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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD APPLE DEALER ***
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+
+The Old Apple Dealer
+
+by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+
+The lover of the moral picturesque may sometimes find what he, seeks in
+a character which is nevertheless of too negative a description to be
+seized upon and represented to the imaginative vision by word-painting.
+As an instance, I remember an old man who carries on a little trade of
+gingerbread and apples at the depot of one of our railroads. While
+awaiting the departure of the cars, my observation, flitting to and fro
+among the livelier characteristics of the scene, has often settled
+insensibly upon this almost hueless object. Thus, unconsciously to
+myself and unsuspected by him, I have studied the old apple-dealer
+until he has become a naturalized citizen of my inner world. How little
+would he imagine—poor, neglected, friendless, unappreciated, and with
+little that demands appreciation—that the mental eye of an utter
+stranger has so often reverted to his figure! Many a noble form, many a
+beautiful face, has flitted before me and vanished like a shadow. It is
+a strange witchcraft whereby this faded and featureless old
+apple-dealer has gained a settlement in my memory.
+
+He is a small man, with gray hair and gray stubble beard, and is
+invariably clad in a shabby surtout of snuff-color, closely buttoned,
+and half concealing a pair of gray pantaloons; the whole dress, though
+clean and entire, being evidently flimsy with much wear. His face,
+thin, withered, furrowed, and with features which even age has failed
+to render impressive, has a frost-bitten aspect. It is a moral frost
+which no physical warmth or comfortableness could counteract. The
+summer sunshine may fling its white heat upon him or the good fire of
+the depot room may slake him the focus of its blaze on a winter’s day;
+but all in vain; for still the old roan looks as if he were in a frosty
+atmosphere, with scarcely warmth enough to keep life in the region
+about his heart. It is a patient, long-suffering, quiet, hopeless,
+shivering aspect. He is not desperate,—that, though its etymology
+implies no more, would be too positive an expression,—but merely devoid
+of hope. As all his past life, probably, offers no spots of brightness
+to his memory, so he takes his present poverty and discomfort as
+entirely a matter of course! he thinks it the definition of existence,
+so far as himself is concerned, to be poor, cold, and uncomfortable. It
+may be added, that time has not thrown dignity as a mantle over the old
+man’s figure: there is nothing venerable about him: you pity him
+without a scruple.
+
+He sits on a bench in the depot room; and before him, on the floor, are
+deposited two baskets of a capacity to contain his whole stock in
+trade. Across from one basket to the other extends a board, on which is
+displayed a plate of cakes and gingerbread, some russet and red-cheeked
+apples, and a box containing variegated sticks of candy, together with
+that delectable condiment known by children as Gibraltar rock, neatly
+done up in white paper. There is likewise a half-peck measure of
+cracked walnuts and two or three tin half-pints or gills filled with
+the nut-kernels, ready for purchasers.
+
+Such are the small commodities with which our old friend comes daily
+before the world, ministering to its petty needs and little freaks of
+appetite, and seeking thence the solid subsistence—so far as he may
+subsist of his life.
+
+A slight observer would speak of the old man’s quietude; but, on closer
+scrutiny, you discover that there is a continual unrest within him,
+which somewhat resembles the fluttering action of the nerves in a
+corpse from which life has recently departed. Though he never exhibits
+any violent action, and, indeed, might appear to be sitting quite
+still, yet you perceive, when his minuter peculiarities begin to be
+detected, that he is always making some little movement or other. He
+looks anxiously at his plate of cakes or pyramid of apples and slightly
+alters their arrangement, with an evident idea that a great deal
+depends on their being disposed exactly thus and so. Then for a moment
+he gazes out of the window; then he shivers quietly and folds his arms
+across his breast, as if to draw himself closer within himself, and
+thus keep a flicker of warmth in his lonesome heart. Now he turns again
+to his merchandise of cakes, apples, and candy, and discovers that this
+cake or that apple, or yonder stick of red and white candy, has somehow
+got out of its proper position. And is there not a walnut-kernel too
+many or too few in one of those small tin measures? Again the whole
+arrangement appears to be settled to his mind; but, in the course of a
+minute or two, there will assuredly be something to set right. At
+times, by an indescribable shadow upon his features, too quiet,
+however, to be noticed until you are familiar with his ordinary aspect,
+the expression of frostbitten, patient despondency becomes very
+touching. It seems as if just at that instant the suspicion occurred to
+him that, in his chill decline of life, earning scanty bread by selling
+cakes, apples, and candy, he is a very miserable old fellow.
+
+But, if he thinks so, it is a mistake. He can never suffer the extreme
+of misery, because the tone of his whole being is too much subdued for
+him to feel anything acutely.
+
+Occasionally one of the passengers, to while away a tedious interval,
+approaches the old man, inspects the articles upon his board, and even
+peeps curiously into the two baskets. Another, striding to and fro
+along the room, throws a look at the apples and gingerbread at every
+turn. A third, it may be of a more sensitive and delicate texture of
+being, glances shyly thitherward, cautious not to excite expectations
+of a purchaser while yet undetermined whether to buy. But there appears
+to be no need of such a scrupulous regard to our old friend’s feelings.
+True, he is conscious of the remote possibility to sell a cake or an
+apple; but innumerable disappointments have rendered him so far a
+philosopher, that, even if the purchased article should be returned, he
+will consider it altogether in the ordinary train of events. He speaks
+to none, and makes no sign of offering his wares to the public: not
+that he is deterred by pride, but by the certain conviction that such
+demonstrations would not increase his custom. Besides, this activity in
+business would require an energy that never could have been a
+characteristic of his almost passive disposition even in youth.
+Whenever an actual customer customer appears the old man looks up with
+a patient eye: if the price and the article are approved, he is ready
+to make change; otherwise his eyelids droop again sadly enough, but
+with no heavier despondency than before. He shivers, perhaps folds his
+lean arms around his lean body, and resumes the life-long, frozen
+patience in which consists his strength.
+
+Once in a while a school-boy comes hastily up, places cent or two upon
+the board, and takes up a cake, or stick of candy, or a measure of
+walnuts, or an apple as red-checked as himself. There are no words as
+to price, that being as well known to the buyer as to the seller. The
+old apple-dealer never speaks an unnecessary word not that he is sullen
+and morose; but there is none of the cheeriness and briskness in him
+that stirs up people to talk.
+
+Not seldom he is greeted by some old neighbor, a man well to do in the
+world, who makes a civil, patronizing observation about the weather;
+and then, by way of performing a charitable deed, begins to chaffer for
+an apple. Our friend presumes not on any past acquaintance; he makes
+the briefest possible response to all general remarks, and shrinks
+quietly into himself again. After every diminution of his stock he
+takes care to produce from the basket another cake, another stick of
+candy, another apple, or another measure of walnuts, to supply the
+place of the article sold. Two or three attempts—or, perchance, half a
+dozen—are requisite before the board can be rearranged to his
+satisfaction. If he have received a silver coin, he waits till the
+purchaser is out of sight, then examines it closely, and tries to bend
+it with his finger and thumb: finally he puts it into his
+waistcoat-pocket with seemingly a gentle sigh. This sigh, so faint as
+to be hardly perceptible, and not expressive of any definite emotion,
+is the accompaniment and conclusion of all his actions. It is the
+symbol of the chillness and torpid melancholy of his old age, which
+only make themselves felt sensibly when his repose is slightly
+disturbed.
+
+Our man of gingerbread and apples is not a specimen of the “needy man
+who has seen better days.” Doubtless there have been better and
+brighter days in the far-off time of his youth; but none with so much
+sunshine of prosperity in them that the chill, the depression, the
+narrowness of means, in his declining years, can have come upon him by
+surprise. His life has all been of a piece. His subdued and nerveless
+boyhood prefigured his abortive prime, which likewise contained within
+itself the prophecy and image of his lean and torpid age. He was
+perhaps a mechanic, who never came to be a master in his craft, or a
+petty tradesman, rubbing onward between passably to do and poverty.
+Possibly he may look back to some brilliant epoch of his career when
+there were a hundred or two of dollars to his credit in the Savings
+Bank. Such must have been the extent of his better fortune,—his little
+measure of this world’s triumphs,—all that he has known of success. A
+meek, downcast, humble, uncomplaining creature, he probably has never
+felt himself entitled to more than so much of the gifts of Providence.
+Is it not still something that he has never held out his hand for
+charity, nor has yet been driven to that sad home and household of
+Earth’s forlorn and broken-spirited children, the almshouse? He
+cherishes no quarrel, therefore, with his destiny, nor with the Author
+of it. All is as it should be.
+
+If, indeed, he have been bereaved of a son, a bold, energetic, vigorous
+young man, on whom the father’s feeble nature leaned as on a staff of
+strength, in that case he may have felt a bitterness that could not
+otherwise have been generated in his heart. But methinks the joy of
+possessing such a son and the agony of losing him would have developed
+the old man’s moral and intellectual nature to a much greater degree
+than we now find it. Intense grief appears to be as much out of keeping
+with his life as fervid happiness.
+
+To confess the truth, it is not the easiest matter in the world to
+define and individualize a character like this which we are now
+handling. The portrait must be so generally negative that the most
+delicate pencil is likely to spoil it by introducing some too positive
+tint. Every touch must be kept down, or else you destroy the subdued
+tone which is absolutely essential to the whole effect. Perhaps more
+may be done by contrast than by direct description. For this purpose I
+make use of another cake and candy merchant, who, likewise infests the
+railroad depot. This latter worthy is a very smart and well-dressed boy
+of ten years old or thereabouts, who skips briskly hither and thither,
+addressing the passengers in a pert voice, yet with somewhat of good
+breeding in his tone and pronunciation. Now he has caught my eye, and
+skips across the room with a pretty pertness, which I should like to
+correct with a box on the ear. “Any cake, sir? any candy?”
+
+No, none for me, my lad. I did but glance at your brisk figure in order
+to catch a reflected light and throw it upon your old rival yonder.
+
+Again, in order to invest my conception of the old man with a more
+decided sense of reality, I look at him in the very moment of intensest
+bustle, on the arrival of the cars. The shriek of the engine as it
+rushes into the car-house is the utterance of the steam fiend, whom man
+has subdued by magic spells and compels to serve as a beast of burden.
+He has skimmed rivers in his headlong rush, dashed through forests,
+plunged into the hearts of mountains, and glanced from the city to the
+desert-place, and again to a far-off city, with a meteoric progress,
+seen and out of sight, while his reverberating roar still fills the
+ear. The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the
+momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance. It seems
+as if the whole world, both morally and physically, were detached from
+its old standfasts and set in rapid motion. And, in the midst of this
+terrible activity, there sits the old man of gingerbread, so subdued,
+so hopeless, so without a stake in life, and yet not positively
+miserable,—there he sits, the forlorn old creature, one chill and
+sombre day after another, gathering scanty coppers for his cakes,
+apples, and candy,—there sits the old apple-dealer, in his threadbare
+suit of snuff-color and gray and his grizzly stubble heard. See! he
+folds his lean arms around his lean figure with that quiet sigh and
+that scarcely perceptible shiver which are the tokens of his inward
+state. I have him now. He and the steam fiend are each other’s
+antipodes; the latter is the type of all that go ahead, and the old man
+the representative of that melancholy class who by some sad witchcraft
+are doomed never to share in the world’s exulting progress. Thus the
+contrast between mankind and this desolate brother becomes picturesque,
+and even sublime.
+
+And now farewell, old friend! Little do you suspect that a student of
+human life has made your character the theme of more than one solitary
+and thoughtful hour. Many would say that you have hardly individuality
+enough to be the object of your own self-love. How, then, can a
+stranger’s eye detect anything in your mind and heart to study and to
+wonder at? Yet, could I read but a tithe of what is written there, it
+would be a volume of deeper and more comprehensive import than all that
+the wisest mortals have given to the world; for the soundless depths of
+the human soul and of eternity have an opening through your breast. God
+be praised, were it only for your sake, that the present shapes of
+human existence are not cast in iron nor hewn in everlasting adamant,
+but moulded of the vapors that vanish away while the essence flits
+upward to the infinite. There is a spiritual essence in this gray and
+lean old shape that shall flit upward too. Yes; doubtless there is a
+region where the life-long shiver will pass away from his being, and
+that quiet sigh, which it has taken him so many years to breathe, will
+be brought to a close for good and all.
+
+
+
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