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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mummy's Foot, by Theophile Gautier
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+Title: The Mummy's Foot
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+Author: Theophile Gautier
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+Translator: Lafcadio Hearn
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+Release Date: September 18, 2007 [EBook #22662]
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+Language: English
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+THE MUMMY'S FOOT
+
+By Theophile Gautier
+
+Translated By Lafcadio Hearn
+
+1908
+
+
+I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity
+venders who are called _marchands de bric-a-brac_ in that Parisian
+_argot_ which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France.
+
+You have doubtless glanced occasionally through the windows of some of
+these shops, which have become so numerous now that it is fashionable
+to buy antiquated furniture, and that every petty stockbroker thinks he
+must have his _chambre au moyen age_.
+
+There is one thing there which clings alike to the shop of the dealer
+in old iron, the ware-room of the tapestry maker, the laboratory of the
+chemist, and the studio of the painter: in all those gloomy dens where
+a furtive daylight filters in through the window-shutters the most
+manifestly ancient thing is dust. The cobwebs are more authentic
+than the gimp laces, and the old pear-tree furniture on exhibition is
+actually younger than the mahogany which arrived but yesterday from
+America.
+
+The warehouse of my bric-a-brac dealer was a veritable Capharnaum. All
+ages and all nations seemed to have made their rendezvous there. An
+Etruscan lamp of red clay stood upon a Boule cabinet, with ebony panels,
+brightly striped by lines of inlaid brass; a duchess of the court of
+Louis xv. nonchalantly extended her fawn-like feet under a massive
+table of the time of Louis xiii., with heavy spiral supports of oak, and
+carven designs of chimeras and foliage intermingled.
+
+Upon the denticulated shelves of several sideboards glittered immense
+Japanese dishes with red and blue designs relieved by gilded hatching,
+side by side with enamelled works by Bernard Palissy, representing
+serpents, frogs, and lizards in relief.
+
+From disembowelled cabinets escaped cascades of silver-lustrous Chinese
+silks and waves of tinsel, which an oblique sunbeam shot through with
+luminous beads, while portraits of every era, in frames more or less
+tarnished, smiled through their yellow varnish.
+
+The striped breastplate of a damascened suit of Milanese armour
+glittered in one corner; loves and nymphs of porcelain, Chinese
+grotesques, vases of _celadon_ and crackleware, Saxon and old Sevres
+cups encumbered the shelves and nooks of the apartment.
+
+The dealer followed me closely through the tortuous way contrived
+between the piles of furniture, warding off with his hand the hazardous
+sweep of my coat-skirts, watching my elbows with the uneasy attention of
+an antiquarian and a usurer.
+
+It was a singular face, that of the merchant; an immense skull, polished
+like a knee, and surrounded by a thin aureole of white hair, which
+brought out the clear salmon tint of his complexion all the more
+strikingly, lent him a false aspect of patriarchal _bonhomie_,
+counteracted, however, by the scintillation of two little yellow eyes
+which trembled in their orbits like two louis-d'or upon quicksilver. The
+curve of his nose presented an aquiline silhouette, which suggested the
+Oriental or Jewish type. His hands--thin, slender, full of nerves which
+projected like strings upon the finger-board of a violin, and armed with
+claws like those on the terminations of bats' wings--shook with senile
+trembling; but those convulsively agitated hands became firmer
+than steel pincers or lobsters' claws when they lifted any precious
+article--an onyx cup, a Venetian glass, or a dish of Bohemian crystal.
+This strange old man had an aspect so thoroughly rabbinical and
+cabalistic that he would have been burnt on the mere testimony of his
+face three centuries ago.
+
+'Will you not buy something from me to-day, sir? Here is a Malay kreese
+with a blade undulating like flame. Look at those grooves contrived for
+the blood to run along, those teeth set backward so as to tear out the
+entrails in withdrawing the weapon. It is a fine character of ferocious
+arm, and will look well in your collection. This two-handed sword
+is very beautiful. It is the work of Josepe de la Hera; and this
+_colichemarde_ with its fenestrated guard--what a superb specimen of
+handicraft!'
+
+'No; I have quite enough weapons and instruments of carnage. I want a
+small figure,--something which will suit me as a paper-weight, for I
+cannot endure those trumpery bronzes which the stationers sell, and
+which may be found on everybody's desk.'
+
+The old gnome foraged among his ancient wares, and finally arranged
+before me some antique bronzes, so-called at least; fragments of
+malachite, little Hindoo or Chinese idols, a kind of poussah-toys in
+jade-stone, representing the incarnations of Brahma or Vishnoo, and
+wonderfully appropriate to the very undivine office of holding papers
+and letters in place.
+
+I was hesitating between a porcelain dragon, all constellated with
+warts, its mouth formidable with bristling tusks and ranges of
+teeth, and an abominable little Mexican fetich, representing the god
+Vitziliputzili _au naturel_, when I caught sight of a charming foot,
+which I at first took for a fragment of some antique Venus.
+
+It had those beautiful ruddy and tawny tints that lend to Florentine
+bronze that warm living look so much preferable to the gray-green aspect
+of common bronzes, which might easily be mistaken for statues in a state
+of putrefaction. Satiny gleams played over its rounded forms, doubtless
+polished by the amorous kisses of twenty centuries, for it seemed a
+Corinthian bronze, a work of the best era of art, perhaps moulded by
+Lysippus himself.
+
+'That foot will be my choice,' said to the merchant, who regarded me
+with an ironical and saturnine air, and held out the object desired that
+I might examine it more fully.
+
+I was surprised at its lightness. It was not a foot of metal, but in
+sooth a foot of flesh, an embalmed foot, a mummy's foot. On examining
+it still more closely the very grain of the skin, and the almost
+imperceptible lines impressed upon it by the texture of the bandages,
+became perceptible. The toes were slender and delicate, and terminated
+by perfectly formed nails, pure and transparent as agates. The great
+toe, slightly separated from the rest, afforded a happy contrast, in the
+antique style, to the position of the other toes, and lent it an aerial
+lightness--the grace of a bird's foot. The sole, scarcely streaked by
+a few almost imperceptible cross lines, afforded evidence that it had
+never touched the bare ground, and had only come in contact with the
+finest matting of Nile rushes and the softest carpets of panther skin.
+
+'Ha, ha, you want the foot of the Princess Hermonthis!' exclaimed the
+merchant, with a strange giggle, fixing his owlish eyes upon me. 'Ha,
+ha, ha! For a paper-weight! An original idea!--artistic idea!-Old
+Pharaoh would certainly have been surprised had some one told him that
+the foot of his adored daughter would be used for a paper-weight after
+he had had a mountain of granite hollowed out as a receptacle for
+the triple coffin, painted and gilded, covered with hieroglyphics and
+beautiful paintings of the Judgment of Souls,' continued the queer
+little merchant, half audibly, as though talking to himself.
+
+'How much will you charge me for this mummy fragment?'
+
+'Ah, the highest price I can get, for it is a superb piece. If I had the
+match of it you could not have it for less than five hundred francs. The
+daughter of a Pharaoh! Nothing is more rare.'
+
+'Assuredly that is not a common article, but still, how much do you
+want? In the first place let me warn you that all my wealth consists of
+just five louis. I can buy anything that costs five louis, but nothing
+dearer. You might search my vest pockets and most secret drawers without
+even finding one poor five-franc piece more.'
+
+'Five louis for the foot of the Princess Hermonthis! That is very
+little, very little indeed. 'Tis an authentic foot,' muttered the
+merchant, shaking his head, and imparting a peculiar rotary motion to
+his eyes. 'Well, take it, and I will give you the bandages into the
+bargain,' he added, wrapping the foot in an ancient damask rag. 'Very
+fine? Real damask--Indian damask which has never been redyed. It is
+strong, and yet it is soft,' he mumbled, stroking the frayed tissue with
+his fingers, through the trade-acquired habit which moved him to praise
+even an object of such little value that he himself deemed it only worth
+the giving away.
+
+He poured the gold coins into a sort of mediaeval alms-purse hanging at
+his belt, repeating:
+
+'The foot of the Princess Hermonthis to be used for a paper-weight!'
+
+Then turning his phosphorescent eyes upon me, he exclaimed in a voice
+strident as the crying of a cat which has swallowed a fish-bone:
+
+'Old Pharaoh will not be well pleased. He loved his daughter, the dear
+man!'
+
+'You speak as if you were a contemporary of his. You are old enough,
+goodness knows! but you do not date back to the Pyramids of Egypt,' I
+answered, laughingly, from the threshold.
+
+I went home, delighted with my acquisition.
+
+With the idea of putting it to profitable use as soon as possible, I
+placed the foot of the divine Princess Hermonthis upon a heap of papers
+scribbled over with verses, in themselves an undecipherable mosaic work
+of erasures; articles freshly begun; letters forgotten, and posted
+in the table drawer instead of the letter-box, an error to which
+absent-minded people are peculiarly liable. The effect was charming,
+_bizarre_, and romantic.
+
+Well satisfied with this embellishment, I went out with the gravity and
+pride becoming one who feels that he has the ineffable advantage over
+all the passers-by whom he elbows, of possessing a piece of the Princess
+Hermonthis, daughter of Pharaoh.
+
+I looked upon all who did not possess, like myself, a paper-weight so
+authentically Egyptian as very ridiculous people, and it seemed to me
+that the proper occupation of every sensible man should consist in the
+mere fact of having a mummy's foot upon his desk.
+
+Happily I met some friends, whose presence distracted me in my
+infatuation with this new acquisition. I went to dinner with them, for I
+could not very well have dined with myself.
+
+When I came back that evening, with my brain slightly confused by a few
+glasses of wine, a vague whiff of Oriental perfume delicately titillated
+my olfactory nerves. The heat of the room had warmed the natron,
+bitumen, and myrrh in which the _paraschistes_, who cut open the bodies
+of the dead, had bathed the corpse of the princess. It was a perfume at
+once sweet and penetrating, a perfume that four thousand years had not
+been able to dissipate.
+
+The Dream of Egypt was Eternity. Her odours have the solidity of granite
+and endure as long.
+
+I soon drank deeply from the black cup of sleep. For a few hours all
+remained opaque to me. Oblivion and nothingness inundated me with their
+sombre waves.
+
+Yet light gradually dawned upon the darkness of my mind. Dreams
+commenced to touch me softly in their silent flight.
+
+The eyes of my soul were opened, and I beheld my chamber as it actually
+was. I might have believed myself awake but for a vague consciousness
+which assured me that I slept, and that something fantastic was about to
+take place.
+
+The odour of the myrrh had augmented in intensity, and I felt a slight
+headache, which I very naturally attributed to several glasses of
+champagne that we had drunk to the unknown gods and our future fortunes.
+
+I peered through my room with a feeling of expectation which I saw
+nothing to justify. Every article of furniture was in its proper place.
+The lamp, softly shaded by its globe of ground crystal, burned upon its
+bracket; the water-colour sketches shone under their Bohemian glass;
+the curtains hung down languidly; everything wore an aspect of tranquil
+slumber.
+
+After a few moments, however, all this calm interior appeared to become
+disturbed. The woodwork cracked stealthily, the ash-covered log suddenly
+emitted a jet of blue flame, and the discs of the pateras seemed like
+great metallic eyes, watching, like myself, for the things which were
+about to happen.
+
+My eyes accidentally fell upon the desk where I had placed the foot of
+the Princess Hermonthis.
+
+Instead of remaining quiet, as behoved a foot which had been embalmed
+for four thousand years, it commenced to act in a nervous manner,
+contracted itself, and leaped over the papers like a startled frog. One
+would have imagined that it had suddenly been brought into contact with
+a galvanic battery. I could distinctly hear the dry sound made by its
+little heel, hard as the hoof of a gazelle.
+
+I became rather discontented with my acquisition, inasmuch as I wished
+my paper-weights to be of a sedentary disposition, and thought it very
+unnatural that feet should walk about without legs, and I commenced to
+experience a feeling closely akin to fear.
+
+Suddenly I saw the folds of my bed-curtain stir, and heard a bumping
+sound, like that caused by some person hopping on one foot across the
+floor. I must confess I became alternately hot and cold, that I felt a
+strange wind chill my back, and that my suddenly rising hair caused my
+night-cap to execute a leap of several yards.
+
+The bed-curtains opened and I beheld the strangest figure imaginable
+before me.
+
+It was a young girl of a very deep coffee-brown complexion, like the
+bayadere Amani, and possessing the purest Egyptian type of perfect
+beauty. Her eyes were almond shaped and oblique, with eyebrows so black
+that they seemed blue; her nose was exquisitely chiselled, almost Greek
+in its delicacy of outline; and she might indeed have been taken for a
+Corinthian statue of bronze but for the prominence of her cheek-bones
+and the slightly African fulness of her lips, which compelled one to
+recognise her as belonging beyond all doubt to the hieroglyphic race
+which dwelt upon the banks of the Nile.
+
+Her arms, slender and spindle-shaped like those of very young girls,
+were encircled by a peculiar kind of metal bands and bracelets of glass
+beads; her hair was all twisted into little cords, and she wore upon
+her bosom a little idol-figure of green paste, bearing a whip with seven
+lashes, which proved it to be an image of Isis; her brow was adorned
+with a shining plate of gold, and a few traces of paint relieved the
+coppery tint of her cheeks.
+
+As for her costume, it was very odd indeed.
+
+Fancy a _pagne_, or skirt, all formed of little strips of material
+bedizened with red and black hieroglyphics, stiffened with bitumen, and
+apparently belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy.
+
+In one of those sudden flights of thought so common in dreams I
+heard the hoarse falsetto of the bric-a-brac dealer, repeating like
+a monotonous refrain the phrase he had uttered in his shop with so
+enigmatical an intonation:
+
+'Old Pharaoh will not be well pleased He loved his daughter, the dear
+man!'
+
+One strange circumstance, which was not at all calculated to restore
+my equanimity, was that the apparition had but one foot; the other was
+broken off at the ankle!
+
+She approached the table where the foot was starting and fidgeting about
+more than ever, and there supported herself upon the edge of the desk. I
+saw her eyes fill with pearly gleaming tears.
+
+Although she had not as yet spoken, I fully comprehended the thoughts
+which agitated her. She looked at her foot--for it was indeed her
+own--with an exquisitely graceful expression of coquettish sadness, but
+the foot leaped and ran hither and thither, as though impelled on steel
+springs.
+
+Twice or thrice she extended her hand to seize it, but could not
+succeed.
+
+Then commenced between the Princess Hermonthis and her foot--which
+appeared to be endowed with a special life of its own--a very fantastic
+dialogue in a most ancient Coptic tongue, such as might have been spoken
+thirty centuries ago in the syrinxes of the land of Ser. Luckily I
+understood Coptic perfectly well that night.
+
+The Princess Hermonthis cried, in a voice sweet and vibrant as the tones
+of a crystal bell:
+
+'Well, my dear little foot, you always flee from me, yet I always
+took good care of you. I bathed you with perfumed water in a bowl of
+alabaster; I smoothed your heel with pumice-stone mixed with
+palm-oil; your nails were cut with golden scissors and polished with a
+hippopotamus tooth; I was careful to select _tatbebs_ for you, painted
+and embroidered and turned up at the toes, which were the envy of all
+the young girls in Egypt. You wore on your great toe rings bearing the
+device of the sacred Scarabseus, and you supported one of the lightest
+bodies that a lazy foot could sustain.'
+
+The foot replied in a pouting and chagrined tone:
+
+'You know well that I do not belong to myself any longer. I have been
+bought and paid for. The old merchant knew what he was about. He bore
+you a grudge for having refused to espouse him. This is an ill turn
+which he has done you. The Arab who violated your royal coffin in the
+subterranean pits of the necropolis of Thebes was sent thither by him.
+He desired to prevent you from being present at the reunion of the
+shadowy nations in the cities below. Have you five pieces of gold for my
+ransom?'
+
+'Alas, no! My jewels, my rings, my purses of gold and silver were all
+stolen from me,' answered the Princess Hermonthis with a sob.
+
+'Princess,' I then exclaimed, 'I never retained anybody's foot unjustly.
+Even though you have not got the five louis which it cost me, I present
+it to you gladly. I should feel unutterably wretched to think that I
+were the cause of so amiable a person as the Princess Hermonthis being
+lame.'
+
+I delivered this discourse in a royally gallant, troubadour tone which
+must have astonished the beautiful Egyptian girl.
+
+She turned a look of deepest gratitude upon me, and her eyes shone with
+bluish gleams of light.
+
+She took her foot, which surrendered itself willingly this time, like a
+woman about to put on her little shoe, and adjusted it to her leg with
+much skill.
+
+This operation over, she took a few steps about the room, as though to
+assure herself that she was really no longer lame.
+
+'Ah, how pleased my father will be! He who was so unhappy because of my
+mutilation, and who from the moment of my birth set a whole nation at
+work to hollow me out a tomb so deep that he might preserve me intact
+until that last day when souls must be weighed in the balance of
+Amenthi! Come with me to my father. He will receive you kindly, for you
+have given me back my foot.'
+
+I thought this proposition natural enough. I arrayed myself in a
+dressing-gown of large-flowered pattern, which lent me a very Pharaonic
+aspect, hurriedly put on a pair of Turkish slippers, and informed the
+Princess Hermonthis that I was ready to follow her.
+
+Before starting, Hermonthis took from her neck the little idol of green
+paste, and laid it on the scattered sheets of paper which covered the
+table.
+
+'It is only fair,' she observed, smilingly, 'that I should replace your
+paper-weight.'
+
+She gave me her hand, which felt soft and cold, like the skin of a
+serpent, and we departed.
+
+We passed for some time with the velocity of an arrow through a fluid
+and grayish expanse, in which half-formed silhouettes flitted swiftly by
+us, to right and left.
+
+For an instant we saw only sky and sea.
+
+A few moments later obelisks commenced to tower in the distance; pylons
+and vast flights of steps guarded by sphinxes became clearly outlined
+against the horizon.
+
+We had reached our destination.
+
+The princess conducted me to a mountain of rose-coloured granite, in the
+face of which appeared an opening so narrow and low that it would have
+been difficult to distinguish it from the fissures in the rock, had not
+its location been marked by two stelae wrought with sculptures.
+
+Hermonthis kindled a torch and led the way before me.
+
+We traversed corridors hewn through the living rock. Their walls,
+covered with hieroglyphics and paintings of allegorical processions,
+might well have occupied thousands of arms for thousands of years in
+their formation. These corridors of interminable length opened into
+square chambers, in the midst of which pits had been contrived, through
+which we descended by cramp-irons or spiral stairways. These pits again
+conducted us into other chambers, opening into other corridors, likewise
+decorated with painted sparrow-hawks, serpents coiled in circles, the
+symbols of the _tau_ and _pedum_--prodigious works of art which no
+living eye can ever examine--interminable legends of granite which only
+the dead have time to read through all eternity.
+
+At last we found ourselves in a hall so vast, so enormous, so
+immeasurable, that the eye could not reach its limits. Files of
+monstrous columns stretched far out of sight on every side, between
+which twinkled livid stars of yellowish flame; points of light which
+revealed further depths incalculable in the darkness beyond.
+
+The Princess Hermonthis still held my hand, and graciously saluted the
+mummies of her acquaintance.
+
+My eyes became accustomed to the dim twilight, and objects became
+discernible.
+
+I beheld the kings of the subterranean races seated upon thrones--grand
+old men, though dry, withered, wrinkled like parchment, and blackened
+with naphtha and bitumen--all wearing _pshents_ of gold, and
+breastplates and gorgets glittering with precious stones, their eyes
+immovably fixed like the eyes of sphinxes, and their long beards
+whitened by the snow of centuries. Behind them stood their peoples,
+in the stiff and constrained posture enjoined by Egyptian art, all
+eternally preserving the attitude prescribed by the hieratic code.
+Behind these nations, the cats, ibixes, and crocodiles contemporary
+with them--rendered monstrous of aspect by their swathing bands--mewed,
+flapped their wings, or extended their jaws in a saurian giggle.
+
+All the Pharaohs were there--Cheops, Chephrenes, Psammetichus,
+Sesostris, Amenotaph--all the dark rulers of the pyramids and syrinxes.
+On yet higher thrones sat Chronos and Xixouthros, who was contemporary
+with the deluge, and Tubal Cain, who reigned before it.
+
+The beard of King Xixouthros had grown seven times around the granite
+table upon which he leaned, lost in deep reverie, and buried in dreams.
+
+Further back, through a dusty cloud, I beheld dimly the seventy-two
+pre-adamite kings, with their seventy-two peoples, for ever passed away.
+
+After permitting me to gaze upon this bewildering spectacle a few
+moments, the Princess Hermonthis presented me to her father Pharaoh, who
+favoured me with a most gracious nod.
+
+'I have found my foot again! I have found my foot!' cried the princess,
+clapping her little hands together with every sign of frantic joy. 'It
+was this gentleman who restored it to me.'
+
+The races of Kemi, the races of Nahasi--all the black, bronzed, and
+copper-coloured nations repeated in chorus:
+
+'The Princess Hermonthis has found her foot again!'
+
+Even Xixouthros himself was visibly affected.
+
+He raised his heavy eyelids, stroked his moustache with his fingers, and
+turned upon me a glance weighty with centuries.
+
+'By Oms, the dog of Hell, and Tmei, daughter of the Sun and of Truth,
+this is a brave and worthy lad!' exclaimed Pharaoh, pointing to me with
+his sceptre, which was terminated with a lotus-flower.
+
+'What recompense do you desire?'
+
+Filled with that daring inspired by dreams in which nothing seems
+impossible, I asked him for the hand of the Princess Hermonthis. The
+hand seemed to me a very proper antithetic recompense for the foot.
+
+Pharaoh opened wide his great eyes of glass in astonishment at my witty
+request.
+
+'What country do you come from, and what is your age?'
+
+'I am a Frenchman, and I am twenty-seven years old venerable Pharaoh.'
+
+'Twenty-seven years old, and he wishes to espouse the Princess
+Hermonthis who is thirty centuries old!' cried out at once all the
+Thrones and all the Circles of Nations.
+
+Only Hermonthis herself did not seem to think my request unreasonable.
+
+'If you were even only two thousand years old,' replied the ancient
+king, 'I would willingly give you the princess, but the disproportion
+is too great; and, besides, we must give our daughters husbands who will
+last well. You do not know how to preserve yourselves any longer. Even
+those who died only fifteen centuries ago are already no more than a
+handful of dust. Behold, my flesh is solid as basalt, my bones are bars
+of steel!
+
+'I will be present on the last day of the world with the same body and
+the same features which I had during my lifetime. My daughter Hermonthis
+will last longer than a statue of bronze.
+
+'Then the last particles of your dust will have been scattered abroad
+by the winds, and even Isis herself, who was able to find the atoms of
+Osiris, would scarce be able to recompose your being.
+
+'See how vigorous I yet remain, and how mighty is my grasp,' he added,
+shaking my hand in the English fashion with a strength that buried my
+rings in the flesh of my fingers.
+
+He squeezed me so hard that I awoke, and found my friend Alfred shaking
+me by the arm to make me get up.
+
+'Oh, you everlasting sleeper! Must I have you carried out into the
+middle of the street, and fireworks exploded in your ears? It is
+afternoon. Don't you recollect your promise to take me with you to see
+M. Aguado's Spanish pictures?'
+
+'God! I forgot all, all about it,' I answered, dressing myself
+hurriedly. 'We will go there at once. I have the permit lying there on
+my desk.'
+
+I started to find it, but fancy my astonishment when I beheld, instead
+of the mummy's foot I had purchased the evening before, the little green
+paste idol left in its place by the Princess Hermonthis!
+
+
+
+
+
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