Over Gods forebode, then said the King,
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William Bell, Clim ‘o the Cleugh, etc.
On the morning after the funeral, the legal officer whose authority had been found insufficient1 to effect an interruption of the funeral solemnities of the late Lord Ravenswood, hastened to state before the Keeper the resistance which he had met with in the execution of his office.
The statesman was seated in a spacious2 library, once a banqueting-room in the old Castle of Ravenswood, as was evident from the armorial insignia still displayed on the carved roof, which was vaulted3 with Spanish chestnut4, and on the stained glass of the casement5, through which gleamed a dim yet rich light on the long rows of shelves, bending under the weight of legal commentators6 and monkish7 historians, whose ponderous9 volumes formed the chief and most valued contents of a Scottish historian [library] of the period. On the massive oaken table and reading-desk lay a confused mass of letters, petitions, and parchments; to toil10 amongst which was the pleasure at once and the plague of Sir William Ashton’s life. His appearance was grave and even noble, well becoming one who held an high office in the state; and it was not save after long and intimate conversation with him upon topics of pressing and personal interest, that a stranger could have discovered something vacillating and uncertain in his resolutions; an infirmity of purpose, arising from a cautious and timid disposition12, which, as he was conscious of its internal influence on his mind, he was, from pride as well as policy, most anxious to conceal13 from others. He listened with great apparent composure to an exaggerated account of the tumult14 which had taken place at the funeral, of the contempt thrown on his own authority and that of the church and state; nor did he seem moved even by the faithful report of the insulting and threatening language which had been uttered by young Ravenswood and others, and obviously directed against himself. He heard, also, what the man had been able to collect, in a very distorted and aggravated15 shape, of the toasts which had been drunk, and the menaces uttered, at the subsequent entertainment. In fine, he made careful notes of all these particulars, and of the names of the persons by whom, in case of need, an accusation16, founded upon these violent proceedings17, could be witnessed and made good, and dismissed his informer, secure that he was now master of the remaining fortune, and even of the personal liberty, of young Ravenswood.
When the door had closed upon the officer of the law, the Lord Keeper remained for a moment in deep meditation19; then, starting from his seat, paced the apartment as one about to take a sudden and energetic resolution. “Young Ravenswood,” he muttered, “is now mine — he is my own; he has placed himself in my hand, and he shall bend or break. I have not forgot the determined20 and dogged obstinacy21 with which his father fought every point to the last, resisted every effort at compromise, embroiled22 me in lawsuits23, and attempted to assail24 my character when he could not otherwise impugn25 my rights. This boy he has left behind him — this Edgar — this hot-headed, hare-brained fool, has wrecked26 his vessel27 before she has cleared the harbor. I must see that he gains no advantage of some turning tide which may again float him off. These memoranda28, properly stated to the privy29 council, cannot but be construed30 into an aggravated riot, in which the dignity both of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities stands committed. A heavy fine might be imposed; an order for committing him to Edinburgh or Blackness Castle seems not improper31; even a charge of treason might be laid on many of these words and expressions, though God forbid I should prosecute32 the matter to that extent. No, I will not; I will not touch his life, even if it should be in my power; and yet, if he lives till a change of times, what follows? Restitution33 — perhaps revenge. I know Athole promised his interest to old Ravenswood, and here is his son already bandying and making a faction34 by his own contemptible35 influence. What a ready tool he would be for the use of those who are watching the downfall of our administration!”
While these thoughts were agitating36 the mind of the wily statesman, and while he was persuading himself that his own interest and safety, as well as those of his friends and party, depended on using the present advantage to the uttermost against young Ravenswood, the Lord Keeper sate37 down to his desk, and proceeded to draw up, for the information of the privy council, an account of the disorderly proceedings which, in contempt of his warrant, had taken place at the funeral of Lord Ravenswood. The names of most of the parties concerned, as well as the fact itself, would, he was well aware, sound odiously39 in the ears of his colleagues in administration, and most likely instigate40 them to make an example of young Ravenswood, at least, in terrorem.
It was a point of delicacy41, however, to select such expressions as might infer the young man’s culpability42, without seeming directly to urge it, which, on the part of Sir William Ashton, his father’s ancient antagonist43, could not but appear odious38 and invidious. While he was in the act of composition, labouring to find words which might indicate Edgar Ravenswood to be the cause of the uproar44, without specifically making such a charge, Sir William, in a pause of his task, chanced, in looking upward, to see the crest45 of the family for whose heir he was whetting46 the arrows and disposing the toils47 of the law carved upon one of the corbeilles from which the vaulted roof of the apartment sprung. It was a black bull’s head, with the legend, “I bide48 my time”; and the occasion upon which it was adopted mingled49 itself singularly and impressively with the subject of his present reflections.
It was said by a constant tradition that a Malisius de Ravenswood had, in the 13th century, been deprived of his castle and lands by a powerful usurper50, who had for a while enjoyed his spoils in quiet. At length, on the eve of a costly51 banquet, Ravenswood, who had watched his opportunity, introduced himself into the castle with a small band of faithful retainers. The serving of the expected feast was impatiently looked for by the guests, and clamorously demanded by the temporary master of the castle. Ravenswood, who had assumed the disguise of a sewer52 upon the occasion, answered, in a stern voice, “I bide my time”; and at the same moment a bull’s head, the ancient symbol of death, was placed upon the table. The explosion of the conspiracy53 took place upon the signal, and the usurper and his followers54 were put to death. Perhaps there was something in this still known and often repeated story which came immediately home to the breast and conscience of the Lord Keeper; for, putting from him the paper on which he had begun his report, and carefully locking the memoranda which he had prepared into a cabinet which stood beside him, he proceeded to walk abroad, as if for the purpose of collecting his ideas, and reflecting farther on the consequences of the step which he was about to take, ere yet they became inevitable55.
In passing through a large Gothic ante-room, Sir William Ashton heard the sound of his daughter’s lute56. Music, when the performers are concealed57, affects us with a pleasure mingled with surprise, and reminds us of the natural concert of birds among the leafy bowers58. The statesman, though little accustomed to give way to emotions of this natural and simple class, was still a man and a father. He stopped, therefore, and listened, while the silver tones of Lucy Ashton’s voice mingled with the accompaniment in an ancient air, to which soem one had adapted the following words:
“Look not thou on beauty’s charming,
Sit thou still when kings are arming,
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens60,
Speak not when the people listens,
Stop thine ear against the singer,
From the red gold keep they finger,
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”
The sounds ceased, and the Keeper entered his daughter’s apartment.
The words she had chosen seemed particularly adapted to her character; for Lucy Ashton’s exquisitely62 beautiful, yet somewhat girlish features were formed to express peace of mind, serenity63, and indifference64 to the tinsel of wordly pleasure. Her locks, which were of shadowy gold, divided on a brow of exquisite61 whiteness, like a gleam of broken and pallid65 sunshine upon a hill of snow. The expression of the countenance66 was in the last degree gentle, soft, timid, and feminine, and seemed rather to shrink from the most casual look of a stranger than to court his admiration67. Something there was of a Madonna cast, perhaps the result of delicate health, and of residence in a family where the dispositions68 of the inmates69 were fiercer, more active, and energetic than her own.
Yet her passiveness of disposition was by no means owing to an indifferent or unfeeling mind. Left to the impulse of her own taste and feelings, Lucy Ashton was peculiarly accessible to those of a romantic cast. Her secret delight was in the old legendary70 tales of ardent71 devotion and unalterable affection, chequered as they so often are with strange adventures and supernatural horrors. This was her favoured fairy realm, and here she erected73 her aerial palaces. But it was only in secret that she laboured at this delusive74 though delightful75 architecture. In her retired76 chamber77, or in the woodland bower59 which she had chosen for her own, and called after her name, she was in fancy distributing the prizes at the tournament, or raining down influence from her eyes on the valiant78 combatants: or she was wandering in the wilderness79 with Una, under escort of the generous lion; or she was identifying herself with the simple yet noble-minded Miranda in the isle80 of wonder and enchantment81.
But in her exterior82 relations to things of this world, Lucy willingly received the ruling impulse from those around her. The alternative was, in general, too indifferent to her to render resistance desirable, and she willingly found a motive83 for decision in the opinion of her friends which perhaps she might have sought for in vain in her own choice. Every reader must have observed in some family of his acquaintance some individual of a temper soft and yielding, who, mixed with stronger and more ardent minds, is borne along by the will of others, with as little power of opposition84 as the flower which is flung into a running stream. It usually happens that such a compliant85 and easy disposition, which resigns itself without murmur86 to the guidance of others, becomes the darling of those to whose inclinations87 its own seem to be offered, in ungrudging and ready sacrifice. This was eminently88 the case with Lucy Ashton. Her politic89, wary90, and wordly father felt for her an affection the strength of which sometimes surprised him into an unusual emotion. Her elder brother, who trode the path of ambition with a haughtier91 step than his father, had also more of human affection. A soldier, and in a dissolute age, he preferred his sister Lucy even to pleasure and to military preferment and distinction. Her younger brother, at an age when trifles chiefly occupied his mind, made her the confidante of all his pleasures and anxieties, his success in field-sports, and his quarrels with his tutor and instructors92. To these details, however trivial, Lucy lent patient and not indifferent attention. They moved and interested Henry, and that was enough to secure her ear.
Her mother alone did not feel that distinguished93 and predominating affection with which the rest of the family cherished Lucy. She regarded what she termed her daughter’s want of spirit as a decided94 mark that the more plebeian95 blood of her father predominated in Lucy’s veins96, and used to call her in derision her Lammermoor Shepherdess. To dislike so gentle and inoffensive a being was impossible; but Lady Ashton preferred her eldest98 son, on whom had descended99 a large portion of her own ambitious and undaunted disposition, to a daughter whose softness of temper seemed allied100 to feebleness of mind. Her eldest son was the more partially101 beloved by his mother because, contrary to the usual custom of Scottish families of distinction, he had been named after the head of the house.
“My Sholto,” she said, “will support the untarnished honour of his maternal102 house, and elevate and support that of his father. Poor Lucy is unfit for courts or crowded halls. Some country laird must be her husband, rich enough to supply her with every comfort, without an effort on her own part, so that she may have nothing to shed a tear for but the tender apprehension103 lest he may break his neck in a foxchase. It was not so, however, that our house was raised, nor is it so that it can be fortified104 and augmented105. The Lord Keeper’s dignity is yet new; it must be borne as if we were used to its weight, worthy106 of it, and prompt to assert and maintain it. Before ancient authorities men bend from customary and hereditary107 deference108; in our presence they will stand erect72, unless they are compelled to prostrate109 themselves. A daughter fit for the sheepfold or the cloister110 is ill qualified111 to exact respect where it is yielded with reluctance112; and since Heaven refused us a third boy, Lucy should have held a character fit to supply his place. The hour will be a happy one which disposes her hand in marriage to some one whose energy is greater than her own, or whose ambition is of as low an order.”
So meditated113 a mother to whom the qualities of her children’s hearts, as well as the prospect114 of their domestic happiness, seemed light in comparison to their rank and temporal greatness. But, like many a parent of hot and impatient character, she was mistaken in estimating the feelings of her daughter, who, under a semblance115 of extreme indifference, nourished the germ of those passions which sometimes spring up in one night, like the gourd116 of the prophet, and astonish the observer by their unexpected ardour and intensity117. In fact, Lucy’s sentiments seemed chill because nothing had occurred to interest or awaken118 them. Her life had hitherto flowed on in a uniform and gentle tenor119, and happy for her had not its present smoothness of current resembled that of the stream as it glides120 downwards121 to the waterfall!
“So, Lucy,” said her father, entering as her song was ended, “does your musical philosopher teach you to contemn122 the world before you know it? That is surely something premature123. Or did you but speak according to the fashion of fair maidens124, who are always to hold the pleasures of life in contempt till they are pressed upon them by the address of some gentle knight125?”
Lucy blushed, disclaimed126 any inference respecting her own choice being drawn127 from her selection of a song, and readily laid aside her instrument at her father’s request that she would attend him in his walk.
A large and well-wooded park, or rather chase, stretched along the hill behind the castle, which, occupying, as we have noticed, a pass ascending128 from the plain, seemed built in its very gorge129 to defend the forest ground which arose behind it in shaggy majesty130. Into this romantic region the father and daughter proceeded, arm in arm, by a noble avenue overarched by embowering elms, beneath which groups of the fallow-deer were seen to stray in distant perspective. As they paced slowly on, admiring the different points of view, for which Sir William Ashton, notwithstanding the nature of his usual avocations131, had considerable taste and feeling, they were overtaken by the forester, or park-keeper, who, intent on silvan sport, was proceeding18 with his cross-bow over his arm, and a hound led in leash132 by his boy, into the interior of the wood.
“Going to shoot us a piece of venison, Norman?” said his master, as he returned the woodsman’s salutation.
“Saul, your honour, and that I am. Will it please you to see the sport?”
“Oh no,” said his lordship, after looking at his daughter, whose colour fled at the idea of seeing the deer shot, although, had her father expressed his wish that they should accompany Norman, it was probable she would not even have hinted her reluctance.
The forester shrugged133 his shoulders. “It was a disheartening thing,” he said, “when none of the gentles came down to see the sport. He hoped Captain Sholto would be soon hame, or he might shut up his shop entirely134; for Mr. Harry135 was kept sae close wi’ his Latin nonsense that, though his will was very gude to be in the wood from morning till night, there would be a hopeful lad lost, and no making a man of him. It was not so, he had heard, in Lord Ravenswood’s time: when a buck136 was to be killed, man and mother’s son ran to see; and when the deer fell, the knife was always presented to the knight, and he never gave less than a dollar for the compliment. And there was Edgar Ravenswood — Master of Ravenswood that is now — when he goes up to the wood — there hasna been a better hunter since Tristrem’s time — when Sir Edgar hauds out, down goes the deer, faith. But we hae lost a’ sense of woodcraft on this side of the hill.”
There was much in this harangue137 highly displeasing138 to the Lord Keeper’s feelings; he could not help observing that his menial despised him almost avowedly139 for not possessing that taste for sport which in those times was deemed the natural and indispensable attribute of a real gentleman. But the master of the game is, in all country houses, a man of great importance, and entitled to use considerable freedom of speech. Sir William, therefore, only smiled and replied, “He had something else to think upon today than killing140 deer”; meantime, taking out his purse, he gave the ranger11 a dollar for his encouragement. The fellow received it as the waiter of a fashionable hotel receives double his proper fee from the hands of a country gentleman — that is, with a smile, in which pleasure at the gift is mingled with contempt for the ignorance of the donor141. “Your honour is the bad paymaster,” he said, “who pays before it is done. What would you do were I to miss the buck after you have paid me my wood-fee?”
“I suppose,” said the Keeper, smiling, “you would hardly guess what I mean were I to tell you of a condictio indebiti?”
“Not I, on my saul. I guess it is some law phrase; but sue a beggar, and — your honour knows what follows. Well, but I will be just with you, and if bow and brach fail not, you shall have a piece of game two fingers fat on the brisket.”
As he was about to go off, his master again called him, and asked, as if by accident, whether the Master of Ravenswood was actually so brave a man and so good a shooter as the world spoke142 him.
“Brave!— brave enough, I warrant you,” answered Norman. “I was in the wood at Tyninghame when there was a sort of gallants hunting with my lord; on my saul, there was a buck turned to bay made us all stand back — a stout143 old Trojan of the first head, ten-tyned branches, and a brow as broad as e’er a bullock’s. Egad, he dashed at the old lord, and there would have been inlake among the perrage, if the Master had not whipt roundly in, and hamstrung him with his cutlass. He was but sixteen then, bless his heart!”
“And is he as ready with the gun as with the couteau?” said Sir William.
“He’ll strike this silver dollar out from between my finger and thumb at fourscore yards, and I’ll hold it out for a gold merk; what more would ye have of eye, hand, lead, and gunpowder144?” “Oh, no more to be wished, certainly,” said the Lord Keeper; “but we keep you from your sport, Norman. Good morrow, good Norman.”
And, humming his rustic145 roundelay, the yeoman went on his road, the sound of his rough voice gradually dying away as the distance betwixt them increased:
“The monk8 must arise when the matins ring,
The abbot may sleep to their chime;
But the yeoman must start when the bugles146 sing
’Tis time, my hearts, ’tis time.
There’s bucks147 and raes on Bilhope braes,
There’s a herd97 on Shortwood Shaw;
But a lily-white doe in the garden goes,
She’s fairly worth them a’.”
“Has this fellow,” said the Lord Keeper, when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy, for you make it a point of conscience to record the special history of every boor148 about the castle.”
“I am not quite so faithful a chronicler, my dear father; but I believe that Norman once served here while a boy, and before he ewnt to Ledington, whence you hired him. But if you want to know anything of the former family, Old Alice is the best authority.”
“And what should I have to do with them, pray, Lucy,” said her father, “or with their history or accomplishments149?”
“Nay, I do not know, sir; only that you were asking questions of Norman about young Ravenswood.”
“Pshaw, child!” replied her father, yet immediately added: “And who is Old Alice? I think you know all the old women in the country.”
“To be sure I do, or how could I help the old creatures when they are in hard times? And as to Old Alice, she is the very empress of old women and queen of gossips, so far as legendary lore150 is concerned. She is blind, poor old soul, but when she speaks to you, you would think she has some way of looking into your very heart. I am sure I often cover my face, or turn it away, for it seems as if she saw one change colour, though she has been blind these twenty years. She is worth visiting, were it but to say you have seen a blind and paralytic151 old woman have so much acuteness of perception and dignity of manners. I assure you, she might be a countess from her language and behaviour. Come, you must go to see Alice; we are not a quarter of a mile from her cottage.”
“All this, my dear,” said the Lord Keeper, “is no answer to my question, who this woman is, and what is her connexion with the former proprietor’s family?”
“Oh, it was somethign of a nouriceship, I believe; and she remained here, because her two grandsons were engaged in your service. But it was against her will, I fancy; for the poor old creature is always regretting the change of times and of property.”
“I am much obliged to her,” answered the Lord Keeper. “She and her folk eat my bread and drink my cup, and are lamenting152 all the while that they are not still under a family which never could do good, either to themselves or any one else!”
“Indeed,” replied Lucy, “I am certain you do Old Alice injustice153. She has nothing mercenary about her, and would not accept a penny in charity, if it were to save her from being starved. She is only talkative, like all old folk when you put them upon stories of their youth; and she speaks about the Ravenswood people, because she lived under them so many years. But I am sure she is grateful to you, sir, for your protection, and that she would rather speak to you than to any other person in the whole world beside. Do, sir, come and see Old Alice.”
And with the freedom of an indulged daughter she dragged the Lord Keeper in the direction she desired.
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