With throat unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard him call;
Gramercy they for joy did grin,
And all at once their breath drew in,
As they had been drinking all!
COLERIDGE’S Rime1 of the Ancient Mariner2.
HAYSTON of Bucklaw was one of the thoughtless class who never hesitate between their friend and their jest. When it was announced that the principal persons of the chase had taken their route towards Wolf’s Crag, the huntsmen, as a point of civility, offered to transfer the venison to that mansion4; a proffer5 which was readily accepted by Bucklaw, who thought much of the astonishment6 which their arrival in full body would occasion poor old Caleb Balderstone, and very little of the dilemma7 to which he was about to expose his friend the Master, so ill circumstanced to receive such a party. But in old Caleb he had to do with a crafty8 and alert antagonist9, prompt at supplying, upon all emergencies, evasions10 and excuses suitable, as he thought, to the dignity of the family.
“Praise be blest!” said Caleb to himself, “ae leaf of the muckle gate has been swung to wi’ yestreen’s wind, and I think I can manage to shut the ither.”
But he was desirous, like a prudent11 governor, at the same time to get rid, if possible, of the internal enemy, in which light he considered almost every one who eat and drank, ere he took measures to exclude those whom their jocund12 noise now pronounced to be near at hand. He waited, therefore, with impatience13 until his master had shown his two principal guests into the Tower, and then commenced his operations.
“I think,” he said to the stranger menials, “that, as they are bringing the stag’s head to the castle in all honour, we, who are indwellers, should receive them at the gate.”
The unwary grooms14 had no sooner hurried out, in compliance15 with this insidious16 hint, than, one folding-door of the ancient gate being already closed by the wind, as has been already intimated, honest Caleb lost no time in shutting the other with a clang, which resounded17 from donjon-vault to battlement. Having thus secured the pass, he forthwith indulged the excluded huntsmen in brief parley18, from a small projecting window, or shot-hole, through which, in former days, the warders were wont19 to reconnoitre those who presented themselves before the gates. He gave them to understand, in a short and pity speech, that the gate of the castle was never on any account opened during meal-times; that his honour, the Master of Ravenswood, and some guests of quality, had just sat down to dinner; that there was excellent brandy at the hostler-wife’s at Wolf’s Hope down below; and he held out some obscure hint that the reckoning would be discharged by the Master; but this was uttered in a very dubious20 and oracular strain, for, like Louis XIV., Caleb Balderstone hesitated to carry finesse21 so far as direct falsehood, and was content to deceive, if possible, without directly lying.
This annunciation was received with surprise by some, with laughter by others, and with dismay by the expelled lackeys22, who endeavoured to demonstrate that their right of readmission, for the purpose of waiting upon their master and mistress, was at least indisputable. But Caleb was not in a humour to understand or admit any distinctions. He stuck to his original proposition with that dogged but convenient pertinacity23 which is armed against all conviction, and deaf to all reasoning. Bucklaw now came from the rear of the party, and demanded admittance in a very angry tone. But the resolution of Caleb was immovable.
“If the king on the throne were at the gate,” he declared, “his ten fingers should never open it contrair to the established use and wont of the family of Ravenswood, and his duty as their head-servant.”
Bucklaw was now extremely incensed24, and with more oaths and curses than we care to repeat, declared himself most unworthily treated, and demanded peremptorily25 to speak with the Master of Ravenswood himself.
But to this also Caleb turned a deaf ear. “He’s as soon a-bleeze as a tap of tow, the lad Bucklaw,” he said; “but the deil of ony master’s face he shall see till he has sleepit and waken’d on’t. He’ll ken3 himsell better the morn’s morning. It sets the like o’ him, to be bringing a crew of drunken hunters here, when he kens26 there is but little preparation to sloken his ain drought.” And he disappeared from the window, leaving them all to digest their exclusion27 as they best might.
But another person, of whose presence Caleb, in the animation28 of the debate, was not aware, had listened in silence to its progress. This was the principal domestic of the stranger — a man of trust and consequence — the same who, in the hunting-field, had accommodated Bucklaw with the use of his horse. He was in the stable when Caleb had contrived29 the expulsion of his fellow-servants, and thus avoided sharing the same fate, from which his personal importance would certainly not have otherwise saved him.
This personage perceived the manoeuvre30 of Caleb, easily appreciated the motive31 of his conduct, and knowing his master’s intentions towards the family of Ravenswood, had no difficulty as to the line of conduct he ought to adopt. He took the place of Caleb (unperceived by the latter) at the post of audience which he had just left, and announced to the assembled domestics, “That it was his master’s pleasure that Lord Bittlebrain’s retinue32 and his own should go down to the adjacent change-house and call for what refreshments33 they might have occasion for, and he should take care to discharge the lawing.”
The jolly troop of huntsmen retired34 from the inhospitable gate of Wolf’s Crag, execrating35, as they descended36 the steep pathway, the niggard and unworthy disposition37 of the proprietor38, and damning, with more than silvan license39, both the castle and its inhabitants. Bucklaw, with many qualities which would have made him a man of worth and judgment40 in more favourable41 circumstances, had been so utterly42 neglected in point of education, that he was apt to think and feel according to the ideas of the companions of his pleasures. The praises which had recently been heaped upon himself he contrasted with the general abuse now levelled against Ravenswood; he recalled to his mind the dull and monotonous43 days he had spent in the Tower of Wolf’s Crag, compared with the joviality45 of his usual life; he felt with great indignation his exclusion from the castle, which he considered as a gross affront46, and every mingled47 feeling led him to break off the union which he had formed with the Master of Ravenswood.
On arriving at the change-house of the village of Wolf’s Hope, he unexpectedly met with an acquaintance just alighting from his horse. This was no other than the very respectable Captain Craigengelt, who immediately came up to him, and, without appearing to retain any recollection of the indifferent terms on which they had parted, shook him by the hand in the warmest manner possible. A warm grasp of the hand was what Bucklaw could never help returning with cordiality, and no sooner had Craigengelt felt the pressure of his fingers than he knew the terms on which he stood with him.
“Long life to you, Bucklaw!” he exclaimed; “there’s life for honest folk in this bad world yet!”
The Jacobites at this period, with what propriety48 I know not, used, it must be noticed, the term of HONEST MEN as peculiarly descriptive of their own party.
“Ay, and for others besides, it seems,” answered Bucklaw; “otherways, how came you to venture hither, noble Captain?”
“Who — I? I am as free as the wind at Martinmas, that pays neither land-rent nor annual; all is explained — all settled with the honest old drivellers yonder of Auld49 Reekie. Pooh! pooh! they dared not keep me a week of days in durance. A certain person has better friends among them than you wot of, and can serve a friend when it is least likely.”
“Pshaw!” answered Hayston, who perfectly50 knew and thoroughly51 despised the character of this man, “none of your cogging gibberish; tell me truly, are you at liberty and in safety?”
“Free and safe as a Whig bailie on the causeway of his own borough52, or a canting Presbyterian minister in his own pulpit; and I came to tell you that you need not remain in hiding any longer.”
“Then I suppose you call yourself my friend, Captain Craigengelt?” said Bucklaw.
“Friend!” replied Craigengelt, “my cock of the pit! why, I am thy very Achates, man, as I have heard scholars say — hand and glove — bark and tree — thine to life and death!”
“I’ll try that in a moment,” answered Bucklaw. “Thou art never without money, however thou comest by it. Lend me two pieces to wash the dust out of these honest fellows’ throats in the first place, and then ——”
“Two pieces! Twenty are at thy service, my lad, and twenty to back them.”
“Ay, say you so?” said Bucklaw, pausing, for his natural penetration53 led him to suspect some extraordinary motive lay couched under an excess of generosity54. “Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.”
“L’un n’empeche pas l’autre,” said Craigengelt. “Touch and try; the gold is good as ever was weighed.”
He put a quantity of gold pieces into Bucklaw’s hand, which he thrust into his pocket without either counting or looking at them, only observing, “That he was so circumstanced that he must enlist55, though the devil offered the press-money”; and then turning to the huntsmen, he called out, “Come along, my lads; all is at my cost.”
“Long life to Bucklaw!” shouted the men of the chase.
“And confusion to him that takes his share of the sport, and leaves the hunters as dry as a drumhead,” added another, by way of corollary.
“The house of Ravenswood was ance a gude and an honourable56 house in this land,” said an old man; “but it’s lost its credit this day, and the Master has shown himself no better than a greedy cullion.”
And with this conclusion, which was unanimously agreed to by all who heard it, they rushed tumultuously into the house of entertainment, where they revelled57 till a late hour. The jovial44 temper of Bucklaw seldom permitted him to be nice in the choice of his associates; and on the present occasion, when his joyous58 debauch59 received additional zest60 from the intervention61 of an unusual space of sobriety, and almost abstinence, he was as happy in leading the revels62 as if his comrades had been sons of princes. Craigengelt had his own purposes in fooling him up to the top of his bent63; and having some low humour, much impudence64, and the power of singing a good song, understanding besides thoroughly the disposition of his regained66 associate, he headily succeeded in involving him bumper-deep in the festivity of the meeting.
A very different scene was in the mean time passing in the Tower of Wolf’s Crag. When the Master of Ravenswood left the courtyard, too much busied with his own perplexed67 reflections to pay attention to the manoeuvre of Caleb, he ushered68 his guests into the great hall of the castle.
The indefatigable69 Balderstone, who, from choice or habit, worked on from morning to night, had by degrees cleared this desolate70 apartment of the confused relics71 of the funeral banquet, and restored it to some order. But not all his skill and labour, in disposing to advantage the little furniture which remained, could remove the dark and disconsolate72 appearance of those ancient and disfurnished walls. The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures73 into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light; and the heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky added still farther to the obscurity.
As Ravenswood, with the grace of a gallant74 of that period, but not without a certain stiffness and embarrassment75 of manner, handed the young lady to the upper end of the apartment, her father remained standing65 more near to the door, as if about to disengage himself from his hat and cloak. At this moment the clang of the portal was heard, a sound at which the stranger started, stepped hastily to the window, and looked with an air of alarm at Ravenswood, when he saw that the gate of the court was shut, and his domestics excluded.
“You have nothing to fear, sir,” said Ravenswood, gravely; “this roof retains the means of giving protection, though not welcome. Methinks,” he added, “it is time that I should know who they are that have thus highly honoured my ruined dwelling76!” The young lady remained silent and motionless, and the father, to whom the question was more directly addressed, seemed in the situation of a performer who has ventured to take upon himself a part which he finds himself unable to present, and who comes to a pause when it is most to be expected that he should speak. While he endeavoured to cover his embarrassment with the exterior77 ceremonials of a well-bred demeanour, it was obvious that, in making his bow, one foot shuffled78 forward, as if to advance, the other backward, as if with the purpose of escape; and as he undid80 the cape79 of his coat, and raised his beaver81 from his face, his fingers fumbled82 as if the one had been linked with rusted83 iron, or the other had weighed equal with a stone of lead. The darkness of the sky seemed to increase, as if to supply the want of those mufflings which he laid aside with such evident reluctance84. The impatience of Ravenswood increased also in proportion to the delay of the stranger, and he appeared to struggle under agitation85, though probably from a very different cause. He laboured to restrain his desire to speak, while the stranger, to all appearance, was at a loss for words to express what he felt necessary to say.
At length Ravenswood’s impatience broke the bounds he had imposed upon it. “I perceive,” he said, “that Sir William Ashton is unwilling86 to announced himself in the Castle of Wolf’s Crag.”
“I had hoped it was unnecessary,” said the Lord Keeper, relieved from his silence, as a spectre by the voice of the exorcist, “and I am obliged to you, Master of Ravenswood, for breaking the ice at once, where circumstances — unhappy circumstances, let me call them — rendered self-introduction peculiarly awkward.”
“And I am not then,” said the Master of Ravenswood, gravely, “to consider the honour of this visit as purely87 accidental?”
“Let us distinguish a little,” said the Keeper, assuming an appearance of ease which perhaps his heart was a stranger to; “this is an honour which I have eagerly desired for some time, but which I might never have obtained, save for the accident of the storm. My daughter and I are alike grateful for this opportunity of thanking the brave man to whom she owes her life and I mine.”
The hatred88 which divided the great families in the feudal89 times had lost little of its bitterness, though it no longer expressed itself in deeds of open violence. Not the feelings which Ravenswood had begun to entertain towards Lucy Ashton, not the hospitality due to his guests, were able entirely90 to subdue91, though they warmly combated, the deep passions which arose within him at beholding92 his father’s foe93 standing in the hall of the family of which he had in a great measure accelerated the ruin. His looks glanced from the father to the daughter with an irresolution94 of which Sir William Ashton did not think it proper to await the conclusion. He had now disembarrassed himself of his riding-dress, and walking up to his daughter, he undid the fastening of her mask.
“Lucy, my love,” he said, raising her and leading her towards Ravenswood, “lay aside your mask, and let us express our gratitude95 to the Master openly and barefaced96.”
“If he will condescend97 to accept it,” was all that Lucy uttered; but in a tone so sweetly modulated98, and which seemed to imply at once a feeling and a forgiving of the cold reception to which they were exposed, that, coming from a creature so innocent and so beautiful, her words cut Ravenswood to the very heart for his harshness. He muttered something of surprise, something of confusion, and, ending with a warm and eager expression of his happiness at being able to afford her shelter under his roof, he saluted99 her, as the ceremonial of the time enjoined100 upon such occasions. Their cheeks had touched and were withdrawn101 from each other; Ravenswood had not quitted the hand which he had taken in kindly102 courtesy; a blush, which attached more consequence by far than was usual to such ceremony, still mantled103 on Lucy Ashton’s beautiful cheek, when the apartment was suddenly illuminated104 by a flash of lightning, which seemed absolutely to swallow the darkness of the hall. Every object might have been for an instant seen distinctly. The slight and half-sinking form of Lucy Ashton; the well-proportioned and stately figure of Ravenswood, his dark features, and the fiery105 yet irresolute106 expression of his eyes; the old arms and scutcheons which hung on the walls of the apartment, were for an instant distinctly visible to the Keeper by a strong red brilliant glare of light. Its disappearance107 was almost instantly followed by a burst of thunder, for the storm-cloud was very near the castle; and the peal108 was so sudden and dreadful, that the old tower rocked to its foundation, and every inmate109 concluded it was falling upon them. The soot110, which had not been disturbed for centuries, showered down the huge tunnelled chimneys; lime and dust flew in clouds from the wall; and, whether the lightning had actually struck the castle or whether through the violent concussion111 of the air, several heavy stones were hurled112 from the mouldering113 battlements into the roaring sea beneath. It might seem as if the ancient founder114 of the castle were bestriding the thunderstorm, and proclaiming his displeasure at the reconciliation115 of his descendant with the enemy of his house.
The consternation116 was general, and it required the efforts of both the Lord Keeper and Ravenswood to keep Lucy from fainting. Thus was the Master a second time engaged in the most delicate and dangerous of all tasks, that of affording support and assistance to a beautiful and helpless being, who, as seen before in a similar situation, had already become a favourite of his imagination, both when awake and when slumbering117. If the genius of the house really condemned118 a union betwixt the Master and his fair guest, the means by which he expressed his sentiments were as unhappily chosen as if he had been a mere119 mortal. The train of little attentions, absolutely necessary to soothe120 the young lady’s mind, and aid her in composing her spirits, necessarily threw the Master of Ravenswood into such an intercourse121 with her father as was calculated, for the moment at least, to break down the barrier of feudal enmity which divided them. To express himself churlishly, or even coldly, towards an old man whose daughter (and SUCH a daughter) lay before them, overpowered with natural terror — and all this under his own roof, the thing was impossible; and by the time that Lucy, extending a hand to each, was able to thank them for their kindness, the Master felt that his sentiments of hostility122 towards the Lord Keeper were by no means those most predominant in his bosom123.
The weather, her state of health, the absence of her attendants, all prevented the possibility of Lucy Ashton renewing her journey to Bittlebrains House, which was full five miles distant; and the Master of Ravenswood could not but, in common courtesy, offer the shelter of his roof for the rest of the day and for the night. But a flush of less soft expression, a look much more habitual124 to his features, resumed predominance when he mentioned how meanly he was provided for the entertainment of his guests.
“Do not mention deficiencies,” said the Lord Keeper, eager to interrupt him and prevent his resuming an alarming topic; “you are preparing to set out for the Continent, and your house is probably for the present unfurnished. All this we understand; but if you mention inconvenience, you will oblige us to seek accommodations in the hamlet.”
As the Master of Ravenswood was about to reply, the door of the hall opened, and Caleb Balderstone rushed in.
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