“You are as safe in this wood, lady,” returned the soldier, “as you can be in any place betwixt Galliard and Paris. It is many miles from the chateau13, and lies in so remote a direction, that were the earl to pursue us, I am sure he would never choose this path.”
“And did he even come up with us, dear Lady Helen,” said Wallace, “could you fear, when with your father’s friend?”
“It is for my father’s friend I fear,” gently answered she; “I can have no dread11 for myself while under such protection.”
A very little more persuaded Helen; and Grimsby having spread his cloak on the grass, Wallace lifted her from her horse. As soon as she put her foot to the ground her head grew giddy, and she must have fallen but for the supporting arm of her watchful14 friend. He carried her to the couch prepared by the good soldier, and laid her on it. Grimsby had been more provident15 than they could have expected; for after saddling the second pair of horses, he had returned into the hall for his cloak, and taking an undrawn flask17 of wine from the seneschal’s supper-table, put it into his vest. This he now produced, and Wallace made Helen drink some of it. The cordial soon revived her, and sinking on her pillow of leaves, she soon found the repose18 her wearied frame demanded and induced. For fear of disturbing her not a word was spoken. Wallace watched at her head, and Bruce sat at her feet, while Grimsby remained with the horses, as a kind of outpost.
Sweet was her sleep, for the thoughts with which she sunk into slumber20 occupied her dreams. Still she was riding by the side of Wallace, listening to his voice, cheering her through the lengthening21 way! But some wild animal in its nightly prowl crossing before the horses, they began to snort and plunge22, and though the no less terrified alarmer fled far away, it was with difficulty the voice and management of Grimsby could quiet them. The noise suddenly awoke Helen, and her scattered23 faculties not immediately recollecting25 themselves, she felt an instant impression that all had indeed been a dream, and starting in affright, she exclaimed, “Where am I? Wallace, where art thou?”
“Here!” cried he, pressing her hand with fraternal tenderness; “I am here; you are safe with your friend and brother.”
Her heart beat with a terror which this assurance could hardly subdue26. At last she said in an agitated27 voice, “Forgive me if my senses are a little strayed! I have suffered so much, and this release seems so miraculous28, that at moments I hardly believe it real. I wish daylight were come that I might be convinced.” When she had uttered these words, she suddenly stopped, and then added, “But I am very weak to talk thus; I believe my late terrors have disordered my head.”
“What you feel, lady, is only natural,” observed Bruce; “I experienced the same when I first regained29 my liberty, and found myself on the road to join Sir William Wallace. Dear, indeed, is liberty; but dearer is the friend whose virtues31 make our recovered freedom sure.”
“Who speaks to me?” said Helen, in a low voice to Wallace, and raising her head from that now supporting arm, on which she felt she did but too much delight to lean.
“One,” answered Wallace, in the same tone, “who is not to be publicly known until occasion demands it; one who, I trust in God, will one day seal the happiness of Scotland — Robert Bruce.”
That name which, when in her idea it belonged to Wallace, used to raise such emotions in her breast, she now heard with an indifference32 that surprised her. But who could be more to Scotland than Wallace had been? All that was in the power of patriot33 or of king to do for his country, he had done; and what then was Bruce in her estimation? One who, basking34 in pleasures while his country suffered, allowed a brave subject to breast, to overthrow35 every danger, before he put himself forward? and now he appeared to assume a throne, which, though his right by birth, he had most justly forfeited36, by neglecting the duties indispensable in the heir of so great and oppressed a kingdom! These would have been her thoughts of him; but Wallace called this Bruce his friend! and the few words she had heard him speak, being full of gratitude37 to her deliverer, that engaged her esteem38.
The answer, however, which she made to the reply of Wallace was spontaneous, and it struck upon the heart of Bruce. “How long,” said she, “have you promised Scotland that it should see that day!”
“Long, to my grief, Lady Helen,” rejoined Bruce; “I would say to my shame — had I ever intentionally39 erred40 toward my country; but ignorance of her state, and of the depth of Edward’s treachery, was my crime. I only required to be shown the right path to pursue it, and Sir William Wallace came to point the way. My soul, lady, is not unworthy the destiny to which he calls me.” Had there been light, she would have seen the flush of conscious virtue30 that overspread his fine countenance42 while he spoke19; but the words were sufficient to impress her with that respect he deserved, and which her answer showed.
“My father taught me to consider the Bruce the rightful heirs of Scotland; and now that I see the day which he so often wished to hail, I cannot but regard it as the termination of Scotland’s woes43. Oh! had it been before! perhaps —” Here she paused, for tears stopped her utterance44.
“You think,” rejoined Bruce, “that much bloodshed might have been spared! But, dear lady, poison not the comfort of your life by that belief. No man exists who could have effected so much for Scotland in so short a time, and with so little loss, as our Wallace has done. Who, like him, makes mercy the companion of war, and compels even his enemies to emulate45 the clemency46 he shows? Fewer have been slain47 on the Scottish side during the whole of his struggle with Edward, than were lost by Baliol on the fatal day of Dunbar. Then, no quarter was given; and too many of the wounded were left to perish on the field. But with Wallace, life was granted to all who asked; the wounded enemy and the friend were alike succored48 by him. This conduct provoked the jealousy49 of the Southron generals, not to be surpassed in generosity50, and thus comparatively few have been lost. But if in that number some of our noblest chiefs, we must be resigned to yield to God what is his own; may, we must be grateful, daughter of the gallant51 Mar3, for the manner in which they were taken. They fell in the arms of true glory, like parents defending their offspring; while others — my grandfather and father — perished with broken hearts, in unavailing lamentations that they could not share the fate of those who died for Scotland.”
“But you, dear Bruce,” returned Wallace, “will live for her; will teach those whose hearts have bled in her cause, to find a balm for every wound in her prosperity.”
Helen smiled through her tears at those words. They spoke the heavenly consolation52 which had descended53 on her mourning spirit. “If Scotland be to rest under the happy reign54 of Robert Bruce, then envy cannot again assail55 Sir William Wallace, and my father has not shed his blood in vain. His beautified spirit, with those of my uncles Bothwell and Ruthven, will rejoice in such a peace, and I shall enjoy it to felicity, in so sacred a participation56. Surprised at her associating the name of Lord Ruthven with those who had fallen, Wallace interrupted her with the assurance of her uncle’s safety. The Scottish chiefs easily understood that De Valence had given her the opposite intelligence, to impress her with an idea that she was friendless, and so precipitate57 her into the determination of becoming his wife. But she did not repeat to her brave auditors58 all the arguments he had used to shake her impregnable heart — impregnable, because a principle kept guard there, which neither flattery nor ambition could dispossess. He had told her that the very day in which she would give him her hand, King Edward would send him viceroy into Scotland, where she should reign with all the power and magnificence of a queen. He was handsome, accomplished59, and adored her; but Helen could not love him whom she could not esteem, for she knew he was libertine60, base and cruel. That he loved her affected61 her not; she could only be sensible to an affection placed on worthy41 foundations; and he who trampled62 on all virtues in his own actions, could not desire them when seen in her; he therefore must love her for the fairness of her form alone; and to place any value on such affection was to grasp the wind.
Personal flatteries having made no impression on Helen, ambitious projects were attempted with equal failure. Had De Valence been lord of the eastern and western empires, could he have made her the envy and admiration64 of a congregated65 world, all would have been in vain; she had seen and known the virtues of Sir William Wallace; and from that hour, all that was excellent in man, and all that was desirable on earth, seemed to her to be in him summed up. “On the barren heath,” said she to herself, “in some desert island, with only thee and thy virtues, how happy could be Helen Mar! how great! For, to share thy heart — thy thy noble, glorious heart — would be a bliss66, a seal of honor from Heaven, with which no terrestrial elevation67 could compare!” Then would she sigh; capable of appreciating and loving above all earthly things the matchless virtues of Sir William Wallace. On the very evening of the night in question in which he had so unexpectedly appeared to release her, her thoughts had been engaged in this train: “Yes,” cried she to herself, “even in loving thy perfections there is such enjoyment68, that I would rather be as I am — what others might call the hopeless Helen, than the loving and beloved of any other man on earth. In thee I love virtue; and the imperishable sentiment will bless me in the world to come.” With these thoughts she had fallen asleep; she dreamed that she called on her father, on Wallace to save her, and on opening her eyes, she had found him indeed near.
Every word which this almost adored friend now said to comfort her with regard to her own immediate24 losses, to assure her of the peace of Scotland, should Heaven bless the return of Bruce, took root in her soul, and sprung up into resignation and happiness. She listened to the plans of Wallace and of Bruce to effect their great enterprise, and the hours of the night passed to her not only in repose, but in enjoyment. Wallace, though pleased with the interest she took in even the minutest details of their design, became fearful of overtasking her weakened frame; he whispered Bruce to gradually drop the conversation; and, as it died away, slumber again stole over her eyelids69.
The dawn had spread far over the sky while she yet slept. Wallace sat contemplating70 her, and the now sleeping Bruce, who had also imperceptibly sunk to rest. Various and anxious were his meditations71. He had hardly seen seven-and-twenty years, yet so had he been tried in the vicissitudes72 of life, that he felt as if he had lived a century; and instead of looking on the lovely Helen as on one whose charms might claim a lover’s lovely Helen as on one whose charms might claim a lover’s wishes in his breast, he regarded her with sentiments more like parental73 tenderness. That, indeed, seemed the affection which now reigned74 in his bosom75. He felt as a father toward Scotland. For every son and daughter of that harassed76 country, he was ready to lay down his life. Edwin he cherished in his heart as he would have done the dearest of his own offspring. It was as a parent to whom a beloved and prodigal77 son had returned, that he looked on Bruce. But Helen, of all Scotland’s daughters, she was the most precious in his eyes; set love aside, and no object without the touch of that all-pervading passion could he regard with more endearing tenderness than he did Helen Mar.
The shades of night vanished before the bright uprise of the king of day, and with them her slumbers78. She stirred; she awoke. The lark79 was then soaring with shrill80 cadence81 over her head; its notes pierced the ear of Bruce, and he started on his feet.
“You have allowed me to sleep, Wallace?”
“And why not?” replied he. “Here it was safe for all to have slept. Yet had there been danger, I was at my post to have called you.” He gently smiled as he spoke.
“Whence, my friend,” cried Bruce, with a respondent beam on his countenance, “did you draw the ethereal essence that animates82 your frame? You toil83 for us — watch for us, and yet you never seem fatigued84, never discomposed! How is this? What does it mean?”
“That the soul is immortal,” answered Wallace; “that it has a godlike power given to it by the Giver of all good, even while on earth, to subdue the wants of this mortal frame. The circumstances in which Heaven has cast me, have disciplined my circumstances in which Heaven has cast me, have disciplined my body to obey my mind in all things; and, therefore, when the motives85 for exertion86 are strong within me, it is long, very long, before I feel hunger, thirst, or drowsiness87. Indeed, while thus occupied, I have often thought it possible for the activity of the soul so to wear the body, that some day she might find it suddenly fall away from about her spiritual substance, and leave her unencumbered, without having felt the touch of death. And yet, that Elisha-like change,” continued Wallace, following up on his own thought, “could not be till Heaven sees the appointed time. ‘Man does not live by bread alone;’ neither by sleep, nor any species of refreshment88. His Spirit alone, who created all things, can give us a rest, while we keep the strictest vigils; His power can sustain the wasting frame, even in a barren wilderness89.”
“True,” replied Helen, looking timidly up: “but, because Heaven is so gracious as sometimes to work miracles in our favor, surely we are not authorized90 to neglect the natural means of obtaining the same end?”
“Certainly not,” returned Wallace; “it is not for man to tempt63 God at any time. Sufficient for us it is to abide91 by His all-wise dispensations. When we are in circumstances that allow the usual means of life, it is demanded of us to use them. But when we are brought into situations where watching, fasting, and uncommon92 toils93 are not to be avoided, then it is an essential part of our obedience94 to perform our duties to the end, without any regard to the wants which may impede95 our way. It is in such an hour, when the soul of man, resolved to obey, looks down on human nature and looks up to God, that he receives both the manna and the ever-living waters of heaven. By this faith and perseverance96, the uplifted hands of Moses prevailed over Amalek in Rephidim; and by the same did the lengthened97 race of the sun light Joshua to a double victory in Gibeon.”
The morning vapors98 having dispersed99 from the opposite plain, and Helen being refreshed by her long repose, Wallace seated her on horseback, and they recommenced their journey. The helmets of both chiefs were now open. Grimsby looked at one and the other; the countenances100 of both assured him that he should find a protector in either. He drew toward Helen; she noticed his manner, and observing to Wallace that she believed the soldier wished to speak with her, checked her horse. At this action, Grimsby presumed to ride up, and bowing respectfully, said, that before he followed her to Paris, it would be right for the Count de Valois to know whom he had taken into his train; “one, madam, who has been degraded by King Edward; degraded,” added he, “but not debased; that last disgrace depends on myself; and I should shrink from your protection rather than court it, were I indeed vile101.”
“You have too well proved your integrity, Grimsby,” replied Helen, “to doubt it now; but what has the Count de Valois to do with your being under my protection? It is not to him we go, but to the French king.”
“And is not that knight102 with the diadem,” inquired Grimsby, “the Count de Valois? The servants at Chateau Galliard told me he was so.”
Surprised at this, Helen said the knight should answer for himself; and quickening the step of her horse, followed by Grimsby, rejoined his side.
When she informed Wallace of what had passed, he called the soldier to approach. “Grimsby,” said he, “you have claims upon me which should insure you my protection were I even insensible to the honorable principles you have just declared to Lady Helen. But, I repeat, I am already your friend. You have only to speak, and all in my power to serve you shall be done.”
“Then, sir,” returned he, “as mine is rather a melancholy103 story, and parts of it have already drawn16 tears from Lady Helen, if you will honor me with your attention apart from her, I would relate how I fell into disgrace with my sovereign.”
Wallace fell a little back with Grimsby; and while Bruce and Helen rode briskly forward, he, at a slower pace, prepared to listen to the recapitulation of scenes in which he was only too deeply interested. The soldier began by narrating104 the fatal events at Ellerslie, which had compelled him to leave the army in Scotland. He related that after quitting the priory of St. Fillan, he reached Guienne, and there served under the Earl of Lincoln, until the marriage of Edward with King Philip’s sister gave the English monarch105 quiet possession of that province. Grimsby then marched with the rest of the troops to join their sovereign in Flanders. There he was recognized, and brought to judgment106 by one of Heselrigge’s captains; one who had been a particular favorite with the tyrant107 from their similarity of disposition108, and to whom he had told the mutiny and desertion (as he called it) of Grimsby. But on the presentation of the Earl of Lincoln, his punishment was mitigated109 from death to the infliction110 of a certain number of lashes111. This sentence, which the honest officer regarded as worse than the loss of life, was executed. On stripping him at the halberts, Lady Helen’s gift, the diamond clasp, was found hanging round his neck; this was seized as a proof of some new crime; his general now gave him up; and so inconsistent were his judges, that while they allowed this treason (for so they stigmatized112 his manly114 resentment115 of Heselrigge’s cruelty) to prejudice them in this second charge, they would not believe what was so probable, that this very jewel had been given to him by a friend of Sir William Wallace in reward for his behavior on that occasion. He appealed to Edward, but he appealed in vain; and on the following day he was adjudged to be broken on the wheel for the supposed robbery.
Every heart was callous116 to his sufferings, but that of the wife of his jailer; who, fancying him like a brother of hers, who had been killed ten years before in Italy, at the dead of the night she opened his prison doors. He fled into Normandy; and, without a home, outlawed117, branded as a traitor118 and a thief, he was wandering half-desperate one stormy night on the banks of the Marne, when a cry of distress119 attracted his attention. It issued from the suit of De Valence, on his way to Guienne. Scared at the tempest, the female attendants of Lady Helen had abandoned themselves to shrieks120 of despair; but she, insensible to anything but grief, lay in perfect stillness in the litter that conveyed her. As Grimsby approached the travelers, De Valence demanded his assistance to conduct them to a place of shelter. Chateau Galliard was the nearest residence fit to receive the earl and his train. Thither121 the soldier led them, and heard from the servants that the lady in the vehicle was their lord’s wife, and a lunatic. Grimsby remained in the chateau, because he had nowhere else to go; and by accidental speeches from the lady’s attendants soon found that she was not married to the earl; and was not only perfectly122 sane123, but often most cruelly treated. Her name he had never learned until the last evening, when, carrying some wine into the banqueting-room, he heard De Valence mention it to the other stranger knight. He then retired124 full of horror, resolving to essay her rescue himself; but the unexpected sight of the two knights125 in the hall determined126 him to reveal the case to them. “This,” added Grimsby, “is my story; and whoever you are, noble lord, if you think me not unworthy your protection, grant it, and you shall find me faithful unto death.”
“I owe you that, and more,” replied the chief; “I am that Wallace on whose account you fled your country; and if you be willing to share the fortunes of one who may live and die in camps, I pledge you that my best destiny shall be yours.” Could Grimsby in his joyful127 surprise have thrown himself at the feet of Wallace, he would have done so; but taking hold of the end of his scarf, he pressed it enthusiastically to his lips, and exclaimed:
“Bravest of the brave, this is beyond my prayers; to meet here the triumphant128 lord of Scotland! I fell innocently into disgrace; ah! how am I now exalted129 unto honor! My country would have deprived me of life; I am therefore dead to it, and live only to gratitude and you!”
“Then,” replied Wallace, “as the first proof of the confidence I repose in you, know that the young chief who is riding forward with Lady Helen is Robert Bruce, the Prince of Scotland. Our next enterprise is to place him upon the throne of his ancestors. Meanwhile, till we license130 you to do otherwise, keep our names a secret, and call us by those we may hereafter think fit to assume.”
Grimsby, once more reinstated in the station he deserved — that of trust and respect — no longer hung his head in abject131 despondency; but looking erect132 as one born again from disgrace, he became the active, cheerful, and faithful servant of Wallace.
During Wallace’s conversation with the soldier, Helen was listening with delight to the encomiums which Bruce passed upon his friend and champion. As his eloquent133 tongue described the merits of Wallace, and expressed an ardent134 gratitude for his having so gloriously supplied his place to Scotland, Helen turned her eyes upon the prince. Before she had scarcely remarked that he was more than young and handsome; but now, while she contemplated135 the noble confidence which breathed in every feature, she said to herself: “This man is worthy to be the friend of Wallace! His soul is a mirror to reflect all the brightness of Wallace’s; ay, like as with the sun’s rays, to kindle136 with heaven’s fire all on whom it turns.”
Bruce remarked the unusual animation137 of her eyes as she looked at him.
“You feel all I say of Wallace,” said he. And it was not a charge at which she need blush.
It was addressed to that perception of exalted worth which regards neither sex nor age. Helen did not misapprehend him. The amiable138 frankness of his manner seemed to open to him her heart. Wallace she adored almost as a god; Bruce she could love as a brother. It requires not time nor proof to make virtuous139 hearts coalesce140; there is a language without sounds, a recognition, independent of the visual organ, which acknowledges the kindred of congenial souls almost in the moment they meet. “The virtuous mind knoweth its brother in the dark!” This was said by the man whose soul sympathized in every noble purpose with that of Wallace; while Helen, impelled141 by the same principle, and blushing with an emotion untainted by any sensation of shame, replied:
“I am too grateful to Heaven for having allowed me to witness the goodness, to share the esteem of such a being — a man whose like I have never seen.”
“He is one of the few, Lady Helen,” replied Bruce, “who is worthy of so august a title; and he brightly shows the image in which he was made; so humble142, so dignified143, so great, so lowly; so super-eminent in all accomplishments144 of mind and body; wise, brave, and invincible145; yet forbearing, gentle, and unassuming; formed to be beloved, yet without a touch of vanity; loving all who approach him, without the least alloy146 of passion. Ah! Lady Helen, he is a model after which I will fashion my life; for he has written the character of the Son of God in his heart, and it shall be my study to transcribe147 the blessed copy into mine!”
Tears of gratitude glittered in the eye, and on the smile of Helen. To answer Bruce she found to be impossible, but that her smile and look were appreciated by him, his own told her; and stretching out his hand to her, as she put hers into his, he said:
“We are united in his heart, my sweet friend!”
At this moment Wallace joined them. He saw the action, and the animation on each countenance, and looked at Bruce with a glance of inquiry148; but Bruce perceived nothing of a lover’s jealousy in the look; it carried the wish of a friend to share what had impressed them with such happy traits.
“We have been talking of you,” returned the prince, “and if to be beloved is a source of joy, you must be peculiarly blessed. The affections of Lady Helen and myself have met, and made your heart the altar on which we have pledged our fraternal love.”
Wallace regarded each with a look of tenderness. “It is my joy to love you both like a brother, but Lady Helen must consider me as even more than that to her. I am her father’s representative, I am the voice of grateful Scotland, thanking her for the preservation149 her generous exertions150 yielded! And to you, my prince, I am your friend, your subject — all that is devoted151 and true.”
Thus enjoying the dear communion of hearts, the interchange of mind, and mingling152 soul with soul, did these three friends journey toward the gates of Paris. Every hour seemed an age of blessedness to Helen, so gratefully did she enjoy each passing moment of a happiness that seemed to speak of Paradise. Nature never before appeared so beautiful in her eyes, the sky was more serene153, the birds sung with sweeter notes, the landscape shone in brighter charms; the fragrances154 of the flowers bathed her senses in the softest balm; and the very air as it breathed around her, seemed fraught155 with life and joy. But Wallace animated156 the scene; and while she fancied that she inhaled157 his breath in every respiration158, she moved as if on enchanted159 ground. Oh! she could have lingered there forever! and hardly did she know what it was to draw any but sighs of bliss till she saw the towers of Paris embattling the horizon. They reminded her that she was now going to be occasionally divided from him; that when entered within those walls, it would no longer be decorous for her to pass days and nights in listening to his voice, in losing all of woman’s love in the beautified affection of an angel.
This passion of the soul (if such it may be called), which has its rise in virtue and its aim the same, would be most unjustly degraded were it classed with what the herd160 generally entitle love. The love which men stigmatize113, deride161, and yet encourage, is a fancy, an infatuation, awakened162 by personal attraction, by — the lover knows not what, sometimes by gratified vanity, sometimes by idleness, and often by the most debasing propensities163 of human nature. Earthly it is, and unto earth it shall return! But love, true heaven-born love, that pure affection which unites congenial spirits here, and with which the Creator will hereafter connect in one blessed fraternity the whole kindred of mankind, has but one cause — the universal unchangeableness and immortality164, a something so excellent that the simple wish to partake its essence in the union of affection, to facilitate and to share its attainment165 of true and lasting166 happiness, invigorates our virtue and inspires our souls. These are the aims and joys of real love. It has nothing selfish; in every desire it soars above this earth; and anticipates, as the ultimatum167 of its joy, the moment when it shall meet its partner before the throne of God. Such was the sentiment of Helen toward Wallace. So unlike what she had seen in others of the universal passion, she would hardly have acknowledged to herself that what she felt was love, had not the anticipation168 of even an hour’s separation from him, whispered the secret to her heart.
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