"Hues1 which have words, and speak to ye of heaven."
"Away! there need no words or terms precise,
The paltry2 jargon3 of the marble mart,
Where pedantry4 gulls5 folly6: we have eyes."
We are told by the members of the silver-fork school, that no tale of fiction can be complete unless it embody7 the description of a dinner. Let us, therefore, shutting from our view that white-limbed gum-tree, and dismissing from our table tea and damper, [Footnote: Damper. Bushman's fare--unleavened bread] call on memory's fading powers, and feast once more with the rich, the munificent8, the intellectual Belliston Graeme.
Dinner! immortal9 faculty10 of eating! to what glorious sense or pre-eminent passion dost thou not contribute? Is not love half fed by thy attractions? Beams ever the eye of lover more bright than when, after gazing with enraptured11 glance at the coveted12 haunch, whose fat--a pure white; whose lean--a rich brown--invitingly await the assault. When doth lover's eye sparkle more, than when, at such a moment, it lights on the features of the loved fair one? Is not the supper quadrille the most dangerous and the dearest of all?
Cherished venison! delicate white soup! spare young susceptible14 bosoms15! Again we ask, is not dinner the very aliment of friendship? the hinge on which it turns? Does a man's heart expand to you ere you have returned his dinner? It would be folly to assert it. Cabinet dinners--corporation dinners--election dinners--and vestry dinners--and rail-road dinners--we pass by these things, and triumphantly16 ask--does not the Ship par13 excellence--the Ship of Greenwich--annually assemble under its revered17 roof the luminaries18 of the nation? Oh, whitebait! called so early to your last account! a tear is all we give, but it flows spontaneously at the memory of your sorrows!
As Mr. Belliston Graeme was much talked of in his day, it may not be amiss to say a few words regarding him. He was an only child, and at an early age lost his parents. The expense of his education was defrayed by a wealthy uncle, the second partner in a celebrated19 banking20 house. His tutor, with whom he may be said to have lived from boyhood--for his uncle had little communication with him, except to write to him one letter half-yearly, when he paid his school bill--was a shy retiring clergyman--a man of very extensive acquirements, and a first rate classical scholar. After a short time, the curate and young Graeme became attached to each other. The tutor was a bachelor, and Graeme was his only pupil. The latter was soon inoculated21 with the classical mania22 of his preceptor; and, as he grew up, it was quite a treat to hear the pair discourse23 of Greeks and Romans. A stranger who had then heard them would have imagined that Themistocles and Scipio Africanus were stars of the present generation. When Graeme was nineteen, his uncle invited him to town for a month--a most unusual proceeding24. During this period he studied closely his nephew's character. At the end of this term, Mr. Hargrave and his young charge were on their way to the classical regions, where their fancy had been so long straying. They explored France, and the northern parts of Italy--came on the shores of the Adriatic--resided and secretly made excavations25 near the amphitheatre of Polo--and finally reached the Morea. Not a crag, valley, or brook26, that they were not conversant27 with before they left it. They at length tore themselves away; and found themselves at the ancient Parthenope. It was at Pompeii Mr. Graeme first saw the beautiful Miss Vignoles, the Mrs. Glenallan of our story; and, in a strange adventure with some Neapolitan guides, was of some service to her party. They saw his designs of some tombs, and took the trouble of drawing him out. The young man now for the first time basked28 in the sweets of society; in a fortnight, to Mr. Hargrave's horror, was rolling in its vortex; in a couple of months found himself indulging in, and avowing29, a hopeless passion; and in three, was once again in his native land, falsely deeming that his peace of mind had fled for ever. He was shortly, however, called upon to exert his energies. The death of his uncle suddenly made him, to his very great surprise, one of the wealthiest commoners of England. At this period he was quite unknown. In a short time Mr. Hargrave and himself were lodged30 luxuriously--were deep in the pursuit of science, literature, and the belle31 arte--and on terms of friendship with the cleverest and most original men of the day. Mr. Graeme's occupations being sedentary, and his habits very regular, he shortly found that his great wealth enabled him, not only to indulge in every personal luxury at Rendlesham Park, but to patronise largely every literary work of merit. In him the needy32 man of genius found a friend, the man of wit a companion, and the publisher a generous customer. He became famous for his house, his library, his exclusive society. But he did not become spoilt by his prosperity, and never neglected his old tutor.
Our party from Delme were ushered33 into a large drawing-room, the sole light of which was from an immense bow window, looking out on the extensive lawn. The panes34 were of enormous size, and beautiful specimens35 of classique plated glass. The only articles of furniture, were some crimson36 ottomans which served to set off the splendid paintings; and one table of the Florentine manufacture of pietra dura, on which stood a carved bijou of Benvenuto Cellini's. Our party were early. They were welcomed by Mr. Graeme with great cordiality, and by Mr. Hargrave with some embarrassment37, for the tutor was still the bashful man of former days. Mr. Graeme's dress shamed these degenerate38 days of black stock and loose trowser. Diamond buckles39 adorned40 his knees, and fastened his shoes. His clear blue eye--the high polished forehead--the deep lines of the countenance41--revealed the man of thought and intellect. The playful lip shewed he could yet appreciate a flash of wit or spark of humour.
"Miss Delme, you are looking at my paintings; let me show you my late purchases. Observe this sweet Madonna, by Murillo! I prefer it to the one in the Munich Gallery. It may not boast Titian's glow of colour, or Raphael's grandeur42 of design,--in delicate angelic beauty, it may yield to the delightful43 efforts of Guido's or Correggio's pencil,--but surely no human conception can ever have more touchingly44 portrayed45 the beauteous resigned mother. The infant, too! how inimitably blended is the God-like serenity46 of the Saviour47, with the fond and graceful48 witcheries of the loving child! How little we know of the beauties of the Spanish school! Would I could ransack49 their ancient monasteries50, and bring a few of them to light!
"You are a chess player! Pass not by this check-mate of Caravaggio's. What undisguised triumph in one countenance! What a struggle to repress nature's feelings in the other! Here is a Guido! sweet, as his ever are! He may justly be styled the female laureat. What artist can compete with him in delineating the blooming expression, or the tender, but lighter51, shades of female loveliness? who can pause between even the Fornarina, and that divine effort, the Beatrice Cenci of the Barberini?"
The party were by this time assembled. Besides our immediate52 friends, there was his Grace the Duke of Gatten, a good-natured fox-hunting nobleman, whose estate adjoined Mr. Graeme's; there was the Viscount Chambery, who had penned a pamphlet on finance--indited a folio on architecture--and astonished Europe with an elaborate dissertation54 on modern cookery; there was Charles Selby, the poet and essayist; Daintrey, the sculptor--a wonderful Ornithologist--a deep read Historian--a learned Orientalist--and a novelist, from France; whose works exhibited such unheard of horrors, and made man and woman so irremediably vicious, as to make this young gentleman celebrated, even in Paris--that Babylonian sink of iniquity55.
Dinner was announced, and our host, giving his arm very stoically to Mrs. Glenallan, his love of former days, led the way to the dining-room. Round the table were placed beautifully carved oaken fauteuils, of a very old pattern. The service of plate was extremely plain, but of massive gold. But the lamp! It was of magnificent dimensions! The light chains hanging from the frescoed56 ceiling, the links of which were hardly perceptible, were of silver, manufactured in Venice; the lower part was of opal-tinted glass, exactly portraying57 some voluptuous58 couch, on which the beautiful Amphitrite might have reclined, as she hastened through beds of coral to crystal grot, starred with transparent59 stalactites. In the centre of this shell, were sockets60, whence verged61 small hollow golden tubes, resembling in shape and size the stalks of a flower. At the drooping62 ends of these, were lamps shaped and coloured to imitate the most beauteous flowers of the parterre. This bouquet63 of light had been designed by Mr. Graeme. Few novelties had acquired greater celebrity64 than the Graeme astrale. The room was warmed by heating the pedestals of the statues.
"Potage a la fantome, and a l'ourika."
"I will trouble you, Graeme," said my Lord Chambery, "for the fantome. I have dined on la pritanniere for the last three months, and a novel soup is a novel pleasure."
Of the fish, the soles were a la Rowena, the salmon65 a l'amour. Emily flirted66 with the wing of a chicken saute au supreme67, coquetted with perdrix perdu masque a la Montmorenci, and tasted a boudin a la Diebitsch. The wines were excellent--the Geisenheim delicious--the Champagne68 sparkling like a pun of Jekyll's. But nothing aroused the attention of the Viscount Chambery so much as a liqueur, which Mr. Graeme assured him was new, and had just been sent him by the Conte de Desir. The dessert had been some time on the table, when the Viscount addressed his host.
"Graeme! I am delighted to find that you at length agree with me as to the monstrous69 superiority of a French repast. Your omelette imaginaire was faultless, and as for your liqueur, I shall certainly order a supply on my return to Paris."
"That liqueur, my dear lord," replied Mr. Graeme, "is good old cowslip mead70, with a flask71 of Maraschino di Zara infused in it. For the rest, the dinner has been almost as imaginaire as the omelet. The greater part of the recipes are in an old English volume in my library, or perhaps some owe their origin to the fertile invention of my housekeeper72. Let us style them a la Dorothee."
"Capital! I thank you, Graeme!" said his Grace of Gatten, as he shook his host by the hand, till the tears stood in his eyes.
The prescient Chambery had made a good dinner, and bore the joke philosophically74. Coffee awaited the gentlemen in a small octagonal chamber53, adjoining the music room. There stood Mr. Graeme's three favourite modern statues:--a Venus, by Canova--a Discobole, by Thorwaldson--and a late acquisition--the Ariadne, of Dannecker.
"This is the work of an artist," said Mr. Graeme, "little known in this country, but in Germany ranking quite as high as Thorwaldson. This is almost a duplicate of his Ariadne at Frankfort, but the marble is much more pure. How wonderfully fine the execution! Pray notice the bold profile of the face; how energetic her action as she sits on the panther!"
Mr. Graeme touched the spring of a window frame. A curtain of crimson gauze fell over a globe lamp, and threw a rich shade on the marble. The features remained as finely chiselled75, but their expression was totally changed.
They adjourned76 to the music-room, which deserved its title. Save some seats, which were artfully formed to resemble lyres, nothing broke the continuity of music's tones, which ascended77 majestically78 to the lofty dome79, there to blend and wreath, and fall again. At one extremity80 of music's hall was an organ; at the other a grand piano, built by a German composer. Ranged on carved slabs81, at intermediate distances, was placed almost every instrument that may claim a votary82. Of viols, from the violin to the double bass83,--of instruments of brass84, from trombones and bass kettledrums even unto trumpet85 and cymbal,--of instruments of wood, from winding86 serpents to octave flute87,--and of fiddles88 of parchment, from the grosse caisse to the tambourine89. Nor were ancient instruments wanting. These were of quaint90 forms and diverse constructions. Mr. Graeme would descant91 for hours on an antique species of spinnet, which he procured92 from the East, and which he vehemently93 averred94, was the veritable dulcimer. He would display with great gusto, his specimens of harps95 of Israel; whose deep-toned chorus, had perchance thrilled through the breast of more than one of Judea's dark-haired daughters. Greece, too, had her representatives, to remind the spectators that there had been an Orpheus. There were flutes96 of the Doric and of the Phrygian mode, and--let us forget not--the Tyrrhenian trumpet, with its brazen-cleft pavilion. But by far the greater part of his musical relics97 he had acquired during his stay in Italy. He could show the litui with their carved clarions--the twisted cornua--the tuba, a trumpet so long and taper,--the concha wound by Tritons--and eke73 the buccina, a short and brattling horn.
Belliston Graeme was an enthusiastic musician; and was in this peculiar98, that he loved the science for its simplicity99. Musicians are but too apt to give to music's detail and music's difficulties the homage100 that should be paid to music's self: in this resembling the habitual101 man of law, who occasionally forgetteth the great principles of jurisprudence, and invests with mysterious agency such words as latitat and certiorari. The soul of music may not have fled;--for we cultivate her assiduously,--worship Handel--and appreciate Mozart. But music now springs from the head, not the heart; is not for the mass, but for individuals. With our increased researches, and cares, and troubles, we have lost the faculty of being pleased. Past are those careless days, when the shrill102 musette, or plain cittern and virginals, could with their first strain give motion to the blythe foot of joy, or call from its cell the prompt tear of pity. Those days are gone! Music may affect some of us as deeply, but none as readily!
Mr. Graeme had received from Paris an unpublished opera of Auber's. Emily seated herself at the piano--her host took the violin--Clarendon was an excellent flute player--and the tinkle103 of the Viscount's guitar came in very harmoniously104. By the time refreshments105 were introduced, Charles Selby too was in his glory. He had already nearly convulsed the Orientalist by a theory which he said he had formed, of a gradual metempsychosis, or, at all events, perceptible amalgamation106, of the yellow Qui Hi to the darker Hindoo; which said theory he supported by the most ingenious arguments.
"How did you like your stay in Scotland, Mr. Selby?" said Sir Henry Delme.
"I am a terrible Cockney, Sir Henry,--found it very cold, and was very sulky. The only man I cared to see in Scotland was at the Lakes; but I kept a register of events, which is now on the table in my dressing-room. If Graeme will read it, for I am but a stammerer107, it is at your service."
The paper was soon produced, and Mr. Graeme read the following:--
"THE BRAHMIN.
"A stranger arrived from a far and foreign country. His was a mind peculiarly humble108, tremblingly alive to its own deficiencies. Yet, endowed with this mistrust, he sighed for information, and his soul thirsted in the pursuit of knowledge. Thus constituted, he sought the city he had long dreamingly looked up to as the site of truth--Scotia's capital, the modern Athens. In endeavouring to explore the mazes109 of literature, he by no means expected to discover novel paths, but sought to traverse beauteous ones; feeling he could rest content, could he meet with but one flower, which some bolder and more experienced adventurer might have allowed to escape him. He arrived, and cast around an anxious eye. He found himself involved in an apparent chaos--the whirl of distraction--imbedded amidst a ceaseless turmoil110 of would-be knowing students, endeavouring to catch the aroma111 of the pharmacopaeia, or dive to the deep recesses112 of Scotch113 law. He sought and cultivated the friendship of the literati; and anticipated a perpetual feast of soul, from a banquet to which one of the most distinguished114 members of a learned body had invited him. He went with his mind braced115 up for the subtleties116 of argument--with hopes excited, heart elate. He deemed that the authenticity117 of Champolion's hieroglyphics118 might now be permanently119 established, or a doubt thrown on them which would for ever extinguish curiosity. He heard a doubt raised as to the probability of Dr. Knox's connection with Burke's murders! Disappointed and annoyed, he returned to his hotel, determined121 to seek other means of improvement; and to carefully observe the manners, customs, and habits of the beings he was among. He enquired122 first as to their habits, and was presented with scones123, kippered salmon, and a gallon of Glenlivet; as to their manners and ancient costume, and was pointed120 out a short fat man, the head of his clan124, who promenaded125 the streets without trousers. Neither did he find the delineation126 of their customs more satisfactory. He was made nearly tipsy at a funeral--was shown how to carve haggis--and a fit of bile was the consequence, of his too plentifully127 partaking of a superabundantly rich currant bun. He mused128 over these defeats of his object, and, unwilling129 to relinquish130 his hitherto fruitless search,--reluctant to despair,--he bent131 his steps to that city, where utility preponderates132 over ornament133; that city which so early encouraged that most glorious of inventions, by the aid of which he hoped, that the diminutive134 barks of his countrymen might yet be propelled, thus superseding135 the ponderous136 paddle of teak, He here expected to be involved in an intricate labyrinth137 of mechanical inventions,--in a stormy discussion on the comparative merits of rival machinery,--to be immersed in speculative138 but gigantic theories. He was elected an honorary member of a news-room; had his coat whitened with cotton; and was obliged to confess that he knew of no beverage139 that could equal their superb cold punch. Our philosopher now gave himself up to despair; but before returning to his own warm clime, he sought to discover the reason of his finding the flesh creep, where he had deemed the spirit would soar. He at length came to the conclusion that we are all slaves to the world and to circumstances; and as, with his peculiar belief, he could look on our sacred volume with the eye of a philosopher, felt impressed with the conviction that the history of Babel's tower is but an allegory, which says to the pride of man,
"'Thus far shall ye go, and no farther.'"
The Brahmin's adventures elicited140 much amusement. In a short time, Selby was in a hot argument with the French novelist. Every now and then, as the Frenchman answered him, he stirred his negus, and hummed a translation of
"I'd be a butterfly."
"Erim papilio,
Natus in flosculo."
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