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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Select Party, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Title: A Select Party
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Release Date: September 6, 2003 [eBook #9222]
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SELECT PARTY ***
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+
+A Select Party
+
+by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+
+The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the
+air, and invited a select number of distinguished personages to favor
+him with their presence. The mansion, though less splendid than many
+that have been situated in the same region, was nevertheless of a
+magnificence such as is seldom witnessed by those acquainted only with
+terrestrial architecture. Its strong foundations and massive walls were
+quarried out of a ledge of heavy and sombre clouds which had hung
+brooding over the earth, apparently as dense and ponderous as its own
+granite, throughout a whole autumnal day. Perceiving that the general
+effect was gloomy,—so that the airy castle looked like a feudal
+fortress, or a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our
+own times, rather than the home of pleasure and repose which he
+intended it to be,—the owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild
+the exterior from top to bottom. Fortunately, there was just then a
+flood of evening sunshine in the air. This being gathered up and poured
+abundantly upon the roof and walls, imbued them with a kind of solemn
+cheerfulness; while the cupolas and pinnacles were made to glitter with
+the purest gold, and all the hundred windows gleamed with a glad light,
+as if the edifice itself were rejoicing in its heart.
+
+And now, if the people of the lower world chanced to be looking upward
+out of the turmoil of their petty perplexities, they probably mistook
+the castle in the air for a heap of sunset clouds, to which the magic
+of light and shade had imparted the aspect of a fantastically
+constructed mansion. To such beholders it was unreal, because they
+lacked the imaginative faith. Had they been worthy to pass within its
+portal, they would have recognized the truth, that the dominions which
+the spirit conquers for itself among unrealities become a thousand
+times more real than the earth whereon they stamp their feet, saying,
+“This is solid and substantial; this may be called a fact.”
+
+At the appointed hour, the host stood in his great saloon to receive
+the company. It was a vast and noble room, the vaulted ceiling of which
+was supported by double rows of gigantic pillars that had been hewn
+entire out of masses of variegated clouds. So brilliantly were they
+polished, and so exquisitely wrought by the sculptor’s skill, as to
+resemble the finest specimens of emerald, porphyry, opal, and
+chrysolite, thus producing a delicate richness of effect which their
+immense size rendered not incompatible with grandeur. To each of these
+pillars a meteor was suspended. Thousands of these ethereal lustres are
+continually wandering about the firmament, burning out to waste, yet
+capable of imparting a useful radiance to any person who has the art of
+converting them to domestic purposes. As managed in the saloon, they
+are far more economical than ordinary lamplight. Such, however, was the
+intensity of their blaze that it had been found expedient to cover each
+meteor with a globe of evening mist, thereby muffling the too potent
+glow and soothing it into a mild and comfortable splendor. It was like
+the brilliancy of a powerful yet chastened imagination,—a light which
+seemed to hide whatever was unworthy to be noticed and give effect to
+every beautiful and noble attribute. The guests, therefore, as they
+advanced up the centre of the saloon, appeared to better advantage than
+ever before in their lives.
+
+The first that entered, with old-fashioned punctuality, was a venerable
+figure in the costume of bygone days, with his white hair flowing down
+over his shoulders and a reverend beard upon his breast. He leaned upon
+a staff, the tremulous stroke of which, as he set it carefully upon the
+floor, re-echoed through the saloon at every footstep. Recognizing at
+once this celebrated personage, whom it had cost him a vast deal of
+trouble and research to discover, the host advanced nearly three
+fourths of the distance down between the pillars to meet and welcome
+him.
+
+“Venerable sir,” said the Man of Fancy, bending to the floor, “the
+honor of this visit would never be forgotten were my term of existence
+to be as happily prolonged as your own.”
+
+The old gentleman received the compliment with gracious condescension.
+He then thrust up his spectacles over his forehead and appeared to take
+a critical survey of the saloon.
+
+“Never within my recollection,” observed he, “have I entered a more
+spacious and noble hall. But are you sure that it is built of solid
+materials and that the structure will be permanent?”
+
+“O, never fear, my venerable friend,” replied the host. “In reference
+to a lifetime like your own, it is true my castle may well be called a
+temporary edifice. But it will endure long enough to answer all the
+purposes for which it was erected.”
+
+But we forget that the reader has not yet been made acquainted with the
+guest. It was no other than that universally accredited character so
+constantly referred to in all seasons of intense cold or heat; he that,
+remembers the hot Sunday and the cold Friday; the witness of a past age
+whose negative reminiscences find their way into every newspaper, yet
+whose antiquated and dusky abode is so overshadowed by accumulated
+years and crowded back by modern edifices that none but the Man of
+Fancy could have discovered it; it was, in short, that twin brother of
+Time, and great-grandsire of mankind, and hand-and-glove associate of
+all forgotten men and things,—the Oldest Inhabitant. The host would
+willingly have drawn him into conversation, but succeeded only in
+eliciting a few remarks as to the oppressive atmosphere of this present
+summer evening compared with one which the guest had experienced about
+fourscore years ago. The old gentleman, in fact, was a good deal
+overcome by his journey among the clouds, which, to a frame so
+earth-incrusted by long continuance in a lower region, was unavoidably
+more fatiguing than to younger spirits. He was therefore conducted to
+an easy-chair, well cushioned and stuffed with vaporous softness, and
+left to take a little repose.
+
+The Man of Fancy now discerned another guest, who stood so quietly in
+the shadow of one of the pillars that he might easily have been
+overlooked.
+
+“My dear sir,” exclaimed the host, grasping him warmly by the hand,
+“allow me to greet you as the hero of the evening. Pray do not take it
+as an empty compliment; for, if there were not another guest in my
+castle, it would be entirely pervaded with your presence.”
+
+“I thank you,” answered the unpretending stranger; “but, though you
+happened to overlook me, I have not just arrived. I came very early;
+and, with your permission, shall remain after the rest of the company
+have retired.”
+
+And who does the reader imagine was this unobtrusive guest? It was the
+famous performer of acknowledged impossibilities,—a character of
+superhuman capacity and virtue, and, if his enemies are to be credited,
+of no less remarkable weaknesses and defects. With a generosity with
+which he alone sets us an example, we will glance merely at his nobler
+attributes. He it is, then, who prefers the interests of others to his
+own and a humble station to an exalted one. Careless of fashion,
+custom, the opinions of men, and the influence of the press, he
+assimilates his life to the standard of ideal rectitude, and thus
+proves himself the one independent citizen of our free country. In
+point of ability, many people declare him to be the only mathematician
+capable of squaring the circle; the only mechanic acquainted with the
+principle of perpetual motion; the only scientific philosopher who can
+compel water to run up hill; the only writer of the age whose genius is
+equal to the production of an epic poem; and, finally, so various are
+his accomplishments, the only professor of gymnastics who has succeeded
+in jumping down his own throat. With all these talents, however, he is
+so far from being considered a member of good society, that it is the
+severest censure of any fashionable assemblage to affirm that this
+remarkable individual was present. Public orators, lecturers, and
+theatrical performers particularly eschew his company. For especial
+reasons, we are not at liberty to disclose his name, and shall mention
+only one other trait,—a most singular phenomenon in natural
+philosophy,—that, when he happens to cast his eyes upon a
+looking-glass, he beholds Nobody reflected there!
+
+Several other guests now made their appearance; and among them,
+chattering with immense volubility, a brisk little gentleman of
+universal vogue in private society, and not unknown in the public
+journals under the title of Monsieur On-Dit. The name would seem to
+indicate a Frenchman; but, whatever be his country, he is thoroughly
+versed in all the languages of the day, and can express himself quite
+as much to the purpose in English as in any other tongue. No sooner
+were the ceremonies of salutation over than this talkative little
+person put his mouth to the host’s ear and whispered three secrets of
+state, an important piece of commercial intelligence, and a rich item
+of fashionable scandal. He then assured the Man of Fancy that he would
+not fail to circulate in the society of the lower world a minute
+description of this magnificent castle in the air and of the
+festivities at which he had the honor to be a guest. So saying,
+Monsieur On-Dit made his bow and hurried from one to another of the
+company, with all of whom he seemed to be acquainted and to possess
+some topic of interest or amusement for every individual. Coming at
+last to the Oldest Inhabitant, who was slumbering comfortably in the
+easy-chair, he applied his mouth to that venerable ear.
+
+“What do you say?” cried the old gentleman, starting from his nap and
+putting up his hand to serve the purpose of an ear-trumpet.
+
+Monsieur On-Dit bent forward again and repeated his communication.
+
+“Never within my memory,” exclaimed the Oldest Inhabitant, lifting his
+hands in astonishment, “has so remarkable an incident been heard of.”
+
+Now came in the Clerk of the Weather, who had been invited out of
+deference to his official station, although the host was well aware
+that his conversation was likely to contribute but little to the
+general enjoyment. He soon, indeed, got into a corner with his
+acquaintance of long ago, the Oldest Inhabitant, and began to compare
+notes with him in reference to the great storms, gales of wind, and
+other atmospherical facts that had occurred during a century past. It
+rejoiced the Man of Fancy that his venerable and much-respected guest
+had met with so congenial an associate. Entreating them both to make
+themselves perfectly at home, he now turned to receive the Wandering
+Jew. This personage, however, had latterly grown so common, by mingling
+in all sorts of society and appearing at the beck of every entertainer,
+that he could hardly be deemed a proper guest in a very exclusive
+circle. Besides, being covered with dust from his continual wanderings
+along the highways of the world, he really looked out of place in a
+dress party; so that the host felt relieved of an incommodity when the
+restless individual in question, after a brief stay, took his departure
+on a ramble towards Oregon.
+
+The portal was now thronged by a crowd of shadowy people with whom the
+Man of Fancy had been acquainted in his visionary youth. He had invited
+them hither for the sake of observing how they would compare, whether
+advantageously or otherwise, with the real characters to whom his
+maturer life had introduced him. They were beings of crude imagination,
+such as glide before a young man’s eye and pretend to be actual
+inhabitants of the earth; the wise and witty with whom he would
+hereafter hold intercourse; the generous and heroic friends whose
+devotion would be requited with his own; the beautiful dream-woman who
+would become the helpmate of his human toils and sorrows and at once
+the source and partaker of his happiness. Alas! it is not good for the
+full-grown man to look too closely at these old acquaintances, but
+rather to reverence them at a distance through the medium of years that
+have gathered duskily between. There was something laughably untrue in
+their pompous stride and exaggerated sentiment; they were neither human
+nor tolerable likenesses of humanity, but fantastic maskers, rendering
+heroism and nature alike ridiculous by the grave absurdity of their
+pretensions to such attributes; and as for the peerless dream-lady,
+behold! there advanced up the saloon, with a movement like a jointed
+doll, a sort of wax-figure of an angel, a creature as cold as
+moonshine, an artifice in petticoats, with an intellect of pretty
+phrases and only the semblance of a heart, yet in all these particulars
+the true type of a young man’s imaginary mistress. Hardly could the
+host’s punctilious courtesy restrain a smile as he paid his respects to
+this unreality and met the sentimental glance with which the Dream
+sought to remind him of their former love passages.
+
+“No, no, fair lady,” murmured he betwixt sighing and smiling; “my taste
+is changed; I have learned to love what Nature makes better than my own
+creations in the guise of womanhood.”
+
+“Ah, false one,” shrieked the dream-lady, pretending to faint, but
+dissolving into thin air, out of which came the deplorable murmur of
+her voice, “your inconstancy has annihilated me.”
+
+“So be it,” said the cruel Man of Fancy to himself; “and a good
+riddance too.”
+
+Together with these shadows, and from the same region, there came an
+uninvited multitude of shapes which at any time during his life had
+tormented the Man of Fancy in his moods of morbid melancholy or had
+haunted him in the delirium of fever. The walls of his castle in the
+air were not dense enough to keep them out, nor would the strongest of
+earthly architecture have availed to their exclusion. Here were those
+forms of dim terror which had beset him at the entrance of life, waging
+warfare with his hopes; here were strange uglinesses of earlier date,
+such as haunt children in the night-time. He was particularly startled
+by the vision of a deformed old black woman whom he imagined as lurking
+in the garret of his native home, and who, when he was an infant, had
+once come to his bedside and grinned at him in the crisis of a scarlet
+fever. This same black shadow, with others almost as hideous, now
+glided among the pillars of the magnificent saloon, grinning
+recognition, until the man shuddered anew at the forgotten terrors of
+his childhood. It amused him, however, to observe the black woman, with
+the mischievous caprice peculiar to such beings, steal up to the chair
+of the Oldest Inhabitant and peep into his half-dreamy mind.
+
+“Never within my memory,” muttered that venerable personage, aghast,
+“did I see such a face.”
+
+Almost immediately after the unrealities just described, arrived a
+number of guests whom incredulous readers may be inclined to rank
+equally among creatures of imagination. The most noteworthy were an
+incorruptible Patriot; a Scholar without pedantry; a Priest without
+worldly ambition; and a Beautiful Woman without pride or coquetry; a
+Married Pair whose life had never been disturbed by incongruity of
+feeling; a Reformer untrammelled by his theory; and a Poet who felt no
+jealousy towards other votaries of the lyre. In truth, however, the
+host was not one of the cynics who consider these patterns of
+excellence, without the fatal flaw, such rarities in the world; and he
+had invited them to his select party chiefly out of humble deference to
+the judgment of society, which pronounces them almost impossible to be
+met with.
+
+“In my younger days,” observed the Oldest Inhabitant, “such characters
+might be seen at the corner of every street.”
+
+Be that as it might, these specimens of perfection proved to be not
+half so entertaining companions as people with the ordinary allowance
+of faults.
+
+But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized
+than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he
+hastened down the whole length of the saloon in order to pay him
+emphatic honor. Yet he was a young man in poor attire, with no insignia
+of rank or acknowledged eminence, nor anything to distinguish him among
+the crowd except a high, white forehead, beneath which a pair of
+deep-set eyes were glowing with warm light. It was such a light as
+never illuminates the earth save when a great heart burns as the
+household fire of a grand intellect. And who was he?—who but the Master
+Genius for whom our country is looking anxiously into the mist of Time,
+as destined to fulfil the great mission of creating an American
+literature, hewing it, as it were, out of the unwrought granite of our
+intellectual quarries? From him, whether moulded in the form of an epic
+poem or assuming a guise altogether new as the spirit itself may
+determine, we are to receive our first great original work, which shall
+do all that remains to be achieved for our glory among the nations. How
+this child of a mighty destiny had been discovered by the Man of Fancy
+it is of little consequence to mention. Suffice it that he dwells as
+yet unhonored among men, unrecognized by those who have known him from
+his cradle; the noble countenance which should be distinguished by a
+halo diffused around it passes daily amid the throng of people toiling
+and troubling themselves about the trifles of a moment, and none pay
+reverence to the worker of immortality. Nor does it matter much to him,
+in his triumph over all the ages, though a generation or two of his own
+times shall do themselves the wrong to disregard him.
+
+By this time Monsieur On-Dit had caught up the stranger’s name and
+destiny and was busily whispering the intelligence among the other
+guests.
+
+“Pshaw!” said one. “There can never be an American genius.”
+
+“Pish!” cried another. “We have already as good poets as any in the
+world. For my part, I desire to see no better.”
+
+And the Oldest Inhabitant, when it was proposed to introduce him to the
+Master Genius, begged to be excused, observing that a man who had been
+honored with the acquaintance of Dwight, and Freneau, and Joel Barlow,
+might be allowed a little austerity of taste.
+
+The saloon was now fast filling up by the arrival of other remarkable
+characters, among whom were noticed Davy Jones, the distinguished
+nautical personage, and a rude, carelessly dressed, harum-scarum sort
+of elderly fellow, known by the nickname of Old Harry. The latter,
+however, after being shown to a dressing-room, reappeared with his gray
+hair nicely combed, his clothes brushed, a clean dicky on his neck, and
+altogether so changed in aspect as to merit the more respectful
+appellation of Venerable Henry. Joel Doe and Richard Roe came arm in
+arm, accompanied by a Man of Straw, a fictitious indorser, and several
+persons who had no existence except as voters in closely contested
+elections. The celebrated Seatsfield, who now entered, was at first
+supposed to belong to the same brotherhood, until he made it apparent
+that he was a real man of flesh and blood and had his earthly domicile
+in Germany. Among the latest comers, as might reasonably be expected,
+arrived a guest from the far future.
+
+“Do you know him? do you know him?” whispered Monsieur On-Dit, who
+seemed to be acquainted with everybody. “He is the representative of
+Posterity,—the man of an age to come.”
+
+“And how came he here?” asked a figure who was evidently the prototype
+of the fashion-plate in a magazine, and might be taken to represent the
+vanities of the passing moment. “The fellow infringes upon our rights
+by coming before his time.”
+
+“But you forget where we are,” answered the Man of Fancy, who overheard
+the remark. “The lower earth, it is true, will be forbidden ground to
+him for many long years hence; but a castle in the air is a sort of
+no-man’s-land, where Posterity may make acquaintance with us on equal
+terms.”
+
+No sooner was his identity known than a throng of guests gathered about
+Posterity, all expressing the most generous interest in his welfare,
+and many boasting of the sacrifices which they had made, or were
+willing to make, in his behalf. Some, with as much secrecy as possible,
+desired his judgment upon certain copies of verses or great manuscript
+rolls of prose; others accosted him with the familiarity of old
+friends, taking it for granted that he was perfectly cognizant of their
+names and characters. At length, finding himself thus beset, Posterity
+was put quite beside his patience.
+
+“Gentlemen, my good friends,” cried he, breaking loose from a misty
+poet who strove to hold him by the button, “I pray you to attend to
+your own business, and leave me to take care of mine! I expect to owe
+you nothing, unless it be certain national debts, and other
+encumbrances and impediments, physical and moral, which I shall find it
+troublesome enough to remove from my path. As to your verses, pray read
+them to your contemporaries. Your names are as strange to me as your
+faces; and even were it otherwise,—let me whisper you a secret,—the
+cold, icy memory which one generation may retain of another is but a
+poor recompense to barter life for. Yet, if your heart is set on being
+known to me, the surest, the only method is, to live truly and wisely
+for your own age, whereby, if the native force be in you, you may
+likewise live for posterity.”
+
+“It is nonsense,” murmured the Oldest Inhabitant, who, as a man of the
+past, felt jealous that all notice should be withdrawn from himself to
+be lavished on the future, “sheer nonsense, to waste so much thought on
+what only is to be.”
+
+To divert the minds of his guests, who were considerably abashed by
+this little incident, the Man of Fancy led them through several
+apartments of the castle, receiving their compliments upon the taste
+and varied magnificence that were displayed in each. One of these rooms
+was filled with moonlight, which did not enter through the window, but
+was the aggregate of all the moonshine that is scattered around the
+earth on a summer night while no eyes are awake to enjoy its beauty.
+Airy spirits had gathered it up, wherever they found it gleaming on the
+broad bosom of a lake, or silvering the meanders of a stream, or
+glimmering among the wind-stirred boughs of a wood, and had garnered it
+in this one spacious hall. Along the walls, illuminated by the mild
+intensity of the moonshine, stood a multitude of ideal statues, the
+original conceptions of the great works of ancient or modern art, which
+the sculptors did but imperfectly succeed in putting into marble; for
+it is not to be supposed that the pure idea of an immortal creation
+ceases to exist; it is only necessary to know where they are deposited
+in order to obtain possession of them.—In the alcoves of another vast
+apartment was arranged a splendid library, the volumes of which were
+inestimable, because they consisted, not of actual performances, but of
+the works which the authors only planned, without ever finding the
+happy season to achieve them. To take familiar instances, here were the
+untold tales of Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims; the unwritten cantos of
+the Fairy Queen; the conclusion of Coleridge’s Christabel; and the
+whole of Dryden’s projected epic on the subject of King Arthur. The
+shelves were crowded; for it would not be too much to affirm that every
+author has imagined and shaped out in his thought more and far better
+works than those which actually proceeded from his pen. And here,
+likewise, where the unrealized conceptions of youthful poets who died
+of the very strength of their own genius before the world had caught
+one inspired murmur from their lips.
+
+When the peculiarities of the library and statue-gallery were explained
+to the Oldest Inhabitant, he appeared infinitely perplexed, and
+exclaimed, with more energy than usual, that he had never heard of such
+a thing within his memory, and, moreover, did not at all understand how
+it could be.
+
+“But my brain, I think,” said the good old gentleman, “is getting not
+so clear as it used to be. You young folks, I suppose, can see your way
+through these strange matters. For my part, I give it up.”
+
+“And so do I,” muttered the Old Harry. “It is enough to puzzle
+the—Ahem!”
+
+Making as little reply as possible to these observations, the Man of
+Fancy preceded the company to another noble saloon, the pillars of
+which were solid golden sunbeams taken out of the sky in the first hour
+in the morning. Thus, as they retained all their living lustre, the
+room was filled with the most cheerful radiance imaginable, yet not too
+dazzling to be borne with comfort and delight. The windows were
+beautifully adorned with curtains made of the many-colored clouds of
+sunrise, all imbued with virgin light, and hanging in magnificent
+festoons from the ceiling to the floor. Moreover, there were fragments
+of rainbows scattered through the room; so that the guests, astonished
+at one another, reciprocally saw their heads made glorious by the seven
+primary hues; or, if they chose,—as who would not?—they could grasp a
+rainbow in the air and convert it to their own apparel and adornment.
+But the morning light and scattered rainbows were only a type and
+symbol of the real wonders of the apartment. By an influence akin to
+magic, yet perfectly natural, whatever means and opportunities of joy
+are neglected in the lower world had been carefully gathered up and
+deposited in the saloon of morning sunshine. As may well be conceived,
+therefore, there was material enough to supply, not merely a joyous
+evening, but also a happy lifetime, to more than as many people as that
+spacious apartment could contain. The company seemed to renew their
+youth; while that pattern and proverbial standard of innocence, the
+Child Unborn, frolicked to and fro among them, communicating his own
+unwrinkled gayety to all who had the good fortune to witness his
+gambols.
+
+“My honored friends,” said the Man of Fancy, after they had enjoyed
+themselves awhile, “I am now to request your presence in the
+banqueting-hall, where a slight collation is awaiting you.”
+
+“Ah, well said!” ejaculated a cadaverous figure, who had been invited
+for no other reason than that he was pretty constantly in the habit of
+dining with Duke Humphrey. “I was beginning to wonder whether a castle
+in the air were provided with a kitchen.”
+
+It was curious, in truth, to see how instantaneously the guests were
+diverted from the high moral enjoyments which they had been tasting
+with so much apparent zest by a suggestion of the more solid as well as
+liquid delights of the festive board. They thronged eagerly in the rear
+of the host, who now ushered them into a lofty and extensive hall, from
+end to end of which was arranged a table, glittering all over with
+innumerable dishes and drinking-vessels of gold. It is an uncertain
+point whether these rich articles of plate were made for the occasion
+out of molten sunbeams, or recovered from the wrecks of Spanish
+galleons that had lain for ages at the bottom of the sea. The upper end
+of the table was overshadowed by a canopy, beneath which was placed a
+chair of elaborate magnificence, which the host himself declined to
+occupy, and besought his guests to assign it to the worthiest among
+them. As a suitable homage to his incalculable antiquity and eminent
+distinction, the post of honor was at first tendered to the Oldest
+Inhabitant. He, however, eschewed it, and requested the favor of a bowl
+of gruel at a side table, where he could refresh himself with a quiet
+nap. There was some little hesitation as to the next candidate, until
+Posterity took the Master Genius of our country by the hand and led him
+to the chair of state beneath the princely canopy. When once they
+beheld him in his true place, the company acknowledged the justice of
+the selection by a long thunder-roll of vehement applause.
+
+Then was served up a banquet, combining, if not all the delicacies of
+the season, yet all the rarities which careful purveyors had met with
+in the flesh, fish, and vegetable markets of the land of Nowhere. The
+bill of fare being unfortunately lost, we can only mention a phoenix,
+roasted in its own flames, cold potted birds of paradise, ice-creams
+from the Milky-Way, and whip syllabubs and flummery from the Paradise
+of Fools, whereof there was a very great consumption. As for
+drinkables, the temperance people contented themselves with water as
+usual; but it was the water of the Fountain of Youth; the ladies sipped
+Nepenthe; the lovelorn, the careworn, and the sorrow-stricken were
+supplied with brimming goblets of Lethe; and it was shrewdly
+conjectured that a certain golden vase, from which only the more
+distinguished guests were invited to partake, contained nectar that had
+been mellowing ever since the days of classical mythology. The cloth
+being removed, the company, as usual, grew eloquent over their liquor
+and delivered themselves of a succession of brilliant speeches,—the
+task of reporting which we resign to the more adequate ability of
+Counsellor Gill, whose indispensable co-operation the Man of Fancy had
+taken the precaution to secure.
+
+When the festivity of the banquet was at its most ethereal point, the
+Clerk of the Weather was observed to steal from the table and thrust
+his head between the purple and golden curtains of one of the windows.
+
+“My fellow-guests,” he remarked aloud, after carefully noting the signs
+of the night, “I advise such of you as live at a distance to be going
+as soon as possible; for a thunder-storm is certainly at hand.”
+
+“Mercy on me!” cried Mother Carey, who had left her brood of chickens
+and come hither in gossamer drapery, with pink silk stockings. “How
+shall I ever get home?”
+
+All now was confusion and hasty departure, with but little superfluous
+leave-taking. The Oldest Inhabitant, however, true to the rule of those
+long past days in which his courtesy had been studied, paused on the
+threshold of the meteor-lighted hall to express his vast satisfaction
+at the entertainment.
+
+“Never, within my memory,” observed the gracious old gentleman, “has it
+been my good fortune to spend a pleasanter evening or in more select
+society.”
+
+The wind here took his breath away, whirled his three-cornered hat into
+infinite space, and drowned what further compliments it had been his
+purpose to bestow. Many of the company had bespoken will-o’-the-wisps
+to convoy them home; and the host, in his general beneficence, had
+engaged the Man in the Moon, with an immense horn-lantern, to be the
+guide of such desolate spinsters as could do no better for themselves.
+But a blast of the rising tempest blew out all their lights in the
+twinkling of an eye. How, in the darkness that ensued, the guests
+contrived to get back to earth, or whether the greater part of them
+contrived to get back at all, or are still wandering among clouds,
+mists, and puffs of tempestuous wind, bruised by the beams and rafters
+of the overthrown castle in the air, and deluded by all sorts of
+unrealities, are points that concern themselves much more than the
+writer or the public. People should think of these matters before they
+trust themselves on a pleasure-party into the realm of Nowhere.
+
+
+
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+<h1>A Select Party</h1>
+
+<h2 class="no-break">by Nathaniel Hawthorne</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p>
+The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the air, and
+invited a select number of distinguished personages to favor him with their
+presence. The mansion, though less splendid than many that have been situated
+in the same region, was nevertheless of a magnificence such as is seldom
+witnessed by those acquainted only with terrestrial architecture. Its strong
+foundations and massive walls were quarried out of a ledge of heavy and sombre
+clouds which had hung brooding over the earth, apparently as dense and
+ponderous as its own granite, throughout a whole autumnal day. Perceiving that
+the general effect was gloomy,&mdash;so that the airy castle looked like a
+feudal fortress, or a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our
+own times, rather than the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to
+be,&mdash;the owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from
+top to bottom. Fortunately, there was just then a flood of evening sunshine in
+the air. This being gathered up and poured abundantly upon the roof and walls,
+imbued them with a kind of solemn cheerfulness; while the cupolas and pinnacles
+were made to glitter with the purest gold, and all the hundred windows gleamed
+with a glad light, as if the edifice itself were rejoicing in its heart.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And now, if the people of the lower world chanced to be looking upward out of
+the turmoil of their petty perplexities, they probably mistook the castle in
+the air for a heap of sunset clouds, to which the magic of light and shade had
+imparted the aspect of a fantastically constructed mansion. To such beholders
+it was unreal, because they lacked the imaginative faith. Had they been worthy
+to pass within its portal, they would have recognized the truth, that the
+dominions which the spirit conquers for itself among unrealities become a
+thousand times more real than the earth whereon they stamp their feet, saying,
+“This is solid and substantial; this may be called a fact.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the appointed hour, the host stood in his great saloon to receive the
+company. It was a vast and noble room, the vaulted ceiling of which was
+supported by double rows of gigantic pillars that had been hewn entire out of
+masses of variegated clouds. So brilliantly were they polished, and so
+exquisitely wrought by the sculptor’s skill, as to resemble the finest
+specimens of emerald, porphyry, opal, and chrysolite, thus producing a delicate
+richness of effect which their immense size rendered not incompatible with
+grandeur. To each of these pillars a meteor was suspended. Thousands of these
+ethereal lustres are continually wandering about the firmament, burning out to
+waste, yet capable of imparting a useful radiance to any person who has the art
+of converting them to domestic purposes. As managed in the saloon, they are far
+more economical than ordinary lamplight. Such, however, was the intensity of
+their blaze that it had been found expedient to cover each meteor with a globe
+of evening mist, thereby muffling the too potent glow and soothing it into a
+mild and comfortable splendor. It was like the brilliancy of a powerful yet
+chastened imagination,&mdash;a light which seemed to hide whatever was unworthy
+to be noticed and give effect to every beautiful and noble attribute. The
+guests, therefore, as they advanced up the centre of the saloon, appeared to
+better advantage than ever before in their lives.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The first that entered, with old-fashioned punctuality, was a venerable figure
+in the costume of bygone days, with his white hair flowing down over his
+shoulders and a reverend beard upon his breast. He leaned upon a staff, the
+tremulous stroke of which, as he set it carefully upon the floor, re-echoed
+through the saloon at every footstep. Recognizing at once this celebrated
+personage, whom it had cost him a vast deal of trouble and research to
+discover, the host advanced nearly three fourths of the distance down between
+the pillars to meet and welcome him.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Venerable sir,” said the Man of Fancy, bending to the floor, “the honor of
+this visit would never be forgotten were my term of existence to be as happily
+prolonged as your own.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The old gentleman received the compliment with gracious condescension. He then
+thrust up his spectacles over his forehead and appeared to take a critical
+survey of the saloon.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Never within my recollection,” observed he, “have I entered a more spacious
+and noble hall. But are you sure that it is built of solid materials and that
+the structure will be permanent?”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“O, never fear, my venerable friend,” replied the host. “In reference to a
+lifetime like your own, it is true my castle may well be called a temporary
+edifice. But it will endure long enough to answer all the purposes for which it
+was erected.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But we forget that the reader has not yet been made acquainted with the guest.
+It was no other than that universally accredited character so constantly
+referred to in all seasons of intense cold or heat; he that, remembers the hot
+Sunday and the cold Friday; the witness of a past age whose negative
+reminiscences find their way into every newspaper, yet whose antiquated and
+dusky abode is so overshadowed by accumulated years and crowded back by modern
+edifices that none but the Man of Fancy could have discovered it; it was, in
+short, that twin brother of Time, and great-grandsire of mankind, and
+hand-and-glove associate of all forgotten men and things,&mdash;the Oldest
+Inhabitant. The host would willingly have drawn him into conversation, but
+succeeded only in eliciting a few remarks as to the oppressive atmosphere of
+this present summer evening compared with one which the guest had experienced
+about fourscore years ago. The old gentleman, in fact, was a good deal overcome
+by his journey among the clouds, which, to a frame so earth-incrusted by long
+continuance in a lower region, was unavoidably more fatiguing than to younger
+spirits. He was therefore conducted to an easy-chair, well cushioned and
+stuffed with vaporous softness, and left to take a little repose.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Man of Fancy now discerned another guest, who stood so quietly in the
+shadow of one of the pillars that he might easily have been overlooked.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“My dear sir,” exclaimed the host, grasping him warmly by the hand, “allow me
+to greet you as the hero of the evening. Pray do not take it as an empty
+compliment; for, if there were not another guest in my castle, it would be
+entirely pervaded with your presence.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“I thank you,” answered the unpretending stranger; “but, though you happened to
+overlook me, I have not just arrived. I came very early; and, with your
+permission, shall remain after the rest of the company have retired.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And who does the reader imagine was this unobtrusive guest? It was the famous
+performer of acknowledged impossibilities,&mdash;a character of superhuman
+capacity and virtue, and, if his enemies are to be credited, of no less
+remarkable weaknesses and defects. With a generosity with which he alone sets
+us an example, we will glance merely at his nobler attributes. He it is, then,
+who prefers the interests of others to his own and a humble station to an
+exalted one. Careless of fashion, custom, the opinions of men, and the
+influence of the press, he assimilates his life to the standard of ideal
+rectitude, and thus proves himself the one independent citizen of our free
+country. In point of ability, many people declare him to be the only
+mathematician capable of squaring the circle; the only mechanic acquainted with
+the principle of perpetual motion; the only scientific philosopher who can
+compel water to run up hill; the only writer of the age whose genius is equal
+to the production of an epic poem; and, finally, so various are his
+accomplishments, the only professor of gymnastics who has succeeded in jumping
+down his own throat. With all these talents, however, he is so far from being
+considered a member of good society, that it is the severest censure of any
+fashionable assemblage to affirm that this remarkable individual was present.
+Public orators, lecturers, and theatrical performers particularly eschew his
+company. For especial reasons, we are not at liberty to disclose his name, and
+shall mention only one other trait,&mdash;a most singular phenomenon in natural
+philosophy,&mdash;that, when he happens to cast his eyes upon a looking-glass,
+he beholds Nobody reflected there!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Several other guests now made their appearance; and among them, chattering with
+immense volubility, a brisk little gentleman of universal vogue in private
+society, and not unknown in the public journals under the title of Monsieur
+On-Dit. The name would seem to indicate a Frenchman; but, whatever be his
+country, he is thoroughly versed in all the languages of the day, and can
+express himself quite as much to the purpose in English as in any other tongue.
+No sooner were the ceremonies of salutation over than this talkative little
+person put his mouth to the host’s ear and whispered three secrets of state, an
+important piece of commercial intelligence, and a rich item of fashionable
+scandal. He then assured the Man of Fancy that he would not fail to circulate
+in the society of the lower world a minute description of this magnificent
+castle in the air and of the festivities at which he had the honor to be a
+guest. So saying, Monsieur On-Dit made his bow and hurried from one to another
+of the company, with all of whom he seemed to be acquainted and to possess some
+topic of interest or amusement for every individual. Coming at last to the
+Oldest Inhabitant, who was slumbering comfortably in the easy-chair, he applied
+his mouth to that venerable ear.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“What do you say?” cried the old gentleman, starting from his nap and putting
+up his hand to serve the purpose of an ear-trumpet.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Monsieur On-Dit bent forward again and repeated his communication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Never within my memory,” exclaimed the Oldest Inhabitant, lifting his hands in
+astonishment, “has so remarkable an incident been heard of.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Now came in the Clerk of the Weather, who had been invited out of deference to
+his official station, although the host was well aware that his conversation
+was likely to contribute but little to the general enjoyment. He soon, indeed,
+got into a corner with his acquaintance of long ago, the Oldest Inhabitant, and
+began to compare notes with him in reference to the great storms, gales of
+wind, and other atmospherical facts that had occurred during a century past. It
+rejoiced the Man of Fancy that his venerable and much-respected guest had met
+with so congenial an associate. Entreating them both to make themselves
+perfectly at home, he now turned to receive the Wandering Jew. This personage,
+however, had latterly grown so common, by mingling in all sorts of society and
+appearing at the beck of every entertainer, that he could hardly be deemed a
+proper guest in a very exclusive circle. Besides, being covered with dust from
+his continual wanderings along the highways of the world, he really looked out
+of place in a dress party; so that the host felt relieved of an incommodity
+when the restless individual in question, after a brief stay, took his
+departure on a ramble towards Oregon.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The portal was now thronged by a crowd of shadowy people with whom the Man of
+Fancy had been acquainted in his visionary youth. He had invited them hither
+for the sake of observing how they would compare, whether advantageously or
+otherwise, with the real characters to whom his maturer life had introduced
+him. They were beings of crude imagination, such as glide before a young man’s
+eye and pretend to be actual inhabitants of the earth; the wise and witty with
+whom he would hereafter hold intercourse; the generous and heroic friends whose
+devotion would be requited with his own; the beautiful dream-woman who would
+become the helpmate of his human toils and sorrows and at once the source and
+partaker of his happiness. Alas! it is not good for the full-grown man to look
+too closely at these old acquaintances, but rather to reverence them at a
+distance through the medium of years that have gathered duskily between. There
+was something laughably untrue in their pompous stride and exaggerated
+sentiment; they were neither human nor tolerable likenesses of humanity, but
+fantastic maskers, rendering heroism and nature alike ridiculous by the grave
+absurdity of their pretensions to such attributes; and as for the peerless
+dream-lady, behold! there advanced up the saloon, with a movement like a
+jointed doll, a sort of wax-figure of an angel, a creature as cold as
+moonshine, an artifice in petticoats, with an intellect of pretty phrases and
+only the semblance of a heart, yet in all these particulars the true type of a
+young man’s imaginary mistress. Hardly could the host’s punctilious courtesy
+restrain a smile as he paid his respects to this unreality and met the
+sentimental glance with which the Dream sought to remind him of their former
+love passages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“No, no, fair lady,” murmured he betwixt sighing and smiling; “my taste is
+changed; I have learned to love what Nature makes better than my own creations
+in the guise of womanhood.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Ah, false one,” shrieked the dream-lady, pretending to faint, but dissolving
+into thin air, out of which came the deplorable murmur of her voice, “your
+inconstancy has annihilated me.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“So be it,” said the cruel Man of Fancy to himself; “and a good riddance too.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Together with these shadows, and from the same region, there came an uninvited
+multitude of shapes which at any time during his life had tormented the Man of
+Fancy in his moods of morbid melancholy or had haunted him in the delirium of
+fever. The walls of his castle in the air were not dense enough to keep them
+out, nor would the strongest of earthly architecture have availed to their
+exclusion. Here were those forms of dim terror which had beset him at the
+entrance of life, waging warfare with his hopes; here were strange uglinesses
+of earlier date, such as haunt children in the night-time. He was particularly
+startled by the vision of a deformed old black woman whom he imagined as
+lurking in the garret of his native home, and who, when he was an infant, had
+once come to his bedside and grinned at him in the crisis of a scarlet fever.
+This same black shadow, with others almost as hideous, now glided among the
+pillars of the magnificent saloon, grinning recognition, until the man
+shuddered anew at the forgotten terrors of his childhood. It amused him,
+however, to observe the black woman, with the mischievous caprice peculiar to
+such beings, steal up to the chair of the Oldest Inhabitant and peep into his
+half-dreamy mind.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Never within my memory,” muttered that venerable personage, aghast, “did I see
+such a face.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Almost immediately after the unrealities just described, arrived a number of
+guests whom incredulous readers may be inclined to rank equally among creatures
+of imagination. The most noteworthy were an incorruptible Patriot; a Scholar
+without pedantry; a Priest without worldly ambition; and a Beautiful Woman
+without pride or coquetry; a Married Pair whose life had never been disturbed
+by incongruity of feeling; a Reformer untrammelled by his theory; and a Poet
+who felt no jealousy towards other votaries of the lyre. In truth, however, the
+host was not one of the cynics who consider these patterns of excellence,
+without the fatal flaw, such rarities in the world; and he had invited them to
+his select party chiefly out of humble deference to the judgment of society,
+which pronounces them almost impossible to be met with.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“In my younger days,” observed the Oldest Inhabitant, “such characters might be
+seen at the corner of every street.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Be that as it might, these specimens of perfection proved to be not half so
+entertaining companions as people with the ordinary allowance of faults.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized than, with
+an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he hastened down the whole
+length of the saloon in order to pay him emphatic honor. Yet he was a young man
+in poor attire, with no insignia of rank or acknowledged eminence, nor anything
+to distinguish him among the crowd except a high, white forehead, beneath which
+a pair of deep-set eyes were glowing with warm light. It was such a light as
+never illuminates the earth save when a great heart burns as the household fire
+of a grand intellect. And who was he?&mdash;who but the Master Genius for whom
+our country is looking anxiously into the mist of Time, as destined to fulfil
+the great mission of creating an American literature, hewing it, as it were,
+out of the unwrought granite of our intellectual quarries? From him, whether
+moulded in the form of an epic poem or assuming a guise altogether new as the
+spirit itself may determine, we are to receive our first great original work,
+which shall do all that remains to be achieved for our glory among the nations.
+How this child of a mighty destiny had been discovered by the Man of Fancy it
+is of little consequence to mention. Suffice it that he dwells as yet unhonored
+among men, unrecognized by those who have known him from his cradle; the noble
+countenance which should be distinguished by a halo diffused around it passes
+daily amid the throng of people toiling and troubling themselves about the
+trifles of a moment, and none pay reverence to the worker of immortality. Nor
+does it matter much to him, in his triumph over all the ages, though a
+generation or two of his own times shall do themselves the wrong to disregard
+him.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+By this time Monsieur On-Dit had caught up the stranger’s name and destiny and
+was busily whispering the intelligence among the other guests.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Pshaw!” said one. “There can never be an American genius.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Pish!” cried another. “We have already as good poets as any in the world. For
+my part, I desire to see no better.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And the Oldest Inhabitant, when it was proposed to introduce him to the Master
+Genius, begged to be excused, observing that a man who had been honored with
+the acquaintance of Dwight, and Freneau, and Joel Barlow, might be allowed a
+little austerity of taste.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The saloon was now fast filling up by the arrival of other remarkable
+characters, among whom were noticed Davy Jones, the distinguished nautical
+personage, and a rude, carelessly dressed, harum-scarum sort of elderly fellow,
+known by the nickname of Old Harry. The latter, however, after being shown to a
+dressing-room, reappeared with his gray hair nicely combed, his clothes
+brushed, a clean dicky on his neck, and altogether so changed in aspect as to
+merit the more respectful appellation of Venerable Henry. Joel Doe and Richard
+Roe came arm in arm, accompanied by a Man of Straw, a fictitious indorser, and
+several persons who had no existence except as voters in closely contested
+elections. The celebrated Seatsfield, who now entered, was at first supposed to
+belong to the same brotherhood, until he made it apparent that he was a real
+man of flesh and blood and had his earthly domicile in Germany. Among the
+latest comers, as might reasonably be expected, arrived a guest from the far
+future.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Do you know him? do you know him?” whispered Monsieur On-Dit, who seemed to be
+acquainted with everybody. “He is the representative of Posterity,&mdash;the
+man of an age to come.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“And how came he here?” asked a figure who was evidently the prototype of the
+fashion-plate in a magazine, and might be taken to represent the vanities of
+the passing moment. “The fellow infringes upon our rights by coming before his
+time.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“But you forget where we are,” answered the Man of Fancy, who overheard the
+remark. “The lower earth, it is true, will be forbidden ground to him for many
+long years hence; but a castle in the air is a sort of no-man’s-land, where
+Posterity may make acquaintance with us on equal terms.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+No sooner was his identity known than a throng of guests gathered about
+Posterity, all expressing the most generous interest in his welfare, and many
+boasting of the sacrifices which they had made, or were willing to make, in his
+behalf. Some, with as much secrecy as possible, desired his judgment upon
+certain copies of verses or great manuscript rolls of prose; others accosted
+him with the familiarity of old friends, taking it for granted that he was
+perfectly cognizant of their names and characters. At length, finding himself
+thus beset, Posterity was put quite beside his patience.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Gentlemen, my good friends,” cried he, breaking loose from a misty poet who
+strove to hold him by the button, “I pray you to attend to your own business,
+and leave me to take care of mine! I expect to owe you nothing, unless it be
+certain national debts, and other encumbrances and impediments, physical and
+moral, which I shall find it troublesome enough to remove from my path. As to
+your verses, pray read them to your contemporaries. Your names are as strange
+to me as your faces; and even were it otherwise,&mdash;let me whisper you a
+secret,&mdash;the cold, icy memory which one generation may retain of another
+is but a poor recompense to barter life for. Yet, if your heart is set on being
+known to me, the surest, the only method is, to live truly and wisely for your
+own age, whereby, if the native force be in you, you may likewise live for
+posterity.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is nonsense,” murmured the Oldest Inhabitant, who, as a man of the past,
+felt jealous that all notice should be withdrawn from himself to be lavished on
+the future, “sheer nonsense, to waste so much thought on what only is to be.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To divert the minds of his guests, who were considerably abashed by this little
+incident, the Man of Fancy led them through several apartments of the castle,
+receiving their compliments upon the taste and varied magnificence that were
+displayed in each. One of these rooms was filled with moonlight, which did not
+enter through the window, but was the aggregate of all the moonshine that is
+scattered around the earth on a summer night while no eyes are awake to enjoy
+its beauty. Airy spirits had gathered it up, wherever they found it gleaming on
+the broad bosom of a lake, or silvering the meanders of a stream, or glimmering
+among the wind-stirred boughs of a wood, and had garnered it in this one
+spacious hall. Along the walls, illuminated by the mild intensity of the
+moonshine, stood a multitude of ideal statues, the original conceptions of the
+great works of ancient or modern art, which the sculptors did but imperfectly
+succeed in putting into marble; for it is not to be supposed that the pure idea
+of an immortal creation ceases to exist; it is only necessary to know where
+they are deposited in order to obtain possession of them.&mdash;In the alcoves
+of another vast apartment was arranged a splendid library, the volumes of which
+were inestimable, because they consisted, not of actual performances, but of
+the works which the authors only planned, without ever finding the happy season
+to achieve them. To take familiar instances, here were the untold tales of
+Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims; the unwritten cantos of the Fairy Queen; the
+conclusion of Coleridge’s Christabel; and the whole of Dryden’s projected epic
+on the subject of King Arthur. The shelves were crowded; for it would not be
+too much to affirm that every author has imagined and shaped out in his thought
+more and far better works than those which actually proceeded from his pen. And
+here, likewise, where the unrealized conceptions of youthful poets who died of
+the very strength of their own genius before the world had caught one inspired
+murmur from their lips.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When the peculiarities of the library and statue-gallery were explained to the
+Oldest Inhabitant, he appeared infinitely perplexed, and exclaimed, with more
+energy than usual, that he had never heard of such a thing within his memory,
+and, moreover, did not at all understand how it could be.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“But my brain, I think,” said the good old gentleman, “is getting not so clear
+as it used to be. You young folks, I suppose, can see your way through these
+strange matters. For my part, I give it up.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“And so do I,” muttered the Old Harry. “It is enough to puzzle the&mdash;Ahem!”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Making as little reply as possible to these observations, the Man of Fancy
+preceded the company to another noble saloon, the pillars of which were solid
+golden sunbeams taken out of the sky in the first hour in the morning. Thus, as
+they retained all their living lustre, the room was filled with the most
+cheerful radiance imaginable, yet not too dazzling to be borne with comfort and
+delight. The windows were beautifully adorned with curtains made of the
+many-colored clouds of sunrise, all imbued with virgin light, and hanging in
+magnificent festoons from the ceiling to the floor. Moreover, there were
+fragments of rainbows scattered through the room; so that the guests,
+astonished at one another, reciprocally saw their heads made glorious by the
+seven primary hues; or, if they chose,&mdash;as who would not?&mdash;they could
+grasp a rainbow in the air and convert it to their own apparel and adornment.
+But the morning light and scattered rainbows were only a type and symbol of the
+real wonders of the apartment. By an influence akin to magic, yet perfectly
+natural, whatever means and opportunities of joy are neglected in the lower
+world had been carefully gathered up and deposited in the saloon of morning
+sunshine. As may well be conceived, therefore, there was material enough to
+supply, not merely a joyous evening, but also a happy lifetime, to more than as
+many people as that spacious apartment could contain. The company seemed to
+renew their youth; while that pattern and proverbial standard of innocence, the
+Child Unborn, frolicked to and fro among them, communicating his own unwrinkled
+gayety to all who had the good fortune to witness his gambols.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“My honored friends,” said the Man of Fancy, after they had enjoyed themselves
+awhile, “I am now to request your presence in the banqueting-hall, where a
+slight collation is awaiting you.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Ah, well said!” ejaculated a cadaverous figure, who had been invited for no
+other reason than that he was pretty constantly in the habit of dining with
+Duke Humphrey. “I was beginning to wonder whether a castle in the air were
+provided with a kitchen.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was curious, in truth, to see how instantaneously the guests were diverted
+from the high moral enjoyments which they had been tasting with so much
+apparent zest by a suggestion of the more solid as well as liquid delights of
+the festive board. They thronged eagerly in the rear of the host, who now
+ushered them into a lofty and extensive hall, from end to end of which was
+arranged a table, glittering all over with innumerable dishes and
+drinking-vessels of gold. It is an uncertain point whether these rich articles
+of plate were made for the occasion out of molten sunbeams, or recovered from
+the wrecks of Spanish galleons that had lain for ages at the bottom of the sea.
+The upper end of the table was overshadowed by a canopy, beneath which was
+placed a chair of elaborate magnificence, which the host himself declined to
+occupy, and besought his guests to assign it to the worthiest among them. As a
+suitable homage to his incalculable antiquity and eminent distinction, the post
+of honor was at first tendered to the Oldest Inhabitant. He, however, eschewed
+it, and requested the favor of a bowl of gruel at a side table, where he could
+refresh himself with a quiet nap. There was some little hesitation as to the
+next candidate, until Posterity took the Master Genius of our country by the
+hand and led him to the chair of state beneath the princely canopy. When once
+they beheld him in his true place, the company acknowledged the justice of the
+selection by a long thunder-roll of vehement applause.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Then was served up a banquet, combining, if not all the delicacies of the
+season, yet all the rarities which careful purveyors had met with in the flesh,
+fish, and vegetable markets of the land of Nowhere. The bill of fare being
+unfortunately lost, we can only mention a phoenix, roasted in its own flames,
+cold potted birds of paradise, ice-creams from the Milky-Way, and whip
+syllabubs and flummery from the Paradise of Fools, whereof there was a very
+great consumption. As for drinkables, the temperance people contented
+themselves with water as usual; but it was the water of the Fountain of Youth;
+the ladies sipped Nepenthe; the lovelorn, the careworn, and the sorrow-stricken
+were supplied with brimming goblets of Lethe; and it was shrewdly conjectured
+that a certain golden vase, from which only the more distinguished guests were
+invited to partake, contained nectar that had been mellowing ever since the
+days of classical mythology. The cloth being removed, the company, as usual,
+grew eloquent over their liquor and delivered themselves of a succession of
+brilliant speeches,&mdash;the task of reporting which we resign to the more
+adequate ability of Counsellor Gill, whose indispensable co-operation the Man
+of Fancy had taken the precaution to secure.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When the festivity of the banquet was at its most ethereal point, the Clerk of
+the Weather was observed to steal from the table and thrust his head between
+the purple and golden curtains of one of the windows.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“My fellow-guests,” he remarked aloud, after carefully noting the signs of the
+night, “I advise such of you as live at a distance to be going as soon as
+possible; for a thunder-storm is certainly at hand.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Mercy on me!” cried Mother Carey, who had left her brood of chickens and come
+hither in gossamer drapery, with pink silk stockings. “How shall I ever get
+home?”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+All now was confusion and hasty departure, with but little superfluous
+leave-taking. The Oldest Inhabitant, however, true to the rule of those long
+past days in which his courtesy had been studied, paused on the threshold of
+the meteor-lighted hall to express his vast satisfaction at the entertainment.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Never, within my memory,” observed the gracious old gentleman, “has it been my
+good fortune to spend a pleasanter evening or in more select society.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The wind here took his breath away, whirled his three-cornered hat into
+infinite space, and drowned what further compliments it had been his purpose to
+bestow. Many of the company had bespoken will-o’-the-wisps to convoy them home;
+and the host, in his general beneficence, had engaged the Man in the Moon, with
+an immense horn-lantern, to be the guide of such desolate spinsters as could do
+no better for themselves. But a blast of the rising tempest blew out all their
+lights in the twinkling of an eye. How, in the darkness that ensued, the guests
+contrived to get back to earth, or whether the greater part of them contrived
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                         A SELECT PARTY
+
+
+
+The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the
+air, and invited a select number of distinguished personages to
+favor him with their presence.  The mansion, though less splendid
+than many that have been situated in the same region, was
+nevertheless of a magnificence such as is seldom witnessed by those
+acquainted only with terrestrial architecture.  Its strong
+foundations and massive walls were quarried out of a ledge of heavy
+and sombre clouds which had hung brooding over the earth, apparently
+as dense and ponderous as its own granite, throughout a whole
+autumnal day.  Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy,--so
+that the airy castle looked like a feudal fortress, or a monastery
+of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our own times, rather than
+the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to be,--the
+owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from top
+to bottom.  Fortunately, there was just then a flood of evening
+sunshine in the air.  This being gathered up and poured abundantly
+upon the roof and walls, imbued them with a kind of solemn
+cheerfulness; while the cupolas and pinnacles were made to glitter
+with the purest gold, and all the hundred windows gleamed with a
+glad light, as if the edifice itself were rejoicing in its heart.
+
+And now, if the people of the lower world chanced to be looking
+upward out of the turmoil of their petty perplexities, they probably
+mistook the castle in the air for a heap of sunset clouds, to which
+the magic of light and shade had imparted the aspect of a
+fantastically constructed mansion.  To such beholders it was unreal,
+because they lacked the imaginative faith.  Had they been worthy to
+pass within its portal, they would have recognized the truth, that
+the dominions which the spirit conquers for itself among unrealities
+become a thousand times more real than the earth whereon they stamp
+their feet, saying, "This is solid and substantial; this may be
+called a fact."
+
+At the appointed hour, the host stood in his great saloon to receive
+the company.  It was a vast and noble room, the vaulted ceiling of
+which was supported by double rows of gigantic pillars that had been
+hewn entire out of masses of variegated clouds.  So brilliantly were
+they polished, and so exquisitely wrought by the sculptor's skill,
+as to resemble the finest specimens of emerald, porphyry, opal, and
+chrysolite, thus producing a delicate richness of effect which their
+immense size rendered not incompatible with grandeur.  To each of
+these pillars a meteor was suspended.  Thousands of these ethereal
+lustres are continually wandering about the firmament, burning out
+to waste, yet capable of imparting a useful radiance to any person
+who has the art of converting them to domestic purposes.  As managed
+in the saloon, they are far more economical than ordinary lamplight.
+Such, however, was the intensity of their blaze that it had been
+found expedient to cover each meteor with a globe of evening mist,
+thereby muffling the too potent glow and soothing it into a mild and
+comfortable splendor.  It was like the brilliancy of a powerful yet
+chastened imagination,--a light which seemed to hide whatever was
+unworthy to be noticed and give effect to every beautiful and noble
+attribute.  The guests, therefore, as they advanced up the centre of
+the saloon, appeared to better advantage than ever before in their
+lives.
+
+The first that entered, with old-fashioned punctuality, was a
+venerable figure in the costume of bygone days, with his white hair
+flowing down over his shoulders and a reverend beard upon his
+breast.  He leaned upon a staff, the tremulous stroke of which, as
+he set it carefully upon the floor, re-echoed through the saloon at
+every footstep.  Recognizing at once this celebrated personage, whom
+it had cost him a vast deal of trouble and research to discover, the
+host advanced nearly three fourths of the distance down between the
+pillars to meet and welcome him.
+
+"Venerable sir," said the Man of Fancy, bending to the floor, "the
+honor of this visit would never be forgotten were my term of
+existence to be as happily prolonged as your own."
+
+The old gentleman received the compliment with gracious
+condescension.  He then thrust up his spectacles over his forehead
+and appeared to take a critical survey of the saloon.
+
+"Never within my recollection," observed he, "have I entered a more
+spacious and noble hall.  But are you sure that it is built of solid
+materials and that the structure will be permanent?"
+
+"O, never fear, my venerable friend," replied the host.  "In
+reference to a lifetime like your own, it is true my castle may well
+be called a temporary edifice.  But it will endure long enough to
+answer all the purposes for which it was erected."
+
+But we forget that the reader has not yet been made acquainted with
+the guest.  It was no other than that universally accredited
+character so constantly referred to in all seasons of intense cold
+or heat; he that, remembers the hot Sunday and the cold Friday; the
+witness of a past age whose negative reminiscences find their way
+into every newspaper, yet whose antiquated and dusky abode is so
+overshadowed by accumulated years and crowded back by modern
+edifices that none but the Man of Fancy could have discovered it;
+it was, in short, that twin brother of Time, and great-grandsire of
+mankind, and hand-and-glove associate of all forgotten men and
+things,--the Oldest Inhabitant.  The host would willingly have drawn
+him into conversation, but succeeded only in eliciting a few remarks
+as to the oppressive atmosphere of this present summer evening
+compared with one which the guest had experienced about fourscore
+years ago.  The old gentleman, in fact, was a good deal overcome by
+his journey among the clouds, which, to a frame so earth-incrusted
+by long continuance in a lower region, was unavoidably more
+fatiguing than to younger spirits.  He was therefore conducted to an
+easy-chair, well cushioned and stuffed with vaporous softness, and
+left to take a little repose.
+
+The Man of Fancy now discerned another guest, who stood so quietly
+in the shadow of one of the pillars that he might easily have been
+overlooked.
+
+"My dear sir," exclaimed the host, grasping him warmly by the hand,
+"allow me to greet you as the hero of the evening.  Pray do not take
+it as an empty compliment; for, if there were not another guest in
+my castle, it would be entirely pervaded with your presence."
+
+"I thank you," answered the unpretending stranger; "but, though you
+happened to overlook me, I have not just arrived.  I came very
+early; and, with your permission, shall remain after the rest of the
+company have retired."
+
+And who does the reader imagine was this unobtrusive guest?  It was
+the famous performer of acknowledged impossibilities,--a character
+of superhuman capacity and virtue, and, if his enemies are to be
+credited, of no less remarkable weaknesses and defects. With a
+generosity with which he alone sets us an example, we will glance
+merely at his nobler attributes.  He it is, then, who prefers the
+interests of others to his own and a humble station to an exalted
+one.  Careless of fashion, custom, the opinions of men, and the
+influence of the press, he assimilates his life to the standard of
+ideal rectitude, and thus proves himself the one independent citizen
+of our free country.  In point of ability, many people declare him
+to be the only mathematician capable of squaring the circle; the
+only mechanic acquainted with the principle of perpetual motion; the
+only scientific philosopher who can compel water to run up hill; the
+only writer of the age whose genius is equal to the production of an
+epic poem; and, finally, so various are his accomplishments, the
+only professor of gymnastics who has succeeded in jumping down his
+own throat. With all these talents, however, he is so far from being
+considered a member of good society, that it is the severest censure
+of any fashionable assemblage to affirm that this remarkable
+individual was present.  Public orators, lecturers, and theatrical
+performers particularly eschew his company.  For especial reasons,
+we are not at liberty to disclose his name, and shall mention only
+one other trait,--a most singular phenomenon in natural
+philosophy,--that, when he happens to cast his eyes upon a
+looking-glass, he beholds Nobody reflected there!
+
+Several other guests now made their appearance; and among them,
+chattering with immense volubility, a brisk little gentleman of
+universal vogue in private society, and not unknown in the public
+journals under the title of Monsieur On-Dit.  The name would seem to
+indicate a Frenchman; but, whatever be his country, he is thoroughly
+versed in all the languages of the day, and can express himself
+quite as much to the purpose in English as in any other tongue.  No
+sooner were the ceremonies of salutation over than this talkative
+little person put his mouth to the host's ear and whispered three
+secrets of state, an important piece of commercial intelligence, and
+a rich item of fashionable scandal. He then assured the Man of Fancy
+that he would not fail to circulate in the society of the lower
+world a minute description of this magnificent castle in the air and
+of the festivities at which he had the honor to be a guest.  So
+saying, Monsieur On-Dit made his bow and hurried from one to another
+of the company, with all of whom he seemed to be acquainted and to
+possess some topic of interest or amusement for every individual.
+Coming at last to the Oldest Inhabitant, who was slumbering
+comfortably in the easy-chair, he applied his mouth to that
+venerable ear.
+
+"What do you say?" cried the old gentleman, starting from his nap
+and putting up his hand to serve the purpose of an ear-trumpet.
+
+Monsieur On-Dit bent forward again and repeated his communication.
+
+"Never within my memory," exclaimed the Oldest Inhabitant, lifting
+his hands in astonishment, "has so remarkable an incident been heard
+of."
+
+Now came in the Clerk of the Weather, who had been invited out of
+deference to his official station, although the host was well aware
+that his conversation was likely to contribute but little to the
+general enjoyment.  He soon, indeed, got into a corner with his
+acquaintance of long ago, the Oldest Inhabitant, and began to
+compare notes with him in reference to the great storms, gales of
+wind, and other atmospherical facts that had occurred during a
+century past.  It rejoiced the Man of Fancy that his venerable and
+much-respected guest had met with so congenial an associate.
+Entreating them both to make themselves perfectly at home, he now
+turned to receive the Wandering Jew.  This personage, however, had
+latterly grown so common, by mingling in all sorts of society and
+appearing at the beck of every entertainer, that he could hardly be
+deemed a proper guest in a very exclusive circle.  Besides, being
+covered with dust from his continual wanderings along the highways
+of the world, he really looked out of place in a dress party; so
+that the host felt relieved of an incommodity when the restless
+individual in question, after a brief stay, took his departure on a
+ramble towards Oregon.
+
+The portal was now thronged by a crowd of shadowy people with whom
+the Man of Fancy had been acquainted in his visionary youth. He had
+invited them hither for the sake of observing how they would
+compare, whether advantageously or otherwise, with the real
+characters to whom his maturer life had introduced him.  They were
+beings of crude imagination, such as glide before a young man's eye
+and pretend to be actual inhabitants of the earth; the wise and
+witty with whom he would hereafter hold intercourse; the generous
+and heroic friends whose devotion would be requited with his own;
+the beautiful dream-woman who would become the helpmate of his human
+toils and sorrows and at once the source and partaker of his
+happiness.  Alas! it is not good for the full-grown man to look too
+closely at these old acquaintances, but rather to reverence them at
+a distance through the medium of years that have gathered duskily
+between.  There was something laughably untrue in their pompous
+stride and exaggerated sentiment; they were neither human nor
+tolerable likenesses of humanity, but fantastic maskers, rendering
+heroism and nature alike ridiculous by the grave absurdity of their
+pretensions to such attributes; and as for the peerless dream-lady,
+behold! there advanced up the saloon, with a movement like a jointed
+doll, a sort of wax-figure of an angel, a creature as cold as
+moonshine, an artifice in petticoats, with an intellect of pretty
+phrases and only the semblance of a heart, yet in all these
+particulars the true type of a young man's imaginary mistress.
+Hardly could the host's punctilious courtesy restrain a smile as he
+paid his respects to this unreality and met the sentimental glance
+with which the Dream sought to remind him of their former love
+passages.
+
+"No, no, fair lady," murmured he betwixt sighing and smiling; "my
+taste is changed; I have learned to love what Nature makes better
+than my own creations in the guise of womanhood."
+
+"Ah, false one," shrieked the dream-lady, pretending to faint, but
+dissolving into thin air, out of which came the deplorable murmur of
+her voice, "your inconstancy has annihilated me."
+
+"So be it," said the cruel Man of Fancy to himself; "and a good
+riddance too."
+
+Together with these shadows, and from the same region, there came an
+uninvited multitude of shapes which at any time during his life had
+tormented the Man of Fancy in his moods of morbid melancholy or had
+haunted him in the delirium of fever.  The walls of his castle in
+the air were not dense enough to keep them out, nor would the
+strongest of earthly architecture have availed to their exclusion.
+Here were those forms of dim terror which had beset him at the
+entrance of life, waging warfare with his hopes; here were strange
+uglinesses of earlier date, such as haunt children in the night-time.
+He was particularly startled by the vision of a deformed old
+black woman whom he imagined as lurking in the garret of his native
+home, and who, when he was an infant, had once come to his bedside
+and grinned at him in the crisis of a scarlet fever.  This same
+black shadow, with others almost as hideous, now glided among the
+pillars of the magnificent saloon, grinning recognition, until the
+man shuddered anew at the forgotten terrors of his childhood.  It
+amused him, however, to observe the black woman, with the
+mischievous caprice peculiar to such beings, steal up to the chair
+of the Oldest Inhabitant and peep into his half-dreamy mind.
+
+"Never within my memory," muttered that venerable personage, aghast,
+"did I see such a face."
+
+Almost immediately after the unrealities just described, arrived a
+number of guests whom incredulous readers may be inclined to rank
+equally among creatures of imagination.  The most noteworthy were an
+incorruptible Patriot; a Scholar without pedantry; a Priest without
+worldly ambition; and a Beautiful Woman without pride or coquetry; a
+Married Pair whose life had never been disturbed by incongruity of
+feeling; a Reformer untrammelled by his theory; and a Poet who felt
+no jealousy towards other votaries of the lyre.  In truth, however,
+the host was not one of the cynics who consider these patterns of
+excellence, without the fatal flaw, such rarities in the world; and
+he had invited them to his select party chiefly out of humble
+deference to the judgment of society, which pronounces them almost
+impossible to be met with.
+
+"In my younger days," observed the Oldest Inhabitant, "such
+characters might be seen at the corner of every street."
+
+Be that as it might, these specimens of perfection proved to be not
+half so entertaining companions as people with the ordinary
+allowance of faults.
+
+But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized
+than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he
+hastened down the whole length of the saloon in order to pay him
+emphatic honor.  Yet he was a young man in poor attire, with no
+insignia of rank or acknowledged eminence, nor anything to
+distinguish him among the crowd except a high, white forehead,
+beneath which a pair of deep-set eyes were glowing with warm light.
+It was such a light as never illuminates the earth save when a great
+heart burns as the household fire of a grand intellect.  And who was
+he?--who but the Master Genius for whom our country is looking
+anxiously into the mist of Time, as destined to fulfil the great
+mission of creating an American literature, hewing it, as it were,
+out of the unwrought granite of our intellectual quarries?  From
+him, whether moulded in the form of an epic poem or assuming a guise
+altogether new as the spirit itself may determine, we are to receive
+our first great original work, which shall do all that remains to be
+achieved for our glory among the nations.  How this child of a
+mighty destiny had been discovered by the Man of Fancy it is of
+little consequence to mention.  Suffice it that he dwells as yet
+unhonored among men, unrecognized by those who have known him from
+his cradle; the noble countenance which should be distinguished by a
+halo diffused around it passes daily amid the throng of people
+toiling and troubling themselves about the trifles of a moment, and
+none pay reverence to the worker of immortality.  Nor does it matter
+much to him, in his triumph over all the ages, though a generation
+or two of his own times shall do themselves the wrong to disregard
+him.
+
+By this time Monsieur On-Dit had caught up the stranger's name and
+destiny and was busily whispering the intelligence among the other
+guests.
+
+"Pshaw!" said one.  "There can never be an American genius."
+
+"Pish!" cried another.  "We have already as good poets as any in the
+world.  For my part, I desire to see no better."
+
+And the Oldest Inhabitant, when it was proposed to introduce him to
+the Master Genius, begged to be excused, observing that a man who
+had been honored with the acquaintance of Dwight, and Freneau, and
+Joel Barlow, might be allowed a little austerity of taste.
+
+The saloon was now fast filling up by the arrival of other
+remarkable characters, among whom were noticed Davy Jones, the
+distinguished nautical personage, and a rude, carelessly dressed,
+harum-scarum sort of elderly fellow, known by the nickname of Old
+Harry.  The latter, however, after being shown to a dressing-room,
+reappeared with his gray hair nicely combed, his clothes brushed, a
+clean dicky on his neck, and altogether so changed in aspect as to
+merit the more respectful appellation of Venerable Henry.  Joel Doe
+and Richard Roe came arm in arm, accompanied by a Man of Straw, a
+fictitious indorser, and several persons who had no existence except
+as voters in closely contested elections. The celebrated Seatsfield,
+who now entered, was at first supposed to belong to the same
+brotherhood, until he made it apparent that he was a real man of
+flesh and blood and had his earthly domicile in Germany.  Among the
+latest comers, as might reasonably be expected, arrived a guest from
+the far future.
+
+"Do you know him? do you know him?" whispered Monsieur On-Dit, who
+seemed to be acquainted with everybody.  "He is the representative
+of Posterity,--the man of an age to come."
+
+"And how came he here?" asked a figure who was evidently the
+prototype of the fashion-plate in a magazine, and might be taken to
+represent the vanities of the passing moment.  "The fellow infringes
+upon our rights by coming before his time."
+
+"But you forget where we are," answered the Man of Fancy, who
+overheard the remark.  "The lower earth, it is true, will be
+forbidden ground to him for many long years hence; but a castle in
+the air is a sort of no-man's-land, where Posterity may make
+acquaintance with us on equal terms."
+
+No sooner was his identity known than a throng of guests gathered
+about Posterity, all expressing the most generous interest in his
+welfare, and many boasting of the sacrifices which they had made, or
+were willing to make, in his behalf.  Some, with as much secrecy as
+possible, desired his judgment upon certain copies of verses or
+great manuscript rolls of prose; others accosted him with the
+familiarity of old friends, taking it for granted that he was
+perfectly cognizant of their names and characters.  At length,
+finding himself thus beset, Posterity was put quite beside his
+patience.
+
+"Gentlemen, my good friends," cried he, breaking loose from a misty
+poet who strove to hold him by the button, "I pray you to attend to
+your own business, and leave me to take care of mine! I expect to
+owe you nothing, unless it be certain national debts, and other
+encumbrances and impediments, physical and moral, which I shall find
+it troublesome enough to remove from my path.  As to your verses,
+pray read them to your contemporaries.  Your names are as strange to
+me as your faces; and even were it otherwise,--let me whisper you a
+secret,--the cold, icy memory which one generation may retain of
+another is but a poor recompense to barter life for.  Yet, if your
+heart is set on being known to me, the surest, the only method is,
+to live truly and wisely for your own age, whereby, if the native
+force be in you, you may likewise live for posterity."
+
+"It is nonsense," murmured the Oldest Inhabitant, who, as a man of
+the past, felt jealous that all notice should be withdrawn from
+himself to be lavished on the future, "sheer nonsense, to waste so
+much thought on what only is to be."
+
+To divert the minds of his guests, who were considerably abashed by
+this little incident, the Man of Fancy led them through several
+apartments of the castle, receiving their compliments upon the taste
+and varied magnificence that were displayed in each.  One of these
+rooms was filled with moonlight, which did not enter through the
+window, but was the aggregate of all the moonshine that is scattered
+around the earth on a summer night while no eyes are awake to enjoy
+its beauty.  Airy spirits had gathered it up, wherever they found it
+gleaming on the broad bosom of a lake, or silvering the meanders of
+a stream, or glimmering among the wind-stirred boughs of a wood, and
+had garnered it in this one spacious hall.  Along the walls,
+illuminated by the mild intensity of the moonshine, stood a
+multitude of ideal statues, the original conceptions of the great
+works of ancient or modern art, which the sculptors did but
+imperfectly succeed in putting into marble; for it is not to be
+supposed that the pure idea of an immortal creation ceases to exist;
+it is only necessary to know where they are deposited in order to
+obtain possession of them.--In the alcoves of another vast apartment
+was arranged a splendid library, the volumes of which were
+inestimable, because they consisted, not of actual performances, but
+of the works which the authors only planned, without ever finding
+the happy season to achieve them.  To take familiar instances, here
+were the untold tales of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims; the
+unwritten cantos of the Fairy Queen; the conclusion of Coleridge's
+Christabel; and the whole of Dryden's projected epic on the subject
+of King Arthur.  The shelves were crowded; for it would not be too
+much to affirm that every author has imagined and shaped out in his
+thought more and far better works than those which actually
+proceeded from his pen.  And here, likewise, where the unrealized
+conceptions of youthful poets who died of the very strength of their
+own genius before the world had caught one inspired murmur from
+their lips.
+
+When the peculiarities of the library and statue-gallery were
+explained to the Oldest Inhabitant, he appeared infinitely
+perplexed, and exclaimed, with more energy than usual, that he had
+never heard of such a thing within his memory, and, moreover, did
+not at all understand how it could be.
+
+"But my brain, I think," said the good old gentleman, "is getting
+not so clear as it used to be.  You young folks, I suppose, can see
+your way through these strange matters.  For my part, I give it up."
+
+"And so do I," muttered the Old Harry.  "It is enough to puzzle
+the--Ahem!"
+
+Making as little reply as possible to these observations, the Man of
+Fancy preceded the company to another noble saloon, the pillars of
+which were solid golden sunbeams taken out of the sky in the first
+hour in the morning.  Thus, as they retained all their living
+lustre, the room was filled with the most cheerful radiance
+imaginable, yet not too dazzling to be borne with comfort and
+delight.  The windows were beautifully adorned with curtains made of
+the many-colored clouds of sunrise, all imbued with virgin light,
+and hanging in magnificent festoons from the ceiling to the floor.
+Moreover, there were fragments of rainbows scattered through the
+room; so that the guests, astonished at one another, reciprocally
+saw their heads made glorious by the seven primary hues; or, if they
+chose,--as who would not?--they could grasp a rainbow in the air and
+convert it to their own apparel and adornment.  But the morning
+light and scattered rainbows were only a type and symbol of the real
+wonders of the apartment.  By an influence akin to magic, yet
+perfectly natural, whatever means and opportunities of joy are
+neglected in the lower world had been carefully gathered up and
+deposited in the saloon of morning sunshine.  As may well be
+conceived, therefore, there was material enough to supply, not
+merely a joyous evening, but also a happy lifetime, to more than as
+many people as that spacious apartment could contain.  The company
+seemed to renew their youth; while that pattern and proverbial
+standard of innocence, the Child Unborn, frolicked to and fro among
+them, communicating his own unwrinkled gayety to all who had the
+good fortune to witness his gambols.
+
+"My honored friends," said the Man of Fancy, after they had enjoyed
+themselves awhile, "I am now to request your presence in the
+banqueting-hall, where a slight collation is awaiting you."
+
+"Ah, well said!" ejaculated a cadaverous figure, who had been
+invited for no other reason than that he was pretty constantly in
+the habit of dining with Duke Humphrey.  "I was beginning to wonder
+whether a castle in the air were provided with a kitchen."
+
+It was curious, in truth, to see how instantaneously the guests were
+diverted from the high moral enjoyments which they had been tasting
+with so much apparent zest by a suggestion of the more solid as well
+as liquid delights of the festive board.  They thronged eagerly in
+the rear of the host, who now ushered them into a lofty and
+extensive hall, from end to end of which was arranged a table,
+glittering all over with innumerable dishes and drinking-vessels of
+gold.  It is an uncertain point whether these rich articles of plate
+were made for the occasion out of molten sunbeams, or recovered from
+the wrecks of Spanish galleons that had lain for ages at the bottom
+of the sea.  The upper end of the table was overshadowed by a
+canopy, beneath which was placed a chair of elaborate magnificence,
+which the host himself declined to occupy, and besought his guests
+to assign it to the worthiest among them.  As a suitable homage to
+his incalculable antiquity and eminent distinction, the post of
+honor was at first tendered to the Oldest Inhabitant.  He, however,
+eschewed it, and requested the favor of a bowl of gruel at a side
+table, where he could refresh himself with a quiet nap.  There was
+some little hesitation as to the next candidate, until Posterity
+took the Master Genius of our country by the hand and led him to the
+chair of state beneath the princely canopy.  When once they beheld
+him in his true place, the company acknowledged the justice of the
+selection by a long thunder-roll of vehement applause.
+
+Then was served up a banquet, combining, if not all the delicacies
+of the season, yet all the rarities which careful purveyors had met
+with in the flesh, fish, and vegetable markets of the land of
+Nowhere.  The bill of fare being unfortunately lost, we can only
+mention a phoenix, roasted in its own flames, cold potted birds of
+paradise, ice-creams from the Milky-Way, and whip syllabubs and
+flummery from the Paradise of Fools, whereof there was a very great
+consumption.  As for drinkables, the temperance people contented
+themselves with water as usual; but it was the water of the Fountain
+of Youth; the ladies sipped Nepenthe; the lovelorn, the careworn,
+and the sorrow-stricken were supplied with brimming goblets of Lethe;
+and it was shrewdly conjectured that a certain golden vase, from
+which only the more distinguished guests were invited to partake,
+contained nectar that had been mellowing ever since the days of
+classical mythology.  The cloth being removed, the company, as
+usual, grew eloquent over their liquor and delivered themselves of a
+succession of brilliant speeches,--the task of reporting which we
+resign to the more adequate ability of Counsellor Gill, whose
+indispensable co-operation the Man of Fancy had taken the precaution
+to secure.
+
+When the festivity of the banquet was at its most ethereal point,
+the Clerk of the Weather was observed to steal from the table and
+thrust his head between the purple and golden curtains of one of the
+windows.
+
+"My fellow-guests," he remarked aloud, after carefully noting the
+signs of the night, "I advise such of you as live at a distance to
+be going as soon as possible; for a thunder-storm is certainly at
+hand."
+
+"Mercy on me!" cried Mother Carey, who had left her brood of
+chickens and come hither in gossamer drapery, with pink silk
+stockings.  "How shall I ever get home?"
+
+All now was confusion and hasty departure, with but little
+superfluous leave-taking.  The Oldest Inhabitant, however, true to
+the rule of those long past days in which his courtesy had been
+studied, paused on the threshold of the meteor-lighted hall to
+express his vast satisfaction at the entertainment.
+
+"Never, within my memory," observed the gracious old gentleman, "has
+it been my good fortune to spend a pleasanter evening or in more
+select society."
+
+The wind here took his breath away, whirled his three-cornered hat
+into infinite space, and drowned what further compliments it had
+been his purpose to bestow.  Many of the company had bespoken
+will-o'-the-wisps to convoy them home; and the host, in his general
+beneficence, had engaged the Man in the Moon, with an immense
+horn-lantern, to be the guide of such desolate spinsters as could do
+no better for themselves.  But a blast of the rising tempest blew out
+all their lights in the twinkling of an eye. How, in the darkness
+that ensued, the guests contrived to get back to earth, or whether
+the greater part of them contrived to get back at all, or are still
+wandering among clouds, mists, and puffs of tempestuous wind,
+bruised by the beams and rafters of the overthrown castle in the
+air, and deluded by all sorts of unrealities, are points that
+concern themselves much more than the writer or the public.  People
+should think of these matters before they trust themselves on a
+pleasure-party into the realm of Nowhere.
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+Old Manse"), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                         A SELECT PARTY  
+
+
+
+The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the
+air, and invited a select number of distinguished personages to
+favor him with their presence.  The mansion, though less splendid
+than many that have been situated in the same region, was
+nevertheless of a magnificence such as is seldom witnessed by those
+acquainted only with terrestrial architecture.  Its strong
+foundations and massive walls were quarried out of a ledge of heavy
+and sombre clouds which had hung brooding over the earth, apparently
+as dense and ponderous as its own granite, throughout a whole
+autumnal day.  Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy,--so
+that the airy castle looked like a feudal fortress, or a monastery
+of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our own times, rather than
+the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to be,--the
+owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from top
+to bottom.  Fortunately, there was just then a flood of evening
+sunshine in the air.  This being gathered up and poured abundantly
+upon the roof and walls, imbued them with a kind of solemn
+cheerfulness; while the cupolas and pinnacles were made to glitter
+with the purest gold, and all the hundred windows gleamed with a
+glad light, as if the edifice itself were rejoicing in its heart.
+
+And now, if the people of the lower world chanced to be looking
+upward out of the turmoil of their petty perplexities, they probably
+mistook the castle in the air for a heap of sunset clouds, to which
+the magic of light and shade had imparted the aspect of a
+fantastically constructed mansion.  To such beholders it was unreal,
+because they lacked the imaginative faith.  Had they been worthy to
+pass within its portal, they would have recognized the truth, that
+the dominions which the spirit conquers for itself among unrealities
+become a thousand times more real than the earth whereon they stamp
+their feet, saying, "This is solid and substantial; this may be
+called a fact."
+
+At the appointed hour, the host stood in his great saloon to receive
+the company.  It was a vast and noble room, the vaulted ceiling of
+which was supported by double rows of gigantic pillars that had been
+hewn entire out of masses of variegated clouds.  So brilliantly were
+they polished, and so exquisitely wrought by the sculptor's skill,
+as to resemble the finest specimens of emerald, porphyry, opal, and
+chrysolite, thus producing a delicate richness of effect which their
+immense size rendered not incompatible with grandeur.  To each of
+these pillars a meteor was suspended.  Thousands of these ethereal
+lustres are continually wandering about the firmament, burning out
+to waste, yet capable of imparting a useful radiance to any person
+who has the art of converting them to domestic purposes.  As managed
+in the saloon, they are far more economical than ordinary lamplight.
+Such, however, was the intensity of their blaze that it had been
+found expedient to cover each meteor with a globe of evening mist,
+thereby muffling the too potent glow and soothing it into a mild and
+comfortable splendor.  It was like the brilliancy of a powerful yet
+chastened imagination,--a light which seemed to hide whatever was
+unworthy to be noticed and give effect to every beautiful and noble
+attribute.  The guests, therefore, as they advanced up the centre of
+the saloon, appeared to better advantage than ever before in their
+lives.
+
+The first that entered, with old-fashioned punctuality, was a
+venerable figure in the costume of bygone days, with his white hair
+flowing down over his shoulders and a reverend beard upon his
+breast.  He leaned upon a staff, the tremulous stroke of which, as
+he set it carefully upon the floor, re-echoed through the saloon at
+every footstep.  Recognizing at once this celebrated personage, whom
+it had cost him a vast deal of trouble and research to discover, the
+host advanced nearly three fourths of the distance down between the
+pillars to meet and welcome him.
+
+"Venerable sir," said the Man of Fancy, bending to the floor, "the
+honor of this visit would never be forgotten were my term of
+existence to be as happily prolonged as your own."
+
+The old gentleman received the compliment with gracious
+condescension.  He then thrust up his spectacles over his forehead
+and appeared to take a critical survey of the saloon.
+
+"Never within my recollection," observed he, "have I entered a more
+spacious and noble hall.  But are you sure that it is built of solid
+materials and that the structure will be permanent?"
+
+"O, never fear, my venerable friend," replied the host.  "In
+reference to a lifetime like your own, it is true my castle may well
+be called a temporary edifice.  But it will endure long enough to
+answer all the purposes for which it was erected."
+
+But we forget that the reader has not yet been made acquainted with
+the guest.  It was no other than that universally accredited
+character so constantly referred to in all seasons of intense cold
+or heat; he that, remembers the hot Sunday and the cold Friday; the
+witness of a past age whose negative reminiscences find their way
+into every newspaper, yet whose antiquated and dusky abode is so
+overshadowed by accumulated years and crowded back by modern
+edifices that none but the Man of Fancy could have discovered it;
+it was, in short, that twin brother of Time, and great-grandsire of
+mankind, and hand-and-glove associate of all forgotten men and
+things,--the Oldest Inhabitant.  The host would willingly have drawn
+him into conversation, but succeeded only in eliciting a few remarks
+as to the oppressive atmosphere of this present summer evening
+compared with one which the guest had experienced about fourscore
+years ago.  The old gentleman, in fact, was a good deal overcome by
+his journey among the clouds, which, to a frame so earth-incrusted
+by long continuance in a lower region, was unavoidably more
+fatiguing than to younger spirits.  He was therefore conducted to an
+easy-chair, well cushioned and stuffed with vaporous softness, and
+left to take a little repose.
+
+The Man of Fancy now discerned another guest, who stood so quietly
+in the shadow of one of the pillars that he might easily have been
+overlooked.
+
+"My dear sir," exclaimed the host, grasping him warmly by the hand,
+"allow me to greet you as the hero of the evening.  Pray do not take
+it as an empty compliment; for, if there were not another guest in
+my castle, it would be entirely pervaded with your presence."
+
+"I thank you," answered the unpretending stranger; "but, though you
+happened to overlook me, I have not just arrived.  I came very
+early; and, with your permission, shall remain after the rest of the
+company have retired."
+
+And who does the reader imagine was this unobtrusive guest?  It was
+the famous performer of acknowledged impossibilities,--a character
+of superhuman capacity and virtue, and, if his enemies are to be
+credited, of no less remarkable weaknesses and defects. With a
+generosity with which he alone sets us an example, we will glance
+merely at his nobler attributes.  He it is, then, who prefers the
+interests of others to his own and a humble station to an exalted
+one.  Careless of fashion, custom, the opinions of men, and the
+influence of the press, he assimilates his life to the standard of
+ideal rectitude, and thus proves himself the one independent citizen
+of our free country.  In point of ability, many people declare him
+to be the only mathematician capable of squaring the circle; the
+only mechanic acquainted with the principle of perpetual motion; the
+only scientific philosopher who can compel water to run up hill; the
+only writer of the age whose genius is equal to the production of an
+epic poem; and, finally, so various are his accomplishments, the
+only professor of gymnastics who has succeeded in jumping down his
+own throat. With all these talents, however, he is so far from being
+considered a member of good society, that it is the severest censure
+of any fashionable assemblage to affirm that this remarkable
+individual was present.  Public orators, lecturers, and theatrical
+performers particularly eschew his company.  For especial reasons,
+we are not at liberty to disclose his name, and shall mention only
+one other trait,--a most singular phenomenon in natural philosophy,
+--that, when he happens to cast his eyes upon a looking-glass, he
+beholds Nobody reflected there!
+
+Several other guests now made their appearance; and among them,
+chattering with immense volubility, a brisk little gentleman of
+universal vogue in private society, and not unknown in the public
+journals under the title of Monsieur On-Dit.  The name would seem to
+indicate a Frenchman; but, whatever be his country, he is thoroughly
+versed in all the languages of the day, and can express himself
+quite as much to the purpose in English as in any other tongue.  No
+sooner were the ceremonies of salutation over than this talkative
+little person put his mouth to the host's ear and whispered three
+secrets of state, an important piece of commercial intelligence, and
+a rich item of fashionable scandal. He then assured the Man of Fancy
+that he would not fail to circulate in the society of the lower
+world a minute description of this magnificent castle in the air and
+of the festivities at which he had the honor to be a guest.  So
+saying, Monsieur On-Dit made his bow and hurried from one to another
+of the company, with all of whom he seemed to be acquainted and to
+possess some topic of interest or amusement for every individual.
+Coming at last to the Oldest Inhabitant, who was slumbering
+comfortably in the easy-chair, he applied his mouth to that
+venerable ear.
+
+"What do you say?" cried the old gentleman, starting from his nap
+and putting up his hand to serve the purpose of an ear-trumpet.
+
+Monsieur On-Dit bent forward again and repeated his communication.
+
+"Never within my memory," exclaimed the Oldest Inhabitant, lifting
+his hands in astonishment, "has so remarkable an incident been heard
+of."
+
+Now came in the Clerk of the Weather, who had been invited out of
+deference to his official station, although the host was well aware
+that his conversation was likely to contribute but little to the
+general enjoyment.  He soon, indeed, got into a corner with his
+acquaintance of long ago, the Oldest Inhabitant, and began to
+compare notes with him in reference to the great storms, gales of
+wind, and other atmospherical facts that had occurred during a
+century past.  It rejoiced the Man of Fancy that his venerable and
+much-respected guest had met with so congenial an associate.
+Entreating them both to make themselves perfectly at home, he now
+turned to receive the Wandering Jew.  This personage, however, had
+latterly grown so common, by mingling in all sorts of society and
+appearing at the beck of every entertainer, that he could hardly be
+deemed a proper guest in a very exclusive circle.  Besides, being
+covered with dust from his continual wanderings along the highways
+of the world, he really looked out of place in a dress party; so
+that the host felt relieved of an incommodity when the restless
+individual in question, after a brief stay, took his departure on a
+ramble towards Oregon.
+
+The portal was now thronged by a crowd of shadowy people with whom
+the Man of Fancy had been acquainted in his visionary youth. He had
+invited them hither for the sake of observing how they would
+compare, whether advantageously or otherwise, with the real
+characters to whom his maturer life had introduced him.  They were
+beings of crude imagination, such as glide before a young man's eye
+and pretend to be actual inhabitants of the earth; the wise and
+witty with whom he would hereafter hold intercourse; the generous
+and heroic friends whose devotion would be requited with his own;
+the beautiful dream-woman who would become the helpmate of his human
+toils and sorrows and at once the source and partaker of his
+happiness.  Alas! it is not good for the full-grown man to look too
+closely at these old acquaintances, but rather to reverence them at
+a distance through the medium of years that have gathered duskily
+between.  There was something laughably untrue in their pompous
+stride and exaggerated sentiment; they were neither human nor
+tolerable likenesses of humanity, but fantastic maskers, rendering
+heroism and nature alike ridiculous by the grave absurdity of their
+pretensions to such attributes; and as for the peerless dream-lady,
+behold! there advanced up the saloon, with a movement like a jointed
+doll, a sort of wax-figure of an angel, a creature as cold as
+moonshine, an artifice in petticoats, with an intellect of pretty
+phrases and only the semblance of a heart, yet in all these
+particulars the true type of a young man's imaginary mistress.
+Hardly could the host's punctilious courtesy restrain a smile as he
+paid his respects to this unreality and met the sentimental glance
+with which the Dream sought to remind him of their former love
+passages.
+
+"No, no, fair lady," murmured he betwixt sighing and smiling; "my
+taste is changed; I have learned to love what Nature makes better
+than my own creations in the guise of womanhood."
+
+"Ah, false one," shrieked the dream-lady, pretending to faint, but
+dissolving into thin air, out of which came the deplorable murmur of
+her voice, "your inconstancy has annihilated me."
+
+"So be it," said the cruel Man of Fancy to himself; "and a good
+riddance too."
+
+Together with these shadows, and from the same region, there came an
+uninvited multitude of shapes which at any time during his life had
+tormented the Man of Fancy in his moods of morbid melancholy or had
+haunted him in the delirium of fever.  The walls of his castle in
+the air were not dense enough to keep them out, nor would the
+strongest of earthly architecture have availed to their exclusion.
+Here were those forms of dim terror which had beset him at the
+entrance of life, waging warfare with his hopes; here were strange
+uglinesses of earlier date, such as haunt children in the night-
+time.  He was particularly startled by the vision of a deformed old
+black woman whom he imagined as lurking in the garret of his native
+home, and who, when he was an infant, had once come to his bedside
+and grinned at him in the crisis of a scarlet fever.  This same
+black shadow, with others almost as hideous, now glided among the
+pillars of the magnificent saloon, grinning recognition, until the
+man shuddered anew at the forgotten terrors of his childhood.  It
+amused him, however, to observe the black woman, with the
+mischievous caprice peculiar to such beings, steal up to the chair
+of the Oldest Inhabitant and peep into his half-dreamy mind.
+
+"Never within my memory," muttered that venerable personage, aghast,
+"did I see such a face."
+
+Almost immediately after the unrealities just described, arrived a
+number of guests whom incredulous readers may be inclined to rank
+equally among creatures of imagination.  The most noteworthy were an
+incorruptible Patriot; a Scholar without pedantry; a Priest without
+worldly ambition; and a Beautiful Woman without pride or coquetry; a
+Married Pair whose life had never been disturbed by incongruity of
+feeling; a Reformer untrammelled by his theory; and a Poet who felt
+no jealousy towards other votaries of the lyre.  In truth, however,
+the host was not one of the cynics who consider these patterns of
+excellence, without the fatal flaw, such rarities in the world; and
+he had invited them to his select party chiefly out of humble
+deference to the judgment of society, which pronounces them almost
+impossible to be met with.
+
+"In my younger days," observed the Oldest Inhabitant, "such
+characters might be seen at the corner of every street."
+
+Be that as it might, these specimens of perfection proved to be not
+half so entertaining companions as people with the ordinary
+allowance of faults.
+
+But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized
+than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he
+hastened down the whole length of the saloon in order to pay him
+emphatic honor.  Yet he was a young man in poor attire, with no
+insignia of rank or acknowledged eminence, nor anything to
+distinguish him among the crowd except a high, white forehead,
+beneath which a pair of deep-set eyes were glowing with warm light.
+It was such a light as never illuminates the earth save when a great
+heart burns as the household fire of a grand intellect.  And who was
+he?--who but the Master Genius for whom our country is looking
+anxiously into the mist of Time, as destined to fulfil the great
+mission of creating an American literature, hewing it, as it were,
+out of the unwrought granite of our intellectual quarries?  From
+him, whether moulded in the form of an epic poem or assuming a guise
+altogether new as the spirit itself may determine, we are to receive
+our first great original work, which shall do all that remains to be
+achieved for our glory among the nations.  How this child of a
+mighty destiny had been discovered by the Man of Fancy it is of
+little consequence to mention.  Suffice it that he dwells as yet
+unhonored among men, unrecognized by those who have known him from
+his cradle; the noble countenance which should be distinguished by a
+halo diffused around it passes daily amid the throng of people
+toiling and troubling themselves about the trifles of a moment, and
+none pay reverence to the worker of immortality.  Nor does it matter
+much to him, in his triumph over all the ages, though a generation
+or two of his own times shall do themselves the wrong to disregard
+him.
+
+By this time Monsieur On-Dit had caught up the stranger's name and
+destiny and was busily whispering the intelligence among the other
+guests.
+
+"Pshaw!" said one.  "There can never be an American genius."
+
+"Pish!" cried another.  "We have already as good poets as any in the
+world.  For my part, I desire to see no better."
+
+And the Oldest Inhabitant, when it was proposed to introduce him to
+the Master Genius, begged to be excused, observing that a man who
+had been honored with the acquaintance of Dwight, and Freneau, and
+Joel Barlow, might be allowed a little austerity of taste.
+
+The saloon was now fast filling up by the arrival of other
+remarkable characters, among whom were noticed Davy Jones, the
+distinguished nautical personage, and a rude, carelessly dressed,
+harum-scarum sort of elderly fellow, known by the nickname of Old
+Harry.  The latter, however, after being shown to a dressing-room,
+reappeared with his gray hair nicely combed, his clothes brushed, a
+clean dicky on his neck, and altogether so changed in aspect as to
+merit the more respectful appellation of Venerable Henry.  Joel Doe
+and Richard Roe came arm in arm, accompanied by a Man of Straw, a
+fictitious indorser, and several persons who had no existence except
+as voters in closely contested elections. The celebrated Seatsfield,
+who now entered, was at first supposed to belong to the same
+brotherhood, until he made it apparent that he was a real man of
+flesh and blood and had his earthly domicile in Germany.  Among the
+latest comers, as might reasonably be expected, arrived a guest from
+the far future.
+
+"Do you know him? do you know him?" whispered Monsieur On-Dit, who
+seemed to be acquainted with everybody.  "He is the representative
+of Posterity,--the man of an age to come."
+
+"And how came he here?" asked a figure who was evidently the
+prototype of the fashion-plate in a magazine, and might be taken to
+represent the vanities of the passing moment.  "The fellow infringes
+upon our rights by coming before his time."
+
+"But you forget where we are," answered the Man of Fancy, who
+overheard the remark.  "The lower earth, it is true, will be
+forbidden ground to him for many long years hence; but a castle in
+the air is a sort of no-man's-land, where Posterity may make
+acquaintance with us on equal terms."
+
+No sooner was his identity known than a throng of guests gathered
+about Posterity, all expressing the most generous interest in his
+welfare, and many boasting of the sacrifices which they had made, or
+were willing to make, in his behalf.  Some, with as much secrecy as
+possible, desired his judgment upon certain copies of verses or
+great manuscript rolls of prose; others accosted him with the
+familiarity of old friends, taking it for granted that he was
+perfectly cognizant of their names and characters.  At length,
+finding himself thus beset, Posterity was put quite beside his
+patience.
+
+"Gentlemen, my good friends," cried he, breaking loose from a misty
+poet who strove to hold him by the button, "I pray you to attend to
+your own business, and leave me to take care of mine! I expect to
+owe you nothing, unless it be certain national debts, and other
+encumbrances and impediments, physical and moral, which I shall find
+it troublesome enough to remove from my path.  As to your verses,
+pray read them to your contemporaries.  Your names are as strange to
+me as your faces; and even were it otherwise,--let me whisper you a
+secret,--the cold, icy memory which one generation may retain of
+another is but a poor recompense to barter life for.  Yet, if your
+heart is set on being known to me, the surest, the only method is,
+to live truly and wisely for your own age, whereby, if the native
+force be in you, you may likewise live for posterity."
+
+"It is nonsense," murmured the Oldest Inhabitant, who, as a man of
+the past, felt jealous that all notice should be withdrawn from
+himself to be lavished on the future, "sheer nonsense, to waste so
+much thought on what only is to be."
+
+To divert the minds of his guests, who were considerably abashed by
+this little incident, the Man of Fancy led them through several
+apartments of the castle, receiving their compliments upon the taste
+and varied magnificence that were displayed in each.  One of these
+rooms was filled with moonlight, which did not enter through the
+window, but was the aggregate of all the moonshine that is scattered
+around the earth on a summer night while no eyes are awake to enjoy
+its beauty.  Airy spirits had gathered it up, wherever they found it
+gleaming on the broad bosom of a lake, or silvering the meanders of
+a stream, or glimmering among the wind-stirred boughs of a wood, and
+had garnered it in this one spacious hall.  Along the walls,
+illuminated by the mild intensity of the moonshine, stood a
+multitude of ideal statues, the original conceptions of the great
+works of ancient or modern art, which the sculptors did but
+imperfectly succeed in putting into marble; for it is not to be
+supposed that the pure idea of an immortal creation ceases to exist;
+it is only necessary to know where they are deposited in order to
+obtain possession of them.--In the alcoves of another vast apartment
+was arranged a splendid library, the volumes of which were
+inestimable, because they consisted, not of actual performances, but
+of the works which the authors only planned, without ever finding
+the happy season to achieve them.  To take familiar instances, here
+were the untold tales of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims; the
+unwritten cantos of the Fairy Queen; the conclusion of Coleridge's
+Christabel; and the whole of Dryden's projected epic on the subject
+of King Arthur.  The shelves were crowded; for it would not be too
+much to affirm that every author has imagined and shaped out in his
+thought more and far better works than those which actually
+proceeded from his pen.  And here, likewise, where the unrealized
+conceptions of youthful poets who died of the very strength of their
+own genius before the world had caught one inspired murmur from
+their lips.
+
+When the peculiarities of the library and statue-gallery were
+explained to the Oldest Inhabitant, he appeared infinitely
+perplexed, and exclaimed, with more energy than usual, that he had
+never heard of such a thing within his memory, and, moreover, did
+not at all understand how it could be.
+
+"But my brain, I think," said the good old gentleman, "is getting
+not so clear as it used to be.  You young folks, I suppose, can see
+your way through these strange matters.  For my part, I give it up."
+
+"And so do I," muttered the Old Harry.  "It is enough to puzzle the
+--Ahem!"
+
+Making as little reply as possible to these observations, the Man of
+Fancy preceded the company to another noble saloon, the pillars of
+which were solid golden sunbeams taken out of the sky in the first
+hour in the morning.  Thus, as they retained all their living
+lustre, the room was filled with the most cheerful radiance
+imaginable, yet not too dazzling to be borne with comfort and
+delight.  The windows were beautifully adorned with curtains made of
+the many-colored clouds of sunrise, all imbued with virgin light,
+and hanging in magnificent festoons from the ceiling to the floor.
+Moreover, there were fragments of rainbows scattered through the
+room; so that the guests, astonished at one another, reciprocally
+saw their heads made glorious by the seven primary hues; or, if they
+chose,--as who would not?--they could grasp a rainbow in the air and
+convert it to their own apparel and adornment.  But the morning
+light and scattered rainbows were only a type and symbol of the real
+wonders of the apartment.  By an influence akin to magic, yet
+perfectly natural, whatever means and opportunities of joy are
+neglected in the lower world had been carefully gathered up and
+deposited in the saloon of morning sunshine.  As may well be
+conceived, therefore, there was material enough to supply, not
+merely a joyous evening, but also a happy lifetime, to more than as
+many people as that spacious apartment could contain.  The company
+seemed to renew their youth; while that pattern and proverbial
+standard of innocence, the Child Unborn, frolicked to and fro among
+them, communicating his own unwrinkled gayety to all who had the
+good fortune to witness his gambols.
+
+"My honored friends," said the Man of Fancy, after they had enjoyed
+themselves awhile, "I am now to request your presence in the
+banqueting-hall, where a slight collation is awaiting you."
+
+"Ah, well said!" ejaculated a cadaverous figure, who had been
+invited for no other reason than that he was pretty constantly in
+the habit of dining with Duke Humphrey.  "I was beginning to wonder
+whether a castle in the air were provided with a kitchen."
+
+It was curious, in truth, to see how instantaneously the guests were
+diverted from the high moral enjoyments which they had been tasting
+with so much apparent zest by a suggestion of the more solid as well
+as liquid delights of the festive board.  They thronged eagerly in
+the rear of the host, who now ushered them into a lofty and
+extensive hall, from end to end of which was arranged a table,
+glittering all over with innumerable dishes and drinking-vessels of
+gold.  It is an uncertain point whether these rich articles of plate
+were made for the occasion out of molten sunbeams, or recovered from
+the wrecks of Spanish galleons that had lain for ages at the bottom
+of the sea.  The upper end of the table was overshadowed by a
+canopy, beneath which was placed a chair of elaborate magnificence,
+which the host himself declined to occupy, and besought his guests
+to assign it to the worthiest among them.  As a suitable homage to
+his incalculable antiquity and eminent distinction, the post of
+honor was at first tendered to the Oldest Inhabitant.  He, however,
+eschewed it, and requested the favor of a bowl of gruel at a side
+table, where he could refresh himself with a quiet nap.  There was
+some little hesitation as to the next candidate, until Posterity
+took the Master Genius of our country by the hand and led him to the
+chair of state beneath the princely canopy.  When once they beheld
+him in his true place, the company acknowledged the justice of the
+selection by a long thunder-roll of vehement applause.
+
+Then was served up a banquet, combining, if not all the delicacies
+of the season, yet all the rarities which careful purveyors had met
+with in the flesh, fish, and vegetable markets of the land of
+Nowhere.  The bill of fare being unfortunately lost, we can only
+mention a phoenix, roasted in its own flames, cold potted birds of
+paradise, ice-creams from the Milky-Way, and whip syllabubs and
+flummery from the Paradise of Fools, whereof there was a very great
+consumption.  As for drinkables, the temperance people contented
+themselves with water as usual; but it was the water of the Fountain
+of Youth; the ladies sipped Nepenthe; the lovelorn, the careworn,
+and the sorrow-stricken were supplied with brimming goblets of Lethe;
+and it was shrewdly conjectured that a certain golden vase, from
+which only the more distinguished guests were invited to partake,
+contained nectar that had been mellowing ever since the days of
+classical mythology.  The cloth being removed, the company, as
+usual, grew eloquent over their liquor and delivered themselves of a
+succession of brilliant speeches,--the task of reporting which we
+resign to the more adequate ability of Counsellor Gill, whose
+indispensable co-operation the Man of Fancy had taken the precaution
+to secure.
+
+When the festivity of the banquet was at its most ethereal point,
+the Clerk of the Weather was observed to steal from the table and
+thrust his head between the purple and golden curtains of one of the
+windows.
+
+"My fellow-guests," he remarked aloud, after carefully noting the
+signs of the night, "I advise such of you as live at a distance to
+be going as soon as possible; for a thunder-storm is certainly at
+hand."
+
+"Mercy on me!" cried Mother Carey, who had left her brood of
+chickens and come hither in gossamer drapery, with pink silk
+stockings.  "How shall I ever get home?"
+
+All now was confusion and hasty departure, with but little
+superfluous leave-taking.  The Oldest Inhabitant, however, true to
+the rule of those long past days in which his courtesy had been
+studied, paused on the threshold of the meteor-lighted hall to
+express his vast satisfaction at the entertainment.
+
+"Never, within my memory," observed the gracious old gentleman, "has
+it been my good fortune to spend a pleasanter evening or in more
+select society."
+
+The wind here took his breath away, whirled his three-cornered hat
+into infinite space, and drowned what further compliments it had
+been his purpose to bestow.  Many of the company had bespoken will-
+o'-the-wisps to convoy them home; and the host, in his general
+beneficence, had engaged the Man in the Moon, with an immense horn-
+lantern, to be the guide of such desolate spinsters as could do no
+better for themselves.  But a blast of the rising tempest blew out
+all their lights in the twinkling of an eye. How, in the darkness
+that ensued, the guests contrived to get back to earth, or whether
+the greater part of them contrived to get back at all, or are still
+wandering among clouds, mists, and puffs of tempestuous wind,
+bruised by the beams and rafters of the overthrown castle in the
+air, and deluded by all sorts of unrealities, are points that
+concern themselves much more than the writer or the public.  People
+should think of these matters before they trust themselves on a
+pleasure-party into the realm of Nowhere.
+
+
+
+
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