One day the post, that seldom arrived at Cherbury, brought a letter to Lady Annabel, the perusal13 of which evidently greatly agitated14 her. Her countenance15 changed as her eye glanced over the pages; her hand trembled as she held it. But she made no remark; and succeeded in subduing16 her emotion so quickly that Venetia, although she watched her mother with anxiety, did not feel justified17 in interfering18 with inquiring sympathy. But while Lady Annabel resumed her usual calm demeanour, she relapsed into unaccustomed silence, and, soon rising from the breakfast table, moved to the window, and continued apparently gazing on the garden, with her face averted19 from Venetia for some time. At length she turned to her, and said, ‘I think, Venetia, of calling on the Doctor today; there is business on which I wish to consult him, but I will not trouble you, dearest, to accompany me. I must take the carriage, and it is a long and tiring drive.’
There was a tone of decision even in the slightest observations of Lady Annabel, which, however sweet might be the voice in which they were uttered, scarcely encouraged their propriety20 to be canvassed21. Now Venetia was far from desirous of being separated from her mother this morning. It was not a vain and idle curiosity, prompted by the receipt of the letter and its consequent effects, both in the emotion of her mother and the visit which it had rendered necessary, that swayed her breast. The native dignity of a well-disciplined mind exempted22 Venetia from such feminine weakness. But some consideration might be due to the quick sympathy of an affectionate spirit that had witnessed, with corresponding feeling, the disturbance23 of the being to whom she was devoted24. Why this occasional and painful mystery that ever and anon clouded the heaven of their love, and flung a frigid25 shadow over the path of a sunshiny life? Why was not Venetia to share the sorrow or the care of her only friend, as well as participate in her joy and her content? There were other claims, too, to this confidence, besides those of the heart. Lady Annabel was not merely her only friend; she was her parent, her only parent, almost, for aught she had ever heard or learnt, her only relative. For her mother’s family, though she was aware of their existence by the freedom with which Lady Annabel ever mentioned them, and though Venetia was conscious that an occasional correspondence was maintained between them and Cherbury, occupied no station in Venetia’s heart, scarcely in her memory. That noble family were nullities to her; far distant, apparently estranged26 from her hearth27, except in form she had never seen them; they were associated in her recollection with none of the sweet ties of kindred. Her grandfather was dead without her ever having received his blessing28; his successor, her uncle, was an ambassador, long absent from his country; her only aunt married to a soldier, and established at a foreign station. Venetia envied Dr. Masham the confidence which was extended to him; it seemed to her, even leaving out of sight the intimate feelings that subsisted29 between her and her mother, that the claims of blood to this confidence were at least as strong as those of friendship. But Venetia stifled30 these emotions; she parted from her mother with a kind, yet somewhat mournful expression. Lady Annabel might have read a slight sentiment of affectionate reproach in the demeanour of her daughter when she bade her farewell. Whatever might be the consciousness of the mother, she was successful in concealing31 her impression. Very kind, but calm and inscrutable, Lady Annabel, having given directions for postponing32 the dinner-hour, embraced her child and entered the chariot.
Venetia, from the terrace, watched her mother’s progress through the park. After gazing for some minutes, a tear stole down her cheek. She started, as if surprised at her own emotion. And now the carriage was out of sight, and Venetia would have recurred33 to some of those resources which were ever at hand for the employment or amusement of her secluded34 life. But the favourite volume ceased to interest this morning, and almost fell from her hand. She tried her spinet35, but her ear seemed to have lost its music; she looked at her easel, but the cunning had fled from her touch.
Restless and disquieted36, she knew not why, Venetia went forth37 again into the garden. All nature smiled around her; the flitting birds were throwing their soft shadows over the sunny lawns, and rustling38 amid the blossoms of the variegated39 groves40. The golden wreaths of the laburnum and the silver knots of the chestnut41 streamed and glittered around; the bees were as busy as the birds, and the whole scene was suffused42 and penetrated43 with brilliancy and odour. It still was spring, and yet the gorgeous approach of summer, like the advancing procession of some triumphant45 king, might almost be detected amid the lingering freshness of the year; a lively and yet magnificent period, blending, as it were, Attic46 grace with Roman splendour; a time when hope and fruition for once meet, when existence is most full of delight, alike delicate and voluptuous47, and when the human frame is most sensible to the gaiety and grandeur48 of nature.
And why was not the spirit of the beautiful and innocent Venetia as bright as the surrounding scene? There are moods of mind that baffle analysis, that arise from a mysterious sympathy we cannot penetrate44. At this moment the idea of her father irresistibly49 recurred to the imagination of Venetia. She could not withstand the conviction that the receipt of the mysterious letter and her mother’s agitation50 were by some inexplicable51 connexion linked with that forbidden subject. Strange incidents of her life flitted across her memory: her mother weeping on the day they visited Marringhurst; the mysterious chambers53; the nocturnal visit of Lady Annabel that Cadurcis had witnessed; her unexpected absence from her apartment when Venetia, in her despair, had visited her some months ago. What was the secret that enveloped54 her existence? Alone, which was unusual; dispirited, she knew not why; and brooding over thoughts which haunted her like evil spirits, Venetia at length yielded to a degree of nervous excitement which amazed her. She looked up to the uninhabited wing of the mansion55 with an almost fierce desire to penetrate its mysteries. It seemed to her that a strange voice came whispering on the breeze, urging her to the fulfilment of a mystical mission. With a vague, yet wild, purpose she entered the house, and took her way to her mother’s chamber52. Mistress Pauncefort was there. Venetia endeavoured to assume her accustomed serenity56. The waiting-woman bustled57 about, arranging the toilet-table, which had been for a moment discomposed, putting away a cap, folding up a shawl, and indulging in a multitude of inane58 observations which little harmonised with the high-strung tension of Venetia’s mind. Mistress Pauncefort opened a casket with a spring lock, in which she placed some trinkets of her mistress. Venetia stood by her in silence; her eye, vacant and wandering, beheld60 the interior of the casket. There must have been something in it, the sight of which greatly agitated her, for Venetia turned pale, and in a moment left the chamber and retired61 to her own room.
She locked her door, threw herself in a chair; almost gasping62 for breath, she covered her face with her hands. It was some minutes before she recovered comparative composure; she rose and looked in the mirror; her face was quite white, but her eyes glittering with excitement. She walked up and down her room with a troubled step, and a scarlet63 flush alternately returned to and retired from her changing cheek. Then she leaned against a cabinet in thought. She was disturbed from her musings by the sound of Pauncefort’s step along the vestibule, as she quitted her mother’s chamber. In a few minutes Venetia herself stepped forth into the vestibule and listened. All was silent. The golden morning had summoned the whole household to its enjoyment. Not a voice, not a domestic sound, broke the complete stillness. Venetia again repaired to the apartment of Lady Annabel. Her step was light, but agitated; it seemed that she scarcely dared to breathe. She opened the door, rushed to the cabinet, pressed the spring lock, caught at something that it contained, and hurried again to her own chamber.
And what is this prize that the trembling Venetia holds almost convulsively in her grasp, apparently without daring even to examine it? Is this the serene64 and light-hearted girl, whose face was like the cloudless splendour of a sunny day? Why is she so pallid65 and perturbed66? What strong impulse fills her frame? She clutches in her hand a key!
On that tempestuous67 night of passionate68 sorrow which succeeded the first misunderstanding between Venetia and her mother, when the voice of Lady Annabel had suddenly blended with that of her kneeling child, and had ratified69 with her devotional concurrence70 her wailing71 supplications; even at the moment when Venetia, in a rapture72 of love and duty, felt herself pressed to her mother’s reconciled heart, it had not escaped her that Lady Annabel held in her hand a key; and though the feelings which that night had so forcibly developed, and which the subsequent conduct of Lady Annabel had so carefully and skilfully74 cherished, had impelled75 Venetia to banish76 and erase77 from her thought and memory all the associations which that spectacle, however slight, was calculated to awaken78, still, in her present mood, the unexpected vision of the same instrument, identical she could not doubt, had triumphed in an instant over all the long discipline of her mind and conduct, in an instant had baffled and dispersed79 her self-control, and been hailed as the providential means by which she might at length penetrate that mystery which she now felt no longer supportable.
The clock of the belfry of Cherbury at this moment struck, and Venetia instantly sprang from her seat. It reminded her of the preciousness of the present morning. Her mother was indeed absent, but her mother would return. Before that event a great fulfilment was to occur. Venetia, still grasping the key, as if it were the talisman80 of her existence, looked up to Heaven as if she required for her allotted81 task an immediate82 and special protection; her lips seemed to move, and then she again quitted her apartment. As she passed through an oriel in her way towards the gallery, she observed Pauncefort in the avenue of the park, moving in the direction of the keeper’s lodge83. This emboldened84 her. With a hurried step she advanced along the gallery, and at length stood before the long-sealed door that had so often excited her strange curiosity. Once she looked around; but no one was near, not a sound was heard. With a faltering85 hand she touched the lock; but her powers deserted86 her: for a minute she believed that the key, after all, would not solve the mystery. And yet the difficulty arose only from her own agitation. She rallied her courage; once more she made the trial; the key fitted with completeness, and the lock opened with ease, and Venetia found herself in a small and scantily-furnished ante-chamber. Closing the door with noiseless care, Venetia stood trembling in the mysterious chamber, where apparently there was nothing to excite wonder. The chamber into which the ante-room opened was still closed, and it was some minutes before the adventurous87 daughter of Lady Annabel could summon courage for the enterprise which awaited her.
The door yielded without an effort. Venetia stepped into a spacious88 and lofty chamber. For a moment she paused almost upon the threshold, and looked around her with a vague and misty89 vision. Anon she distinguished90 something of the character of the apartment. In the recess91 of a large oriel window that looked upon the park, and of which the blinds were nearly drawn92, was an old-fashioned yet sumptuous93 toilet-table of considerable size, arranged as if for use. Opposite this window, in a corresponding recess, was what might be deemed a bridal bed, its furniture being of white satin richly embroidered94; the curtains half closed; and suspended from the canopy95 was a wreath of roses that had once emulated96, or rather excelled, the lustrous97 purity of the hangings, but now were wan59 and withered98. The centre of the inlaid and polished floor of the apartment was covered with a Tournay carpet of brilliant yet tasteful decoration. An old cabinet of fanciful workmanship, some chairs of ebony, and some girandoles of silver completed the furniture of the room, save that at its extreme end, exactly opposite to the door by which Venetia entered, covered with a curtain of green velvet99, was what she concluded must be a picture.
An awful stillness pervaded100 the apartment: Venetia herself, with a face paler even than the hangings of the mysterious bed, stood motionless with suppressed breath, gazing on the distant curtain with a painful glance of agitated fascination101. At length, summoning her energies as if for the achievement of some terrible yet inevitable102 enterprise, she crossed the room, and averting103 her face, and closing her eyes in a paroxysm of nervous excitement, she stretched forth her arm, and with a rapid motion withdrew the curtain. The harsh sound of the brass104 rings drawn quickly over the rod, the only noise that had yet met her ear in this mystical chamber, made her start and tremble. She looked up, she beheld, in a broad and massy frame, the full-length portrait of a man.
A man in the very spring of sunny youth, and of radiant beauty. Above the middle height, yet with a form that displayed exquisite grace, he was habited in a green tunic105 that enveloped his figure to advantage, and became the scene in which he was placed: a park, with a castle in the distance; while a groom106 at hand held a noble steed, that seemed impatient for the chase. The countenance of its intended rider met fully73 the gaze of the spectator. It was a countenance of singular loveliness and power. The lips and the moulding of the chin resembled the eager and impassioned tenderness of the shape of Antinous; but instead of the effeminate sullenness107 of the eye, and the narrow smoothness of the forehead, shone an expression of profound and piercing thought. On each side of the clear and open brow descended108, even to the shoulders, the clustering locks of golden hair; while the eyes, large and yet deep, beamed with a spiritual energy, and shone like two wells of crystalline water that reflect the all-beholding heavens.
Now when Venetia Herbert beheld this countenance a change came over her. It seemed that when her eyes met the eyes of the portrait, some mutual109 interchange of sympathy occurred between them. She freed herself in an instant from the apprehension110 and timidity that before oppressed her. Whatever might ensue, a vague conviction of having achieved a great object pervaded, as it were, her being. Some great end, vast though indefinite, had been fulfilled. Abstract and fearless, she gazed upon the dazzling visage with a prophetic heart. Her soul was in a tumult111, oppressed with thick-coming fancies too big for words, panting for expression. There was a word which must be spoken: it trembled on her convulsive lip, and would not sound. She looked around her with an eye glittering with unnatural112 fire, as if to supplicate113 some invisible and hovering114 spirit to her rescue, or that some floating and angelic chorus might warble the thrilling word whose expression seemed absolutely necessary to her existence. Her cheek is flushed, her eye wild and tremulous, the broad blue veins115 of her immaculate brow quivering and distended116; her waving hair falls back over her forehead, and rustles117 like a wood before the storm. She seems a priestess in the convulsive throes of inspiration, and about to breathe the oracle118. The picture, as we have mentioned, was hung in a broad and massy frame. In the centre of its base was worked an escutcheon, and beneath the shield this inscription119:
MARMION HERBERT, AET. XX.
Yet there needed not these letters to guide the agitated spirit of Venetia, for, before her eye had reached them, the word was spoken; and falling on her knees before the portrait, the daughter of Lady Annabel had exclaimed, ‘My father!’
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