The marriage might be considered as the result of an early engagement, though there had been two intermediate weddings on the lady’s part, and forty years of celibacy11 on that of the gentleman. At sixty-five, Mr. Ellenwood was a shy, but not quite a secluded12 man; selfish, like all men who brood over their own hearts, yet manifesting on rare occasions a vein13 of generous sentiment; a scholar throughout life, though always an indolent one, because his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delicate, yet sometimes requiring a considerable relaxation14, in his behalf, of the common rules of society. In truth, there were so many anomalies in his character, and though shrinking with diseased sensibility from public notice, it had been his fatality15 so often to become the topic of the day, by some wild eccentricity16 of conduct, that people searched his lineage for an hereditary17 taint18 of insanity19. But there was no need of this. His caprices had their origin in a mind that lacked the support of an engrossing20 purpose, and in feelings that preyed21 upon themselves for want of other food. If he were mad, it was the consequence, and not the cause, of an aimless and abortive22 life.
The widow was as complete a contrast to her third bridegroom, in everything but age, as can well be conceived. Compelled to relinquish23 her first engagement, she had been united to a man of twice her own years, to whom she became an exemplary wife, and by whose death she was left in possession of a splendid fortune. A southern gentleman, considerably24 younger than herself, succeeded to her hand, and carried her to Charleston, where, after many uncomfortable years, she found herself again a widow. It would have been singular, if any uncommon25 delicacy26 of feeling had survived through such a life as Mrs. Dabney’s; it could not but be crushed and killed by her early disappointment, the cold duty of her first marriage, the dislocation of the heart’s principles, consequent on a second union, and the unkindness of her southern husband, which had inevitably27 driven her to connect the idea of his death with that of her comfort. To be brief, she was that wisest, but unloveliest, variety of woman, a philosopher, bearing troubles of the heart with equanimity28, dispensing29 with all that should have been her happiness, and making the best of what remained. Sage30 in most matters, the widow was perhaps the more amiable31 for the one frailty32 that made her ridiculous. Being childless, she could not remain beautiful by proxy33, in the person of a daughter; she therefore refused to grow old and ugly, on any consideration; she struggled with Time, and held fast her roses in spite of him, till the venerable thief appeared to have relinquished34 the spoil, as not worth the trouble of acquiring it.
The approaching marriage of this woman of the world with such an unworldly man as Mr. Ellenwood was announced soon after Mrs. Dabney’s return to her native city. Superficial observers, and deeper ones, seemed to concur35 in supposing that the lady must have borne no inactive part in arranging the affair; there were considerations of expediency36 which she would be far more likely to appreciate than Mr. Ellenwood; and there was just the specious37 phantom38 of sentiment and romance in this late union of two early lovers which sometimes makes a fool of a woman who has lost her true feelings among the accidents of life. All the wonder was, how the gentleman, with his lack of worldly wisdom and agonizing39 consciousness of ridicule40, could have been induced to take a measure at once so prudent41 and so laughable. But while people talked the wedding-day arrived. The ceremony was to be solemnized according to the Episcopalian forms, and in open church, with a degree of publicity42 that attracted many spectators, who occupied the front seats of the galleries, and the pews near the altar and along the broad aisle43. It had been arranged, or possibly it was the custom of the day, that the parties should proceed separately to church. By some accident the bridegroom was a little less punctual than the widow and her bridal attendants; with whose arrival, after this tedious, but necessary preface, the action of our tale may be said to commence.
The clumsy wheels of several old-fashioned coaches were heard, and the gentlemen and ladies composing the bridal party came through the church door with the sudden and gladsome effect of a burst of sunshine. The whole group, except the principal figure, was made up of youth and gayety. As they streamed up the broad aisle, while the pews and pillars seemed to brighten on either side, their steps were as buoyant as if they mistook the church for a ball-room, and were ready to dance hand in hand to the altar. So brilliant was the spectacle that few took notice of a singular phenomenon that had marked its entrance. At the moment when the bride’s foot touched the threshold the bell swung heavily in the tower above her, and sent forth44 its deepest knell45. The vibrations46 died away and returned with prolonged solemnity, as she entered the body of the church.
“Good heavens! what an omen,” whispered a young lady to her lover.
“On my honor,” replied the gentleman, “I believe the bell has the good taste to toll47 of its own accord. What has she to do with weddings? If you, dearest Julia, were approaching the altar the bell would ring out its merriest peal48. It has only a funeral knell for her.”
The bride and most of her company had been too much occupied with the bustle49 of entrance to hear the first boding50 stroke of the bell, or at least to reflect on the singularity of such a welcome to the altar. They therefore continued to advance with undiminished gayety. The gorgeous dresses of the time, the crimson51 velvet52 coats, the gold-laced hats, the hoop53 petticoats, the silk, satin, brocade, and embroidery54, the buckles55, canes56, and swords, all displayed to the best advantage on persons suited to such finery, made the group appear more like a bright-colored picture than anything real. But by what perversity57 of taste had the artist represented his principal figure as so wrinkled and decayed, while yet he had decked her out in the brightest splendor58 of attire59, as if the loveliest maiden60 had suddenly withered61 into age, and become a moral to the beautiful around her! On they went, however, and had glittered along about a third of the aisle, when another stroke of the bell seemed to fill the church with a visible gloom, dimming and obscuring the bright pageant62, till it shone forth again as from a mist.
This time the party wavered, stopped, and huddled63 closer together, while a slight scream was heard from some of the ladies, and a confused whispering among the gentlemen. Thus tossing to and fro, they might have been fancifully compared to a splendid bunch of flowers, suddenly shaken by a puff64 of wind, which threatened to scatter65 the leaves of an old, brown, withered rose, on the same stalk with two dewy buds — such being the emblem66 of the widow between her fair young bridemaids. But her heroism67 was admirable. She had started with an irrepressible shudder68, as if the stroke of the bell had fallen directly on her heart; then, recovering herself, while her attendants were yet in dismay, she took the lead, and paced calmly up the aisle. The bell continued to swing, strike, and vibrate, with the same doleful regularity69 as when a corpse70 is on its way to the tomb.
“My young friends here have their nerves a little shaken,” said the widow, with a smile, to the clergyman at the altar. “But so many weddings have been ushered71 in with the merriest peal of the bells, and yet turned out unhappily, that I shall hope for better fortune under such different auspices72.”
“Madam,” answered the rector, in great perplexity, “this strange occurrence brings to my mind a marriage sermon of the famous Bishop73 Taylor, wherein he mingles74 so many thoughts of mortality and future woe75, that, to speak somewhat after his own rich style, he seems to hang the bridal chamber76 in black, and cut the wedding garment out of a coffin77 pall78. And it has been the custom of divers79 nations to infuse something of sadness into their marriage ceremonies, so to keep death in mind while contracting that engagement which is life’s chiefest business. Thus we may draw a sad but profitable moral from this funeral knell.”
But, though the clergyman might have given his moral even a keener point, he did not fail to dispatch an attendant to inquire into the mystery, and stop those sounds, so dismally81 appropriate to such a marriage. A brief space elapsed, during which the silence was broken only by whispers, and a few suppressed titterings, among the wedding party and the spectators, who, after the first shock, were disposed to draw an ill-natured merriment from the affair. The young have less charity for aged82 follies83 than the old for those of youth. The widow’s glance was observed to wander, for an instant, towards a window of the church, as if searching for the time-worn marble that she had dedicated84 to her first husband; then her eyelids85 dropped over their faded orbs86, and her thoughts were drawn87 irresistibly88 to another grave. Two buried men, with a voice at her ear, and a cry afar off, were calling her to lie down beside them. Perhaps, with momentary89 truth of feeling, she thought how much happier had been her fate, if, after years of bliss90, the bell were now tolling91 for her funeral, and she were followed to the grave by the old affection of her earliest lover, long her husband. But why had she returned to him, when their cold hearts shrank from each other’s embrace?
Still the death-bell tolled92 so mournfully, that the sunshine seemed to fade in the air. A whisper, communicated from those who stood nearest the windows, now spread through the church; a hearse, with a train of several coaches, was creeping along the street, conveying some dead man to the churchyard, while the bride awaited a living one at the altar. Immediately after, the footsteps of the bridegroom and his friends were heard at the door. The widow looked down the aisle, and clinched93 the arm of one of her bridemaids in her bony hand with such unconscious violence, that the fair girl trembled.
“You frighten me, my dear madam!” cried she. “For Heaven’s sake, what is the matter?”
“Nothing, my dear, nothing,” said the widow; then, whispering close to her ear, “There is a foolish fancy that I cannot get rid of. I am expecting my bridegroom to come into the church, with my first two husbands for groomsmen!”
“Look, look!” screamed the bridemaid. “What is here? The funeral!”
As she spoke94, a dark procession paced into the church. First came an old man and women, like chief mourners at a funeral, attired95 from head to foot in the deepest black, all but their pale features and hoary96 hair; he leaning on a staff, and supporting her decrepit97 form with his nerveless arm. Behind appeared another, and another pair, as aged, as black, and mournful as the first. As they drew near, the widow recognized in every face some trait of former friends, long forgotten, but now returning, as if from their old graves, to warn her to prepare a shroud98; or, with purpose almost as unwelcome, to exhibit their wrinkles and infirmity, and claim her as their companion by the tokens of her own decay. Many a merry night had she danced with them, in youth. And now, in joyless age, she felt that some withered partner should request her hand, and all unite, in a dance of death, to the music of the funeral bell.
While these aged mourners were passing up the aisle, it was observed that, from pew to pew, the spectators shuddered99 with irrepressible awe100, as some object, hitherto concealed101 by the intervening figures, came full in sight. Many turned away their faces; others kept a fixed102 and rigid103 stare; and a young girl giggled104 hysterically105, and fainted with the laughter on her lips. When the spectral106 procession approached the altar, each couple separated, and slowly diverged107, till, in the centre, appeared a form, that had been worthily108 ushered in with all this gloomy pomp, the death knell, and the funeral. It was the bridegroom in his shroud!
No garb109 but that of the grave could have befitted such a deathlike aspect; the eyes, indeed, had the wild gleam of a sepulchral110 lamp; all else was fixed in the stern calmness which old men wear in the coffin. The corpse stood motionless, but addressed the widow in accents that seemed to melt into the clang of the bell, which fell heavily on the air while he spoke.
“Come, my bride!” said those pale lips, “the hearse is ready. The sexton stands waiting for us at the door of the tomb. Let us be married; and then to our coffins111!”
How shall the widow’s horror be represented? It gave her the ghastliness of a dead man’s bride. Her youthful friends stood apart, shuddering112 at the mourners, the shrouded113 bridegroom, and herself; the whole scene expressed, by the strongest imagery, the vain struggle of the gilded114 vanities of this world, when opposed to age, infirmity, sorrow, and death. The awe-struck silence was first broken by the clergyman.
“Mr. Ellenwood,” said he, soothingly115, yet with somewhat of authority, “you are not well. Your mind has been agitated116 by the unusual circumstances in which you are placed. The ceremony must be deferred117. As an old friend, let me entreat118 you to return home.”
“Home! yes, but not without my bride,” answered he, in the same hollow accents. “You deem this mockery; perhaps madness. Had I bedizened my aged and broken frame with scarlet119 and embroidery — had I forced my withered lips to smile at my dead heart — that might have been mockery, or madness. But now, let young and old declare, which of us has come hither without a wedding garment, the bridegroom or the bride!”
He stepped forward at a ghostly pace, and stood beside the widow, contrasting the awful simplicity120 of his shroud with the glare and glitter in which she had arrayed herself for this unhappy scene. None, that beheld121 them, could deny the terrible strength of the moral which his disordered intellect had contrived122 to draw.
“Cruel! cruel!” groaned123 the heart-stricken bride.
“Cruel!” repeated he; then, losing his deathlike composure in a wild bitterness: “Heaven judge which of us has been cruel to the other! In youth you deprived me of my happiness, my hopes, my aims; you took away all the substance of my life, and made it a dream without reality enough even to grieve at — with only a pervading124 gloom, through which I walked wearily, and cared not whither. But after forty years, when I have built my tomb, and would not give up the thought of resting there — nor not for such a life as we once pictured — you call me to the altar. At your summons I am here. But other husbands have enjoyed your youth, your beauty, your warmth of heart, and all that could be termed your life. What is there for me but your decay and death? And therefore I have bidden these funeral friends, and bespoken125 the sexton’s deepest knell, and am come, in my shroud, to wed10 you, as with a burial service, that we may join our hands at the door of the sepulchre, and enter it together.”
It was not frenzy126; it was not merely the drunkenness of strong emotion, in a heart unused to it, that now wrought127 upon the bride. The stern lesson of the day had done its work; her worldliness was gone. She seized the bridegroom’s hand.
“Yes!” cried she. “Let us wed, even at the door of the sepulchre! My life is gone in vanity and emptiness. But at its close there is one true feeling. It has made me what I was in youth; it makes me worthy128 of you. Time is no more for both of us. Let us wed for Eternity129!”
With a long and deep regard, the bridegroom looked into her eyes, while a tear was gathering130 in his own. How strange that gush131 of human feeling from the frozen bosom132 of a corpse! He wiped away the tears even with his shroud.
“Beloved of my youth,” said he, “I have been wild. The despair of my whole lifetime had returned at once, and maddened me. Forgive; and be forgiven. Yes; it is evening with us now; and we have realized none of our morning dreams of happiness. But let us join our hands before the altar as lovers whom adverse133 circumstances have separated through life, yet who meet again as they are leaving it, and find their earthly affection changed into something holy as religion. And what is Time, to the married of Eternity?”
Amid the tears of many, and a swell134 of exalted135 sentiment, in those who felt aright, was solemnized the union of two immortal136 souls. The train of withered mourners, the hoary bridegroom in his shroud, the pale features of the aged bride, and the death-bell tolling through the whole, till its deep voice overpowered the marriage words, all marked the funeral of earthly hopes. But as the ceremony proceeded, the organ, as if stirred by the sympathies of this impressive scene, poured forth an anthem137, first mingling138 with the dismal80 knell, then rising to a loftier strain, till the soul looked down upon its woe. And when the awful rite2 was finished, and with cold hand in cold hand, the Married of Eternity withdrew, the organ’s peal of solemn triumph drowned the Wedding Knell.
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