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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Summer Evening's Dream, by Edward Bellamy
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+Title: A Summer Evening's Dream
+       1898
+
+Author: Edward Bellamy
+
+Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22705]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SUMMER EVENING'S DREAM ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+A SUMMER EVENING'S DREAM
+
+By Edward Bellamy
+
+1898
+
+
+It is a village street, with great elms on either side, while along the
+middle stands another row set in a narrow strip of grassy common, so
+that the street and roadway are in reality double. The dwellings on
+either side are not only widely parted by the broad street, but are
+still further isolated, each in its large garden of ancient fruit
+trees. It is four o'clock of a sunny August afternoon, and a quiet,
+Sabbath-like but for its lazy voluptuousness, broods over the scene.
+No carriage, or even pedestrian, has passed for an hour. The occasional
+voices of children at play in some garden, the latching of a gate far
+down the street, the dying fall of a drowsy chanticleer, are but the
+punctuation of the poem of summer silence that has been flowing on all
+the afternoon. Upon the tree-tops the sun blazes brightly, and between
+their stems are glimpses of outlying meadows, which simmer in the heat
+as if about to come to a boil. But the shadowed street offers a cool
+and refreshing vista to the eye, and a veritable valley of refuge to the
+parched and dusty traveler along the highway.
+
+On the broad piazza of one of the quaint old-fashioned houses, behind
+a needless screen of climbing woodbine, two girls are whiling away the
+afternoon. One of them is lounging in a lassy rocking-chair, while the
+other sits more primly and is industriously sewing.
+
+"I suppose you 'll be glad enough to see George when he comes to-night
+to take you back to the city? I'm afraid you find it pretty dull
+here," said the latter, with an intonation of uneasy responsibility
+sufficiently attesting that the brilliant-looking girl opposite was a
+guest.
+
+That young lady, when addressed, was indulging in a luxurious country
+yawn, an operation by no means to be hurried, but to be fully and lazily
+enjoyed in all its several and long-drawn stages, and as thus practiced
+a wonderfully calming and soporific relaxation wholly unknown to the
+fretted denizens of cities, whose yawn is one of irritation and not of
+rest. "I do so enjoy your Plainfield yawns, Lucy," she said when she
+had quite finished. "Were you saying that it was a little dull? Well,
+perhaps it is, but then the trees and things seem to be' enjoying
+themselves so hugely that it would be selfish to make a fuss, even if it
+is n't exactly my kind of fun."
+
+"Your kind of fun is due by the six-o'clock stage, I believe."
+
+The other laughed and said, "I wish you would n't make another allusion
+to George. I think of him so much that I 'm ashamed, as it is.
+I 'm sure this is a very aggravating place for an engaged girl to be
+at. One gets so dreadfully sentimental with nothing to take up the
+mind, especially with such monstrous moons as you have. I got fairly
+frightened of the one last night. It drew me out through my eyes like a
+big plaster."
+
+"Mabel French!"
+
+"I don't care; it did. That was just the feeling."
+
+There was no hurry about talking, for the rich, mellow summer silence
+had a body to it that prevented pauses from seeming empty, and it might
+have been half an hour afterward that Mabel suddenly leaned forward,
+putting her face close to the vine-trellis, and cried in a low voice,
+"Who's that? Po tell me! They're the very first persons who have gone by
+this afternoon, I do believe."
+
+A pretty phaeton was slowly passing, containing an elderly gentleman and
+lady.
+
+"Oh, that is only Lawyer Morgan and old Miss Rood," replied Lucy, just
+glancing up, and then down again. "They go out driving once a week
+regularly, and always at about this time in the afternoon."
+
+"They look like afternoon sort of people," said Mabel. "But why does n't
+Lawyer Morgan take out his wife?"
+
+"He has n't got any. Miss Rood comes nearest to that. Oh, no, you
+needn't open your eyes; there's not a properer old maid in town, or old
+bachelor either, for that matter."
+
+"Are they relatives?"
+
+"No, indeed."
+
+"How long has this Platonic romance been going on, pray?"
+
+"Oh, ever since they were young,--forty years, perhaps. I only know by
+tradition, you see. It began ages before my day. They say she was very
+pretty once. Old Aunty Perkins remembers that she was quite the belle of
+the village as a girl. It seems strange, does n't it?"
+
+"Tell me the whole story," said Mabel, turning round so as to face Lucy
+as the phaeton passed out of sight.
+
+"There's not much to tell. Mr. Morgan has always lived here, and so has
+Miss Rood. He lives alone with a housekeeper in that fine house at the
+end of the street, and she entirely alone in that little white house
+over there among the apple-trees. All the people who knew them when they
+were young are dead, gone away, or moved off. They are relics of a
+past generation, and are really about as much shut up to each other for
+sympathy as an old married couple."
+
+"Well, why on earth are n't they married?"
+
+"People hereabouts got tired of asking that full thirty years ago,"
+replied Lucy, with a little shrug. "Even the gossips long since wore
+out the subject, and I believe we have all of us forgotten that there
+is anything peculiar about their relations. He calls on her two or three
+times a week, and takes her out driving on pleasant days; escorts her
+to places of amusement or social gatherings when either of them cares
+to go, which is n't often; and wherever they are, people take it for
+granted they will pair off together. He is never seen with any other
+lady."
+
+"It's very strange," said Mabel thoughtfully, "and I'm sure it's very
+romantic. Queer old couple! I wonder how they really feel toward each
+other, and whether they would n't like to be married?"
+
+Awhile after she suddenly demanded, "Don't you think Miss Rood looks
+like me?"
+
+Lucy laughed at first, but upon closer inspection of the fair questioner
+admitted that there might be some such resemblance as the shriveled
+apples brought up from the cellar in spring bear to the plump,
+rosy-cheeked beauties that went down in October.
+
+If Mr. Morgan and Miss Rood, as they rode past, had chanced to overhear
+Mabel's question why they had not married, it would have affected them
+very differently. He would have been startled by the novelty of an idea
+that had not occurred to him in twenty years, but the blush on her cheek
+would have been one of painful consciousness.
+
+As boy and girl they had been each other's chosen companion, and as
+young man and maiden their childish preference had bloomed into a
+reciprocal love. Thanks to the freedom and simplicity of village
+life, they enjoyed as lovers a constant and easy familiarity and daily
+association almost as complete in sympathy of mind and heart as anything
+marriage could offer. There were none of the usual obstacles to incite
+them to matrimony. They were never even formally engaged, so wholly did
+they take it for granted that they should marry. It was so much a matter
+of course that there was no hurry at all about it; and besides, so
+long as they had it to look forward to, the foreground of life
+was illuminated for them: it was still morning. Mr. Morgan was
+constitutionally of a dreamy and unpractical turn, a creature of habits
+and a victim of ruts; and as years rolled on he became more and more
+satisfied with these half-friendly, half-loverlike relations. He never
+found the time when it seemed an object to marry, and now, for very many
+years, the idea had not even occurred to him as possible; and so far
+was he from the least suspicion that Miss Rood's experience had not been
+precisely similar to his own, that he often congratulated himself on the
+fortunate coincidence.
+
+Time cures much, and many years ago Miss Hood had recovered from the
+first bitterness of discovering that his love had become insensibly
+transformed into a very tender but perfectly peaceful friendship. No
+one but him had ever touched her heart, and she had no interest in life
+besides him. Since she was not to be his wife, she was glad to be his
+lifelong, tender, self-sacrificing friend. So she raked the ashes over
+the fire in her heart, and left him to suppose that it had gone out as
+in his. Nor was she without compensation in their friendship. It was
+with a delightful thrill that she felt how fully in mind and heart he
+leaned and depended upon her, and the unusual and romantic character of
+their relations in some degree consoled her for the disappointment of
+womanly aspirations by a feeling of distinction. She was not like other
+women: her lot was set apart and peculiar. She looked down upon her sex.
+The conventionality of women's lives renders their vanity peculiarly
+susceptible to a suggestion that their destiny is in any respect unique,
+--a fact that has served the turn of many a seducer before now. To-day,
+after returning from his drive with Miss Rood, Mr. Morgan had walked
+in his garden, and as the evening breeze arose, it bore to his nostrils
+that first indescribable flavor of autumn which warns us that the soul
+of Summer has departed from her yet glowing body. He was very sensitive
+to these changes of the year, and, obeying an impulse that had been
+familiar to him in all unusual moods his life long, he left the house
+after tea and turned his steps down the street. As he stopped at Miss
+Rood's gate, Lucy, Mabel, and George Hammond were under the apple-trees
+in the garden opposite.
+
+"Look, Mabel! There's Mr. Morgan going to call on Miss Rood," said Lucy
+softly.
+
+"Oh, do look, George!" said Mabel eagerly. "That old gentleman has been
+paying court to an old maid over in that little house for forty years.
+And to think," she added in a lower tone, intended for his private ear,
+"what a fuss you make about waiting six months!"
+
+"Humph! You please to forget that it's easier to wait for some things
+than for others. Six months of my kind of waiting, I take it, require
+more patience than forty years of his--or any other man's," he added,
+with increased emphasis.
+
+"Be quiet, sir!" replied Mabel, answering his look of unruly admiration
+with one of half pique. "I 'm not a sugar-plum, that's not enjoyed till
+it's in the mouth. If you have n't got me now, you 'll never have me. If
+being engaged isn't enough, you don't deserve to be married." And then,
+seeing the blank expression with which he looked down at her, she
+added with a prescient resigned-ness, "I 'm afraid, dear, you 'll be so
+disappointed when we 're married, if you find this so tedious."
+
+Lucy had discreetly wandered away, and of how they made it up there were
+no witnesses. But it seems likely that they did so, for shortly after
+they wandered away together down the darkening street.
+
+Like most of the Plainfield houses, that at which Mr. Morgan turned
+in stood well back from the street. At a side window, still further
+sheltered from view by a gyringa-bush at the house corner, sat a little
+woman with a small, pale face, the still attractive features perceptibly
+sharpened by years, of which the half-gray hair bore further testimony.
+The eyes, just now fixed absently upon the dusking landscape, were light
+gray and a little faded, while around the lips there were crow's-feet,
+especially when they were pressed together, as now, in an unsatisfied,
+almost pathetic look, evidently habitual to her face when in repose.
+There was withal something in her features that so reminded you of Mr.
+Morgan that any one conversant with the facts of his life-romance would
+have at once inferred--though by just what logic he might not be
+able to explain--that this must be Miss Eood. It is well known that
+long-wedded couples often gain at length a certain resemblance in
+feature and manner; and although these two were not married, yet their
+intimacy of a lifetime was perhaps the reason why her face bore when in
+repose something of that seer-like expression which communion with the
+bodiless shapes of memory had given to his.
+
+The latching of the gate broke up her depressing reverie, and banished
+the pinched and pining look from her features. Among the neighbors Miss
+Rood was sometimes called a sour old maid, but the face she kept for
+Mr. Morgan would never have suggested that idea to the most ill-natured
+critic.
+
+He stopped at the window, near which the walk passed to the doorway, and
+stood leaning on the sill,--a tall, slender figure, stooping a
+little, with smooth, scholarly face, and thin iron-gray hair. His
+only noticeable feature was a pair of eyes whose expression and glow
+indicated an imaginative temperament. It was pleasant to observe the
+relieved restlessness in the look and manner of the two friends, as if
+at the mere being in each other's presence, though neither seemed in any
+haste to exchange even the words of formal greeting.
+
+At length she said, in a tone of quiet satisfaction, "I knew you
+would come, for I was sure this deathly autumn's flavor would make you
+restless. Is n't it strange how it affects the nerves of memory, and
+makes one sad with thinking of all the sweet, dear days that are dead?"
+
+"Yes, yes," he answered eagerly; "I can think of nothing else. Do they
+not seem wonderfully clear and near to-night? To-night, of all nights
+in the year, if the figures and scenes of memory can be reëmbodied in
+visible forms, they ought to become so to the eyes that strain and yearn
+for them."
+
+"What a fanciful idea, Robert!"
+
+"I don't know that it is; I don't feel sure. Nobody understands the
+mystery of this Past, or what are the conditions of existence in that
+world. These memories, these forms and faces, that are so near, so
+almost warm and visible that we find ourselves smiling on the vacant air
+where they seem to be, are they not real and living?"
+
+"You don't mean you believe in ghosts?"
+
+"I am not talking of ghosts of the dead, but of ghosts of the past,--
+memories of scenes or persons, whether the persons are dead or not--
+of our own selves as well as others. Why," he continued, his voice
+softening into a passionate, yearning tenderness, "the figure I would
+give most to see just once more is yourself as a girl, as I remember you
+in the sweet grace and beauty of your maidenhood. Ah, well! ah, well!"
+
+"Don't!" she cried involuntarily, while her features contracted in
+sudden pain.
+
+In the years during which his passion for her had been cooling into a
+staid friendship, his imagination had been recurring with constantly
+increasing fondness and a dreamy passion to the memory of her
+girlhood. And the cruelest part of it was that he so unconsciously and
+unquestioningly assumed that she could not have identity enough with
+that girlish ideal to make his frequent glowing references to it even
+embarrassing. Generally, however, she heard and made no sign, but the
+suddenness of his outburst just now had taken her off her guard.
+
+He glanced up with some surprise at her exclamation, but was too much
+interested in his subject to take much notice of it. "You know," he
+said, "there are great differences in the distinctness with which we
+can bring up our memories. Very well! The only question is, What is the
+limit to that distinctness, or is there any? Since we know there are
+such wide degrees in distinctness, the burden of proof rests on those
+who would prove that those degrees stop short of any particular point.
+Don't you see, then, that it might be possible to see them?" And to
+enforce his meaning he laid his hand lightly on hers as it rested on the
+window-seat.
+
+She withdrew it instantly from the contact, and a slight flush tinged
+her sallow cheeks. The only outward trace of her memory of their
+youthful relations was the almost prudish chariness of her person by
+which she indicated a sense of the line to be drawn between the former
+lover and the present friend.
+
+"Something in your look just now," he said, regarding her musingly, as
+one who seeks to trace the lineaments of a dead face in a living one,
+"reminds me of you as you used to sit in this very window as a girl,
+and I stood just here, and we picked out stars together. There! now it's
+gone;" and he turned away regretfully.
+
+She looked at his averted face with a blank piteousness which revealed
+all her secret. She would not have had him see it for worlds, but it was
+a relief just for a moment to rest her features in the sad cast which
+the muscles had grown tired in repressing. The autumn scent rose
+stronger as the air grew damp, and he stood breathing it in, and
+apparently feeling its influence like some Delphian afflatus.
+
+"Is there anything, Mary,--is there anything so beautiful as that
+light of eternity that rests on the figures of memory? Who that has once
+felt it can care for the common daylight of the present any more, or
+take pleasure in its prosaic groups?"
+
+"You'll certainly catch cold standing in that wet grass; do come in and
+let me shut the blinds," she said, for she had found cheerful lamplight
+the best corrective for his vagaries.
+
+So he came in and sat in his special arm-chair, and they chatted about
+miscellaneous village topics for an hour. The standpoint from which they
+canvassed Plainfield people and things was a peculiarly outside one.
+Their circle of two was like a separate planet from which they observed
+the world. Their tone was like, and yet quite unlike, that in which
+a long-married couple discuss their acquaintances; for, while their
+intellectual intimacy was perfect, their air expressed a constant mutual
+deference and solicitude of approbation not to be confounded with the
+terrible familiarity of matrimony; and at the same time they constituted
+a self-sufficient circle, apart from the society around them, as man and
+wife cannot. Man and wife are so far merged as to feel themselves a unit
+over against society. They are too much identified to find in each other
+that sense of support and countenance which requires a feeling of the
+exteriority of our friend's life to our own. If these two should
+marry, they would shortly find themselves impelled to seek refuge in
+conventional relations with that society of which now they were calmly
+independent.
+
+At length Mr. Morgan rose and threw open the blinds. The radiance of the
+full harvest-moon so flooded the room that Miss Eood was fain to blow
+out the poor lamp for compassion. "Let us take a walk," he said.
+
+The streets were empty and still, and they walked in silence, spelled by
+the perfect beauty of the evening. The dense shadows of the elms lent a
+peculiarly rich effect to the occasional bars and patches of moonlight
+on the street floor; the white houses gleamed among their orchards; and
+here and there, between the dark tree-stems, there were glimpses of
+the shining surface of the broad outlying meadows, which looked like a
+surrounding sea.
+
+Miss Rood was startled to see how the witchery of the scene possessed
+her companion. His face took on a set, half-smiling expression, and he
+dropped her arm as if they had arrived at the place of entertainment to
+which he had been escorting her. He no longer walked with measured pace,
+but glided along with a certain stealthiness, peering on this side and
+that down moony vistas and into shadow-bowers, as if half-expecting,
+if he might step lightly enough, to catch a glimpse of some sort of
+dream-people basking there.
+
+Nor could Miss Rood herself resist the impression the moony landscape
+gave of teeming with subtle forms of life, escaping the grosser senses
+of human beings, but perceptible by their finer parts. Each cosy nook of
+light and shadow was yet warm from some presence that had just left it.
+The landscape fairly stirred with ethereal forms of being beneath the
+fertilizing moon-rays, as the earth-mould wakes into physical life under
+the sun's heat. The yellow moonlight looked warm as spirits might count
+warmth. The air was electric with the thrill of circumambient existence.
+There was the sense of pressure, of a throng. It would have been
+impossible to feel lonely. The pulsating sounds of the insect world
+seemed the rhythm to which the voluptuous beauty of the night had
+spontaneously set itself. The common air of day had been transmuted
+into the atmosphere of reverie and Dreamland. In that magic medium the
+distinction between imagination and reality fast dissolved. Even Miss
+Bood was conscious of a delightful excitement, a vague expectancy. Mr.
+Morgan, she saw, was moved quite beyond even his exaggerated habit of
+imaginative excitement. His wet, shining, wide-opened eyes and ecstatic
+expression indicated complete abandonment to the illusions of the scene.
+
+They had seated themselves, as the concentration of the brain upon
+imaginative activity made the nerves of motion sluggish, upon a rude
+bench formed by wedging a plank between two elms that stood close
+together. They were within the shadow of the trees, but close up to
+their feet rippled a lake of moonlight. The landscape shimmering before
+them had been the theatre of their fifty years of life. Their history
+was written in its trees and lawns and paths. The very air of the place
+had acquired for them a dense, warm, sentient feeling, to which that of
+all other places was thin and raw. It had become tinctured by their own
+spiritual emanations, by the thoughts, looks, words and moods of which
+it had so long received the impression. It had become such vitalized
+air, surcharged with sense and thought, as might be taken to make souls
+for men out of.
+
+Over yonder, upon the playground, yet lingered the faint violet
+fragrance of their childhood. Beneath that elm a kiss had once touched
+the air with a fire that still warmed their cheeks in passing. Yonder
+the look of a face was cut on the viewless air as on marble. Surely,
+death does but touch the living, for the dead ever keep their power over
+us; it is only we who lose ours over them. Each vista of leafy arch and
+distant meadow framed in some scene of their youth-time, painted in the
+imperishable hues of memory that borrow from time an ever richer and
+more glowing tint. It was no wonder that to these two old people,
+sitting on the bench between the elms, the atmosphere before them,
+saturated with associations, dense with memories, should seem fairly
+quivering into material forms, like a distant mist turning to rain.
+
+At length Miss Rood heard her companion say, in a whisper of tremulous
+exultation, "Do you know, Mary, I think I shall see them very soon."
+
+"See whom?" she asked, frightened at his strange tone.
+
+"Why, see us, of course, as I was telling you," he whispered,--"you
+and me as we were young,--see them as I see you now. Don't you remember
+it was just along here that we used to walk on spring evenings? We walk
+here no more, but they do evermore, beautiful, beautiful children. I
+come here often to lie in wait for them. I can feel them now; I can
+almost, almost see them." His whisper became scarcely audible and the
+words dropped slowly. "I know the sight is coming, for every day they
+grow more vivid. It can't be long before I quite see them. It may come
+at any moment."
+
+Miss Rood was thoroughly frightened at the intensity of his excitement,
+and terribly perplexed as to what she should do.
+
+"It may come at any time; I can almost see them now," he murmured.
+"A--h! look!" With parted lips and unspeakably intense eyes, as if his
+life were flowing out at them, he was staring across the moonlit paths
+before them to the point where the path debouched from the shadow.
+
+Following his eyes, she saw what for a moment made her head swim with
+the thought that she too was going mad. Just issuing from the shadows,
+as if in answer to his words, were a young man and a girl, his arm upon
+her waist, his eyes upon her face. At the first glance Miss Rood was
+impressed with a resemblance to her own features in those of the girl,
+which her excitement exaggerated to a perfect reproduction of them.
+For an instant the conviction possessed her that by some impossible,
+indescribable, inconceivable miracle she was looking upon the
+resurrected figures of her girlish self and her lover.
+
+At first Mr. Morgan had half started from his seat, and was between
+rising and sitting. Then he rose with a slow, involuntary movement,
+while his face worked terribly between bewilderment and abandonment to
+illusion. He tottered forward a few steps to the edge of the moonlight,
+and stood peering at the approaching couple with a hand raised to shade
+his eyes and a dazed, unearthly smile on his face. The girl saw him
+first, for she had been gazing demurely before her, while her lover
+looked only at her. At sight of the gray-haired man suddenly confronting
+them with a look of bedlam, she shrieked and started back in terror.
+Miss Rood, recalled to her senses, sprang forward, and catching Mr.
+Morgan's arm endeavored with gentle force to draw him away.
+
+But it was too late for that. The young man, at first almost as
+much startled as his companion at the uncanny apparition, naturally
+experienced a revulsion of indignation at such an extraordinary
+interruption to his tête-à-tête, and stepped up to Mr. Morgan as if
+about to inflict summary chastisement. But perceiving that he had to do
+with an elderly man, he contented himself with demanding in a decidedly
+aggressive tone what the devil he meant by such a performance.
+
+Mr. Morgan stared at him without seeing him, and evidently did not take
+in the words. He merely gasped once or twice, and looked as if he had
+fainted away on his feet. His blank, stunned expression showed that his
+faculties were momentarily benumbed by the shock. Miss Rood felt as if
+she should die for the pity of it as she looked at his face, and her
+heart was breaking for grief as she sought to mollify the young man with
+some inarticulate words of apology, meanwhile still endeavoring to draw
+Mr. Morgan away. But at this moment the girl, recovering from her panic,
+came up to the group and laid her hand on the young man's arm, as if to
+check and silence him. It was evident that she saw there was something
+quite unusual in the circumstances, and the look which she bent upon Mr.
+Morgan was one of sympathy and considerate interrogation. But Miss
+Rood could see no way out of their awkward situation, which grew more
+intolerable every moment as they thus confronted each other. It was
+finally Mr. Morgan's voice, quite firm, but with an indescribable
+sadness in the tones, which broke the silence: "Young people, I owe you
+an apology, such as it is. I am an old man, and the past is growing so
+heavy that it sometimes quite overbalances me. My thoughts have been
+busy to-night with the days of my youth, and the spell of memory has
+been so strong that I have not been quite myself. As you came into view
+I actually entertained the incredible idea for a moment that somehow I
+saw in you the materialized memories of myself and another as we once
+walked this same path."
+
+The young man bowed, as Mr. Morgan ended, in a manner indicating his
+acceptance of the apology, although he looked both amazed and amused.
+But the explanation had a very different effect upon the girl at his
+side. As she listened, her eyes had filled with tears, and her face had
+taken on a wonderfully tender, pitiful smile. When he ended speaking,
+she impulsively said, "I 'm so sorry we were not what you thought us!
+Why not pretend we are, to-night at least? We can pretend it, you know.
+The moonlight makes anything possible;" and then glancing at Miss Rood,
+she added, as if almost frightened, "Why, how much we look alike! I 'm
+not sure it isn't true, anyway."
+
+This was, in fact, an unusually marked example of those casual
+resemblances between strangers which are sometimes seen. The hair of the
+one was indeed gray and that of the other dark, but the eyes were of the
+same color by night, and the features, except for the greater fullness
+of the younger face, were cast in the same mould, while figure and
+bearing were strikingly similar, although daylight would doubtless have
+revealed diversities, enough that moonlight refused to disclose.
+
+The two women looked at each other with an expression almost of
+suspicion and fear, while the young man observed, "Your mistake was
+certainly excusable, sir."
+
+"It will be the easier to pretend," said the girl, as with a
+half-serious, half-sportive imperiousness she laid her hand on Mr.
+Morgan's arm. "And now it is thirty years ago, and we are walking
+together." He involuntarily obeyed the slight pressure, and they walked
+slowly away, leaving the other two, after an embarrassed pause, to
+follow them.
+
+For some time they walked in silence. He was deliberately abandoning
+himself to the illusion, supported as it was by the evidence of his
+senses, that he was wandering in some of the mysterious be-tween-worlds
+which he had so often dreamed of, with the love of his youth in her
+youth-time charm. Did he really believe it to be so? Belief is a term
+quite irrelevant to such a frame as his, in which the reflective
+and analytical powers are for a time purposely held in abeyance. The
+circumstances of her introduction to him had dropped from his mind as
+irrelevant accidents, like the absurdities which occur in our sweetest
+and most solemn dreams without marring their general impression in our
+memories. Every glance he threw upon his companion, while on the one
+hand it shocked his illusion in that she seemed not likely to vanish
+away, on the other strengthened it with an indescribable thrill by the
+revelation of some fresh trait of face or figure, some new expression,
+that reproduced the Miss Rood of his youth. Not, indeed, that it
+is likely his companion was thus perfectly the double of that lady,
+although so much resembling her, but the common graces of maidenhood
+were in Mr. Morgan's mind the peculiar personal qualities of the only
+woman he had ever much known.
+
+Of his own accord he would not have dared to risk breaking the charm by
+a word. But his companion--who, as is tolerably evident by this time,
+was Mabel French--had meanwhile formed a scheme quite worthy of her
+audacious temper. She had at once recognized both Mr. Morgan and Miss
+Rood, and had gone thus far from a mere romantic impulse, without
+definite intentions of any sort. But the idea now came into her head
+that she might take advantage of this extraordinary situation to try a
+match-making experiment, which instantly captivated her fancy. So she
+said, while ever so gently pressing his arm and looking up into his face
+with an arch smile (she was recognized as the best amateur actress in
+her set at home), "I wonder if the moon will be so mellow after we are
+married?"
+
+His illusion was rudely disturbed by the shock of an articulate voice,
+softly and low as she spoke, and he looked around with a startled
+expression that made her fear her rôle was ended. But she could not
+know that the eyes she turned to his were mirrors where he saw his dead
+youth. The two Miss Roods--the girl and the woman, the past and the
+present--were fused and become one in his mind. Their identity flashed
+upon him.
+
+An artesian well sunk from the desert surface through the underlying
+strata, the layers of ages, strikes some lake long ago covered over, and
+the water welling up converts the upper waste into a garden. Just so
+at her words and her look his heart suddenly filled, as if it came from
+afar, with the youthful passion he had felt toward Miss Bood, but which,
+he knew not exactly when or how, had been gradually overgrown with the
+dullness of familiarity and had lapsed into an indolent affectionate
+habit. The warm, voluptuous pulse of this new feeling--new, and yet
+instantly recognized as old--brought with it a flood of youthful
+associations, and commingled the far past with the present in a
+confusion more complete and more intoxicating than ever. He saw double
+again. "Married!" he murmured dreamily. "Yes, surely, we will be
+married."
+
+And as he spoke, he looked at her with such a peculiar expression that
+she was a little frightened. It looked like a more serious business than
+she had counted on, and for a moment, if she could have cut and run,
+perhaps she would have done so. But she had a strain of the true
+histrionic artist about her, and with a little effort rose to the
+difficulty of the rôle. "Of course we will be married," she replied,
+with an air of innocent surprise. "You speak as if you had just thought
+of it."
+
+He turned toward her as if he would sober his senses by staring at her,
+his pupils dilating and contracting in the instinctive effort to clear
+the mind by clearing the eyes.
+
+But with a steady pressure on his arm she compelled him to walk on by
+her side. Then she said, in a soft, low voice, as if a little awed by
+what she were telling, while at the same time she nestled nearer his
+side, "I had such a sad dream last night, and your strange talk reminds
+me of it. It seemed as if we were old and white-haired and stooping,
+and went wandering about, still together, but not married, lonely and
+broken. And I woke up feeling you can't think how dreary and sad,--
+as if a bell had tolled in my ears as I slept; and the feeling was so
+strong that I put my fingers to my face to find if it was withered; and
+when I could not tell certainly, I got up and lit my lamp and looked in
+the glass; and my face, thank God! was fresh and young; but I sat on my
+bed and cried to think of the poor old people I had left behind in my
+dream."
+
+Mabel had so fallen into the spirit of her part that she was really
+crying as she ended. Her tears completed Mr. Morgan's mental confusion,
+and he absolutely did not know whom he was addressing or where he was
+himself, as he cried, "No, no, Mary! Don't cry! It shall not be; it
+shall never be."
+
+Lightly withdrawing her hand from his arm, she glided like a sprite from
+his side, and was lost in the shadows, while her whispered words still
+sounded in his ear, "Good-by for thirty years!"
+
+A moment after, three notes, clear as a bird's call, sounded from the
+direction whither she had vanished, and Miss Rood's companion, breaking
+off short a remark on the excessive dryness of the weather, bowed
+awkwardly and also disappeared among the shadows.
+
+When Miss Rood laid her hand on Mr. Morgan's arm to recall him to the
+fact that they were now alone together, he turned quickly, and his
+eyes swept her from head to foot, and then rested on her face with an
+expression of intense curiosity and a wholly new interest, as if he were
+tracing out a suddenly suggested resemblance which overwhelmed him with
+emotion. And as he gazed, his eyes began to take fire from the faded
+features on which they had rested so many years in mere complacent
+friendliness, and she instinctively averted her face.
+
+Long intimacy had made her delicately sensitive to his moods, and when
+he drew her arm in his and turned to walk, although he had not uttered a
+word, she trembled with agitation.
+
+"Mary, we have had an extraordinary experience to-night," he said.
+The old dreaminess in his voice, as of one narcotized or in a trance,
+sometimes a little forced, as of one trying to dream, to which she had
+become accustomed, and of which in her heart of hearts she was very
+weary, was gone. In its place she recognized a resonance which still
+further confused her with a sense of altered relations. His polarity had
+changed: his electricity was no longer negative, but positive.
+
+Her feminine instinct vaguely alarmed, she replied, "Yes, indeed, but
+it is getting late. Had n't we better go in?" What lent the unusual
+intonation of timidity to her voice? Certainly nothing that she could
+have explained.
+
+"Not quite yet, Mary," he answered, turning his gaze once more fully
+upon her.
+
+Her eyes dropped before his, and a moment after fluttered up to find an
+explanation for their behavior, only to fall again in blind panic.
+For, mingling unmistakably with the curiosity with which he was still
+studying her features, was a newborn expression of appropriation and
+passionate complacency. Her senses whirled in a bewilderment that had
+a suffocating sweetness about it. Though she now kept her eyes on the
+ground, she felt his constant sidewise glances, and, desperately seeking
+relief from the conscious silence that enveloped them like a vapor of
+intoxicating fumes, she forced herself to utter the merest triviality
+she could summon to her lips: "See that house." The husky tones betrayed
+more agitation than the ruse concealed.
+
+He answered as irrelevantly as she had spoken, "Yes, indeed, so it is."
+That was their only attempt at conversation.
+
+For a half hour--it might have been much more or much less--they
+walked in this way, thrilling with the new magnetism that at once
+attracted and estranged them with an extraordinary sense of strangeness
+in familiarity. At length they paused under the little porch of Miss
+Rood's cottage, where he commonly bade her good-evening after their
+walks. The timidity and vague alarms that had paralyzed her while
+they were walking disappeared as he was about to leave her, and she
+involuntarily returned his unusual pressure of her hand.
+
+A long time after, behold her still encircled in his arms, not blushing,
+but pale and her eyes full of a soft, astonished glow! "Oh, Robert!" was
+all she had said after one first little gasp.
+
+They never met George or Mabel again. Mrs. Morgan learned subsequently
+that two young people from the city answering their description had been
+guests at the opposite house, and had left Plainfield the morning after
+the events hereinbefore set forth, and drew her conclusions accordingly.
+But her husband preferred to cherish the secret belief that his theory
+that memories might become visible had proved true in one instance at
+least.
+
+
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