Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters’ vows1, the hours that we have spent
When we have chid2 the hasty-footed time
For parting us — Oh! — and is all forgot?
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
We have been a long while in conducting Butler to the door of the cottage at St. Leonard’s; yet the space which we have occupied in the preceding narrative3 does not exceed in length that which he actually spent on Salisbury Crags on the morning which succeeded the execution done upon Porteous by the rioters. For this delay he had his own motives4. He wished to collect his thoughts, strangely agitated6 as they were, first by the melancholy7 news of Effie Deans’s situation, and afterwards by the frightful8 scene which he had witnessed. In the situation also in which he stood with respect to Jeanie and her father, some ceremony, at least some choice of fitting time and season, was necessary to wait upon them. Eight in the morning was then the ordinary hour for breakfast, and he resolved that it should arrive before he made his appearance in their cottage.
Never did hours pass so heavily. Butler shifted his place and enlarged his circle to while away the time, and heard the huge bell of St. Giles’s toll9 each successive hour in swelling10 tones, which were instantly attested11 by those of the other steeples in succession. He had heard seven struck in this manner, when he began to think he might venture to approach nearer to St. Leonard’s, from which he was still a mile distant. Accordingly he descended12 from his lofty station as low as the bottom of the valley, which divides Salisbury Crags from those small rocks which take their name from Saint Leonard. It is, as many of my readers may know, a deep, wild, grassy14 valley, scattered15 with huge rocks and fragments which have descended from the cliffs and steep ascent16 to the east.
This sequestered17 dell, as well as other places of the open pasturage of the King’s Park, was, about this time, often the resort of the gallants of the time who had affairs of honour to discuss with the sword. Duels19 were then very common in Scotland, for the gentry20 were at once idle, haughty21, fierce, divided by faction22, and addicted23 to intemperance24, so that there lacked neither provocation25, nor inclination26 to resent it when given; and the sword, which was part of every gentleman’s dress, was the only weapon used for the decision of such differences. When, therefore, Butler observed a young man, skulking27, apparently28 to avoid observation, among the scattered rocks at some distance from the footpath29, he was naturally led to suppose that he had sought this lonely spot upon that evil errand. He was so strongly impressed with this, that, notwithstanding his own distress31 of mind, he could not, according to his sense of duty as a clergyman, pass this person without speaking to him. There are times, thought he to himself, when the slightest interference may avert34 a great calamity35 — when a word spoken in season may do more for prevention than the eloquence37 of Tully could do for remedying evil — And for my own griefs, be they as they may, I shall feel them the lighter38, if they divert me not from the prosecution39 of my duty.
Thus thinking and feeling, he quitted the ordinary path, and advanced nearer the object he had noticed. The man at first directed his course towards the hill, in order, as it appeared, to avoid him; but when he saw that Butler seemed disposed to follow him, he adjusted his hat fiercely, turned round, and came forward, as if to meet and defy scrutiny40.
Butler had an opportunity of accurately41 studying his features as they advanced slowly to meet each other. The stranger seemed about twenty-five years old. His dress was of a kind which could hardly be said to indicate his rank with certainty, for it was such as young gentlemen sometimes wore while on active exercise in the morning, and which, therefore, was imitated by those of the inferior ranks, as young clerks and tradesmen, because its cheapness rendered it attainable42, while it approached more nearly to the apparel of youths of fashion than any other which the manners of the times permitted them to wear. If his air and manner could be trusted, however, this person seemed rather to be dressed under than above his rank; for his carriage was bold and somewhat supercilious43, his step easy and free, his manner daring and unconstrained. His stature44 was of the middle size, or rather above it, his limbs well-proportioned, yet not so strong as to infer the reproach of clumsiness. His features were uncommonly45 handsome, and all about him would have been interesting and prepossessing but for that indescribable expression which habitual46 dissipation gives to the countenance47, joined with a certain audacity48 in look and manner, of that kind which is often assumed as a mask for confusion and apprehension49.
Butler and the stranger met — surveyed each other — when, as the latter, slightly touching50 his hat, was about to pass by him, Butler, while he returned the salutation, observed, “A fine morning, sir — You are on the hill early.”
“I have business here,” said the young man, in a tone meant to repress farther inquiry51.
“I do not doubt it, sir,” said Butler. “I trust you will forgive my hoping that it is of a lawful52 kind?”
“Sir,” said the other, with marked surprise, “I never forgive impertinence, nor can I conceive what title you have to hope anything about what no way concerns you.”
“I am a soldier, sir,” said Butler, “and have a charge to arrest evil-doers in the name of my Master.”
“A soldier!” said the young man, stepping back, and fiercely laying his hand on his sword —“A soldier, and arrest me! Did you reckon what your life was worth, before you took the commission upon you?”
“You mistake me, sir,” said Butler, gravely; “neither my warfare53 nor my warrant are of this world. I am a preacher of the gospel, and have power, in my Master’s name, to command the peace upon earth and good-will towards men, which was proclaimed with the gospel.”
“A minister!” said the stranger, carelessly, and with an expression approaching to scorn. “I know the gentlemen of your cloth in Scotland claim a strange right of intermeddling with men’s private affairs. But I have been abroad, and know better than to be priest-ridden.”
“Sir, if it be true that any of my cloth, or, it might be more decently said, of my calling, interfere33 with men’s private affairs, for the gratification either of idle curiosity, or for worse motives, you cannot have learned a better lesson abroad than to contemn54 such practices. But in my Master’s work, I am called to be busy in season and out of season; and, conscious as I am of a pure motive5, it were better for me to incur55 your contempt for speaking, than the correction of my own conscience for being silent.”
“In the name of the devil!” said the young man impatiently, “say what you have to say, then; though whom you take me for, or what earthly concern you have with me, a stranger to you, or with my actions and motives, of which you can know nothing, I cannot conjecture56 for an instant.”
“You are about,” said Butler, “to violate one of your country’s wisest laws — you are about, which is much more dreadful, to violate a law, which God himself has implanted within our nature, and written as it were, in the table of our hearts, to which every thrill of our nerves is responsive.”
“And what is the law you speak of?” said the stranger, in a hollow and somewhat disturbed accent.
“Thou shalt do no murder,” said Butler, with a deep and solemn voice.
The young man visibly started, and looked considerably57 appalled58. Butler perceived he had made a favourable59 impression, and resolved to follow it up. “Think,” he said, “young man,” laying his hand kindly60 upon the stranger’s shoulder, “what an awful alternative you voluntarily choose for yourself, to kill or be killed. Think what it is to rush uncalled into the presence of an offended Deity61, your heart fermenting62 with evil passions, your hand hot from the steel you had been urging, with your best skill and malice63, against the breast of a fellow-creature. Or, suppose yourself the scarce less wretched survivor65, with the guilt66 of Cain, the first murderer, in your heart, with the stamp upon your brow — that stamp which struck all who gazed on him with unutterable horror, and by which the murderer is made manifest to all who look upon him. Think!”
The stranger gradually withdrew himself from under the hand of his monitor; and, pulling his hat over his brows, thus interrupted him. “Your meaning, sir, I dare say, is excellent, but you are throwing your advice away. I am not in this place with violent intentions against any one. I may be bad enough — you priests say all men are so — but I am here for the purpose of saving life, not of taking it away. If you wish to spend your time rather in doing a good action than in talking about you know not what, I will give you an opportunity. Do you see yonder crag to the right, over which appears the chimney of a lone30 house? Go thither67, inquire for one Jeanie Deans, the daughter of the goodman; let her know that he she wots of remained here from daybreak till this hour, expecting to see her, and that he can abide68 no longer. Tell her, she must meet me at the Hunter’s Bog69 to-night, as the moon rises behind St. Anthony’s Hill, or that she will make a desperate man of me.”
“Who or what are you,” replied Butler, exceedingly and most unpleasantly surprised, “who charge me with such an errand?”
“I am the devil!”— answered the young man hastily.
Butler stepped instinctively70 back, and commanded himself internally to Heaven; for, though a wise and strong-minded man, he was neither wiser nor more strong-minded than those of his age and education, with whom, to disbelieve witchcraft71 or spectres, was held an undeniable proof of atheism72.
The stranger went on without observing his emotion. “Yes! call me Apollyon, Abaddon, whatever name you shall choose, as a clergyman acquainted with the upper and lower circles of spiritual denomination73, to call me by, you shall not find an appellation74 more odious75 to him that bears it, than is mine own.”
This sentence was spoken with the bitterness of self-upbraiding, and a contortion76 of visage absolutely demoniacal. Butler, though a man brave by principle, if not by constitution, was overawed; for intensity77 of mental distress has in it a sort of sublimity78 which repels79 and overawes all men, but especially those of kind and sympathetic dispositions80. The stranger turned abruptly81 from Butler as he spoke36, but instantly returned, and, coming up to him closely and boldly, said, in a fierce, determined83 tone, “I have told you who and what I am — who and what are you? What is your name?”
“Butler,” answered the person to whom this abrupt82 question was addressed, surprised into answering it by the sudden and fierce manner of the querist —“Reuben Butler, a preacher of the gospel.”
At this answer, the stranger again plucked more deep over his brows the hat which he had thrown back in his former agitation84. “Butler!” he repeated —“the assistant of the schoolmaster at Liberton?”
“The same,” answered Butler composedly.
The stranger covered his face with his hand, as if on sudden reflection, and then turned away, but stopped when he had walked a few paces; and seeing Butler follow him with his eyes, called out in a stern yet suppressed tone, just as if he had exactly calculated that his accents should not be heard a yard beyond the spot on which Butler stood. “Go your way, and do mine errand. Do not look after me. I will neither descend13 through the bowels85 of these rocks, nor vanish in a flash of fire; and yet the eye that seeks to trace my motions shall have reason to curse it was ever shrouded86 by eyelid87 or eyelash. Begone, and look not behind you. Tell Jeanie Deans, that when the moon rises I shall expect to meet her at Nicol Muschat’s Cairn, beneath Saint Anthony’s Chapel88.”
As he uttered these words, he turned and took the road against the hill, with a haste that seemed as peremptory89 as his tone of authority.
Dreading90 he knew not what of additional misery91 to a lot which seemed little capable of receiving augmentation, and desperate at the idea that any living man should dare to send so extraordinary a request, couched in terms so imperious, to the half-betrothed object of his early and only affection, Butler strode hastily towards the cottage, in order to ascertain92 how far this daring and rude gallant18 was actually entitled to press on Jeanie Deans a request, which no prudent93, and scarce any modest young woman, was likely to comply with.
Butler was by nature neither jealous nor superstitious94; yet the feelings which lead to those moods of the mind were rooted in his heart, as a portion derived95 from the common stock of humanity. It was maddening to think that a profligate96 gallant, such as the manner and tone of the stranger evinced him to be, should have it in his power to command forth97 his future bride and plighted98 true love, at a place so improper99, and an hour so unseasonable. Yet the tone in which the stranger spoke had nothing of the soft half-breathed voice proper to the seducer100 who solicits101 an assignation; it was bold, fierce, and imperative102, and had less of love in it than of menace and intimidation103.
The suggestions of superstition104 seemed more plausible105, had Butler’s mind been very accessible to them. Was this indeed the Roaring Lion, who goeth about seeking whom he may devour106? This was a question which pressed itself on Butler’s mind with an earnestness that cannot be conceived by those who live in the present day. The fiery107 eye, the abrupt demeanour, the occasionally harsh, yet studiously subdued108 tone of voice — the features, handsome, but now clouded with pride, now disturbed by suspicion, now inflamed109 with passion — those dark hazel eyes which he sometimes shaded with his cap, as if he were averse110 to have them seen while they were occupied with keenly observing the motions and bearing of others — those eyes that were now turbid111 with melancholy, now gleaming with scorn, and now sparkling with fury — was it the passions of a mere112 mortal they expressed, or the emotions of a fiend, who seeks, and seeks in vain, to conceal113 his fiendish designs under the borrowed mask of manly114 beauty? The whole partook of the mien115, language, and port of the ruined archangel; and, imperfectly as we have been able to describe it, the effect of the interview upon Butler’s nerves, shaken as they were at the time by the horrors of the preceding night, were greater than his understanding warranted, or his pride cared to submit to. The very place where he had met this singular person was desecrated116, as it were, and unhallowed, owing to many violent deaths, both in duels and by suicide, which had in former times taken place there; and the place which he had named as a rendezvous117 at so late an hour, was held in general to be accursed, from a frightful and cruel murder which had been there committed by the wretch64 from whom the place took its name, upon the person of his own wife.1
It was in such places, according to the belief of that period (when the laws against witchcraft were still in fresh observance, and had even lately been acted upon), that evil spirits had power to make themselves visible to human eyes, and to practise upon the feelings and senses of mankind. Suspicions, founded on such circumstances, rushed on Butler’s mind, unprepared as it was by any previous course of reasoning, to deny that which all of his time, country, and profession believed; but common sense rejected these vain ideas as inconsistent, if not with possibility, at least with the general rules by which the universe is governed — a deviation118 from which, as Butler well argued with himself, ought not to be admitted as probable, upon any but the plainest and most incontrovertible evidence. An earthly lover, however, or a young man, who, from whatever cause, had the right of exercising such summary and unceremonious authority over the object of his long-settled, and apparently sincerely returned affection, was an object scarce less appalling119 to his mind, than those which superstition suggested.
His limbs exhausted120 with fatigue121, his mind harassed122 with anxiety, and with painful doubts and recollections, Butler dragged himself up the ascent from the valley to St. Leonard’s Crags, and presented himself at the door of Deans’s habitation, with feelings much akin32 to the miserable123 reflections and fears of its inhabitants.
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