I was soon back in Montevideo after that. When I bade Demetria good-bye she appeared reluctant to part with me, retaining my hand in hers for an unusual time. For the first time in her life, probably, she was about to be left in the company of entire strangers, and for many days past we had been much to each other, so that it was only natural she should cling to me a little at parting. Once more I pressed her hand and exhorted1 her to be of good courage, reminding her that in a very few days all trouble and danger would be over; still, however, she did not release my hand. This tender reluctance2 to lose me was affecting and also flattering, but slightly inopportune, for I was anxious to be in the saddle and away. Presently she said, glancing down at her rusty3 habiliments, “Richard, if I am to remain concealed4 here till I go to join you on board, then I must meet your wife in these poor garments.”
“Oh, that is what you are thinking about, Demetria!” I exclaimed.
At once I called in our kind hostess, and when this serious matter was explained to her she immediately offered to go to Montevideo to procure5 the necessary outfit6, a thing I had thought nothing about, but which had evidently been preying7 on Demetria's mind.
When I at length reached the little suburban8 retreat of my aunt (by marriage), Paquíta and I acted for some time like two demented persons, so overjoyed were we at meeting after our long separation. I had received no letters from her, and only two or three of the score I had written had reached their destination, so that we had ten thousand questions to ask and answers to make. She could never gaze enough at me or finish admiring my bronzed skin and the respectable moustache I had grown; while she, poor darling! looked unusually pale, yet withal so beautiful that I marvelled9 at myself for having, after possessing her, considered any other woman even passably good-looking. I gave her a circumstantial account of my adventures, omitting only a few matters I was in honour bound not to disclose.
Thus, when I told her the story of my sojourn10 at the estancia Peralta, I said nothing to betray Demetria's confidence; nor did I think it necessary to mention the episode of that wicked little sprite, Cleta; with the result that she was pleased at the chivalrous11 conduct I had displayed throughout the whole of that affair, and was ready to take Demetria to her heart.
I had not been back twenty-four hours in Montevideo before a letter from the Lomas de Rocha storekeeper came to justify12 my caution in having left Demetria at some distance from the town. The letter informed me that Don Hilario had quickly guessed that I had carried off his unhappy master's daughter, and that no doubt was left in his mind when he discovered that, on the day I left the estancia, a person answering to my description in every particular had purchased a horse and side-saddle and had ridden off towards the estancia in the evening. My correspondent warned me that Don Hilario would be in Montevideo even before his letter, also that he had discovered something about my connection with the late rebellion, and would be sure to place the matter in the hands of the government, so as to have me arrested, after which he would have little difficulty in compelling Demetria to return to the estancia.
For a moment this intelligence dismayed me. Luckily, Paquíta was out of the house when it came, and fearing that she might return and surprise me while I was in that troubled state, I rushed out; then, skulking13 through back streets and narrow lanes, peering cautiously about in fear of encountering the minions14 of the law, I made my escape out of the town. My only desire just then was to get away into some place of safety where I would be able to think over the position quietly, and if possible devise some plan to defeat Don Hilario, who had been a little too quick for me. Of many schemes that suggested themselves to my mind, while I sat in the shade of a cactus15 hedge about a mile from town, I finally determined16, in accordance with my old and well-tried rule, to adopt the boldest one, which was to go straight back to Montevideo and claim the protection of my country. The only trouble was that on my way thither17 I might be caught, and then Paquíta would be in terrible distress18 about me, and perhaps Demetria's escape would be prevented. While I was occupied with these thoughts I saw a closed carriage pass by, driven towards the town by a tipsy-looking coachman. Coming out of my hiding-place, I managed to stop him and offered him two dollars to drive me to the British Consulate19. The carriage was a private one, but the two dollars tempted21 the man, so after securing the fare in advance, he allowed me to get in, and then I closed the windows, leant back on the cushion, and was driven rapidly and comfortably to the house of refuge. I introduced myself to the Consul20, and told him a story concocted22 for the occasion, a judicious23 mixture of truth and lies, to the effect that I had been unlawfully and forcibly seized and compelled to serve in the Blanco army, and that, having escaped from the rebels and made my way to Montevideo, I was amazed to hear that the government proposed arresting me. He asked me a few questions, looked at the passport which he had sent me a few days before, then, laughing good-humouredly, put on his hat and invited me to accompany him to the War Office close by. The secretary, Colonel Arocena, he informed me, was a personal friend of his, and if we could see him it would be all right. Walking by his side I felt quite safe and bold again, for I was, in a sense, walking with my hand resting on the superb mane of the British Lion, whose roar was not to be provoked with impunity25. At the War Office I was introduced by the Consul to his friend, Colonel Arocena, a genial26 old gentleman with a bald head and a cigarette between his lips. He listened with some interest and a smile, slightly incredulous I thought, to the sad story of the ill-treatment I had been subjected to at the hands of Santa Coloma's rebellious27 rascals28. When I had finished he pushed over a sheet of paper on which he had scrawled29 a few words to me, with the remark, “Here, my young friend, take this, and you will be safe in Montevideo. We have heard about your doings in Florida, also in Rocha, but we do not propose going to war with England on your account.”
At this speech we all laughed; then when I had pocketed the paper, which bore the sacred seal of the War Office on the margin30 and requested all persons to refrain from molesting31 the bearer in his lawful24 outgoings and incomings, we thanked the pleasant old Colonel and retired32. I spent half an hour strolling about with the Consul, then we separated. I had noticed two men in military uniform at some distance from us when we were together, and now, returning homewards, I found that they were following me. By and by they overtook me, and politely intimated their intention of making me their prisoner. I smiled, and, drawing forth33 my protection from the War Office, handed it to them. They looked surprised, and gave it back, with an apology for having molested34 me, then left me to pursue my way in peace.
I had, of course, been very lucky throughout all this adventure; still, I did not wish to attribute my easy escape entirely35 to luck, for I had, I thought, contributed a good deal towards it by my promptness in acting36 and in inventing a plausible37 story on the spur of the moment.
Feeling very much elated, I strolled along the sunny streets, gaily38 swinging my cane39, when, turning a corner near Doña Isidora's house, I suddenly came face to face with Don Hilario. This unexpected encounter threw us both off our guard, he recoiling40 two or three paces backwardand turning as pale as the nature of his complexion41 would allow. I recovered first from the shock. So far I had been able to baffle him, and knew, moreover, many things of which he was ignorant; still, he was there in the town with me and had to be reckoned with, and I quickly resolved to meet him as a friend, affecting entire ignorance of his object in coming to Montevideo.
“Don Hilario—you here! Happy the eyes that behold42 you,” I exclaimed, seizing and shaking his hand, pretending to be overjoyed at the meeting.
In a moment he recovered his usual self-possessed manner, and when I asked after Doña Demetria he answered after a moments hesitation43 that she was in very good health.
“Come, Don Hilario,” I said, “we are close to my aunt Isidora's house, where I am staying, and it will give me great pleasure to present you to my wife, who will be glad to thank you for your kindness to me at the estancia.”
“Your wife, Don Ricardo! Do you tell me that you are married?” he exclaimed in amazement44, thinking probably that I was already the husband of Demetria.
“What, did I not tell you before!” I said. “Ah, I remember speaking to Doña Demetria about it. Strange that she has not mentioned it to you. Yes, I was married before coming to this country—my wife is an Argentine. Come with me and you shall see a beautiful woman, if that is an inducement.”
He was without doubt astonished and mystified, but he had recovered his mask, and was now polite, collected, watchful45.
When we entered the house I presented him to Doña Isidora, who happened to be in the way, and left her to entertain him. I was very glad to do so, knowing that he would seize the opportunity to try and discover something from the garrulous46 old lady, and that he would discover nothing, since she had not been let into our secrets.
I found Paquíta lying down in her room having a siesta47; and while she arrayed herself at my express desire in her best dress—a black velvet48 which set off her matchless beauty better than anything else, I told her how I wished her to treat Don Hilario. She knew all about him, of course, and hated him with all her heart, looking on him as a kind of evil genius from whose castle I had carried off the unhappy Demetria; but I made her understand that our wisest plan was to treat him graciously. She readily consented, for Argentine women can be more charmingly gracious than any other women on the globe, and what people do well they like to be called on to do.
The subtle caution of our snaky guest did not serve to hide from my watchful eyes that he was very much surprised when he beheld49 her. She placed herself near him and spoke50 in her sweetest, artless manner of the pleasure my return had given her, and of the gratitude51 she had felt towards him and all the people at the estancia Peralta for the hospitable52 treatment I had received there. He was, as I had foreseen, completely carried away by her exquisite53 beauty and the charm of her manner towards him. He was flattered, and exerted himself to be agreeable, but at the same time he was very much puzzled. The baffled expression was more apparent on his face every moment, while his restless glances darted54 here and there about the room, yet ever returned, like the doomed55 moth56 to the candle, to those lustrous57 violet eyes overflowing58 with hypocritical kindness. Paquíta's acting delighted me, and I only hoped that he would long suffer from the effect of the subtle poison she was introducing into his system. When he rose to go I was sure that Demetria's disappearance59 was a greater mystery to him than ever; and as a parting shot I warmly invited him to come and see us frequently while he remained in the capital, even offering him a bed in the house; while Paquíta, not to be behindhand, for she had thoroughly60 entered into the fun of the thing, entrusted61 him with a prettily62 worded, affectionate message to Demetria, a person whom she already loved and hoped some day to meet.
Two days after this adventure I heard that Don Hilario had left Montevideo. That he had discovered nothing I was positive; it was possible, however, that he had left some person to watch the house, and, as Paquíta was now anxious to get back to her own country, I determined to delay our departure no longer.
Going down to the harbour, I found the captain of a small schooner63 trading between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, and, learning that he intended leaving for the last port in three days' time, I bargained with him to take us, and got him also to consent to receive Demetria on board at once. I then sent a message to Mr. Barker, asking him to bring his guest up to town and put her on board the schooner without coming near me. Two days later, early in the morning, I heard that she was safe on board; and, having thus baffled the scoundrel Hilario, on whose ophidian skull64 I should have been very pleased to set my heel, and having still an idle day before me, I went once more to visit the mountain, to take from its summit my last view of the Purple Land where I had spent so many eventful days.
When I approached the crest65 of the great, solitary66 hill I did not gaze admiringly on the magnificent view that opened before me, nor did the wind, blowing fresh from the beloved Atlantic, seem to exhilarate me. My eyes were cast down and I dragged my feet like one that was weary. Yet I was not weary, but now I began to remember that on a former occasion I had on this mountain spoken many vain and foolish things concerning a people about whose character and history I was then ignorant. I also remembered with exceeding bitterness that my visit to this land had been the cause of great and perhaps lasting67 sorrow to one noble heart.
How often, said I to myself, have I repented69 of those cruel, scornful words I addressed to Dolores at our last interview; and now once more “I come to pluck the berries harsh and crude” of repentance70 and of expiation71, to humble72 my insular73 pride in the dust and unsay all the unjust things I formerly74 spoke in my haste.
It is not an exclusively British characteristic to regard the people of other nationalities with a certain amount of contempt, but with us, perhaps, the feeling is stronger than with others, or else expressed with less reserve. Let me now at last rid myself of this error, which is harmless and perhaps even commendable75 in those who stay at home, and also very natural, since it is a part of our unreasonable76 nature to distrust and dislike the things that are far removed and unfamiliar77. Let me at last divest78 myself of these old English spectacles, framed in oak and with lenses of horn, to bury them for ever in this mountain, which for half a century and upwards79 has looked down on the struggles of a young and feeble people against foreign aggression80 and domestic foes81, and where a few months ago I sang the praises of British civilisation82, lamenting83 that it had been planted here and abundantly watered with blood, only to be plucked up again and cast into the sea. After my rambles84 in the interior, where I carried about in me only a fading remnant of that old time-honoured superstition85 to prevent the most perfect sympathy between me and the natives I mixed with, I cannot say that I am of that opinion now. I cannot believe that if this country had been conquered and re-colonised by England, and all that is crooked86 in it made straight according to our notions, my intercourse87 with the people would have had the wild, delightful88 flavour I have found in it. And if that distinctive89 flavour cannot be had along with the material prosperity resulting from Anglo-Saxon energy, I must breathe the wish that this land may never know such prosperity. I do not wish to be murdered; no man does; yet rather than see the ostrich90 and deer chased beyond the horizon, the flamingo91 and black-necked swan slain92 on the blue lakes, and the herdsman sent to twang his romantic guitar in Hades as a preliminary to security of person, I would prefer to go about prepared at any moment to defend my life against the sudden assaults of the assassin.
We do not live by bread alone, and British occupation does not give to the heart all the things for which it craves94. Blessings95 may even become curses when the gigantic power that bestows96 them on us scares from our midst the shy spirits of Beauty and of Poesy. Nor is it solely97 because it appeals to the poetic98 feelings in us that this country endears itself to my heart. It is the perfect republic: the sense of emancipation99 experienced in it by the wanderer from the Old World is indescribably sweet and novel. Even in our ultra-civilised condition at home we do periodically escape back to nature; and, breathing the fresh mountain air and gazing over vast expanses of ocean and land, we find that she is still very much to us. It is something more than these bodily sensations we experience when first mingling100 with our fellow-creatures, where all men are absolutely free and equal as here. I fancy I hear some wise person exclaiming, “No, no, no! In name only is your Purple Land a republic; its constitution is a piece of waste paper, its government an oligarchy101 tempered by assassination102 and revolution.” True; but the knot of ambitious rulers all striving to pluck each other down have no power to make the people miserable103. Theunwritten constitution, mightier104 than the written one, is in the heart of every man to make him still a republican and free with a freedom it would be hard to match anywhere else on the globe. The Bedouin himself is not so free, since he accords an almost superstitious105 reverence106 and implicit107 obedience108 to his sheikh. Here the lord of many leagues of land and of herds93 unnumbered sits down to talk with the hired shepherd, a poor, bare-footed fellow in his smoky rancho, and no class or caste difference divides them, no consciousness of their widely different positions chills the warm current of sympathy between two human hearts. How refreshing109 it is to meet with this perfect freedom of intercourse, tempered only by that innate110 courtesy and native grace of manner peculiar111 to Spanish Americans! What a change to a person coming from lands with higher and lower classes, each with its innumerable hateful subdivisions—to one who aspires112 not to mingle113 with the class above him, yet who shudders114 at the slouching carriage and abject115 demeanour of the class beneath him! If this absolute equality is inconsistent with perfect political order, I for one should grieve to see such order established. Moreover, it is by no means true that the communities which oftenest startle us with crimes of disorder116 and violence are morally worse than others. A community in which there are not many crimes cannot be morally healthy. There were practically no crimes in Peru under the Inca dynasty; it was a marvellous thing for a person to commit an offence in that empire. And the reason for this most unnatural117 state of things was this—the Inca system of government was founded on that most iniquitous118 and disastrous119 doctrine120 that the individual bears the same relation to the State as a child to its parents, that its life from the cradle to the grave must be regulated for it by a power it is taught to regard as omniscient—a power practically omnipresent and almighty121. In such a state there could be no individual will, no healthy play of passions, and consequently no crime. What wonder that a system so unspeakably repugnant to a being who feels that his will is a divinity working within him fell to pieces at the first touch of foreign invasion, or that it left no vestige122 of its pernicious existence on the continent it had ruled! For the whole state was, so to speak, putrid123 even before dissolution, and when it fell it mingled124 with the dust and was forgotten. Poland, before its conquest by Russia, a country ill-governed and disorderly as the Banda Orientál, did not mingle with dust like that when it fell—the implacable despotism of the Czar was unable to crush its fierce spirit; its Will still survived to gild125 dreary126 oppression with hallowed dreams, to make it clutch with a fearful joy the dagger127 concealed in its bosom128. But I had no need to go away from this Green Continent to illustrate129 the truth of what I have said. People who talk and write about the disorderly South American republics are fond of pointing to Brazil, that great, peaceful, progressive empire, as setting an example to be followed. An orderly country, yes, and the people in it steeped to their lips in every abominable130 vice131! Compared with these emasculated children of the equator, the Orientals are Nature's noblemen.
I can very well imagine some over-righteous person saying, “Alas, poor deluded132 soul, how little importance can we attach to your specious133 apologies of a people's lawlessness, when your own personal narrative134 shows that the moral atmosphere you have been breathing has quite corrupted135 you! Go back over your own record, and you will find that you have, according to our notions, offended in various ways and on divers136 occasions, and that you are even without the grace to repent68 of all the evil things you have thought, said, and done.”
I have not read many books of philosophy, because when I tried to be a philosopher “happiness was always breaking in,” as someone says; also because I have loved to study men rather than books; but in the little I have read there occurs a passage I remember well, and this I shall quote as my answer to anyone who may call me an immoral137 person because my passions have not always remained in a quiescent138 state, like hounds—to quote the simile139 of a South American poet—slumbering at the feet of the huntsman resting against a rock at noon. “We should regard the perturbations of the mind,” says Spinoza, “not in the light of vices140 of human nature, but as properties just as pertinent141 to it as are heat, storms, thunder, and the like, to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena142, though inconvenient143, are yet necessary, and have fixed144 causes by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in seeing them aright as in knowing such things as flatter the senses.” Let me have the phenomena which are inconvenient as well as the things which flatter the senses, and the chances are that my life will be a healthier and happier one than that of the person who spends his time on a cloud blushing at Nature's naughtiness.
It is often said that an ideal state—a Utopia where there is no folly145, crime, or sorrow—has a singular fascination146 for the mind. Now, when I meet with a falsehood, I care not who the great persons who proclaim it may be, I do not try to like it or believe it or mimic147 the fashionable prattle148 of the world about it. I hate all dreams of perpetual peace, all wonderful cities of the sun, where people consume their joyful149, monotonous150 years in mystic contemplations, or find their delight, like Buddhist151 monks152, in gazing on the ashes of dead generations of devotees. The state is one unnatural, unspeakably repugnant: the dreamless sleep of the grave is more tolerable to the active, healthy mind than such an existence. If Signor Gaudentio di Lucca, still keeping himself alive by means of his marvellous knowledge of the secrets of Nature, were to appear before me now on this mountain to inform me that the sacred community he resided with in Central Africa was no mere153 dream, and should offer to conduct me to it, I should decline to go with him. I should prefer to remain in the Banda Orientál, even though by so doing I should grow at last to be as bad as any person in it, and ready to “wade through slaughter” to the Presidential Chair. For even in my own country of England, which is not so perfect as old Peru or the Pophar's country in Central Africa, I have been long divided from Nature, and now in this Oriental country, whose political misdeeds are a scandal alike to pure England and impure154 Brazil, I have been reunited to her. For this reason I love her with all her faults. Here, like Santa Coloma, I will kneel down and kiss this stone, as an infant might kiss the breast that feeds it; here, fearless of dirt, like John Carrickfergus, I will thrust my hands into the loose brown soil to clasp the hands, as it were, of dear mother Nature after our long separation.
Farewell, beautiful land of sunshine and storm, of virtue155 and of crime; may the invaders156 of the future fare on your soil like those of the past and leave you in the end to your own devices; may the chivalrous instinct of Santa Coloma, the passion of Dolores, the loving-kindness of Candelaria still live in your children to brighten their lives with romance and beauty; may the blight157 of our superior civilisation never fall on your wild flowers, or the yoke158 of our progress be laid on your herdsman—careless, graceful159, music-loving as the birds—to make him like the sullen160, abject peasant of the Old World!
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