That it did so, Bergan felt intuitively. In return, he did what he could to vivify with his single personality its whole wide indoor world. Having received unlimited8 discretionary powers from his uncle, in regard to choice of rooms and furniture, as well as the most unrestrained privilege of exploration, he went from room to room, ransacking9 and arranging, here picking up a quaintly11 carved chair, and there an absurdly contorted little table, and setting wide open doors and windows wherever he could find a reasonable excuse for doing so. He even mounted to the garret, a great twilight-hall, stored with the lumber12 of many vanished generations, and dived into nooks of dingiest13 obscurity, with the eager zeal14 of a discoverer; coming forth15 covered with dust and cobwebs, and laden16 with spoils. File upon file of yellow papers, having a possible interest as family annals, a curiously17 gnarled and twisted genealogical tree, a dust-choked flute18, several Spanish songs in manuscript, a discolored sketch-book, and a quaint10 old secretary, from the innumerable pigeon-holes of which sprang a whole colony of alarmed mice,—these were among the treasures that he unearthed19, and transferred to his own room for examination or use. Every hour, the home-feeling grew upon him. Despite the gray and dripping sky, and the disconsolate20, water-soaked earth, these days had their own peculiar21 illumination and charm. Oldness and newness combined to produce one rich—albeit, a little heavy—atmosphere of enjoyment22.
Occasionally, his uncle came to watch his progress, and favor him with half-serious, half-jocular commentary. He was both interested and amused to observe how readily the new inmate23 fitted himself into his surroundings, and what talent he displayed in organizing various crude and chaotic24 elements into one harmonious25 whole. By turns he adapted, invented, or altered, until his room presented an aspect of pleasantness, as well as an array of conveniences, in striking contrast with the rude accommodations of the cottage, and even with the oldtime appliances that had served former occupants. His uncle wondered and admired even while he shook his head over the un-Bergan-like trait, and questioned if, after all, it were not a sign of degeneracy. This doubt wellnigh culminated26 in conviction when, on the afternoon of the second day, in a lull27 of the storm, he discovered his nephew calmly seated astride the high ridge-pole, with a bundle of shingles28 and a pocketful of nails, stopping the leaks with which the long rain and his visits to the garret had made him acquainted; and accompanying his work with a very sweet and deftly30 executed whistle.
"That settles the question, Harry31," he shouted to the amateur carpenter, a smile and a frown struggling for supremacy32 on his upturned face. "There never was a Bergan, from first to last, who could have done that!"
"Do not speak so disrespectfully of our common ancestors, uncle! As if they had not the use of their hands!"
"Humph! It's plain that you have the use of yours, and of your head, too! How in the world did you reach that dizzy altitude?"
Bergan laughed. "'Where there's a will there's a way.' What should you say to the chimney?"
"Nonsense! How did you get up there?"
"I really cannot answer that question as it stands. There is a mistake in the terms."
"You rascal33! what do you mean?'"
"I did not 'get up;' I came down." And Bergan glanced at a great oak-bough34, swinging full ten feet above his head.
The Major uttered a cry of admiration35. "You are a Bergan, and no mistake!" he cried, emphasizing the statement with an oath. "You've got the real, old, brave Bergan stuff in you, Harry, and I'm proud of you, in spite of your tinkering. But that bough is now out of your reach; you cannot come down by that route."
"A new one will be more interesting. And the chimney has a most capacious throat; the builders must have contemplated36 the passage of other things than smoke."
"Harry! you'll break your neck! Don't you dare to come down till I send you a ladder! At the same time, I'll order the carpenter to finish up that job, if it must be done."
"He will be too late, uncle; I am just laying the last shingle29."
"Speak lower, you scamp! lest the old portraits under your feet should hear you and blush."
"Their thanks would be much more to the point—especially Sir Harry's," coolly replied Bergan. "Two hours ago, the water from this very leak was pouring in a stream down his long ancestral nose; you would have said the picture had an influenza37."
The Major emitted a sound between a laugh and a growl38, and vanished.
Poor Brick was even more scandalized by his young master's plebeian39 readiness with his hands. The very ease with which Bergan performed his self-imposed, and, for the most part, unaccustomed tasks, misled the dusky spectator. To be sure, Brick was a little comforted to observe that those agile40 hands knew the trick of the ivory piano-keys full well, and could evolve soulful melody from the flute, that they were not ignorant of the mysteries of sketching41, and betrayed a scholarly familiarity with books and papers, pen and ink; yet he doubted if even these gracious accomplishments42 could wash from them the stain of that dreadful manual labor43 in which they were erewhile engaged,—the only redeeming44 feature of which was that it was not done for bread.
Nevertheless, Brick loved his young master with all his heart. He had succumbed46 at once to the rare charm of Bergan's manner,—so grave and thoughtful for his years, yet so richly illuminated47, at times, with soft gleams of humor, and always so genuinely kind. He followed him like his shadow; he could scarcely be happy out of his presence; and notwithstanding his own inward struggles with doubt and mortification49, he continually held him up to the admiration of the quarter in the strongest language of encomium50 that he could command, as a "bery high-tone gemman, and jes' de bes' massa dat ebber stepped foot on de old place."
The appearance of this "high-toned gentleman" on the roof, in the humble51 r?le of carpenter, was, therefore, a rude shock to Brick's finer sensibilities. He watched him from the ground below, groaning52 simultaneously53 over probable fractures to his limbs, and certain damage to his reputation. It gave him some consolation54 to find that the Major was inclined to treat the matter in a jocular rather than a serious light; and he was profoundly impressed with his hearty55 admiration of the gymnastic feat45 with which the questionable56 performance had opened. That, at least, his own dusky friends of the quarter could understand and approve.
Brick was still further reassured57 by Maumer Rue58, to whom he stood in the relation of grandson. On being consulted, she had replied, loftily,—
"A Bergan can do what he pleases, child. He is not obliged to walk by rule and measure, like people whose pedigree stops with their grandfathers. If a king chooses to make a box, a barrel, or a piece of furniture, for his own use, it is not a meanness, but an eccentricity59." And the long word not only floored Brick's last remaining doubt, but furnished him with the means of silencing other critics. In view of carpentry and tinkering, dignified60 with the sonorous61 title of "exkingtricities," nothing was left to the quarter but to roll its eyes and shut its mouth in mute amazement62.
On the morning of the third day, the sky pushed aside its gray veil of clouds, and smiled once more upon the wet and melancholy63 earth. Thereupon the latter quickly dried up some of its tears, and made what shift for joy it could with the remainder. Every pool reflected a bit of the sky's wide smile, or the pleasant stir of overhanging foliage64. The grand old evergreen65 oaks around Bergan Hall shook from their far-reaching boughs66 broken sunlight and dancing shadows, fresh breeze and shining raindrops, in nearly equal measure. The whisper of the pine-woods became a song rather than a sigh;—or, if it were a sigh, it was of that pleasant kind which struggles up unconsciously from a heart a little overfull of pleasure. Even the long streamers of gray moss67 decked themselves with prismatic jewels, and forgot to be mournful.
"If you do not mind a little mud," said the Major, at the dinner-table, "we will order our horses, and ride over to Berganton this afternoon. You must be tired of being cooped up in the house, by this time, in spite of your ready knack68 at finding occupation and amusement where most people would gape69 their heads off with ennui70. Besides, it is high time that you should see something of the neighborhood, outside our own plantation71,—as well as the village which your ancestors founded. To be sure, there is precious little to see,—Berganton is not what it was once,—but I shall be glad to show you that little, and also, to introduce you to some of my old acquaintances."
As the two gentlemen were riding through the mutilated avenue, Bergan could not help asking if the trees which had formerly72 arched and shaded it had been felled on account of decay.
"No," replied the Major, a little gruffly, as if he suspected a latent rebuke73 in the question; "but they spoiled twenty or thirty acres of the best corn-land on the plantation, and were very valuable for timber, besides. And, about that time, I was bent74 on lifting a certain old mortgage off from the place, and getting generally forehanded with the world, at any sacrifice, short of selling land. However," he continued, his face clearing again, "if you will stay here, Harry, you shall replant the avenue, just as soon as you like, if that is your pleasure. The trees will not grow large enough to do much damage, in my time;—besides, I can afford the land now,—and almost anything else that you may happen to fancy. I have not saved and slaved all these years for nothing;—you may be certain of that. And, as I've said before, I don't believe in half-way work. If you stay here, it will be as my adopted son; and I mean to show myself an indulgent father."
A kindlier smile than was often seen on the Major's rugged75 features, lit up his face as he concluded. Then, suddenly turning to Bergan, and holding out his hand, he asked, in the husky tone of emotion, and with a look of entreaty,—
"Shall we shake hands upon it?"
Bergan was taken by surprise. In grateful recognition of his uncle's manifest kindness of intention, as well as of his unwonted softness of manner, he impulsively76 clasped the outstretched hand. At once he became aware that, in so doing, he had appeared to yield an unqualified assent77 to his uncle's wishes. Hurriedly casting about for inoffensive phraseology wherein to disavow any such intent, it was singularly hard to find. To increase the difficulty, Major Bergan was pouring forth his gratification that the matter was finally settled, in terms of unusual warmth and animation78. It was evident, not only that the plan lay nearer to his heart than had hitherto appeared, but that he himself had taken stronger hold of his uncle's affections than he had imagined.
In fact, Bergan had come to the Major just at the auspicious79 moment when, having measurably accomplished80 the object which had absorbed all his thoughts and energies for many years, he was looking around him for something to fill its place in his life, and beginning vaguely81 to discern that his heart was empty, and his future aimless. The old family home was not the only thing that he had left to go drearily82 to ruin, while pursuing his own selfish ends in his own unscrupulous way.
Beholding83, at this moment, a frank, brave, handsome youth by his side, full of talent and of promise, and singularly attractive in manner,—in whose veins86, too, ran some of the same blood that filled his own, and whose features were moulded after the best ancestral type,—his dormant87 affections quickly awakened88 to fasten themselves pertinaciously89 around the timely object. His thoughts began industriously90 to shape out for himself a new future, which should embrace, as a setting its appropriate jewel, a brilliant and prosperous career for this young hope of his house. The unsuspected strength of these feelings now made itself clearly visible, both in the hearty grasp which he gave his nephew's hand, and in a sudden affectionateness of eyes, mouth, voice, gesture, and every indescribable manifestation91, that Bergan had never seen in him before. Naturally enough, the young man shrank from the utterance92 of words certain to drive back on itself this outgush of the inestimable tenderness of a stern nature, to bring back the old sharpness and severity to eyes that now lay so soft and deep under their shaggy brows.
Moreover, he felt that his own resolution was wavering. Bergan Hall had grown strangely dear to him during his solitary93 occupation of its silent, but suggestive precincts. He might have been proof against every temptation that it could have offered in its grandeur94 and its prosperity; but in its loneliness and decay there was a pathetic appeal to much that was best and noblest in his nature. To this influence, a stronger one, even, was now added. Seeing the strength of his uncle's new-born affection, and its softening95 effect upon his face and manner, Bergan began to question within himself whether a still better and nobler work than the restoration of the ancestral home, might not here call for his hand—even the restoration of a human life. Those woful habits of intoxication96 and profanity, far worse than the dry-rot that gnawed97 at the timbers of the old Hall; that roughness and sordidness98 which had gathered over the once promising99 character, far sadder to behold84 than the mould and the dust that dimmed the ancestral grandeur;—were there not moral instruments available for the cure of the one, as there were artisan's tools able to remove all traces of the other.
To young minds there is always a strong fascination100 in the prospect101 of exerting a good influence upon others. Older heads—seeing how little is often effected by the best and most persistent102 endeavors, and sadly cognizant of the fact that influences are received as well as exerted (a long deterioration103 in one's self being sometimes the price of a little, brief improvement in another)—are not so ready to take upon themselves the responsibility of acting3 upon any human soul, nor so sanguine104 of success. But Bergan had none of this late wisdom,—if wisdom it be. Through his quiet character there ran the golden vein85 of a noble enthusiasm. He believed that it was his part and duty to make the world better for having lived therein. Still susceptible105 to influences himself, he had no conception of the iron bands, the indestructible tendencies, of evil habits indulged for years. He stood ready, at any time, and anywhere, to throw himself into the long conflict between Right and Wrong, and doubted not that the issue of the fray106 would turn upon his single sword.
Half-buried in thought, half-listening to his uncle's talk, he rode mechanically onward107. On one side of his path, flowed the smooth, shining waters of the creek108; on the other ran the Bergan estate, with its odd aspect of mingled109 thrift110 and neglect. He had often wondered at the singular blending, in his uncle's character, of the sturdy English energy inherited from that indefatigable111 Briton, Sir Harry, with the indifference112 and impromptitude induced by the climate. It was especially curious to note how these diverse qualities displayed themselves in different directions. With human beings, his laborers113 and dependents, and even with his animals, he was prompt, energetic, and exacting114, accepting no excuses, and showing no indulgence; with inanimate things, he was often careless, negligent115, and unobservant. On this portion of the estate, which seemed but little cultivated, fences were down or dilapidated, gates swung unwillingly116 on their hinges, and outbuildings seemed ready to fall with their own weight.
Soon, too, these things were made more noticeable by contrast, as a long line of neatly-kept grounds and well ordered fences came into view. Shortly after, a pleasant cottage, amply provided with broad, cool, vine-draped piazzas117, appeared on the right; standing48 a little apart from the road, in the midst of a group of live-oak trees scarcely less grand and venerable than those which flung their heavy shadow over Bergan Hall. At sight of it, the Major's face grew dark again; especially as Bergan, pleased with its neat and cheerful aspect, turned to give it a second look.
"Yes," he burst forth bitterly, with a fearful oath, "that is where my brother, the hardware merchant, lives! I tell you what, Harry, the very first thing that you are to do, as soon as you get a chance (if I don't live to do it myself), is to buy out his heirs, and raze118 that impertinent shanty119 to the ground. Just recollect120 that, will you? if I should happen to forget to put it into my will."
Bergan forebore to reply. He was learning that it was his wisest course—at least, so he thought—to take no notice of his uncle's bitter wrath121 and prejudice, since he could not sympathize with them. If his growing wish to possess Bergan Hall lay at the bottom of this silence, he was as yet unconscious of it.
His uncle,—accepting his forbearance as a sign of acquiescence122 to his wishes,—now, for the first time, really exerted himself for his entertainment. He talked with vivacity123, humor, intelligence, and much of the tone and manner of his earlier days. His better self revived, for a time; and Bergan recognized something of the refined, cultured, accomplished gentleman, of his mother's descriptions, whose lightsome flow of spirits, gay sparkle of wit, and frank, cordial address, had made him the life and soul of the circle wherein he moved. It was mournful to see him under this pleasant transformation124, and think of him in his usual aspect. Bergan could not but wonder how he had ever fallen to that lower level. He had not seen the easy descent from gayety to dissipation of his younger days; nor could he understand how naturally, with years, drinking in frivolous125 companionship had been exchanged for drinking alone, lavishness126 for parsimony127, the gay, aimless life of a man of the world for the steady, energetic pursuit of one selfish, isolated128, exclusive object.
They now reached the village. As they rode through its principal street, which was wide and handsomely shaded, the Major pointed129 to one and another of the houses along its sides, and quietly named men and women that had occupied them in years agone; either forgetting, or unaware130, that most of them were now tenanting that one earthly house, of whose narrow accommodations every mortal must needs have some experience,—namely, the grave.
Bergan, meanwhile, felt himself quite at home among names so often heard from his mother's lips; and momentarily expected that his uncle would stop at some one of these friendly dwellings131, for the renewal132 of his own acquaintance, and the introduction of his nephew. But to his extreme surprise, the Major rode straight through the village, and dismounted, before a tavern133, at its extreme end.
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utterance
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intoxication
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prospect
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