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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. +</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—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. +</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,—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—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? +</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,—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. +</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--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONSIEUR DU MIROIR ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +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. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part +of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project +Gutenberg™ electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG™ +concept and trademark. 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