REGARD us forbearingly, generous and urbane1 reader; follow us undaunted whither we go, nor charge us with tracing crime in a bad cause. We will leave the old prison, the dejected inebriate2, the more curious group that surround him, and the tale of the destroyer it develops, and escort you in our walk to the mansion3 of Madame Flamingo4, who is well known in Charleston, and commonly called the Mother of Sin. It is a massive brick pile, situate in one of the public thoroughfares, four stories high, with bold Doric windows, set off with brown fluted5 freestone, and revealing faded red curtains, overlain with mysterious lace, and from between the folds of which, at certain hours of the day, languid and more mysterious eyes may be seen peering cautiously. Madame Flamingo says (the city fathers all know it) she has a scrupulous7 regard to taste, and develops it in the construction of her front door, which is of black walnut8, fluted and carved in curious designs. In style it resembles somewhat the doors of those fashionable churches that imitate so closely the Italian, make good, paying property of fascinating pews, and adopt the more luxurious9 way of getting to heaven (prayer-book of gold in hand) reclining on velvet10 and satin damask.
The mansion of Madame Flamingo differs only in sumptuousness12 of furniture from twenty others of similar character, dotted here and there about the little city. Add to these the innumerable smaller haunts of vice13 that line the more obscure streets-that, rampart-like, file along the hundred and one "back lanes" that surround the scattered14 town, and, reader, you may form some estimation of the ratio of vice and wretchedness in this population of thirty thousand, of which the enslaved form one-third.
Having escorted you to the door, generous reader, we will forget the common-place jargon15 of the world, and affect a little ceremony, for Madame Flamingo is delicately exact in matters of etiquette16. Touch gently the bell; you will find it there, a small bronze knob, in the fluting17 of the frame, and scarce perceptible to the uninitiated eye. If rudely you touch it, no notice will be taken; the broad, high front of her house will remain, like an ill-natured panorama18 of brick and freestone, closed till daylight. She admits nothing but gentlemen; and gentlemen know how to ring a bell. Well, you have touched it like one of delicate nerves, and like a bell with manners polished by Madame Flamingo herself, it answers as faintly as does the distant tinkle19 of an Arab's bell in the desert.
There! It was recognized as the ring of a genteel gentleman, and Madame Flamingo's heavy foot is heard advancing up the hall. Be a diplomatist now. Show a white glove, and a delicate hand, and a winning smile, and you have secured your passport to the satin and brocade of her mansion. A spring is heard to tick, a whisper of caution to some one within follows, and a block broad enough to admit your hat swings open, disclosing the voluptuous20 splendor21 of a great hall, the blaze of which flashes upon your senses, and fills you instinctively22 with curious emotions. Simultaneously23 a broad, cheerful face, somewhat matronly in its aspect, and enlivened with an urbane smile, darkens the space. After a few moments' pause we see two sharp gray eyes peering curiously24 at us, and a soft but quick accenting voice inquires who we are. Ah! yes, the white glove has told who we are, for the massive doors swing open, and we find ourselves in a long, stately hall, resplendent of Persian carpets, lounges in tapestry25, walls and ceiling frescoed26 in uncouth27 and bright-colored designs, and curiously wrought28 chandeliers, shedding over all a bewitching light. The splendor is more gaudy29 than regal; it strikes our fancy, but leaves our admiration30 unmoved. The door is suddenly closed, and the short, portly figure of Madame (she bows, saying her house is most select) stands before us, somewhat nervous, as if she were yet undecided about our position in society. She has seen some sixty summers, made her nefarious31 reputation in New York; there she keeps a joint32 establishment, which, she adds, has been kindly33 patronized by the members of several pumpkin-headed corporations. Indeed, her princely tabernacle there was owned by one of these individuals, but in deference34 to his reputation she had the lease of a third party. Of corporations in general has she the very highest opinion.
Madame Flamingo's round, dapper figure, is set off with a glossy35, black satin, made high at the neck, about which a plain white collar is arranged, corresponding nicely with the dash of snowy lace down the stomacher, and an embroidered36 buff apron37, under which she every few minutes thrusts her fat, jewelled fingers. Her face is pallid38, her chin fat and dimpled, her artificial hair light brown, and lain smoothly39 over a low forehead, which is curiously contrasted with a jauntily-setting cap, the long strings40 of which flutter down her shoulders.
"If you please, gentlemen," she says, "my house is highly respectable-highly respectable (don't make strange of me tending my own door!) I assure you gentlemen." And Madame Flamingo's eyes quicken, and she steps round us, now contemplating41 us suspiciously, then frisking her hands beneath her embroidered apron, which she successively flaunts43.
We have assured her of our standing44 in society. To which, with an air of resumed confidence, and a quickened step, she says she has (that is, she thinks she has) seen us before, and is glad to see us again. She is getting well down in the role of years, has a treacherous45 memory-the result of arduous46 business, and a life of trouble-the poison of a war upon society-the excitement of seeking revenge of the world. She cannot at all times trust her memory, for it has given out in the watchfulness48 necessary to the respectability of her house, which she regards as the Gibraltar from which she turns upon society her unerring guns. "Lord, gentlemen," she says in quick accents, "the reputation of this house-I watch it as our senator to Congress does his-is my bank stock; and on the respectability and behavior of my customers, who are of the first families, depends my dividends49. Madame Flamingo wouldn't-gentlemen, I am no doubt known to you by reputation?-soil the reputation of her house for uncounted gold." This she whispers, tripping nervously50 over the soft carpet up the hall, until she reaches mid-way, where on the right and left are two massive arched doors of black walnut, with stained glass for fan-lights. Our guardian51 (she has assumed the office) makes a significant motion with her left hand, which she moves backward, places her right upon the porcelain52 knob, turns to the right, and puts her ear inquiringly to the door. "It's a sort of commonwealth53; yes, sir, a commonwealth-but then they are all gentlemen-some very distinguished54," she continues, shaking her head as if to caution us. Voices in loud conversation are heard in the room to the right, while from out the left float the mellow55 notes of a waltz, accompanied by the light tripping of feet.
With an urbane bow, and a familiar smile, Madame opens the door, watches with an air of exultation56 the effect her sumptuously57-furnished parlors58, and her more sumptuously-dressed worshippers, have on our feelings. The great glare of Gothic windows; the massive curtains of orange-colored satin that, veiled with lace, pend in undulating folds over them; the cloudlike canopy60 that overhangs a dias at the further end of the parlor59; the gorgeously-carved piano, with keys of pearl, that stands in dumb show beneath the drapery; the curiously-carved eagles, in gilt61, that perch62 over each window, and hold daintily in their beaks63 the amber-colored drapery; the chastely-designed tapestry of sumptuously-carved lounges, and reclines, and ottomans, and patrician64 chairs, and lute6 tabs, arranged with exact taste here and there about the great parlor; the massive centre and side-tables, richly inlaid with pearl and Mosaic65; the antique vases interspersed66 along the sides, between the windows, and contrasting curiously with the undulating curtains, looped alternately with goddesses of liberty, in gilt; the jetting lights from a great chandelier, blending with prismatic reflections; and the gaudy gossamers in which weary and blanched-faced females flaunt42, more undressed than dressed-all mingle67 in one blaze of barbaric splendor.
It is here your child of ignorance and neglect is fascinated and made to drink the first cup of death; it is here your faltering68 sister falls; it is here your betrayed daughter seeks revenge; it is here your forlorn, outcast sufferer first feels the world her enemy, has no sympathizing sister to stretch out the hand of encouragement, and sinks hopeless in the agony of her meditations70. It is here, alas71! too often necessity forces its hapless victims, and from whence a relentless72 world--without hope of regaining73 the lost jewel-hurls them down a short life, into a premature74 grave. Your church is near by, but it never steps in here to make an inquiry75; and if it chance to cast a suspicious look in now and then, it is only as it passes along to inquire the state of the slave market, of so much more importance is the price of men. Your common school (a thing unknown, and held extremely dangerous in Carolina!) may be your much talked of guiding star to virtue76; your early education is your bulwark77 against which the wave of vice is powerless; but unless you make it something more than a magnificent theory-unless you seek practical means, and go down into the haunts of vice, there to drag up the neglected child, to whom the word early education is a mystery, you leave untouched the festering volcano that vomits78 its deadly embers upon the community.
Your homilies preached to pew-holders of fashion, who live sumptuously, ride sumptuously to church of a Sunday, and meekly79 enjoy a sumptuous11 sermon for appearance sake, will, so long as you pass unheeded the haunts of vice, fall as chaff80 before the wind. You must make "early education" more than the mere81 motto of future happiness; you must go undaunted into the avenues of want and misery82, seek out the fallen child, forbear with her, and kindly teach her how much good there is in its principles, its truths.
Pardon, generous reader, this digression, and keep our arm while we see of what metal are the votaries83 at the shrine84 of Madame Flamingo. "I am-that is, they say I am-something of an aristocrat85, you see, gentlemen," says the old woman, flaunting86 her embroidered apron, and fussily87 doddling round the great centre-table, every few minutes changing backward and forward two massive decanters and four cut-glass goblets88. We bow approvingly. Then with an air of exultation she turns on her centre, giving a scrutinizing89 look at the rich decorations of her palace, and again at us, as if anxious to draw from us one word of approval. "Gentlemen are no way sensitive here," pursues Madame Flamingo, moving again the great decanters, "it's a commonwealth of gentlemen, you see. In New York-I dash out there, you know-my house is a perfect palace. I keep a footman and coachman there, have the most exact liveries, and keep up an establishment equal to my Fifth Avenue neighbors, whose trade of rope and fish is now lost in their terrible love of plush. I am a woman of taste, you see; but, my honor for it, gentlemen, I know of no people so given to plush and great buttons as our Fifth Avenue parvenues."
It is a high old house this of Madame Flamingo. We speak approvingly of all we see, her pride is stimulated90, she quickens her conversation. "I think you said two bottles, gentlemen? Our sparkling Moselle is pronounced a gem69 by connoisseurs91." And again flaunting her embroidered apron, she trips hurriedly out of the room. While she is gone we turn to view its human furniture. Yonder, in a cozy92 alcove93, stands a marble-topped pier-table, at which are seated two gentlemen of great respectability in the community, playing whist with fair but frail94 partners. Near them, on a soft lounge, is seated a man of portly person and venerable appearance (his hair is snowy white, and he has a frank, open countenance95), holding converse96 with, and evidently enamoured of a modest and beautiful girl, of some sixteen summers, who has just taken her seat at the opposite end. Madame Flamingo addresses this man as "Judge." His daylight duty is known to be that of presiding over a criminal court. The girl with whom he nervously holds conversation, and whose bright, Italian eyes, undulating black hair, Grecian face and fair features, swelling97 bust98 and beautifully-chiseled shoulders, round polished arms and tapering99 hands, erect100 figure, so exactly dressed in black brocade, and so reserve in her demeanor101, is the Anna Bonard of this history. "Judge!" she says in reply to a question he has advanced, and turning disdainfully upon him her great black eyes, walks gracefully102 out of the room.
Sitting on a sofa opposite is a slender youth, somewhat flashily dressed. His complexion103 is sandy, there is something restless in his manner; and in his features, which are sharp and watchful47, is that which indicates a mind weak and vacillating. He sits alone, seemingly thoughtful, and regarding with a jealous eye the insidious104 manner in which the venerable judge addresses the beautiful Anna, in whom you must know, reader, he has a deep and passionate105 interest. As Anna passes out of the room he, like one in despair, rests his head in his pale, bony, and freckled106 hand, and mutters to himself: "I will have revenge. His gray hairs shall not save him--my name is George Mullholland!"
Here and there, on sofas arranged between the great windows, sit faded denizens107, reclining languidly in dresses of various bright colors, set off with gaudy trinkets, and exhibiting that passion for cheap jewelry108 so much in vogue109 with the vulgar of our self-plumed aristocracy--such as live at fashionable hotels, and, like Mrs. Snivel, who has a palace on the Fifth Avenue, make a show-case for cheap diamonds of themselves at breakfast table. Beside these denizens are men of every shade and grade of society. With one sits the distinguished lawyer; with a second converses110 the grave-demeanored merchant, who seeks, away from the cares of his domestic hearth111, to satisfy his curiosity here; with a third, the celebrated112 physician sips113 his wine; with a fourth, the fatherly planter exchanges his saliant jokes; with a fifth, Doctor Handy the politician-who, to please his fashionable wife, a northern lady of great beauty, has just moved from the country into the city, keeps up an unmeaning conversation. In the lefthand corner, seated on an ottoman, and regarding the others as if a barrier were placed between them, are two men designated gamblers. Your Southern gentleman is, with few exceptions, a votary114 of the exciting vice; but he who makes it his profession severs115 the thread that bound him to society. And there sits not far from these members of the sporting fraternity, the tall, slender figure of a man, habited in the garb116 of a quaker. He regards everything about him with the eye of a philosopher, has a flowing white beard, a mild, playful blue eye, a short but well-lined nose, a pale oval face, an evenly-cut mouth, and an amiable117 expression of countenance. He intently watches every movement of the denizens, and should one accost118 him, he will answer in soft, friendly accents. He seems known to Madame Flamingo, whom he regards with a mysterious demeanor, and addresses as does a father his child. The old hostess gets no profit of his visits, for "he is only a moralist," she says, and his name is Solon --; and better people love him more as more they know him.
Madame Flamingo has returned, followed by a colored gentleman in bright livery, bearing on a silver tray two seductive bottles of the sparkling nectar, and sundry119 rich-cut goblets. "There! there!" says the old hostess, pointing to the centre-table, upon which the colored man deposits them, and commences arranging some dozen glasses, as she prepares to extract the corks120. Now she fills the glasses with the effervescing121 beverage122, which the waiter again places on the tray, and politely serves to the denizens, in whose glassy eyes, sallow faces, coarse, unbared arms and shoulders, is written the tale of their misery. The judge drinks with the courtesan, touches glasses with the gambler, bows in compliment to the landlady123, who reiterates124 that she keeps the most respectable house and the choicest wine. The moralist shakes his head, and declines.
And while a dozen voices are pronouncing her beverage excellent, she turns suddenly and nervously to her massive, old-fashioned side-board, of carved walnut, and from the numerous cut glass that range grotesquely125 along its top, draws forth126 an aldermanic decanter, much broken. Holding it up to the view of her votaries, and looking upon it with feelings of regret, "that," she says, "is what I got, not many nights since, for kindly admitting one-I don't know when I did such a thing before, mind ye!--of the common sort of people. I never have any other luck when I take pity on one who has got down hill. I have often thought that the more kind I am the more ungrateful they upon whom I lavish127 my favors get. You must treat the world just as it treats you-you must."
To your simple question, reader, more simply advanced, she replies coquettishly: "Now, on my word of honor, Tom Swiggs did that. And the poor fellow-I call him poor fellow, because, thinking of what he used to be, I can't help it-has not a cent to pay for his pranks128 with. Bless you, (here Madame Flamingo waxes warm,) why I knew Tom Swiggs years ago, when he wasn't what he is now! He was as dashing a young buck129 then as you'd meet in the city; used to come here a perfect gentleman; and I liked him, and he liked me, and he got to liking130 the house, so you couldn't, if you had wanted to, have kept him away. And he always had no end of money, which he used to spend so freely. Poor fellow! (she sighs and shakes her head,) I confess I used to almost love Tom then. Then he got to courting a lady-she (Madame corrects herself) wasn't a lady though, she was only the daughter of a mechanic of small means--mechanic families have no standing in society, you see-and this cut deep into his mother's pride. And she, you see, was not quite sure where she stood in society, you see, and wouldn't for the world have her pride lessened131; so she discarded poor Tom. And the girl has been got out of the way, and Tom has become penniless, and such a wreck132 of dissipation that no respectable house will admit him. It's a stiff old family, that Swiggs family! His mother keeps him threading in and out of jail, just to be rid of him. She is a curious mother; but when I think how he looks and acts, how can I wonder she keeps him in jail? I had to put him there twice--I had! (Madame Flamingo becomes emphatic133.) But remembering what a friend of the house he used to be, I took pity on him, let him out, and lent him two dollars. And there's honor--I've great faith in honor-in Tom, who, I honestly believe, providing the devil do not get him in one of his fits, will pay all damages, notwithstanding I placed the reputation of my house in jeopardy134 with him a few nights since, was forced to call three policemen to eject him, and resolved that he should not again darken my door."
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