The Prince of India was not given to idle expectations. He might deceive others, but he seldom deceived himself. His experience served him prophetically in matters largely dependent on motives1 ordinarily influential2 with men. He was confident the Emperor would communicate with him, and soon.
The third day after the adventure at the White Castle, a stranger, mounted, armed, and showily caparisoned, appeared at the Prince's door under guidance of Uel. In the study, to which he was hidden, he announced himself the bearer of a complimentary3 message from His Majesty4, concluding with an invitation to the palace of Blacherne. If agreeable, His Majesty would be pleased to receive the Indian dignitary in the afternoon at three o'clock. An officer of the guard would be at the Grand Gate for his escort. The honor, needless to say, was accepted in becoming terms.
When the Prince descended5 to the hall of entry on the ground floor to take the sedan there, the unusual care given his attire6 was apparent. His beard was immaculately white. His turban of white silk, balloon in shape, and with a dazzle of precious stones in front, was a study. Over a shirt of finest linen7, with ruffles8 of lace at the throat and breast, there was a plain gown of heavy black velvet9, buttoned at the neck, but open down to a yellow sash around the waist. The sash was complemented10 by a belt which was a mass of pearls in relief on a ground of gold embroidery11. The belt-plate and crescented sword scabbard were aflame with brilliants on blue enamelling. His trousers, ample as a skirt, were of white satin overflowing12 at the ankles. Pointed13 red slippers14, sparkling with embroidery of small golden beads15, completed the costume.
The procession in the street was most striking. First Nilo, as became a king of Kash-Cush, barbarously magnificent; the sedan next, on the shoulders of four carriers in white livery; at the rear, two domestics arrayed a la Cipango, their strange blue garments fitting them so close as to impede18 their walking; yet as one of them bore his master's paper sunshade and ample cloak, and the other a cushion bloated into the proportions of a huge pillow, they were by no means wanting in self-importance. Syama, similarly attired19, though in richer material, walked at the side of the sedan, ready to open the door or answer such signal as he might receive from within.
The appearance of this retinue20 in the streets was a show to the idle and curious, who came together as if rendered out of the earth, and in such numbers that before fairly reaching the thoroughfare by which the Grand Gate of Blacherne was usually approached from the city side, the gilded21 box on the shoulders of its bearers looked, off a little way, not unlike a boat rocking in waves.
Fortunately the people started in good humor, and meeting nothing to break the mood, they permitted the Prince to accomplish his journey without interruption. The companionship of the crowd was really agreeable to him; he hardly knew whether it were pleasanter to be able to excite such respectful curiosity than to gratify it successfully. It might have been otherwise had Lael been with him.
The Very High Residence, as the Palace of Blacherne was generally spoken of by Greeks, was well known to the Prince of India. The exclamation22 with which he settled himself in the sedan at setting out from his house--"Again, again, O Blacherne!"--disclosed a previous personal acquaintance with the royal property. And over and over again on the way he kept repeating, "O Blacherne! Beautiful Blacherne! Bloom the roses as of old in thy gardens? Do the rivulets23 in thy alabaster24 courts still run singing to the mosaic25 angels on the walls?"
As to the date of these recollections, if, as the poets tell us, time is like a flowing river, and memory a bridge for the conveniency of the soul returning to its experiences, how far had this man to travel the structure before reaching the Blacherne he formerly26 knew? Over what tremendous spaces between piers27 did it carry him!
The street traversed by the Prince carried him first to the Grate of St. Peter on the Golden Horn, and thence, almost parallel with the city wall, to Balat, a private landing belonging to the Emperor, at present known as the gate of Blacherne.
At the edge of an area marble paved, the people stopped, it being the limit of their privilege. Crossing the pavement, the visitor was set down in front of the Grand Gate of the Very High Residence. History, always abominating28 lapses29, is yet more tender of some places than others. There, between flanking towers, an iron-plated valve strong enough to defy attack by any of the ancient methods was swung wide open, ready nevertheless to be rolled to at set of sun. The guard halted the Prince, and an officer took his name, and apologizing for a brief delay, disappeared with it. Alighting from his sedan, the worthy30 proceeded to take observation and muse31 while waiting.
The paved area on which he stood was really the bottom of a well-defined valley which ran off and up irregularly toward the southeast, leaving an ascent32 on its right memorable33 as the seventh hill of Constantinople. A stone wall marked here and there by sentinel boxes, each with a red pennon on its top, straggled down along the foot of the ascent to the Grand Gate. There between octangular towers loopholed and finished battlement style was a covered passage suggestive of Egypt. Two Victories in high relief blew trumpets34 at each other across the entrance front. Ponderous35 benches of porphyry, polished smooth by ages of usage, sat one on each side for the guards; fellows in helmets of shining brass36, cuirasses of the same material inlaid with silver, greaves, and shoes stoutly37 buckled38. Those of them sitting sprawled39 their bulky limbs broadly over the benches. The few standing40 seemed like selected giants, with blond beards and blue eyes, and axes at least three spans in length along their whetted42 edges. The Prince recognized the imperial guards--Danes, Saxons, Germans, and Swiss--their nationalities merged43 into the corps44 entitled Varangians.
Conscious, but unmindful of their stare, he kept his stand, and swept the hill from bottom to top, giving free rein45 to memory.
In 449 A. D.--he remembered the year and the circumstance well--an earthquake threw down the wall then enclosing the city. Theodosius restored it, leaving the whole height outside of this northwestern part a preserve wooded, rocky, but with one possession which had become so infinitely46 sanctified in Byzantine estimation as to impart the quality to all its appurtenances, that was the primitive47 but Very Holy Church of Blacherne, dedicated48 to the Virgin49.
Near the church there was a pleasure house to which the Emperors, vainly struggling to escape the ceremonies the clergy50 had fastened upon them to the imbitterment of life, occasionally resorted, and down on the shore of the Golden Horn a zoological garden termed the Cynegion had been established. The latter afterwhile came to have a gallery in which the public was sometimes treated to games and combats between lions, tigers, and elephants. There also criminals and heretics were frequently carried and flung to the beasts.
Nor did the Prince fail to recall that in those cycles the sovereigns resided preferably in the Bucoleon, eastwardly51 by the sea of Marmora. He remembered some of them as acquaintances with whom he had been on close terms--Justinian, Heraclius, Irene, and the Porphyrogentes.
The iconoclastic52 masters of that cluster of magnificent tenements53, the Bucoleon, had especial claims upon his recollection. Had he not incited54 them to many of their savageries? They were incidents, it is true, sadly out of harmony with his present dream; still their return now was with a certain fluttering of the spirit akin55 to satisfaction, for the victims in nearly every case had been Christians56, and his business of life then was vengeance57 for the indignities58 and sufferings inflicted59 on his countrymen.
With a more decided60 flutter, he remembered a scheme he put into effect just twenty years after the restoration of the wall by Theodosius. In the character of a pious61 Christianized Israelite resident in Jerusalem, he pretended to have found the vestments of the Holy Mother of Christ. The discovery was of course miraculous62, and he reported it circumstantially to the Patriarchs Galvius and Candidus. For the glory of God and the exaltation of the Faith, they brought the relics63 to Constantinople. There, amidst most solemn pomp, the Emperor assisting, they were deposited in the Church of Saints Peter and Mark, to be transferred a little later to their final resting-place in the holier Church of the Virgin of Blacherne. There was a world of pious propriety64 in the idea that as the vestments belonged to the Mother of God they would better become her own house. The Himation or Maphorion, as the robe of the Virgin was called, brought the primitive edifice65 in the woods above the Cynegion a boundless66 increase of sanctity, while the discoverer received the freedom of the city, the reverence67 of the clergy, and the confidence of the Basileus.
Nor did the prodigious68 memory stay there. The hill facing the city was of three terraces. On the second one, half hidden among cypress69 and plane trees, he beheld70 a building, low, strong, and, from his direction, showing but one window. Some sixteen years previous, during his absence in Cipango, a fire had destroyed the Church of the Virgin, and owing to the poverty of the people and empire, the edifice had not been rebuilt. This lesser71 unpretentious structure was the Chapel72 of Blacherne which the flames had considerately spared. He recognized it instantly, and remembered it as full of inestimable relics--amongst them the Himation, considered indestructible; the Holy Cross which Heraclius, in the year 635, had brought from Jerusalem, and delivered to Sergius; and the Panagia Blachernitissa, or All Holy Banner of the Image of the Virgin. Then rose another reminiscence, and though to reach him it had to fly across a chasm73 of hundreds of years, it presented itself with the distinctness of an affair of yesterday. In 626, Heraclius being Emperor, a legion of Avars and Persians sacked Scutari, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, and laid siege to Constantinople. The Byzantines were in awful panic; and they would have yielded themselves had not Sergius the Patriarch been in control. With a presence of mind equal to the occasion, he brought the Panagia forth74, and supported by an army of clerics and monks75, traversed the walls, waving the All Holy Banner. A volley of arrows from invisible archers77 fell upon the audacious infidels, and the havoc78 was dreadful; they fled, and their prince, the Khagan, fled with them, declaring he had seen a woman in shining garments but of awful presence on the walls. The woman was the Holy Mother; and with a conceit79 easily mistaken for gratitude80, the Byzantines declared their capital thenceforward guarded by God. When they went out to the Church in the Woods and found it unharmed by the enemy, they were persuaded the Mother had adopted them; in return, what could they else than adopt her? Pisides, the poet, composed a hymn81, to glorify82 her. The Church consecrated83 the day of the miraculous deliverance a fete day observable by Greeks forever. The Emperor removed the old building, and on its site raised another of a beauty more expressive84 of devotion. To secure it from ravage85 and profanation86, he threw a strong wall around the whole venerated87 hill, and by demolishing88 the ancient work of Theodosius, made Blacherne a part of the city.
By and by the Church required enlargement, and it was then cruci-formed by the addition of transepts right and left. Still later, a Chapel was erected89 specially90 for the relics and the All Holy Banner. This was contiguous to the Church, and besides being fireproof, it covered a spring of pure water, afterwards essential in many splendid ceremonies civil as well as religious. The Chamber91 of Relics was prohibited to all but the Basileus. He alone could enter it. By great favor, the Prince of India was once permitted to look into the room, and he remembered it large and dimly lighted, its shadows alive, however, with the glitter of silver and gold in every conceivable form, offered there as the Wise Men laid their gifts before the Child in the Cave of the Nativity.
Again and again the Church was burned, yet the Chapel escaped. It seemed an object of divine protection. The sea might deliver tempests against the Seven Hills, earthquakes shake the walls down and crack the hanging dome17 of St. Sophia, cinders92 whiten paths from the porphyry column over by the Hippodrome to the upper terrace of Blacherne; yet the Chapel escaped--yet the holy fountain in its crypt flowed on purer growing as the centuries passed.
The Prince, whose memories we are but weaving into words, did not wonder at the increase of veneration93 attaching to the Chapel and its precious deposits--manuscripts, books, bones, flags, things personal to the Apostles, the Saints, the Son and His Mother, parings of their nails, locks of their hair, spikes94 and splinters of the Cross itself--he did not wonder at it, or smile, for he knew there is a devotional side to every man which wickedness may blur95 but cannot obliterate96. He himself was going about the world convinced that the temple of Solomon was the House of God.
The guards sprawling97 on the benches kept staring at him; one of them let his axe41 fall without so much as attracting the Prince's attention. His memory, with a hold on him too firm to be disturbed by such trifles, insisted on its resurrectionary work, and returned him to the year 865. Constantinople was again besieged98, this time by a horde99 from the Russian wilderness100 under the chiefs Dir and Askold. They had passed the upper sea in hundreds of boats, and disembarking on the European shore, marched down the Bosphorus, leaving all behind them desolate101. Photius was then Patriarch. When the fleet was descried102 from the walls, he prevailed on the Emperor to ask the intervention103 of the Virgin. The Maphorion or Sacred Eobe was brought out, and in presence of the people on their knees, the clergy singing the hymn of Pisides, the holy man plunged104 it into the waves.
A wind arose under which the water in its rocky trough was as water in a shaken bowl. The ships of the invaders105 sunk each other. Not one survived. Of the men, those who lived came up out of the vortexes praying to be taken to the Church of Blacherne for baptism. This was two hundred years and more after the first deliverance of the city, and yet the Mother was faithful to her chosen!--Constantinople was still the guarded of God!-- The Penagia was still the All Holy! Having repulsed106 the Muscovite invasion, what excuse for his blasphemy107 would there be left the next to challenge its terrors?
The Prince of India saw the blackened walls of the burned Church, an appealing spectacle which the surrounding trees tried to cover with their foliage108, but could not; then he lifted his eyes to the Palace upon the third terrace.
To the hour decay sets in the touches of Time are usually those of an artist who loves his subject, and wishes merely to soften109 or ennoble its expression. So had he dealt with the Very High Residence.
It began in the low ground down by the Cynegion, and arose with the city wall, which was in fact its southwestern front. Though always spoken of in the singular, like the Bucoleon, it was a collection of palaces, vast, irregular, and declarative of the taste of the different eras they severally memorialized. The spaces between them formed courts and places under cover; yet as the architects had adhered to the idea of a main front toward the northeast, there appeared a certain unity110 of design in the structures.
This main front, now under the Prince's view, was frequently broken, advancing here, retreating there; one section severely111 plain and sombre; another relieved by porticos with figured friezes112 resting on tall columns. The irregularities were pleasing; some of them were stately; and they were all helped not a little by domes16 and pavilions without which the roof lines would have been monotonous113.
Lifting his gaze up the ascent from the low ground, it rested presently on a Tower built boldly upon the Heraclian wall. This was the highest pinnacle114 of the Palace, first to attract the observer, longest to hold his attention. No courier was required to tell its history to him through whose eyes we are now looking--it was the tower of Isaac Angelus. How clearly its outlines cut the cloudless sky! How strong it seemed up there, as if built by giants! Yet with windows behind balconies, how airy and graceful115 withal! The other hills of the city, and the populated valleys between the hills, spread out below it, like an unrolled map. The warders of the Bucoleon, or what is now Point Serail, the home-returning mariner116 shipping117 oars118 off Scutari, the captain of the helmeted column entering the Golden Gate down by the Seven Towers, the insolent119 Genoese on the wharves120 of Galata, had only to look up, and lo! the perch121 of Isaac. And when, as often must have happened, the privileged lord himself sat midafternoons on the uppermost balcony of the Tower, how the prospect122 soothed123 the fever of his spirit! If he were weary of the city, there was the Marmora, always ready to reiterate124 the hues125 of the sky, and in it the Isles126 of the Princes, their verdurous shades permeated127 with dreamful welcome to the pleasure-seeker as well as the monk76; or if he longed for a further flight, old Asia made haste with enticing128 invitation to some of the villas129 strewing130 its littoral131 behind the Isles; and yonder, to the eye fainting in the distance, scarce more than a pale blue boundary cloud, the mountain beloved by the gods, whither they were wont132 to assemble at such times as they wished to learn how it fared with Ilium and the sons of Priam, or to enliven their immortality133 with loud symposia134. A prospect so composed would seem sufficient, if once seen, to make a blind man's darkness perpetually luminous135.
Sometimes, however, the superlative magnate preferred the balcony on the western side of the Tower. There he could sit in the shade, cooled by waftures from a wide campania southward, or, peering over the balustrade, watch the peasantry flitting through the breaks of the Kosmidion, now the purlieus of Eyoub.
Again the Prince was carried back through centuries. It had been determined136 to build at Blacherne; but the hill was steep. How could spaces be gained for foundations, for courts and gardens? The architects pondered the problem. At last one of bolder genius came forward. We will accept the city wall for a western front, he said, and build from it; and for levels, allow us to commence at the foot of the height, and rear arches upon arches. The proposal was accepted; and thereafter for years the quarter was cumbered with brick and skeleton frames, and workingmen were numerous and incessantly137 busy as colonized138 ants. Thus the ancient pleasure house disappeared, and the first formal High Residence took its place; at the same time the Bucoleon, for so many ages the glory of Constantinople, was abandoned by its masters.
Who was the first permanent occupant of the Palace of Blacherne? The memory, theretofore so prompt, had now no reply. No matter--the Prince recalled sessions had with Angelus on the upper balcony yonder. He remembered them on account of his host one day saying: "Here I am safe." The next heard of him he was a captive and blind.
Passing on rapidly, he remembered the appearance of Peter the Hermit139 in the gorgeous reception room of the Palace in 1096. Quite as distinctly, he also remembered the audience Alexis I. tendered Godfrey of Bouillon and his Barons140 in the same High Residence.
What a contrast the host and his guests presented that day! The latter were steel clad from head to foot and armed for battle, while Alexis was a spectacle of splendor141 unheard of in the barbarous West. How the preachers and eunuchs in the silk-gowned train of the one trembled as the redoubtables of the West mangled142 the velvet carpets with their cruel spurs! How peculiarly the same redoubtables studied the pearls on the yellow stole of the wily Comnene and the big jewels in his Basilean mitre--as if they were counting and weighing them mentally, preliminary to casting up at leisure a total of value! And the table ware--this plate and yon bowl--were they really gold or some cunning deception143? The Greeks were so treacherous144! And when the guests were gone, the Greeks, on their part, were not in the least surprised at the list of spoons and cups subtly disappeared--gifts, they supposed, intended by the noble "Crosses" for the most Holy Altar in Jerusalem!
Still other remembrances of the Prince revived at sight of the Palace--many others--amongst them, how the Varangians beat the boastful Montferrat and the burly Count of Flanders in the assault of 1203, specially famous for the gallantry of old Dandolo, operating with his galleys145 on the side of the Golden Horn. Brave fellows, those Varangians! Was the corps well composed now as then? He glanced at the lusty examples before him on the stone benches, thinking they might shortly have to answer the question.
These reminiscences, it must not be forgotten, were of brief passage with the Prince, much briefer than the time taken in writing them. They were interrupted by the appearance of a military official whose uniform and easy manner bespoke146 palace life. He begged to be informed if he had the honor of addressing the Prince of India; and being affirmatively assured, he announced himself sent to conduct him to His Majesty. The hill was steep, and the way somewhat circuitous147; did the Prince need assistance? The detention148, he added, was owing to delay in getting intelligence of the Prince's arrival to His Majesty, who had been closely engaged, arranging for certain ceremonies which were to occur in the evening. Perhaps His Majesty had appointed the audience imagining the ceremonies might prove entertaining to the Prince. These civilities, and others, were properly responded to, and presently the cortege was in motion.
The lower terrace was a garden of singular perfection.
On the second terrace, the party came to the ruined Church where, during a halt, the officer told of the fire. His Majesty had registered a vow149, he said, at the end of the story, to rebuild the edifice in a style superior to any former restoration.
The Prince, while listening, observed the place. Excepting the Church, it was as of old. There the grove150 of cypresses151, very ancient, and tall and dark. There, too, the Chapel of purplish stone, and at one side of it the sentry152 box and bench, and what seemed the identical detail of Varangians on duty. There the enclosed space between the edifices153, and the road across the pavement to the next terrace only a little deeper worn. There the arched gateway154 of massive masonry155 through which the road conducted, the carving156 about it handsome as ever; and there, finally, from the base of the Chapel, the brook157, undiminished in volume and song, ran off out of sight into the grove, an old acquaintance of the Prince's.
Moving on through the arched way, the guide led up to the third and last terrace. Near the top there was a cut, and on its right embankment a party of workmen spreading and securing a canopy158 of red cloth.
"Observe, O Prince," the officer said. "From this position, if I mistake not, you will witness the ceremony I mentioned as in preparation."
The guest had time to express his gratification, when the Palace of Blacherne, the Very High Residence, burst upon him in long extended view, a marvel159 of imperial prodigality160 and Byzantine genius.
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