First Carrier. — What, ostler! — a plague on thee, hast never an eye in thy head! Canst thou not hear? An ’twere not as good a deed as drink to break the pate1 of thee, I am a very villain2 — Come, and be banged — Hast thou no faith in thee?
Gadskill. — I pray thee, lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding in the stable.
Second carrier: — Nay3, soft, I pray you — I know a trick worth two of that.
Gadskill. — I prithee lend me thine.
Third Carrier. — Ay, when? Canst tell? — Lend thee my lantern, quotha?
Marry, I’ll see thee hanged first.
Henry IV.
The social spirit peculiar4 to the French nation bad already introduced into the inns of that country the gay and cheerful character of welcome, upon which Erasmus, at a later period, dwells with strong emphasis, as a contrast to the saturnine5 and sullen6 reception which strangers were apt to meet with at a German caravansera. Philipson was, therefore, in expectation of being received by the busy, civil, and talkative host — by the hostess and her daughter, all softness, coquetry, and glee — the smiling and supple7 waiter — the officious and dimpled chambermaid. The better inns in France boast also separate rooms, where strangers could change or put in order their dress, where they might sleep without company in their bedroom, and where they could deposit their baggage in privacy and safety. But all these luxuries were as yet unknown in Germany; and in Alsace, where the scene now lies, as well as in the other dependencies of the Empire, they regarded as effeminacy everything beyond such provisions as were absolutely necessary for the supply of the wants of travellers; and even these were coarse and indifferent, and, excepting in the article of wine, sparingly ministered.
The Englishman, finding that no one appeared at the gate, began to make his presence known by calling aloud, and finally by alighting, and smiting9 with all his might on the doors of the hostelry for a long time, without attracting the least attention. At length the head of a grizzled servitor was thrust out of a small window, who, in a voice which sounded like that of one displeased10 at the interruption, rather than hopeful of advantage from the arrival of a guest, demanded what he wanted.
“Is this an inn?” replied Philipson.
“Yes,” bluntly replied the domestic, and was about to withdraw from the window, when the traveller added, — “And if it be, can I have lodgings11?”
“You may come in,” was the short and dry answer.
“Send some one to take the horses,” replied Philipson. No one is at leisure,” replied this most repulsive12 of waiters; “you must litter down your horses yourself, in the way that likes you best.”
“Where is the stable?” said the merchant, whose prudence13 and temper were scarce proof against this Dutch phlegm.
The fellow, who seemed as sparing of his words, as if, like the Princess in the fairy tale, he had dropped ducats with each of them, only pointed14 to a door in an outer building, more resembling that of a cellar than of a stable, and, as if weary of the conference, drew in his head, and shut the window sharply against the guest, as he would against an importunate15 beggar.
Cursing the spirit of independence which left a traveller to his own resources and exertions16, Philipson, making a virtue17 of necessity, led the two nags18 towards the door pointed out as that of the stable, and was rejoiced at heart to see light glimmering19 through its chinks. He entered with his charge into a place very like the dungeon20 vault21 of an ancient castle, rudely fitted up with some racks and mangers. It was of considerable extent in point of length, and at the lower end two or three persons were engaged in tying up their horses, dressing23 them, and dispensing24 them their provender25.
This last article was delivered by the ostler, a very old lame26 man, who neither put his hand to wisp nor curry-comb, but sat weighing forth27 hay by the pound, and counting out corn, as it seemed, by the grain, so anxiously did he bend over his task, by the aid of a blinking light enclosed within a horn lantern. He did not even turn his head at the noise which the Englishman made on entering the place with two additional horses, far less did he seem disposed to give himself the least trouble, or the stranger the smallest assistance.
In respect of cleanliness, the stable of Augeas bore no small resemblance to that of this Alsatian dorff; and it would have been an exploit worthy28 of Hercules to have restored it to such a state of cleanliness as would have made it barely decent in the eyes, and tolerable to the nostrils29, of the punctilious30 Englishman. But this was a matter which disgusted Philipson himself much more than those of his party which were principally concerned. They, videlicet the two horses, seeming perfectly31 to understand that the rule of the place was, “first come first served,” hastened to occupy the empty stalls which happened to be nearest to them. In this one of them at least was disappointed, being received by a groom32 with a blow across the face with a switch.
“Take that,” said the fellow, “for forcing thyself into the place taken up for the horses of the Baron33 of Randelsheim.”
Never in the course of his life had the English merchant more pain to retain possession of his temper than at that moment. Reflecting, however, on the discredit34 of quarrelling with such a man in such a cause, he contented35 himself with placing the animal, thus repulsed36 from the stall he had chosen, into one next to that of his companion, to which no one seemed to lay claim.
The merchant then proceeded, notwithstanding the fatigue37 of the day, to pay all that attention to the mute companions of his journey, which they deserve from every traveller who has any share of prudence, to say nothing of humanity. The unusual degree of trouble which Philipson took to arrange his horses, although his dress, and much more his demeanor38 seemed to place him above this species of servile labor39, appeared to make an impression even upon the iron insensibility of the old ostler himself. He showed more alacrity40 in furnishing the traveller, who knew the business of a groom so well, with corn, straw, and hay, though in small quantity, and at exorbitant41 rates, which were instantly to be paid; nay, he even went as far as the door of the stable, that he might point across the court to the well, from which Philipson was obliged to fetch water with his own hands. The duties of the stable being finished, the merchant concluded that he had gained such an interest with the grim master of the horse, as to learn of him whether he might leave his bales safely in the stable.
“You may leave them if you will,” said the ostler; “but touching42 their safety, you will do much more wisely if you take them with you, and give no temptation to any one by suffering them to pass from under your own eyes.”
So saving, the man of oats closed his oracular jaws43, nor could he be prevailed upon to unlock them again by any inquiry44 which his customer could devise.
In the course of this cold and comfortless reception, Philipson recollected45 the necessity of supporting the character of a prudent46 and wary47 trader, which he had forgotten once before in the course of the day; and, imitating what he saw the others do, who had been, like himself, engaged in taking charge of their horses, he took up his baggage, and removed himself and his property to the inn. Here he was suffered to enter, rather than admitted, into the general or public stube, or room of entertainment, which, like the ark of the patriarch, received all ranks without distinction, whether clean or unclean.
The stube, or stove, of a German inn, derived48 its name from the great hypocaust, which is always strongly heated to secure the warmth of the apartment in which it is placed. There travellers of every age and description assembled — there their upper garments were indiscriminately hung up around the stove to dry or to air — and the guests themselves were seen employed in various acts of ablution or personal arrangement, which are generally, in modern times, referred to the privacy of the dressing-room.
The more refined feelings of the Englishman were disgusted with this scene, and he was reluctant to mingle49 in it. For this reason he inquired for the private retreat of the landlord himself, trusting that, by some of the arguments powerful among his tribe, he might obtain separate quarters from the crowd, and a morsel50 of food, to be eaten in private. A gray-haired Ganymede, to whom he put the question where the landlord was, indicated a recess51 behind the huge stove, where, veiling his glory in a very dark and extremely hot corner, it pleased the great man to obscure himself from vulgar gaze. There was something remarkable52 about this person. Short, stout53, bandylegged, and consequential54, he was in these respects like many brethren of the profession in all countries. But the countenance56 of the man, and still more his manners, differed more from the merry host of France or England, than even the experienced Philipson was prepared to expect. He knew German customs too well to expect the suppliant57 and serviceable qualities of the master of a French inn, or even the more blunt and frank manners of an English landlord. But such German innkeepers as he had yet seen, though indeed arbitrary and peremptory58 in their country fashions, yet, being humored in these, they, like tyrants59 in their hours of relaxation60, dealt kindly61 with the guests over whom their sway extended, and mitigated62, by jest and jollity, the harshness of their absolute power. But this man’s brow was like a tragic63 volume, in which you were as unlikely to find anything of jest or amusement, as in a hermit’s breviary. His answers were short, sudden, and repulsive, and the air and manner with which they were delivered was as surly as their tenor64; which will appear from the following dialogue betwixt him and his guest.
“Good host,” said Philipson, in the mildest tone he could assume, “I am fatigued65, and far from well — May I request to have a separate apartment, a cup of wine, and a morsel of food, in my private chamber8?”
“You may,” answered the landlord; but with a look strangely at variance66 with the apparent acquiescence67 which his words naturally implied.
“Let me have such accommodation, then, with your earliest convenience.”
“Soft!” replied the innkeeper. “I have said that you may request these things, but not that I would grant them. If you would insist on being served differently from others, it must be at another inn than mine.”
“Well, then,” said the traveller, “I will shift without supper for a night — nay, more, I will be content to pay for a supper which I do not eat, if you will cause me to be accommodated with a private apartment.”
“Seignol traveller,” said the innkeeper, “every one here must be accommodated as well as you, since all pay alike.
Whoso comes to this house of entertainment must eat as others eat, drink as others drink, sit at table with the rest of my guests, and go to bed when the company have done drinking.”
“All this,” said Philipson, humbling68 himself where anger would have been ridiculous, “is highly reasonable; and I do not oppose myself to your laws or customs. But,” added he, taking his purse from his girdle, “sickness craves69 some privilege; and when the patient is willing to pay for it, methinks the rigor70 of your laws may admit of some mitigation?”
“I keep an inn, Seignor, and not a hospital. If you remain here, you shall be served with the same attention as others, — if you are not willing to do as others do, leave my house and seek another inn.”
On receiving this decisive rebuff, Philipson gave up the contest, and retired71 from the sanctum sanctorum of his ungracious host, to await the arrival of supper, penned up like a bullock in a pound amongst the crowded inhabitants of the stube. Some of these, exhausted72 by fatigue, snored away the interval73 between their own arrival and that of the expected repast; others again played at dice74, or such games as might serve to consume the time. The company were of various ranks, from those who were apparently75 wealthy and well appointed, to some whose garments and manners indicated that they were but just beyond the grasp of poverty.
A begging friar, a man apparently of a gay and pleasant temper, approached Philipson, and engaged him in conversation. The Englishman was well enough acquainted with the world to be aware, that whatever of his character and purpose it was desirable to conceal76, would be best hidden under a sociable77 and open demeanor. He, therefore, received the friar’s approaches graciously, and conversed78 with him upon the state of Lorraine, and the interest which the Duke of Burgundy’s attempt to seize that fief into his own hands was likely to create both in France and Germany. On these subjects, satisfied with hearing his fellow-traveller’s sentiments, Philipson expressed no opinion of his own, but after receiving such intelligence as the friar chose to communicate, preferred rather to talk upon the geography of the country, the facilities afforded to commerce, and the rules which obstructed79 or favored trade.
While he was thus engaged in the conversation which seemed most to belong to his profession, the landlord suddenly entered the room, and, mounting on the head of an old barrel, glanced his eye slowly and steadily80 round the crowded apartment, and then he had completed his survey, pronounced, in a decisive tone, the double command — “Shut the gates — Spread the table.”
“The Baron St. Antonio be praised,” said the friar, “our landlord has given up hope of any more guests to-night, until which blessed time we might have starved for want of food before he had relieved us. Ay, here comes the cloth, the old gates of the courtyard are now bolted fast enough, and when Iohann Mengs has once said, ‘ Shut the gates,.’ the strange may knock on the outside as he will, but we may rest assured that it shall not be opened to him.”
“Meinherr Mengs maintains strict discipline in his house,” said the Englishman.
“As absolute as the Duke of Burgundy,” answered the friar. After ten o’clock, no admittance — the ‘seek another inn,’ which is before that a conditional81 hint, becomes, after the clock has struck, and the watchmen have begun their rounds, an absolute order of exclusion82. He that is without remains83 without, and he that is within must, in like manner, continue there until the gates open at break of day. Till then the house is almost like a beleaguered84 citadel85, John Mengs its seneschal — ”
“And we its captives, good father,” said Philipson. “Well, content am I; a wise traveller must submit to the control of the leaders of the people, when he travels; and I hope a goodly fat potentate86, like John Mengs, will be as clement87 as his station and dignity admit of.”
“While they were talking in this manner, the aged22 waiter, with many a weary sigh, and many a groan88, had drawn89 out certain boards, by which a table, that stood in the midst of the stube, had the capacity of being extended, so as to contain the company present, and covered it with a cloth, which was neither distinguished90 by extreme cleanliness nor fineness of texture91. On this table, when it had been accommodated to receive the necessary number of guests, a wooden trencher and spoon, together with a glass drinking cup, were placed before each, he being expected to serve himself with his own knife for the other purposes of the table. As for forks, they were unknown until a much later period, all the Europeans of that day making the same use of the fingers to select their morsels92 and transport them to the mouth, which the Asiatics now practise.
The board was so sooner arranged than the hungry guests hastened to occupy their seats around it; for which purpose the sleepers93 were awakened95, the dicers resigned their game, and the idlers and politicians broke off their sage96 debates, in order to secure their station at the supper-table, and be ready to perform their part in the interesting solemnity which seemed anout to take place. But there is much between the cup and the lip, and not less sometimes between the covering of a table and he placing food upon it. The guests sat in order, each with his knife drawn, already menacing the victuals97 which were still subject to the operations of the cook. They had waited with various degrees of patience for full half-an-hour, when at length the old attendant before mentioned entered with a pitcher98 of thin Moselle wine, so light and so sharp-tasted, that Philipson put down his cup with every tooth in his head set on edge by the slender portion which he had swallowed. The landlord, John Mengs, who had assumed a seat somewhat elevated at the head of the table, did not omit to observe this mark of insubordination, and to animadvert upon it. “The wine likes you not, I think, my master!” said he to the English merchant.
“For wine, no,” answered Philipson; “but, could I see anything requiring such sauce, I have seldom seen better vinegar.”
This jest, though uttered in the most calm and composed manner, seemed to drive the innkeeper to fury.
“Who are you,” he exclaimed, “for a foreign pedler, that ventures to quarrel with my wine, which has been approved of by so many princes, dukes, reigning99 dukes, graves, rhinegraves, counts, barons100, and knights101 of the Empire, whose shoes you are altogether unworthy even to clean? Was it not of this wine that the Count Palatine of Nimmersatt drank six quarts before he ever rose from the blessed chair in which I now sit?”
“I doubt it not, mine host,” said Philipson; “nor should I think of scandalizing the sobriety of your honorable: guest, even if he had had drunken twice the quantity.”
“Silence, thou malicious102 railer!” said the host; “and let instant apology be made to me, and the wine which you have calumniated103, or I will instantly command the supper to be postponed104 till midnight.”
Here there was a general alarm among the guests, all abjuring105 any part in the censures106 of Philipson, and most of them proposing that John Mengs should avenge107 himself on the actual culprit, by turning him instantly out of doors, rather than involve so many innocent and famished108 persons in the consequence~ of his guilt109. The wine they pronounced excellent; some two of three even drank their glass out, to make their words good; and they all offered, if not with lives and fortunes, at least with hands and feet, to support the ban of the house against the contumacious110 Englishman. While petition and remonstrance111 were assailing112 John Mengs on every side, the friar, like a wise counsellor, and a trusty friend, endeavored to end the feud113, by advising Philipson to submit to the host’s sovereignty.
“Humble thyself, my son,” he said; “bend the stubbornness of thy heart before the great lord of the spigot and butt114. I speak for the sake of others as well as my own; for Heaven alone knows how much longer they or I can endure this extenuating115 fast!”
“Worthy guests,” said Philipson, “I am grieved to have offended our respected host, and am so far from objecting to the wine, that I will pay for a double flagon of it, to be served all round to this honorable company — so, only, they do not ask me to share of it.”
These last words were spoken aside; but the Englishman could not fail to perceive, from the wry117 mouths of some of the party who were possessed118 of a nicer palate, that they were as much afraid as himself of a repetition of the acid potation.
The friar next addressed the company with a proposal, that the foreign merchant, instead of being amerced in a measure of the liquor which he had scandalized, should be mulcted in an equal quantity of the more generous wines which were usually produced after the repast had been concluded. In this mine host, as well as the guests, found their advantage; and, as Philipson made no objection, the proposal was unanimously adopted, and John Mengs gave, from his seat of dignity, the signal for supper to be served.
The long-expected meal appeared, and there was twice as much time employed in consuming as there had been in expecting it. The articles of which the supper consisted, as well as the mode of serving them up, were as much calculated to try the patience of the company as the delay which had preceded its appearance. Messes of broth119 and vegetables followed in succession, with platters of meat sodden120 and roasted, of which each in its turn took a formal course around the ample table, and was specially121 subjected to every one in rotation122. Black puddings, hung beef, dried fish, also made the circuit, with various condiments123, called Botargo, Caviare, and similar names, composed of the roes124 of fish mixed with spices, and the like preparations calculated to awaken94 thirst and encourage deep drinking. Flagons of wine accompanied these stimulating125 dainties. The liquor was so superior in flavor and strength to the ordinary wine which had awakened so much controversy126, that it might be objected to on the opposite account, being so heady, fiery127, and strong, that, in spite of the rebuffs which his criticism had already procured128, Philipson ventured to ask or some cold water to allay129 it.
“You are too difficult to please, sir guest,” replied the landlord, again bending upon the Englishman a stern and offended brow; “if you find the wine too strong in my house, the secret to allay its strength is to drink the less. It is indifferent to us whether you drink or not, so you pay the reckoning of those good fellows who do.” And he laughed a gruff laugh.
Philipson was about to reply, but the friar, retaining his character of mediator130, plucked him by the cloak, and entreated131 him to forbear. “You do not understand the ways of the place,” said he; “it is not here as in the hostelries of England and France, where each guest calls for what he desires for his own use, and where he pays for what he has required, and for no more. Here we proceed on a broad principle of equality and fraternity. No one asks for anything in particular; but such provisions as the host thinks sufficient are set down before all indiscriminately; and as with the feast, so is it with the reckoning. All pay their proportions alike, without reference to the quantity of wine which one may have swallowed more than another; and thus the sick and infirm, nay, the female and the child, pay the same as the hungry peasant and strolling lanz-knecht .”
“It seems an unequal custom,” said Philipson; “but travellers are not to judge. So that, when a reckoning is called, every one, I am to understand, pays alike?”
“Such is the rule,” said the friar, — “excepting, perhaps, some poor brother of our own order, whom Our Lady and St. Francis send into such a scene as this, that good Christians132 may bestow133 their alms upon him, and so make a step on their road to Heaven.”
The first words of this speech were spoken in the open and independent tone in which the friar had begun the conversation; the last sentence died away into the professional whine134 of mendicity proper to the convent, and at once apprised135 Philipson at what price he was to pay for the friar’s counsel and mediation136 having thus explained the custom of the country, good Father Gratian turned to illustrate137 it by his example, and, having no objection to the new service of wine on account of its strength, he seemed well disposed to signalize himself amongst some stout topers, who, by drinking deeply, appeared determined138 to have full pennyworths for their share of the reckoning. The good Wine gradually did its office, and even the host relaxed his sullen and grim features, and smited to see the kindling139 flame of hilarity140 catch from one to another, and at length embrace almost all the numerous guests at the table d’hote, except a few who were too temperate141 to partake deeply of the wine, or too fastidious to enter into the discussions to which it gave rise. On these the host cast, from time to time, a sullen and displeased eye.
Philipson, who was reserved and silent, both in consequence of his abstinence from the wine-pot, and his unwillingness142 to mix in conversation with strangers, was looked upon by the landlord as a defaulter in both particulars; and as he aroused his own sluggish144 nature with the fiery wine, Mengs began to throw out obscure hints about kill-joy, mar-company, spoil-sport, and such-like epithets145, which were plainly directed against the Englishman. Philipson replied, with the utmost equanimity146, that he was perfectly sensible that his spirits did not at this moment render him an agreeable member of a merry company, and that, with the leave of those present, he would withdraw to his sleeping apartment, and wish them all a good evening, and continuance to their mirth.
But this very reasonable proposal, as it might have elsewhere seemed, contained in it treason against the laws of German compotation.
“Who are you,” said John Men gs, “who presume to leave the table before the reckoning is called and settled? Sapperment der teufel! we are not men upon whom such an offence is to be put with impunity147 You may exhibit your polite pranks148 in Rams-Alley if you will, or in Eastcheap, or in Smith-field; but it shall not be in John Mengs’s Golden Fleece; nor will I suffer one guest to go to bed to blink out of the reckoning, and so cheat me and all the rest of my company.”
Philipson looked round, to gather the sentiments of the company, but saw no encouragement to appeal to their judgment149. Indeed, many of them had little judgment left to appeal to, and those who paid any attention to the matter at all, were some quiet old soakers, who were already beginning to think of the reckoning, and were disposed to agree with the host in considerng the English merchant as a flincher150, who was determined to evade151 payment of which might be drunk after he left the room; so that John Mengs received the applause of the whole company then he concluded his triumphant152 denunciation against Philipson.
“Yes, sir, you may withdraw if you please; but, potz element! it shall not be for this time to seek for another inn, but to the courtyard shall you go, and no farther, there to make your bed upon the stable litter; and good enough for the man that will needs be the first to break up good company.”
“It is well said, my jovial153 host,” said a rich trader from katisbon; “and here are some six of us — more or less — who will stand by you to maintain the good old customs of Germany; and the — umph — laudable and — and praiseworthy rules of the Golden Fleece.”
“Nay, be not angry, sir,” said Philipson; “yourself and your three companions, whom the good wine has multiplied into six, shall have your own way of ordering the matter; and since you will not permit me to go to bed, I trust that you will take no offence if I fall asleep in my chair.”
“How say you? what think you, mine host?” said the citizen from Ratisbon; “may the gentleman, being drunk, as you see he is; since he cannot tell that three and one make six — I say, may he, being drunk, sleep in the elbow-chair?”
This question introduced a contradiction on the part of the host, who contended that three and one made four, not six; and this again produced a retort from the Ratisbon trader. Other clamors rose at the same time, and were at length with difficulty silenced by the stanzas154 of a chorus song of mirth and good fellowship, which the friar, now become somewhat oblivous of the rule of St. Francis, thundered forth with better good-will than he ever sang a canticle of King David. Under cover of this tumult155, Philipson drew himself a little aside, and though he felt it impossible to sleep, as he had proposed, was yet enabled to escape the reproachful glances with which John Mengs distinguished all those who did not call for wine loudly, and drink it lustily. His thoughts roamed far from the stube of the Golden Fleece, and upon matter very different from that which was discussed around him, when his attention was suddenly recilled by a loud and continued knocking on the door of the hostelry.
“What have we here?” said John Mengs, his nose reddening with very indignation; “who the foul156 fiend presses on the Golden Fleece at such an hour, as if he thundered at the door of a bordel? To the turret157 window some one — Geoffrey, knave158 ostler, or thou, old Timothy, tell the rash man there is no admittance into the Golden Fleece save at timeous hours.
The men went as they were directed, and might be heard in the stube vying159 with each other in the positive denial which they gave to the ill-fated guest, who was pressing for admission. They returned, however, to inform their master that they were unable to overcome the obstinacy160 of the stranger, who refused positively161 to depart until he had an interview with Mengs himself.
Wroth was the master of the Golden Fleece at this ill-omened pertinacity162, and his indignation extended, like a fiery exhalation, from his nose, all over the adjacent regions of hig cheeks and brow. He started from his chair, grasped in his hand a stout stick, which seemed his ordinary sceptre or leading staff of command, and muttering something concerning cudgels for the shoulders of fools, and pitchers163 of fair or foul water for the drenching164 of their ears, he marched off to the window which looked into the court, and left his guests nodding, winking165, and whispering to each other, in full expectation of hearing the active demonstrations166 of his wrath167. It happened otherwise, however; for, after the exchange of a few indistinct words, they were antonished when they heard the noise of the unbolting and unbarring of the gates of the inn, and presently after the footsteps of men upon the stairs; and the landlord entering, with an appearance of clumsy courtesy, prayed those assembled to make room for an honored guest, who came, though late, to add to their numbers. A tall dark form followed, muffled168 in a travelling cloak; on laying aside which, Philipson at once recognized his late fellow-traveller, the Black Priest of St. Paul’s.
There was in the circumstance itself nothing at all surprising, since it was natural that a landlord, however coarse and insolent169 to ordinary guests, might yet show deference170 to an ecclesiastic171, whether from his rank in the Church, or from his reputation for sanctity. But what did appear surprising to Philipson, was the effect produced by the entrance of this unexpected guest. He seated himself, without hesitation172, at the highest place of the board, from which John Mengs had dethroned the aforesaid trader from Ratisbon, notwithstanding his zeal173 for ancient German customs, his steady adherence174 and loyalty175 to the Golden Fleece, and his propensity176 to brimming goblets177. The priest took instant and unscrupulous possession of his seat of honor, after some negligent178 reply to the host’s unwonted courtesy; when it seemed that the effect of his long black vestments, in place of the slashed179 and flounced coat of his predecessor180, as well as of the cold gray eye with which he slowly reviewed the company, in some degree resembled that of the fabulous181 Gorgon182, and if it did not literally183 convert those who looked upon it into stone, there was yet something petrifying184 in the steady unmoved glance with which he seemed to survey them, looking as if desirous of reading their very inmost souls, and passing from one to another, as if each upon whom he looked in succession was unworthy of longer consideration.
Philipson felt, in his turn, that momentary185 examination, in which, however, there mingled186 nothing that seemed to convey recognition. All the courage and composure of the English-man could not prevent an unpleasant feeling while under this man’s eye, so that he felt a relief when it passed from him and rested upon another of the company, who seemed in turn to acknowledge the chilling effects of that freezing glance. The noise of intoxicated187 mirth and drunken disputation, the clamorous188 argument, and the still more boisterous189 laugh, which had been suspended on the priest’s entering the eating apartment, now, after one or two vain attempts to resume them, died away, as if the feast had been changed to a funeral, and the jovial guests had been at once converted into the lugubrious190 mutes who attend on such solemnities. One little rosy-faced man, who afterwards proved to be a tailor from Augsburg, ambitious, perhaps, of showing a degree of courage not usually supposed consistent with his effeminate trade, made a bold effort; and yet it was with a timid and restrained voice, that he called on the jovial friar to renew his song. But whether it was that he did not dare to venture on an uncanonical pastime in presence of a brother in orders, or whether he had some other reason for declining the invitation, the merry churchman hung his head, and shook it with such an expressive191 air of melancholy192, that the tailor drew back as if he had been detected in cabbaging from a cardinal’s robes, or cribbing the lace of some cope or altar gown. In short, the revel193 was hushed into deep silence, and so attentive194 were the company to what should arrive next, that the bells of the village church, striking the first hour after midnight, made the guests start as if they heard them rung backwards195, to announce an assault or conflagration196. The Black Priest, who had taken some slight and hasty repast, which the host had made no kind of objection to supplying him with, seemed to think the bells, which announced the service of lauds197, being the first after midnight, a proper signal for breaking up the party.
“We have eaten,” he said, “that we may support life; let us pray that we may be fit to meet death; which waits upon life as surely as night upon day, or the shadow upon the sunbeam, though we know not when or from whence it is to come upon us.”
The company, as if mechanically, bent198 their uncovered heads while the priest said, with his deep and solemn voice, a Latin prayer, expressing thanks to God for protection through out the day, and entreating199 for its continuance during the witch. mg hours which were to pass ere the day again commenced. The hearers bowed their heads in token of acquiescence in the holy petition; and, when they raised them, the Black Priest of St. Paul’s had followed the host out of the apartment, probably to that which was destined200 for his repose201. His absence was no sooner perceived, than signs, and nods, and even whispers, were exchanged between the guests; but no one spoke116 above his breath, or in such connected manner, as that Philipson could understand anything distinctly from them. He himself ventured to ask the friar, who sat near him, observing at the same time the under-tone which seemed to be fashionable for the moment, whether the worthy ecclesiastic who had left them was not the Priest of St. Paul’s, on the frontier town of La Ferette.
“And if you know it is he,” said the friar, with a countenance and a tone, from which all signs of intoxication202 were suddenly banished203, “why do you ask of me?”
“Because,” said the merchant, “I would willingly learn the spell which so suddenly converted so many merry tipplers into men of sober manners, and a jovial company into a convent of Carthusian friars?”
“Friend,” said the friar, “thy discourse204 savoreth mightily205 of asking after what thou knowest right well. But I am no such silly duck as to be taken by a decoy. If thou knowest the Black Priest, thou canst not be ignorant of the terrors which attend his presence, and that it were safer to pass a broad jest in the holy House of Loretto, than where he shows himself.”
So saying, and as if desirous of avoiding further discourse, he withdrew to a distance from Philipson.
At the same moment the landlord again appeared, and, with more of the usual manners of a publican than he had hitherto exhibited, commanded his waiter, Geoffrey, to hand round to the company a sleeping drink, or pillow-cup of distilled206 water, mingled with spices, which was indeed as good as Philipson himself had ever tasted. John Mengs, in the meanwhile, with somewhat of more deference, expressed to his guests a hope that his entertainment had given satisfaction; but this was in so careless a manner, and he seemed so conscious of deserving the affirmative which was expressed on all hands, that it became obvious there was very little humility207 in proposing the question. The old man, Timothy, was in the meantime mustering208 the guests, and marking with chalk on the bottom of a trencher the reckoning, the particulars of which were indicated by certain conventional hieroglyphics209, while he showed on another the division of the sum total among the company, and proceeded to collect an equal share of it from each. When the fatal trencher in which each man paid down his money approached the jolly friar, his countenance seemed to be somewhat changed. He cast a piteous look towards Philipson, as the person from whom he had the most hope of relief; and our merchant, though displeased with the manner in which be had held back from his confidence, yet not unwilling143 in a strange country to incur210 a little expense, in hope of making a useful acquaintance, discharged the mendicant’s score as well as his own. The poor friar paid his thanks in many a blessing211 in good German and bad Latin, but the host cut them short; for, approaching Philipson with a candle in his hand, he offered his own services to show him where he might sleep, and even had the condescension212 to carry his mail, or portmanteau, with his own landlordly hands.
You take too much trouble, mine host,” said the merchant, somewhat surprised at the change in the manner of John Mengs, who bad hitherto contradicted him at every word.
“I cannot take too much pains for a guest,” was the reply, “whom my venerable friend, the Priest of St. Paul’s, bath especially recommended to my charge.”
He then opened the door of a small bedroom, prepared for the occupation of a guest, and said to Philipson, — “Here you may rest till to-morrow at what hour you will, and for as many days more as you incline. The key will secure your wares213 against theft or pillage214 of any kind. I do not this for every one; for, if my guests were every one to have a bed to himself, the next thing they would demand might be a separate table, and then there would be an end of the good old German customs, and we should be as foppish215 and frivolous216 as our neighbors.”
He placed the portmanteau on the floor, and seemed about to leave the apartment, when, turning about, he began a sort of apology for the rudeness of his former behavior.
“I trust there is no misunderstanding between us, my worthy guest. You might as well expect to see one of our bears come aloft and do tricks like a jackanapes, as one of us stubborn old Germans play the feats217 of a French or an Italian host. Yet I pray you to note, the if our behavior is rude our charges are honest, and our articles what they profess55 to be. We do not expect to make Moselle pass for Rhenish, by dint218 of a bow and a grin, nor will we sauce your mess with poison, like the wily Italian, and call you all the time Illustrissimo and Magnifico.”
He seemed in these words to have exhausted his rhetoric219, for when they were spoken he turned abruptly220 and left the apartment.
Philipson was thus deprived of another opportunity to in quire who or what this ecclesiastic could be, that had exercised such influence on all who approached him. He felt, indeed, no desire to prolong a conference with John Mengs, though he had laid aside in such a considerable degree his rude and repulsive manners; yet he longed to know who this man could be, who had power with a word to turn aside the daggers221 of Alsatian banditti, habituated as they were, like most borderers, to robbery and pillage, and to change into civility the proverbial rudeness of a German innkeeper. Such were the reflections of Philipson, as he doffed222 his clothes to take his much-needed repose, after a day of fatigue, danger, and difficulty, on the pallet afforded by tile hospitality of the Golden Fleece in the Rhein-Thal.
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