Cari.
I will not die; I must not. I am contracted
To a young gentleman.
Executioner.
Here's your wedding-ring.
---Duchess of Malfy.
Slowly did the train descend2; solemnly and in silence, as if the rites3 at which they were about to assist had been those of funereal4, and not of nuptial5, solemnization. Indeed, to look upon those wild and fierce faces by the ruddily-flashing torchlight, which lent to each a stern and savage6 expression; to see those scowling7 visages surrounding a bride from whose pallid9 cheeks every vestige10 of color, and almost of animation11, had fled; and a bridegroom, with a countenance12 yet more haggard, and demeanor13 yet more distracted--the beholder14 must have imagined that the spectacle was some horrible ceremonial, practised by demons16 rather than human beings. The arched vault17, the pillars, the torchlight, the deep shadows, and the wild figures, formed a picture worthy18 of Rembrandt or Salvator.
"I am here," returned a voice from the altar.
"Why do we tarry?" said the gipsy queen. "We are all assembled. To the altar."
"Remember my threat, and obey," muttered Barbara. "You are in my power now."
"Our number is not complete," said the priest, who had looked in vain for the sexton. "Peter Bradley is not with us."
"Ha!" exclaimed Barbara. "Let him be sought for instantly."
"Their search need not extend beyond this spot," said Peter, stepping forward.
The knight23 of Malta advanced towards the altar. The torchlight reddened upon the huge stone pillars. It fell upon the shrine24, and upon the ghastly countenance of Sybil, who stood beside it. Suddenly, as the light approached her, an object, hitherto hidden from view, was revealed. Sybil uttered a prolonged and fearful shriek20; the knight recoiled25 likewise in horror; and a simultaneous cry of astonishment26 burst from the lips of the foremost of the group. All crowded forwards, and universal consternation27 prevailed amongst the assemblage. Each one gazed at his neighbor, anxious to learn the occasion of this tumult28, and vague fears were communicated to those behind, from the terrified glances, which were the only answers returned by their comrades in front.
"Who has dared to bring that body here?" demanded Barbara, in a tone in which anger struggled with apprehension29, pointing at the same time to the ghastly corpse30 of a female, with streaming hair, at the altar's feet. "Who has dared to do this, I say? Quick! remove it. What do you stare at? Cravens! is this the first time you have looked upon a corpse, that you should shrink aghast--that you tremble before it? It is a clod--ay, less than a clod. Away with it! away, I say."
"Touch it not," cried Luke, lifting a cloud of black hair from off the features; "it is my mother's body."
"My daughter!" exclaimed the sexton.
"What!" vociferated Barbara, "is that your daughter--is that the first Lady Rookwood? Are the dead arisen to do honor to these nuptials31? Speak! you can, perchance, explain how she came hither."
"I know not," returned Peter, glancing fiercely at Barbara; "I may, anon, demand that question of you. How came this body here?"
"Ask of Richard Checkley," said Barbara, turning to the priest. "He can, perchance, inform you. Priest," added she, in a low voice, "this is your handiwork."
"Checkley!" screamed Peter. "Is that Richard Checkley? is that----"
"Peace!" thundered Barbara; "will none remove the body? Once more I ask you, do you fear the dead?"
Luke started to his feet as he advanced, his eyes glaring with tiger fury.
"Back, old man," cried he, "and dare not, any of you, to lay a sacrilegious finger on her corse, or I will stretch him that advances as lowly as lies my mother's head. When or how it came hither matters not. Here, at the altar, has it been placed, and none shall move it hence. The dead shall witness my nuptials. Fate has ordained33 it--my fate! o'er which the dead preside. Her ring shall link me to my bride. I knew not, when I snatched it from her death-cold finger, to what end I preserved it. I learn it now. It is here." And he held forth34 a ring.
"'Tis a fatal boon35, that twice-used ring," cried Sybil; "such a ring my mother, on her death-bed, said should be mine. Such a ring she said should wed1 me----"
"Unto whom?" fiercely demanded Luke.
"UNTO DEATH!" she solemnly rejoined.
Luke's countenance fell. He turned aside, deeply abashed36, unable further to brook37 her gaze; while in accents of such wildly touching38 pathos39 as sank into the hearts of each who heard her--hearts, few of them framed of penetrable40 stuff--the despairing maiden41 burst into the following strain:
THE TWICE-USED RING
"Beware thy bridal day!"
On her death-bed sighed my mother;
"Beware, beware, I say,
Death shall wed thee, and no other.
Cold the hand shall grasp thee,
Cold the arms shall clasp thee,
Beware thy bridal kiss!
"Thy wedding ring shall be
From a clay-cold finger taken;
From one that, like to thee,
For a twice-used ring
Is a fatal thing;
Her griefs who wore it are partaken--,
Beware that fatal ring!
"The altar and the grave
Bright banners o'er thee wave,
Beware my bridal day!
Deep tones call me away;
From the grave is sent a token.
Cold, cold fingers bring
That ill-omen'd ring;
Soon will a second heart be broken;
This is my bridal day.
There was a deep, profound silence as the last melancholy52 cadence53 died away, and many a rugged54 heart was melted, even to tears. Eleanor, meanwhile, remained in a state of passive stupefaction, vacantly gazing at Sybil, upon whom alone her eyes were fixed55, and appearing indistinctly to apprehend56 the meaning of her song.
"This is my bridal day," murmured she, in a low tone, when Sybil had finished. "Said not that sweet voice so? I know 'tis my bridal day. What a church you have chosen, mother! A tomb--a sepulchre--but 'tis meet for such nuptials as mine--and what wedding guests! Was that pale woman in her shroud-like dress invited here by you? Tell me that, mother."
"My God, her senses are gone!" cried Mrs. Mowbray. "Why did I venture into this horrible place?"
"Ask not why now, madam," rejoined the priest. "The hour for consideration is past. We must act. Let the marriage proceed, at all hazards; we will then take means to extricate57 ourselves from this accursed place."
"Remove that horrible object," said Mrs. Mowbray; "it fascinates the vision of my child."
"Lend me your hand, Richard Checkley," said Peter, sternly regarding the priest.
"No, no," replied the priest, shuddering59; "I will not, cannot touch it. Do you alone remove it."
Peter approached Luke. The latter now offered no further opposition60, and the body was taken away. The eyes of Eleanor followed it into the dark recesses61 of the vault; and when she could no longer distinguish the white flutter of the cereclothes, her laboring62 bosom63 seemed torn asunder with the profound sigh that burst from it, and her head declined upon her shoulder.
"Let me see that ring," said the priest, addressing Luke, who still held the wedding-ring between his fingers.
"I am not naturally superstitious," said Mrs. Mowbray; "whether my mind be affected64 with the horrors of this place, I know not; but I have a dread65 of that ring. She shall not use it."
"Where no other can be found," said the priest, with a significant and peculiar66 look at Mrs. Mowbray, "I see no reason why this should be rejected. I should not have suspected you, madam, of such weakness. Grant there were evil spell, or charm, attached to it, which, trust me, there is not--as how should there be, to a harmless piece of gold?--my benediction68, and aspersion69 with holy lymph, will have sufficient power to exorcise and expel it. To remove your fears it shall be done at once."
A cup containing water was brought, together with a plate of salt--which condiment70 the devil is said to abhor71, and which is held to be a symbol of immortality72 and of eternity73; in that, being itself incorruptible, it preserves all else from corruption,--and, with the customary Romish formula of prayer and exorcism, the priest thrice mingled74 the crystal particles with the pure fluid; after which, taking the ring in his hand with much solemnity, he sprinkled it with a few drops of the water which he had blessed; made the sign of the cross upon the golden circlet; uttered another and more potent75 exorcism to eradicate76 and expel every device of Satan, and delivered it back to Luke.
"She may wear it now in safety," said the sexton, with strong contempt. "Were the snake himself coiled round that consecrated77 bauble78, the prayers of the devout79 Father Checkley would unclasp his lithest folds. But wherefore do we tarry now? Naught80 lies between us and the altar. The path is clear. The bridegroom grows impatient."
"And the bride?" asked Barbara.
"Is ready," replied the priest. "Madam, delay not longer. Daughter, your hand."
Eleanor gave her hand. It was clammy and cold. Supported by her mother, she moved slowly towards the altar, which was but a few steps from where they stood. She offered no resistance, but did not raise her head. Luke was by her side. Then for the first time did the enormity of the cruel, dishonorable act he was about to commit, strike him with its full force. He saw it in its darkest colors. It was one of those terrible moments when the headlong wheel of passion stands suddenly still.
"There is yet time," groaned81 he. "Oh! let me not damn myself perpetually! Let me save her; save Sybil; save myself."
They were at the altar--that wild wedding train. High over head the torch was raised. The red light flashed on bridegroom and on bride, giving to the pale features of each an almost livid look; it fell upon the gaunt aspect of the sexton, and lit up the smile of triumphant82 malice83 that played upon his face; it fell upon the fantastical habiliments of Barbara, and upon the haughty84 but perturbed85 physiognomy of Mrs. Mowbray; it fell upon the salient points of the Gothic arches; upon one molded pillar; upon the marble image of the virgin86 Thecla; and on the scarcely less marble countenance of Sybil who stood behind the altar, silent, statue-like, immovable. The effect of light and shade on other parts of the scene, upon the wild drapery, and harsh lineaments of many of the group, was also eminently87 striking.
Just as the priest was about to commence the marriage service, a yelling chorus, which the gipsies were accustomed to sing at the celebration of the nuptials of one of their own tribe, burst forth. Nothing could be more horribly discordant88 than their song.
WEDDING CHORUS OF GIPSIES
Scrape the catgut! pass the liquor!
Let your quick feet move the quicker.
Ta-ra-la!
Dance and sing in jolly chorus,
Bride and bridegroom are before us,
And the patrico stands o'er us.
Ta-ra-la!
To unite their hands he's ready;
Dancing, laughing;
Leave off riot,
And be quiet,
While 'tis doing.
'Tis begun,
All is over!
Two are ONE!
The patrico has link'd 'em;
Daddy Hymen's torch has blink'd 'em.
Amen!
To 't again!
Now for quaffing,
Now for laughing,
Stocking-throwing,
Liquor flowing;
No! that's not our way, for we
Are staunch lads of Romany.
Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!
This uncouth96 chorus ended, the marriage proceeded. Sybil had disappeared. Had she fled? No! she was by the bride. Eleanor mechanically took her place. A faint voice syllabled97 the responses. You could scarcely have seen Miss Mowbray's lips move. But the answers were given, and the priest was satisfied.
He took the ring, and sprinkled it once again with the holy water, in the form of the cross. He pronounced the prayer: "Benedic, Domine, annulum hunc, quem nos in tuo nomine benedicimus, ut quae eum gestaverit, fidelitatem integram suo sponso tenens, in pace et voluntate tua permaneat atque in mutua charitate semper vivat."
He was about to return the ring to Luke, when the torch, held by the knight of Malta, was dashed to the ground by some unseen hand, and instantly extinguished. The wild pageant98 vanished as suddenly as the figures cast by a magic-lantern upon a wall disappear when the glass is removed. A wild hubbub99 succeeded. Hoarsely100 above the clamor arose the voice of Barbara.
"To the door, quickly!--to the door! Let no one pass, I will find out the author of this mishap101 anon. Away!"
She was obeyed. Several of the crew stationed themselves at the door.
"Proceed now with the ceremony," continued Barbara. "By darkness, or by light, the match shall be completed."
The ring was then placed upon the finger of the bride; and as Luke touched it, he shuddered102. It was cold as that of the corpse which he had clasped but now. The prayer was said, the blessing103 given, the marriage was complete.
Suddenly there issued from the darkness deep dirge-like tones, and a voice solemnly chanted a strain, which all knew to be the death-song of their race, hymned by wailing104 women over an expiring sister. The music seemed to float in the air.
THE SOUL-BELL
Fast the sand of life is falling,
Fast, fast, is she dying.
With death's chills her limbs are shivering,
Fast her soul away is flying.
O'er the mountain-top it fleeteth,
And the skyey wonders greeteth,
Singing loud as stars it meeteth
On its way.
Hollowly in echoes rolling,
Seems to say--
"She will ope her eyes--oh, never!
She is dead."
The marriage group yet lingered near the altar, awaiting, it would seem, permission from the gipsy queen to quit the cell. Luke stirred not. Clasped in his own, the cold hand of his bride detained him; and when he would have moved, her tightened110 grasp prevented his departure.
Mrs. Mowbray's patience was exhausted111 by the delay. She was not altogether free from apprehension. "Why do we linger here?" she whispered to the priest. "Do you, father, lead the way."
"The crowd is dense," replied Checkley. "They resist my effort."
"Are we prisoners here?" asked Mrs. Mowbray, in alarm.
"Quit not your bride," whispered Peter, "as you value her safety. Heed114 not aught else. She alone is in danger. Suffer her not to be withdrawn115 from your hand, if you would not lose her. Remain here. I will bring the matter to a speedy issue."
"Enough," replied Luke; "I stir not hence." And he drew his bride closer towards him. He stooped to imprint116 a kiss upon her lips. A cold shudder58 ran through her frame as he touched them, but she resisted not his embrace.
Peter's attempt to effect an egress117 was as unsuccessful as that of the priest. Presenting Excalibur at his bosom, the knight of Malta challenged him to stand.
"You cannot pass," exclaimed the knight; "our orders are peremptory118."
"What am I to understand by this?" said Peter, angrily. "Why are we detained?"
"You will learn all anon," returned Barbara. "In the meantime you are my prisoners--or, if you like not the phrase, my wedding guests."
"The wedding is complete," returned the sexton; "the bride and bridegroom are impatient to depart, and we, the guests--albeit some of us may be no foes119 to darkness--desire not to hold our nuptial revels121 here."
"Sybil's wedding has not taken place," said Barbara; "you must tarry for that."
"Ha! now it comes," thought Peter. "And who, may I ask," said he, aloud, "amongst this goodly company, is to be her bridegroom?"
"The best amongst them," returned Barbara--"Sir Luke Rookwood."
"He has a bride already," replied Peter.
"She may be removed," said Barbara, with bitter and peculiar emphasis. "Dost understand my meaning now?"
"I will not understand it," said Peter. "You cannot mean to destroy her who now stands at the altar?"
"She who now stands at the altar must make way for a successor. She who grasps the bridegroom's hand shall die. I swear it by the oath of my tribe."
"And think you, you will be allowed to execute your murderous intention with impunity122?" shrieked Mrs. Mowbray, in an agony of terror. "Think you that I will stand by and see my child slaughtered123 before my face; that my friends will suffer it? Think you that even your own tribe will dare to execute your horrible purpose? They will not. They will side with us. Even now they murmur. What can you hope to gain by an act so wild and dreadful? What object can you have?"
"The same as your own," reiterated124 Barbara--"the advancement125 of my child. Sybil is as dear to me as Eleanor is to you. She is my child's child, the daughter of my best beloved daughter. I have sworn to marry her to Sir Luke Rookwood. The means are in my power. I will keep my vow126; I will wed her to him. You did not hesitate to tear your daughter from the man she loved, to give her to the man she hated; and for what? For gold--for power--for rank. I have the same motive127. I love my child, and she loves Sir Luke--has loved him long and truly; therefore shall she have him. What to me is your child, or your feelings, except they are subservient128 to my wishes? She stands in my way. I remove her."
"Who placed her in your path?" asked the sexton. "Did you not lend a helping129 hand to create that obstacle yourself?"
"I did," replied Barbara. "Would you know wherefore? I will tell you. I had a double motive for it. There is a curse upon the house of Rookwood, that kills the first fair bride each generation leads to the altar. Have you never heard of it?"
"I have! And did that idle legend sway you?"
"And do you call it idle? You! Well--I had another motive--a prophecy."
"By yourself uttered," replied Peter.
"Even so," replied Barbara. "The prophecy is fulfilled. The stray rook is found. The rook hath with rook mated. Luke hath wedded130 Eleanor. He will hold possession of his lands. The prophecy is fulfilled."
"But how?" asked Peter; "will your art tell you how and why he shall now hold possession? Can you tell me that?"
"My art goes not so far. I have predicted the event. It has come to pass. I am satisfied. He has wedded her. Be it mine to free him from that yoke131." And Barbara laughed exultingly132.
The sexton approached the old crone, and laid his hand with violence upon her shoulder.
"Hear me," cried he, "and I will tell you that which your juggling133 art refuses to reveal. Eleanor Mowbray is heir to the lands of Rookwood! The estates are hers! They were bequeathed to her by her grandsire, Sir Reginald."
"She was unborn when he died," cried Mrs. Mowbray.
"True," replied Peter; "but the lands were left to your issue female, should such issue be born."
"And did Sir Piers134, my brother, know of this? did he see this will," asked Mrs. Mowbray, with trembling impatience.
"Ah! why knew I not this before? Why did you not tell me ere that was done which cannot be undone136? I have sacrificed my child."
"Because it did not chime with my purposes to tell you," replied Peter, coldly.
"It is false--it is false," cried Mrs. Mowbray, her anger and vexation getting the better of her fears. "I will not believe it. Who are you, that pretend to know the secrets of our house?"
"One of that house," replied the sexton.
"Your name?"
"Would you know my name?" answered Peter, sternly. "The time is come when I will no longer conceal137 it. I am Alan Rookwood."
"My father's brother!" exclaimed Mrs. Mowbray.
"Ay, Alan Rookwood. The sworn enemy of your father--of you--of all of ye: your fate--your destiny--your curse. I am that Alan Rookwood whose name you breathed in the vault. I am he, the avenger--the avenged138. I saw your father die. I heard his groans139--his groans!--ha, ha! I saw his sons die: one fell in battle--I was with him there. The other expired in his bed. I was with Sir Piers when he breathed his last, and listened to his death agonies. 'Twas I who counselled him to keep the lands from you and from your child, and he withheld them. One only amongst the race, whose name I have cast off, have I loved; and him--because," added he, with something like emotion--"because he was my daughter's child--Luke Rookwood. And even he shall minister to my vengeance140. He will be your curse--your daughter's curse--for he loves her not. Yet he is her husband, and hath her land;--ha, ha!" And he laughed till he became convulsed with the paroxysm of fiendish exultation141.
"Mine ears are stunned," cried Mrs. Mowbray.
"The bride is mine; relinquish142 her to me," said Barbara. "Advance and seize her, my children."
Alan Rookwood--for so we shall henceforth denominate the sexton--suddenly grew calm: he raised the whistle to his lips, and blew a call so loud and shrill143, that those who were advancing hung back irresolute144.
There was a rush at the door of the vault. The sentinels were struck down; and with pistols in each hand, and followed by two assistants, Dick Turpin sprang into the thick of the crew.
"Here we are," cried he, "ready for action. Where is Sir Luke Rookwood? where my churchyard pal8, Peter?"
"Here," cried the sexton and Luke simultaneously145.
"Then stand aside," cried Dick, pushing in the direction of the sounds, and bearing down all opposition. "Have a care there--these triggers are ticklish146. Friend or foe120, he who touches me shall have a bullet in his gizzard. Here I am, pal Peter; and here are my two chums, Rust67 and Wilder. Cut the whid."
"You shall not pass," cried Barbara, furiously. "Think you to rob me of my prey148? What, cowards! do you hesitate? Ha!"
A pistol was flashed. The torch again blazed. Its light fell upon a tumultuous group.
"Seize the bride," cried Barbara.
"Hold!" exclaimed a voice from the altar. The voice was that of Sybil.
Her hand was clasped in that of Luke. Eleanor had fainted in the arms of the gipsy girl Handassah.
"Are you my bride?" ejaculated Luke, in dismay.
"Betrayed!" screamed Alan, in a voice of anguish150. "My schemes annihilated--myself undone--my enemies triumphant--lost! lost! All is destroyed--all!"
"Joy! joy!" exclaimed Mrs. Mowbray: "my child is saved."
"And mine destroyed," groaned Barbara. "I have sworn by the cross to slay151 the bride--and Sybil is that bride."
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