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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: Monsieur du Miroir + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: September 6, 2003 [eBook #9225] +[Most recently updated: November 9, 2022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: David Widger and Al Haines + +*** 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. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONSIEUR DU MIROIR *** + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the +United States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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