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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/23361-0.txt b/23361-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..affa358 --- /dev/null +++ b/23361-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,640 @@ +Project Gutenberg’s Père Antoine’s Date-Palm, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Père Antoine’s Date-Palm + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23361] +Last Updated: September 20, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM. + +By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + +Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + + +Near the Levée, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place +d’Armes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, +spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous +roots were sucking strength from their native earth. + +Sir Charles Lyell, in his Second Visit to the United States, mentions +this exotic: “The tree is seventy or eighty years old; for Père Antoine, +a Roman Catholic priest, who died about twenty years ago, told Mr. +Bringier that he planted it himself, when he was young. In his will he +provided that they who succeeded to this lot of ground should forfeit it +if they cut down the palm.” + +Wishing to learn something of Père Antoine’s history, Sir Charles Lyell +made inquiries among the ancient créole inhabitants of the faubourg. +That the old priest, in his last days, became very much emaciated, that +he walked about the streets like a mummy, that he gradually dried up, +and finally blew away, was the meagre and unsatisfactory result of the +tourist’s investigations. This is all that is generally told of Père +Antoine. In the summer of 1861, while New Orleans was yet occupied by +the Confederate forces, I met at Alexandria, in Virginia, a lady from +Louisiana--Miss Blondeau by name--who gave me the substance of the +following legend touching Père Antoine and his wonderful date-palm. If +it should appear tame to the reader, it will be because I am not habited +in a black ribbed-silk dress, with a strip of point-lace around my +throat, like Miss Blondeau; it will be because I lack her eyes and lips +and Southern music to tell it with. + +When Père Antoine was a very young man, he had a friend whom he loved +as he loved his life. Emile Jardin returned his passion, and the two, +on account of their friendship, became the marvel of the city where they +dwelt. One was never seen without the other; for they studied, walked, +ate, and slept together. + +Thus began Miss Blondeau, with the air of Fiammetta telling her +prettiest story to the Florentines in the garden of Boccaccio. + +Antoine and Emile were preparing to enter the Church; indeed, they had +taken the preliminary steps, when a circumstance occurred which changed +the color of their lives. A foreign lady, from some nameless island in +the Pacific, had a few months before moved into their neighborhood. The +lady died suddenly, leaving a girl of sixteen or seventeen, entirely +friendless and unprovided for. The young men had been kind to the woman +during her illness, and at her death--melting with pity at the forlorn +situation of Anglice, the daughter--swore between themselves to love and +watch over her as if she were their sister. + +Now Anglice had a wild, strange beauty that made other women seem tame +beside her; and in the course of time the young men found themselves +regarding their ward not so much like brothers as at first. In brief, +they found themselves in love with her. + +They struggled with their hopeless passion month after month, neither +betraying his secret to the other; for the austere orders which they +were about to assume precluded the idea of love and marriage. Until then +they had dwelt in the calm air of religious meditations, unmoved +except by that pious fervor which in other ages taught men to brave the +tortures of the rack and to smile amid the flames. But a blonde girl, +with great eyes and a voice like the soft notes of a vesper hymn, had +come in between them and their ascetic dreams of heaven. The ties that +had bound the young men together snapped silently one by one. At last +each read in the pale face of the other the story of his own despair. + +And she? If Anglice shared their trouble, her face told no story. It was +like the face of a saint on a cathedral window. Once, however, as she +came suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn +like fire on the lip of the speaker, her eyes grew luminous for an +instant. Then she passed on, her face as immobile as before in its +setting of wavy gold hair. + + “Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux.” + +One night Emile and Anglice were missing. They had flown--but whither, +nobody knew, and nobody, save Antoine, cared. It was a heavy blow to +Antoine--for he had himself half resolved to confess his love to Anglice +and urge her to fly with him. + +A strip of paper slipped from a volume on Antoine’s prie-dieu, and +fluttered to his feet. + +“_Do not be angry,_” said the bit of paper, piteously; “_forgive us, for +we love_.” (Par-donnez-nous, car nous aimons.) + +Three years went by wearily enough. Antoine had entered the Church, and +was already looked upon as a rising man; but his face was pale and his +heart leaden, for there was no sweetness in life for him. + +Four years had elapsed, when a letter, covered with outlandish +postmarks, was brought to the young priest--a letter from Anglice. She +was dying;--would he forgive her? Emile, the year previous, had fallen a +victim to the fever that raged on the island; and their child, Anglice, +was likely to follow him. In pitiful terms she begged Antoine to take +charge of the child until she was old enough to enter the convent of the +Sacré-Cour. The epistle was finished hastily by another hand, informing +Antoine of Madame Jardin’s death; it also told him that Anglice had been +placed on board a vessel shortly to leave the island for some Western +port. + +The letter, delayed by storm and shipwreck, was hardly read and wept +over when little Anglice arrived. + +On beholding her, Antoine uttered a cry of joy and surprise--she was so +like the woman he had worshipped. + +The passion that had been crowded down in his heart broke out and +lavished its rich-ness on this child, who was to him not only the +Anglice of years ago, but his friend Emile Jardin also. + +Anglice possessed the wild, strange beauty of her mother--the bending, +willowy form, the rich tint of skin, the large tropical eyes, that had +almost made Antoine’s sacred robes a mockery to him. + +For a month or two Anglice was wildly unhappy in her new home. She +talked continually of the bright country where she was born, the fruits +and flowers and blue skies, the tall, fan-like trees, and the streams +that went murmuring through them to the sea. Antoine could not pacify +her. + +By and by she ceased to weep, and went about the cottage in a weary, +disconsolate way that cut Antoine to the heart. A long-tailed paroquet, +which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her +from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs +that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage. + +Before the year ended, he noticed that the ruddy tinge had faded from +her cheek, that her eyes had grown languid, and her slight figure more +willowy than ever. + +A physician was consulted. He could discover nothing wrong with the +child, except this fading and drooping. He failed to account for that. +It was some vague disease of the mind, he said, beyond his skill. + +So Anglice faded day after day. She seldom left the room now. At last +Antoine could not shut out the fact that the child was passing away. He +had learned to love her so! + +“Dear heart,” he said once, “what is’t ails thee?” + +“Nothing, mon père,” for so she called him. + +The winter passed, the balmy spring had come with its magnolia blooms +and orange blossoms, and Anglice seemed to revive. In her small bamboo +chair, on the porch, she swayed to and fro in the fragrant breeze, with +a peculiar undulating motion, like a graceful tree. + +At times something seemed to weigh upon her mind. Antoine observed it, +and waited. Finally she spoke. + +“Near our house,” said little Anglice--“near our house, on the island, +the palm-trees are waving under the blue sky. Oh, how beautiful! I seem +to lie beneath them all day long. I am very, very happy. I yearned for +them so much that I grew ill--don’t you think it was so, mon père?” + +“Hélas, yes!” exclaimed Antoine, suddenly. “Let us hasten to those +pleasant islands where the palms are waving.” + +Anglice smiled. + +“I am going there, mon père.” + +A week from that evening the wax candles burned at her feet and +forehead, lighting her on the journey. + +All was over. Now was Antoine’s heart empty. Death, like another Emile, +had stolen his new Anglice. He had nothing to do but to lay the blighted +flower away. + +Père Antoine made a shallow grave in his garden, and heaped the fresh +brown mould over his idol. + +In the tranquil spring evenings, the priest was seen sitting by the +mound, his finger closed in the unread breviary. + +The summer broke on that sunny land; and in the cool morning twilight, +and after nightfall, Antoine lingered by the grave. He could never be +with it enough. + +One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped +emerald leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound. At first he +merely noticed it casually; but presently the plant grew so tall, +and was so strangely unlike anything he had ever seen before, that he +examined it with care. + +How straight and graceful and exquisite it was! When it swung to and fro +with the summer wind, in the twilight, it seemed to Antoine as if little +Anglice were standing there in the garden. + +The days stole by, and Antoine tended the fragile shoot, wondering what +manner of blossom it would unfold, white, or scarlet, or golden. One +Sunday, a stranger, with a bronzed, weather-beaten face like a sailor’s, +leaned over the garden rail, and said to him, + +“What a fine young date-palm you have there, sir!” + +“Mon Dieu!” cried Père Antoine starting, “and is it a palm?” + +“Yes, indeed,” returned the man. “I did n’t reckon the tree would +flourish in this latitude.” + +“Ah, mon Dieu!” was all the priest could say aloud; but he murmured to +himself, “Bon Dieu, vous m’avez donné cela!” + +If Père Antoine loved the tree before, he worshipped it now. He watered +it, and nurtured it, and could have clasped it in his arms. Here were +Emile and Anglice and the child, all in one! + +The years glided away, and the date-palm and the priest grew +together--only one became vigorous and the other feeble. Père Antoine +had long passed the meridian of life. The tree was in its youth. It no +longer stood in an isolated garden; for pretentious brick and stucco +houses had clustered about Antoine’s cottage. They looked down scowling +on the humble thatched roof. The city was edging up, trying to crowd him +off his land. But he clung to it like lichen and refused to sell. + +Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps, and he laughed at them. +Sometimes he was hungry, and cold, and thinly clad; but he laughed none +the less. + +“Get thee behind me, Satan!” said the old priest’s smile. + +Père Antoine was very old now, scarcely able to walk; but he could sit +under the pliant, caressing leaves of his palm, loving it like an Arab; +and there he sat till the grimmest of speculators came to him. But even +in death Père Antoine was faithful to his trust. + +The owner of that land loses it if he harm the date-tree. + +And there it stands in the narrow, dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy +stranger, an exquisite foreign lady whose grace is a joy to the eye, the +incense of whose breath makes the air enamored. May the hand wither that +touches her ungently! + +“_Because it grew from the heart of little Anglice_,” said Miss Blondeau +tenderly. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg’s Père Antoine’s Date-Palm, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM *** + +***** This file should be named 23361-0.txt or 23361-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23361/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pre Antoine's Date-Palm + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23361] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +PRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM. + +By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + +Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + + +Near the Leve, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place +d'Armes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, +spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous +roots were sucking strength from their native earth. + +Sir Charles Lyell, in his Second Visit to the United States, mentions +this exotic: "The tree is seventy or eighty years old; for Pre Antoine, +a Roman Catholic priest, who died about twenty years ago, told Mr. +Bringier that he planted it himself, when he was young. In his will he +provided that they who succeeded to this lot of ground should forfeit it +if they cut down the palm." + +Wishing to learn something of Pre Antoine's history, Sir Charles Lyell +made inquiries among the ancient crole inhabitants of the faubourg. +That the old priest, in his last days, became very much emaciated, that +he walked about the streets like a mummy, that he gradually dried up, +and finally blew away, was the meagre and unsatisfactory result of the +tourist's investigations. This is all that is generally told of Pre +Antoine. In the summer of 1861, while New Orleans was yet occupied by +the Confederate forces, I met at Alexandria, in Virginia, a lady from +Louisiana--Miss Blondeau by name--who gave me the substance of the +following legend touching Pre Antoine and his wonderful date-palm. If +it should appear tame to the reader, it will be because I am not habited +in a black ribbed-silk dress, with a strip of point-lace around my +throat, like Miss Blondeau; it will be because I lack her eyes and lips +and Southern music to tell it with. + +When Pre Antoine was a very young man, he had a friend whom he loved +as he loved his life. Emile Jardin returned his passion, and the two, +on account of their friendship, became the marvel of the city where they +dwelt. One was never seen without the other; for they studied, walked, +ate, and slept together. + +Thus began Miss Blondeau, with the air of Fiammetta telling her +prettiest story to the Florentines in the garden of Boccaccio. + +Antoine and Emile were preparing to enter the Church; indeed, they had +taken the preliminary steps, when a circumstance occurred which changed +the color of their lives. A foreign lady, from some nameless island in +the Pacific, had a few months before moved into their neighborhood. The +lady died suddenly, leaving a girl of sixteen or seventeen, entirely +friendless and unprovided for. The young men had been kind to the woman +during her illness, and at her death--melting with pity at the forlorn +situation of Anglice, the daughter--swore between themselves to love and +watch over her as if she were their sister. + +Now Anglice had a wild, strange beauty that made other women seem tame +beside her; and in the course of time the young men found themselves +regarding their ward not so much like brothers as at first. In brief, +they found themselves in love with her. + +They struggled with their hopeless passion month after month, neither +betraying his secret to the other; for the austere orders which they +were about to assume precluded the idea of love and marriage. Until then +they had dwelt in the calm air of religious meditations, unmoved +except by that pious fervor which in other ages taught men to brave the +tortures of the rack and to smile amid the flames. But a blonde girl, +with great eyes and a voice like the soft notes of a vesper hymn, had +come in between them and their ascetic dreams of heaven. The ties that +had bound the young men together snapped silently one by one. At last +each read in the pale face of the other the story of his own despair. + +And she? If Anglice shared their trouble, her face told no story. It was +like the face of a saint on a cathedral window. Once, however, as she +came suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn +like fire on the lip of the speaker, her eyes grew luminous for an +instant. Then she passed on, her face as immobile as before in its +setting of wavy gold hair. + + "Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux." + +One night Emile and Anglice were missing. They had flown--but whither, +nobody knew, and nobody, save Antoine, cared. It was a heavy blow to +Antoine--for he had himself half resolved to confess his love to Anglice +and urge her to fly with him. + +A strip of paper slipped from a volume on Antoine's prie-dieu, and +fluttered to his feet. + +"_Do not be angry,_" said the bit of paper, piteously; "_forgive us, for +we love_." (Par-donnez-nous, car nous aimons.) + +Three years went by wearily enough. Antoine had entered the Church, and +was already looked upon as a rising man; but his face was pale and his +heart leaden, for there was no sweetness in life for him. + +Four years had elapsed, when a letter, covered with outlandish +postmarks, was brought to the young priest--a letter from Anglice. She +was dying;--would he forgive her? Emile, the year previous, had fallen a +victim to the fever that raged on the island; and their child, Anglice, +was likely to follow him. In pitiful terms she begged Antoine to take +charge of the child until she was old enough to enter the convent of the +Sacr-Cour. The epistle was finished hastily by another hand, informing +Antoine of Madame Jardin's death; it also told him that Anglice had been +placed on board a vessel shortly to leave the island for some Western +port. + +The letter, delayed by storm and shipwreck, was hardly read and wept +over when little Anglice arrived. + +On beholding her, Antoine uttered a cry of joy and surprise--she was so +like the woman he had worshipped. + +The passion that had been crowded down in his heart broke out and +lavished its rich-ness on this child, who was to him not only the +Anglice of years ago, but his friend Emile Jardin also. + +Anglice possessed the wild, strange beauty of her mother--the bending, +willowy form, the rich tint of skin, the large tropical eyes, that had +almost made Antoine's sacred robes a mockery to him. + +For a month or two Anglice was wildly unhappy in her new home. She +talked continually of the bright country where she was born, the fruits +and flowers and blue skies, the tall, fan-like trees, and the streams +that went murmuring through them to the sea. Antoine could not pacify +her. + +By and by she ceased to weep, and went about the cottage in a weary, +disconsolate way that cut Antoine to the heart. A long-tailed paroquet, +which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her +from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs +that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage. + +Before the year ended, he noticed that the ruddy tinge had faded from +her cheek, that her eyes had grown languid, and her slight figure more +willowy than ever. + +A physician was consulted. He could discover nothing wrong with the +child, except this fading and drooping. He failed to account for that. +It was some vague disease of the mind, he said, beyond his skill. + +So Anglice faded day after day. She seldom left the room now. At last +Antoine could not shut out the fact that the child was passing away. He +had learned to love her so! + +"Dear heart," he said once, "what is't ails thee?" + +"Nothing, mon pre," for so she called him. + +The winter passed, the balmy spring had come with its magnolia blooms +and orange blossoms, and Anglice seemed to revive. In her small bamboo +chair, on the porch, she swayed to and fro in the fragrant breeze, with +a peculiar undulating motion, like a graceful tree. + +At times something seemed to weigh upon her mind. Antoine observed it, +and waited. Finally she spoke. + +"Near our house," said little Anglice--"near our house, on the island, +the palm-trees are waving under the blue sky. Oh, how beautiful! I seem +to lie beneath them all day long. I am very, very happy. I yearned for +them so much that I grew ill--don't you think it was so, mon pre?" + +"Hlas, yes!" exclaimed Antoine, suddenly. "Let us hasten to those +pleasant islands where the palms are waving." + +Anglice smiled. + +"I am going there, mon pre." + +A week from that evening the wax candles burned at her feet and +forehead, lighting her on the journey. + +All was over. Now was Antoine's heart empty. Death, like another Emile, +had stolen his new Anglice. He had nothing to do but to lay the blighted +flower away. + +Pre Antoine made a shallow grave in his garden, and heaped the fresh +brown mould over his idol. + +In the tranquil spring evenings, the priest was seen sitting by the +mound, his finger closed in the unread breviary. + +The summer broke on that sunny land; and in the cool morning twilight, +and after nightfall, Antoine lingered by the grave. He could never be +with it enough. + +One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped +emerald leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound. At first he +merely noticed it casually; but presently the plant grew so tall, +and was so strangely unlike anything he had ever seen before, that he +examined it with care. + +How straight and graceful and exquisite it was! When it swung to and fro +with the summer wind, in the twilight, it seemed to Antoine as if little +Anglice were standing there in the garden. + +The days stole by, and Antoine tended the fragile shoot, wondering what +manner of blossom it would unfold, white, or scarlet, or golden. One +Sunday, a stranger, with a bronzed, weather-beaten face like a sailor's, +leaned over the garden rail, and said to him, + +"What a fine young date-palm you have there, sir!" + +"Mon Dieu!" cried Pre Antoine starting, "and is it a palm?" + +"Yes, indeed," returned the man. "I did n't reckon the tree would +flourish in this latitude." + +"Ah, mon Dieu!" was all the priest could say aloud; but he murmured to +himself, "Bon Dieu, vous m'avez donn cela!" + +If Pre Antoine loved the tree before, he worshipped it now. He watered +it, and nurtured it, and could have clasped it in his arms. Here were +Emile and Anglice and the child, all in one! + +The years glided away, and the date-palm and the priest grew +together--only one became vigorous and the other feeble. Pre Antoine +had long passed the meridian of life. The tree was in its youth. It no +longer stood in an isolated garden; for pretentious brick and stucco +houses had clustered about Antoine's cottage. They looked down scowling +on the humble thatched roof. The city was edging up, trying to crowd him +off his land. But he clung to it like lichen and refused to sell. + +Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps, and he laughed at them. +Sometimes he was hungry, and cold, and thinly clad; but he laughed none +the less. + +"Get thee behind me, Satan!" said the old priest's smile. + +Pre Antoine was very old now, scarcely able to walk; but he could sit +under the pliant, caressing leaves of his palm, loving it like an Arab; +and there he sat till the grimmest of speculators came to him. But even +in death Pre Antoine was faithful to his trust. + +The owner of that land loses it if he harm the date-tree. + +And there it stands in the narrow, dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy +stranger, an exquisite foreign lady whose grace is a joy to the eye, the +incense of whose breath makes the air enamored. May the hand wither that +touches her ungently! + +"_Because it grew from the heart of little Anglice_," said Miss Blondeau +tenderly. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Pre Antoine's Date-Palm, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM *** + +***** This file should be named 23361-8.txt or 23361-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23361/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Père Antoine's Date-Palm + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23361] +Last Updated: September 20, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM. + </h1> + <h2> + By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + </h2> + <h3> + Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + </h3> + <h4> + Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + </h4> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + Near the Levée, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place + d’Armes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, + spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous + roots were sucking strength from their native earth. + </p> + <p> + Sir Charles Lyell, in his Second Visit to the United States, mentions this + exotic: “The tree is seventy or eighty years old; for Père Antoine, a + Roman Catholic priest, who died about twenty years ago, told Mr. Bringier + that he planted it himself, when he was young. In his will he provided + that they who succeeded to this lot of ground should forfeit it if they + cut down the palm.” + </p> + <p> + Wishing to learn something of Père Antoine’s history, Sir Charles Lyell + made inquiries among the ancient créole inhabitants of the faubourg. That + the old priest, in his last days, became very much emaciated, that he + walked about the streets like a mummy, that he gradually dried up, and + finally blew away, was the meagre and unsatisfactory result of the + tourist’s investigations. This is all that is generally told of Père + Antoine. In the summer of 1861, while New Orleans was yet occupied by the + Confederate forces, I met at Alexandria, in Virginia, a lady from + Louisiana—Miss Blondeau by name—who gave me the substance of + the following legend touching Père Antoine and his wonderful date-palm. If + it should appear tame to the reader, it will be because I am not habited + in a black ribbed-silk dress, with a strip of point-lace around my throat, + like Miss Blondeau; it will be because I lack her eyes and lips and + Southern music to tell it with. + </p> + <p> + When Père Antoine was a very young man, he had a friend whom he loved as + he loved his life. Emile Jardin returned his passion, and the two, on + account of their friendship, became the marvel of the city where they + dwelt. One was never seen without the other; for they studied, walked, + ate, and slept together. + </p> + <p> + Thus began Miss Blondeau, with the air of Fiammetta telling her prettiest + story to the Florentines in the garden of Boccaccio. + </p> + <p> + Antoine and Emile were preparing to enter the Church; indeed, they had + taken the preliminary steps, when a circumstance occurred which changed + the color of their lives. A foreign lady, from some nameless island in the + Pacific, had a few months before moved into their neighborhood. The lady + died suddenly, leaving a girl of sixteen or seventeen, entirely friendless + and unprovided for. The young men had been kind to the woman during her + illness, and at her death—melting with pity at the forlorn situation + of Anglice, the daughter—swore between themselves to love and watch + over her as if she were their sister. + </p> + <p> + Now Anglice had a wild, strange beauty that made other women seem tame + beside her; and in the course of time the young men found themselves + regarding their ward not so much like brothers as at first. In brief, they + found themselves in love with her. + </p> + <p> + They struggled with their hopeless passion month after month, neither + betraying his secret to the other; for the austere orders which they were + about to assume precluded the idea of love and marriage. Until then they + had dwelt in the calm air of religious meditations, unmoved except by that + pious fervor which in other ages taught men to brave the tortures of the + rack and to smile amid the flames. But a blonde girl, with great eyes and + a voice like the soft notes of a vesper hymn, had come in between them and + their ascetic dreams of heaven. The ties that had bound the young men + together snapped silently one by one. At last each read in the pale face + of the other the story of his own despair. + </p> + <p> + And she? If Anglice shared their trouble, her face told no story. It was + like the face of a saint on a cathedral window. Once, however, as she came + suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn like + fire on the lip of the speaker, her eyes grew luminous for an instant. + Then she passed on, her face as immobile as before in its setting of wavy + gold hair. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + “Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux.” + </pre> + <p> + One night Emile and Anglice were missing. They had flown—but + whither, nobody knew, and nobody, save Antoine, cared. It was a heavy blow + to Antoine—for he had himself half resolved to confess his love to + Anglice and urge her to fly with him. + </p> + <p> + A strip of paper slipped from a volume on Antoine’s prie-dieu, and + fluttered to his feet. + </p> + <p> + “<i>Do not be angry,</i>” said the bit of paper, piteously; “<i>forgive + us, for we love</i>.” (Par-donnez-nous, car nous aimons.) + </p> + <p> + Three years went by wearily enough. Antoine had entered the Church, and + was already looked upon as a rising man; but his face was pale and his + heart leaden, for there was no sweetness in life for him. + </p> + <p> + Four years had elapsed, when a letter, covered with outlandish postmarks, + was brought to the young priest—a letter from Anglice. She was + dying;—would he forgive her? Emile, the year previous, had fallen a + victim to the fever that raged on the island; and their child, Anglice, + was likely to follow him. In pitiful terms she begged Antoine to take + charge of the child until she was old enough to enter the convent of the + Sacré-Cour. The epistle was finished hastily by another hand, informing + Antoine of Madame Jardin’s death; it also told him that Anglice had been + placed on board a vessel shortly to leave the island for some Western + port. + </p> + <p> + The letter, delayed by storm and shipwreck, was hardly read and wept over + when little Anglice arrived. + </p> + <p> + On beholding her, Antoine uttered a cry of joy and surprise—she was + so like the woman he had worshipped. + </p> + <p> + The passion that had been crowded down in his heart broke out and lavished + its rich-ness on this child, who was to him not only the Anglice of years + ago, but his friend Emile Jardin also. + </p> + <p> + Anglice possessed the wild, strange beauty of her mother—the + bending, willowy form, the rich tint of skin, the large tropical eyes, + that had almost made Antoine’s sacred robes a mockery to him. + </p> + <p> + For a month or two Anglice was wildly unhappy in her new home. She talked + continually of the bright country where she was born, the fruits and + flowers and blue skies, the tall, fan-like trees, and the streams that + went murmuring through them to the sea. Antoine could not pacify her. + </p> + <p> + By and by she ceased to weep, and went about the cottage in a weary, + disconsolate way that cut Antoine to the heart. A long-tailed paroquet, + which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her + from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs + that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage. + </p> + <p> + Before the year ended, he noticed that the ruddy tinge had faded from her + cheek, that her eyes had grown languid, and her slight figure more willowy + than ever. + </p> + <p> + A physician was consulted. He could discover nothing wrong with the child, + except this fading and drooping. He failed to account for that. It was + some vague disease of the mind, he said, beyond his skill. + </p> + <p> + So Anglice faded day after day. She seldom left the room now. At last + Antoine could not shut out the fact that the child was passing away. He + had learned to love her so! + </p> + <p> + “Dear heart,” he said once, “what is’t ails thee?” + </p> + <p> + “Nothing, mon père,” for so she called him. + </p> + <p> + The winter passed, the balmy spring had come with its magnolia blooms and + orange blossoms, and Anglice seemed to revive. In her small bamboo chair, + on the porch, she swayed to and fro in the fragrant breeze, with a + peculiar undulating motion, like a graceful tree. + </p> + <p> + At times something seemed to weigh upon her mind. Antoine observed it, and + waited. Finally she spoke. + </p> + <p> + “Near our house,” said little Anglice—“near our house, on the + island, the palm-trees are waving under the blue sky. Oh, how beautiful! I + seem to lie beneath them all day long. I am very, very happy. I yearned + for them so much that I grew ill—don’t you think it was so, mon + père?” + </p> + <p> + “Hélas, yes!” exclaimed Antoine, suddenly. “Let us hasten to those + pleasant islands where the palms are waving.” + </p> + <p> + Anglice smiled. + </p> + <p> + “I am going there, mon père.” + </p> + <p> + A week from that evening the wax candles burned at her feet and forehead, + lighting her on the journey. + </p> + <p> + All was over. Now was Antoine’s heart empty. Death, like another Emile, + had stolen his new Anglice. He had nothing to do but to lay the blighted + flower away. + </p> + <p> + Père Antoine made a shallow grave in his garden, and heaped the fresh + brown mould over his idol. + </p> + <p> + In the tranquil spring evenings, the priest was seen sitting by the mound, + his finger closed in the unread breviary. + </p> + <p> + The summer broke on that sunny land; and in the cool morning twilight, and + after nightfall, Antoine lingered by the grave. He could never be with it + enough. + </p> + <p> + One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped emerald + leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound. At first he merely + noticed it casually; but presently the plant grew so tall, and was so + strangely unlike anything he had ever seen before, that he examined it + with care. + </p> + <p> + How straight and graceful and exquisite it was! When it swung to and fro + with the summer wind, in the twilight, it seemed to Antoine as if little + Anglice were standing there in the garden. + </p> + <p> + The days stole by, and Antoine tended the fragile shoot, wondering what + manner of blossom it would unfold, white, or scarlet, or golden. One + Sunday, a stranger, with a bronzed, weather-beaten face like a sailor’s, + leaned over the garden rail, and said to him, + </p> + <p> + “What a fine young date-palm you have there, sir!” + </p> + <p> + “Mon Dieu!” cried Père Antoine starting, “and is it a palm?” + </p> + <p> + “Yes, indeed,” returned the man. “I did n’t reckon the tree would flourish + in this latitude.” + </p> + <p> + “Ah, mon Dieu!” was all the priest could say aloud; but he murmured to + himself, “Bon Dieu, vous m’avez donné cela!” + </p> + <p> + If Père Antoine loved the tree before, he worshipped it now. He watered + it, and nurtured it, and could have clasped it in his arms. Here were + Emile and Anglice and the child, all in one! + </p> + <p> + The years glided away, and the date-palm and the priest grew together—only + one became vigorous and the other feeble. Père Antoine had long passed the + meridian of life. The tree was in its youth. It no longer stood in an + isolated garden; for pretentious brick and stucco houses had clustered + about Antoine’s cottage. They looked down scowling on the humble thatched + roof. The city was edging up, trying to crowd him off his land. But he + clung to it like lichen and refused to sell. + </p> + <p> + Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps, and he laughed at them. Sometimes + he was hungry, and cold, and thinly clad; but he laughed none the less. + </p> + <p> + “Get thee behind me, Satan!” said the old priest’s smile. + </p> + <p> + Père Antoine was very old now, scarcely able to walk; but he could sit + under the pliant, caressing leaves of his palm, loving it like an Arab; + and there he sat till the grimmest of speculators came to him. But even in + death Père Antoine was faithful to his trust. + </p> + <p> + The owner of that land loses it if he harm the date-tree. + </p> + <p> + And there it stands in the narrow, dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy + stranger, an exquisite foreign lady whose grace is a joy to the eye, the + incense of whose breath makes the air enamored. May the hand wither that + touches her ungently! + </p> + <p> + “<i>Because it grew from the heart of little Anglice</i>,” said Miss + Blondeau tenderly. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg’s Père Antoine’s Date-Palm, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM *** + +***** This file should be named 23361-h.htm or 23361-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23361/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pere Antoine's Date-Palm + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23361] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PERE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +PERE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM. + +By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + +Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + + +Near the Levee, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place +d'Armes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, +spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous +roots were sucking strength from their native earth. + +Sir Charles Lyell, in his Second Visit to the United States, mentions +this exotic: "The tree is seventy or eighty years old; for Pere Antoine, +a Roman Catholic priest, who died about twenty years ago, told Mr. +Bringier that he planted it himself, when he was young. In his will he +provided that they who succeeded to this lot of ground should forfeit it +if they cut down the palm." + +Wishing to learn something of Pere Antoine's history, Sir Charles Lyell +made inquiries among the ancient creole inhabitants of the faubourg. +That the old priest, in his last days, became very much emaciated, that +he walked about the streets like a mummy, that he gradually dried up, +and finally blew away, was the meagre and unsatisfactory result of the +tourist's investigations. This is all that is generally told of Pere +Antoine. In the summer of 1861, while New Orleans was yet occupied by +the Confederate forces, I met at Alexandria, in Virginia, a lady from +Louisiana--Miss Blondeau by name--who gave me the substance of the +following legend touching Pere Antoine and his wonderful date-palm. If +it should appear tame to the reader, it will be because I am not habited +in a black ribbed-silk dress, with a strip of point-lace around my +throat, like Miss Blondeau; it will be because I lack her eyes and lips +and Southern music to tell it with. + +When Pere Antoine was a very young man, he had a friend whom he loved +as he loved his life. Emile Jardin returned his passion, and the two, +on account of their friendship, became the marvel of the city where they +dwelt. One was never seen without the other; for they studied, walked, +ate, and slept together. + +Thus began Miss Blondeau, with the air of Fiammetta telling her +prettiest story to the Florentines in the garden of Boccaccio. + +Antoine and Emile were preparing to enter the Church; indeed, they had +taken the preliminary steps, when a circumstance occurred which changed +the color of their lives. A foreign lady, from some nameless island in +the Pacific, had a few months before moved into their neighborhood. The +lady died suddenly, leaving a girl of sixteen or seventeen, entirely +friendless and unprovided for. The young men had been kind to the woman +during her illness, and at her death--melting with pity at the forlorn +situation of Anglice, the daughter--swore between themselves to love and +watch over her as if she were their sister. + +Now Anglice had a wild, strange beauty that made other women seem tame +beside her; and in the course of time the young men found themselves +regarding their ward not so much like brothers as at first. In brief, +they found themselves in love with her. + +They struggled with their hopeless passion month after month, neither +betraying his secret to the other; for the austere orders which they +were about to assume precluded the idea of love and marriage. Until then +they had dwelt in the calm air of religious meditations, unmoved +except by that pious fervor which in other ages taught men to brave the +tortures of the rack and to smile amid the flames. But a blonde girl, +with great eyes and a voice like the soft notes of a vesper hymn, had +come in between them and their ascetic dreams of heaven. The ties that +had bound the young men together snapped silently one by one. At last +each read in the pale face of the other the story of his own despair. + +And she? If Anglice shared their trouble, her face told no story. It was +like the face of a saint on a cathedral window. Once, however, as she +came suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn +like fire on the lip of the speaker, her eyes grew luminous for an +instant. Then she passed on, her face as immobile as before in its +setting of wavy gold hair. + + "Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux." + +One night Emile and Anglice were missing. They had flown--but whither, +nobody knew, and nobody, save Antoine, cared. It was a heavy blow to +Antoine--for he had himself half resolved to confess his love to Anglice +and urge her to fly with him. + +A strip of paper slipped from a volume on Antoine's prie-dieu, and +fluttered to his feet. + +"_Do not be angry,_" said the bit of paper, piteously; "_forgive us, for +we love_." (Par-donnez-nous, car nous aimons.) + +Three years went by wearily enough. Antoine had entered the Church, and +was already looked upon as a rising man; but his face was pale and his +heart leaden, for there was no sweetness in life for him. + +Four years had elapsed, when a letter, covered with outlandish +postmarks, was brought to the young priest--a letter from Anglice. She +was dying;--would he forgive her? Emile, the year previous, had fallen a +victim to the fever that raged on the island; and their child, Anglice, +was likely to follow him. In pitiful terms she begged Antoine to take +charge of the child until she was old enough to enter the convent of the +Sacre-Cour. The epistle was finished hastily by another hand, informing +Antoine of Madame Jardin's death; it also told him that Anglice had been +placed on board a vessel shortly to leave the island for some Western +port. + +The letter, delayed by storm and shipwreck, was hardly read and wept +over when little Anglice arrived. + +On beholding her, Antoine uttered a cry of joy and surprise--she was so +like the woman he had worshipped. + +The passion that had been crowded down in his heart broke out and +lavished its rich-ness on this child, who was to him not only the +Anglice of years ago, but his friend Emile Jardin also. + +Anglice possessed the wild, strange beauty of her mother--the bending, +willowy form, the rich tint of skin, the large tropical eyes, that had +almost made Antoine's sacred robes a mockery to him. + +For a month or two Anglice was wildly unhappy in her new home. She +talked continually of the bright country where she was born, the fruits +and flowers and blue skies, the tall, fan-like trees, and the streams +that went murmuring through them to the sea. Antoine could not pacify +her. + +By and by she ceased to weep, and went about the cottage in a weary, +disconsolate way that cut Antoine to the heart. A long-tailed paroquet, +which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her +from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs +that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage. + +Before the year ended, he noticed that the ruddy tinge had faded from +her cheek, that her eyes had grown languid, and her slight figure more +willowy than ever. + +A physician was consulted. He could discover nothing wrong with the +child, except this fading and drooping. He failed to account for that. +It was some vague disease of the mind, he said, beyond his skill. + +So Anglice faded day after day. She seldom left the room now. At last +Antoine could not shut out the fact that the child was passing away. He +had learned to love her so! + +"Dear heart," he said once, "what is't ails thee?" + +"Nothing, mon pere," for so she called him. + +The winter passed, the balmy spring had come with its magnolia blooms +and orange blossoms, and Anglice seemed to revive. In her small bamboo +chair, on the porch, she swayed to and fro in the fragrant breeze, with +a peculiar undulating motion, like a graceful tree. + +At times something seemed to weigh upon her mind. Antoine observed it, +and waited. Finally she spoke. + +"Near our house," said little Anglice--"near our house, on the island, +the palm-trees are waving under the blue sky. Oh, how beautiful! I seem +to lie beneath them all day long. I am very, very happy. I yearned for +them so much that I grew ill--don't you think it was so, mon pere?" + +"Helas, yes!" exclaimed Antoine, suddenly. "Let us hasten to those +pleasant islands where the palms are waving." + +Anglice smiled. + +"I am going there, mon pere." + +A week from that evening the wax candles burned at her feet and +forehead, lighting her on the journey. + +All was over. Now was Antoine's heart empty. Death, like another Emile, +had stolen his new Anglice. He had nothing to do but to lay the blighted +flower away. + +Pere Antoine made a shallow grave in his garden, and heaped the fresh +brown mould over his idol. + +In the tranquil spring evenings, the priest was seen sitting by the +mound, his finger closed in the unread breviary. + +The summer broke on that sunny land; and in the cool morning twilight, +and after nightfall, Antoine lingered by the grave. He could never be +with it enough. + +One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped +emerald leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound. At first he +merely noticed it casually; but presently the plant grew so tall, +and was so strangely unlike anything he had ever seen before, that he +examined it with care. + +How straight and graceful and exquisite it was! When it swung to and fro +with the summer wind, in the twilight, it seemed to Antoine as if little +Anglice were standing there in the garden. + +The days stole by, and Antoine tended the fragile shoot, wondering what +manner of blossom it would unfold, white, or scarlet, or golden. One +Sunday, a stranger, with a bronzed, weather-beaten face like a sailor's, +leaned over the garden rail, and said to him, + +"What a fine young date-palm you have there, sir!" + +"Mon Dieu!" cried Pere Antoine starting, "and is it a palm?" + +"Yes, indeed," returned the man. "I did n't reckon the tree would +flourish in this latitude." + +"Ah, mon Dieu!" was all the priest could say aloud; but he murmured to +himself, "Bon Dieu, vous m'avez donne cela!" + +If Pere Antoine loved the tree before, he worshipped it now. He watered +it, and nurtured it, and could have clasped it in his arms. Here were +Emile and Anglice and the child, all in one! + +The years glided away, and the date-palm and the priest grew +together--only one became vigorous and the other feeble. Pere Antoine +had long passed the meridian of life. The tree was in its youth. It no +longer stood in an isolated garden; for pretentious brick and stucco +houses had clustered about Antoine's cottage. They looked down scowling +on the humble thatched roof. The city was edging up, trying to crowd him +off his land. But he clung to it like lichen and refused to sell. + +Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps, and he laughed at them. +Sometimes he was hungry, and cold, and thinly clad; but he laughed none +the less. + +"Get thee behind me, Satan!" said the old priest's smile. + +Pere Antoine was very old now, scarcely able to walk; but he could sit +under the pliant, caressing leaves of his palm, loving it like an Arab; +and there he sat till the grimmest of speculators came to him. But even +in death Pere Antoine was faithful to his trust. + +The owner of that land loses it if he harm the date-tree. + +And there it stands in the narrow, dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy +stranger, an exquisite foreign lady whose grace is a joy to the eye, the +incense of whose breath makes the air enamored. May the hand wither that +touches her ungently! + +"_Because it grew from the heart of little Anglice_," said Miss Blondeau +tenderly. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Pere Antoine's Date-Palm, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PERE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM *** + +***** This file should be named 23361.txt or 23361.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23361/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Père Antoine's Date-Palm + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23361] +Last Updated: September 20, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM. + </h1> + <h2> + By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + </h2> + <h3> + Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + </h3> + <h4> + Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + </h4> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + Near the Levée, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place + d’Armes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, + spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous + roots were sucking strength from their native earth. + </p> + <p> + Sir Charles Lyell, in his Second Visit to the United States, mentions this + exotic: “The tree is seventy or eighty years old; for Père Antoine, a + Roman Catholic priest, who died about twenty years ago, told Mr. Bringier + that he planted it himself, when he was young. In his will he provided + that they who succeeded to this lot of ground should forfeit it if they + cut down the palm.” + </p> + <p> + Wishing to learn something of Père Antoine’s history, Sir Charles Lyell + made inquiries among the ancient créole inhabitants of the faubourg. That + the old priest, in his last days, became very much emaciated, that he + walked about the streets like a mummy, that he gradually dried up, and + finally blew away, was the meagre and unsatisfactory result of the + tourist’s investigations. This is all that is generally told of Père + Antoine. In the summer of 1861, while New Orleans was yet occupied by the + Confederate forces, I met at Alexandria, in Virginia, a lady from + Louisiana—Miss Blondeau by name—who gave me the substance of + the following legend touching Père Antoine and his wonderful date-palm. If + it should appear tame to the reader, it will be because I am not habited + in a black ribbed-silk dress, with a strip of point-lace around my throat, + like Miss Blondeau; it will be because I lack her eyes and lips and + Southern music to tell it with. + </p> + <p> + When Père Antoine was a very young man, he had a friend whom he loved as + he loved his life. Emile Jardin returned his passion, and the two, on + account of their friendship, became the marvel of the city where they + dwelt. One was never seen without the other; for they studied, walked, + ate, and slept together. + </p> + <p> + Thus began Miss Blondeau, with the air of Fiammetta telling her prettiest + story to the Florentines in the garden of Boccaccio. + </p> + <p> + Antoine and Emile were preparing to enter the Church; indeed, they had + taken the preliminary steps, when a circumstance occurred which changed + the color of their lives. A foreign lady, from some nameless island in the + Pacific, had a few months before moved into their neighborhood. The lady + died suddenly, leaving a girl of sixteen or seventeen, entirely friendless + and unprovided for. The young men had been kind to the woman during her + illness, and at her death—melting with pity at the forlorn situation + of Anglice, the daughter—swore between themselves to love and watch + over her as if she were their sister. + </p> + <p> + Now Anglice had a wild, strange beauty that made other women seem tame + beside her; and in the course of time the young men found themselves + regarding their ward not so much like brothers as at first. In brief, they + found themselves in love with her. + </p> + <p> + They struggled with their hopeless passion month after month, neither + betraying his secret to the other; for the austere orders which they were + about to assume precluded the idea of love and marriage. Until then they + had dwelt in the calm air of religious meditations, unmoved except by that + pious fervor which in other ages taught men to brave the tortures of the + rack and to smile amid the flames. But a blonde girl, with great eyes and + a voice like the soft notes of a vesper hymn, had come in between them and + their ascetic dreams of heaven. The ties that had bound the young men + together snapped silently one by one. At last each read in the pale face + of the other the story of his own despair. + </p> + <p> + And she? If Anglice shared their trouble, her face told no story. It was + like the face of a saint on a cathedral window. Once, however, as she came + suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn like + fire on the lip of the speaker, her eyes grew luminous for an instant. + Then she passed on, her face as immobile as before in its setting of wavy + gold hair. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + “Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux.” + </pre> + <p> + One night Emile and Anglice were missing. They had flown—but + whither, nobody knew, and nobody, save Antoine, cared. It was a heavy blow + to Antoine—for he had himself half resolved to confess his love to + Anglice and urge her to fly with him. + </p> + <p> + A strip of paper slipped from a volume on Antoine’s prie-dieu, and + fluttered to his feet. + </p> + <p> + “<i>Do not be angry,</i>” said the bit of paper, piteously; “<i>forgive + us, for we love</i>.” (Par-donnez-nous, car nous aimons.) + </p> + <p> + Three years went by wearily enough. Antoine had entered the Church, and + was already looked upon as a rising man; but his face was pale and his + heart leaden, for there was no sweetness in life for him. + </p> + <p> + Four years had elapsed, when a letter, covered with outlandish postmarks, + was brought to the young priest—a letter from Anglice. She was + dying;—would he forgive her? Emile, the year previous, had fallen a + victim to the fever that raged on the island; and their child, Anglice, + was likely to follow him. In pitiful terms she begged Antoine to take + charge of the child until she was old enough to enter the convent of the + Sacré-Cour. The epistle was finished hastily by another hand, informing + Antoine of Madame Jardin’s death; it also told him that Anglice had been + placed on board a vessel shortly to leave the island for some Western + port. + </p> + <p> + The letter, delayed by storm and shipwreck, was hardly read and wept over + when little Anglice arrived. + </p> + <p> + On beholding her, Antoine uttered a cry of joy and surprise—she was + so like the woman he had worshipped. + </p> + <p> + The passion that had been crowded down in his heart broke out and lavished + its rich-ness on this child, who was to him not only the Anglice of years + ago, but his friend Emile Jardin also. + </p> + <p> + Anglice possessed the wild, strange beauty of her mother—the + bending, willowy form, the rich tint of skin, the large tropical eyes, + that had almost made Antoine’s sacred robes a mockery to him. + </p> + <p> + For a month or two Anglice was wildly unhappy in her new home. She talked + continually of the bright country where she was born, the fruits and + flowers and blue skies, the tall, fan-like trees, and the streams that + went murmuring through them to the sea. Antoine could not pacify her. + </p> + <p> + By and by she ceased to weep, and went about the cottage in a weary, + disconsolate way that cut Antoine to the heart. A long-tailed paroquet, + which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her + from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs + that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage. + </p> + <p> + Before the year ended, he noticed that the ruddy tinge had faded from her + cheek, that her eyes had grown languid, and her slight figure more willowy + than ever. + </p> + <p> + A physician was consulted. He could discover nothing wrong with the child, + except this fading and drooping. He failed to account for that. It was + some vague disease of the mind, he said, beyond his skill. + </p> + <p> + So Anglice faded day after day. She seldom left the room now. At last + Antoine could not shut out the fact that the child was passing away. He + had learned to love her so! + </p> + <p> + “Dear heart,” he said once, “what is’t ails thee?” + </p> + <p> + “Nothing, mon père,” for so she called him. + </p> + <p> + The winter passed, the balmy spring had come with its magnolia blooms and + orange blossoms, and Anglice seemed to revive. In her small bamboo chair, + on the porch, she swayed to and fro in the fragrant breeze, with a + peculiar undulating motion, like a graceful tree. + </p> + <p> + At times something seemed to weigh upon her mind. Antoine observed it, and + waited. Finally she spoke. + </p> + <p> + “Near our house,” said little Anglice—“near our house, on the + island, the palm-trees are waving under the blue sky. Oh, how beautiful! I + seem to lie beneath them all day long. I am very, very happy. I yearned + for them so much that I grew ill—don’t you think it was so, mon + père?” + </p> + <p> + “Hélas, yes!” exclaimed Antoine, suddenly. “Let us hasten to those + pleasant islands where the palms are waving.” + </p> + <p> + Anglice smiled. + </p> + <p> + “I am going there, mon père.” + </p> + <p> + A week from that evening the wax candles burned at her feet and forehead, + lighting her on the journey. + </p> + <p> + All was over. Now was Antoine’s heart empty. Death, like another Emile, + had stolen his new Anglice. He had nothing to do but to lay the blighted + flower away. + </p> + <p> + Père Antoine made a shallow grave in his garden, and heaped the fresh + brown mould over his idol. + </p> + <p> + In the tranquil spring evenings, the priest was seen sitting by the mound, + his finger closed in the unread breviary. + </p> + <p> + The summer broke on that sunny land; and in the cool morning twilight, and + after nightfall, Antoine lingered by the grave. He could never be with it + enough. + </p> + <p> + One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped emerald + leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound. At first he merely + noticed it casually; but presently the plant grew so tall, and was so + strangely unlike anything he had ever seen before, that he examined it + with care. + </p> + <p> + How straight and graceful and exquisite it was! When it swung to and fro + with the summer wind, in the twilight, it seemed to Antoine as if little + Anglice were standing there in the garden. + </p> + <p> + The days stole by, and Antoine tended the fragile shoot, wondering what + manner of blossom it would unfold, white, or scarlet, or golden. One + Sunday, a stranger, with a bronzed, weather-beaten face like a sailor’s, + leaned over the garden rail, and said to him, + </p> + <p> + “What a fine young date-palm you have there, sir!” + </p> + <p> + “Mon Dieu!” cried Père Antoine starting, “and is it a palm?” + </p> + <p> + “Yes, indeed,” returned the man. “I did n’t reckon the tree would flourish + in this latitude.” + </p> + <p> + “Ah, mon Dieu!” was all the priest could say aloud; but he murmured to + himself, “Bon Dieu, vous m’avez donné cela!” + </p> + <p> + If Père Antoine loved the tree before, he worshipped it now. He watered + it, and nurtured it, and could have clasped it in his arms. Here were + Emile and Anglice and the child, all in one! + </p> + <p> + The years glided away, and the date-palm and the priest grew together—only + one became vigorous and the other feeble. Père Antoine had long passed the + meridian of life. The tree was in its youth. It no longer stood in an + isolated garden; for pretentious brick and stucco houses had clustered + about Antoine’s cottage. They looked down scowling on the humble thatched + roof. The city was edging up, trying to crowd him off his land. But he + clung to it like lichen and refused to sell. + </p> + <p> + Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps, and he laughed at them. Sometimes + he was hungry, and cold, and thinly clad; but he laughed none the less. + </p> + <p> + “Get thee behind me, Satan!” said the old priest’s smile. + </p> + <p> + Père Antoine was very old now, scarcely able to walk; but he could sit + under the pliant, caressing leaves of his palm, loving it like an Arab; + and there he sat till the grimmest of speculators came to him. But even in + death Père Antoine was faithful to his trust. + </p> + <p> + The owner of that land loses it if he harm the date-tree. + </p> + <p> + And there it stands in the narrow, dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy + stranger, an exquisite foreign lady whose grace is a joy to the eye, the + incense of whose breath makes the air enamored. May the hand wither that + touches her ungently! + </p> + <p> + “<i>Because it grew from the heart of little Anglice</i>,” said Miss + Blondeau tenderly. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg’s Père Antoine’s Date-Palm, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE’S DATE-PALM *** + +***** This file should be named 23361-h.htm or 23361-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23361/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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