How hushed is Fieldhead this evening! All but Moore—Miss Keeldar, the whole family of the Sympsons, even Henry—are gone to Nunnely. Sir Philip would have them come; he wished to make them acquainted with his mother and sisters, who are now at the priory. Kind gentleman as the baronet is, he asked the tutor too; but the tutor would much sooner have made an appointment with the ghost of the Earl of Huntingdon to meet him, and a shadowy ring of his merry men, under the canopy4 of the thickest, blackest, oldest oak in Nunnely Forest. Yes, he would rather have appointed tryst5 with a phantom6 abbess, or mist-pale nun2, among the wet and weedy relics7 of that ruined sanctuary8 of theirs, mouldering9 in the core of the wood. Louis Moore longs to have something near him to-night; but not the boy-baronet, nor his benevolent10 but stern mother, nor his patrician11 sisters, nor one soul of the Sympsons.
This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated12; the great single cloud disparts and rolls away from heaven, not passing and leaving a sea all sapphire13, but tossed buoyant before a continued, long-sounding, high-rushing moonlight tempest. The moon reigns14 glorious, glad of the gale15, as glad as if she gave herself to his fierce caress16 with love. No Endymion will watch for his goddess to-night. There are no flocks out on the mountains; and it is well, for to-night she welcomes Æolus.
Moore, sitting in the schoolroom, heard the storm roar round the other gable and along the hall-front. This454 end was sheltered. He wanted no shelter; he desired no subdued17 sounds or screened position.
"All the parlours are empty," said he. "I am sick at heart of this cell."
He left it, and went where the casements18, larger and freer than the branch-screened lattice of his own apartment, admitted unimpeded the dark-blue, the silver-fleeced, the stirring and sweeping19 vision of the autumn night-sky. He carried no candle; unneeded was lamp or fire. The broad and clear though cloud-crossed and fluctuating beam of the moon shone on every floor and wall.
Moore wanders through all the rooms. He seems following a phantom from parlour to parlour. In the oak room he stops. This is not chill, and polished, and fireless like the salon20. The hearth21 is hot and ruddy; the cinders22 tinkle23 in the intense heat of their clear glow; near the rug is a little work-table, a desk upon it, a chair near it.
Does the vision Moore has tracked occupy that chair? You would think so, could you see him standing24 before it. There is as much interest now in his eye, and as much significance in his face, as if in this household solitude25 he had found a living companion, and was going to speak to it.
He makes discoveries. A bag—a small satin bag—hangs on the chair-back. The desk is open, the keys are in the lock. A pretty seal, a silver pen, a crimson26 berry or two of ripe fruit on a green leaf, a small, clean, delicate glove—these trifles at once decorate and disarrange the stand they strew27. Order forbids details in a picture—she puts them tidily away; but details give charm.
"Her mark," he said. "Here she has been—careless, attractive thing!—called away in haste, doubtless, and forgetting to return and put all to rights. Why does she leave fascination29 in her footprints? Whence did she acquire the gift to be heedless and never offend? There is always something to chide30 in her, and the reprimand never settles in displeasure on the heart, but, for her lover or her husband, when it had trickled31 a while in words, would naturally melt from his lips in a kiss. Better pass half an hour in remonstrating32 with her than a day in admiring or praising any other woman alive. Am I muttering? soliloquizing? Stop that."
455He did stop it. He stood thinking, and then he made an arrangement for his evening's comfort.
He dropped the curtains over the broad window and regal moon. He shut out sovereign and court and starry33 armies; he added fuel to the hot but fast-wasting fire; he lit a candle, of which there were a pair on the table; he placed another chair opposite that near the workstand; and then he sat down. His next movement was to take from his pocket a small, thick book of blank paper, to produce a pencil, and to begin to write in a cramp34, compact hand. Come near, by all means, reader. Do not be shy. Stoop over his shoulder fearlessly, and read as he scribbles35.
"It is nine o'clock; the carriage will not return before eleven, I am certain. Freedom is mine till then; till then I may occupy her room, sit opposite her chair, rest my elbow on her table, have her little mementoes about me.
"I used rather to like Solitude—to fancy her a somewhat quiet and serious, yet fair nymph; an Oread, descending36 to me from lone37 mountain-passes, something of the blue mist of hills in her array and of their chill breeze in her breath, but much also of their solemn beauty in her mien38. I once could court her serenely39, and imagine my heart easier when I held her to it—all mute, but majestic40.
"Since that day I called S. to me in the schoolroom, and she came and sat so near my side; since she opened the trouble of her mind to me, asked my protection, appealed to my strength—since that hour I abhor41 Solitude. Cold abstraction, fleshless skeleton, daughter, mother, and mate of Death!
"It is pleasant to write about what is near and dear as the core of my heart. None can deprive me of this little book, and through this pencil I can say to it what I will—say what I dare utter to nothing living—say what I dare not think aloud.
"We have scarcely encountered each other since that evening. Once, when I was alone in the drawing-room, seeking a book of Henry's, she entered, dressed for a concert at Stilbro'. Shyness—her shyness, not mine—drew a silver veil between us. Much cant42 have I heard and read about 'maiden43 modesty44,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. As she passed to the window, after tacitly but gracefully45 recognizing me, I could call her nothing in my own mind save 'stainless456 virgin46.' To my perception, a delicate splendour robed her, and the modesty of girlhood was her halo. I may be the most fatuous47, as I am one of the plainest, of men, but in truth that shyness of hers touched me exquisitely48; it flattered my finest sensations. I looked a stupid block, I dare say. I was alive with a life of Paradise, as she turned her glance from my glance, and softly averted50 her head to hide the suffusion51 of her cheek.
"I know this is the talk of a dreamer—of a rapt, romantic lunatic. I do dream. I will dream now and then; and if she has inspired romance into my prosaic52 composition, how can I help it?
"What a child she is sometimes! What an unsophisticated, untaught thing! I see her now looking up into my face, and entreating53 me to prevent them from smothering54 her, and to be sure and give her a strong narcotic55. I see her confessing that she was not so self-sufficing, so independent of sympathy, as people thought. I see the secret tear drop quietly from her eyelash. She said I thought her childish, and I did. She imagined I despised her. Despised her! It was unutterably sweet to feel myself at once near her and above her—to be conscious of a natural right and power to sustain her, as a husband should sustain his wife.
"I worship her perfections; but it is her faults, or at least her foibles, that bring her near to me, that nestle her to my heart, that fold her about with my love, and that for a most selfish but deeply-natural reason. These faults are the steps by which I mount to ascendency over her. If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound56, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? It is the natural hill, with its mossy breaks and hollows, whose slope invites ascent57, whose summit it is pleasure to gain.
"To leave metaphor58. It delights my eye to look on her. She suits me. If I were a king and she the housemaid that swept my palace-stairs, across all that space between us my eye would recognize her qualities; a true pulse would beat for her in my heart, though an unspanned gulf59 made acquaintance impossible. If I were a gentleman, and she waited on me as a servant, I could not help liking60 that Shirley. Take from her her education; take her ornaments61, her sumptuous62 dress, all extrinsic63 advantages; take all grace, but such as the symmetry of her form renders inevitable64; present her to me at a cottage door, in a stuff gown; let her offer me there a draught65 of water, with that457 smile, with that warm good-will with which she now dispenses66 manorial67 hospitality—I should like her. I should wish to stay an hour; I should linger to talk with that rustic68. I should not feel as I now do; I should find in her nothing divine; but whenever I met the young peasant, it would be with pleasure; whenever I left her, it would be with regret.
"How culpably69 careless in her to leave her desk open, where I know she has money! In the lock hang the keys of all her repositories, of her very jewel-casket. There is a purse in that little satin bag; I see the tassel70 of silver beads71 hanging out. That spectacle would provoke my brother Robert. All her little failings would, I know, be a source of irritation72 to him. If they vex73 me it is a most pleasurable vexation. I delight to find her at fault; and were I always resident with her, I am aware she would be no niggard in thus ministering to my enjoyment74. She would just give me something to do, to rectify—a theme for my tutor lectures. I never lecture Henry, never feel disposed to do so. If he does wrong—and that is very seldom, dear, excellent lad!—a word suffices. Often I do no more than shake my head. But the moment her minois mutin meets my eye, expostulatory words crowd to my lips. From a taciturn man I believe she would transform me into a talker. Whence comes the delight I take in that talk? It puzzles myself sometimes. The more crâne, malin, taquin is her mood, consequently the clearer occasion she gives me for disapprobation, the more I seek her, the better I like her. She is never wilder than when equipped in her habit and hat, never less manageable than when she and Zoë come in fiery75 from a race with the wind on the hills; and I confess it—to this mute page I may confess it—I have waited an hour in the court for the chance of witnessing her return, and for the dearer chance of receiving her in my arms from the saddle. I have noticed (again it is to this page only I would make the remark) that she will never permit any man but myself to render her that assistance. I have seen her politely decline Sir Philip Nunnely's aid. She is always mighty76 gentle with her young baronet, mighty tender for his feelings, forsooth, and of his very thin-skinned amour propre. I have marked her haughtily77 reject Sam Wynne's. Now I know—my heart knows it, for it has felt it—that she resigns herself to me unreluctantly. Is she conscious how my strength rejoices to serve her? I myself am not her slave—I declare it—but my faculties78 gather to458 her beauty, like the genii to the glisten79 of the lamp. All my knowledge, all my prudence80, all my calm, and all my power stand in her presence humbly81 waiting a task. How glad they are when a mandate82 comes! What joy they take in the toils83 she assigns! Does she know it?
"I have called her careless. It is remarkable84 that her carelessness never compromises her refinement85. Indeed, through this very loophole of character, the reality, depth, genuineness of that refinement may be ascertained86. A whole garment sometimes covers meagreness and malformation; through a rent sleeve a fair round arm may be revealed. I have seen and handled many of her possessions, because they are frequently astray. I never saw anything that did not proclaim the lady—nothing sordid87, nothing soiled. In one sense she is as scrupulous88 as, in another, she is unthinking. As a peasant girl, she would go ever trim and cleanly. Look at the pure kid of this little glove, at the fresh, unsullied satin of the bag.
"What a difference there is between S. and that pearl C. H.! Caroline, I fancy, is the soul of conscientious89 punctuality and nice exactitude. She would precisely90 suit the domestic habits of a certain fastidious kinsman91 of mine—so delicate, dexterous92, quaint3, quick, quiet—all done to a minute, all arranged to a strawbreadth. She would suit Robert. But what could I do with anything so nearly faultless? She is my equal, poor as myself. She is certainly pretty: a little Raffaelle head hers—Raffaelle in feature, quite English in expression, all insular93 grace and purity; but where is there anything to alter, anything to endure, anything to reprimand, to be anxious about? There she is, a lily of the valley, untinted, needing no tint94. What change could improve her? What pencil dare to paint? My sweetheart, if I ever have one, must bear nearer affinity95 to the rose—a sweet, lively delight guarded with prickly peril96. My wife, if I ever marry, must stir my great frame with a sting now and then; she must furnish use to her husband's vast mass of patience. I was not made so enduring to be mated with a lamb; I should find more congenial responsibility in the charge of a young lioness or leopardess. I like few things sweet but what are likewise pungent—few things bright but what are likewise hot. I like the summer day, whose sun makes fruit blush and corn blanch97. Beauty is never so beautiful as when, if I tease it, it wreathes back on me with spirit. Fascination is never459 so imperial as when, roused and half ireful, she threatens transformation98 to fierceness. I fear I should tire of the mute, monotonous99 innocence100 of the lamb; I should ere long feel as burdensome the nestling dove which never stirred in my bosom101; but my patience would exult102 in stilling the flutterings and training the energies of the restless merlin. In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable bête fauve my powers would revel103.
"O my pupil! O Peri! too mutinous104 for heaven, too innocent for hell, never shall I do more than see, and worship, and wish for thee. Alas105! knowing I could make thee happy, will it be my doom106 to see thee possessed107 by those who have not that power?
"However kindly108 the hand, if it is feeble, it cannot bend Shirley; and she must be bent109. It cannot curb110 her; and she must be curbed111.
"Beware, Sir Philip Nunnely! I never see you walking or sitting at her side, and observe her lips compressed, or her brow knit, in resolute112 endurance of some trait of your character which she neither admires nor likes, in determined113 toleration of some weakness she believes atoned114 for by a virtue115, but which annoys her despite that belief; I never mark the grave glow of her face, the unsmiling sparkle of her eye, the slight recoil116 of her whole frame when you draw a little too near, and gaze a little too expressively117, and whisper a little too warmly—I never witness these things but I think of the fable118 of Semele reversed.
"It is not the daughter of Cadmus I see, nor do I realize her fatal longing119 to look on Jove in the majesty120 of his god-head. It is a priest of Juno that stands before me, watching late and lone at a shrine121 in an Argive temple. For years of solitary122 ministry123 he has lived on dreams. There is divine madness upon him. He loves the idol124 he serves, and prays day and night that his frenzy125 may be fed, and that the Ox-eyed may smile on her votary126. She has heard; she will be propitious127. All Argos slumbers128. The doors of the temple are shut; the priest waits at the altar.
"A shock of heaven and earth is felt—not by the slumbering129 city, only by that lonely watcher, brave and unshaken in his fanaticism130. In the midst of silence, with no preluding sound, he is wrapped in sudden light. Through the roof, through the rent, wide-yawning, vast, white-blazing blue of heaven above, pours a wondrous131 descent, dread132 as the downrushing of stars. He has what he asked.460 Withdraw—forbear to look—I am blinded. I hear in that fane an unspeakable sound. Would that I could not hear it! I see an insufferable glory burning terribly between the pillars. Gods be merciful and quench133 it!
"A pious134 Argive enters to make an early offering in the cool dawn of morning. There was thunder in the night; the bolt fell here. The shrine is shivered, the marble pavement round split and blackened. Saturnia's statue rises chaste135, grand, untouched; at her feet piled ashes lie pale. No priest remains136; he who watched will be seen no more.
"There is the carriage! Let me lock up the desk and pocket the keys. She will be seeking them to-morrow; she will have to come to me. I hear her: 'Mr. Moore, have you seen my keys?'
"So she will say, in her clear voice, speaking with reluctance137, looking ashamed, conscious that this is the twentieth time of asking. I will tantalize138 her, keep her with me, expecting, doubting; and when I do restore them, it shall not be without a lecture. Here is the bag, too, and the purse; the glove—pen—seal. She shall wring139 them all out of me slowly and separately—only by confession140, penitence141, entreaty142. I never can touch her hand, or a ringlet of her head, or a ribbon of her dress, but I will make privileges for myself. Every feature of her face, her bright eyes, her lips, shall go through each change they know, for my pleasure—display each exquisite49 variety of glance and curve, to delight, thrill, perhaps more hopelessly to enchain me. If I must be her slave, I will not lose my freedom for nothing."
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phantom
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