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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Monsieur du Muroir (From "Mosses From An
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+Title: Monsieur du Muroir (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Posting Date: December 8, 2010 [EBook #9225]
+Release Date: November, 2005
+First Posted: September 6, 2003
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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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