Do not the hist’ries of all ages
Relate miraculous1 presages2
Of strange turns in the world’s affairs,
Foreseen by astrologers, soothsayers,
Chaldeans, learned genethliacs,
And some that have writ3 almanacks?
Hudibras.
The circumstances of the landlady4 were pleaded to Mannering, first, as an apology for her not appearing to welcome her guest, and for those deficiencies in his entertainment which her attention might have supplied, and then as an excuse for pressing an extra bottle of good wine. ‘I cannot weel sleep,’ said the Laird, with the anxious feelings of a father in such a predicament, ‘till I hear she’s gotten ower with it; and if you, sir, are not very sleepery, and would do me and the Dominie the honour to sit up wi’ us, I am sure we shall not detain you very late. Luckie Howatson is very expeditious6. There was ance a lass that was in that way; she did not live far from hereabouts — ye needna shake your head and groan7, Dominie; I am sure the kirk dues were a’ weel paid, and what can man do mair? — it was laid till her ere she had a sark ower her head; and the man that she since wadded does not think her a pin the waur for the misfortune. They live, Mr. Mannering, by the shoreside at Annan, and a mair decent, orderly couple, with six as fine bairns as ye would wish to see plash in a saltwater dub9; and little curlie Godfrey — that’s the eldest10, the come o’ will, as I may say — he’s on board an excise11 yacht. I hae a cousin at the board of excise; that’s Commissioner12 Bertram; he got his commissionership in the great contest for the county, that ye must have heard of, for it was appealed to the House of Commons. Now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery; but ye see my father was a Jacobite, and out with Kenmore, so he never took the oaths; and I ken13 not weel how it was, but all that I could do and say, they keepit me off the roll, though my agent, that had a vote upon my estate, ranked as a good vote for auld14 Sir Thomas Kittlecourt. But, to return to what I was saying, Luckie Howatson is very expeditious, for this lass — ’
Here the desultory15 and long-winded narrative16 of the Laird was interrupted by the voice of some one ascending17 the stairs from the kitchen story, and singing at full pitch of voice. The high notes were too shrill18 for a man, the low seemed too deep for a woman. The words, as far as Mannering could distinguish them, seemed to run thus:—
Be it lad, or be it lass,
Sign wi’ cross and sain wi’ mass.
‘It’s Meg Merrilies, the gipsy, as sure as I am a sinner,’ said Mr. Bertram. The Dominie groaned21 deeply, uncrossed his legs, drew in the huge splay foot which his former posture22 had extended, placed it perpendicularly23, and stretched the other limb over it instead, puffing24 out between whiles huge volumes of tobacco smoke. ‘What needs ye groan, Dominie? I am sure Meg’s sangs do nae ill.’
‘Nor good neither,’ answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure. They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak; and as he had been watching with some curiosity when this eating, drinking, moving, and smoking automaton25 would perform the part of speaking, he was a good deal diverted with the harsh timber tones which issued from him. But at this moment the door opened, and Meg Merrilies entered.
Her appearance made Mannering start. She was full six feet high, wore a man’s great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine. Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon26 between an old-fashioned bonnet27 called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected28 insanity29.
‘Aweel, Ellangowan,’ she said, ‘wad it no hae been a bonnie thing, an the leddy had been brought to bed, and me at the fair o’ Drumshourloch, no kenning30, nor dreaming a word about it? Wha was to hae keepit awa the worriecows, I trow? Ay, and the elves and gyre-carlings frae the bonnie bairn, grace be wi’ it? Ay, or said Saint Colme’s charm for its sake, the dear?’ And without waiting an answer she began to sing —
Trefoil, vervain, John’s-wort, dill,
Hinders witches of their
will, Weel is them, that weel may
Fast upon Saint Andrew’s day.
Saint Colme and his cat,
Saint Michael and his spear,
Keep the house frae reif and wear.
This charm she sung to a wild tune8, in a high and shrill voice, and, cutting three capers32 with such strength and agility33 as almost to touch the roof of the room, concluded, ‘And now, Laird, will ye no order me a tass o’ brandy?’
‘That you shall have, Meg. Sit down yont there at the door and tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o’ Drumshourloch.’
‘Troth, Laird, and there was muckle want o’ you, and the like o’ you; for there was a whin bonnie lasses there, forbye mysell, and deil ane to gie them hansels.’
‘Weel, Meg, and how mony gipsies were sent to the tolbooth?’
‘Troth, but three, Laird, for there were nae mair in the fair, bye mysell, as I said before, and I e’en gae them leg-bail, for there’s nae ease in dealing34 wi’ quarrelsome fowk. And there’s Dunbog has warned the Red Rotten and John Young aff his grunds — black be his cast! he’s nae gentleman, nor drap’s bluid o’ gentleman, wad grudge35 twa gangrel puir bodies the shelter o’ a waste house, and the thristles by the roadside for a bit cuddy, and the bits o’ rotten birk to boil their drap parritch wi’. Weel, there’s Ane abune a’; but we’ll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning before day-dawing.’
‘Hush36! Meg, hush! hush! that’s not safe talk.’
‘What does she mean?’ said Mannering to Sampson, in an undertone.
‘Fire-raising,’ answered the laconic37 Dominie.
‘Who, or what is she, in the name of wonder?’
‘Harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy,’ answered Sampson again.
‘O troth, Laird,’ continued Meg, during this by-talk, ‘it’s but to the like o’ you ane can open their heart; ye see, they say Dunbog is nae mair a gentleman than the blunker that’s biggit the bonnie house down in the howm. But the like o’ you, Laird, that’s a real gentleman for sae mony hundred years, and never hunds puir fowk aff your grund as if they were mad tykes, nane o’ our fowk wad stir your gear if ye had as mony capons as there’s leaves on the trysting-tree. And now some o’ ye maun lay down your watch, and tell me the very minute o’ the hour the wean’s born, an I’ll spae its fortune.’
‘Ay, but, Meg, we shall not want your assistance, for here’s a student from Oxford38 that kens39 much better than you how to spae its fortune; he does it by the stars.’
‘Certainly, sir,’ said Mannering, entering into the simple humour of his landlord, ‘I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the “triplicities,” as recommended by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Diocles, and Avicenna. Or I will begin ab hora questionis, as Haly, Messahala, Ganwehis, and Guido Bonatus have recommended.’
One of Sampson’s great recommendations to the favour of Mr. Bertram was, that he never detected the most gross attempt at imposition, so that the Laird, whose humble40 efforts at jocularity were chiefly confined to what were then called bites and bams, since denominated hoaxes41 and quizzes, had the fairest possible subject of wit in the unsuspecting Dominie. It is true, he never laughed, or joined in the laugh which his own simplicity42 afforded — nay43, it is said, he never laughed but once in his life, and on that memorable44 occasion his landlady miscarried, partly through surprise at the event itself, and partly from terror at the hideous45 grimaces46 which attended this unusual cachinnation. The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine47 personage was, to extort48 an ejaculation of ‘Prodigious!’ or ‘Very facetious49!’ pronounced syllabically, but without moving a muscle of his own countenance50.
On the present occasion, he turned a gaunt and ghastly stare upon the youthful astrologer, and seemed to doubt if he had rightly understood his answer to his patron.
‘I am afraid, sir,’ said Mannering, turning towards him, ‘you may be one of those unhappy persons who, their dim eyes being unable to penetrate51 the starry52 spheres, and to discern therein the decrees of heaven at a distance, have their hearts barred against conviction by prejudice and misprision.’
‘Truly,’ said Sampson, ‘I opine with Sir Isaac Newton, Knight53, and umwhile master of his Majesty54’s mint, that the (pretended) science of astrology is altogether vain, frivolous55, and unsatisfactory.’ And here he reposed56 his oracular jaws58.
‘Really,’ resumed the traveller, ‘I am sorry to see a gentleman of your learning and gravity labouring under such strange blindness and delusion59. Will you place the brief, the modern, and, as I may say, the vernacular60 name of Isaac Newton in opposition61 to the grave and sonorous62 authorities of Dariot, Bonatus, Ptolemy, Haly, Eztler, Dieterick, Naibob, Harfurt, Zael, Taustettor, Agrippa, Duretus, Maginus, Origen, and Argol? Do not Christians63 and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?’
‘Communis error — it is a general mistake,’ answered the inflexible64 Dominie Sampson.
‘Not so,’ replied the young Englishman; ‘it is a general and well-grounded belief.’
‘It is the resource of cheaters, knaves65, and cozeners,’ said Sampson.
‘Abusus non tollit usum. — The abuse of anything doth not abrogate66 the lawful67 use thereof.’
During this discussion Ellangowan was somewhat like a woodcock caught in his own springe. He turned his face alternately from the one spokesman to the other, and began, from the gravity with which Mannering plied5 his adversary68, and the learning which he displayed in the controversy69, to give him credit for being half serious. As for Meg, she fixed70 her bewildered eyes upon the astrologer, overpowered by a jargon71 more mysterious than her own.
Mannering pressed his advantage, and ran over all the hard terms of art which a tenacious72 memory supplied, and which, from circumstances hereafter to be noticed, had been familiar to him in early youth.
Signs and planets, in aspects sextile, quartile, trine, conjoined, or opposite; houses of heaven, with their cusps, hours, and minutes; almuten, almochoden, anabibazon, catabibazon; a thousand terms of equal sound and significance, poured thick and threefold upon the unshrinking Dominie, whose stubborn incredulity bore him out against the pelting73 of this pitiless storm.
At length the joyful74 annunciation that the lady had presented her husband with a fine boy, and was (of course) as well as could be expected, broke off this intercourse75. Mr. Bertram hastened to the lady’s apartment, Meg Merrilies descended76 to the kitchen to secure her share of the groaning77 malt and the ‘ken-no,’3 and Mannering, after looking at his watch, and noting with great exactness the hour and minute of the birth, requested, with becoming gravity, that the Dominie would conduct him to some place where he might have a view of the heavenly bodies.
The schoolmaster, without further answer, rose and threw open a door half sashed with glass, which led to an old-fashioned terrace-walk behind the modern house, communicating with the platform on which the ruins of the ancient castle were situated78. The wind had arisen, and swept before it the clouds which had formerly79 obscured the sky. The moon was high, and at the full, and all the lesser80 satellites of heaven shone forth81 in cloudless effulgence82. The scene which their light presented to Mannering was in the highest degree unexpected and striking.
We have observed, that in the latter part of his journey our traveller approached the sea-shore, without being aware how nearly. He now perceived that the ruins of Ellangowan Castle were situated upon a promontory83, or projection84 of rock, which formed one side of a small and placid85 bay on the sea-shore. The modern mansion86 was placed lower, though closely adjoining, and the ground behind it descended to the sea by a small swelling87 green bank, divided into levels by natural terraces, on which grew some old trees, and terminating upon the white sand. The other side of the bay, opposite to the old castle, was a sloping and varied88 promontory, covered chiefly with copsewood, which on that favoured coast grows almost within water-mark. A fisherman’s cottage peeped from among the trees. Even at this dead hour of night there were lights moving upon the shore, probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling89 lugger from the Isle90 of Man which was lying in the bay. On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed, a halloo from the vessel91 of ‘Ware hawk92! Douse93 the glim!’ alarmed those who were on shore, and the lights instantly disappeared.
It was one hour after midnight, and the prospect94 around was lovely. The grey old towers of the ruin, partly entire, partly broken, here bearing the rusty95 weather-stains of ages, and there partially96 mantled97 with ivy98, stretched along the verge99 of the dark rock which rose on Mannering’s right hand. In his front was the quiet bay, whose little waves, crisping and sparkling to the moonbeams, rolled successively along its surface, and dashed with a soft and murmuring ripple100 against the silvery beach. To the left the woods advanced far into the ocean, waving in the moonlight along ground of an undulating and varied form, and presenting those varieties of light and shade, and that interesting combination of glade101 and thicket102, upon which the eye delights to rest, charmed with what it sees, yet curious to pierce still deeper into the intricacies of the woodland scenery. Above rolled the planets, each, by its own liquid orbit of light, distinguished103 from the inferior or more distant stars. So strangely can imagination deceive even those by whose volition104 it has been excited, that Mannering, while gazing upon these brilliant bodies, was half inclined to believe in the influence ascribed to them by superstition105 over human events. But Mannering was a youthful lover, and might perhaps be influenced by the feelings so exquisitely106 expressed by a modern poet:—
For fable107 is Love’s world, his home, his birthplace:
Delightedly dwells he ‘mong fays, and talismans108,
And spirits, and delightedly believes
Divinities, being himself divine
The intelligible109 forms of ancient poets,
The fair humanities of old religion,
The power, the beauty, and the majesty,
That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain,
Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly110 spring,
Or chasms111 and wat’ry depths — all these have vanish’d;
They live no longer in the faith of reason!
But still the heart doth need a language, still
Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.
And to yon starry world they now are gone,
Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth
With man as with their friend, and to the lover
Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky
Shoot influence down; and even at this day
‘T is Jupiter who brings whate’er is great,
And Venus who brings everything that’s fair.
Such musings soon gave way to others. ‘Alas!’ he muttered, ‘my good old tutor, who used to enter so deep into the controversy between Heydon and Chambers112 on the subject of astrology, he would have looked upon the scene with other eyes, and would have seriously endeavoured to discover from the respective positions of these luminaries113 their probable effects on the destiny of the new — born infant, as if the courses or emanations of the stars superseded114, or at least were co-ordinate with, Divine Providence115. Well, rest be with him! he instilled116 into me enough of knowledge for erecting117 a scheme of nativity, and therefore will I presently go about it.’ So saying, and having noted118 the position of the principal planetary bodies, Guy Mannering returned to the house. The Laird met him in the parlour, and, acquainting him with great glee that the boy was a fine healthy little fellow, seemed rather disposed to press further conviviality119. He admitted, however, Mannering’s plea of weariness, and, conducting him to his sleeping apartment, left him to repose57 for the evening.
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