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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: Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales") + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: November, 2005 [EBook #9219] +First Posted: August 23, 2003 +Last Updated: April 2, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + TWICE TOLD TALES<br /> + </h3> + <h2> + EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD<br /> + </h2> + <h3> + By Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /> + </h3> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p> + There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at + a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely + obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces + which time has snatched away. Some old people, especially women, so + age-worn and woeful are they, seem never to have been young and gay. It is + easier to conceive that such gloomy phantoms were sent into the world as + withered and decrepit as we behold them now, with sympathies only for pain + and grief, to watch at death-beds, and weep at funerals. Even the sable + garments of their widowhood appear essential to their existence; all their + attributes combine to render them darksome shadows, creeping strangely + amid the sunshine of human life. Yet it is no unprofitable task, to take + one of these doleful creatures, and set fancy resolutely at work to + brighten the dim eye, and darken the silvery locks, and paint the ashen + cheek with rose-color, and repair the shrunken and crazy form, till a dewy + maiden shall be seen in the old matron's elbow-chair. The miracle being + wrought, then let the years roll back again, each sadder than the last, + and the whole weight of age and sorrow settle down upon the youthful + figure. + </p> + <p> + Wrinkles and furrows, the handwriting of Time, may thus be deciphered, and + found to contain deep lessons of thought and feeling. Such profit might be + derived, by a skilful observer, from my much-respected friend, the Widow + Toothaker, a nurse of great repute, who has breathed the atmosphere of + sick-chambers and dying breaths these forty years. + </p> + <p> + See! she sits cowering over her lonesome hearth, with her gown and upper + petticoat drawn upward, gathering thriftily into her person the whole + warmth of the fire, which, now at nightfall, begins to dissipate the + autumnal chill of her chamber. The blaze quivers capriciously in front, + alternately glimmering into the deepest chasms of her wrinkled visage, and + then permitting a ghostly dimness to mar the outlines of her venerable + figure. And Nurse Toothaker holds a teaspoon in her right hand, with which + to stir up the contents of a tumbler in her left, whence steams a vapory + fragrance, abhorred of temperance societies. Now she sips,—now + stirs,—now sips again. Her sad old heart has need to be revived by + the rich infusion of Geneva, which is mixed half and half with hot water, + in the tumbler. All day long she has been sitting by a death-pillow, and + quitted it for her home, only when the spirit of her patient left the clay + and went homeward too. But now are her melancholy meditations cheered, and + her torpid blood warmed, and her shoulders lightened of at least twenty + ponderous years, by a draught from the true Fountain of Youth, in a + case-bottle. It is strange that men should deem that fount a fable when + its liquor fills more bottles than the Congress-water! Sip it again, good + nurse, and see whether a second draught will not take off another score of + years, and perhaps ten more, and show us, in your high-backed chair, the + blooming damsel who plighted troths with Edward Fane. Get you gone, Age + and Widowhood! Come back, unwedded Youth! But, alas! the charm will not + work. In spite of fancy's most potent spell, I can see only an old dame + cowering over the fire, a picture of decay and desolation, while the + November blast roars at her in the chimney, and fitful showers rush + suddenly against the window. + </p> + <p> + Yet there was a time when Rose Grafton—such was the pretty maiden + name of Nurse Toothaker—possessed beauty that would have gladdened + this dim and dismal chamber as with sunshine. It won for her the heart of + Edward Fane, who has since made so great a figure in the world, and is now + a grand old gentleman, with powdered hair, and as gouty as a lord. These + early lovers thought to have walked hand in hand through life. They had + wept together for Edward's little sister Mary, whom Rose tended in her + sickness, partly because she was the sweetest child that ever lived or + died, but more for love of him. She was but three years old. Being such an + infant, Death could not embody his terrors in her little corpse; nor did + Rose fear to touch the dead child's brow, though chill, as she curled the + silken hair around it, nor to take her tiny hand, and clasp a flower + within its fingers. Afterward, when she looked through the pane of glass + in the coffin-lid, and beheld Mary's face, it seemed not so much like + death, or life, as like a waxwork, wrought into the perfect image of a + child asleep, and dreaming of its mother's smile. Rose thought her too + fair a thing to be hidden in the grave, and wondered that an angel did not + snatch up little Mary's coffin, and bear the slumbering babe to heaven, + and bid her wake immortal. But when the sods were laid on little Mary, the + heart of Rose was troubled. She shuddered at the fantasy, that, in + grasping the child's cold fingers, her virgin hand had exchanged a first + greeting with mortality, and could never lose the earthly taint. How many + a greeting since! But as yet, she was a fair young girl, with the dewdrops + of fresh feeling in her bosom; and instead of Rose, which seemed too + mature a name for her half-opened beauty, her lover called her Rosebud. + </p> + <p> + The rosebud was destined never to bloom for Edward Fane. His mother was a + rich and haughty dame, with all the aristocratic prejudices of colonial + times. She scorned Rose Grafton's humble parentage, and caused her son to + break his faith, though, had she let him choose, he would have prized his + Rosebud above the richest diamond. The lovers parted, and have seldom met + again. Both may have visited the same mansions, but not at the same time; + for one was bidden to the festal hall, and the other to the sick-chamber; + he was the guest of Pleasure and Prosperity, and she of Anguish. Rose, + after their separation, was long secluded within the dwelling of Mr. + Toothaker, whom she married with the revengeful hope of breaking her false + lover's heart. She went to her bridegroom's arms with bitterer tears, they + say, than young girls ought to shed at the threshold of the bridal + chamber. Yet, though her husband's head was getting gray, and his heart + had been chilled with an autumnal frost, Rose soon began to love him, and + wondered at her own conjugal affection. He was all she had to love; there + were no children. + </p> + <p> + In a year or two, poor Mr. Toothaker was visited with a wearisome + infirmity which settled in his joints, and made him weaker than a child. + He crept forth about his business, and came home at dinner-time and + eventide, not with the manly tread that gladdens a wife's heart, but + slowly, feebly, jotting down each dull footstep with a melancholy dub of + his staff. We must pardon his pretty wife, if she sometimes blushed to own + him. Her visitors, when they heard him coming, looked for the appearance + of some old, old man; but he dragged his nerveless limbs into the parlor,—and + there was Mr. Toothaker! The disease increasing, he never went into the + sunshine, save with a staff in his right hand and his left on his wife's + shoulder, bearing heavily downward, like a dead man's hand. Thus, a + slender woman, still looking maiden-like, she supported his tall, + broad-chested frame along the pathway of their little garden, and plucked + the roses for her gray-haired husband, and spoke soothingly, as to an + infant. His mind was palsied with his body; its utmost energy was + peevishness. In a few months more, she helped him up the staircase, with a + pause at every step, and a longer one upon the landingplace, and a heavy + glance behind, as he crossed the threshold of his chamber. He knew, poor + man, that the precincts of those four walls would thenceforth be his + world,—his world, his home, his tomb,—at once a dwelling and a + burial-place, till he were borne to a darker and a narrower one. But Rose + was with him in the tomb. He leaned upon her, in his daily passage from + the bed to the chair by the fireside, and back again from the weary chair + to the joyless bed,—his bed and hers,—their marriage-bed; till + even this short journey ceased, and his head lay all day upon the pillow, + and hers all night beside it. How long poor Mr. Toothaker was kept in + misery! Death seemed to draw near the door, and often to lift the latch, + and sometimes to thrust his ugly skull into the chamber, nodding to Rose, + and pointing at her husband, but still delayed to enter. "This bedridden + wretch cannot escape me!" quoth Death. "I will go forth, and run a race + with the swift, and fight a battle with the strong, and come back for + Toothaker at my leisure!" O, when the deliverer came so near in the dull + anguish of her worn-out sympathies, did she never long to cry, "Death, + come in!" + </p> + <p> + But, no! We have no right to ascribe such a wish to our friend Rose. She + never failed in a wife's duty to her poor sick husband. She murmured not, + though a glimpse of the sunny sky was as strange to her as him, nor + answered peevishly, though his complaining accents roused her from her + sweetest dream, only to share his wretchedness. He knew her faith, yet + nourished a cankered jealousy; and when the slow disease had chilled all + his heart, save one lukewarm spot, which Death's frozen fingers were + searching for, his last words were, "What would my Rose have done for her + first love, if she has been so true and kind to a sick old man like me!" + And then his poor soul crept away, and left the body lifeless, though + hardly more so than for years before, and Rose a widow, though in truth it + was the wedding-night that widowed her. She felt glad, it must be owned, + when Mr. Toothaker was buried, because his corpse had retained such a + likeness to the man half alive, that she hearkened for the sad murmur of + his voice, bidding her shift his pillow. But all through the next winter, + though the grave had held him many a month, she fancied him calling from + that cold bed, "Rose! Rose! come put a blanket on my feet." + </p> + <p> + So now the Rosebud was the Widow Toothaker. Her troubles had come early, + and, tedious as they seemed, had passed before all her bloom was fled. She + was still fair enough to captivate a bachelor, or, with a widow's cheerful + gravity, she might have won a widower, stealing into his heart in the very + guise of his dead wife. But the Widow Toothaker had no such projects. By + her watchings and continual cares, her heart had become knit to her first + husband with a constancy which changed its very nature, and made her love + him for his infirmities, and infirmity for his sake. When the palsied old + man was gone, even her early lover could not have supplied his place. She + had dwelt in a sick-chamber, and been the companion of a half-dead wretch, + till she could scarcely breathe in a free air, and felt ill at ease with + the healthy and the happy. She missed the fragrance of the doctor's stuff. + She walked the chamber with a noiseless footfall. If visitors came in, she + spoke in soft and soothing accents, and was startled and shocked by their + loud voices. Often in the lonesome evening, she looked timorously from the + fireside to the bed, with almost a hope of recognizing a ghastly face upon + the pillow. Then went her thoughts sadly to her husband's grave. If one + impatient throb bad wronged him in his lifetime,—if she had secretly + repined, because her buoyant youth was imprisoned with his torpid age,—if + ever, while slumbering beside him, a treacherous dream had admitted + another into her heart,—yet the sick man had been preparing a + revenge, which the dead now claimed. On his painful pillow, he had cast a + spell around her; his groans and misery had proved more captivating charms + than gayety and youthful grace; in his semblance, Disease itself had won + the Rosebud for a bride; nor could his death dissolve the nuptials. By + that indissoluble bond she had gained a home in every sick-chamber, and + nowhere else; there were her brethren and sisters; thither her husband + summoned her, with that voice which had seemed to issue from the grave of + Toothaker. At length she recognized her destiny. + </p> + <p> + We have beheld her as the maid, the wife, the widow; now we see her in a + separate and insulated character; she was, in all her attributes, Nurse + Toothaker. And Nurse Toothaker alone, with her own shrivelled lips, could + make known her experience in that capacity. What a history might she + record of the great sicknesses, in which she has gone hand in hand with + the exterminating angel! She remembers when the small-pox hoisted a red + banner on almost every house along the street. She has witnessed when the + typhus fever swept off a whole household, young and old, all but a lonely + mother, who vainly shrieked to follow her last loved one. Where would be + Death's triumph, if none lived to weep? She can speak of strange maladies + that have broken out, as if spontaneously, but were found to have been + imported from foreign lands, with rich silks and other merchandise, the + costliest portion of the cargo. And once, she recollects, the people died + of what was considered a new pestilence, till the doctors traced it to the + ancient grave of a young girl, who thus caused many deaths a hundred years + after her own burial. Strange that such black mischief should lurk in a + maiden's grave! She loves to tell how strong men fight with fiery fevers, + utterly refusing to give up their breath; and how consumptive virgins fade + out of the world, scarcely reluctant, as if their lovers were wooing them + to a far country. Tell us, thou fearful woman! tell us the death-secrets! + Fain would I search out the meaning of words, faintly gasped with + intermingled sobs, and broken sentences, half audibly spoken between earth + and the judgment-seat! + </p> + <p> + An awful woman! She is the patron saint of young physicians, and the bosom + friend of old ones. In the mansions where she enters, the inmates provide + themselves black garments; the coffin-maker follows her; and the bell + tolls as she comes away from the threshold. Death himself has met her at + so many a bedside, that he puts forth his bony hand to greet Nurse + Toothaker. + </p> + <p> + She is an awful woman! And, O, is it conceivable, that this handmaid of + human infirmity and affliction—so darkly stained, so thoroughly + imbued with all that is saddest in the doom of mortals—can ever + again be bright and gladsome, even though bathed in the sunshine of + eternity? By her long communion with woe, has she not forfeited her + inheritance of immortal joy? Does any germ of bliss survive within her? + </p> + <p> + Hark! an eager knocking at Nurse Toothaker's door. She starts from her + drowsy revery, sets aside the empty tumbler and teaspoon, and lights a + lamp at the dim embers of the fire. Rap, rap, rap! again; and she hurries + a-down the staircase, wondering which of her friends can be at death's + door now, since there is such an earnest messenger at Nurse Toothaker's. + Again the peal resounds, just as her hand is on the lock. "Be quick, Nurse + Toothaker!" cries a man on the doorstep; "old General Fane is taken with + the gout in his stomach, and has sent for you to watch by his death-bed. + Make haste, for there is no time to lose!" + </p> + <p> + "Fane! Edward Fane! And has he sent for me at last? I am ready! I will get + on my cloak and begone. So," adds the sable-gowned, ashen-visaged, + funereal old figure, "Edward Fane remembers his Rosebud!" + </p> + <p> + Our question is answered. There is a germ of bliss within her. Her + long-hoarded constancy—her memory of the bliss that was—remaining + amid the gloom of her after life, like a sweet-smelling flower in a + coffin, is a symbol that all maybe renewed. In some happier clime, the + Rosebud may revive again with all the dewdrops in its bosom. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice +Told Tales"), by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD *** + +***** This file should be named 9219-h.htm or 9219-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/1/9219/ + +Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. + +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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