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diff --git a/15095.txt b/15095.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75db13b --- /dev/null +++ b/15095.txt @@ -0,0 +1,661 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of a Picture, by Douglass Sherley + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Story of a Picture + +Author: Douglass Sherley + +Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #15095] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF A PICTURE *** + + + + +Produced by Kentuckiana Digital Library, David Garcia and the PG +Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + + +_A Dainty Trifle for my Lady Love_ + + +THE STORY OF A PICTURE + + +_By Douglass Sherley_ + + + * * * * * + + +John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, + +1884. + +Copyrighted 1884, + By Douglass Sherley. + + + * * * * * + +"Near my bed, there, hangs a Picture jewels could not buy from me." + + * * * * * + + + + +There was a colored crayon in a crowded shop-window. Other people passed +it by, but a Youth of the Town, with Hope in his heart, leaned over the +guard-rail and looked upon the beauty of that pictured face long and +earnestly. + +It was the head of a pretty girl with dark hair and dark eyes. She was +clad in a dainty white gown, loose-flowing and beautiful. In her left +hand, slender and uplifted, a letter; in her right a pen, and beneath it +a spotless page. + +She was seated within the shadow of a white marble chimney-piece richly +carved with Cupids, fluttering, kneeling, supplicating; with arrows new, +broken, and mended; with quivers full, depleted, and empty. The great, +broad shelf above her pretty head was laden with rare and artistic +treasures. A vase from India; a costly fan from China; a dark and +mottled bit of color in an ancient frame of tarnished gold, done by some +Flemish master of the long-ago. Beyond all this, a ground of shadowy +green, pale, cool, and delicious. On the table, near the spotless page +and the dear pen-clasping hand, a bunch of flowers; not a mass of ugly +blooms, opulent and oppressive, but a few garden roses, old-fashioned +and exceeding sweet, blushing to their utmost red, having found +themselves so unexpectedly brought into the presence of this pretty +girl. + +This, in outline, was the picture. The dealer had written on a slip of +paper, in large, rude letters, + + _Her answer: Yes, or No._ + +It was a frameless crayon, thrust aside and somewhat overshadowed by a +huge and garish thing in gaudy-flowered gilt, which easily caught and +held the eye of the busy throng. + +The Youth passed on to his duty of the day with Hope in his heart. Light +grew his heavy task, and the drudgery of his work was forgotten--he was +haunted by the sight of that face in the Picture. The softness of the +eye, the sweetness of the mouth, or something, made the Youth of the +noisy Town believe her answer would surely be--Yes. + +Now the Youth and the Afternoon Shadows together came and feasted on the +beauty of that Maiden's face. The Shadows, without booty, fled away into +the night. But not so with the Youth. In triumph he brought it to the +favored room of his own dear home; and always thereafter this Picture +gleamed in beauty from out its chimney-piece setting of ebony and old +cherry. + +She was always pretty, sometimes beautiful, but not always the same, +this my Lady of the Picture. She was indeed a changeful Lady, as the +story will tell. Those who saw her face when first she was given the +place of honor in the home of this Youth, with Hope in his heart, all +said, and with one accord, "There is but one answer for her to make, and +that one answer is, Yes." + +The Easter-tide growing old, and the Summer time new and beautiful, +brought no change. The last light of each day fell on the clear-cut and +delicate face, gilded the dark hair with a deep russet brown, played +about the sweet mouth--and was gone, leaving her with answer yet +ungiven. + +The first fire of the Autumn crackled and glowed on the tiled hearth, +and threw a Shadow on the face of the pretty girl in the Picture; and +from that moment there was a change. "But it is only a Shadow from the +fire-light glow," said the Youth of the Town. But something within +whispered, "You are wrong; she is going to say, No." + +Again and again the words repeated themselves, clearly and distinctly, +"You are wrong! you are wrong! you are wrong!" Then vaguely and almost +inaudibly, "She is going to say, No;" with his own voice he made effort +to drown the words of that fateful refrain. "It is the idle, spiteful +chatter of some evil spirit. My heart is full of Hope, and I will not +believe it." But that night, alone with his book and the face over the +fire, only embers on the hearth--_the Shadow was still there_. But +he said that it was a wild and troubled fancy--"It is not, can not be an +actual Shadow; women may change, but surely not pictures." + +The next day Autumn repented of its wanton folly, and called out with +Sunshine and Brightness for the return of the dead Summer. The light +fell on the face of the girl in the Picture, but it did not lift the +Shadow. Nor did the dead Summer return to gladden the heart of the +Autumn, full of too late and useless regret. "No, I am not certain," +said the Youth, touched with a Doubt. It was only a touch, but his step +was heavy and a trifle less quick, as he went down the street to his +Duty of the day. Again he passed by the crowded shop window. The dealer +had filled the vacant corner; but he did not see, and he did not care to +see, what was there. For there was now only one picture in all the world +for this Youth of the Town with Hope in his heart; but something else +had crowded into his heart, and it was--Doubt. He went on his way and +about his duty with this one hopeful thought: "The nightfall will bring +a change, and the Shadow will have gone." But each day the Shadow +deepened, and the Youth carried with him a more troubled and a less +hopeful heart. All those who saw the Picture, and who had seen it +when first it came, now looked upon it with painful surprise, and +unhesitatingly said, "Your pretty-faced girl over the mantel yonder +is undoubtedly going to say, No." + +Into the soft, dark eye there seemed to have crept a glitter, cold and +almost unfeeling. The fatal Shadow had hardened, but not altogether +stolen away the beauty of that sweet mouth. Even the loose-flowing gown +seemed to have lost its easy grace, and stiffened into splendid and +haughty folds, fit only for the form of some grand old Dame proud of her +beauty and proud of her ancient coronet. The very lace about her slender +throat--but a misty web of dainty and intricate work--seemed to have +crystallized and whitened, as if done with a sharp and skillful chisel. +The pale, pinky tinge about the perfect little ear had deepened into +a more rosy hue, which had overspread the face--barely more than +pale--with a deep color and a glow of emotion only half concealed. +Ah, was it a look of triumph? was it the consciousness of power? + +The left hand, holding her Lover's letter, had lost its somewhat +tremulous look. The fingers of the other hand had tightened about the +pen, hovering over that unwritten page. And, in short, she seemed ready +to write the answer--what will it be? The heart of the Youth was full of +Trouble. Hope flickered up into an uncertain existence. Now the Picture +had grown hateful to his sight; so a silken curtain, in crimson folds, +clung against and hid away the face of this Changeful Lady. + +But no sooner was the curtain drawn, hiding from sight the lovely and +beloved face, but an all-powerful desire brought him back again, and lo! +the curtain was rudely thrust aside; but alas! there was no change. + +When away from his room and the siren-like face behind its silken folds +of crimson, he fretted to return and look again for a change wrought out +by his brief absence; but there was none. + +Hateful indeed the sight may have been of that changeful face, but it +had grown to him absolutely necessary, and more pleasant, indeed, even +when hard, cold, and unkind, than other faces not less beautiful smiling +sweet unspoken words. + +He slept in a curtained space near by, and often waked in the still +watches of the after-midnight, with the Hope in his heart, flaring up +into a flame and burning him with a desire for another sight of that +fickle face. Before the picture there hung a dim, red light, which +burned all the night long. It was a swinging lamp of many tangled chains +and fretted Venetian metal work. Once it had swung before an holy altar +in an ancient Mexican town, where it had shed an unextinguished light +throughout many years. It was a holy thing; so the Youth had thought it +worthy of a place before the deep-set Picture of the chimney-piece--the +shrine of his heart's treasure. Thus awakened out of troubled sleep, he +often rose and stood before the covered Picture, beneath the swinging +red light brought--stolen, perhaps--from the sacred sanctuary of that +ancient church down in the land of Mexico. Often, with Hope, Doubt, and +Fear in his heart, he would turn away from before the untouched curtain. +"Useless, useless, useless," would be the burden of his thought. + +The third Easter-tide comes with its brightness, its flowers, and its +Hopes--yet my Lady of the Picture has not changed. Still that same +relentless look; still that premonition of a No not yet said; still in +her left hand she holds the letter; still in her right hand the pen, and +the page beneath it is yet guiltless of a word. + +But frowns and relentless looks have not put to flight the remnant of +Hope in the heart of the Youth. "It is only a picture. Why should I +trouble?" he said. + +But words are easy, and many questions are hard to answer. + +The Youth had loved the face when first he saw it in the crowded +shop-window of the Town. So did he love it now. Change can not kill +Love, if Love it be. What matter to the Youth even if the eye had grown +cold and a Shadow rested about the sweet mouth? Can such things as these +make denial to the heart of a Lover? Aye, to the heart of a Love-maker, +but not to the heart of one who loves. There is no limit to Love. A +thousand nays can not check its course if true Love it be. + +But again there is a change with my Lady of the Picture. Does the heart +of the advancing Easter-tide hold the magic spell? Those who chance to +see her now note it, and think it strange. "No," they murmur, "will be +her answer. But it is her Duty that bids her, and she must obey." + +The silken curtain is torn down and the light of day completes the +triple story of this, my Lady of the Picture. The cold glitter is gone +from about the eyes, and the old soft light has returned, and yet it is +not the same as of old. The fatal Shadow round about the sweet mouth is +but a bare outline--a shade, not a Shadow any more. + +Again the pretty white gown is loose--flowing and beautiful. The thought +of the grand old Dame, proud of her beauty and proud of her ancient +coronet, vanishes with the morning mist of the Easter-tide. Again the +dainty lace that clings to her slender white and flower-like throat, +softens and grows creamy and weblike, free from the bleachment and +crystallization of a while ago. Again the face is barely more than pale. +The deep color has faded away, leaving but a faint, delicate trace, and +a pinky tinge which reaches out until it kisses the utmost tip of her +perfect little ear. How deep, tender, and wondrous sad those eyes have +grown! Down in their dark depths her very soul seems to tremble into +sight. It is only one who has suffered who can have such eyes. And, in +truth, it is worth almost a lifetime of suffering to look deep down into +such eyes of sad beauty. She was but a pretty-faced girl; but now, +behold! she is a beautiful woman. And she is weary, O, so weary with the +long, hard battle within. + +But Fear and Doubt still dwell and share with Hope a place in the heart +of the Youth. He finds it sweet comfort to believe that even if her +answer be No, it may come from a sense of Duty. Love is Love always, but +not so with Duty. For that which may be Duty to-day may not be Duty on +the morrow. + +So the Youth of the Town longs for the coming of the morrow. + +Who wrote, and sent to her with those sweet red roses from some old-time +garden, this, his Lover's letter, which she still is holding in her left +hand, once again just a trifle tremulous? Who has asked this question of +a woman's heart? Is he a man strong and noble, whom she does not love, +yet does not wish to wound? Or is it some one less strong, less noble, +who has her Love, although he be unworthy of it? + +And does Duty bid her make denial, even though it break her loving +heart? + +Is it Regret, Duty, Love, or What? + +But still she gives no answer. And the Youth of the Town is still +hoping, doubting, fearing. + +Ah, my sweet, sad-eyed Lady, what will your answer be? + + + + Sherley Place, + Easter-tide, 1884. + + + + + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of a Picture, by Douglass Sherley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF A PICTURE *** + +***** This file should be named 15095.txt or 15095.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/9/15095/ + +Produced by Kentuckiana Digital Library, David Garcia and the PG +Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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