To the north of Lucca, where the mountains rise highest, and the country is most wild, there was, at the period those people lived concerning whom I write, an immense ilex wood, which covered the Apennines, and was lost to sight in the grey distance, and among the folds and declivities of the hills. In this forest there lived a witch; she inhabited a cottage built partly of the trunks of trees, partly of stones, and partly was inclosed by the side of the mountain against which it leaned. This hut was very old; that part of it which was built of stone was covered with moss3, lichens4 and wall-flowers, whose beauty and scent5 appeared alien to the gloom around; but, amidst desolation and horror, Nature loves to place the lovely and excellent, that man, viewing the scene, may not forget that she, the Mother, dwells every where. The trees were covered with ivy6, many of them hollow and decaying, while around them the new sprouts7 arose, and refreshed the eye with an appearance of youth. On a stone near the cabin door sat the witch; she was very old; none knew how old: men, verging8 on decrepitude10, remembered their childish fears of her; and they all agreed that formerly11 she appeared more aged12 and decrepit9 than now. She was bent13 nearly double; there was no flesh on her bones; and the brown and wrinkled skin hung loosely about her cheeks and arms. She was short, thin and small; her hair was perfectly14 white, and her red eyes, the only part about her that appeared to have life, glared within their sunken sockets15; her voice was cracked and shrill16.
“Well, son,” said she, when she saw Bindo arrive, “What news? Are thine, or my predictions most true?”
Bindo threw himself on the ground, and tore his hair with rage, but he answered not a word.
“You would not believe my words,” continued she, with a malicious17 laugh; “but the stars are not truer to their course, than I to fate; tomorrow not one stone will lie upon another of the castle of Valperga.”
“This must not be,” cried Bindo, starting up furiously; “it shall not be! Are you not a witch? and if you have sold your soul to the devil, will he not obey your will?”
“I sold my soul to the devil!” she replied in a tone, which bordered on a scream; “I tell thee, thou wert happy, if thy soul were as certain to be saved as mine. I rule the spirits, and do not serve them; what can angels do more? But one thing I cannot do; I cannot impede18 the star of Castruccio: that must rise.”
“Aye, — you are all alike; — you can lame19 cattle, strangle fowls20, and milk cows; but, when power is wanted, you are as weak as this straw. Come, if you are a witch, act as one.”
“What would you that I should do? I can cover the sky with clouds; I can conjure21 rain and thunder from the blue empyrean; the Serchio will obey me; the winds from the north and the south know my call; the mines of the earth are subject to me; I can call the dead from their graves, and command the spirits of air to obey me. The fortunes of men are known to me; but man himself is not to be ruled, unless he consent to obey. Castruccio is set above men; his star is highest in the sky, and the aspect of the vast heaven favours him; I can do nothing with him.”
“Then farewell; and may the curses of hell cling to you, and blight22 you! I want no conjurer’s tricks, — but man shall do for me what the devil cannot.”
“Stay, son,” cried the witch; “now you say right; now you are reasonable. Though the star of Castruccio be high, it will fall at last, burst and fall like a dead stick upon the ground. Be it for us to hasten this moment; man may help you, and be that your task; watch all that happens, and tell me all; let no act or word escape your notice; and something will happen which I may wind to my purpose. We have both vowed23 to pursue the prince of Lucca to the death. There are no means now; but some will arise, and we shall triumph. Keep in mind one thing; do not let your mistress depart. I know that she desires to go to Florence; she must remain at Lucca, until the destined24 time be fulfilled; be it your task to keep her.”
“I do not like these slow measures,” replied the Albinois sullenly25; “and, methinks, his waxen image at the fire, or his heart stuck full of pins, might soon rid the earth of him; surely if curses might kill a man, he were dead; tell me, in truth is he not a fiend? Is he not one of the spirits of the damned housed in flesh to torment26 us?”
“Seek not to enquire27 into the mysteries of our art. You tell your wishes; I direct their accomplishment28; — obey — you can do no more. When death, the mower29, is in the field, few plants are tough enough to turn the edge of his scythe30: yet Castruccio is one of these few; and patience and prudence31 alone can effect his fall. Watch every thing; report all to me; and beware that the countess leaves not Lucca; our power is gone, when she goes.”
Such was the scene that immediately followed the destruction of the castle of Valperga. Bindo had hitherto loved his mistress, with an affection whose energy had never been called into action; but he loved her, as the lioness in the desert loves her whelps, who day by day feeds them in peace, but, when aroused by the hunters, will defend them to the last drop of her blood. He loved her, as we all love, and know not how fervently32, until events awake our love to the expression of its energy. He had seldom thought upon Castruccio; when he came frequently to Valperga, and he saw his mistress happy in his visits, then these visits also made the Albinois joyful33; yet he sympathized too little in the course of daily life, to disapprove34 of him when he came no more: but, when he sought to injure the sole being whom Bindo loved and reverenced35, then a hidden spring suddenly burst forth36 in the Albinois’ mind; and hate, till then unknown, arose, and filled every conduit of his heart, and, mingling37 its gall38 with the waters of love, became the first feeling, the prime mover in his soul.
He had long associated with this witch. He felt his defects in bodily prowess; perhaps also he felt the weakness of his reason; and therefore he sought for powers of art, which might overcome strength, and powers of mind, which were denied to the majority of the human species. Bindo was a very favourable39 subject for the witch to act upon; she deceived him easily, and through his means spread far the fame of her incantations. What made these women pretend to powers they did not possess, incur40 the greatest perils41 for the sake of being believed to be what they were not, without any apparent advantage accruing42 to themselves from this belief? I believe we may find the answer in our own hearts: the love of power is inherent in human nature; and, in evil natures, to be feared is a kind of power. The witch of the Lucchese forest was much feared; and no one contributed to the spread of this feeling more than Bindo.
She had no interest to preserve Euthanasia, or to destroy Castruccio; but she must feign43 these feelings in order to preserve her power over the Albinois. She resolved however not to be drawn44 into any action which might attract the hatred45 of the prince; for she knew him indeed to be a man out of her sphere, a man who went to mass, and told his beads46 as the church directed him, and who would have no hesitation47 in consigning48 to what he would call, condign49 punishment, all such as dealt with evil spirits, infernal drugs, and diabolical50 craft.
Bindo saw nothing of the motives51 which actuated her; and he really believed that the star of Castruccio had the ascendant: so after the first ebullitions of despair were calmed, he waited, with the patience of cherished hate, for the events which the witch told him might in the course of time bring about the sequel he so much desired.
He had made calculations, and cast lots upon the fate of Valperga, whose results were contrary to the enunciations of the witch. These had proved false; and, when time had calmed his feelings, this disappointment itself made him cling more readily to the distant, but as he hoped, surer promises of the witch, and build upon her words the certain expectation of the overthrow52 of Castruccio, and the restoration of Valperga in more than its original splendour. He returned to Euthanasia, and watched by her sick chamber53, as the savage54 mother of a wild brood tends upon her expiring young; the fear of losing her by this sickness, at once exasperated55 him against the man whom he believed to be the cause of the mischief56, and by the mightiness57 of his fear filled him with that calm which is the consummation of wretchedness. He neither ate nor slept; his existence appeared a miracle. But his mistress recovered; and his exhausted58 frame was now as much shaken with joy, as before with grief; yet, pale, emaciated59, trembling as it were on the edge of life, but still living, he survived all these changes.
The summer advanced; and still Euthanasia remained at Lucca. A number of slight circumstances caused this: her health was yet weak; and her pale cheek and beamless eye shewed that life hardly sat firm upon his throne within her frame; they were menaced with a peculiarly hot season, and it was scarcely judged right that she should expose herself to the excessive heat of a Florentine summer. Lauretta also, her cousin, promised to accompany her, if she would delay her journey until autumn; so she consented to remain, although in truth she felt Lucca to be to her as a narrow prison, and cherished the hope of finding healthful feelings, and some slight return of happiness, at Florence. Yet the joyless state which was not her portion, was one reason why she cared not to change; it bred within her an indolence of feeling, that loved to feed upon old cares, rather than upon new hopes. A sense of duty, rather than any other sentiment, made her wish to remove; she believed, that she owed it to herself to revive from the kind of moral death she had endured, and to begin as it were a fresh life with new expectations. But we are all such creatures of habit, that we cling rather to sorrows which have been our companions of old, than to a new-sprung race of pleasures, whose very names perhaps are unknown to us.
Euthanasia loved to sit in the desolate61 garden of her palace, and to moralize in her own mind, when she saw a tender rose embraced and choked by evil weeds that grew in strength about it; or sometimes to visit the tower of her palace, and to look towards the rock where the castle of Valperga had once stood, now a heap of ruins. Could she endure to look upon the formless mass which had before constituted her shelter and home? where had stood the hall within whose atmosphere she had grown to womanhood; where she had experienced all the joys that her imagination and heart (storehouses of countless62 treasure) could bestow63? Yet that was all gone, and she must begin life anew: she prayed for her father’s spirit to inspire her with courage; but her mind was too subtle and delicate in its feelings, to forget its ancient attachments64. There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued65 by the fiery66 trial, and yield to new moulds; but there are others, pure and solid as the diamond, which may be shivered to pieces, yet in every fragment retain their indelible characteristics.
“I can never change,” she thought, “never become other than I am. And yet I am told that this obstinate67 sorrow is weakness, and that the wise and good, like strong plants, shoot up with fresh vigour68, when cut down even to the root. It may be so; and so it may perhaps be with me: but as yet I feel all dead, except pain, and that dwells for ever within me. Alas69! life, and the little it contains, is not worth the misery70 I endure; its best joys are fleeting71 shadows; its griefs ought to be the same; and those are true philosophers, who trample72 on both, and seek in the grave for a wisdom and happiness, which life cannot bring us.
“Why was I born to feel sorrow! Why do I not die, that pain may expire with me? And yet I now speak as a presumptuous73 caviller74, unread in the lessons of the wise, and who vainly blunders over and misquotes their best learning. Life has more in it than we think; it is all that we have, all that we know.
“Life is all our knowledge, and our highest praise is to have lived well. If we had never lived, we should know nothing of earth, or sky, or God, or man, or delight, or sorrow. When our Creator bestowed75 on us this gift, he gave us that which is beyond all words precious; for without it our apparent forms would have been a blind atom in the mass, our souls would never have been. We live; and we learn all that is good, and see all that is beautiful; our will is called into action, our minds expand like flowers, till, overworn, they fade; if we did not live, we should know nothing of all this; and if we do not live well, we reap sorrow alone.
“What do we know of heroes and sages76, but that they lived? Let us not spurn77 therefore this sum and summit of our knowledge, but, cherishing it, make it so appear that we value, and in some degree deserve, the gift of life, and the many wonders that accompany it.”
Euthanasia suffered much during the summer months; and all that she heard of Castruccio turned the fount of wholesome78 tears to drops of agony. He had in truth become a tyrant79. He did not slay80 his thousands like Ezzelin of Padua; but he had received the graft81 of vain-glory into his soul, and he now bore the fruits. He put to death remorselessly those whom he suspected, and would even use torture, either to discover other victims, or to satisfy his desire of revenge. Several circumstances of this kind happened during this summer, which made Euthanasia more miserable83 than words or tears could express. If she saw his enemies, they uttered deep curses on his cruelty; if she saw those who had formerly been his friends, their talk was filled with bitter sarcasms84 on his ingratitude85, and careless coldness of heart. That heart had once been the garden of virtue86, where all good qualities sprung up and flourished, like odorous and delicately painted flowers; but now ambition had become its gardener, and the weed-overgrown inclosure of Euthanasia’s palace was but a slight symbol of all of cruel and treacherous87 that sprung up there, which allowed no rose to blow, and hid the blooms of the jessamine in the coarse and broad leaves of worthless brambles. Sometimes she thanked Providence88 that she had not become the wife of this man: but it was a bitter thankfulness. She had not been wedded89 to him by the church’s rites90; but her soul, her thoughts, her fate, had been married to his; she tried to loosen the chain that bound them eternally together, and felt that the effort was fruitless: if he were evil, she must weep; if his light — hearted selfishness allowed no room for remorse82 in his own breast, humiliation91 and sorrow was doubly her portion, and this was her destiny for ever.
His military exploits of this year rather consisted in the slow laying of foundation-stones, than were distinguished92 by any peculiar60 glory. The Florentine army retreated in trepidation93 before him; he took several castles, made several new alliances, and consolidated94 more and more the power which he hoped one day to put to a mighty95 purpose. Desire of dominion96 and lordship was the only passion that now had much power in his soul; he had forgotten Euthanasia; or if he remembered her, he called her a peevish97 girl, and wasted no further thought upon her.
The summer had been tremendously hot; and all the fields were parched98, and the earth baked and cracked from the long drouth. These were all signs of a wet autumn; and hardly had Euthanasia determined99 on her journey to Florence, before it was stopped by tremendous rains and tempests, that deluged100 the earth, and disturbed the sky. The lightning became as a shaft101 in the hands of an experienced warrior102; so true it seemed to its aim, and destroying so many with its subtle fire: and the thunder, reverberating103 along the hills, sent up to heaven the shout, which proclaimed the triumph and desolation of its precursor104. Then came the rain; and the earth gladly received these tokens of heaven’s love, which blessed her with fertility. The torrents105 roared down the hills; and the rivers, no longer restrained within their banks, rose, and deluged the plain, filling even the streets of Lucca with water.
Bindo looked on all this labour of the elements with a mind hovering106 between pleasure and fear. He believed that the witch of the forest had caused this inundation107, to impede the journey of the countess; but, thinking thus, he trembled at the power she possessed, and at the strange company of unseen spirits, which thus, unknown to mortals, interfere108 with their destinies. The devil, he knew, was called prince of the air; but there is a wide difference between our belief of an hearsay109, and the proof which he now thought was presented to him. When he repaired at the mysterious hour of midnight to a running stream, and saw, as the witch uttered her incantations, and lashed110 the waters with her rod, — that a tempestuous111 wind arose from the south, and the dark clouds among which the lightnings played, advanced over their heads, and then the rain in quick big drops, accompanied by hail, fell on the earth; — when he saw this, his limbs trembled, his heart beat quick with fear; he dared not cross himself, nor mutter a pater-noster; and, if love and hate had not possessed him so entirely112, he would never have ventured again to witness the magical powers of his friend.
A cold and early winter followed the flood, and froze the waters before they retreated from the inundated113 fields. For many years so terrible a season had not been known in Italy; and, in the Lucchese states particularly, it occasioned a great loss of fruit-trees and vines. The mountains were covered with snow; the torrents were arrested in their course by the subtle nets which winter cast over them; it was a strange sight for an Italian to see. “And this,” thought Euthanasia, “is what the Transalpines mean, when they talk of the fearful cold of winter. Oh! indeed, no hunter is like him, when he comes down from the north, bringing frost, his bride, along with him; he hunts the leaves from the trees, and destroys the animals which inhabit the earth, even in their holds and fastnesses. He casts bonds upon the rivers and streams; and even the ‘sapless foliage114 of the ocean,’ and the mighty monsters and numberless spawn115 that rove through its wastes, are all subdued by his fierce and resistless ravages116.”
Thus she thought, as she saw the country, late so beautiful, the Earth, lovely as a young mother nursing her only care, now as wild and forlorn as that mother if she be ruthlessly bereft117 of her infant. The fields were hardened by frost; and the flood lay moveless and white over the plain; the hills were covered with snow. It was a grievous change from the smiles of summer; but it did not last long; and thaw118 quickly reversed the scene. The earth was again alive; and the rivers and floods again filled the air with sound. Euthanasia resolved to wait only until the season should be somewhat more advanced, to make her long delayed journey to Florence.
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