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HTML version by Al Haines. + + + + + + + + + + TWICE TOLD TALES + + EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD + + By Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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!" + +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." + +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. + +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! + +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. + +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? + +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!" + +"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!" + +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. 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