment101 to Scotland which alone militates against me, I will promise that her time shall be passed between the two countries. Her marriage with me may facilitate that peace with England which must be the wish of us all; and perhaps the lord wardenship102 which De Warenne now holds may be transferred to me. I have reasons for expecting that it will be so; and then she, as a queen in Scotland, and you as her father, may claim every distinction from her fond husband, every indulgence for the Scots, which your patriot103 heart can dictate104. This would be a certain benefit to Scotland; while the ignis fatuus you are now following, however brilliant may be its career during Edward’s absence, must on his return be extinguished in disaster and infamy105.”
The silence of the Earl of Mar, who, willing to hear all that was in the mind of De Valence, had let him proceed uninterrupted, encouraged the Southron lord to say more than he had at first intended to reveal; but when he made a pause, and seemed to expect an answer, the earl spoke:
“I am fully106 sensible of the honor you would bestow107 upon my daughter and myself by your alliance; but, as I have said before, her heart is too devoted108 to Scotland to marry any man whose birth does not make it his duty to prefer the liberty of her native land, even before his love for her. That hope to see our country freed from a yoke109 unjustly laid upon her-that hope which you, not considering our rights, or weighing the power that lies in a just cause, denominate an ignis fatuus, is the only passion I believe that lives in the gentle bosom110 of my Helen; and therefore, noble earl, not even your offers can equal the measure of her wishes.”
At this speech De Valence bit his lip with real disappointment; and starting from his chair now in unaffected disorder111, “I am not to be deceived, Lord Mar,” cried he; “I am not to be cajoled by the pretended patriotism112 of your daughter; I know the sex too well to be cheated with these excuses. The ignis fatuus that leads your daughter from my arms, is not the freedom of Scotland, but the handsome rebel who conquers in its name! He is now fortune’s minion113, but he will fall, Lord Mar, and then what will be the fate of his mad adherents114?”
“Earl de Valence,” replied the veteran, “sixty winters have checked the tides of passion in my veins115; but the indignation of my soul against any insult offered to my daughter’s delicacy, or to the name of the lord regent of Scotland is not less powerful in my breast. You are my prisoner, and I pardon what I could so easily avenge116. I will even answer you, and say that I do not know of any exclusive affection subsisting117 between my daughter and Sir William Wallace; but this I am assured of, that were it the case, she would be more ennobled in being the wife of so true a patriot and so virtuous118 a man, than were she advanced to the bosom of an emperor. And for myself, were he to-morrow hurled119 by a mysterious Providence120 from his present nobly-won elevation121, I should glory in my son were he such, and would think him as great on a scaffold as on a throne.”
“It is well that is your opinion,” replied De Valence, stopping in his wrathful strides, and turning on Mar with vengeful irony122; “cherish these heroics, for you will assuredly see him so exalted123. Then where will be his triumphs over Edward’s arms and Pembroke’s heart? Where your daughter’s patriot husband; you glorious son? Start not, old man, for by all the powers of hell I swear that some eyes which now look proudly on the Southron host, shall close in blood! I announce a fact!”
“If you do,” replied Mar, shuddering124 at the demoniac fire that lightened from the countenance125 of De Valence, “it must be by the agency of devils; and their minister, vindictive126 earl, will meet the vengeance of the Eternal arm.”
“These dreams,” cried De Valence, “cannot terrify me. You are neither a seer, nor I a fool, to be taken by such prophecies. But were you wise enough to embrace the advantage I offer, you might be a prophet of good, greater than he of Ercildown, to your nation; for all that you could promise, I would take care should be fulfilled. But you cast from you your peace and safety; my vengeance shall therefore take its course. I rely not on oracles127 of heaven or hell; but I have pronounced the doom128 of my enemies; and though you now see me a prisoner, tremble, haughty Scot, at the resentment129 which lies in this head and heart. This arm perhaps needs not the armies of Edward to pierce you in your boast!”
He left the room as he spoke; and Lord Mar, shaking his venerable head as he disappeared, said to himself: “Impotent rage of passion and of youth, I pity and forgive you.”
It was not, therefore, so extraordinary that De Valence, when he saw Wallace descending130 the Ochil hills with the flying banners of new victories, should break into curses of his fortune, and swear inwardly the most determined131 revenge.
Fuel was added to this fire at sunset, when the almost measureless defiles132 of prisoners, marshaled before the ramparts of Stirling, and taking the usual oath to Wallace, met his view.
“To-morrow we quit these dishonoring wall,” cried he to himself: “but ere I leave them, if there be power in gold, or strength in my arm, he shall die!”
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| 美德( virtue的名词复数 )； 德行； 优点； 长处 | |
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