Dark and eerie1 was the night,
And lonely was the way,
As Janet, wi’ her green mantell,
To Miles’ Cross she did gae.
Leaving Butler to all the uncomfortable thoughts attached to his new situation, among which the most predominant was his feeling that he was, by his confinement3, deprived of all possibility of assisting the family at St. Leonard’s in their greatest need, we return to Jeanie Deans, who had seen him depart, without an opportunity of farther explanation, in all that agony of mind with which the female heart bids adieu to the complicated sensations so well described by Coleridge —
Hopes, and fears that kindle4 hope,
And gentle wishes long subdued6 —
Subdued and cherished long.
It is not the firmest heart (and Jeanie, under her russet rokelay, had one that would not have disgraced Cato’s daughter) that can most easily bid adieu to these soft and mingled7 emotions. She wept for a few minutes bitterly, and without attempting to refrain from this indulgence of passion. But a moment’s recollection induced her to check herself for a grief selfish and proper to her own affections, while her father and sister were plunged8 into such deep and irretrievable affliction. She drew from her pocket the letter which had been that morning flung into her apartment through an open window, and the contents of which were as singular as the expression was violent and energetic. “If she would save a human being from the most damning guilt9, and all its desperate consequences — if she desired the life an honour of her sister to be saved from the bloody10 fangs11 of an unjust law — if she desired not to forfeit12 peace of mind here, and happiness hereafter,” such was the frantic13 style of the conjuration, “she was entreated14 to give a sure, secret, and solitary15 meeting to the writer. She alone could rescue him,” so ran the letter, “and he only could rescue her.” He was in such circumstances, the billet farther informed her, that an attempt to bring any witness of their conference, or even to mention to her father, or any other person whatsoever16, the letter which requested it, would inevitably17 prevent its taking place, and ensure the destruction of her sister. The letter concluded with incoherent but violent protestations, that in obeying this summons she had nothing to fear personally.
The message delivered to her by Butler from the stranger in the Park tallied18 exactly with the contents of the letter, but assigned a later hour and a different place of meeting. Apparently19 the writer of the letter had been compelled to let Butler so far into his confidence, for the sake of announcing this change to Jeanie. She was more than once on the point of producing the billet, in vindication20 of herself from her lover’s half-hinted suspicions. But there is something in stooping to justification21 which the pride of innocence22 does not at all times willingly submit to; besides that the threats contained in the letter, in case of her betraying the secret, hung heavy on her heart. It is probable, however, that had they remained longer together, she might have taken the resolution to submit the whole matter to Butler, and be guided by him as to the line of conduct which she should adopt. And when, by the sudden interruption of their conference, she lost the opportunity of doing so, she felt as if she had been unjust to a friend, whose advice might have been highly useful, and whose attachment23 deserved her full and unreserved confidence.
To have recourse to her father upon this occasion, she considered as highly imprudent. There was no possibility of conjecturing24 in what light the matter might strike old David, whose manner of acting25 and thinking in extraordinary circumstances depended upon feelings and principles peculiar26 to himself, the operation of which could not be calculated upon even by those best acquainted with him. To have requested some female friend to have accompanied her to the place of rendezvous27, would perhaps have been the most eligible28 expedient29; but the threats of the writer, that betraying his secret would prevent their meeting (on which her sister’s safety was said to depend) from taking place at all, would have deterred30 her from making such a confidence, even had she known a person in whom she thought it could with safety have been reposed31. But she knew none such. Their acquaintance with the cottagers in the vicinity had been very slight, and limited to trifling32 acts of good neighbourhood. Jeanie knew little of them, and what she knew did not greatly incline her to trust any of them. They were of the order of loquacious33 good-humoured gossips usually found in their situation of life; and their conversation had at all times few charms for a young woman, to whom nature and the circumstance of a solitary life had given a depth of thought and force of character superior to the frivolous34 part of her sex, whether in high or low degree.
Left alone and separated from all earthly counsel, she had recourse to a friend and adviser35, whose ear is open to the cry of the poorest and most afflicted36 of his people. She knelt, and prayed with fervent37 sincerity38, that God would please to direct her what course to follow in her arduous39 and distressing41 situation. It was the belief of the time and sect42 to which she belonged, that special answers to prayer, differing little in their character from divine inspiration, were, as they expressed it, “borne in upon their minds” in answer to their earnest petitions in a crisis of difficulty. Without entering into an abstruse43 point of divinity, one thing is plain — namely, that the person who lays open his doubts and distresses44 in prayer, with feeling and sincerity, must necessarily, in the act of doing so, purify his mind from the dross45 of worldly passions and interests, and bring it into that state, when the resolutions adopted are likely to be selected rather from a sense of duty, than from any inferior motive46. Jeanie arose from her devotions, with her heart fortified47 to endure affliction, and encouraged to face difficulties.
“I will meet this unhappy man,” she said to herself —“unhappy he must be, since I doubt he has been the cause of poor Effie’s misfortune — but I will meet him, be it for good or ill. My mind shall never cast up to me, that, for fear of what might be said or done to myself, I left that undone48 that might even yet be the rescue of her.”
With a mind greatly composed since the adoption49 of this resolution, she went to attend her father. The old man, firm in the principles of his youth, did not, in outward appearance at least, permit a thought of hit family distress40 to interfere50 with the stoical reserve of his countenance51 and manners. He even chid52 his daughter for having neglected, in the distress of the morning, some trifling domestic duties which fell under her department.
“Why, what meaneth this, Jeanie?” said the old man —“The brown four-year-auld’s milk is not seiled yet, nor the bowies put up on the bink. If ye neglect your warldly duties in the day of affliction, what confidence have I that ye mind the greater matters that concern salvation53? God knows, our bowies, and our pipkins, and our draps o’ milk, and our bits o’ bread, are nearer and dearer to us than the bread of life!”
Jeanie, not unpleased to hear her father’s thoughts thus expand themselves beyond the sphere of his immediate54 distress, obeyed him, and proceeded to put her household matters in order; while old David moved from place to place about his ordinary employments, scarce showing, unless by a nervous impatience55 at remaining long stationary56, an occasional convulsive sigh, or twinkle of the eyelid57, that he was labouring under the yoke58 of such bitter affliction.
The hour of noon came on, and the father and child sat down to their homely59 repast. In his petition for a blessing60 on the meal, the poor old man added to his supplication61, a prayer that the bread eaten in sadness of heart, and the bitter waters of Marah, might be made as nourishing as those which had been poured forth62 from a full cup and a plentiful63 basket and store; and having concluded his benediction64, and resumed the bonnet65 which he had laid “reverently aside,” he proceeded to exhort66 his daughter to eat, not by example indeed, but at least by precept67.
“The man after God’s own heart,” he said, “washed and anointed himself, and did eat bread, in order to express his submission68 under a dispensation of suffering, and it did not become a Christian69 man or woman so to cling to creature-comforts of wife or bairns”—(here the words became too great, as it were, for his utterance) — “as to forget the fist duty — submission to the Divine will.”
To add force to his precept, he took a morsel70 on his plate, but nature proved too strong even for the powerful feelings with which he endeavoured to bridle71 it. Ashamed of his weakness, he started up, and ran out of the house, with haste very unlike the deliberation of his usual movements. In less than five minutes he returned, having successfully struggled to recover his ordinary composure of mind and countenance, and affected72 to colour over his late retreat, by muttering that he thought he heard the “young staig loose in the byre.”
He did not again trust himself with the subject of his former conversation, and his daughter was glad to see that he seemed to avoid farther discourse73 on that agitating74 topic. The hours glided75 on, as on they must and do pass, whether winged with joy or laden76 with affliction. The sun set beyond the dusky eminence77 of the Castle and the screen of western hills, and the close of evening summoned David Deans and his daughter to the family duty of the night. It came bitterly upon Jeanie’s recollection, how often, when the hour of worship approached, she used to watch the lengthening78 shadows, and look out from the door of the house, to see if she could spy her sister’s return homeward. Alas79! this idle and thoughtless waste of time, to what evils had it not finally led? and was she altogether guiltless, who, noticing Effie’s turn to idle and light society, had not called in her father’s authority to restrain her? — But I acted for the best, she again reflected, and who could have expected such a growth of evil, from one grain of human leaven80, in a disposition81 so kind, and candid82, and generous?
As they sate83 down to the “exercise,” as it is called, a chair happened accidentally to stand in the place which Effie usually occupied. David Deans saw his daughter’s eyes swim in tears as they were directed towards this object, and pushed it aside, with a gesture of some impatience, as if desirous to destroy every memorial of earthly interest when about to address the Deity84. The portion of Scripture85 was read, the psalm86 was sung, the prayer was made; and it was remarkable87 that, in discharging these duties, the old man avoided all passages and expressions, of which Scripture affords so many, that might be considered as applicable to his own domestic misfortune. In doing so it was perhaps his intention to spare the feelings of his daughter, as well as to maintain, in outward show at least, that stoical appearance of patient endurance of all the evil which earth could bring, which was in his opinion essential to the character of one who rated all earthly things at their just estimate of nothingness. When he had finished the duty of the evening, he came up to his daughter, wished her good-night, and, having done so, continued to hold her by the hands for half-a-minute; then drawing her towards him, kissed her forehead, and ejaculated, “The God of Israel bless you, even with the blessings88 of the promise, my dear bairn!”
It was not either in the nature or habits of David Deans to seem a fond father; nor was he often observed to experience, or at least to evince, that fulness of the heart which seeks to expand itself in tender expressions or caresses89 even to those who were dearest to him. On the contrary, he used to censure91 this as a degree of weakness in several of his neighbours, and particularly in poor widow Butler. It followed, however, from the rarity of such emotions in this self-denied and reserved man, that his children attached to occasional marks of his affection and approbation92 a degree of high interest and solemnity; well considering them as evidences of feelings which were only expressed when they became too intense for suppression or concealment93.
With deep emotion, therefore, did he bestow94, and his daughter receive, this benediction and paternal95 caress90. “And you, my dear father,” exclaimed Jeanie, when the door had closed upon the venerable old man, “may you have purchased and promised blessings multiplied upon you — upon you, who walk in this world as though you were not of the world, and hold all that it can give or take away but as the midges that the sun-blink brings out, and the evening wind sweeps away!”
She now made preparation for her night-walk. Her father slept in another part of the dwelling96, and, regular in all his habits, seldom or never left his apartment when he had betaken himself to it for the evening. It was therefore easy for her to leave the house unobserved, so soon as the time approached at which she was to keep her appointment. But the step she was about to take had difficulties and terrors in her own eyes, though she had no reason to apprehend97 her father’s interference. Her life had been spent in the quiet, uniform, and regular seclusion98 of their peaceful and monotonous99 household. The very hour which some damsels of the present day, as well of her own as of higher degree, would consider as the natural period of commencing an evening of pleasure, brought, in her opinion, awe100 and solemnity in it; and the resolution she had taken had a strange, daring, and adventurous101 character, to which she could hardly reconcile herself when the moment approached for putting it into execution. Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband, then the only ornament102 or cover which young unmarried women wore on their head, and as she adjusted the scarlet103 tartan screen or muffler made of plaid, which the Scottish women wore, much in the fashion of the black silk veils still a part of female dress in the Netherlands. A sense of impropriety as well as of danger pressed upon her, as she lifted the latch104 of her paternal mansion105 to leave it on so wild an expedition, and at so late an hour, unprotected, and without the knowledge of her natural guardian106.
When she found herself abroad and in the open fields, additional subjects of apprehension107 crowded upon her. The dim cliffs and scattered108 rocks, interspersed109 with greensward, through which she had to pass to the place of appointment, as they glimmered110 before her in a clear autumn night, recalled to her memory many a deed of violence, which, according to tradition, had been done and suffered among them. In earlier days they had been the haunt of robbers and assassins, the memory of whose crimes is preserved in the various edicts which the council of the city, and even the parliament of Scotland, had passed for dispersing111 their bands, and ensuring safety to the lieges, so near the precincts of the city. The names of these criminals, and, of their atrocities112, were still remembered in traditions of the scattered cottages and the neighbouring suburb. In latter times, as we have already noticed, the sequestered113 and broken character of the ground rendered it a fit theatre for duels114 and rencontres among the fiery115 youth of the period. Two or three of these incidents, all sanguinary, and one of them fatal in its termination, had happened since Deans came to live at St. Leonard’s. His daughter’s recollections, therefore, were of blood and horror as she pursued the small scarce-tracked solitary path, every step of which conveyed het to a greater distance from help, and deeper into the ominous116 seclusion of these unhallowed precincts.
As the moon began to peer forth on the scene with a doubtful, flitting, and solemn light, Jeanie’s apprehensions117 took another turn, too peculiar to her rank and country to remain unnoticed. But to trace its origin will require another chapter.
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guilt
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bloody
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