Odo, on his return to Pianura, had taken it for granted that de Cruciswould remain in his service.
There had been little talk between the two on the way. The one was deepin his own wretchedness, and the other had too fine a tact1 to intrude2 onit; but Odo felt the nearness of that penetrating3 sympathy which wasalmost a gift of divination4. He was glad to have de Crucis at his sideat a moment when any other companionship had been intolerable; and inthe egotism of his misery5 he imagined that he could dispose as hepleased of his friend's future.
After the little Prince's death, however, de Crucis had at once askedpermission to leave Pianura. He was perhaps not displeased6 by Odo'sexpressions of surprise and disappointment; but they did not alter hisdecision. He reminded the new Duke that he had been called to Pianura asgovernor to the late heir, and that, death having cut short his task, hehad now no farther pretext7 for remaining.
Odo listened with a strange sense of loneliness. The responsibilities ofhis new state weighed heavily on the musing8 speculative9 side of hisnature. Face to face with the sudden summons to action, with thenecessity for prompt and not too-curious choice of means and method, hefelt a stealing apathy10 of the will, an inclination11 toward the subtleduality of judgment12 that had so often weakened and diffused13 hisenergies. At such a crisis it seemed to him that, de Crucis gone, heremained without a friend. He urged the abate14 to reconsider hisdecision, begging him to choose a post about his person.
De Crucis shook his head.
"The offer," said he, "is more tempting15 to me than your Highness canguess; but my business here is at an end, and must be taken upelsewhere. My calling is that of a pedagogue16. When I was summoned totake charge of Prince Ferrante's education I gave up my position in thehousehold of Prince Bracciano not only because I believed that I couldmake myself more useful in training a future sovereign than the son of aprivate nobleman, but also," he added with a smile, "because I wascurious to visit a state of which your Highness had so often spoken, andbecause I believed that my residence here might enable me to be ofservice to your Highness. In this I was not mistaken; and I will gladlyremain in Pianura long enough to give your Highness such counsels as myexperience suggests; but that business discharged, I must ask leave togo."From this position no entreaties19 could move him; and so fixed20 was hisresolve that it confirmed the idea that he was still a secret agent ofthe Jesuits. Strangely enough, this did not prejudice Odo, who was morethan ever under the spell of de Crucis's personal influence. Though Odohad been acquainted with many professed21 philosophers he had never metamong them a character so nearly resembling the old stoical ideal oftemperance and serenity22, and he could never be long with de Cruciswithout reflecting that the training which could form and nourish sonoble a nature must be other than the world conceived it.
De Crucis, however, frankly23 pointed24 out that his former connection withthe Jesuits was too well known in Pianura not to be an obstacle in theway of his usefulness.
"I own," said he, "that before the late Duke's death I exerted suchinfluence as I possessed25 to bring about your Highness's appointment asregent; but the very connections that favoured me with your predecessormust stand in the way of my serving your Highness. Nothing could be morefatal to your prospects27 than to have it said that you had chosen aformer Jesuit as your advisor28. In the present juncture29 of affairs it isneedful that you should appear to be in sympathy with the liberals, andthat whatever reforms you attempt should seem the result of popularpressure rather than of your own free choice. Such an attitude may notflatter the sovereign's pride, and is in fact merely a higher form ofexpediency; but it is one which the proudest monarchs31 of Europe arefinding themselves constrained32 to take if they would preserve theirpower and use it effectually."Soon afterward33 de Crucis left Pianura; but before leaving he imparted toOdo the result of his observations while in the late Duke's service. DeCrucis's view was that of the more thoughtful men of his day who had notbroken with the Church, yet were conscious that the whole social systemof Europe was in need of renovation34. The movement of ideas in France,and their rapid transformation35 into legislative36 measures of unforeseenimportance, had as yet made little impression in Italy; and the clergyin particular lived in serene38 unconsciousness of any impending39 change.
De Crucis, however, had been much in France, and had frequented theFrench churchmen, who (save in the highest ranks of the hierarchy) werekeenly alive to the need of reform, and ready, in many instances, tosacrifice their own privileges in the public cause. These men, living intheir provincial40 cures or abbeys, were necessarily in closer contactwith the people, better acquainted with their needs and more competentto relieve them, than the city demagogues theorising in Parisiancoffee-houses on the Rights of Man and the Code of Nature. But the voiceof the demagogues carried farther than that of the clergy37; and suchrevolutionary notions as crossed the Alps had more to do with thefounding of future Utopias than with the remedy of present evils.
Even in France the temperate41 counsels of the clergy were being overruledby the sentimental42 imprudences of the nobles and by the bluster43 of thepoliticians. It was to put Odo on his guard against these two influencesthat de Crucis was chiefly anxious; but the intelligent cooperation ofthe clergy was sadly lacking in his administrative44 scheme. He knew thatOdo could not count on the support of the Church party, and that he mustmake what use he could of the liberals in his attempts at reform. Theclergy of Pianura had been in power too long to believe in the necessityof conceding anything to the new spirit; and since the banishment45 of theSociety of Jesus the presumption46 of the other orders had increasedinstead of diminishing. The priests, whatever their failings, hadattached the needy47 by a lavish48 bounty49; and they had a powerful auxiliaryin the Madonna of the Mountain, who drew pilgrims from all parts ofItaly and thus contributed to the material welfare of the state as wellas to its spiritual privileges. To the common people their Virgin50 wasnot only a protection against disease and famine, but a kind of oracle,who by divers51 signs and tokens gave evidence of divine approval ordispleasure; and it was naturally to the priests that the faithfullooked for a reading of these phenomena52. This gave the clergy a powerfulhold on the religious sensibilities of the people; and more than oncethe manifest disapproval53 of the Mountain Madonna had turned the scalesagainst some economic measure which threatened the rights of her augurs54.
De Crucis understood the force of these traditional influences; but Odo,in common with the more cultivated men of his day, had lived too long inan atmosphere of polite scepticism to measure the profound hold ofreligion on the consciousness of the people. Christ had been so longbanished from the drawing-room that it was has hard to believe that Hestill ruled in field and vineyard. To men of Odo's stamp the piety56 ofthe masses was a mere30 superficial growth, a kind of mental mould to bedried off by the first beams of knowledge. He did not conceive it as ahabit of thought so old that it had become instinctive57, so closelyintertwined with every sense that to hope to eradicate58 it was liketrying to drain all the blood from a man's body without killing59 him. Heknew nothing of the unwearied workings of that power, patient as anatural force, which, to reach spirits darkened by ignorance and eyesdulled by toil60, had stooped to a thousand disguises, humble61, tender andgrotesque--peopling the earth with a new race of avenging62 or protectingdeities, guarding the babe in the cradle and the cattle in the stalls,blessing the good man's vineyard or blighting64 the crops of theblasphemer, guiding the lonely traveller over torrents65 and precipices,smoothing the sea and hushing the whirlwind, praying with the motherover her sick child, and watching beside the dead in plague-house andlazaret and galley--entering into every joy and grief of the obscurestconsciousness, penetrating to depths of misery which no human compassionever reached, and redressing66 by a prompt and summary justice wrongs ofwhich no human legislation took account.
Odo's first act after his accession had been to recall the politicaloffenders banished55 by his predecessor26; and so general was the custom ofmarking the opening of a new reign17 by an amnesty to political exiles,that Trescorre offered no opposition67 to the measure. Andreoni and hisfriends at once returned to Pianura, and Gamba at the same time emergedfrom his mysterious hiding-place. He was the only one of the group whostruck Odo as having any administrative capacity; yet he was more likelyto be of use as a pamphleteer than as an office-holder. As to the otherphilosophers, they were what their name implied: thoughtful andhigh-minded men, with a generous conception of their civic68 duties, and anoble readiness to fulfil them at any cost, but untrained to action, andtotally ignorant of the complex science of government.
Odo found the hunchback changed. He had withered69 like Trescorre, butunder the harsher blight63 of physical privations; and his tongue had anadded bitterness. He replied evasively to all enquiries as to what hadbecome of him during his absence from Pianura; but on Odo's asking fornews of Momola and the child he said coldly: "They are both dead.""Dead?" Odo exclaimed. "Together?""There was scarce an hour between them," Gamba answered. "She said shemust keep alive as long as the boy needed her--after that she turned onher side and died.""But of what disorder70? How came they to sicken at the same time?"The hunchback stood silent, his eyes on the ground. Suddenly he raisedthem and looked full at the Duke.
"Those that saw them called it the plague.""The plague? Good God!" Odo slowly returned his stare. "Is itpossible--" he paused--"that she too was at the feast of the Madonna?""She was there, but it was not there that she contracted the distemper.""Not there--?""No; for she dragged herself from her bed to go."There was another silence. The hunchback had lowered his eyes. The Dukesat motionless, resting his head on his hand. Suddenly he made a gestureof dismissal...
Two months after his state entry into Pianura Odo married his cousin'swidow.
It surprised him, in looking back, to see how completely the thought ofMaria Clementina had passed out of his life, how wholly he had ceased toreckon with her as one of the factors in his destiny. At her child'sdeath-bed he had seen in her only the stricken mother, centred in herloss, and recalling, in an agony of tears, the little prince's propheticvision of the winged playmates who came to him carrying toys fromParadise. After Prince Ferrante's death she had gone on a long visit toher uncle of Monte Alloro; and since her return to Pianura she had livedin the dower-house, refusing Odo's offer of a palace in the town. Shehad first shown herself to the public on the day of the state entry; andnow, her year of widowhood over, she was again the consort71 of a reigningDuke of Pianura.
No one was more ignorant than her husband of the motives72 determining heract. As Duchess of Monte Alloro she might have enjoyed the wealth andindependence which her uncle's death had bestowed73 on her, but inmarrying again she resigned the right to her new possessions, whichbecame vested in the crown of Pianura. Was it love that had prompted thesacrifice? As she stood beside him on the altar steps of the Cathedral,as she rode home beside him between their shouting subjects, Odo askedhimself the question again and again. The years had dealt lightly withher, and she had crossed the threshold of the thirties with the assuredstep of a woman who has no cause to fear what awaits her. But her bloodno longer spoke18 her thoughts, and the transparence of youth had changedto a brilliant density74. He could not penetrate75 beneath the surface ofher smile: she seemed to him like a beautiful toy which might conceal76 alacerating weapon.
Meanwhile between himself and any better understanding of her stood theremembrance of their talk in the hunting-lodge of Pontesordo. What shehad offered then he had refused to take: was she the woman to forgetsuch a refusal? Was it not rather to keep its memory alive that she hadmarried him? Or was she but the flighty girl he had once imagined her,driven hither and thither77 by spasmodic impulses, and incapable78 ofconsistent action, whether for good or ill? The barrier of theirpast--of all that lay unsaid and undone79 between them--so completely cuther off from him that he had, in her presence, the strange sensation ofa man who believes himself to be alone yet feels that he iswatched...The first months of their marriage were oppressed by thissense of constraint80; but gradually habit bridged the distance betweenthem and he found himself at once nearer to her and less acutely awareof her. In the second year an heir was born and died; and the hopes andgrief thus shared drew them insensibly into the relation of the ordinaryhusband and wife, knitted together at the roots in spite of superficialdivergencies.
In his passionate81 need of sympathy and counsel Odo longed to make themost of this enforced community of interests. Already his first zeal82 wasflagging, his belief in his mission wavering: he needed theencouragement of a kindred faith. He had no hope of finding in MariaClementina that pure passion for justice which seemed to him the noblestardour of the soul. He had read it in one woman's eyes, but these hadlong been turned from him. Unconsciously perhaps he counted rather onhis wife's less generous qualities: the passion for dominion83, the blindarrogance of temper that, for the mere pleasure of making her powerfelt, had so often drawn84 her into public affairs. Might not this wasteforce--which implied, after all, a certain prodigality85 of courage--beused for good as well as evil? Might not his influence make of theundisciplined creature at his side an unconscious instrument in thegreat work of order and reconstruction86?
His first appeal to her brought the answer. At his request his ministershad drawn up a plan of financial reorganisation, which should includethe two duchies; for Monte Alloro, though wealthier than Pianura, was ineven greater need of fiscal87 reform. As a first step towards replenishingthe treasury88 the Duke had declared himself ready to limit his privateexpenditure to a fixed sum; and he now asked the Duchess to pledgeherself in the same manner. Maria Clementina, since her uncle's death,had been in receipt of a third of the annual revenues of Monte Alloro.
This should have enabled her to pay her debts and put some dignity andorder into her establishment; but the first year's income had gone inthe building of a villa89 on the Piana, in imitation of the country-seatsalong the Brenta; the second was spent in establishing a menagerie ofwild animals like that of the French Queen at Versailles; and rumour90 hadit that the Duchess carried her imitation of her royal cousin so far asto be involved in an ugly quarrel with her jewellers about a necklacefor which she owed a thousand ducats.
All these reports had of course reached Odo; but he still hoped that anappeal to her love of dominion might prove stronger than the habit ofself-indulgence. He said to himself that nothing had ever been done torouse her ambition, that hitherto, if she had meddled91 in politics, ithad been merely from thwarted92 vanity or the desire to gratify somepersonal spite. Now he hoped to take her by higher passions, and byassociating her with his own schemes to utilise her dormant93 energies.
For the first moments she listened with the strained fixity of a child;then her attention flickered94 and died out. The life-long habit ofreferring every question to a personal standpoint made it difficult forher to follow a general argument, and she leaned back with the resignedeyelids of piety under the pulpit. Odo, resolved to be patient, andseeing that the subject was too large for her, tried to take it apart,putting it before her bit by bit, and at such an angle that she shouldcatch her own reflection in it. He thought to take her by the Austrianside, touching95 on the well-known antagonism96 between Vienna and Rome, onthe reforms of the Tuscan Grand-Duke, on the Emperor Joseph's opendefiance of the Church's feudal97 claims. But she scented98 a personalapplication.
"My cousin the Emperor should be a priest himself," she shrugged99, "forhe belongs to the preaching order. He never goes to France but he givesthe poor Queen such a scolding that her eyes are red for a week. HasJoseph been trying to set our house in order?"Discouraged, but more than ever bent100 on patience, he tried the chord ofvanity, of her love of popularity. The people called her the beautifulDuchess--why not let history name her the great? But the mention ofhistory was unfortunate. It reminded her of her lesson-books, and of thestupid Greeks and Romans, whose dates she could never recall. She hopedshe should never be anything so dull as an historical personage! Andbesides, greatness was for the men--it was enough for a princess to bevirtuous. And she looked as edifying101 as her own epitaph.
He caught this up and tried to make her distinguish between the publicand the private virtues102. But the word "responsibility" slipped from himand he felt her stiffen103. This was preaching, and she hated preachingeven more than history. Her attention strayed again and he rallied hisforces in a last appeal. But he knew it was a lost battle: everyargument broke against the close front of her indifference104. He wastalking a language she had never learned--it was all as remote from heras Church Latin. A princess did not need to know Latin. She let her eyelinger suggestively on the clock. It was a fine hunting morning, and shehad meant to kill a stag in the Caccia del Vescovo.
When he began to sum up, and the question narrowed to a direct appeal,her eyes left the clock and returned to him. Now she was listening. Hepressed on to the matter of retrenchment105. Would she join him, would shehelp to make the great work possible? At first she seemed hardly tounderstand; but as his meaning grew clear to her--"Is the money nolonger ours?" she exclaimed.
He hesitated. "I suppose it is as much ours as ever," he said.
"And how much is that?" she asked impatiently.
"It is ours as a trust for our people."She stared in honest wonder. These were new signs in her heaven.
"A trust? A trust? I am not sure that I know what that means. Is themoney ours or theirs?"He hesitated. "In strict honour, it is ours only as long as we spend itfor their benefit."She turned aside to examine an enamelled patch-box by Van Blarenberghewhich the court jeweller had newly received from Paris. When she raisedher eyes she said: "And if we do not spend it for their benefit--?"Odo glanced about the room. He looked at the delicate adornment106 of thewalls, the curtains of Lyons damask, the crystal girandoles, the toys inporcelain of Saxony and Sevres, in bronze and ivory and Chinese lacquer,crowding the tables and cabinets of inlaid wood. Overhead floated a rosyallegory by Luca Giordano; underfoot lay a carpet of the royalmanufactory of France; and through the open windows he heard the plashof the garden fountains and saw the alignment107 of the long green alleysset with the statues of Roman patriots108.
"Then," said he--and the words sounded strangely in his own ears--"thenthey may take it from us some day--and all this with it, to the very toyyou are playing with."She rose, and from her fullest height dropped a brilliant smile on him;then her eyes turned to the portrait of the great fighting Duke set inthe monumental stucchi of the chimney-piece.
"If you take after your ancestors you will know how to defend it," shesaid.
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