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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of Monsieur du Miroir, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Title: Monsieur du Miroir
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONSIEUR DU MIROIR ***
+
+
+
+
+Monsieur du Miroir
+
+by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+
+Than the gentleman above named, there is nobody, in the whole circle of
+my acquaintance, whom I have more attentively studied, yet of whom I
+have less real knowledge, beneath the surface which it pleases him to
+present. Being anxious to discover who and what he really is, and how
+connected with me, and what are to be the results to him and to myself
+of the joint interest which, without any choice on my part, seems to be
+permanently established between us, and incited, furthermore, by the
+propensities of a student of human nature, though doubtful whether
+Monsieur du Miroir have aught of humanity but the figure,—I have
+determined to place a few of his remarkable points before the public,
+hoping to be favored with some clew to the explanation of his
+character. Nor let the reader condemn any part of the narrative as
+frivolous, since a subject of such grave reflection diffuses its
+importance through the minutest particulars; and there is no judging
+beforehand what odd little circumstance may do the office of a blind
+man’s dog among the perplexities of this dark investigation; and
+however extraordinary, marvellous, preternatural, and utterly
+incredible some of the meditated disclosures may appear, I pledge my
+honor to maintain as sacred a regard to fact as if my testimony were
+given on oath and involved the dearest interests of the personage in
+question. Not that there is matter for a criminal accusation against
+Monsieur du Miroir, nor am I the man to bring it forward if there were.
+The chief that I complain of is his impenetrable mystery, which is no
+better than nonsense if it conceal anything good, and much worse in the
+contrary case.
+
+But, if undue partialities could be supposed to influence me, Monsieur
+du Miroir might hope to profit rather than to suffer by them, for in
+the whole of our long intercourse we have seldom had the slightest
+disagreement; and, moreover, there are reasons for supposing him a near
+relative of mine, and consequently entitled to the best word that I can
+give him. He bears indisputably a strong personal resemblance to
+myself, and generally puts on mourning at the funerals of the family.
+On the other hand, his name would indicate a French descent; in which
+case, infinitely preferring that my blood should flow from a bold
+British and pure Puritan source, I beg leave to disclaim all kindred
+with Monsieur du Miroir. Some genealogists trace his origin to Spain,
+and dub him a knight of the order of the CABALLEROS DE LOS ESPEJOZ, one
+of whom was overthrown by Don Quixote. But what says Monsieur du Miroir
+himself of his paternity and his fatherland? Not a word did he ever say
+about the matter; and herein, perhaps, lies one of his most especial
+reasons for maintaining such a vexatious mystery, that he lacks the
+faculty of speech to expound it. His lips are sometimes seen to move;
+his eyes and countenance are alive with shifting expression, as if
+corresponding by visible hieroglyphics to his modulated breath; and
+anon he will seem to pause with as satisfied an air as if he had been
+talking excellent sense. Good sense or bad, Monsieur du Miroir is the
+sole judge of his own conversational powers, never having whispered so
+much as a syllable that reached the ears of any other auditor. Is he
+really dumb? or is all the world deaf? or is it merely a piece of my
+friend’s waggery, meant for nothing but to make fools of us? If so, he
+has the joke all to himself.
+
+This dumb devil which possesses Monsieur do Miroir is, I am persuaded,
+the sole reason that he does not make me the most flattering
+protestations of friendship. In many particulars—indeed, as to all his
+cognizable and not preternatural points, except that, once in a great
+while, I speak a word or two—there exists the greatest apparent
+sympathy between us. Such is his confidence in my taste that he goes
+astray from the general fashion and copies all his dresses after mine.
+I never try on a new garment without expecting to meet, Monsieur du
+Miroir in one of the same pattern. He has duplicates of all my
+waistcoats and cravats, shirt-bosoms of precisely a similar plait, and
+an old coat for private wear, manufactured, I suspect, by a Chinese
+tailor, in exact imitation of a beloved old coat of mine, with a
+facsimile, stitch by stitch, of a patch upon the elbow. In truth, the
+singular and minute coincidences that occur, both in the accidents of
+the passing day and the serious events of our lives, remind me of those
+doubtful legends of lovers, or twin children, twins of fate, who have
+lived, enjoyed, suffered, and died in unison, each faithfully repeating
+the last tremor of the other’s breath, though separated by vast tracts
+of sea and land. Strange to say, my incommodities belong equally to my
+companion, though the burden is nowise alleviated by his participation.
+The other morning, after a night of torment from the toothache, I met
+Monsieur du Miroir with such a swollen anguish in his cheek that my own
+pangs were redoubled, as were also his, if I might judge by a fresh
+contortion of his visage. All the inequalities of my spirits are
+communicated to him, causing the unfortunate Monsieur du Miroir to mope
+and scowl through a whole summer’s day, or to laugh as long, for no
+better reason than the gay or gloomy crotchets of my brain. Once we
+were joint sufferers of a three months’ sickness, and met like mutual
+ghosts in the first days of convalescence. Whenever I have been in
+love, Monsieur du Miroir has looked passionate and tender; and never
+did my mistress discard me, but this too susceptible gentleman grew
+lackadaisical. His temper, also, rises to blood heat, fever heat, or
+boiling-water beat, according to the measure of any wrong which might
+seem to have fallen entirely on myself. I have sometimes been calmed
+down by the sight of my own inordinate wrath depicted on his frowning
+brow. Yet, however prompt in taking up my quarrels, I cannot call to
+mind that he ever struck a downright blow in my behalf; nor, in fact,
+do I perceive that any real and tangible good has resulted from his
+constant interference in my affairs; so that, in my distrustful moods,
+I am apt to suspect Monsieur du Miroir’s sympathy to be mere outward
+show, not a whit better nor worse than other people’s sympathy.
+Nevertheless, as mortal man must have something in the guise of
+sympathy,—and whether the true metal, or merely copper-washed, is of
+less moment,—I choose rather to content myself with Monsieur du
+Miroir’s, such as it is, than to seek the sterling coin, and perhaps
+miss even the counterfeit.
+
+In my age of vanities I have often seen him in the ballroom, and might
+again were I to seek him there. We have encountered each other at the
+Tremont Theatre, where, however, he took his seat neither in the
+dress-circle, pit, nor upper regions, nor threw a single glance at the
+stage, though the brightest star, even Fanny Kemble herself, might be
+culminating there. No; this whimsical friend of mine chose to linger in
+the saloon, near one of the large looking-glasses which throw back
+their pictures of the illuminated room. He is so full of these
+unaccountable eccentricities that I never like to notice Monsieur du
+Miroir, nor to acknowledge the slightest connection with him, in places
+of public resort. He, however, has no scruple about claiming my
+acquaintance, even when his common-sense, if he had any, might teach
+him that I would as willingly exchange a nod with the Old Nick. It was
+but the other day that he got into a large brass kettle at the entrance
+of a hardware-store, and thrust his head, the moment afterwards, into a
+bright, new warming-pan, whence he gave me a most merciless look of
+recognition. He smiled, and so did I; but these childish tricks make
+decent people rather shy of Monsieur du Miroir, and subject him to more
+dead cuts than any other gentleman in town.
+
+One of this singular person’s most remarkable peculiarities is his
+fondness for water, wherein he excels any temperance man whatever. His
+pleasure, it must be owned, is not so much to drink it (in which
+respect a very moderate quantity will answer his occasions) as to souse
+himself over head and ears wherever he may meet with it. Perhaps he is
+a merman, or born of a mermaid’s marriage with a mortal, and thus
+amphibious by hereditary right, like the children which the old river
+deities, or nymphs of fountains, gave to earthly love. When no cleaner
+bathing-place happened to be at hand, I have seen the foolish fellow in
+a horse-pond. Some times he refreshes himself in the trough of a
+town-pump, without caring what the people think about him. Often, while
+carefully picking my way along the street after a heavy shower, I have
+been scandalized to see Monsieur du Miroir, in full dress, paddling
+from one mud-puddle to another, and plunging into the filthy depths of
+each. Seldom have I peeped into a well without discerning this
+ridiculous gentleman at the bottom, whence he gazes up, as through a
+long telescopic tube, and probably makes discoveries among the stars by
+daylight. Wandering along lonesome paths or in pathless forests, when I
+have come to virgin fountains of which it would have been pleasant to
+deem myself the first discoverer, I have started to find Monsieur du
+Miroir there before me. The solitude seemed lonelier for his presence.
+I have leaned from a precipice that frowns over Lake George, which the
+French call nature’s font of sacramental water, and used it in their
+log-churches here and their cathedrals beyond the sea, and seen him far
+below in that pure element. At Niagara, too, where I would gladly have
+forgotten both myself and him, I could not help observing my companion
+in the smooth water on the very verge of the cataract just above the
+Table Rock. Were I to reach the sources of the Nile, I should expect to
+meet him there. Unless he be another Ladurlad, whose garments the depth
+of ocean could not moisten, it is difficult to conceive how he keeps
+himself in any decent pickle; though I am bound to confess that his
+clothes seem always as dry and comfortable as my own. But, as a friend,
+I could wish that he would not so often expose himself in liquor.
+
+All that I have hitherto related may be classed among those little
+personal oddities which agreeably diversify the surface of society,
+and, though they may sometimes annoy us, yet keep our daily intercourse
+fresher and livelier than if they were done away. By an occasional
+hint, however, I have endeavored to pave the way for stranger things to
+come, which, had they been disclosed at once, Monsieur du Miroir might
+have been deemed a shadow, and myself a person of no veracity, and this
+truthful history a fabulous legend. But, now that the reader knows me
+worthy of his confidence, I will begin to make him stare.
+
+To speak frankly, then, I could bring the most astounding proofs that
+Monsieur du Miroir is at least a conjurer, if not one of that unearthly
+tribe with whom conjurers deal. He has inscrutable methods of conveying
+himself from place to place with the rapidity of the swiftest steamboat
+or rail-car. Brick walls and oaken doors and iron bolts are no
+impediment to his passage. Here in my chamber, for instance, as the
+evening deepens into night, I sit alone,—the key turned and withdrawn
+from the lock, the keyhole stuffed with paper to keep out a peevish
+little blast of wind. Yet, lonely as I seem, were I to lift one of the
+lamps and step five paces eastward, Monsieur du Miroir would be sure to
+meet me with a lamp also in his hand; and were I to take the
+stage-coach to-morrow, without giving him the least hint of my design,
+and post onward till the week’s end, at whatever hotel I might find
+myself I should expect to share my private apartment with this
+inevitable Monsieur du Miroir. Or, out of a mere wayward fantasy, were
+I to go, by moonlight, and stand beside the stone Pout of the Shaker
+Spring at Canterbury, Monsieur du Miroir would set forth on the same
+fool’s errand, and would not fail to meet me there. Shall I heighten
+the reader’s wonder? While writing these latter sentences, I happened
+to glance towards the large, round globe of one off the brass andirons,
+and lo! a miniature apparition of Monsieur du Miroir, with his face
+widened and grotesquely contorted, as if he were making fun of my
+amazement! But he has played so many of these jokes that they begin to
+lose their effect. Once, presumptuous that he was, he stole into the
+heaven of a young lady’s eyes; so that, while I gazed and was dreaming
+only of herself, I found him also in my dream. Years have so changed
+him since that he need never hope to enter those heavenly orbs again.
+
+From these veritable statements it will be readily concluded that, had
+Monsieur du Miroir played such pranks in old witch times, matters might
+have gone hard with him; at least if the constable and posse comitatus
+could have executed a warrant, or the jailer had been cunning enough to
+keep him. But it has often occurred to me as a very singular
+circumstance, and as betokening either a temperament morbidly
+suspicious or some weighty cause of apprehension, that he never trusts
+himself within the grasp even of his most intimate friend. If you step
+forward to meet him, he readily advances; if you offer him your hand,
+he extends his own with an air of the utmost frankness; but, though you
+calculate upon a hearty shake, you do not get hold of his little
+finger. Ah, this Monsieur du Miroir is a slippery fellow!
+
+These truly are matters of special admiration. After vainly
+endeavoring, by the strenuous exertion of my own wits, to gain a
+satisfactory insight into the character of Monsieur du Miroir, I had
+recourse to certain wise men, and also to books of abstruse philosophy,
+seeking who it was that haunted me, and why. I heard long lectures and
+read huge volumes with little profit beyond the knowledge that many
+former instances are recorded, in successive ages, of similar
+connections between ordinary mortals and beings possessing the
+attributes of Monsieur du Miroir. Some now alive, perhaps, besides
+myself, have such attendants. Would that Monsieur du Miroir could be
+persuaded to transfer his attachment to one of those, and allow some
+other of his race to assume the situation that he now holds in regard
+to me! If I must needs have so intrusive an intimate, who stares me in
+the face in my closest privacy, and follows me even to my bedchamber, I
+should prefer—scandal apart—the laughing bloom of a young girl to the
+dark and bearded gravity of my present companion. But such desires are
+never to be gratified. Though the members of Monsieur du Miroir’s
+family have been accused, perhaps justly, of visiting their friends
+often in splendid halls, and seldom in darksome dungeons, yet they
+exhibit a rare constancy to the objects of their first attachment,
+however unlovely in person or unamiable in disposition,—however
+unfortunate, or even infamous, and deserted by all the world besides.
+So will it be with my associate. Our fates appear inseparably blended.
+It is my belief, as I find him mingling with my earliest recollections,
+that we came into existence together, as my shadow follows me into the
+sunshine, and that hereafter, as heretofore, the brightness or gloom of
+my fortunes will shine upon, or darken, the face of Monsieur du Miroir.
+As we have been young together, and as it is now near the summer noon
+with both of us, so, if long life be granted, shall each count his own
+wrinkles on the other’s brow and his white hairs on the other’s head.
+And when the coffin-lid shall have closed over me and that face and
+form, which, more truly than the lover swears it to his beloved, are
+the sole light of his existence,—when they shall be laid in that dark
+chamber, whither his swift and secret footsteps cannot bring him,—then
+what is to become of poor Monsieur du Miroir? Will he have the
+fortitude, with my other friends, to take a last look at my pale
+countenance? Will he walk foremost in the funeral train? Will he come
+often and haunt around my grave, and weed away the nettles, and plant
+flowers amid the verdure, and scrape the moss out of the letters of my
+burial-stone? Will he linger where I have lived, to remind the
+neglectful world of one who staked much to win a name, but will not
+then care whether he lost or won?
+
+Not thus will he prove his deep fidelity. O, what terror, if this
+friend of mine, after our last farewell, should step into the crowded
+street, or roam along our old frequented path by the still waters, or
+sit down in the domestic circle where our faces are most familiar and
+beloved! No; but when the rays of heaven shall bless me no more, nor
+the thoughtful lamplight gleam upon my studies, nor the cheerful
+fireside gladden the meditative man, then, his task fulfilled, shall
+this mysterious being vanish from the earth forever. He will pass to
+the dark realm of nothingness, but will not find me there.
+
+There is something fearful in bearing such a relation to a creature so
+imperfectly known, and in the idea that, to a certain extent, all which
+concerns myself will be reflected in its consequences upon him. When we
+feel that another is to share the self-same fortune with ourselves we
+judge more severely of our prospects, and withhold our confidence from
+that delusive magic which appears to shed an infallibility of happiness
+over our own pathway. Of late years, indeed, there has been much to
+sadden my intercourse with Monsieur de Miroir. Had not our union been a
+necessary condition of our life, we must have been estranged ere now.
+In early youth, when my affections were warm and free, I loved him
+well, and could always spend a pleasant hour in his society, chiefly
+because it gave me an excellent opinion of myself. Speechless as he
+was, Monsieur du Miroir had then a most agreeable way of calling me a
+handsome fellow; and I, of course, returned the compliment; so that,
+the more we kept each other’s company, the greater coxcombs we mutually
+grew. But neither of us need apprehend any such misfortune now. When we
+chance to meet,—for it is chance oftener than design,—each glances
+sadly at the other’s forehead, dreading wrinkles there; and at our
+temples, whence the hair is thinning away too early; and at the sunken
+eyes, which no longer shed a gladsome light over the whole face. I
+involuntarily peruse him as a record of my heavy youth, which has been
+wasted in sluggishness for lack of hope and impulse, or equally thrown
+away in toil that had no wise motive and has accomplished no good end.
+I perceive that the tranquil gloom of a disappointed soul has darkened
+through his countenance, where the blackness of the future seems to
+mingle with the shadows of the past, giving him the aspect of a fated
+man. Is it too wild a thought that my fate may have assumed this image
+of myself, and therefore haunts me with such inevitable pertinacity,
+originating every act which it appears to imitate, while it deludes me
+by pretending to share the events of which it is merely the emblem and
+the prophecy? I must banish this idea, or it will throw too deep an awe
+round my companion. At our next meeting, especially if it be at
+midnight or in solitude, I fear that I shall glance aside and shudder;
+in which case, as Monsieur du Miroir is extremely sensitive to
+ill-treatment, he also will avert his eyes and express horror or
+disgust.
+
+But no; this is unworthy of me. As of old I sought his society for the
+bewitching dreams of woman’s love which he inspired, and because I
+fancied a bright fortune in his aspect, so now will I hold daily and
+long communion with hint for the sake of the stern lessons that he will
+teach my manhood. With folded arms we will sit face to face, and
+lengthen out our silent converse till a wiser cheerfulness shall have
+been wrought from the very texture of despondency. He will say, perhaps
+indignantly, that it befits only him to mourn for the decay of outward
+grace, which, while he possessed it, was his all. But have not you, he
+will ask, a treasure in reserve, to which every year may add far more
+value than age or death itself can snatch from that miserable clay? He
+will tell me that though the bloom of life has been nipped with a
+frost, yet the soul must not sit shivering in its cell, but bestir
+itself manfully, and kindle a genial warmth from its own exercise
+against; the autumnal and the wintry atmosphere. And I, in return, will
+bid him be of good cheer, nor take it amiss that I must blanch his
+locks and wrinkle him up like a wilted apple, since it shall be my
+endeavor so to beautify his face with intellect and mild benevolence
+that he shall profit immensely by the change. But here a smile will
+glimmer somewhat sadly over Monsieur du Miroir’s visage.
+
+When this subject shall have been sufficiently discussed we may take up
+others as important. Reflecting upon his power of following me to the
+remotest regions and into the deepest privacy, I will compare the
+attempt to escape him to the hopeless race that men sometimes run with
+memory, or their own hearts, or their moral selves, which, though
+burdened with cares enough to crush an elephant, will never be one step
+behind. I will be self-contemplative, as nature bids me, and make him
+the picture or visible type of what I muse upon, that my mind may not
+wander so vaguely as heretofore, chasing its own shadow through a chaos
+and catching only the monsters that abide there. Then will we turn our
+thoughts to the spiritual world, of the reality of which my companions
+shall furnish me an illustration, if not an argument; for, as we have
+only the testimony of the eye to Monsieur du Miroir’s existence, while
+all the other senses would fail to inform us that such a figure stands
+within arm’s-length, wherefore should there not be beings innumerable
+close beside us, and filling heaven and earth with their multitude, yet
+of whom no corporeal perception can take cognizance? A blind man might
+as reasonably deny that Monsieur du Miroir exists, as we, because the
+Creator has hitherto withheld the spiritual perception, can therefore
+contend that there are no spirits. O, there are! And, at this moment,
+when the subject of which I write has grown strong within me and
+surrounded itself with those solemn and awful associations which might
+have seemed most alien to it, I could fancy that Monsieur du Miroir
+himself is a wanderer from the spiritual world, with nothing human
+except his delusive garment of visibility. Methinks I should tremble
+now were his wizard power of gliding through all impediments in search
+of me to place him suddenly before my eyes.
+
+Ha! What is yonder? Shape of mystery, did the tremor of my heartstrings
+vibrate to thine own, and call thee from thy home among the dancers of
+the northern lights, and shadows flung from departed sunshine, and
+giant spectres that appear on clouds at daybreak and affright the
+climber of the Alps? In truth it startled me, as I threw a wary glance
+eastward across the chamber, to discern an unbidden guest with his eyes
+bent on mine. The identical MONSIEUR DU MIROIR! Still there he sits and
+returns my gaze with as much of awe and curiosity as if he, too, had
+spent a solitary evening in fantastic musings and made me his theme. So
+inimitably does he counterfeit that I could almost doubt which of us is
+the visionary form, or whether each be not the other’s mystery, and
+both twin brethren of one fate, in mutually reflected spheres. O
+friend, canst thou not hear and answer me? Break down the barrier
+between us! Grasp my hand! Speak! Listen! A few words, perhaps, might
+satisfy the feverish yearning of my soul for some master-thought that
+should guide me through this labyrinth of life, teaching wherefore I
+was born, and how to do my task on earth, and what is death. Alas! Even
+that unreal image should forget to ape me and smile at these vain
+questions. Thus do mortals deify, as it were, a mere shadow of
+themselves, a spectre of human reason, and ask of that to unveil the
+mysteries which Divine Intelligence has revealed so far as needful to
+our guidance, and hid the rest.
+
+Farewell, Monsieur du Miroir. Of you, perhaps, as of many men, it may
+be doubted whether you are the wiser, though your whole business is
+REFLECTION.
+
+
+
+
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+<h1>Monsieur du Miroir</h1>
+
+<h2 class="no-break">by Nathaniel Hawthorne</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p>
+Than the gentleman above named, there is nobody, in the whole circle of my
+acquaintance, whom I have more attentively studied, yet of whom I have less
+real knowledge, beneath the surface which it pleases him to present. Being
+anxious to discover who and what he really is, and how connected with me, and
+what are to be the results to him and to myself of the joint interest which,
+without any choice on my part, seems to be permanently established between us,
+and incited, furthermore, by the propensities of a student of human nature,
+though doubtful whether Monsieur du Miroir have aught of humanity but the
+figure,&mdash;I have determined to place a few of his remarkable points before
+the public, hoping to be favored with some clew to the explanation of his
+character. Nor let the reader condemn any part of the narrative as frivolous,
+since a subject of such grave reflection diffuses its importance through the
+minutest particulars; and there is no judging beforehand what odd little
+circumstance may do the office of a blind man’s dog among the perplexities of
+this dark investigation; and however extraordinary, marvellous, preternatural,
+and utterly incredible some of the meditated disclosures may appear, I pledge
+my honor to maintain as sacred a regard to fact as if my testimony were given
+on oath and involved the dearest interests of the personage in question. Not
+that there is matter for a criminal accusation against Monsieur du Miroir, nor
+am I the man to bring it forward if there were. The chief that I complain of is
+his impenetrable mystery, which is no better than nonsense if it conceal
+anything good, and much worse in the contrary case.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But, if undue partialities could be supposed to influence me, Monsieur du
+Miroir might hope to profit rather than to suffer by them, for in the whole of
+our long intercourse we have seldom had the slightest disagreement; and,
+moreover, there are reasons for supposing him a near relative of mine, and
+consequently entitled to the best word that I can give him. He bears
+indisputably a strong personal resemblance to myself, and generally puts on
+mourning at the funerals of the family. On the other hand, his name would
+indicate a French descent; in which case, infinitely preferring that my blood
+should flow from a bold British and pure Puritan source, I beg leave to
+disclaim all kindred with Monsieur du Miroir. Some genealogists trace his
+origin to Spain, and dub him a knight of the order of the C<small>ABALLEROS DE
+LOS</small> E<small>SPEJOZ</small>, one of whom was overthrown by Don Quixote.
+But what says Monsieur du Miroir himself of his paternity and his fatherland?
+Not a word did he ever say about the matter; and herein, perhaps, lies one of
+his most especial reasons for maintaining such a vexatious mystery, that he
+lacks the faculty of speech to expound it. His lips are sometimes seen to move;
+his eyes and countenance are alive with shifting expression, as if
+corresponding by visible hieroglyphics to his modulated breath; and anon he
+will seem to pause with as satisfied an air as if he had been talking excellent
+sense. Good sense or bad, Monsieur du Miroir is the sole judge of his own
+conversational powers, never having whispered so much as a syllable that
+reached the ears of any other auditor. Is he really dumb? or is all the world
+deaf? or is it merely a piece of my friend’s waggery, meant for nothing but to
+make fools of us? If so, he has the joke all to himself.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This dumb devil which possesses Monsieur do Miroir is, I am persuaded, the sole
+reason that he does not make me the most flattering protestations of
+friendship. In many particulars&mdash;indeed, as to all his cognizable and not
+preternatural points, except that, once in a great while, I speak a word or
+two&mdash;there exists the greatest apparent sympathy between us. Such is his
+confidence in my taste that he goes astray from the general fashion and copies
+all his dresses after mine. I never try on a new garment without expecting to
+meet, Monsieur du Miroir in one of the same pattern. He has duplicates of all
+my waistcoats and cravats, shirt-bosoms of precisely a similar plait, and an
+old coat for private wear, manufactured, I suspect, by a Chinese tailor, in
+exact imitation of a beloved old coat of mine, with a facsimile, stitch by
+stitch, of a patch upon the elbow. In truth, the singular and minute
+coincidences that occur, both in the accidents of the passing day and the
+serious events of our lives, remind me of those doubtful legends of lovers, or
+twin children, twins of fate, who have lived, enjoyed, suffered, and died in
+unison, each faithfully repeating the last tremor of the other’s breath, though
+separated by vast tracts of sea and land. Strange to say, my incommodities
+belong equally to my companion, though the burden is nowise alleviated by his
+participation. The other morning, after a night of torment from the toothache,
+I met Monsieur du Miroir with such a swollen anguish in his cheek that my own
+pangs were redoubled, as were also his, if I might judge by a fresh contortion
+of his visage. All the inequalities of my spirits are communicated to him,
+causing the unfortunate Monsieur du Miroir to mope and scowl through a whole
+summer’s day, or to laugh as long, for no better reason than the gay or gloomy
+crotchets of my brain. Once we were joint sufferers of a three months’
+sickness, and met like mutual ghosts in the first days of convalescence.
+Whenever I have been in love, Monsieur du Miroir has looked passionate and
+tender; and never did my mistress discard me, but this too susceptible
+gentleman grew lackadaisical. His temper, also, rises to blood heat, fever
+heat, or boiling-water beat, according to the measure of any wrong which might
+seem to have fallen entirely on myself. I have sometimes been calmed down by
+the sight of my own inordinate wrath depicted on his frowning brow. Yet,
+however prompt in taking up my quarrels, I cannot call to mind that he ever
+struck a downright blow in my behalf; nor, in fact, do I perceive that any real
+and tangible good has resulted from his constant interference in my affairs; so
+that, in my distrustful moods, I am apt to suspect Monsieur du Miroir’s
+sympathy to be mere outward show, not a whit better nor worse than other
+people’s sympathy. Nevertheless, as mortal man must have something in the guise
+of sympathy,&mdash;and whether the true metal, or merely copper-washed, is of
+less moment,&mdash;I choose rather to content myself with Monsieur du Miroir’s,
+such as it is, than to seek the sterling coin, and perhaps miss even the
+counterfeit.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In my age of vanities I have often seen him in the ballroom, and might again
+were I to seek him there. We have encountered each other at the Tremont
+Theatre, where, however, he took his seat neither in the dress-circle, pit, nor
+upper regions, nor threw a single glance at the stage, though the brightest
+star, even Fanny Kemble herself, might be culminating there. No; this whimsical
+friend of mine chose to linger in the saloon, near one of the large
+looking-glasses which throw back their pictures of the illuminated room. He is
+so full of these unaccountable eccentricities that I never like to notice
+Monsieur du Miroir, nor to acknowledge the slightest connection with him, in
+places of public resort. He, however, has no scruple about claiming my
+acquaintance, even when his common-sense, if he had any, might teach him that I
+would as willingly exchange a nod with the Old Nick. It was but the other day
+that he got into a large brass kettle at the entrance of a hardware-store, and
+thrust his head, the moment afterwards, into a bright, new warming-pan, whence
+he gave me a most merciless look of recognition. He smiled, and so did I; but
+these childish tricks make decent people rather shy of Monsieur du Miroir, and
+subject him to more dead cuts than any other gentleman in town.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+One of this singular person’s most remarkable peculiarities is his fondness for
+water, wherein he excels any temperance man whatever. His pleasure, it must be
+owned, is not so much to drink it (in which respect a very moderate quantity
+will answer his occasions) as to souse himself over head and ears wherever he
+may meet with it. Perhaps he is a merman, or born of a mermaid’s marriage with
+a mortal, and thus amphibious by hereditary right, like the children which the
+old river deities, or nymphs of fountains, gave to earthly love. When no
+cleaner bathing-place happened to be at hand, I have seen the foolish fellow in
+a horse-pond. Some times he refreshes himself in the trough of a town-pump,
+without caring what the people think about him. Often, while carefully picking
+my way along the street after a heavy shower, I have been scandalized to see
+Monsieur du Miroir, in full dress, paddling from one mud-puddle to another, and
+plunging into the filthy depths of each. Seldom have I peeped into a well
+without discerning this ridiculous gentleman at the bottom, whence he gazes up,
+as through a long telescopic tube, and probably makes discoveries among the
+stars by daylight. Wandering along lonesome paths or in pathless forests, when
+I have come to virgin fountains of which it would have been pleasant to deem
+myself the first discoverer, I have started to find Monsieur du Miroir there
+before me. The solitude seemed lonelier for his presence. I have leaned from a
+precipice that frowns over Lake George, which the French call nature’s font of
+sacramental water, and used it in their log-churches here and their cathedrals
+beyond the sea, and seen him far below in that pure element. At Niagara, too,
+where I would gladly have forgotten both myself and him, I could not help
+observing my companion in the smooth water on the very verge of the cataract
+just above the Table Rock. Were I to reach the sources of the Nile, I should
+expect to meet him there. Unless he be another Ladurlad, whose garments the
+depth of ocean could not moisten, it is difficult to conceive how he keeps
+himself in any decent pickle; though I am bound to confess that his clothes
+seem always as dry and comfortable as my own. But, as a friend, I could wish
+that he would not so often expose himself in liquor.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+All that I have hitherto related may be classed among those little personal
+oddities which agreeably diversify the surface of society, and, though they may
+sometimes annoy us, yet keep our daily intercourse fresher and livelier than if
+they were done away. By an occasional hint, however, I have endeavored to pave
+the way for stranger things to come, which, had they been disclosed at once,
+Monsieur du Miroir might have been deemed a shadow, and myself a person of no
+veracity, and this truthful history a fabulous legend. But, now that the reader
+knows me worthy of his confidence, I will begin to make him stare.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To speak frankly, then, I could bring the most astounding proofs that Monsieur
+du Miroir is at least a conjurer, if not one of that unearthly tribe with whom
+conjurers deal. He has inscrutable methods of conveying himself from place to
+place with the rapidity of the swiftest steamboat or rail-car. Brick walls and
+oaken doors and iron bolts are no impediment to his passage. Here in my
+chamber, for instance, as the evening deepens into night, I sit
+alone,&mdash;the key turned and withdrawn from the lock, the keyhole stuffed
+with paper to keep out a peevish little blast of wind. Yet, lonely as I seem,
+were I to lift one of the lamps and step five paces eastward, Monsieur du
+Miroir would be sure to meet me with a lamp also in his hand; and were I to
+take the stage-coach to-morrow, without giving him the least hint of my design,
+and post onward till the week’s end, at whatever hotel I might find myself I
+should expect to share my private apartment with this inevitable Monsieur du
+Miroir. Or, out of a mere wayward fantasy, were I to go, by moonlight, and
+stand beside the stone Pout of the Shaker Spring at Canterbury, Monsieur du
+Miroir would set forth on the same fool’s errand, and would not fail to meet me
+there. Shall I heighten the reader’s wonder? While writing these latter
+sentences, I happened to glance towards the large, round globe of one off the
+brass andirons, and lo! a miniature apparition of Monsieur du Miroir, with his
+face widened and grotesquely contorted, as if he were making fun of my
+amazement! But he has played so many of these jokes that they begin to lose
+their effect. Once, presumptuous that he was, he stole into the heaven of a
+young lady’s eyes; so that, while I gazed and was dreaming only of herself, I
+found him also in my dream. Years have so changed him since that he need never
+hope to enter those heavenly orbs again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From these veritable statements it will be readily concluded that, had Monsieur
+du Miroir played such pranks in old witch times, matters might have gone hard
+with him; at least if the constable and posse comitatus could have executed a
+warrant, or the jailer had been cunning enough to keep him. But it has often
+occurred to me as a very singular circumstance, and as betokening either a
+temperament morbidly suspicious or some weighty cause of apprehension, that he
+never trusts himself within the grasp even of his most intimate friend. If you
+step forward to meet him, he readily advances; if you offer him your hand, he
+extends his own with an air of the utmost frankness; but, though you calculate
+upon a hearty shake, you do not get hold of his little finger. Ah, this
+Monsieur du Miroir is a slippery fellow!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+These truly are matters of special admiration. After vainly endeavoring, by the
+strenuous exertion of my own wits, to gain a satisfactory insight into the
+character of Monsieur du Miroir, I had recourse to certain wise men, and also
+to books of abstruse philosophy, seeking who it was that haunted me, and why. I
+heard long lectures and read huge volumes with little profit beyond the
+knowledge that many former instances are recorded, in successive ages, of
+similar connections between ordinary mortals and beings possessing the
+attributes of Monsieur du Miroir. Some now alive, perhaps, besides myself, have
+such attendants. Would that Monsieur du Miroir could be persuaded to transfer
+his attachment to one of those, and allow some other of his race to assume the
+situation that he now holds in regard to me! If I must needs have so intrusive
+an intimate, who stares me in the face in my closest privacy, and follows me
+even to my bedchamber, I should prefer&mdash;scandal apart&mdash;the laughing
+bloom of a young girl to the dark and bearded gravity of my present companion.
+But such desires are never to be gratified. Though the members of Monsieur du
+Miroir’s family have been accused, perhaps justly, of visiting their friends
+often in splendid halls, and seldom in darksome dungeons, yet they exhibit a
+rare constancy to the objects of their first attachment, however unlovely in
+person or unamiable in disposition,&mdash;however unfortunate, or even
+infamous, and deserted by all the world besides. So will it be with my
+associate. Our fates appear inseparably blended. It is my belief, as I find him
+mingling with my earliest recollections, that we came into existence together,
+as my shadow follows me into the sunshine, and that hereafter, as heretofore,
+the brightness or gloom of my fortunes will shine upon, or darken, the face of
+Monsieur du Miroir. As we have been young together, and as it is now near the
+summer noon with both of us, so, if long life be granted, shall each count his
+own wrinkles on the other’s brow and his white hairs on the other’s head. And
+when the coffin-lid shall have closed over me and that face and form, which,
+more truly than the lover swears it to his beloved, are the sole light of his
+existence,&mdash;when they shall be laid in that dark chamber, whither his
+swift and secret footsteps cannot bring him,&mdash;then what is to become of
+poor Monsieur du Miroir? Will he have the fortitude, with my other friends, to
+take a last look at my pale countenance? Will he walk foremost in the funeral
+train? Will he come often and haunt around my grave, and weed away the nettles,
+and plant flowers amid the verdure, and scrape the moss out of the letters of
+my burial-stone? Will he linger where I have lived, to remind the neglectful
+world of one who staked much to win a name, but will not then care whether he
+lost or won?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Not thus will he prove his deep fidelity. O, what terror, if this friend of
+mine, after our last farewell, should step into the crowded street, or roam
+along our old frequented path by the still waters, or sit down in the domestic
+circle where our faces are most familiar and beloved! No; but when the rays of
+heaven shall bless me no more, nor the thoughtful lamplight gleam upon my
+studies, nor the cheerful fireside gladden the meditative man, then, his task
+fulfilled, shall this mysterious being vanish from the earth forever. He will
+pass to the dark realm of nothingness, but will not find me there.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is something fearful in bearing such a relation to a creature so
+imperfectly known, and in the idea that, to a certain extent, all which
+concerns myself will be reflected in its consequences upon him. When we feel
+that another is to share the self-same fortune with ourselves we judge more
+severely of our prospects, and withhold our confidence from that delusive magic
+which appears to shed an infallibility of happiness over our own pathway. Of
+late years, indeed, there has been much to sadden my intercourse with Monsieur
+de Miroir. Had not our union been a necessary condition of our life, we must
+have been estranged ere now. In early youth, when my affections were warm and
+free, I loved him well, and could always spend a pleasant hour in his society,
+chiefly because it gave me an excellent opinion of myself. Speechless as he
+was, Monsieur du Miroir had then a most agreeable way of calling me a handsome
+fellow; and I, of course, returned the compliment; so that, the more we kept
+each other’s company, the greater coxcombs we mutually grew. But neither of us
+need apprehend any such misfortune now. When we chance to meet,&mdash;for it is
+chance oftener than design,&mdash;each glances sadly at the other’s forehead,
+dreading wrinkles there; and at our temples, whence the hair is thinning away
+too early; and at the sunken eyes, which no longer shed a gladsome light over
+the whole face. I involuntarily peruse him as a record of my heavy youth, which
+has been wasted in sluggishness for lack of hope and impulse, or equally thrown
+away in toil that had no wise motive and has accomplished no good end. I
+perceive that the tranquil gloom of a disappointed soul has darkened through
+his countenance, where the blackness of the future seems to mingle with the
+shadows of the past, giving him the aspect of a fated man. Is it too wild a
+thought that my fate may have assumed this image of myself, and therefore
+haunts me with such inevitable pertinacity, originating every act which it
+appears to imitate, while it deludes me by pretending to share the events of
+which it is merely the emblem and the prophecy? I must banish this idea, or it
+will throw too deep an awe round my companion. At our next meeting, especially
+if it be at midnight or in solitude, I fear that I shall glance aside and
+shudder; in which case, as Monsieur du Miroir is extremely sensitive to
+ill-treatment, he also will avert his eyes and express horror or disgust.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But no; this is unworthy of me. As of old I sought his society for the
+bewitching dreams of woman’s love which he inspired, and because I fancied a
+bright fortune in his aspect, so now will I hold daily and long communion with
+hint for the sake of the stern lessons that he will teach my manhood. With
+folded arms we will sit face to face, and lengthen out our silent converse till
+a wiser cheerfulness shall have been wrought from the very texture of
+despondency. He will say, perhaps indignantly, that it befits only him to mourn
+for the decay of outward grace, which, while he possessed it, was his all. But
+have not you, he will ask, a treasure in reserve, to which every year may add
+far more value than age or death itself can snatch from that miserable clay? He
+will tell me that though the bloom of life has been nipped with a frost, yet
+the soul must not sit shivering in its cell, but bestir itself manfully, and
+kindle a genial warmth from its own exercise against; the autumnal and the
+wintry atmosphere. And I, in return, will bid him be of good cheer, nor take it
+amiss that I must blanch his locks and wrinkle him up like a wilted apple,
+since it shall be my endeavor so to beautify his face with intellect and mild
+benevolence that he shall profit immensely by the change. But here a smile will
+glimmer somewhat sadly over Monsieur du Miroir’s visage.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When this subject shall have been sufficiently discussed we may take up others
+as important. Reflecting upon his power of following me to the remotest regions
+and into the deepest privacy, I will compare the attempt to escape him to the
+hopeless race that men sometimes run with memory, or their own hearts, or their
+moral selves, which, though burdened with cares enough to crush an elephant,
+will never be one step behind. I will be self-contemplative, as nature bids me,
+and make him the picture or visible type of what I muse upon, that my mind may
+not wander so vaguely as heretofore, chasing its own shadow through a chaos and
+catching only the monsters that abide there. Then will we turn our thoughts to
+the spiritual world, of the reality of which my companions shall furnish me an
+illustration, if not an argument; for, as we have only the testimony of the eye
+to Monsieur du Miroir’s existence, while all the other senses would fail to
+inform us that such a figure stands within arm’s-length, wherefore should there
+not be beings innumerable close beside us, and filling heaven and earth with
+their multitude, yet of whom no corporeal perception can take cognizance? A
+blind man might as reasonably deny that Monsieur du Miroir exists, as we,
+because the Creator has hitherto withheld the spiritual perception, can
+therefore contend that there are no spirits. O, there are! And, at this moment,
+when the subject of which I write has grown strong within me and surrounded
+itself with those solemn and awful associations which might have seemed most
+alien to it, I could fancy that Monsieur du Miroir himself is a wanderer from
+the spiritual world, with nothing human except his delusive garment of
+visibility. Methinks I should tremble now were his wizard power of gliding
+through all impediments in search of me to place him suddenly before my eyes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Ha! What is yonder? Shape of mystery, did the tremor of my heartstrings vibrate
+to thine own, and call thee from thy home among the dancers of the northern
+lights, and shadows flung from departed sunshine, and giant spectres that
+appear on clouds at daybreak and affright the climber of the Alps? In truth it
+startled me, as I threw a wary glance eastward across the chamber, to discern
+an unbidden guest with his eyes bent on mine. The identical MONSIEUR DU MIROIR!
+Still there he sits and returns my gaze with as much of awe and curiosity as if
+he, too, had spent a solitary evening in fantastic musings and made me his
+theme. So inimitably does he counterfeit that I could almost doubt which of us
+is the visionary form, or whether each be not the other’s mystery, and both
+twin brethren of one fate, in mutually reflected spheres. O friend, canst thou
+not hear and answer me? Break down the barrier between us! Grasp my hand!
+Speak! Listen! A few words, perhaps, might satisfy the feverish yearning of my
+soul for some master-thought that should guide me through this labyrinth of
+life, teaching wherefore I was born, and how to do my task on earth, and what
+is death. Alas! Even that unreal image should forget to ape me and smile at
+these vain questions. Thus do mortals deify, as it were, a mere shadow of
+themselves, a spectre of human reason, and ask of that to unveil the mysteries
+which Divine Intelligence has revealed so far as needful to our guidance, and
+hid the rest.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Farewell, Monsieur du Miroir. Of you, perhaps, as of many men, it may be
+doubted whether you are the wiser, though your whole business is
+<small>REFLECTION</small>.
+</p>
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                        MONSIEUR DU MIROIR
+
+
+
+Than the gentleman above named, there is nobody, in the whole circle
+of my acquaintance, whom I have more attentively studied, yet of
+whom I have less real knowledge, beneath the surface which it
+pleases him to present.  Being anxious to discover who and what he
+really is, and how connected with me, and what are to be the results
+to him and to myself of the joint interest which, without any choice
+on my part, seems to be permanently established between us, and
+incited, furthermore, by the propensities of a student of human
+nature, though doubtful whether Monsieur du Miroir have aught of
+humanity but the figure,--I have determined to place a few of his
+remarkable points before the public, hoping to be favored with some
+clew to the explanation of his character.  Nor let the reader
+condemn any part of the narrative as frivolous, since a subject of
+such grave reflection diffuses its importance through the minutest
+particulars; and there is no judging beforehand what odd little
+circumstance may do the office of a blind man's dog among the
+perplexities of this dark investigation; and however extraordinary,
+marvellous, preternatural, and utterly incredible some of the
+meditated disclosures may appear, I pledge my honor to maintain as
+sacred a regard to fact as if my testimony were given on oath and
+involved the dearest interests of the personage in question.  Not
+that there is matter for a criminal accusation against Monsieur du
+Miroir, nor am I the man to bring it forward if there were.  The
+chief that I complain of is his impenetrable mystery, which is no
+better than nonsense if it conceal anything good, and much worse in
+the contrary case.
+
+But, if undue partialities could be supposed to influence me,
+Monsieur du Miroir might hope to profit rather than to suffer by
+them, for in the whole of our long intercourse we have seldom had
+the slightest disagreement; and, moreover, there are reasons for
+supposing him a near relative of mine, and consequently entitled to
+the best word that I can give him.  He bears indisputably a strong
+personal resemblance to myself, and generally puts on mourning at
+the funerals of the family.  On the other hand, his name would
+indicate a French descent; in which case, infinitely preferring that
+my blood should flow from a bold British and pure Puritan source, I
+beg leave to disclaim all kindred with Monsieur du Miroir.  Some
+genealogists trace his origin to Spain, and dub him a knight of the
+order of the CABALLEROS DE LOS ESPEJOZ, one of whom was overthrown
+by Don Quixote.  But what says Monsieur du Miroir himself of his
+paternity and his fatherland?  Not a word did he ever say about the
+matter; and herein, perhaps, lies one of his most especial reasons
+for maintaining such a vexatious mystery, that he lacks the faculty
+of speech to expound it.  His lips are sometimes seen to move; his
+eyes and countenance are alive with shifting expression, as if
+corresponding by visible hieroglyphics to his modulated breath; and
+anon he will seem to pause with as satisfied an air as if he had
+been talking excellent sense.  Good sense or bad, Monsieur du Miroir
+is the sole judge of his own conversational powers, never having
+whispered so much as a syllable that reached the ears of any other
+auditor.  Is he really dumb? or is all the world deaf? or is it
+merely a piece of my friend's waggery, meant for nothing but to make
+fools of us?  If so, he has the joke all to himself.
+
+This dumb devil which possesses Monsieur do Miroir is, I am
+persuaded, the sole reason that he does not make me the most
+flattering protestations of friendship.  In many particulars--indeed,
+as to all his cognizable and not preternatural points,
+except that, once in a great while, I speak a word or two--there
+exists the greatest apparent sympathy between us.  Such is his
+confidence in my taste that he goes astray from the general fashion
+and copies all his dresses after mine.  I never try on a new garment
+without expecting to meet, Monsieur du Miroir in one of the same
+pattern.  He has duplicates of all my waistcoats and cravats,
+shirt-bosoms of precisely a similar plait, and an old coat for private
+wear, manufactured, I suspect, by a Chinese tailor, in exact
+imitation of a beloved old coat of mine, with a facsimile, stitch by
+stitch, of a patch upon the elbow.  In truth, the singular and
+minute coincidences that occur, both in the accidents of the passing
+day and the serious events of our lives, remind me of those doubtful
+legends of lovers, or twin children, twins of fate, who have lived,
+enjoyed, suffered, and died in unison, each faithfully repeating the
+last tremor of the other's breath, though separated by vast tracts
+of sea and land. Strange to say, my incommodities belong equally to
+my companion, though the burden is nowise alleviated by his
+participation.  The other morning, after a night of torment from the
+toothache, I met Monsieur du Miroir with such a swollen anguish in
+his cheek that my own pangs were redoubled, as were also his, if I
+might judge by a fresh contortion of his visage.  All the
+inequalities of my spirits are communicated to him, causing the
+unfortunate Monsieur du Miroir to mope and scowl through a whole
+summer's day, or to laugh as long, for no better reason than the gay
+or gloomy crotchets of my brain.  Once we were joint sufferers of a
+three months' sickness, and met like mutual ghosts in the first days
+of convalescence.  Whenever I have been in love, Monsieur du Miroir
+has looked passionate and tender; and never did my mistress discard
+me, but this too susceptible gentleman grew lackadaisical.  His
+temper, also, rises to blood heat, fever heat, or boiling-water
+beat, according to the measure of any wrong which might seem to have
+fallen entirely on myself.  I have sometimes been calmed down by the
+sight of my own inordinate wrath depicted on his frowning brow.
+Yet, however prompt in taking up my quarrels, I cannot call to mind
+that he ever struck a downright blow in my behalf; nor, in fact, do
+I perceive that any real and tangible good has resulted from his
+constant interference in my affairs; so that, in my distrustful
+moods, I am apt to suspect Monsieur du Miroir's sympathy to be mere
+outward show, not a whit better nor worse than other people's
+sympathy.  Nevertheless, as mortal man must have something in the
+guise of sympathy,--and whether the true metal, or merely
+copper-washed, is of less moment,--I choose rather to content myself
+with Monsieur du Miroir's, such as it is, than to seek the sterling
+coin, and perhaps miss even the counterfeit.
+
+In my age of vanities I have often seen him in the ballroom, and
+might again were I to seek him there.  We have encountered each
+other at the Tremont Theatre, where, however, he took his seat
+neither in the dress-circle, pit, nor upper regions, nor threw a
+single glance at the stage, though the brightest star, even Fanny
+Kemble herself, might be culminating there.  No; this whimsical
+friend of mine chose to linger in the saloon, near one of the large
+looking-glasses which throw back their pictures of the illuminated
+room.  He is so full of these unaccountable eccentricities that I
+never like to notice Monsieur du Miroir, nor to acknowledge the
+slightest connection with him, in places of public resort.  He,
+however, has no scruple about claiming my acquaintance, even when
+his common-sense, if he had any, might teach him that I would as
+willingly exchange a nod with the Old Nick.  It was but the other
+day that he got into a large brass kettle at the entrance of a
+hardware-store, and thrust his head, the moment afterwards, into a
+bright, new warming-pan, whence he gave me a most merciless look of
+recognition.  He smiled, and so did I; but these childish tricks
+make decent people rather shy of Monsieur du Miroir, and subject him
+to more dead cuts than any other gentleman in town.
+
+One of this singular person's most remarkable peculiarities is his
+fondness for water, wherein he excels any temperance man whatever.
+His pleasure, it must be owned, is not so much to drink it (in which
+respect a very moderate quantity will answer his occasions) as to
+souse himself over head and ears wherever he may meet with it.
+Perhaps he is a merman, or born of a mermaid's marriage with a
+mortal, and thus amphibious by hereditary right, like the children
+which the old river deities, or nymphs of fountains, gave to earthly
+love. When no cleaner bathing-place happened to be at hand, I have
+seen the foolish fellow in a horse-pond.  Some times he refreshes
+himself in the trough of a town-pump, without caring what the people
+think about him. Often, while carefully picking my way along the
+street after a heavy shower, I have been scandalized to see Monsieur
+du Miroir, in full dress, paddling from one mud-puddle to another,
+and plunging into the filthy depths of each.  Seldom have I peeped
+into a well without discerning this ridiculous gentleman at the
+bottom, whence he gazes up, as through a long telescopic tube, and
+probably makes discoveries among the stars by daylight. Wandering
+along lonesome paths or in pathless forests, when I have come to
+virgin fountains of which it would have been pleasant to deem myself
+the first discoverer, I have started to find Monsieur du Miroir
+there before me.  The solitude seemed lonelier for his presence.  I
+have leaned from a precipice that frowns over Lake George, which the
+French call nature's font of sacramental water, and used it in their
+log-churches here and their cathedrals beyond the sea, and seen him
+far below in that pure element.  At Niagara, too, where I would
+gladly have forgotten both myself and him, I could not help
+observing my companion in the smooth water on the very verge of the
+cataract just above the Table Rock.  Were I to reach the sources of
+the Nile, I should expect to meet him there.  Unless he be another
+Ladurlad, whose garments the depth of ocean could not moisten, it is
+difficult to conceive how he keeps himself in any decent pickle;
+though I am bound to confess that his clothes seem always as dry and
+comfortable as my own.  But, as a friend, I could wish that he would
+not so often expose himself in liquor.
+
+All that I have hitherto related may be classed among those little
+personal oddities which agreeably diversify the surface of society,
+and, though they may sometimes annoy us, yet keep our daily
+intercourse fresher and livelier than if they were done away.  By an
+occasional hint, however, I have endeavored to pave the way for
+stranger things to come, which, had they been disclosed at once,
+Monsieur du Miroir might have been deemed a shadow, and myself a
+person of no veracity, and this truthful history a fabulous legend.
+But, now that the reader knows me worthy of his confidence, I will
+begin to make him stare.
+
+To speak frankly, then, I could bring the most astounding proofs
+that Monsieur du Miroir is at least a conjurer, if not one of that
+unearthly tribe with whom conjurers deal.  He has inscrutable
+methods of conveying himself from place to place with the rapidity
+of the swiftest steamboat or rail-car.  Brick walls and oaken doors
+and iron bolts are no impediment to his passage. Here in my chamber,
+for instance, as the evening deepens into night, I sit alone,--the
+key turned and withdrawn from the lock, the keyhole stuffed with
+paper to keep out a peevish little blast of wind.  Yet, lonely as I
+seem, were I to lift one of the lamps and step five paces eastward,
+Monsieur du Miroir would be sure to meet me with a lamp also in his
+hand; and were I to take the stage-coach to-morrow, without giving
+him the least hint of my design, and post onward till the week's
+end, at whatever hotel I might find myself I should expect to share
+my private apartment with this inevitable Monsieur du Miroir.  Or,
+out of a mere wayward fantasy, were I to go, by moonlight, and stand
+beside the stone Pout of the Shaker Spring at Canterbury, Monsieur
+du Miroir would set forth on the same fool's errand, and would not
+fail to meet me there.  Shall I heighten the reader's wonder?  While
+writing these latter sentences, I happened to glance towards the
+large, round globe of one off the brass andirons, and lo! a
+miniature apparition of Monsieur du Miroir, with his face widened
+and grotesquely contorted, as if he were making fun of my amazement!
+But he has played so many of these jokes that they begin to lose
+their effect.  Once, presumptuous that he was, he stole into the
+heaven of a young lady's eyes; so that, while I gazed and was
+dreaming only of herself, I found him also in my dream.  Years have
+so changed him since that he need never hope to enter those heavenly
+orbs again.
+
+From these veritable statements it will be readily concluded that,
+had Monsieur du Miroir played such pranks in old witch times,
+matters might have gone hard with him; at least if the constable and
+posse comitatus could have executed a warrant, or the jailer had
+been cunning enough to keep him.  But it has often occurred to me as
+a very singular circumstance, and as betokening either a temperament
+morbidly suspicious or some weighty cause of apprehension, that he
+never trusts himself within the grasp even of his most intimate
+friend.  If you step forward to meet him, he readily advances; if
+you offer him your hand, he extends his own with an air of the
+utmost frankness; but, though you calculate upon a hearty shake, you
+do not get hold of his little finger. Ah, this Monsieur du Miroir is
+a slippery fellow!
+
+These truly are matters of special admiration.  After vainly
+endeavoring, by the strenuous exertion of my own wits, to gain a
+satisfactory insight into the character of Monsieur du Miroir, I had
+recourse to certain wise men, and also to books of abstruse
+philosophy, seeking who it was that haunted me, and why.  I heard
+long lectures and read huge volumes with little profit beyond the
+knowledge that many former instances are recorded, in successive
+ages, of similar connections between ordinary mortals and beings
+possessing the attributes of Monsieur du Miroir.  Some now alive,
+perhaps, besides myself, have such attendants.  Would that Monsieur
+du Miroir could be persuaded to transfer his attachment to one of
+those, and allow some other of his race to assume the situation that
+he now holds in regard to me!  If I must needs have so intrusive an
+intimate, who stares me in the face in my closest privacy, and
+follows me even to my bedchamber, I should prefer--scandal apart--the
+laughing bloom of a young girl to the dark and bearded gravity
+of my present companion.  But such desires are never to be
+gratified.  Though the members of Monsieur du Miroir's family have
+been accused, perhaps justly, of visiting their friends often in
+splendid halls, and seldom in darksome dungeons, yet they exhibit a
+rare constancy to the objects of their first attachment, however
+unlovely in person or unamiable in disposition,--however
+unfortunate, or even infamous, and deserted by all the world
+besides.  So will it be with my associate.  Our fates appear
+inseparably blended.  It is my belief, as I find him mingling with
+my earliest recollections, that we came into existence together, as
+my shadow follows me into the sunshine, and that hereafter, as
+heretofore, the brightness or gloom of my fortunes will shine upon,
+or darken, the face of Monsieur du Miroir.  As we have been young
+together, and as it is now near the summer noon with both of us, so,
+if long life be granted, shall each count his own wrinkles on the
+other's brow and his white hairs on the other's head.  And when the
+coffin-lid shall have closed over me and that face and form, which,
+more truly than the lover swears it to his beloved, are the sole
+light of his existence,--when they shall be laid in that dark
+chamber, whither his swift and secret footsteps cannot bring him,--then
+what is to become of poor Monsieur du Miroir?  Will he have the
+fortitude, with my other friends, to take a last look at my pale
+countenance?  Will he walk foremost in the funeral train? Will he
+come often and haunt around my grave, and weed away the nettles, and
+plant flowers amid the verdure, and scrape the moss out of the
+letters of my burial-stone?  Will he linger where I have lived, to
+remind the neglectful world of one who staked much to win a name,
+but will not then care whether he lost or won?
+
+Not thus will he prove his deep fidelity.  O, what terror, if this
+friend of mine, after our last farewell, should step into the
+crowded street, or roam along our old frequented path by the still
+waters, or sit down in the domestic circle where our faces are most
+familiar and beloved!  No; but when the rays of heaven shall bless
+me no more, nor the thoughtful lamplight gleam upon my studies, nor
+the cheerful fireside gladden the meditative man, then, his task
+fulfilled, shall this mysterious being vanish from the earth
+forever.  He will pass to the dark realm of nothingness, but will
+not find me there.
+
+There is something fearful in bearing such a relation to a creature
+so imperfectly known, and in the idea that, to a certain extent, all
+which concerns myself will be reflected in its consequences upon
+him.  When we feel that another is to share the self-same fortune
+with ourselves we judge more severely of our prospects, and withhold
+our confidence from that delusive magic which appears to shed an
+infallibility of happiness over our own pathway.  Of late years,
+indeed, there has been much to sadden my intercourse with Monsieur
+de Miroir.  Had not our union been a necessary condition of our
+life, we must have been estranged ere now.  In early youth, when my
+affections were warm and free, I loved him well, and could always
+spend a pleasant hour in his society, chiefly because it gave me an
+excellent opinion of myself.  Speechless as he was, Monsieur du
+Miroir had then a most agreeable way of calling me a handsome
+fellow; and I, of course, returned the compliment; so that, the more
+we kept each other's company, the greater coxcombs we mutually grew.
+But neither of us need apprehend any such misfortune now.  When we
+chance to meet,--for it is chance oftener than design,--each glances
+sadly at the other's forehead, dreading wrinkles there; and at our
+temples, whence the hair is thinning away too early; and at the
+sunken eyes, which no longer shed a gladsome light over the whole
+face.  I involuntarily peruse him as a record of my heavy youth,
+which has been wasted in sluggishness for lack of hope and impulse,
+or equally thrown away in toil that had no wise motive and has
+accomplished no good end.  I perceive that the tranquil gloom of a
+disappointed soul has darkened through his countenance, where the
+blackness of the future seems to mingle with the shadows of the
+past, giving him the aspect of a fated man.  Is it too wild a
+thought that my fate may have assumed this image of myself, and
+therefore haunts me with such inevitable pertinacity, originating
+every act which it appears to imitate, while it deludes me by
+pretending to share the events of which it is merely the emblem and
+the prophecy?  I must banish this idea, or it will throw too deep an
+awe round my companion.  At our next meeting, especially if it be at
+midnight or in solitude, I fear that I shall glance aside and
+shudder; in which case, as Monsieur du Miroir is extremely sensitive
+to ill-treatment, he also will avert his eyes and express horror or
+disgust.
+
+But no; this is unworthy of me.  As of old I sought his society for
+the bewitching dreams of woman's love which he inspired, and because
+I fancied a bright fortune in his aspect, so now will I hold daily
+and long communion with hint for the sake of the stern lessons that
+he will teach my manhood.  With folded arms we will sit face to
+face, and lengthen out our silent converse till a wiser cheerfulness
+shall have been wrought from the very texture of despondency.  He
+will say, perhaps indignantly, that it befits only him to mourn for
+the decay of outward grace, which, while he possessed it, was his
+all.  But have not you, he will ask, a treasure in reserve, to which
+every year may add far more value than age or death itself can
+snatch from that miserable clay?  He will tell me that though the
+bloom of life has been nipped with a frost, yet the soul must not
+sit shivering in its cell, but bestir itself manfully, and kindle a
+genial warmth from its own exercise against; the autumnal and the
+wintry atmosphere.  And I, in return, will bid him be of good cheer,
+nor take it amiss that I must blanch his locks and wrinkle him up
+like a wilted apple, since it shall be my endeavor so to beautify
+his face with intellect and mild benevolence that he shall profit
+immensely by the change.  But here a smile will glimmer somewhat
+sadly over Monsieur du Miroir's visage.
+
+When this subject shall have been sufficiently discussed we may take
+up others as important.  Reflecting upon his power of following me
+to the remotest regions and into the deepest privacy, I will compare
+the attempt to escape him to the hopeless race that men sometimes
+run with memory, or their own hearts, or their moral selves, which,
+though burdened with cares enough to crush an elephant, will never
+be one step behind.  I will be self-contemplative, as nature bids
+me, and make him the picture or visible type of what I muse upon,
+that my mind may not wander so vaguely as heretofore, chasing its
+own shadow through a chaos and catching only the monsters that abide
+there.  Then will we turn our thoughts to the spiritual world, of
+the reality of which my companions shall furnish me an illustration,
+if not an argument; for, as we have only the testimony of the eye to
+Monsieur du Miroir's existence, while all the other senses would
+fail to inform us that such a figure stands within arm's-length,
+wherefore should there not be beings innumerable close beside us,
+and filling heaven and earth with their multitude, yet of whom no
+corporeal perception can take cognizance?  A blind man might as
+reasonably deny that Monsieur du Miroir exists, as we, because the
+Creator has hitherto withheld the spiritual perception, can
+therefore contend that there are no spirits.  O, there are!  And, at
+this moment, when the subject of which I write has grown strong
+within me and surrounded itself with those solemn and awful
+associations which might have seemed most alien to it, I could fancy
+that Monsieur du Miroir himself is a wanderer from the spiritual
+world, with nothing human except his delusive garment of visibility.
+Methinks I should tremble now were his wizard power of gliding
+through all impediments in search of me to place him suddenly before
+my eyes.
+
+Ha!  What is yonder?  Shape of mystery, did the tremor of my
+heartstrings vibrate to thine own, and call thee from thy home among
+the dancers of the northern lights, and shadows flung from departed
+sunshine, and giant spectres that appear on clouds at daybreak and
+affright the climber of the Alps?  In truth it startled me, as I
+threw a wary glance eastward across the chamber, to discern an
+unbidden guest with his eyes bent on mine. The identical MONSIEUR DU
+MIROIR!  Still there he sits and returns my gaze with as much of awe
+and curiosity as if he, too, had spent a solitary evening in
+fantastic musings and made me his theme.  So inimitably does he
+counterfeit that I could almost doubt which of us is the visionary
+form, or whether each be not the other's mystery, and both twin
+brethren of one fate, in mutually reflected spheres.  O friend,
+canst thou not hear and answer me?  Break down the barrier between
+us!  Grasp my hand! Speak!  Listen!  A few words, perhaps, might
+satisfy the feverish yearning of my soul for some master-thought
+that should guide me through this labyrinth of life, teaching
+wherefore I was born, and how to do my task on earth, and what is
+death.  Alas!  Even that unreal image should forget to ape me and
+smile at these vain questions.  Thus do mortals deify, as it were, a
+mere shadow of themselves, a spectre of human reason, and ask of
+that to unveil the mysteries which Divine Intelligence has revealed
+so far as needful to our guidance, and hid the rest.
+
+Farewell, Monsieur du Miroir.  Of you, perhaps, as of many men, it
+may be doubted whether you are the wiser, though your whole business
+is REFLECTION.
+
+
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                        MONSIEUR DU MIROIR
+
+
+
+Than the gentleman above named, there is nobody, in the whole circle
+of my acquaintance, whom I have more attentively studied, yet of
+whom I have less real knowledge, beneath the surface which it
+pleases him to present.  Being anxious to discover who and what he
+really is, and how connected with me, and what are to be the results
+to him and to myself of the joint interest which, without any choice
+on my part, seems to be permanently established between us, and
+incited, furthermore, by the propensities of a student of human
+nature, though doubtful whether Monsieur du Miroir have aught of
+humanity but the figure,--I have determined to place a few of his
+remarkable points before the public, hoping to be favored with some
+clew to the explanation of his character.  Nor let the reader
+condemn any part of the narrative as frivolous, since a subject of
+such grave reflection diffuses its importance through the minutest
+particulars; and there is no judging beforehand what odd little
+circumstance may do the office of a blind man's dog among the
+perplexities of this dark investigation; and however extraordinary,
+marvellous, preternatural, and utterly incredible some of the
+meditated disclosures may appear, I pledge my honor to maintain as
+sacred a regard to fact as if my testimony were given on oath and
+involved the dearest interests of the personage in question.  Not
+that there is matter for a criminal accusation against Monsieur du
+Miroir, nor am I the man to bring it forward if there were.  The
+chief that I complain of is his impenetrable mystery, which is no
+better than nonsense if it conceal anything good, and much worse in
+the contrary case.
+
+But, if undue partialities could be supposed to influence me,
+Monsieur du Miroir might hope to profit rather than to suffer by
+them, for in the whole of our long intercourse we have seldom had
+the slightest disagreement; and, moreover, there are reasons for
+supposing him a near relative of mine, and consequently entitled to
+the best word that I can give him.  He bears indisputably a strong
+personal resemblance to myself, and generally puts on mourning at
+the funerals of the family.  On the other hand, his name would
+indicate a French descent; in which case, infinitely preferring that
+my blood should flow from a bold British and pure Puritan source, I
+beg leave to disclaim all kindred with Monsieur du Miroir.  Some
+genealogists trace his origin to Spain, and dub him a knight of the
+order of the CABALLEROS DE LOS ESPEJOZ, one of whom was overthrown
+by Don Quixote.  But what says Monsieur du Miroir himself of his
+paternity and his fatherland?  Not a word did he ever say about the
+matter; and herein, perhaps, lies one of his most especial reasons
+for maintaining such a vexatious mystery, that he lacks the faculty
+of speech to expound it.  His lips are sometimes seen to move; his
+eyes and countenance are alive with shifting expression, as if
+corresponding by visible hieroglyphics to his modulated breath; and
+anon he will seem to pause with as satisfied an air as if he had
+been talking excellent sense.  Good sense or bad, Monsieur du Miroir
+is the sole judge of his own conversational powers, never having
+whispered so much as a syllable that reached the ears of any other
+auditor.  Is he really dumb? or is all the world deaf? or is it
+merely a piece of my friend's waggery, meant for nothing but to make
+fools of us?  If so, he has the joke all to himself.
+
+This dumb devil which possesses Monsieur do Miroir is, I am
+persuaded, the sole reason that he does not make me the most
+flattering protestations of friendship.  In many particulars--
+indeed, as to all his cognizable and not preternatural points,
+except that, once in a great while, I speak a word or two--there
+exists the greatest apparent sympathy between us.  Such is his
+confidence in my taste that he goes astray from the general fashion
+and copies all his dresses after mine.  I never try on a new garment
+without expecting to meet, Monsieur du Miroir in one of the same
+pattern.  He has duplicates of all my waistcoats and cravats, shirt-
+bosoms of precisely a similar plait, and an old coat for private
+wear, manufactured, I suspect, by a Chinese tailor, in exact
+imitation of a beloved old coat of mine, with a facsimile, stitch by
+stitch, of a patch upon the elbow.  In truth, the singular and
+minute coincidences that occur, both in the accidents of the passing
+day and the serious events of our lives, remind me of those doubtful
+legends of lovers, or twin children, twins of fate, who have lived,
+enjoyed, suffered, and died in unison, each faithfully repeating the
+last tremor of the other's breath, though separated by vast tracts
+of sea and land. Strange to say, my incommodities belong equally to
+my companion, though the burden is nowise alleviated by his
+participation.  The other morning, after a night of torment from the
+toothache, I met Monsieur du Miroir with such a swollen anguish in
+his cheek that my own pangs were redoubled, as were also his, if I
+might judge by a fresh contortion of his visage.  All the
+inequalities of my spirits are communicated to him, causing the
+unfortunate Monsieur du Miroir to mope and scowl through a whole
+summer's day, or to laugh as long, for no better reason than the gay
+or gloomy crotchets of my brain.  Once we were joint sufferers of a
+three months' sickness, and met like mutual ghosts in the first days
+of convalescence.  Whenever I have been in love, Monsieur du Miroir
+has looked passionate and tender; and never did my mistress discard
+me, but this too susceptible gentleman grew lackadaisical.  His
+temper, also, rises to blood heat, fever heat, or boiling-water
+beat, according to the measure of any wrong which might seem to have
+fallen entirely on myself.  I have sometimes been calmed down by the
+sight of my own inordinate wrath depicted on his frowning brow.
+Yet, however prompt in taking up my quarrels, I cannot call to mind
+that he ever struck a downright blow in my behalf; nor, in fact, do
+I perceive that any real and tangible good has resulted from his
+constant interference in my affairs; so that, in my distrustful
+moods, I am apt to suspect Monsieur du Miroir's sympathy to be mere
+outward show, not a whit better nor worse than other people's
+sympathy.  Nevertheless, as mortal man must have something in the
+guise of sympathy,--and whether the true metal, or merely
+copper-washed, is of less moment,--I choose rather to content myself
+with Monsieur du Miroir's, such as it is, than to seek the sterling
+coin, and perhaps miss even the counterfeit.
+
+In my age of vanities I have often seen him in the ballroom, and
+might again were I to seek him there.  We have encountered each
+other at the Tremont Theatre, where, however, he took his seat
+neither in the dress-circle, pit, nor upper regions, nor threw a
+single glance at the stage, though the brightest star, even Fanny
+Kemble herself, might be culminating there.  No; this whimsical
+friend of mine chose to linger in the saloon, near one of the large
+looking-glasses which throw back their pictures of the illuminated
+room.  He is so full of these unaccountable eccentricities that I
+never like to notice Monsieur du Miroir, nor to acknowledge the
+slightest connection with him, in places of public resort.  He,
+however, has no scruple about claiming my acquaintance, even when
+his common-sense, if he had any, might teach him that I would as
+willingly exchange a nod with the Old Nick.  It was but the other
+day that he got into a large brass kettle at the entrance of a
+hardware-store, and thrust his head, the moment afterwards, into a
+bright, new warming-pan, whence he gave me a most merciless look of
+recognition.  He smiled, and so did I; but these childish tricks
+make decent people rather shy of Monsieur du Miroir, and subject him
+to more dead cuts than any other gentleman in town.
+
+One of this singular person's most remarkable peculiarities is his
+fondness for water, wherein he excels any temperance man whatever.
+His pleasure, it must be owned, is not so much to drink it (in which
+respect a very moderate quantity will answer his occasions) as to
+souse himself over head and ears wherever he may meet with it.
+Perhaps he is a merman, or born of a mermaid's marriage with a
+mortal, and thus amphibious by hereditary right, like the children
+which the old river deities, or nymphs of fountains, gave to earthly
+love. When no cleaner bathing-place happened to be at hand, I have
+seen the foolish fellow in a horse-pond.  Some times he refreshes
+himself in the trough of a town-pump, without caring what the people
+think about him. Often, while carefully picking my way along the
+street after a heavy shower, I have been scandalized to see Monsieur
+du Miroir, in full dress, paddling from one mud-puddle to another,
+and plunging into the filthy depths of each.  Seldom have I peeped
+into a well without discerning this ridiculous gentleman at the
+bottom, whence he gazes up, as through a long telescopic tube, and
+probably makes discoveries among the stars by daylight. Wandering
+along lonesome paths or in pathless forests, when I have come to
+virgin fountains of which it would have been pleasant to deem myself
+the first discoverer, I have started to find Monsieur du Miroir
+there before me.  The solitude seemed lonelier for his presence.  I
+have leaned from a precipice that frowns over Lake George, which the
+French call nature's font of sacramental water, and used it in their
+log-churches here and their cathedrals beyond the sea, and seen him
+far below in that pure element.  At Niagara, too, where I would
+gladly have forgotten both myself and him, I could not help
+observing my companion in the smooth water on the very verge of the
+cataract just above the Table Rock.  Were I to reach the sources of
+the Nile, I should expect to meet him there.  Unless he be another
+Ladurlad, whose garments the depth of ocean could not moisten, it is
+difficult to conceive how he keeps himself in any decent pickle;
+though I am bound to confess that his clothes seem always as dry and
+comfortable as my own.  But, as a friend, I could wish that he would
+not so often expose himself in liquor.
+
+All that I have hitherto related may be classed among those little
+personal oddities which agreeably diversify the surface of society,
+and, though they may sometimes annoy us, yet keep our daily
+intercourse fresher and livelier than if they were done away.  By an
+occasional hint, however, I have endeavored to pave the way for
+stranger things to come, which, had they been disclosed at once,
+Monsieur du Miroir might have been deemed a shadow, and myself a
+person of no veracity, and this truthful history a fabulous legend.
+But, now that the reader knows me worthy of his confidence, I will
+begin to make him stare.
+
+To speak frankly, then, I could bring the most astounding proofs
+that Monsieur du Miroir is at least a conjurer, if not one of that
+unearthly tribe with whom conjurers deal.  He has inscrutable
+methods of conveying himself from place to place with the rapidity
+of the swiftest steamboat or rail-car.  Brick walls and oaken doors
+and iron bolts are no impediment to his passage. Here in my chamber,
+for instance, as the evening deepens into night, I sit alone,--the
+key turned and withdrawn from the lock, the keyhole stuffed with
+paper to keep out a peevish little blast of wind.  Yet, lonely as I
+seem, were I to lift one of the lamps and step five paces eastward,
+Monsieur du Miroir would be sure to meet me with a lamp also in his
+hand; and were I to take the stage-coach to-morrow, without giving
+him the least hint of my design, and post onward till the week's
+end, at whatever hotel I might find myself I should expect to share
+my private apartment with this inevitable Monsieur du Miroir.  Or,
+out of a mere wayward fantasy, were I to go, by moonlight, and stand
+beside the stone Pout of the Shaker Spring at Canterbury, Monsieur
+du Miroir would set forth on the same fool's errand, and would not
+fail to meet me there.  Shall I heighten the reader's wonder?  While
+writing these latter sentences, I happened to glance towards the
+large, round globe of one off the brass andirons, and lo! a
+miniature apparition of Monsieur du Miroir, with his face widened
+and grotesquely contorted, as if he were making fun of my amazement!
+But he has played so many of these jokes that they begin to lose
+their effect.  Once, presumptuous that he was, he stole into the
+heaven of a young lady's eyes; so that, while I gazed and was
+dreaming only of herself, I found him also in my dream.  Years have
+so changed him since that he need never hope to enter those heavenly
+orbs again.
+
+From these veritable statements it will be readily concluded that,
+had Monsieur du Miroir played such pranks in old witch times,
+matters might have gone hard with him; at least if the constable and
+posse comitatus could have executed a warrant, or the jailer had
+been cunning enough to keep him.  But it has often occurred to me as
+a very singular circumstance, and as betokening either a temperament
+morbidly suspicious or some weighty cause of apprehension, that he
+never trusts himself within the grasp even of his most intimate
+friend.  If you step forward to meet him, he readily advances; if
+you offer him your hand, he extends his own with an air of the
+utmost frankness; but, though you calculate upon a hearty shake, you
+do not get hold of his little finger. Ah, this Monsieur du Miroir is
+a slippery fellow!
+
+These truly are matters of special admiration.  After vainly
+endeavoring, by the strenuous exertion of my own wits, to gain a
+satisfactory insight into the character of Monsieur du Miroir, I had
+recourse to certain wise men, and also to books of abstruse
+philosophy, seeking who it was that haunted me, and why.  I heard
+long lectures and read huge volumes with little profit beyond the
+knowledge that many former instances are recorded, in successive
+ages, of similar connections between ordinary mortals and beings
+possessing the attributes of Monsieur du Miroir.  Some now alive,
+perhaps, besides myself, have such attendants.  Would that Monsieur
+du Miroir could be persuaded to transfer his attachment to one of
+those, and allow some other of his race to assume the situation that
+he now holds in regard to me!  If I must needs have so intrusive an
+intimate, who stares me in the face in my closest privacy, and
+follows me even to my bedchamber, I should prefer--scandal apart--
+the laughing bloom of a young girl to the dark and bearded gravity
+of my present companion.  But such desires are never to be
+gratified.  Though the members of Monsieur du Miroir's family have
+been accused, perhaps justly, of visiting their friends often in
+splendid halls, and seldom in darksome dungeons, yet they exhibit a
+rare constancy to the objects of their first attachment, however
+unlovely in person or unamiable in disposition,--however
+unfortunate, or even infamous, and deserted by all the world
+besides.  So will it be with my associate.  Our fates appear
+inseparably blended.  It is my belief, as I find him mingling with
+my earliest recollections, that we came into existence together, as
+my shadow follows me into the sunshine, and that hereafter, as
+heretofore, the brightness or gloom of my fortunes will shine upon,
+or darken, the face of Monsieur du Miroir.  As we have been young
+together, and as it is now near the summer noon with both of us, so,
+if long life be granted, shall each count his own wrinkles on the
+other's brow and his white hairs on the other's head.  And when the
+coffin-lid shall have closed over me and that face and form, which,
+more truly than the lover swears it to his beloved, are the sole
+light of his existence,--when they shall be laid in that dark
+chamber, whither his swift and secret footsteps cannot bring him,--
+then what is to become of poor Monsieur du Miroir?  Will he have the
+fortitude, with my other friends, to take a last look at my pale
+countenance?  Will he walk foremost in the funeral train? Will he
+come often and haunt around my grave, and weed away the nettles, and
+plant flowers amid the verdure, and scrape the moss out of the
+letters of my burial-stone?  Will he linger where I have lived, to
+remind the neglectful world of one who staked much to win a name,
+but will not then care whether he lost or won?
+
+Not thus will he prove his deep fidelity.  O, what terror, if this
+friend of mine, after our last farewell, should step into the
+crowded street, or roam along our old frequented path by the still
+waters, or sit down in the domestic circle where our faces are most
+familiar and beloved!  No; but when the rays of heaven shall bless
+me no more, nor the thoughtful lamplight gleam upon my studies, nor
+the cheerful fireside gladden the meditative man, then, his task
+fulfilled, shall this mysterious being vanish from the earth
+forever.  He will pass to the dark realm of nothingness, but will
+not find me there.
+
+There is something fearful in bearing such a relation to a creature
+so imperfectly known, and in the idea that, to a certain extent, all
+which concerns myself will be reflected in its consequences upon
+him.  When we feel that another is to share the self-same fortune
+with ourselves we judge more severely of our prospects, and withhold
+our confidence from that delusive magic which appears to shed an
+infallibility of happiness over our own pathway.  Of late years,
+indeed, there has been much to sadden my intercourse with Monsieur
+de Miroir.  Had not our union been a necessary condition of our
+life, we must have been estranged ere now.  In early youth, when my
+affections were warm and free, I loved him well, and could always
+spend a pleasant hour in his society, chiefly because it gave me an
+excellent opinion of myself.  Speechless as he was, Monsieur du
+Miroir had then a most agreeable way of calling me a handsome
+fellow; and I, of course, returned the compliment; so that, the more
+we kept each other's company, the greater coxcombs we mutually grew.
+But neither of us need apprehend any such misfortune now.  When we
+chance to meet,--for it is chance oftener than design,--each glances
+sadly at the other's forehead, dreading wrinkles there; and at our
+temples, whence the hair is thinning away too early; and at the
+sunken eyes, which no longer shed a gladsome light over the whole
+face.  I involuntarily peruse him as a record of my heavy youth,
+which has been wasted in sluggishness for lack of hope and impulse,
+or equally thrown away in toil that had no wise motive and has
+accomplished no good end.  I perceive that the tranquil gloom of a
+disappointed soul has darkened through his countenance, where the
+blackness of the future seems to mingle with the shadows of the
+past, giving him the aspect of a fated man.  Is it too wild a
+thought that my fate may have assumed this image of myself, and
+therefore haunts me with such inevitable pertinacity, originating
+every act which it appears to imitate, while it deludes me by
+pretending to share the events of which it is merely the emblem and
+the prophecy?  I must banish this idea, or it will throw too deep an
+awe round my companion.  At our next meeting, especially if it be at
+midnight or in solitude, I fear that I shall glance aside and
+shudder; in which case, as Monsieur du Miroir is extremely sensitive
+to ill-treatment, he also will avert his eyes and express horror or
+disgust.
+
+But no; this is unworthy of me.  As of old I sought his society for
+the bewitching dreams of woman's love which he inspired, and because
+I fancied a bright fortune in his aspect, so now will I hold daily
+and long communion with hint for the sake of the stern lessons that
+he will teach my manhood.  With folded arms we will sit face to
+face, and lengthen out our silent converse till a wiser cheerfulness
+shall have been wrought from the very texture of despondency.  He
+will say, perhaps indignantly, that it befits only him to mourn for
+the decay of outward grace, which, while he possessed it, was his
+all.  But have not you, he will ask, a treasure in reserve, to which
+every year may add far more value than age or death itself can
+snatch from that miserable clay?  He will tell me that though the
+bloom of life has been nipped with a frost, yet the soul must not
+sit shivering in its cell, but bestir itself manfully, and kindle a
+genial warmth from its own exercise against; the autumnal and the
+wintry atmosphere.  And I, in return, will bid him be of good cheer,
+nor take it amiss that I must blanch his locks and wrinkle him up
+like a wilted apple, since it shall be my endeavor so to beautify
+his face with intellect and mild benevolence that he shall profit
+immensely by the change.  But here a smile will glimmer somewhat
+sadly over Monsieur du Miroir's visage.
+
+When this subject shall have been sufficiently discussed we may take
+up others as important.  Reflecting upon his power of following me
+to the remotest regions and into the deepest privacy, I will compare
+the attempt to escape him to the hopeless race that men sometimes
+run with memory, or their own hearts, or their moral selves, which,
+though burdened with cares enough to crush an elephant, will never
+be one step behind.  I will be self-contemplative, as nature bids
+me, and make him the picture or visible type of what I muse upon,
+that my mind may not wander so vaguely as heretofore, chasing its
+own shadow through a chaos and catching only the monsters that abide
+there.  Then will we turn our thoughts to the spiritual world, of
+the reality of which my companions shall furnish me an illustration,
+if not an argument; for, as we have only the testimony of the eye to
+Monsieur du Miroir's existence, while all the other senses would
+fail to inform us that such a figure stands within arm's-length,
+wherefore should there not be beings innumerable close beside us,
+and filling heaven and earth with their multitude, yet of whom no
+corporeal perception can take cognizance?  A blind man might as
+reasonably deny that Monsieur du Miroir exists, as we, because the
+Creator has hitherto withheld the spiritual perception, can
+therefore contend that there are no spirits.  O, there are!  And, at
+this moment, when the subject of which I write has grown strong
+within me and surrounded itself with those solemn and awful
+associations which might have seemed most alien to it, I could fancy
+that Monsieur du Miroir himself is a wanderer from the spiritual
+world, with nothing human except his delusive garment of visibility.
+Methinks I should tremble now were his wizard power of gliding
+through all impediments in search of me to place him suddenly before
+my eyes.
+
+Ha!  What is yonder?  Shape of mystery, did the tremor of my
+heartstrings vibrate to thine own, and call thee from thy home among
+the dancers of the northern lights, and shadows flung from departed
+sunshine, and giant spectres that appear on clouds at daybreak and
+affright the climber of the Alps?  In truth it startled me, as I
+threw a wary glance eastward across the chamber, to discern an
+unbidden guest with his eyes bent on mine. The identical MONSIEUR DU
+MIROIR!  Still there he sits and returns my gaze with as much of awe
+and curiosity as if he, too, had spent a solitary evening in
+fantastic musings and made me his theme.  So inimitably does he
+counterfeit that I could almost doubt which of us is the visionary
+form, or whether each be not the other's mystery, and both twin
+brethren of one fate, in mutually reflected spheres.  O friend,
+canst thou not hear and answer me?  Break down the barrier between
+us!  Grasp my hand! Speak!  Listen!  A few words, perhaps, might
+satisfy the feverish yearning of my soul for some master-thought
+that should guide me through this labyrinth of life, teaching
+wherefore I was born, and how to do my task on earth, and what is
+death.  Alas!  Even that unreal image should forget to ape me and
+smile at these vain questions.  Thus do mortals deify, as it were, a
+mere shadow of themselves, a spectre of human reason, and ask of
+that to unveil the mysteries which Divine Intelligence has revealed
+so far as needful to our guidance, and hid the rest.
+
+Farewell, Monsieur du Miroir.  Of you, perhaps, as of many men, it
+may be doubted whether you are the wiser, though your whole business
+is REFLECTION.
+
+
+
+
+
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