Well, lord, we have not got that which we have;
’Tis not enough our foes1 are this time fled,
Being opposites of such repairing nature.
Henry VI. Part II.
IN the gorge2 of a pass or mountain glen, ascending3 from the fertile plains of East Lothian, there stood in former times an extensive castle, of which only the ruins are now visible. Its ancient proprietors4 were a race of powerful and warlike carons, who bore the same name with the castle itself, which was Ravenswood. Their line extended to a remote period of antiquity6, and they had intermarried with the Douglasses, Humes, Swintons, Hays, and other families of power and distinction in the same country. Their history was frequently involved in that of Scotland itself, in whose annals their feats7 are recorded. The Castle of Ravenswood, occupying, and in some measure commanding, a pass betweixt Berwickshire, or the Merse, as the southeastern province of Scotland is termed, and the Lothians, was of importance both in times of foreign war and domestic discord8. It was frequently beseiged with ardour, and defended with obstinacy9, and, of course, its owners played a conspicuous10 part in story. But their house had its revolutions, like all sublunary things: it became greatly declined from its splendour about the middle of the 17th century; and towards the period of the Revolution, the last proprietor5 of Ravenswood Castle saw himself compelled to part with the ancient family seat, and to remove himself to a lonely and sea-beaten tower, which, situated11 on the bleak12 shores between St. Abb’s Head and the village of Eyemouth, looked out on the lonely and boisterous13 German Ocean. A black domain14 of wild pasture-land surrounded their new residence, and formed the remains15 of their property.
Lord Ravenswood, the heir of this ruined family, was far from bending his mind to his new condition of life. In the civil war of 1689 he had espoused16 the sinking side, and although he had escaped without the forfeiture17 of life or land, his blood had been attainted, and his title abolished. He was now called Lord Ravenswood only in courtesy.
This forfeited18 nobleman inherited the pride and turbulence19, though not the forture, of his house, and, as he imputed20 the final declension of his family to a particular individual, he honoured that person with his full portion of hatred21. This was the very man who had now become, by purchase, proprietor of Ravenswood, and the domains22 of which the heir of the house now stood dispossessed. He was descended23 of a family much less ancient than that of Lord Ravenswood, and which had only risen to wealth and political importance during the great civil wars. He himself had been bred to the bar, and had held high offices in the state, maintaining through life the character of a skilful24 fisher in the troubled waters of a state divided by factions25, and governed by delegated authority; and of one who contrived27 to amass28 considerable sums of money in a country where there was but little to be gathered, and who equally knew the value of wealth and the various means of augmenting29 it and using it as an engine of increasing his power and influence.
Thus qualified30 and gifted, he was a dangerous antagonist31 to the fierce and imprudent Ravenswood. Whether he had given him good cause for the enmity with which the Baron32 regarded him, was a point on which men spoke33 differently. Some said the quarrel arose merely from the vindictive34 spirit and envy of Lord Ravenswood, who could not patiently behold35 another, though by just and fair purchase, become the proprietor of the estate and castle of his forefathers36. But the greater part of the public, prone37 to slander38 the wealthy in their absence as to flatter them in their presence, held a less charitable opinion. They said that the Lord Keeper (for to this height Sir William Ashton had ascended) had, previous to the final purchase of the estate of Ravenswood, been concerned in extensive pecuniary39 transactions with the former proprietor; and, rather intimating what was probable than affirming anything positively40, they asked which party was likely to have the advantage in stating and enforcing the claims arising out of these complicated affairs, and more than hinted the advantages which the cool lawyer and able politician must necessarily possess over the hot, fiery41, and imprudent character whom he had involved in legal toils42 and pecuniary snares43.
The character of the times aggravated44 these suspicions. “In those days there was no king in Israel.” Since the departure of James VI. to assume the richer and more powerful crown of England, there had existed in Scotland contending parties, formed among the aristocracy, by whom, as their intrigues45 at the court of St. James’s chanced to prevail, the delegated powers of sovereignty were alternately swayed. The evils attending upon this system of government resembled those which afflict46 the tenants47 of an Irish estate, the property of an absentee. There was no supreme48 power, claiming and possessing a general interest with the community at large, to whom the oppressed might appeal from subordinate tyranny, either for justice or for mercy. Let a monarch49 be as indolent, as selfish, as much disposed to arbitrary power as he will, still, in a free country, his own interests are so clearly connected with those of the public at large, and the evil consequences to his own authority are so obvious and imminent50 when a different course is pursued, that common policy, as well as ocmmon feeling, point to the equal distribution of justice, and to the establishment of the throne in righteousness. Thus, even sovereigns remarkable51 for usurpation52 and tyranny have been found rigorous in the administration of justice among their subjects, in cases where their own power and passions were not compromised.
It is very different when the powers of sovereignty are delegated to the head of an aristocratic faction26, rivalled and pressed closely in the race of ambition by an adverse53 leader. His brief and precarious54 enjoyment55 of power must be employed in rewarding his partizans, in extending his influence, in oppressing and crushing his adversaries56. Even Abou Hassan, the most disinterested57 of all viceroys, forgot not, during his caliphate of one day, to send a douceur of one thousand pieces of gold to his own household; and the Scottish vicegerents, raised to power by the strength of their faction, failed not to embrace the same means of rewarding them.
The administration of justice, in particular, was infected by the most gross partiality. A case of importance scarcely occurred in which there was not some ground for bias59 or partiality on the part of the judges, who were so little able to withstand the temptation that the adage60, “Show me the man, and I will show you the law,” became as prevalent as it was scandalous. One corruption61 led the way to others still mroe gross and profligate62. The judge who lent his sacred authority in one case to support a friend, and in another to crush an enemy, and who decisions were founded on family connexions or political relations, could not be supposed inaccessible63 to direct personal motives65; and the purse of the wealthy was too often believed to be thrown into the scale to weigh down the cause of the poor litigant66. The subordinate officers of the law affected67 little scruple68 concerning bribery69. Pieces of plate and bags of money were sent in presents to the king’s counsel, to influence their conduct, and poured forth70, says a contemporary writer, like billets of wood upon their floors, without even the decency71 of concealment72.
In such times, it was not over uncharitable to suppose that the statesman, practised in courts of law, and a powerful member of a triumphant74 cabal75, might find and use means of advantage over his less skilful and less favoured adversary76; and if it had been supposed that Sir William Ashton’s conscience had been too delicate to profit by these advantages, it was believed that his ambition and desire of extending his wealth and consequence found as strong a stimulus77 in the exhortations78 of his lady as the daring aim of Macbeth in the days of yore.
Lady Ashton was of a family more distinguished79 than that of her lord, an advantage which she did not fail to use to the uttermost, in maintaining and extending her husband’s influence over others, and, unless she was greatly belied80, her own over him. She had been beautiful, and was stately and majestic81 in her appearance. Endowed by nature with strong powers and violent passions, experience had taught her to employ the one, and to conceal73, if not to moderate, the other. She was a severe adn strict observer of the external forms, at least, of devotion; her hospitality was splendid, even to ostentation82; her address and manners, agreeable to the pattern most valued in Scotland at the period, were grave, dignified83, and severely84 regulated by the rules of etiquette85. Her character had always been beyond the breath of slander. And yet, with all these qualities to excite respect, Lady Ashton was seldom mentioned in the terms of love or affection. Interest — the interest of her family, if not her own — seemed too obviously the motive64 of her actions; and where this is the case, the sharp-judging and malignant86 public are not easily imposed upon by outward show. It was seen and ascertained87 that, in her most graceful88 courtesies and compliments, Lady Ashton no more lost sight of her object than the falcon89 in his airy wheel turns his quick eyes from his destined90 quarry91; and hence, somethign of doubt and suspicion qualified the feelings with which her equals received her attentions. With her inferiors these feelings were mingled92 with fear; an impression useful to her purposes, so far as it enforced ready compliance93 with her requests and implicit94 obedience95 to her commands, but detrimental96, because it cannot exist with affection or regard.
Even her husband, it is said, upon whose fortunes her talents and address had produced such emphatic97 influence, regarded her with respectful awe98 rather than confiding99 attachment100; and report said, there were times when he considered his grandeur101 as dearly purchased at the expense of domestic thraldom102. Of this, however, much might be suspected, but little could be accurately103 known: Lady Ashton regarded the honour of her husband as her own, and was well aware how much that would suffer in the public eye should he appear a vassal104 to his wife. In all her arguments his opinion was quoted as infallible; his taste was appealed to, and his sentiments received, with the air of deference105 which a dutiful wife might seem to owe to a husband of Sir William Ashton’s rank adn character. But there was something under all this which rung false and hollow; and to those who watched this couple with close, and perhaps malicious106, scrutiny107 it seemed evident that, in the haughtiness108 of a firmer character, higher birth, and more decided109 views of aggrandisement, the lady looked with some contempt on her husband, and that he regarded her with jealous fear, rather than with love or admiration110.
Still, however, the leading and favourite interests of Sir William Ashton and his lady were the same, and they failed not to work in concert, although without cordiality, and to testify, in all exterior111 circumstances, that respect for each other which they were aware was necessary to secure that of the public.
Their union was crowned with several children, of whom three survived. One, the eldest112 son, was absent on his travels; the second, a girl of seventeen, adn the third, a boy about three years younger, resided with their parents in Edinburgh during the sessions of the Scottish Parliament and Privy113 Council, at other times in the old Gothic castle of Ravenswood, to which the Lord Keeper had made large additions in the style of the 17th century.
Allan Lord Ravenswood, the late proprietor of that ancient mansion114 adn the large estate annexed115 to it, continued for some time to wage ineffectual war with his successor concerning various points to which their former transactions had given rise, and which were successively determined116 in favour of the wealthy and powerful competitor, until death closed the litigation, by summoning Ravenswood to a higher bar. The thread of life, which had been long wasting, gave way during a fit of violent and impotent fury with which he was assailed117 on receiving the news of the loss of a cause, founded, perhaps, rather in equity118 than in law, the last which he had maintained against his powerful antagonist. His son witnessed his dying agonies, and heard the curses which he breathed against his adversary, as if they had conveyed to him a legacy119 of vengeance120. Other circumstances happened to exasperate121 a passion which was, and had long been, a prevalent vice58 in the Scottish disposition122.
It was a November morning, and the cliffs which overlooked the ocean were hung with thick and heavy mist, when the portals of the ancient and half-ruinous tower, in which Lord Ravenswood had spent the last and troubled years of his life, opened, that his mortal remains might pass forward to an abode123 yet more dreary124 and lonely. The pomp of attendance, to which the deceased had, in his latter years, been a stranger, was revived as he was about to be consigned125 to the realms of forgetfulness.
Banner after banner, with the various devices and coats of this ancient family and its connexions, followed each other in mournful procession from under the low-browed archway of the courtyard. The principal gentry126 of the country attended in the deepest mourning, and tempered the pace of their long train of horses to the solemn march befitting the occasion. Trumpets127, with banners of crape attached to them, sent forth their long and melancholy128 notes to regulate the movements of the procession. An immense train of inferior mourners and menials closed the rear, which had not yet issued from the castle gate when the van had reached the chapel129 where the body was to be deposited.
Contrary to the custom, and even to the law, of the time, the body was met by a priest of the Scottish Episcopal communion, arrayed in his surplice, and prepared to read over the coffin130 of the deceased the funeral service of the church. Such had been the desire of Lord Ravenswood in his last illness, and it was readily complied with by the Tory gentlemen, or Cavaliers, as they affected to style themselves, in which faction most of his kinsmen131 were enrolled132. The Presbyterian Church judicatory of the bounds, considering the ceremony as a bravading insult upon their authority, had applied133 to the Lord Keeper, as the nearest privy councillor, for a warrant to prevent its being carried into effect; so that, when the clergyman had opened his prayer-book, an officer of the law, supported by some armed men, commanded him to be silent. An insult which fired the whol assembly with indignation was particularly and instantly resented by the only son of the deceased, Edgar, popularly called the Master of Ravenswood, a youth of about twenty years of age. He clapped his hand on his sword, and bidding the official person to desist at his peril134 from farther interruption, commanded the clergyman to proceed. The man attempted to enforce his commission; but as an hundred swords at once glittered in the air, he contented135 himself with protesting against the violence which had been offered to him in the execution of his duty, and stood aloof136, a sullen137 adn moody138 spectator of the ceremonial, muttering as one who should say: “You’ll rue139 the day that clogs140 me with this answer.”
The scene was worthy141 of an artist’s pencil. Under the very arch of the house of death, the clergyman, affrighted at the scene, and trembling for his own safety, hastily and unwillingly142 rehearsed the solemn service of the church, and spoke “dust to dust and ashes to ashes,” over ruined pride and decayed prosperity. Around stood the relations of the deceased, their countenances144 more in anger than in sorrow, and the drawn145 swords which they brandished146 forming a violent contrast with their deep mourning habits. In the countenance143 of the young man alone, resentment147 seemed for the moment overpowered by the deep agony with which he beheld148 his nearest, and almost his only, friend consigned to the tomb of his ancestry149. A relative observed him turn deadly pale, when, all rites150 being now duly observed, it became the duty of the chief mourner to lower down into the charnel vault151, where mouldering152 coffins153 showed their tattered154 velvet155 and decayed plating, the head of the corpse156 which was to be their partner in corruption. He stept to the youth and offered his assistance, which, by a mute motion, Edgar Ravenswood rejected. Firmly, and without a tear, he performed that last duty. The stone was laid on the sepulchre, the door of the aisle157 was locked, and the youth took possession of its massive key.
As the crowd left the chapel, he paused on the steps which led to its Gothic chancel. “Gentlemen and friends,” he said, “you have this day done no common duty to the body of your deceased kinsman158. The rites of due observance, which, in other countries, are allowed as the due of the meanest Christian159, would this day have been denied to the body of your relative — not certainly sprung of the meanest house in Scotland — had it not been assured to him by your courage. Others bury their dead in sorrow and tears, in silence and in reverence160; our funeral rites are marred161 by the intrusion of bailiffs and ruffians, and our grief — the grief due to our departed friend — is chased from our cheeks by the glow of just indignation. But it is well that I know from what quiver this arrow has come forth. It was only he that dug the drave who could have the mean cruelty to disturb the obsequies; and Heaven do as much to me and more, if I requite162 not to this man and his house the ruin and disgrace he has brought on me and mine!”
A numerous part of the assembly applauded this speech, as the spirited expression of just resentment; but the more cool and judicious163 regretted that it had been uttered. The fortunes of the heir of Ravenswood were too low to brave the farther hostility164 which they imagined these open expressions of resentment must necessarily provoke. Their apprehensions165, however, proved groundless, at least in the immediate166 consequences of this affair.
The mourners returned to the tower, there, according to a custom but recently abolished in Scotland, to carouse167 deep healths to the memory of the deceased, to make the house of sorrow ring with sounds of joviality168 and debauch169, and to diminish, by the expense of a large and profuse170 entertainment, the limited revenues of the heir of him whose funeral they thus strangely honoured. It was the custom, however, and on the present occasion it was fully171 observed. The tables swam in wine, the populace feasted in the courtyard, the yeomen in the kitchen and buttery; and two years’ rent of Ravenswood’s remaining property hardly defrayed the charge of the funeral revel172. The wine did its office on all but the Master of Ravenswood, a title which he still retained, though forfeiture had attached to that of his father. He, while passing around the cup which he himself did not taste, soon listened to a thousand exclamations173 against the Lord Keeper, and passionate174 protestations of attachment to himself, and to the honour of his house. He listened with dark and sullen brow to ebullitions which he considered justly as equally evanescent with the crimson175 bubbles on the brink176 of the goblet177, or at least with the vapours which its contents excited in the brains of the revellers around him.
When the last flask178 was emptied, they took their leave with deep protestations — to be forgotten on the morrow, if, indeed, those who made them should not think it necessary for their safety to make a more solemn retractation.
Accepting their adieus with an air of contempt which he could scarce conceal, Ravenswood at length beheld his ruinous habitation cleared of their confluence179 of riotous180 guests, and returned to the deserted181 hall, which now appeared doubly lonely from the cessation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms182 which the imagination of the young heir conjured183 up before him — the tarnished184 honour and degraded fortunes of his house, the destruction of his own hopes, and the triumph of that family by whom they had been ruined. To a mind naturally of a gloomy cast here was ample room for meditation185, and the musings of young Ravenswood were deep and unwitnessed.
The peasant who shows the ruins of the tower, which still crown the beetling186 cliff and behold the war of the waves, though no mroe tenanted saved by the sea-mew and cormorant187, even yet affirms that on this fatal night the Master of Ravenswood, by the bitter exclamations of his despair, evoked188 some evil fiend, under whose malignant influence the future tissue of incidents was woven. Alas189! what fiend can suggest more desperate counsels than those adopted under the guidance of our own violent and unresisted passions?
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quarry
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| （通常指金属）（使）失去光泽，（使）变灰暗( tarnish的过去式和过去分词 )； 玷污，败坏 | |
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| n.熟虑，（尤指宗教的）默想，沉思，（pl.）冥想录 | |
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| adj.突出的，悬垂的v.快速移动( beetle的现在分词 ) | |
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| n.鸬鹚，贪婪的人 | |
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| int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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