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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the
+Laird’s Jock, by Sir Walter Scott
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+Title: The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird’s Jock
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+Author: Sir Walter Scott
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+Posting Date: November 17, 2008 [EBook #1668]
+Release Date: March, 1999
+Last Updated: August 31, 2016
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+Language: English
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+THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER
+
+by Sir Walter Scott
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+This is another little story from The Keepsake of 1828. It was told
+to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who, among other
+accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in a country house,
+had that of recounting narratives of this sort with very considerable
+effect--much greater, indeed, than any one would be apt to guess from
+the style of her written performances. There are hours and moods when
+most people are not displeased to listen to such things; and I have
+heard some of the greatest and wisest of my contemporaries take their
+share in telling them.
+
+AUGUST 1831
+
+
+
+
+THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER;
+
+OR,
+
+THE LADY IN THE SACQUE.
+
+The following narrative is given from the pen, so far as memory permits,
+in the same character in which it was presented to the author’s ear; nor
+has he claim to further praise, or to be more deeply censured, than
+in proportion to the good or bad judgment which he has employed in
+selecting his materials, as he has studiously avoided any attempt at
+ornament which might interfere with the simplicity of the tale.
+
+At the same time, it must be admitted that the particular class of
+stories which turns on the marvellous possesses a stronger influence
+when told than when committed to print. The volume taken up at noonday,
+though rehearsing the same incidents, conveys a much more feeble
+impression than is achieved by the voice of the speaker on a circle of
+fireside auditors, who hang upon the narrative as the narrator details
+the minute incidents which serve to give it authenticity, and lowers his
+voice with an affectation of mystery while he approaches the fearful
+and wonderful part. It was with such advantages that the present writer
+heard the following events related, more than twenty years since, by
+the celebrated Miss Seward of Litchfield, who, to her numerous
+accomplishments, added, in a remarkable degree, the power of narrative
+in private conversation. In its present form the tale must necessarily
+lose all the interest which was attached to it by the flexible voice and
+intelligent features of the gifted narrator. Yet still, read aloud to an
+undoubting audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in
+silence by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-lighted
+apartment, it may redeem its character as a good ghost story. Miss
+Seward always affirmed that she had derived her information from an
+authentic source, although she suppressed the names of the two persons
+chiefly concerned. I will not avail myself of any particulars I may have
+since received concerning the localities of the detail, but suffer them
+to rest under the same general description in which they were first
+related to me; and for the same reason I will not add to or diminish the
+narrative by any circumstance, whether more or less material, but simply
+rehearse, as I heard it, a story of supernatural terror.
+
+About the end of the American war, when the officers of Lord
+Cornwallis’s army, which surrendered at Yorktown, and others, who had
+been made prisoners during the impolitic and ill-fated controversy, were
+returning to their own country, to relate their adventures, and repose
+themselves after their fatigues, there was amongst them a general
+officer, to whom Miss S. gave the name of Browne, but merely, as I
+understood, to save the inconvenience of introducing a nameless agent
+in the narrative. He was an officer of merit, as well as a gentleman of
+high consideration for family and attainments.
+
+Some business had carried General Browne upon a tour through the western
+counties, when, in the conclusion of a morning stage, he found himself
+in the vicinity of a small country town, which presented a scene of
+uncommon beauty, and of a character peculiarly English.
+
+The little town, with its stately old church, whose tower bore testimony
+to the devotion of ages long past, lay amidst pastures and cornfields of
+small extent, but bounded and divided with hedgerow timber of great age
+and size. There were few marks of modern improvement. The environs of
+the place intimated neither the solitude of decay nor the bustle of
+novelty; the houses were old, but in good repair; and the beautiful
+little river murmured freely on its way to the left of the town, neither
+restrained by a dam nor bordered by a towing-path.
+
+Upon a gentle eminence, nearly a mile to the southward of the town, were
+seen, amongst many venerable oaks and tangled thickets, the turrets of
+a castle as old as the walls of York and Lancaster, but which seemed to
+have received important alterations during the age of Elizabeth and
+her successor, It had not been a place of great size; but whatever
+accommodation it formerly afforded was, it must be supposed, still to
+be obtained within its walls. At least, such was the inference which
+General Browne drew from observing the smoke arise merrily from several
+of the ancient wreathed and carved chimney-stalks. The wall of the park
+ran alongside of the highway for two or three hundred yards; and through
+the different points by which the eye found glimpses into the woodland
+scenery, it seemed to be well stocked. Other points of view opened in
+succession--now a full one of the front of the old castle, and now
+a side glimpse at its particular towers, the former rich in all the
+bizarrerie of the Elizabethan school, while the simple and solid
+strength of other parts of the building seemed to show that they had
+been raised more for defence than ostentation.
+
+Delighted with the partial glimpses which he obtained of the castle
+through the woods and glades by which this ancient feudal fortress was
+surrounded, our military traveller was determined to inquire whether
+it might not deserve a nearer view, and whether it contained family
+pictures or other objects of curiosity worthy of a stranger’s visit,
+when, leaving the vicinity of the park, he rolled through a clean and
+well-paved street, and stopped at the door of a well-frequented inn.
+
+Before ordering horses, to proceed on his journey, General Browne
+made inquiries concerning the proprietor of the chateau which had so
+attracted his admiration, and was equally surprised and pleased at
+hearing in reply a nobleman named, whom we shall call Lord Woodville.
+How fortunate! Much of Browne’s early recollections, both at school
+and at college, had been connected with young Woodville, whom, by a few
+questions, he now ascertained to be the same with the owner of this fair
+domain. He had been raised to the peerage by the decease of his father
+a few months before, and, as the General learned from the landlord, the
+term of mourning being ended, was now taking possession of his paternal
+estate in the jovial season of merry, autumn, accompanied by a select
+party of friends, to enjoy the sports of a country famous for game.
+
+This was delightful news to our traveller. Frank Woodville had been
+Richard Browne’s fag at Eton, and his chosen intimate at Christ Church;
+their pleasures and their tasks had been the same; and the honest
+soldier’s heart warmed to find his early friend in possession of so
+delightful a residence, and of an estate, as the landlord assured
+him with a nod and a wink, fully adequate to maintain and add to his
+dignity. Nothing was more natural than that the traveller should suspend
+a journey, which there was nothing to render hurried, to pay a visit to
+an old friend under such agreeable circumstances.
+
+The fresh horses, therefore, had only the brief task of conveying the
+General’s travelling carriage to Woodville Castle. A porter admitted
+them at a modern Gothic lodge, built in that style to correspond with
+the castle itself, and at the same time rang a bell to give warning of
+the approach of visitors. Apparently the sound of the bell had suspended
+the separation of the company, bent on the various amusements of the
+morning; for, on entering the court of the chateau, several young
+men were lounging about in their sporting dresses, looking at and
+criticizing the dogs which the keepers held in readiness to attend their
+pastime. As General Browne alighted, the young lord came to the gate
+of the hall, and for an instant gazed, as at a stranger, upon the
+countenance of his friend, on which war, with its fatigues and its
+wounds, had made a great alteration. But the uncertainty lasted no
+longer than till the visitor had spoken, and the hearty greeting which
+followed was such as can only be exchanged betwixt those who have passed
+together the merry days of careless boyhood or early youth.
+
+“If I could have formed a wish, my dear Browne,” said Lord Woodville,
+“it would have been to have you here, of all men, upon this occasion,
+which my friends are good enough to hold as a sort of holiday. Do not
+think you have been unwatched during the years you have been absent
+from us. I have traced you through your dangers, your triumphs, your
+misfortunes, and was delighted to see that, whether in victory or
+defeat, the name of my old friend was always distinguished with
+applause.”
+
+The General made a suitable reply, and congratulated his friend on his
+new dignities, and the possession of a place and domain so beautiful.
+
+“Nay, you have seen nothing of it as yet,” said Lord Woodville, “and I
+trust you do not mean to leave us till you are better acquainted with
+it. It is true, I confess, that my present party is pretty large, and
+the old house, like other places of the kind, does not possess so much
+accommodation as the extent of the outward walls appears to promise.
+But we can give you a comfortable old-fashioned room, and I venture
+to suppose that your campaigns have taught you to be glad of worse
+quarters.”
+
+The General shrugged his shoulders, and laughed. “I presume,” he said,
+“the worst apartment in your chateau is considerably superior to the old
+tobacco-cask in which I was fain to take up my night’s lodging when I
+was in the Bush, as the Virginians call it, with the light corps. There
+I lay, like Diogenes himself, so delighted with my covering from the
+elements, that I made a vain attempt to have it rolled on to my next
+quarters; but my commander for the time would give way to no such
+luxurious provision, and I took farewell of my beloved cask with tears
+in my eyes.”
+
+“Well, then, since you do not fear your quarters,” said Lord Woodville,
+“you will stay with me a week at least. Of guns, dogs, fishing-rods,
+flies, and means of sport by sea and land, we have enough and to
+spare--you cannot pitch on an amusement but we will find the means of
+pursuing it. But if you prefer the gun and pointers, I will go with you
+myself, and see whether you have mended your shooting since you have
+been amongst the Indians of the back settlements.”
+
+The General gladly accepted his friendly host’s proposal in all its
+points. After a morning of manly exercise, the company met at dinner,
+where it was the delight of Lord Woodville to conduce to the display of
+the high properties of his recovered friend, so as to recommend him to
+his guests, most of whom were persons of distinction. He led General
+Browne to speak of the scenes he had witnessed; and as every word marked
+alike the brave officer and the sensible man, who retained possession
+of his cool judgment under the most imminent dangers, the company looked
+upon the soldier with general respect, as on one who had proved himself
+possessed of an uncommon portion of personal courage--that attribute of
+all others of which everybody desires to be thought possessed.
+
+The day at Woodville Castle ended as usual in such mansions. The
+hospitality stopped within the limits of good order. Music, in which the
+young lord was a proficient, succeeded to the circulation of the bottle;
+cards and billiards, for those who preferred such amusements, were in
+readiness; but the exercise of the morning required early hours, and not
+long after eleven o’clock the guests began to retire to their several
+apartments.
+
+The young lord himself conducted his friend, General Browne, to the
+chamber destined for him, which answered the description he had given
+of it, being comfortable, but old-fashioned, The bed was of the massive
+form used in the end of the seventeenth century, and the curtains of
+faded silk, heavily trimmed with tarnished gold. But then the sheets,
+pillows, and blankets looked delightful to the campaigner, when he
+thought of his “mansion, the cask.” There was an air of gloom in the
+tapestry hangings, which, with their worn-out graces, curtained the
+walls of the little chamber, and gently undulated as the autumnal breeze
+found its way through the ancient lattice window, which pattered and
+whistled as the air gained entrance. The toilet, too, with its mirror,
+turbaned after the manner of the beginning of the century, with a
+coiffure of murrey-coloured silk, and its hundred strange-shaped boxes,
+providing for arrangements which had been obsolete for more than fifty
+years, had an antique, and in so far a melancholy, aspect. But nothing
+could blaze more brightly and cheerfully than the two large wax candles;
+or if aught could rival them, it was the flaming, bickering fagots in
+the chimney, that sent at once their gleam and their warmth through
+the snug apartment, which, notwithstanding the general antiquity of its
+appearance, was not wanting in the least convenience that modern habits
+rendered either necessary or desirable.
+
+“This is an old-fashioned sleeping apartment, General,” said the
+young lord; “but I hope you find nothing that makes you envy your old
+tobacco-cask.”
+
+“I am not particular respecting my lodgings,” replied the General; “yet
+were I to make any choice, I would prefer this chamber by many degrees
+to the gayer and more modern rooms of your family mansion. Believe
+me that, when I unite its modern air of comfort with its venerable
+antiquity, and recollect that it is your lordship’s property, I shall
+feel in better quarters here than if I were in the best hotel London
+could afford.”
+
+“I trust--I have no doubt--that you will find yourself as comfortable
+as I wish you, my dear General,” said the young nobleman; and once more
+bidding his guest good-night, he shook him by the hand, and withdrew.
+
+The General once more looked round him, and internally congratulating
+himself on his return to peaceful life, the comforts of which were
+endeared by the recollection of the hardships and dangers he had lately
+sustained, undressed himself, and prepared for a luxurious night’s rest.
+
+Here, contrary to the custom of this species of tale, we leave the
+General in possession of his apartment until the next morning.
+
+The company assembled for breakfast at an early hour, but without the
+appearance of General Browne, who seemed the guest that Lord Woodville
+was desirous of honouring above all whom his hospitality had assembled
+around him. He more than once expressed surprise at the General’s
+absence, and at length sent a servant to make inquiry after him. The
+man brought back information that General Browne had been walking abroad
+since an early hour of the morning, in defiance of the weather, which
+was misty and ungenial.
+
+“The custom of a soldier,” said the young nobleman to his friends. “Many
+of them acquire habitual vigilance, and cannot sleep after the early
+hour at which their duty usually commands them to be alert.”
+
+Yet the explanation which Lord Woodville thus offered to the company
+seemed hardly satisfactory to his own mind, and it was in a fit of
+silence and abstraction that he waited the return of the General. It
+took place near an hour after the breakfast bell had rung. He looked
+fatigued and feverish. His hair, the powdering and arrangement of which
+was at this time one of the most important occupations of a man’s whole
+day, and marked his fashion as much as in the present time the tying of
+a cravat, or the want of one, was dishevelled, uncurled, void of
+powder, and dank with dew. His clothes were huddled on with a careless
+negligence, remarkable in a military man, whose real or supposed duties
+are usually held to include some attention to the toilet; and his looks
+were haggard and ghastly in a peculiar degree.
+
+“So you have stolen a march upon us this morning, my dear General,” said
+Lord Woodville; “or you have not found your bed so much to your mind as
+I had hoped and you seemed to expect. How did you rest last night?”
+
+“Oh, excellently well! remarkably well! never better in my life,” said
+General Browne rapidly, and yet with an air of embarrassment which
+was obvious to his friend. He then hastily swallowed a cup of tea, and
+neglecting or refusing whatever else was offered, seemed to fall into a
+fit of abstraction.
+
+“You will take the gun to-day, General?” said his friend and host, but
+had to repeat the question twice ere he received the abrupt answer, “No,
+my lord; I am sorry I cannot have the opportunity of spending another
+day with your lordship; my post horses are ordered, and will be here
+directly.”
+
+All who were present showed surprise, and Lord Woodville immediately
+replied “Post horses, my good friend! What can you possibly want with
+them when you promised to stay with me quietly for at least a week?”
+
+“I believe,” said the General, obviously much embarrassed, “that I
+might, in the pleasure of my first meeting with your lordship, have
+said something about stopping here a few days; but I have since found it
+altogether impossible.”
+
+“That is very extraordinary,” answered the young nobleman. “You seemed
+quite disengaged yesterday, and you cannot have had a summons to-day,
+for our post has not come up from the town, and therefore you cannot
+have received any letters.”
+
+General Browne, without giving any further explanation, muttered
+something about indispensable business, and insisted on the absolute
+necessity of his departure in a manner which silenced all opposition on
+the part of his host, who saw that his resolution was taken, and forbore
+all further importunity.
+
+“At least, however,” he said, “permit me, my dear Browne, since go you
+will or must, to show you the view from the terrace, which the mist,
+that is now rising, will soon display.”
+
+He threw open a sash-window, and stepped down upon the terrace as he
+spoke. The General followed him mechanically, but seemed little to
+attend to what his host was saying, as, looking across an extended
+and rich prospect, he pointed out the different objects worthy of
+observation. Thus they moved on till Lord Woodville had attained
+his purpose of drawing his guest entirely apart from the rest of the
+company, when, turning round upon him with an air of great solemnity, he
+addressed him thus:--
+
+“Richard Browne, my old and very dear friend, we are now alone. Let me
+conjure you to answer me upon the word of a friend, and the honour of a
+soldier. How did you in reality rest during last night?”
+
+“Most wretchedly indeed, my lord,” answered the General, in the same
+tone of solemnity--“so miserably, that I would not run the risk of such
+a second night, not only for all the lands belonging to this castle, but
+for all the country which I see from this elevated point of view.”
+
+“This is most extraordinary,” said the young lord, as if speaking to
+himself; “then there must be something in the reports concerning that
+apartment.” Again turning to the General, he said, “For God’s sake,
+my dear friend, be candid with me, and let me know the disagreeable
+particulars which have befallen you under a roof, where, with consent of
+the owner, you should have met nothing save comfort.”
+
+The General seemed distressed by this appeal, and paused a moment before
+he replied. “My dear lord,” he at length said, “what happened to me last
+night is of a nature so peculiar and so unpleasant, that I could hardly
+bring myself to detail it even to your lordship, were it not that,
+independent of my wish to gratify any request of yours, I think that
+sincerity on my part may lead to some explanation about a circumstance
+equally painful and mysterious. To others, the communication I am about
+to make, might place me in the light of a weak-minded, superstitious
+fool, who suffered his own imagination to delude and bewilder him; but
+you have known me in childhood and youth, and will not suspect me of
+having adopted in manhood the feelings and frailties from which my early
+years were free.” Here he paused, and his friend replied,--
+
+“Do not doubt my perfect confidence in the truth of your communication,
+however strange it may be,” replied Lord Woodville. “I know your
+firmness of disposition too well, to suspect you could be made the
+object of imposition, and am aware that your honour and your friendship
+will equally deter you from exaggerating whatever you may have
+witnessed.”
+
+“Well, then,” said the General, “I will proceed with my story as well
+as I can, relying upon your candour, and yet distinctly feeling that
+I would rather face a battery than recall to my mind the odious
+recollections of last night.”
+
+He paused a second time, and then perceiving that Lord Woodville
+remained silent and in an attitude of attention, he commenced, though
+not without obvious reluctance, the history of his night’s adventures in
+the Tapestried Chamber.
+
+“I undressed and went to bed so soon as your lordship left me yesterday
+evening; but the wood in the chimney, which nearly fronted my bed,
+blazed brightly and cheerfully, and, aided by a hundred exciting
+recollections of my childhood and youth, which had been recalled by the
+unexpected pleasure of meeting your lordship, prevented me from falling
+immediately asleep. I ought, however, to say that these reflections were
+all of a pleasant and agreeable kind, grounded on a sense of having for
+a time exchanged the labour, fatigues, and dangers of my profession for
+the enjoyments of a peaceful life, and the reunion of those friendly and
+affectionate ties which I had torn asunder at the rude summons of war.
+
+“While such pleasing reflections were stealing over my mind, and
+gradually lulling me to slumber, I was suddenly aroused by a sound like
+that of the rustling of a silken gown, and the tapping of a pair of
+high-heeled shoes, as if a woman were walking in the apartment. Ere
+I could draw the curtain to see what the matter was, the figure of a
+little woman passed between the bed and the fire. The back of this form
+was turned to me, and I could observe, from the shoulders and neck, it
+was that of an old woman, whose dress was an old-fashioned gown, which I
+think ladies call a sacque--that is, a sort of robe completely loose in
+the body, but gathered into broad plaits upon the neck and shoulders,
+which fall down to the ground, and terminate in a species of train.
+
+“I thought the intrusion singular enough, but never harboured for a
+moment the idea that what I saw was anything more than the mortal form
+of some old woman about the establishment, who had a fancy to dress like
+her grandmother, and who, having perhaps (as your lordship mentioned
+that you were rather straitened for room) been dislodged from her
+chamber for my accommodation, had forgotten the circumstance, and
+returned by twelve to her old haunt. Under this persuasion I moved
+myself in bed and coughed a little, to make the intruder sensible of
+my being in possession of the premises. She turned slowly round, but,
+gracious Heaven! my lord, what a countenance did she display to me!
+There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her
+being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a
+corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions
+which had animated her while she lived. The body of some atrocious
+criminal seemed to have been given up from the grave, and the soul
+restored from the penal fire, in order to form for a space a union
+with the ancient accomplice of its guilt. I started up in bed, and sat
+upright, supporting myself on my palms, as I gazed on this horrible
+spectre. The hag made, as it seemed, a single and swift stride to the
+bed where I lay, and squatted herself down upon it, in precisely the
+same attitude which I had assumed in the extremity of horror, advancing
+her diabolical countenance within half a yard of mine, with a grin which
+seemed to intimate the malice and the derision of an incarnate fiend.”
+
+Here General Browne stopped, and wiped from his brow the cold
+perspiration with which the recollection of his horrible vision had
+covered it.
+
+“My lord,” he said, “I am no coward, I have been in all the mortal
+dangers incidental to my profession, and I may truly boast that no man
+ever knew Richard Browne dishonour the sword he wears; but in these
+horrible circumstances, under the eyes, and, as it seemed, almost in the
+grasp of an incarnation of an evil spirit, all firmness forsook me,
+all manhood melted from me like wax in the furnace, and I felt my hair
+individually bristle. The current of my life-blood ceased to flow, and
+I sank back in a swoon, as very a victim to panic terror as ever was
+a village girl, or a child of ten years old. How long I lay in this
+condition I cannot pretend to guess.
+
+“But I was roused by the castle clock striking one, so loud that it
+seemed as if it were in the very room. It was some time before I dared
+open my eyes, lest they should again encounter the horrible spectacle.
+When, however, I summoned courage to look up, she was no longer visible.
+My first idea was to pull my bell, wake the servants, and remove to a
+garret or a hay-loft, to be ensured against a second visitation. Nay, I
+will confess the truth that my resolution was altered, not by the shame
+of exposing myself, but by the fear that, as the bell-cord hung by
+the chimney, I might, in making my way to it, be again crossed by the
+fiendish hag, who, I figured to myself, might be still lurking about
+some corner of the apartment.
+
+“I will not pretend to describe what hot and cold fever-fits tormented
+me for the rest of the night, through broken sleep, weary vigils,
+and that dubious state which forms the neutral ground between them. A
+hundred terrible objects appeared to haunt me; but there was the great
+difference betwixt the vision which I have described, and those which
+followed, that I knew the last to be deceptions of my own fancy and
+over-excited nerves.
+
+“Day at last appeared, and I rose from my bed ill in health and
+humiliated in mind. I was ashamed of myself as a man and a soldier,
+and still more so at feeling my own extreme desire to escape from the
+haunted apartment, which, however, conquered all other considerations;
+so that, huddling on my clothes with the most careless haste, I made my
+escape from your lordship’s mansion, to seek in the open air some relief
+to my nervous system, shaken as it was by this horrible rencounter with
+a visitant, for such I must believe her, from the other world. Your
+lordship has now heard the cause of my discomposure, and of my sudden
+desire to leave your hospitable castle. In other places I trust we may
+often meet, but God protect me from ever spending a second night under
+that roof!”
+
+Strange as the General’s tale was, he spoke with such a deep air of
+conviction that it cut short all the usual commentaries which are made
+on such stories. Lord Woodville never once asked him if he was sure he
+did not dream of the apparition, or suggested any of the possibilities
+by which it is fashionable to explain supernatural appearances as
+wild vagaries of the fancy, or deceptions of the optic nerves, On the
+contrary, he seemed deeply impressed with the truth and reality of
+what he had heard; and, after a considerable pause regretted, with much
+appearance of sincerity, that his early friend should in his house have
+suffered so severely.
+
+“I am the more sorry for your pain, my dear Browne,” he continued, “that
+it is the unhappy, though most unexpected, result of an experiment of my
+own. You must know that, for my father and grandfather’s time, at least,
+the apartment which was assigned to you last night had been shut on
+account of reports that it was disturbed by supernatural sights and
+noises. When I came, a few weeks since, into possession of the estate,
+I thought the accommodation which the castle afforded for my friends was
+not extensive enough to permit the inhabitants of the invisible world
+to retain possession of a comfortable sleeping apartment. I therefore
+caused the Tapestried Chamber, as we call it, to be opened, and, without
+destroying its air of antiquity, I had such new articles of furniture
+placed in it as became the modern times. Yet, as the opinion that the
+room was haunted very strongly prevailed among the domestics, and was
+also known in the neighbourhood and to many of my friends, I feared some
+prejudice might be entertained by the first occupant of the Tapestried
+Chamber, which might tend to revive the evil report which it had
+laboured under, and so disappoint my purpose of rendering it a useful
+part or the house. I must confess, my dear Browne, that your arrival
+yesterday, agreeable to me for a thousand reasons besides, seemed the
+most favourable opportunity of removing the unpleasant rumours which
+attached to the room, since your courage was indubitable, and your mind
+free of any preoccupation on the subject. I could not, therefore, have
+chosen a more fitting subject for my experiment.”
+
+“Upon my life,” said General Browne, somewhat hastily, “I am infinitely
+obliged to your lordship--very particularly indebted indeed. I am likely
+to remember for some time the consequences of the experiment, as your
+lordship is pleased to call it.”
+
+“Nay, now you are unjust, my dear friend,” said Lord Woodville. “You
+have only to reflect for a single moment, in order to be convinced that
+I could not augur the possibility of the pain to which you have been
+so unhappily exposed. I was yesterday morning a complete sceptic on the
+subject of supernatural appearances. Nay, I am sure that, had I told
+you what was said about that room, those very reports would have induced
+you, by your own choice, to select it for your accommodation. It was my
+misfortune, perhaps my error, but really cannot be termed my fault, that
+you have been afflicted so strangely.”
+
+“Strangely indeed!” said the General, resuming his good temper; “and I
+acknowledge that I have no right to be offended with your lordship for
+treating me like what I used to think myself--a man of some firmness
+and courage. But I see my post horses are arrived, and I must not detain
+your lordship from your amusement.”
+
+“Nay, my old friend,” said Lord Woodville, “since you cannot stay with
+us another day--which, indeed, I can no longer urge--give me at least
+half an hour more. You used to love pictures, and I have a gallery of
+portraits, some of them by Vandyke, representing ancestry to whom this
+property and castle formerly belonged. I think that several of them will
+strike you as possessing merit.”
+
+General Browne accepted the invitation, though somewhat unwillingly.
+It was evident he was not to breathe freely or at ease till he left
+Woodville Castle far behind him. He could not refuse his friend’s
+invitation, however; and the less so, that he was a little ashamed
+of the peevishness which he had displayed towards his well-meaning
+entertainer.
+
+The General, therefore, followed Lord Woodville through several rooms
+into a long gallery hung with pictures, which the latter pointed out to
+his guest, telling the names, and giving some account of the personages
+whose portraits presented themselves in progression. General Browne was
+but little interested in the details which these accounts conveyed to
+him. They were, indeed, of the kind which are usually found in an old
+family gallery. Here was a Cavalier who had ruined the estate in the
+royal cause; there a fine lady who had reinstated it by contracting a
+match with a wealthy Roundhead. There hung a gallant who had been in
+danger for corresponding with the exiled Court at Saint Germain’s; here
+one who had taken arms for William at the Revolution; and there a third
+that had thrown his weight alternately into the scale of Whig and Tory.
+
+While lord Woodville was cramming these words into his guest’s ear,
+“against the stomach of his sense,” they gained the middle of the
+gallery, when he beheld General Browne suddenly start, and assume an
+attitude of the utmost surprise, not unmixed with fear, as his eyes were
+suddenly caught and riveted by a portrait of an old lady in a sacque,
+the fashionable dress of the end of the seventeenth century.
+
+“There she is!” he exclaimed--“there she is, in form and features,
+though Inferior in demoniac expression to the accursed hag who visited
+me last night!”
+
+“If that be the case,” said the young nobleman, “there can remain no
+longer any doubt of the horrible reality of your apparition. That is the
+picture of a wretched ancestress of mine, of whose crimes a black and
+fearful catalogue is recorded in a family history in my charter-chest.
+The recital of them would be too horrible; it is enough to say, that in
+yon fatal apartment incest and unnatural murder were committed. I will
+restore it to the solitude to which the better judgment of those who
+preceded me had consigned it; and never shall any one, so long as I can
+prevent it, be exposed to a repetition of the supernatural horrors which
+could shake such courage as yours.”
+
+Thus the friends, who had met with such glee, parted in a very different
+mood--Lord Woodville to command the Tapestried Chamber to be unmantled,
+and the door built up; and General Browne to seek in some less beautiful
+country, and with some less dignified friend, forgetfulness of the
+painful night which he had passed in Woodville Castle.
+
+END OF THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER.
+
+
+*****
+
+
+
+
+DEATH OF THE LAIRD’S JOCK
+
+by Sir Walter Scott.
+
+
+[The manner in which this trifle was introduced at the time to Mr. F.
+M. Reynolds, editor of The Keepsake of 1828, leaves no occasion for a
+preface.]
+
+AUGUST 1831.
+
+
+TO THE EDITOR OF THE KEEPSAKE.
+
+You have asked me, sir, to point out a subject for the pencil, and I
+feel the difficulty of complying with your request, although I am not
+certainly unaccustomed to literary composition, or a total stranger to
+the stores of history and tradition, which afford the best copies for
+the painter’s art. But although SICUT PICTURA POESIS is an ancient and
+undisputed axiom--although poetry and painting both address themselves
+to the same object of exciting the human imagination, by presenting to
+it pleasing or sublime images of ideal scenes--yet the one conveying
+itself through the ears to the understanding, and the other applying
+itself only to the eyes, the subjects which are best suited to the bard
+or tale-teller are often totally unfit for painting, where the artist
+must present in a single glance all that his art has power to tell us.
+The artist can neither recapitulate the past nor intimate the future.
+The single NOW is all which he can present; and hence, unquestionably,
+many subjects which delight us in poetry or in narrative, whether real
+or fictitious, cannot with advantage be transferred to the canvas.
+
+Being in some degree aware of these difficulties, though doubtless
+unacquainted both with their extent and the means by which they may be
+modified or surmounted, I have, nevertheless, ventured to draw up the
+following traditional narrative as a story in which, when the general
+details are known, the interest is so much concentrated in one strong
+moment of agonizing passion, that it can be understood and sympathized
+with at a single glance. I therefore presume that it may be acceptable
+as a hint to some one among the numerous artists who have of late
+years distinguished themselves as rearing up and supporting the British
+school.
+
+Enough has been said and sung about
+
+  “The well-contested ground,
+  The warlike Border-land,”
+
+to render the habits of the tribes who inhabited it before the union of
+England and Scotland familiar to most of your readers. The rougher and
+sterner features of their character were softened by their attachment
+to the fine arts, from which has arisen the saying that on the frontiers
+every dale had its battle, and every river its song. A rude species of
+chivalry was in constant use, and single combats were practised as the
+amusement of the few intervals of truce which suspended the exercise of
+war. The inveteracy of this custom may be inferred from the following
+incident:--
+
+Bernard Gilpin, the apostle of the north, the first who undertook to
+preach the Protestant doctrines to the Border dalesmen, was surprised,
+on entering one of their churches, to see a gauntlet or mail-glove
+hanging above the altar. Upon inquiring; the meaning of a symbol so
+indecorous being displayed in that sacred place, he was informed by the
+clerk that the glove was that of a famous swordsman, who hung it there
+as an emblem of a general challenge and gage of battle to any who should
+dare to take the fatal token down. “Reach it to me,” said the reverend
+churchman. The clerk and the sexton equally declined the perilous
+office, and the good Bernard Gilpin was obliged to remove the glove with
+his own hands, desiring those who were present to inform the champion
+that he, and no other, had possessed himself of the gage of defiance.
+But the champion was as much ashamed to face Bernard Gilpin as the
+officials of the church had been to displace his pledge of combat.
+
+The date of the following story is about the latter years of Queen
+Elizabeth’s reign; and the events took place in Liddesdale, a hilly and
+pastoral district of Roxburghshire, which, on a part of its boundary, is
+divided from England only by a small river.
+
+During the good old times of RUGGING AND RIVING--that is, tugging and
+tearing--under which term the disorderly doings of the warlike age are
+affectionately remembered, this valley was principally cultivated by the
+sept or clan of the Armstrongs. The chief of this warlike race was
+the Laird of Mangerton. At the period of which I speak, the estate of
+Mangerton, with the power and dignity of chief, was possessed by John
+Armstrong, a man of great size, strength, and courage. While his father
+was alive, he was distinguished from others of his clan who bore the
+same name, by the epithet of the LAIRD’S JOCK--that is to say, the
+Laird’s son Jock, or Jack. This name he distinguished by so many bold
+and desperate achievements, that he retained it even after his father’s
+death, and is mentioned under it both in authentic records and in
+tradition. Some of his feats are recorded in the minstrelsy of the
+Scottish Border, and others are mentioned in contemporary chronicles.
+
+At the species of singular combat which we have described the Laird’s
+Jock was unrivalled, and no champion of Cumberland, Westmoreland, or
+Northumberland could endure the sway of the huge two-handed sword which
+he wielded, and which few others could even lift. This “awful sword,” as
+the common people term it, was as dear to him as Durindana or Fushberta
+to their respective masters, and was nearly as formidable to his enemies
+as those renowned falchions proved to the foes of Christendom. The
+weapon had been bequeathed to him by a celebrated English outlaw named
+Hobbie Noble, who, having committed some deed for which he was in danger
+from justice, fled to Liddesdale, and became a follower, or rather a
+brother-in-arms, to the renowned Laird’s Jock; till, venturing into
+England with a small escort, a faithless guide, and with a light
+single-handed sword instead of his ponderous brand, Hobbie Noble,
+attacked by superior numbers, was made prisoner and executed.
+
+With this weapon, and by means of his own strength and address, the
+Laird’s Jock maintained the reputation of the best swordsman on the
+Border side, and defeated or slew many who ventured to dispute with him
+the formidable title.
+
+But years pass on with the strong and the brave as with the feeble
+and the timid. In process of time the Laird’s Jock grew incapable of
+wielding his weapons, and finally of all active exertion, even of the
+most ordinary kind. The disabled champion became at length totally
+bedridden, and entirely dependent for his comfort on the pious duties of
+an only daughter, his perpetual attendant and companion.
+
+Besides this dutiful child, the Laird’s Jock had an only son, upon
+whom devolved the perilous task of leading the clan to battle, and
+maintaining the warlike renown of his native country, which was now
+disputed by the English upon many occasions. The young Armstrong was
+active, brave, and strong, and brought home from dangerous adventures
+many tokens of decided success. Still, the ancient chief conceived,
+as it would seem, that his son was scarce yet entitled by age and
+experience to be entrusted with the two-handed sword, by the use of
+which he had himself been so dreadfully distinguished.
+
+At length an English champion, one of the name of Foster (if I rightly
+recollect), had the audacity to send a challenge to the best swordsman
+in Liddesdale; and young Armstrong, burning for chivalrous distinction,
+accepted the challenge.
+
+The heart of the disabled old man swelled with joy when he heard that
+the challenge was passed and accepted, and the meeting fixed at a
+neutral spot, used as the place of rencontre upon such occasions, and
+which he himself had distinguished by numerous victories. He exulted
+so much in the conquest which he anticipated, that, to nerve his son to
+still bolder exertions, he conferred upon him, as champion of his clan
+and province, the celebrated weapon which he had hitherto retained in
+his own custody.
+
+This was not all. When the day of combat arrived, the Laird’s Jock, in
+spite of his daughter’s affectionate remonstrances, determined, though
+he had not left his bed for two years, to be a personal witness of the
+duel. His will was still a law to his people, who bore him on their
+shoulders, wrapped in plaids and blankets, to the spot where the combat
+was to take place, and seated him on a fragment of rock, which is still
+called the Laird’s Jock’s stone. There he remained with eyes fixed on
+the lists or barrier, within which the champions were about to meet.
+His daughter, having done all she could for his accommodation, stood
+motionless beside him, divided between anxiety for his health, and for
+the event of the combat to her beloved brother. Ere yet the fight began,
+the old men gazed on their chief, now seen for the first time after
+several years, and sadly compared his altered features and wasted
+frame with the paragon of strength and manly beauty which they once
+remembered. The young men gazed on his large form and powerful make as
+upon some antediluvian giant who had survived the destruction of the
+Flood.
+
+But the sound of the trumpets on both sides recalled the attention
+of every one to the lists, surrounded as they were by numbers of both
+nations eager to witness the event of the day. The combatants met in the
+lists. It is needless to describe the struggle: the Scottish champion
+fell. Foster, placing his foot on his antagonist, seized on the
+redoubted sword, so precious in the eyes of its aged owner, and
+brandished it over his head as a trophy of his conquest. The English
+shouted in triumph. But the despairing cry of the aged champion, who saw
+his country dishonoured, and his sword, long the terror of their
+race, in the possession of an Englishman, was heard high above the
+acclamations of victory. He seemed for an instant animated by all his
+wonted power; for he started from the rock on which he sat, and while
+the garments with which he had been invested fell from his wasted frame,
+and showed the ruins of his strength, he tossed his arms wildly to
+heaven, and uttered a cry of indignation, horror, and despair, which,
+tradition says, was heard to a preternatural distance, and resembled the
+cry of a dying lion more than a human sound.
+
+His friends received him in their arms as he sank utterly exhausted by
+the effort, and bore him back to his castle in mute sorrow; while his
+daughter at once wept for her brother, and endeavoured to mitigate and
+soothe the despair of her father. But this was impossible; the old man’s
+only tie to life was rent rudely asunder, and his heart had broken with
+it. The death of his son had no part in his sorrow. If he thought of
+him at all, it was as the degenerate boy through whom the honour of his
+country and clan had been lost; and he died in the course of three
+days, never even mentioning his name, but pouring out unintermitted
+lamentations for the loss of his noble sword.
+
+I conceive that the moment when the disabled chief was roused into a
+last exertion by the agony of the moment is favourable to the object of
+a painter. He might obtain the full advantage of contrasting the form
+of the rugged old man, in the extremity of furious despair, with the
+softness and beauty of the female form. The fatal field might be thrown
+into perspective, so as to give full effect to these two principal
+figures, and with the single explanation that the piece represented a
+soldier beholding his son slain, and the honour of his country lost, the
+picture would be sufficiently intelligible at the first glance. If it
+was thought necessary to show more clearly the nature of the conflict,
+it might be indicated by the pennon of Saint George being displayed at
+one end of the lists, and that of Saint Andrew at the other.
+
+I remain, sir,
+
+Your obedient servant,
+
+THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY.
+
+
+
+
+
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