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+Title: The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+                         TWICE TOLD TALES
+
+                      THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+[This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlap's
+History of the Arts of Design,--a most entertaining book to the general
+reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think, to the artist,]
+
+"But this painter!" cried Walter Ludlow, with animation.  "He not only
+excels in his peculiar art, but possesses vast acquirements in all other
+learning and science.  He talks Hebrew with Dr. Mather, and gives
+lectures in anatomy to Dr. Boylston.  In a word, he will meet the best
+instructed man among us, on his own ground.  Moreover, he is a polished
+gentleman,--a citizen of the world,--yes, a true cosmopolite; for he will
+speak like a native of each clime and country on the globe, except our
+own forests, whither he is now going.  Nor is all this what I most admire
+in him."
+
+"Indeed!" said Elinor, who had listened with a woman's interest to the
+description of such a man.  "Yet this is admirable enough."
+
+"Surely it is," replied her lover, "but far less so than his natural gift
+of adapting himself to every variety of character, insomuch that all men
+--and all women too, Elinor--shall find a mirror of themselves in this
+wonderful painter.  But the greatest wonder is yet to be told."
+
+"Nay, if he have more wonderful attributes than these," said Elinor,
+laughing, "Boston is a perilous abode for the poor gentleman.  Are you
+telling one of a painter, or a wizard?"
+
+"In truth," answered he, "that question might be asked much more
+seriously than you suppose.  They say that he paints not merely a man's
+features, but his mind and heart.  He catches the secret sentiments and
+passions, and throws them upon the canvas, like sunshine,--or perhaps, in
+the portraits of dark-souled men, like a gleans of infernal fire.  It is
+an awful gift," added Walter, lowering his voice from its tone of
+enthusiasm.  "I shall be almost afraid to sit to him."
+
+"Walter, are you in earnest?" exclaimed Elinor.
+
+"For Heaven's sake, dearest Elinor, do not let him paint the look which
+you now wear," said her lover, smiling, though rather perplexed.  "There:
+it is passing away now, but when you spoke, you seemed frightened to
+death, and very sad besides.  What were you thinking of?"
+
+"Nothing, nothing," answered Elinor, hastily.  "You paint my face with
+your own fantasies.  Well, come for me to-morrow, and we will visit this
+wonderful artist."
+
+But when the young man had departed, it cannot be denied that a
+remarkable expression was again visible on the fair and youthful face of
+his mistress.  It was a sad and anxious look, little in accordance with
+what should have been the feelings of a maiden on the eve of wedlock.
+Yet Walter Ludlow was the chosen of her heart.
+
+"A look!" said Elinor to herself.  "No wonder that it startled him, if it
+expressed what I sometimes feel.  I know, by my own experience, how
+frightful a look may be.  But it was all fancy.  I thought nothing of it
+at the time,--I have seen nothing of it since,--I did but dream it."
+
+And she busied herself about the embroidery of a ruff, in which she meant
+that her portrait should be taken.
+
+The painter, of whom they had been speaking, was not one of those native
+artists, who, at a later period than this, borrowed their colors from the
+Indians, and manufactured their pencils of the furs of wild beasts.
+Perhaps, if he could have revoked his life and prearranged his destiny,
+he might have chosen to belong to that school without a master, in the
+hope of being at least original, since there were no works of art to
+imitate, nor rules to follow.  But he had been born and educated in
+Europe.  People said, that he had studied the grandeur or beauty of
+conception, and every touch of the master hand, in all the most famous
+pictures, in cabinets and galleries, and on the walls of churches, till
+there was nothing more for his powerful mind to learn.
+
+Art could add nothing to its lessons, but Nature might. He had therefore
+visited a world, whither none of his professional brethren had preceded
+him, to feast his eyes on visible images, that were noble and
+picturesque, yet had never been transferred to canvas.  America was too
+poor to afford other temptations to an artist of eminence, though many of
+the colonial gentry, on the painter's arrival, had expressed a wish to
+transmit their lineaments to posterity, by means of his skill.  Whenever
+such proposals were made, he fixed his piercing eyes on the applicant,
+and seemed to look him through and through.  If he beheld only a sleek
+and comfortable visage, though there were a gold-laced coat to adorn the
+picture, and golden guineas to pay for it, he civilly rejected the task
+and the reward.  But if the face were the index of anything uncommon, in
+thought, sentiment, or experience; or if he met a beggar in the street,
+with a white beard and a furrowed brow; or if sometimes a child happened
+to look up and smile; he would exhaust all the art on them, that he
+denied to wealth.
+
+Pictorial skill being so rare in the colonies, the painter became an
+object of general curiosity.  If few or none could appreciate the
+technical merit of his productions, yet there were points in regard to
+which the opinion of the crowd was as valuable as the refined judgment of
+the amateur.  He watched the effect that each picture produced on such
+untutored beholders, and derived profit from their remarks, while they
+would as soon have thought of instructing Nature herself, as him who
+seemed to rival her.  Their admiration, it must be owned, was tinctured
+with the prejudices of the age and country.  Some deemed it an offence
+against the Mosaic law, and even a presumptuous mockery of the Creator,
+to bring into existence such lively images of his creatures.  Others,
+frightened at the art which could raise phantoms at will, and keep the
+form of the dead among the living, were inclined to consider the painter
+as a magician, or perhaps the famous Black Man, of old witch times,
+plotting mischief in a new guise.  These foolish fancies were more than
+half believed among the mob.  Even in superior circles, his character was
+invested with a vague awe, partly rising like smoke-wreaths from the
+popular superstitious, but chiefly caused by the varied knowledge and
+talents which he made subservient to his profession.
+
+Being on the eve of marriage, Walter Ludlow and Elinor were eager to
+obtain their portraits, as the first of what, they doubtless hoped, would
+be a long series of family pictures.  The day after the conversation
+above recorded, they visited the painter's rooms.  A servant ushered them
+into an apartment, where, though the artist himself was not visible,
+there were personages whom they could hardly forbear greeting with
+reverence.  They knew, indeed, that the whole assembly were but pictures,
+yet felt it impossible to separate the idea of life and intellect from
+such striking counterfeits.  Several of the portraits were known to them,
+either as distinguished characters of the day, or their private
+acquaintances.  There was Governor Burnett, looking as if he had just
+received an undutiful communication from the House of Representatives,
+and were inditing a most sharp response.  Mr. Cooke hung beside the ruler
+whom he opposed, sturdy, and somewhat puritanical, as befitted a popular
+leader.  The ancient lady of Sir William Phipps eyed them from the wall,
+in ruff and farthingale, an imperious old dame, not unsuspected of
+witchcraft.  John Winslow, then a very young man, wore the expression of
+warlike enterprise, which long afterwards made him a distinguished
+general.  Their personal friends were recognized at a glance.  In most of
+the pictures, the whole mind and character were brought out on the
+countenance, and concentrated into a single look, so that, to speak
+paradoxically, the originals hardly resembled themselves so strikingly as
+the portraits did.
+
+Among these modern worthies, there were two old bearded saints, who had
+almost vanished into the darkening canvas.  There was also a pale, but
+unfaded Madonna, who had perhaps been worshipped in Rome, and now
+regarded the lovers with such a mild and holy look, that they longed to
+worship too.
+
+"How singular a thought," observed Walter Ludlow, "that this beautiful
+face has been beautiful for above two hundred years!  O, if all beauty
+would endure so well!  Do you not envy her, Elinor?"
+
+"If earth were heaven, I might," she replied.  "But where all things
+fade, how miserable to be the one that could not fade!"
+
+"This dark old St. Peter has a fierce and ugly scowl, saint though he
+be," continued Walter.  "He troubles me.  But the Virgin looks kindly at
+us."
+
+"Yes; but very sorrowfully, methinks," said Elinor.
+
+The easel stood beneath these three old pictures, sustaining one that had
+been recently commenced.  After a little inspection, they began to
+recognize the features of their own minister, the Rev. Dr. Colman,
+growing into shape and life, as it were, out of a cloud.
+
+"Kind old man!" exclaimed Elinor.  "He gazes at me, as if he were about
+to utter a word of paternal advice."
+
+"And at me," said Walter, "as if he were about to shake his head and
+rebuke me for some suspected iniquity.  But so does the original.  I
+shall never feel quite comfortable under his eye, till we stand before
+him to be married."
+
+They now heard a footstep on the floor, and turning, beheld the painter,
+who had been some moments in the room, and had listened to a few of their
+remarks.  He was a middle-aged man, with a countenance well worthy of his
+own pencil.  Indeed, by the picturesque, though careless arrangement of
+his rich dress, and, perhaps, because his soul dwelt always among painted
+shapes, he looked somewhat like a portrait himself.  His visitors were
+sensible of a kindred between the artist and his works, and felt as if
+one of the pictures had stepped from the canvas to salute them.
+
+Walter Ludlow, who was slightly known to the painter, explained the
+object of their visit.  While he spoke, a sunbeam was falling athwart his
+figure and Elinor's, with so happy an effect, that they also seemed
+living pictures of youth and beauty, gladdened by bright fortune.  The
+artist was evidently struck.
+
+"My easel is occupied for several ensuing days, and my stay in Boston
+must be brief," said he, thoughtfully; then, after an observant glance,
+he added, "but your wishes shall be gratified, though I disappoint the
+Chief Justice and Madam Oliver.  I must not lose this opportunity, for
+the sake of painting a few ells of broadcloth and brocade."
+
+The painter expressed a desire to introduce both their portraits into one
+picture, and represent them engaged in some appropriate action.  This
+plan would have delighted the lovers, but was necessarily rejected,
+because so large a space of canvas would have been unfit for the room
+which it was intended to decorate.  Two half-length portraits were
+therefore fixed upon.  After they had taken leave, Walter Ludlow asked
+Elinor, with a smile, whether she knew what an influence over their fates
+the painter was about to acquire.
+
+"The old women of Boston affirm," continued he, "that after he has once
+got possession of a person's face and figure, he may paint him in any act
+or situation whatever,--and the picture will be prophetic.  Do you
+believe it?"
+
+"Not quite," said Elinor, smiling.  "Yet if he has such magic, there is
+something so gentle in his manner, that I am sure he will use it well."
+
+It was the painter's choice to proceed with both the portraits at the
+same time, assigning as a reason, in the mystical language which he
+sometimes used, that the faces threw light upon each other.  Accordingly,
+he gave now a touch to Walter, and now to Elinor, and the features of one
+and the other began to start forth so vividly, that it appeared as if his
+triumphant art would actually disengage them from the canvas.  Amid the
+rich light and deep shade, they beheld their phantom selves.  But, though
+the likeness promised to be perfect, they were not quite satisfied with
+the expression; it seemed more vague than in most of the painter's works.
+He, however, was satisfied with the prospect of success, and being much
+interested in the lovers, employed his leisure moments, unknown to them,
+in making a crayon sketch of their two figures.  During their sittings,
+he engaged them in conversation, and kindled up their faces with
+characteristic traits, which, though continually varying, it was his
+purpose to combine and fix.  At length he announced, that at their next
+visit both the portraits would be ready for delivery.
+
+"If my pencil will but be true to my conception, in the few last touches
+which I meditate," observed he, "these two pictures will be my very best
+performances.  Seldom, indeed, has an artist such subjects."
+
+While speaking, he still bent his penetrative eye upon them, nor withdrew
+it till they had reached the bottom of the stairs.
+
+Nothing, in the whole circle of human vanities, takes stronger hold of
+the imagination, than this affair of having a portrait painted.  Yet why
+should it be so?  The looking-glass, the polished globes of the andirons,
+the mirror-like water, and all other reflecting surfaces, continually
+present us with portraits, or rather ghosts, of ourselves, which we
+glance at, and straightway forget them.  But we forget them, only because
+they vanish.  It is the idea of duration--of earthly immortality--that
+gives such a mysterious interest to our own portraits.  Walter and Elinor
+were not insensible to this feeling, and hastened to the painter's room,
+punctually at the appointed hour, to meet those pictured shapes, which
+were to be their representatives with posterity.  The sunshine flashed
+after them into the apartment, but left it somewhat gloomy, as they
+closed the door.
+
+Their eyes were immediately attracted to their portraits, which rested
+against the farthest wall of the room.  At the first glance, through the
+dim light and the distance, seeing themselves in precisely their natural
+attitudes, and with all the air that they recognized so well, they
+uttered a simultaneous exclamation of delight.
+
+"There we stand," cried Walter, "enthusiastically, fixed in sunshine
+forever!  No dark passions can gather on our faces!"
+
+"No," said Elinor, more calmly; "no dreary change can sadden us."
+
+This was said while they were approaching, and had yet gained only an
+imperfect view of the pictures.  The painter, after saluting them, busied
+himself at a table in completing a crayon sketch, leaving his visitors to
+form their own judgment as to his perfected labors.  At intervals, he
+sent a glance from beneath his deep eyebrows, watching their countenances
+in profile, with his pencil suspended over the sketch.  They had now
+stood some moments, each in front of the other's picture, contemplating
+it with entranced attention, but without uttering a word.  At length,
+Walter stepped forward,--then back,--viewing Elinor's portrait in various
+lights, and finally spoke.
+
+"Is there not a change?" said he, in a doubtful and meditative tone.
+"Yes; the perception of it grows more vivid, the longer I look.  It is
+certainly the same picture that I saw yesterday; the dress,--the
+features,--all are the same; and yet something is altered."
+
+"Is then the picture less like than it was yesterday?" inquired the
+painter, now drawing near, with irrepressible interest.
+
+"The features are perfect, Elinor," answered Walter, "and, at the first
+glance, the expression seemed also hers.  But, I could fancy that the
+portrait has changed countenance, while I have been looking at it.  The
+eyes are fixed on mine with a strangely sad and anxious expression.  Nay,
+it is grief and terror!  Is this like Elinor?"
+
+"Compare the living face with the pictured one," said the painter.
+
+Walter glanced sidelong at his mistress, and started.  Motionless and
+absorbed--fascinated as it were--in contemplation of Walter's portrait,
+Elinor's face had assumed precisely the expression of which he had just
+been complaining.  Had she practised for whole hours before a mirror, she
+could not have caught the look so successfully.  Had the picture itself
+been a mirror, it could not have thrown back her present aspect, with
+stronger and more melancholy truth.  She appeared quite unconscious of
+the dialogue between the artist and her lover.
+
+"Elinor," exclaimed Walter, in amazement, "what change has come over
+you?"
+
+She did not hear him, nor desist from her fixed gaze, till he seized her
+hand, and thus attracted her notice; then, with a sudden tremor, she
+looked from the picture to the face of the original.
+
+"Do you see no change in your portrait?" asked she.
+
+"In mine?--None!" replied Walter, examining it.  "But let me see!  Yes;
+there is a slight change,--an improvement, I think, in the picture,
+though none in the likeness.  It has a livelier expression than
+yesterday, as if some bright thought were flashing from the eyes, and
+about to be uttered from the lips.  Now that I have caught the look,
+it becomes very decided."
+
+While he was intent on these observations, Elinor turned to the painter.
+She regarded him with grief and awe, and felt that he repaid her with
+sympathy and commiseration, though wherefore she could but vaguely guess.
+
+"That look!" whispered she, and shuddered.  "How came it there?"
+
+"Madam," said the painter, sadly, taking her hand, and leading her
+apart, "in both these pictures, I have painted what I saw.  The artist--
+the true artist--must look beneath the exterior.  It is his gift--his
+proudest but often a melancholy one--to see the inmost soul, and by a
+power indefinable even to himself to make it glow or darken upon the
+canvas, in glances that express the thought and sentiment of years.
+Would that I might convince myself of error in the present instance!"
+
+They had now approached the table, on which were heads in chalk, hands
+almost as expressive as ordinary faces, ivied church-towers, thatched
+cottages, old thunder-stricken trees, Oriental and antique costume, and
+all such picturesque vagaries of an artist's idle moments.  Turning them
+over, with seeming carelessness, a crayon sketch of two figures was
+disclosed.
+
+"If I have failed," continued he, "if your heart does not see itself
+reflected in your own portrait, if you have no secret cause to trust my
+delineation of the other, it is not yet too late to alter them.  I might
+change the action of these figures too.  But would it influence the
+event?"
+
+He directed her notice to the sketch.  A thrill ran through Elinor's
+frame; a shriek was upon her lips; but she stifled it, with the self-
+command that becomes habitual to all, who hide thoughts of fear and
+anguish within their bosoms.  Turning from the table, she perceived that
+Walter had advanced near enough to have seen the sketch, though she could
+not determine whether it had caught his eye.
+
+"We will not have the pictures altered," said she, hastily.  "If mine is
+sad, I shall but look the gayer for the contrast."
+
+"Be it so," answered the painter, bowing.  "May your griefs be such
+fanciful ones, that only your picture may mourn for them!  For your
+joys,--may they be true and deep, and paint themselves upon this lovely
+face till it quite belie my art!"
+
+After the marriage of Walter and Elinor, the pictures formed the two most
+splendid ornaments of their abode.  They hung side by side, separated by
+a narrow panel, appearing to eye each other constantly, yet always
+returning the gaze of the spectator.  Travelled gentlemen, who professed
+a knowledge of such subjects, reckoned these among the most admirable
+specimens of modern portraiture; while common observers compared them
+with the originals, feature by feature, and were rapturous in praise of
+the likeness.  But it was on a third class--neither travelled
+connoisseurs nor common observers, but people of natural sensibility--
+that the pictures wrought their strongest effect.  Such persons might
+gaze carelessly at first, but, becoming interested, would return day
+after day, and study these painted faces like the pages of a mystic
+volume.  Walter Ludlow's portrait attracted their earliest notice.  In
+the absence of himself and his bride, they sometimes disputed as to the
+expression which the painter had intended to throw upon the features; all
+agreeing that there was a look of earnest import, though no two explained
+it alike.  There was less diversity of opinion in regard to Elinor's
+picture.  They differed, indeed, in their attempts to estimate the nature
+and depth of the gloom that dwelt upon her face, but agreed that it was
+gloom, and alien from the natural temperament of their youthful friend.
+A certain fanciful person announced, as the result of much scrutiny, that
+both these pictures were parts of one design, and that the melancholy
+strength of feeling, in Elinor's countenance, bore reference to the more
+vivid emotion, or, as he termed it, the wild passion, in that of Walter.
+Though unskilled in the art, he even began a sketch, in which the action
+of the two figures was to correspond with their mutual expression.
+
+It was whispered among friends, that, day by day, Elinor's face was
+assuming a deeper shade of pensiveness, which threatened soon to render
+her too true a counterpart of her melancholy picture.  Walter, on the
+other hand, instead of acquiring the vivid look which the painter had
+given him on the canvas, became reserved and downcast, with no outward
+flashes of emotion, however it might be smouldering within.  In course of
+time, Elinor hung a gorgeous curtain of purple silk, wrought with
+flowers, and fringed with heavy golden tassels, before the pictures,
+under pretence that the dust would tarnish their lines, or the light din
+them.  It was enough.  Her visitors felt, that the massive folds of the
+silk must never be withdrawn, nor the portraits mentioned in her
+presence.
+
+Time wore on; and the painter came again.  He had been far enough to the
+north to see the silver cascade of the Crystal Hills, and to look over
+the vast round of cloud and forest, from the summit of New England's
+loftiest mountain.  But he did not profane that scene by the mockery of
+his art.  He had also lain in a canoe on the bosom of Lake George, making
+his soul the mirror of its loveliness and grandeur, till not a picture in
+the Vatican was more vivid than his recollection.  He had gone with the
+Indian hunters to Niagara, and there, again, had flung his hopeless
+pencil down the precipice, feeling that he could as soon paint the roar,
+as aught else that goes to make up the wondrous cataract.  In truth, it
+was seldom his impulse to copy natural scenery, except as a framework for
+the delineations of the human form and face, instinct with thought,
+passion, or suffering.  With store of such, his adventurous ramble had
+enriched him; the stern dignity of Indian chiefs; the dusky loveliness of
+Indian girls; the domestic life of wigwams; the stealthy march; the
+battle beneath gloomy pine-trees; the frontier fortress with its
+garrison; the anomaly of the old French partisan, bred in courts, but
+grown gray in shaggy deserts;--such were the scenes and portraits that he
+had sketched.  The glow of perilous moments; flashes of wild feeling;
+struggles of fierce power; love, hate, grief, frenzy; in a word, all the
+worn-out heart of the old earth had been revealed to him under a new
+form.  His portfolio was filled with graphic illustrations of the volume
+of his memory, which genius would transmute into its own substance, and
+imbue with immortality.  He felt that the deep wisdom in his art, which
+he had sought so far, was found.
+
+But, amid stern or lovely nature, in the perils of the forest, or its
+overwhelming peacefulness, still there had been two phantoms, the
+companions of his way.  Like all other men around whom an engrossing
+purpose wreathes itself, he was insulated from the mass of human kind.
+He had no aim,--no pleasure,--no sympathies,--but what were ultimately
+connected with his art.
+
+Though gentle in manner, and upright in intent and fiction, he did not
+possess kindly feelings; his heart was cold; no living creature could be
+brought near enough to keep him warm.  For these two beings, however, he
+had felt, in its greatest intensity, the sort of interest which always
+allied him to the subjects of his pencil.  He had pried into their souls
+with his keenest insight, and pictured the result upon their features,
+with his utmost skill, so as barely to fall short of that standard which
+no genius ever reached, his own severe conception.  He had caught from
+the duskiness of the future--at least, so he fancied--a fearful secret,
+and had obscurely revealed it on the portraits.  So much of himself--of
+his imagination and all other powers--had been lavished on the study of
+Walter and Elinor, that he almost regarded them as creations of his own,
+like the thousands with which he had peopled the realms of Picture.
+Therefore did they flit through the twilight of the woods, hover on the
+mist of waterfalls, look forth from the mirror of the lake, nor melt away
+in the noontide sun.  They haunted his pictorial fancy, not as mockeries
+of life, nor pale goblins of the dead, but in the guise of portraits,
+each with the unalterable expression which his magic had evoked from the
+caverns of the soul.  He could not recross the Atlantic, till he had
+again beheld the originals of those airy pictures.
+
+"O glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the
+street.  "Thou art the image of the Creator's own.  The innumerable
+forms, that wander in nothingness, start into being at thy beck.  The
+dead live again.  Thou recallest them to their old scenes, and givest
+their gray shadows the lustre of a better life, at once earthly and
+immortal.  Thou snatchest back the fleeting moments of History.  With
+thee, there is no Past; for, at thy touch, all that is great becomes
+forever present; and illustrious men live through long ages, in the
+visible performance of the very deeds which made thorn what they are.  O
+potent Art! as thou bringest the faintly revealed Past to stand in that
+narrow strip of sunlight, which we call Now, canst thou summon the
+shrouded Future to meet her there?  Have I not achieved it?  Am I not thy
+Prophet?"
+
+Thus, with a proud, yet melancholy fervor, did he almost cry aloud, as he
+passed through the toilsome street, among people that knew not of his
+reveries, nor could understand nor care for them.  It is not good for man
+to cherish a solitary ambition.  Unless there be those around him, by
+whose example be may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes
+will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a
+madman.  Reading other bosoms, with an acuteness almost preternatural,
+the painter failed to see the disorder of his own.
+
+"And this should be the house," said he, looking up and down the front,
+before he knocked.  "Heaven help my brains!  That picture!  Methinks it
+will never vanish.  Whether I look at the windows or the door, there it
+is framed within them, painted strongly, and glowing in the richest
+tints--the faces of the portraits--the figures and action of the sketch!"
+
+He knocked.
+
+"The Portraits!  Are they within?" inquired he, of the domestic; then
+recollecting himself,--"your master and mistress!  Are they at home?"
+
+"They are, sir," said the servant, adding, as he noticed that picturesque
+aspect of which the painter could never divest himself, "and the
+Portraits too!"
+
+The guest was admitted into a parlor, communicating by a central door
+with an interior room of the same size.  As the first apartment was
+empty, he passed to the entrance of the second, within which his eyes
+were greeted by those living personages, as well as their pictured
+representatives, who had long been the objects of so singular an
+interest.  He involuntarily paused on the threshold.
+
+They had not perceived his approach.  Walter and Elinor were standing
+before the portraits, whence the former had just flung back the rich and
+voluminous folds of the silken curtain, holding its golden tassel with
+one hand, while the other grasped that of his bride.  The pictures,
+concealed for months, gleamed forth again in undiminished splendor,
+appearing to throw a sombre light across the room, rather than to be
+disclosed by a borrowed radiance.  That of Elinor had been almost
+prophetic.  A pensiveness, and next a gentle sorrow, had successively
+dwelt upon her countenance, deepening, with the lapse of time, into a
+quiet anguish.  A mixture of affright would now have made it the very
+expression of the portrait.  Walter's face was moody and dull, or
+animated only by fitful flashes, which left a heavier darkness for their
+momentary illumination.  He looked from Elinor to her portrait, and
+thence to his own, in the contemplation of which he finally stood
+absorbed.
+
+The painter seemed to hear the step of Destiny approaching behind him, on
+its progress towards its victims.  A strange thought darted into his
+mind.  Was not his own the form in which that destiny had embodied
+itself, and he a chief agent of the coming evil which he had
+foreshadowed?
+
+Still, Walter remained silent before the picture, communing with it, as
+with his own heart, and abandoning himself to the spell of evil
+influence, that the painter had cast upon the features.  Gradually his
+eyes kindled; while as Elinor watched the increasing wildness of his
+face, her own assumed a look of terror; and when at last he turned upon
+her, the resemblance of both to their portraits was complete.
+
+"Our fate is upon us!" howled Walter.--"Die!"
+
+Drawing a knife, he sustained her, as she was sinking to the ground, and
+aimed it at her bosom.  In the action and in the look and attitude of
+each, the painter beheld the figures of his sketch.  The picture, with
+all its tremendous coloring, was finished.
+
+"Hold, madman!" cried he, sternly.
+
+He had advanced from the door, and interposed himself between the
+wretched beings, with the same sense of power to regulate their destiny,
+as to alter a scene upon the canvas.  He stood like a magician,
+controlling the phantoms which he had evoked.
+
+"What!" muttered Walter Ludlow, as he relapsed from fierce excitement
+into silent gloom.  "Does Fate impede its own decree?"
+
+"Wretched lady!" said the painter.  "Did I not warn you?"
+
+"You did," replied Elinor, calmly, as her terror gave place to the quiet
+grief which it had disturbed.  "But--I loved him!"
+
+Is there not a deep moral in the tale?  Could the result of one, or all
+our deeds, be shadowed forth and set before us, some would call it Fate,
+and hurry onward, others be swept along by their passionate desires, and
+none be turned aside by the PROPHETIC PICTURES.
+
+
+
+
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