But all things come around, sooner or later, in their destined25 courses, and Monday dawned, fair and sunny and beautiful, as befitted the events that were to take place. There was a light summer haze26 on sea and land; and just a ripple27 of a breeze blown down as a message from the inhospitable hills. Father Letheby said early Mass at eight o'clock; and at half-past nine, the hour for the nuptial28 Mass, there was no standing29 or sitting-room30 in the little chapel. Of course, the front seats were reserved for the gentry31, who, in spite of an academical dislike to Ormsby's conversion32, gathered to witness this Catholic marriage, as a rare thing in Ireland, at least amongst their own class. But behind them, and I should say in unpleasant proximity33 (for the peasantry do not carry handkerchiefs scented34 with White Rose or Jockey Club,—only the odor of the peat and the bogwood), surged a vast crowd of men and women, on whose lips and in whose hearts was a prayer for her who was entering on the momentous35 change in her sweet and tranquil36 life. And young Patsies and Willies and Jameses were locked by their legs around their brothers' necks, and trying to keep down and economize37 for further use that Irish cheer or yell, that from Dargai to Mandalay is well known as the war-whoop of the race invincible38. I presume that I was an object of curiosity myself, as I awaited in alb and stole the coming of the bridal party. Then the curiosity passed on to Ormsby, who, accompanied by Dr. Armstrong, stood erect39 and stately before the altar-rails; then, of course, to the bride, who, accompanied by her father, and followed by a bevy40 of fair children, drew down a rose-shower of benedictions41 from the enthusiastic congregation. Did it rest there? Alas42, no! Bridegroom and bride, parish priest and curate, were blotted43 out of the interested vision of the spectators; and, concentrated with absorbing fascination44, the hundreds of eyes rested on the snowy cap and the spotless streamers of Mrs. Darcy. It was the great event of the day—the culmination45 of civilization in Kilronan! Wagers46 had been won and lost over it; one or two pitched battles had been fought with pewter weapons at Mrs. Haley's; ballads47 had been written on it in the style, but not quite in the polished lines, of "Henry of Navarre"; and now, there it was, the "white plume48" of victory, the cynosure49 of hundreds of wondering eyes. I dare say the "upper ten" did not mind it; they were used to such things; but everything else paled into insignificance50 to the critical and censorious audience behind them.
"Didn't I tell you she'd do it?"
"Begor, you did. I suppose I must stand the thrate."
"Father Letheby cud do anything whin he cud do that."
"Begor, I suppose she'll be thinkin' of marryin' herself now, and Jem hardly cowld in the clay."
"Yerra, look at her! She thinks she's wan51 of the gintry. Oh my! she's blushin'. 'T wasn't so long ago that you could sow praties in her face."
"I suppose thim cost a lot of money. But, shure, it was the priests give 'em to her."
"Wisha, thin, there's many a poor creature that would want the money more."
Now, all this was not only sarcastic52, but calumnious53. The cap and streamers were Mrs. Darcy's own, bought out of her hard earnings54, and donned to-day to honor the nuptials55 of her idol56 and benefactress. She knew the mighty57 ordeal58 that was in store for her; but she faced it, and thanked God she was "not behoulden to wan of thim for what she put into her mout' and upon her back." And she stood there at the altar-rails, erect and defiant59, and there was not a tremor60 in the hand that held the holy-water vase, nor in the hand that held the aspergill.
But it was very embarrassing to myself. I am not disposed to be nervous, for I have always conscientiously61 avoided tea and too much study, and I have lived in the open air, and always managed to secure eight hours of dreamless, honest sleep; but I was "discomposed," as some one charitably explained it that morning; and Mrs. Darcy's cap was the cause. I couldn't take my eyes away from it. There it was, dancing like a will-o'-the-wisp before my dazzled vision. I turned my back deliberately62 upon it, and lo! there it was in miniature in the convex arc of my spectacles; and if I looked up, there was my grinning congregation, and their half-audible remarks upon this dread and unwonted apparition63. At last I commenced:
A forcible reminder65 from Father Letheby brought me to my senses; but away they scattered66 again, as I heard Campion muttering something uncomplimentary under his black mustache.
"Ahem!—Reginald Ormsby, wilt thou take Mrs. Darcy—"
Here Father Letheby nudged me again, and looked at me suspiciously. I got a sudden and violent paroxysm of coughing, a remnant of an old bronchial attack to which I am very subject. But I managed to say:—
"For the love of God, send that woman into the sacristy."
She covered her retreat nobly, made a curtsey to the priests, genuflected67 calmly, laid down the aspergill, and, under pretence68 of having been sent for something which these careless priests had forgotten, retired69 with honors; and then I suppose had a good long cry. But poor Bittra was blushing furiously; Ormsby was calm as on the quarterdeck; but Dr. Armstrong was pulling at his mustache, as if determined70 to show the world that there was no use any more for razors or depilatories; and Miss Leslie had bitten right through her under lip, and was threatened with apoplexy. We got through the rest of the ceremony with flying colors: and the moment I said, In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, the hush71 of death fell on the congregation. Then the nuptial blessing72 was given, the choir threw all their vocal73 strength into the grand finale; the registers were signed; Campion kissed his beloved child, and shook hands with Ormsby; and then commenced the triumphal march. I forgot to say that for the glorious procession on the Thursday before the village was en fête. Great arcades74 of laurel were stretched from chimney to chimney, because there were no upper rooms in the cabins; the posts and lintels of the humble75 doors were covered with foliage76 and flowers; and the windows were decorated with all the pious77 images that had been accumulating in the cabins for generations. Little ëikons of the Sacred Heart, gorgeous statues of our Lady of Lourdes, colored prints of Leo XIII., and crucifixes without number dappled the dark background of the windows,—and all the splendor78 was allowed to remain untouched during the octave. And glad they were, poor people, to show their love for their young idol and mistress, even with the decorations of their Lord and King. But what a shout tore open the heavens as Bittra appeared, leaning on her husband's arm; and what prayers echoed round and round them, as Ormsby handed Bittra into the victoria that was waiting! No genteel showers of rice, no casting of slippers79 nor waving of jealous handkerchiefs here, but—
"Come down out o' dat, you grinning monkey," and the gorgeous coachman was hauled down ignominiously80, and a score of strong arms replaced the panting horses under the bridal carriage. And so it moved on, this bridal procession, amidst a strange epithalamium of cheering and blessings81, whilst rough hands from time to time grasped the strong fingers of the smiling bridegroom or the tiny gloved hand of the bride. Ay, move down the valley of life together, you two, linked hand-in-hand, having said your farewells to the world, for you are entering on a new and altogether consecrated82 life. No wonder that the Church insists on the sacramental nature of this stupendous compact between two human souls; no wonder that the world, anxious to break its indissolubility, denies its awful sacredness; no wonder that the Catholic girl enters beneath the archway of the priest's stole[6] with the fear of great joy, and that the Catholic bridegroom is unnerved with dread at undertaking83 the responsibilities of a little universe.
We had a little chat over this matter, my curate and I, the evening before Bittra's marriage. It came around quite naturally, for we had been debating all kinds of possibilities as to the future; and he had been inveighing84, in his own tumultuous manner, against the new and sacrilegious ideas that are just now being preached by the modern apostles of free thought in novel and journal. We agreed in thinking that the Christian85 ideal of marriage was nowhere so happily realized as in Ireland, where, at least up to recent times, there was no lurid86 and volcanic87 company-keeping before marriage, and no bitter ashes of disappointment after; but the good mother quietly said to her child: "Mary, go to confession88 to-morrow, and get out your Sunday dress. You are to be married on Thursday evening." And Mary said: "Very well, mother," not even asserting a faintest right to know the name of her future spouse89. But, then, by virtue90 of the great sacramental union, she stepped from the position of a child and a dependent into the regal position of queen and mistress on her own hearth91. The entire authority of the household passed thereby92 into her hands, as she slung93 the keys at her girdle; she became bursar and econome of the establishment; and in no instance was her right to rule supreme94 ever questioned by husband or child, unless drink came in to destroy this paradise, as the serpent fouled95 with his slime the flowers of the garden of Eden. Married life in Ireland has been, up to now, the most splendid refutation of all that the world and its gospel, the novel, preach about marriage, and the most splendid and complete justification96 of the supernaturalism of the Church's dogmas and practices. But, reverting97 to the new phases in the ever-shifting emotionalism of a godless world, with which marriage has become a question of barter—a mere lot-drawing of lambs for the shambles—he compared the happy queenly life of our Irish mother with that of the victim of fashion, or that of uncatholic lands, where a poor girl passes from one state of slavery to another.
"I hope," he said, "that we never shall be able to compare Bittra, like so many other brides, to the sleeping child that Carafola has painted, with an angel holding over it a crown of thorns, and whom marriage, like the angel, would awake by pressing the thorns on her brow."
"God forbid!" I said fervently98. How little I dreamed of the troubles that were looming99 up out of the immediate100 future to shroud101 her marriage sunshine in awful gloom!
As the marriage procession passed the door where Alice lived, Bittra gave a little timid, imperious command to her admirers to stop. She and Ormsby alighted and passed into the cottage. The orange blossoms touched the crown of thorns on the head of the sick girl; but, somehow, both felt that there was need of a sisterhood of suffering on the one part to knit their souls together. Ormsby remained in the kitchen, talking to Mrs. Moylan; and from that day forward she was secured, at least, from all dread of dependence102 or poverty forevermore.
At the breakfast table it was, of course, my privilege to propose the health of the bride and bridegroom, which I most gladly did; and, let me say, so successfully as to bring back unwonted smiles to Campion's face, who now freely forgave me for the gaucheries at the marriage service. Then the guests strolled around, looking at the marriage presents—the usual filigree103 and useless things that are flung at the poor bride. Bittra took me into a little boudoir of her own to show me her real presents.
"Father," she said, "who is a great artist, wanted me to give back all this rubbish, as he calls it; but I would much rather sacrifice all that bijouterie outside." And she exhibited with glistening104 eyes the bridal offerings of the poor fisherwomen and country folk of Kilronan. They were fearfully and wonderfully made. Here was a magnificent three-decker battleship, complete from pennant105 to bowsprit, every rope in its place, and the brass106 muzzles107 of its gun protruded108 for action. Here was a pretty portrait of Bittra herself, painted by a Japanese artist from a photograph, surreptitiously obtained, and which had been sent 15,000 miles across the ocean for an enlarged replica109. Here were shells of all sizes and fantastic forms, gathered during generations, from the vast museums of the deep. Here was a massive gold ring, with a superb ruby110, picked up, the Lord knows how, by a young sailor in the East Indian Islands. Here, screaming like a fury, was a paroquet, gorgeous as a rainbow, but ill-conducted as a monkey; and here was a gauze shawl, so fine that Bittra hid it in her little palm, and whispered that it was of untold price.
"But, of course, I cannot keep all these treasures," she said; "I shall hold them as a loan for a while; and then, under one pretext111 or another, return them. It is what they indicate that I value."
"And I think, my little child," I said, "that if you had them reduplicated until they would fill one wing of the British Museum, they would hardly be an exponent112 of all that these poor people think and feel."
"It should make me very happy," said Bittra.
And then we passed into the yard and dairies, where the same benevolent113 worship had congregated114 fowl115 of strange and unheard-of breeds; and there was a little bonham; and above all, staring around, wonder-stricken and frightened, and with a gorgeous blue ribbon about her neck, was the prettiest little fawn116 in the world, its soft brown fur lifted by the warm wind and its eyes opened up in fear and wonder at its surroundings. Bittra patted its head, and the pretty animal laid its wet nozzle in her open hand. Then she felt a little shiver, and I said:—
"That bridal dress is too light. Go in and change." But she said, looking up at me wistfully:—
"It is not the chill of cold, but of dread, that is haunting me all the morning. I feel as if some one were walking over my grave, as the people say."
"Nonsense!" I cried. "You are unnerved, child; the events of the morning have been too much for you."
Here we heard her father's voice, shouting: "Bittra! Bittra! where are you?"
"Here, father," she said, as Ormsby came into the yard with Campion, "showing all my treasures to Father Dan."
She linked her arm in her husband's, and Campion looked from one to the other admiringly. And no wonder. They were a noble, handsome pair, as they stood there, and the June sunlight streamed and swam around them.
"Go in," he said at last. "The guests expect you."
He and I walked around the farmyard, noting, observing, admiring. He called my attention to this animal and to that, marked out all his projected improvements, and what he would do to make this a model country residence for his child; but I could see that he had something else to say. At last he turned to me, and there was a soft haze in his gleaming black eyes as he tried to steady his voice:—
"I have been a hard man," he said, "but the events of this morning have quite upset me. I didn't know that my child was so worshipped by the people, and it has touched me deeply. You know, brought up in the school where I graduated, I have never been able to shake off a feeling of contempt for these poor, uneducated serfs; and their little cunning ways and want of manliness117 have always disgusted me. I am beginning to see that I have been wrong. And then I have been a bad Catholic. Ormsby, lately an unbeliever, has shown me this, not by his words, for he is a thorough gentleman, but by his quiet example. You know I did not care one brass pin whether he was Turk, Jew, or atheist118, so long as he married Bittra. Now I see that the Church is right, and that her espousal would have been incomplete if she had not married a Catholic, and a true one. All this has disturbed me, and I intend to turn over a new leaf. I am running into years; and although I have, probably, thirty years of life before me, I must brush up as if the end were near. I am awfully119 sorry I was not at the rails with Bittra and Ormsby this morning; but we shall all be together at Holy Communion the Sunday after they return from the Continent. By Jove! there goes the Angelus; and twelve is the hour to start the boat!"
He took off his hat, and we said the Angelus in silence together. I noticed the silver gathering120 over his ears, and the black hair was visibly thinning on the top. I watched him keenly for those few seconds. I did not know that those musical strains of the midday Angelus were his death-knell—the ringing up of the great stage-manager, Death, for his volté subito—his leap through the ring to eternity121.
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confession
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