Domum mansit — lanam fecit.
Ancient Roman Epitaph.
She keepit close the hous, and birlit at the quhele.
Gawain Douglas.
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly, makes the same gradual change in habits, manners, and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another, and yet the same — there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives1 as well as of actions. Nearly twice that space had glided2 away over the head of Halbert Glendinning and his lady, betwixt the period of our former narrative3, in which they played a distinguished4 part, and the date at which our present tale commences.
Two circumstances only had imbittered their union, which was otherwise as happy as mutual5 affection could render it. The first of these was indeed the common calamity6 of Scotland, being the distracted state of that unhappy country, where every man’s sword was directed against his neighbour’s bosom7. Glendinning had proved what Murray expected of him, a steady friend, strong in battle, and wise in counsel, adhering to him, from motives of gratitude8, in situations where by his own unbiassed will he would either have stood neuter, or have joined the opposite party. Hence, when danger was near — and it was seldom far distant — Sir Halbert Glendinning, for he now bore the rank of knighthood, was perpetually summoned to attend his patron on distant expeditions, or on perilous10 enterprises, or to assist him with his counsel in the doubtful intrigues11 of a half-barbarous court. He was thus frequently, and for a long space, absent from his castle and from his lady; and to this ground of regret we must add, that their union had not been blessed with children, to occupy the attention of the Lady of Avenel, while she was thus deprived of her husband’s domestic society.
On such occasions she lived almost entirely12 secluded13 from the world, within the walls of her paternal14 mansion15. Visiting amongst neighbors was a matter entirely out of the question, unless on occasions of solemn festival, and then it was chiefly confined to near kindred. Of these the Lady of Avenel had none who survived, and the dames16 of the neighbouring barons18 affected19 to regard her less as the heiress of the house of Avenel than as the wife of a peasant, the son of a church-vassal, raised up to mushroom eminence20 by the capricious favour of Murray.
The pride of ancestry21, which rankled22 in the bosom of the ancient gentry23, was more openly expressed by their ladies, and was, moreover, imbittered not a little by the political feuds24 of the time, for most of the Southern chiefs were friends to the authority of the Queen, and very jealous of the power of Murray. The Castle of Avenel was, therefore, on all these accounts, as melancholy25 and solitary26 a residence for its lady as could well be imagined. Still it had the essential recommendation of great security. The reader is already aware that the fortress27 was built upon an islet on a small lake, and was only accessible by a causeway, intersected by a double ditch, defended by two draw-bridges, so that without artillery28, it might in those days be considered as impregnable. It was only necessary, therefore, to secure against surprise, and the service of six able men within the castle was sufficient for that purpose. If more serious danger threatened, an ample garrison29 was supplied by the male inhabitants of a little hamlet, which, under the auspices30 of Halbert Glendinning, had arisen on a small piece of level ground, betwixt the lake and the hill, nearly adjoining to the spot where the causeway joined the mainland. The Lord of Avenel had found it an easy matter to procure31 inhabitants, as he was not only a kind and beneficent overlord, but well qualified32, both by his experience in arms, his high character for wisdom and integrity, and his favour with the powerful Earl of Murray, to protect and defend those who dwelt under his banner. In leaving his castle for any length of time, he had, therefore, the consolation33 to reflect, that this village afforded, on the slightest notice, a band of thirty stout34 men, which was more than sufficient for its defence; while the families of the villagers, as was usual on such occasions, fled to the recesses35 of the mountains, drove their cattle to the same places of shelter, and left the enemy to work their will on their miserable36 cottages.
One guest only resided generally, if not constantly, at the Castle of Avenel. This was Henry Warden37, who now felt himself less able for the stormy task imposed on the reforming clergy38; and having by his zeal39 given personal offence to many of the leading nobles and chiefs, did not consider himself as perfectly40 safe, unless when within the walls of the strong mansion of some assured friend. He ceased not, however, to serve his cause as eagerly with his pen, as he had formerly41 done with his tongue, and had engaged in a furious and acrimonious42 contest, concerning the sacrifice of the mass, as it was termed, with the Abbot Eustatius, formerly the Sub-Prior of Kennaquhair. Answers, replies, duplies, triplies, quadruplies, followed thick upon each other, and displayed, as is not unusual in controversy43, fully44 as much zeal as Christian45 charity. The disputation very soon became as celebrated46 as that of John Knox and the Abbot of Crosraguel, raged nearly as fiercely, and, for aught I know, the publications to which it gave rise may be as precious in the eyes of bibliographers. 1 But the engrossing47 nature of his occupation rendered the theologian not the most interesting companion for a solitary female; and his grave, stern, and absorbed deportment, which seldom showed any interest, except in that which concerned his religious profession, made his presence rather add to than diminish the gloom which hung over the Castle of Avenel. To superintend the tasks of numerous female domestics, was the principal part of the Lady’s daily employment; her spindle and distaff, her Bible, and a solitary walk upon the battlements of the castle, or upon the causeway, or occasionally, but more seldom, upon the banks of the little lake, consumed the rest of the day. But so great was the insecurity of the period, that when she ventured to extend her walk beyond the hamlet, the warder on the watch-tower was directed to keep a sharp look-out in every direction, and four or five men held themselves in readiness to mount and sally forth49 from the castle on the slightest appearance of alarm.
Thus stood affairs at the castle, when, after an absence of several weeks, the Knight9 of Avenel, which was now the title most frequently given to Sir Halbert Glendinning, was daily expected to return home. Day after day, however, passed away, and he returned not. Letters in those days were rarely written, and the Knight must have resorted to a secretary to express his intentions in that manner; besides, intercourse50 of all kinds was precarious51 and unsafe, and no man cared to give any public intimation of the time and direction of a journey, since, if his route were publicly known, it was always likely he might in that case meet with more enemies than friends upon the road. The precise day, therefore, of Sir Halbert’s return, was not fixed52, but that which his lady’s fond expectation had calculated upon in her own mind had long since passed, and hope delayed began to make the heart sick.
It was upon the evening of a sultry summer’s day, when the sun was half-sunk behind the distant western mountains of Liddesdale, that the Lady took her solitary walk on the battlements of a range of buildings, which formed the front of the castle, where a flat roof of flag-stones presented a broad and convenient promenade53. The level surface of the lake, undisturbed except by the occasional dipping of a teal-duck, or coot, was gilded54 with the beams of the setting luminary55, and reflected, as if in a golden mirror, the hills amongst which it lay embossed. The scene, otherwise so lonely, was occasionally enlivened by the voices of the children in the village, which, softened56 by distance, reached the ear of the Lady, in her solitary walk, or by the distant call of the herdsman, as he guided his cattle from the glen in which they had pastured all day, to place them in greater security for the night, in the immediate58 vicinity of the village. The deep lowing of the cows seemed to demand the attendance of the milk-maidens59, who, singing shrilly60 and merrily, strolled forth, each with her pail on her head, to attend to the duty of the evening. The Lady of Avenel looked and listened; the sounds which she heard reminded her of former days, when her most important employment, as well as her greatest delight, was to assist Dame17 Glendinning and Tibb Tackett in milking the cows at Glendearg. The thought was fraught62 with melancholy.
“Why was I not,” she said, “the peasant girl which in all men’s eyes I seemed to be? Halbert and I had then spent our life peacefully in his native glen, undisturbed by the phantoms63 either of fear or of ambition. His greatest pride had then been to show the fairest herd57 in the Halidome; his greatest danger to repel64 some pilfering65 snatcher from the Border; and the utmost distance which would have divided us, would have been the chase of some outlying deer. But, alas66! what avails the blood which Halbert has shed, and the dangers which he encounters, to support a name and rank, dear to him because he has it from me, but which we shall never transmit to our posterity67! with me the name of Avenel must expire.”
She sighed as the reflections arose, and, looking towards the shore of the lake, her eye was attracted by a group of children of various ages, assembled to see a little ship, constructed by some village artist, perform its first voyage on the water. It was launched amid the shouts of tiny voices and the clapping of little hands, and shot bravely forth on its voyage with a favouring wind, which promised to carry it to the other side of the lake. Some of the bigger boys ran round to receive and secure it on the farther shore, trying their speed against each other as they sprang like young fawns69 along the shingly70 verge71 of the lake. The rest, for whom such a journey seemed too arduous72, remained watching the motions of the fairy vessel73 from the spot where it had been launched. The sight of their sports pressed on the mind of the childless Lady of Avenel.
“Why are none of these prattlers mine?” she continued, pursuing the tenor74 of her melancholy reflections. “Their parents can scarce find them the coarsest food — and I, who could nurse them in plenty, I am doomed75 never to hear a child call me mother!”
The thought sunk on her heart with a bitterness which resembled envy, so deeply is the desire of offspring implanted in the female breast. She pressed her hands together as if she were wringing76 them in the extremity77 of her desolate78 feeling, as one whom Heaven had written childless. A large stag-hound of the greyhound species approached at this moment, and attracted perhaps by the gesture, licked her hands and pressed his large head against them. He obtained the desired caresses79 in return, but still the sad impression remained.
“Wolf,” she said, as if the animal could have understood her complaints, “thou art a noble and beautiful animal; but, alas! the love and affection that I long to bestow80, is of a quality higher than can fall to thy share, though I love thee much.”
And, as if she were apologizing to Wolf for withholding81 from him any part of her regard, she caressed82 his proud head and crest83, while, looking in her eyes, he seemed to ask her what she wanted, or what he could do to show his attachment84. At this moment a shriek85 of distress86 was heard on the shore, from the playful group which had been lately so jovial87. The Lady looked, and saw the cause with great agony.
The little ship, the object of the children’s delighted attention, had stuck among some tufts of the plant which bears the water-lily, that marked a shoal in the lake about an arrow-flight from the shore. A hardy88 little boy, who had taken the lead in the race round the margin89 of the lake, did not hesitate a moment to strip off his wylie-coat , plunge90 into the water, and swim towards the object of their common solicitude91. The first movement of the Lady was to call for help; but she observed that the boy swam strongly and fearlessly, and as she saw that one or two villagers, who were distant spectators of the incident, seemed to give themselves no uneasiness on his account, she supposed that he was accustomed to the exercise, and that there was no danger. But whether, in swimming, the boy had struck his breast against a sunken rock, or whether he was suddenly taken with cramp92, or whether he had over-calculated his own strength, it so happened, that when he had disembarrassed the little plaything from the flags in which it was entangled93, and sent it forward on its course, he had scarce swam a few yards in his way to the shore, than he raised himself suddenly from the water, and screamed aloud, clapping his hands at the same time with an expression of fear and pain.
The Lady of Avenel, instantly taking the alarm, called hastily to the attendants to get the boat ready. But this was an affair of some time. The only boat permitted to be used on the lake, was moored94 within the second cut which intersected the canal, and it was several minutes ere it could be unmoored and got under way. Meantime, the Lady of Avenel, with agonizing95 anxiety, saw that the efforts that the poor boy made to keep himself afloat, were now exchanged for a faint struggling, which would soon have been over, but for aid equally prompt and unhoped-for. Wolf, who, like some of that large species of greyhound, was a practised water-dog, had marked the object of her anxiety, and, quitting his mistress’s side, had sought the nearest point from which he could with safety plunge into the lake. With the wonderful instinct which these noble animals have so often displayed in the like circumstances, he swam straight to the spot where his assistance was so much wanted, and seizing the child’s under-dress in his mouth, he not only kept him afloat, but towed him towards the causeway. The boat having put off with a couple of men, met the dog half-way, and relieved him of his burden. They landed on the causeway, close by the gates of the castle, with their yet lifeless charge, and were there met by the Lady of Avenel, attended by one or two of her maidens, eagerly waiting to administer assistance to the sufferer.
He was borne into the castle, deposited upon a bed, and every mode of recovery resorted to, which the knowledge of the times, and the skill of Henry Warden, who professed96 some medical science, could dictate97. For some time it was all in vain, and the Lady watched, with unspeakable earnestness, the pallid98 countenance99 of the beautiful child. He seemed about ten years old. His dress was of the meanest sort, but his long curled hair, and the noble cast of his features, partook not of that poverty of appearance. The proudest noble in Scotland might have been yet prouder could he have called that child his heir. While, with breathless anxiety, the Lady of Avenel gazed on his well-formed and expressive100 features, a slight shade of colour returned gradually to the cheek; suspended animation101 became restored by degrees, the child sighed deeply, opened his eyes, which to the human countenance produces the effect of light upon the natural landscape, stretched his arms towards the Lady, and muttered the word “Mother,” that epithet102, of all others, which is dearest to the female ear.
“God, madam,” said the preacher, “has restored the child to your wishes; it must be yours so to bring him up, that he may not one day wish that he had perished in his innocence103.”
“It shall be my charge,” said the Lady; and again throwing her arms around the boy, she overwhelmed him with kisses and caresses, so much was she agitated104 by the terror arising from the danger in which he had been just placed, and by joy at his unexpected deliverance.
“But you are not my mother,” said the boy, recovering his recollection, and endeavouring, though faintly, to escape from the caresses of the Lady of Avenel; “you are not my mother,— alas! I have no mother — only I have dreamt that I had one.”
“I will read the dream for you, my love,” answered the Lady of Avenel; “and I will be myself your mother. Surely God has heard my wishes, and, in his own marvellous manner, hath sent me an object on which my affections may expand themselves.” She looked towards Warden as she spoke105. The preacher hesitated what he should reply to a burst of passionate106 feeling, which, perhaps, seemed to him more enthusiastic than the occasion demanded. In the meanwhile, the large stag-hound, Wolf, which, dripping wet as he was, had followed his mistress into the apartment, and had sat by the bedside, a patient and quiet spectator of all the means used for resuscitation107 of the being whom he had preserved, now became impatient of remaining any longer unnoticed, and began to whine108 and fawn68 upon the Lady with his great rough paws.
“Yes,” she said, “good Wolf, and you shall be remembered also for your day’s work; and I will think the more of you for having preserved the life of a creature so beautiful.”
But Wolf was not quite satisfied with the share of attention which he thus attracted; he persisted in whining109 and pawing upon his mistress, his caresses rendered still more troublesome by his long shaggy hair being so much and thoroughly110 wetted, till she desired one of the domestics, with whom he was familiar, to call the animal out of the apartment. Wolf resisted every invitation to this purpose, until his mistress positively111 commanded him to be gone, in an angry tone; when, turning towards the bed on which the body still lay, half awake to sensation, half drowned in the meanders112 of fluctuating delirium113, he uttered a deep and savage114 growl115, curled up his nose and lips, showing his full range of white and sharpened teeth, which might have matched those of an actual wolf, and then, turning round, sullenly116 followed the domestic out of the apartment.
“It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children. What can ail48 him at the little fellow whose life he has saved?”
“Dogs,” replied the preacher, “are but too like the human race in their foibles, though their instinct be less erring117 than the reason of poor mortal man when relying upon his own unassisted powers. Jealousy118, my good lady, is a passion not unknown to them, and they often evince it, not only with respect to the preferences which they see given by their masters to individuals of their own species, but even when their rivals are children. You have caressed that child much and eagerly, and the dog considers himself as a discarded favourite.”
“It is a strange instinct,” said the Lady; “and from the gravity with which you mention it, my reverend friend, I would almost say that you supposed this singular jealousy of my favourite Wolf, was not only well founded, but justifiable119. But perhaps you speak in jest?”
“I seldom jest,” answered the preacher; “life was not lent to us to be expended120 in that idle mirth which resembles the crackling of thorns under the pot. I would only have you derive121, if it so please you, this lesson from what I have said, that the best of our feelings, when indulged to excess, may give pain to others. There is but one in which we may indulge to the utmost limit of vehemence122 of which our bosom is capable, secure that excess cannot exist in the greatest intensity123 to which it can be excited — I mean the love of our Maker124.”
“Surely,” said the Lady of Avenel, “we are commanded by the same authority to love our neighbour?”
“Ay, madam,” said Warden, “but our love to God is to be unbounded — we are to love him with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole strength. The love which the precept125 commands us to bear to our neighbour, has affixed126 to it a direct limit and qualification — we are to love our neighbour as ourself; as it is elsewhere explained by the great commandment, that we must do unto him as we would that he should do unto us. Here there is a limit, and a bound, even to the most praiseworthy of our affections, so far as they are turned upon sublunary and terrestrial objects. We are to render to our neighbour, whatever be his rank or degree, that corresponding portion of affection with which we could rationally expect we should ourselves be regarded by those standing127 in the same relation to us. Hence, neither husband nor wife, neither son nor daughter, neither friend nor relation, are lawfully128 to be made the objects of our idolatry. The Lord our God is a jealous God, and will not endure that we bestow on the creature that extremity of devotion which He who made us demands as his own share. I say to you, Lady, that even in the fairest, and purest, and most honourable129 feelings of our nature, there is that original taint130 of sin which ought to make us pause and hesitate, ere we indulge them to excess.”
“I understand not this, reverend sir,” said the Lady; “nor do I guess what I can have now said or done, to draw down on me an admonition which has something a taste of reproof131.”
“Lady,” said Warden, “I crave132 your pardon, if I have urged aught beyond the limits of my duty. But consider, whether in the sacred promise to be not only a protectress, but a mother, to this poor child, your purpose may meet the wishes of the noble knight your husband. The fondness which you have lavished133 on the unfortunate, and, I own, most lovely child, has met something like a reproof in the bearing of your household dog.— Displease134 not your noble husband. Men, as well as animals, are jealous of the affections of those they love.”
“This is too much, reverend sir,” said the Lady of Avenel, greatly offended. “You have been long our guest, and have received from the Knight of Avenel and myself that honour and regard which your character and profession so justly demand. But I am yet to learn that we have at any time authorized135 your interference in our family arrangements, or placed you as a judge of our conduct towards each other. I pray this may be forborne in future.”
“Lady,” replied the preacher, with the boldness peculiar136 to the clergy of his persuasion137 at that time, “when you weary of my admonitions — when I see that my services are no longer acceptable to you, and the noble knight your husband, I shall know that my Master wills me no longer to abide138 here; and, praying for a continuance of his best blessings139 on your family I will then, were the season the depth of winter, and the hour midnight, walk out on yonder waste, and travel forth through these wild mountains, as lonely and unaided, though far more helpless, than when I first met your husband in the valley of Glendearg. But while I remain here, I will not see you err61 from the true path, no, not a hair’s-breadth, without making the old man’s voice and remonstrance140 heard.”
“Nay, but,” said the Lady, who both loved and respected the good man, though sometimes a little offended at what she conceived to be an exuberant141 degree of zeal, “we will not part this way, my good friend. Women are quick and hasty in their feelings; but, believe me, my wishes and my purposes towards this child are such as both my husband and you will approve of.” The clergyman bowed, and retreated to his own apartment.
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