What doth ensue
But moody1 and dull melancholy2,
Kinsman3 to grim and comfortless despair,
And at her heel, a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures, and foes4 to life?
Comedy of Errors.
AS some vindication5 of the ease with which Bucklaw (who otherwise, as he termed himself, was really a very good-humoured fellow) resigned his judgment6 to the management of Lady Ashton, while paying his addresses to her daughter, the reader must call to mind the strict domestic discipline which, at this period, was exercised over the females of a Scottish family.
The manners of the country in this, as in many other respects, coincided with those of France before the Revolution. Young women of the higher rank seldom mingled7 in society until after marriage, and, both in law and fact, were held to be under the strict tutelage of their parents, who were too apt to enforce the views for their settlement in life without paying any regard to the inclination8 of the parties chiefly interested. On such occasions, the suitor expected little more from his bride than a silent acquiescence9 in the will of her parents; and as few opportunities of acquaintance, far less of intimacy10, occurred, he made his choice by the outside, as the lovers in the Merchant of Venice select the casket, contented11 to trust to chance the issue of the lottery12 in which he had hazarded a venture.
It was not therefore surprising, such being the general manners of the age, that Mr. Hayston of Bucklaw, whom dissipated habits had detached in some degree from the best society, should not attend particularly to those feelings in his elected bride to which many men of more sentiment, experience, and reflection would, in all probability, have been equally indifferent. He knew what all accounted the principal point, that her parents and friends, namely, were decidedly in his favour, and that there existed most powerful reasons for their predilection13.
In truth, the conduct of the Marquis of A——, since Ravenswood’s departure, had been such as almost to bar the possibility of his kinsman’s union with Lucy Ashton. The Marquis was Ravenswood’s sincere but misjudging friend; or rather, like many friends and patrons, he consulted what he considered to be his relation’s true interest, although he knew that in doing so he run counter to his inclinations14.
The Marquis drove on, therefore, with the plentitude of ministerial authority, an appeal to the British House of Peers against those judgments15 of the courts of law by which Sir William became possessed16 of Ravenswood’s hereditary17 property. As this measure, enforced with all the authority of power, was new in Scottish judicial18 proceedings19, though now so frequently resorted to, it was exclaimed against by the lawyers on the opposite side of politics, as an interference with the civil judicature of the country, equally new, arbitrary, and tyrannical. And if it thus affected20 even strangers connected with them only by political party, it may be guessed what the Ashton family themselves said and thought under so gross a dispensation. Sir William, still more worldly-minded than he was timid, was reduced to despair by the loss by which he was threatened. His son’s haughtier21 spirit was exalted22 into rage at the idea of being deprived of his expected patrimony23. But to Lady Ashton’s yet more vindictive24 temper the conduct of Ravenswood, or rather of his patron, appeared to be an offence challenging the deepest and most immortal25 revenge. Even the quiet and confiding26 temper of Lucy herself, swayed by the opinions expressed by all around her, could not but consider the conduct of Ravenswood as precipitate27, and even unkind. “It was my father,” she repeated with a sigh, “who welcomed him to this place, and encouraged, or at least allowed, the intimacy between us. Should he not have remembered this, and requited28 it with at least some moderate degree of procrastination29 in the assertion of his own alleged30 rights? I would have forfeited31 for him double the value of these lands, which he pursues with an ardour that shows he has forgotten how much I am implicated32 in the matter.”
Lucy, however, could only murmur33 these things to herself, unwilling34 to increase the prejudices against her lover entertained by all around her, who exclaimed against the steps pursued on his account as illegal, vexatious, and tyrannical, resembling the worst measures in the worst times of the worst Stuarts, and a degradation35 of Scotland, the decisions of whose learned judges were thus subjected to the review of a court composed indeed of men of the highest rank, and who were not trained to the study of any municipal law, and might be supposed specially36 to hold in contempt that of Scotland. As a natural consequence of the alleged injustice37 meditated38 towards her father, every means was restored to, and every argument urged to induce Miss Ashton to break off her engagement with Ravenswood, as being scandalous, shameful39, and sinful, formed with the mortal enemy of her family, and calculated to add bitterness to the distress40 of her parents.
Lucy’s spirit, however, was high, and, although unaided and alone, she could have borne much: she could have endured the repinings of her father; his murmurs41 against what he called the tyrannical usage of the ruling party; his ceaseless charges of ingratitude42 against Ravenswood; his endless lectures on the various means by which contracts may be voided an annulled43; his quotations44 from the civil, municipal, and the canon law; and his prelections upon the patria potestas.
She might have borne also in patience, or repelled45 with scorn, the bitter taunts46 and occasional violence of her brother, Colonel Douglas Ashton, and the impertinent and intrusive47 interference of other friends and relations. But it was beyond her power effectually to withstand or elude48 the constant and unceasing persecution49 of Lady Ashton, who, laying every other wish aside, had bent50 the whol efforts of her powerful mind to break her daughter’s contract with Ravenswood, and to place a perpetual bar between the lovers, by effecting Lucy’s union with Bucklaw. Far more deeply skilled than her husband in the recesses51 of the human heart, she was aware that in this way she might strike a blow of deep and decisive vengeance52 upon one whom she esteemed53 as her mortal enemy; nor did she hesitate at raising her arm, although she knew that the wound must be dealt through the bosom54 of her daughter. With this stern and fixed55 purpose, she sounded every deep and shallow of her daughter’s soul, assumed alternately every disguise of manner which could serve her object, and prepared at leisure every species of dire56 machinery57 by which the human mind can be wrenched58 from its settled determination. Some of these were of an obvious description, and require only to be cursorily59 mentioned; others were characteristic of the time, the country, and the persons engaged in this singular drama.
It was of the last consequence that all intercourse60 betwixt the lovers should be stopped, and, by dint61 of gold and authority, Lady Ashton contrived62 to possess herself of such a complete command of all who were placed around her daughter, that, if fact, no leaguered fortress63 was ever more completely blockaded; while, at the same time, to all outward appearance Miss Ashton lay under no restriction64. The verge65 of her parents’ domains66 became, in respect to her, like the viewless and enchanted67 line drawn68 around a fairy castle, where nothing unpermitted can either enter from without or escape from within. Thus every letter, in which Ravenswood conveyed to Lucy Ashton the indispensable reasons which detained him abroad, and more than one note which poor Lucy had addressed to him through what she thought a secure channel, fell into the hands of her mother. It could not be but that the tenor69 of these intercepted70 letters, especially those of Ravenswood, should contain something to irritate the passions and fortify71 the obstinacy72 of her into whose hands they fell; but Lady Ashton’s passions were too deep-rooted to require this fresh food. She burnt the papers as regularly as she perused73 them; and as they consumed into vapour and tinder, regarded them with a smile upon her compressed lips, and an exultation74 in her steady eye, which showed her confidence that the hopes of the writers should soon be rendered equally unsubstantial.
It usually happens that fortune aids the machinations of those who are prompt to avail themselves of every chance that offers. A report was wafted75 from the continent, founded, like others of the same sort, upon many plausible76 circumstances, but without any real basis, stating the Master of Ravenswood to be on the eve of marriage with a foreign lady of fortune and distinction. This was greedily caught up by both the political parties, who were at once struggling for power and for popular favour, and who seized, as usual, upon the most private circumstances in the lives of each other’s partisans77 t convert them into subjects of political discussion.
The Marquis of A—— gave his opinion aloud and publicly, not indeed in the coarse terms ascribed to him by Captain Craigengelt, but in a manner sufficiently78 offensive to the Ashtons. “He thought the report,” he said, “highly probably, and heartily79 wished it might be true. Such a match was fitter and far more creditable for a spirited young fellow than a marriage with the daughter of an old Whig lawyer, whose chicanery80 had so nearly ruined his father.”
The other party, of course, laying out of view the opposition81 which the Master of Ravenswood received from Miss Ashton’s family, cried shame upon his fickleness82 and perfidy83, as if he had seduced84 the young lady into an engagement, and wilfully85 and causelessly abandoned her for another.
Sufficient care was taken that this report should find its way to Ravenswood Castle through every various channel, Lady Ashton being well aware that the very reiteration86 of the same rumour87, from so many quarters, could not but give it a semblance88 of truth. By some it was told as a piece of ordinary news, by some communicated as serious intelligence; now it was whispered to Lucy Ashton’s ear in the tone of malignant89 pleasantry, and now transmitted to her as a matter of grave and serious warning.
Even the boy henry was made the instrument of adding to his sister’s torments90. One morning he rushed into the room with a willow91 branch in his hand, which he told her had arrived that instant from Germany for her special wearing. Lucy, as we have seen, was remarkably92 fond of her younger brother, and at that moment his wanton and thoughtless unkindness seemed more keenly injurious than even the studied insults of her elder brother. Her grief, however, had no shade of resentment93; she folded her arms about the boy’s neck, and saying faintly, “Poor Henry! you speak but what they tell you” she burst into a flood of unrestrained tears. The boy was moved, notwithstanding the thoughtlessness of his age and character. “The devil take me,” said he, “Lucy, if I fetch you any more of these tormenting94 messages again; for I like you better,” said he, kissing away the tears, “than the whole pack of them; and you shall have my grey pony95 to ride on, and you shall canter him if you like — ay, and ride beyond the village, too, if you have a mind.”
“Who told you,” said Lucy, “that I am not permitted to ride where I please?”
“That’s a secret,” said the boy; “but you will find you can never ride beyond the village but your horse will cast a she, or fall lame96, or the cattle bell will ring, or something will happen to bring you back. But if I tell you more of these things, Douglas will nto get me the pair of colours they have promised me, and so good-morrow to you.”
This dialogue plunged97 Lucy in still deeper dejection, as it tended to show her plainly what she had for some time suspected, that she was little better than a prisoner at large in her father’s house. We have described her in the outset of our story as of a romantic disposition98, delighting in tales of love and wonder, and readily identifying herself with the situation of those legendary99 heroines with whose adventures, for want of better reading, her memory had become stocked. The fairy wand, with which in her solitude100 she had delighted to raise visions of enchantment101, became now the rod of a magician, the bond slave of evil genii, serving only to invoke102 spectres at which the exorcist trembled. She felt herself the object of suspicion, of scorn, of dislike at least, if not of hatred103, to her own family; and it seemed to her that she was abandoned by the very person on whose account she was exposed to the enmity of all around her. Indeed, the evidence of Ravenswood’s infidelity began to assume every day a more determined104 character. A soldier of fortune, of the name of Westenho, an old familiar of Craigengelt’s, chanced to arrive from abroad about this time. The worthy105 Captain, though without any precise communication with Lady Ashton, always acted most regularly and sedulously106 in support of her plans, and easily prevailed upon his friend, by dint of exaggeration of real circumstances and coming of others, to give explicit107 testimony108 to the truth of Ravenswood’s approaching marriage.
Thus beset109 on all hands, and in a manner reduced to despair, Lucy’s temper gave way under the pressure of constant affliction and persecution. She became gloomy and abstracted, and, contrary to her natural and ordinary habit of mind, sometimes turned with spirit, and even fierceness, on those by whom she was long and closely annoyed. Her health also began to be shaken, and her hectic110 cheek and wandering eye gave symptoms of what is called a fever upon the spirits. In most mothers this would have moved compassion111; but Lady Ashton, compact and firm of purpose, saw these waverings of health and intellect with no greater sympathy than that with which the hostile engineer regards the towers of a beleaguered112 city as they reel under the discharge of his artillery113; or rather, she considered these starts and inequalities of temper as symptoms of Lucy’s expiring resolution; as the angler, by the throes and convulsive exertions114 of the fish which he has hooked, becomes aware that he soon will be able to land him. To accelerate the catastrophe115 in the present case, Lady Ashton had recourse to an expedient116 very consistent with the temper and credulity of those times, but which the reader will probably pronounce truly detestable and diabolical117.
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