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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: Sylph Etherege + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: September 18, 2003 [eBook #9238] +[Most recently updated: May 16, 2022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: David Widger + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SYLPH ETHEREGE *** + + + + +Sylph Etherege + +by Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + + +On a bright summer evening, two persons stood among the shrubbery of a +garden, stealthily watching a young girl, who sat in the window seat of +a neighboring mansion. One of these unseen observers, a gentleman, was +youthful, and had an air of high breeding and refinement, and a face +marked with intellect, though otherwise of unprepossessing aspect. His +features wore even an ominous, though somewhat mirthful expression, +while he pointed his long forefinger at the girl, and seemed to regard +her as a creature completely within the scope of his influence. + +“The charm works!” said he, in a low, but emphatic whisper. + +“Do you know, Edward Hamilton,—since so you choose to be named,—do you +know,” said the lady beside him, “that I have almost a mind to break +the spell at once? What if the lesson should prove too severe! True, if +my ward could be thus laughed out of her fantastic nonsense, she might +be the better for it through life. But then, she is such a delicate +creature! And, besides, are you not ruining your own chance, by putting +forward this shadow of a rival?” + +“But will he not vanish into thin air, at my bidding?” rejoined Edward +Hamilton. “Let the charm work!” + +The girl’s slender and sylph-like figure, tinged with radiance from the +sunset clouds, and overhung with the rich drapery of the silken +curtains, and set within the deep frame of the window, was a perfect +picture; or, rather, it was like the original loveliness in a painter’s +fancy, from which the most finished picture is but an imperfect copy. +Though her occupation excited so much interest in the two spectators, +she was merely gazing at a miniature which she held in her hand, +encased in white satin and red morocco; nor did there appear to be any +other cause for the smile of mockery and malice with which Hamilton +regarded her. + +“The charm works!” muttered he, again. “Our pretty Sylvia’s scorn will +have a dear retribution!” + +At this moment the girl raised her eyes, and, instead of a life-like +semblance of the miniature, beheld the ill-omened shape of Edward +Hamilton, who now stepped forth from his concealment in the shrubbery. + +Sylvia Etherege was an orphan girl, who had spent her life, till within +a few months past, under the guardianship, and in the secluded +dwelling, of an old bachelor uncle. While yet in her cradle, she had +been the destined bride of a cousin, who was no less passive in the +betrothal than herself. Their future union had been projected, as the +means of uniting two rich estates, and was rendered highly expedient, +if not indispensable, by the testamentary dispositions of the parents +on both sides. Edgar Vaughan, the promised bridegroom, had been bred +from infancy in Europe, and had never seen the beautiful girl whose +heart he was to claim as his inheritance. But already, for several +years, a correspondence had been kept up between tine cousins, and had +produced an intellectual intimacy, though it could but imperfectly +acquaint them with each other’s character. + +Sylvia was shy, sensitive, and fanciful; and her guardian’s secluded +habits had shut her out from even so much of the world as is generally +open to maidens of her age. She had been left to seek associates and +friends for herself in the haunts of imagination, and to converse with +them, sometimes in the language of dead poets, oftener in the poetry of +her own mind. The companion whom she chiefly summoned up was the cousin +with whose idea her earliest thoughts had been connected. She made a +vision of Edgar Vaughan, and tinted it with stronger hues than a mere +fancy-picture, yet graced it with so many bright and delicate +perfections, that her cousin could nowhere have encountered so +dangerous a rival. To this shadow she cherished a romantic fidelity. +With its airy presence sitting by her side, or gliding along her +favorite paths, the loneliness of her young life was blissful; her +heart was satisfied with love, while yet its virgin purity was +untainted by the earthliness that the touch of a real lover would have +left there. Edgar Vaughan seemed to be conscious of her character; for, +in his letters, he gave her a name that was happily appropriate to the +sensitiveness of her disposition, the delicate peculiarity of her +manners, and the ethereal beauty both of her mind and person. Instead +of Sylvia, he called her Sylph,—with the prerogative of a cousin and a +lover,—his dear Sylph Etherege. + +When Sylvia was seventeen, her guardian died, and she passed under the +care of Mrs. Grosvenor, a lady of wealth and fashion, and Sylvia’s +nearest relative, though a distant one. While an inmate of Mrs. +Grosvenor’s family, she still preserved somewhat of her life-long +habits of seclusion, and shrank from a too familiar intercourse with +those around her. Still, too, she was faithful to her cousin, or to the +shadow which bore his name. + +The time now drew near when Edgar Vaughan, whose education had been +completed by an extensive range of travel, was to revisit the soil of +his nativity. Edward Hamilton, a young gentleman, who had been +Vaughan’s companion, both in his studies and rambles, had already +recrossed the Atlantic, bringing letters to Mrs. Grosvenor and Sylvia +Etherege. These credentials insured him an earnest welcome, which, +however, on Sylvia’s part, was not followed by personal partiality, or +even the regard that seemed due to her cousin’s most intimate friend. +As she herself could have assigned no cause for her repugnance, it +might be termed instinctive. Hamilton’s person, it is true, was the +reverse of attractive, especially when beheld for the first time. Yet, +in the eyes of the most fastidious judges, the defect of natural grace +was compensated by the polish of his manners, and by the intellect +which so often gleamed through his dark features. Mrs. Grosvenor, with +whom he immediately became a prodigious favorite, exerted herself to +overcome Sylvia’s dislike. But, in this matter, her ward could neither +be reasoned with nor persuaded. The presence of Edward Hamilton was +sure to render her cold, shy, and distant, abstracting all the vivacity +from her deportment, as if a cloud had come betwixt her and the +sunshine. + +The simplicity of Sylvia’s demeanor rendered it easy for so keen an +observer as Hamilton to detect her feelings. Whenever any slight +circumstance made him sensible of them, a smile might be seen to flit +over the young man’s sallow visage. None, that had once beheld this +smile, were in any danger of forgetting it; whenever they recalled to +memory the features of Edward Hamilton, they were always duskily +illuminated by this expression of mockery and malice. + +In a few weeks after Hamilton’s arrival, he presented to Sylvia +Etherege a miniature of her cousin, which, as he informed her, would +have been delivered sooner, but was detained with a portion of his +baggage. This was the miniature in the contemplation of which we beheld +Sylvia so absorbed, at the commencement of our story. Such, in truth, +was too often the habit of the shy and musing girl. The beauty of the +pictured countenance was almost too perfect to represent a human +creature, that had been born of a fallen and world-worn race, and had +lived to manhood amid ordinary troubles and enjoyments, and must become +wrinkled with age and care. It seemed too bright for a thing formed of +dust, and doomed to crumble into dust again. Sylvia feared that such a +being would be too refined and delicate to love a simple girl like her. +Yet, even while her spirit drooped with that apprehension, the picture +was but the masculine counterpart of Sylph Etherege’s sylphlike beauty. +There was that resemblance between her own face and the miniature which +is said often to exist between lovers whom Heaven has destined for each +other, and which, in this instance, might be owing to the kindred blood +of the two parties. Sylvia felt, indeed, that there was something +familiar in the countenance, so like a friend did the eyes smile upon +her, and seem to imply a knowledge of her thoughts. She could account +for this impression only by supposing that, in some of her day-dreams, +imagination had conjured up the true similitude of her distant and +unseen lover. + +But now could Sylvia give a brighter semblance of reality to those +day-dreams. Clasping the miniature to her heart, she could summon +forth, from that haunted cell of pure and blissful fantasies, the +life-like shadow, to roam with her in the moonlight garden. Even at +noontide it sat with her in the arbor, when the sunshine threw its +broken flakes of gold into the clustering shade. The effect upon her +mind was hardly less powerful than if she had actually listened to, and +reciprocated, the vows of Edgar Vaughan; for, though the illusion never +quite deceived her, yet the remembrance was as distinct as of a +remembered interview. Those heavenly eyes gazed forever into her soul, +which drank at them as at a fountain, and was disquieted if reality +threw a momentary cloud between. She heard the melody of a voice +breathing sentiments with which her own chimed in like music. O happy, +yet hapless girl! Thus to create the being whom she loves, to endow him +with all the attributes that were most fascinating to her heart, and +then to flit with the airy creature into the realm of fantasy and +moonlight, where dwelt his dreamy kindred! For her lover wiled Sylvia +away from earth, which seemed strange, and dull, and darksome, and +lured her to a country where her spirit roamed in peaceful rapture, +deeming that it had found its home. Many, in their youth, have visited +that land of dreams, and wandered so long in its enchanted groves, +that, when banished thence, they feel like exiles everywhere. + +The dark-browed Edward Hamilton, like the villain of a tale, would +often glide through the romance wherein poor Sylvia walked. Sometimes, +at the most blissful moment of her ecstasy, when the features of the +miniature were pictured brightest in the air, they would suddenly +change, and darken, and be transformed into his visage. And always, +when such change occurred, the intrusive visage wore that peculiar +smile with which Hamilton had glanced at Sylvia. + +Before the close of summer, it was told Sylvia Etherege that Vaughan +had arrived from France, and that she would meet him—would meet, for +the first time, the loved of years—that very evening. We will not tell +how often and how earnestly she gazed upon the miniature, thus +endeavoring to prepare herself for the approaching interview, lest the +throbbing of her timorous heart should stifle the words of welcome. +While the twilight grew deeper and duskier, she sat with Mrs. Grosvenor +in an inner apartment, lighted only by the softened gleam from an +alabaster lamp, which was burning at a distance on the centre-table of +the drawing-room. Never before had Sylph Etherege looked so sylph-like. +She had communed with a creature of imagination, till her own +loveliness seemed but the creation of a delicate and dreamy fancy. +Every vibration of her spirit was visible in her frame, as she listened +to the rattling of wheels and the tramp upon the pavement, and deemed +that even the breeze bore the sound of her lover’s footsteps, as if he +trode upon the viewless air. Mrs. Grosvenor, too, while she watched the +tremulous flow of Sylvia’s feelings, was deeply moved; she looked +uneasily at the agitated girl, and was about to speak, when the opening +of the street-door arrested the words upon her lips. + +Footsteps ascended the staircase, with a confident and familiar tread, +and some one entered the drawing-room. From the sofa where they sat, in +the inner apartment, Mrs. Grosvenor and Sylvia could not discern the +visitor. + +“Sylph!” cried a voice. “Dearest Sylph! Where are you, sweet Sylph +Etherege? Here is your Edgar Vaughan!” + +But instead of answering, or rising to meet her lover,—who had greeted +her by the sweet and fanciful name, which, appropriate as it was to her +character, was known only to him,—Sylvia grasped Mrs. Grosvenor’s arm, +while her whole frame shook with the throbbing of her heart. + +“Who is it?” gasped she. “Who calls me Sylph?” + +Before Mrs. Grosvenor could reply, the stranger entered the room, +bearing the lamp in his hand. Approaching the sofa, he displayed to +Sylvia the features of Edward Hamilton, illuminated by that evil smile, +from which his face derived so marked an individuality. + +“Is not the miniature an admirable likeness?” inquired he. + +Sylvia shuddered, but had not power to turn away her white face from +his gaze. The miniature, which she had been holding in her hand, fell +down upon the floor, where Hamilton, or Vaughan, set his foot upon it, +and crushed the ivory counterfeit to fragments. + +“There, my sweet Sylph,” he exclaimed. “It was I that created your +phantom-lover, and now I annihilate him! Your dream is rudely broken. +Awake, Sylph Etherege, awake to truth! I am the only Edgar Vaughan!” + +“We have gone too far, Edgar Vaughan,” said Mrs. Grosvenor, catching +Sylvia in her arms. The revengeful freak, which Vaughan’s wounded +vanity had suggested, had been countenanced by this lady, in the hope +of curing Sylvia of her romantic notions, and reconciling her to the +truths and realities of life. “Look at the poor child!” she continued. +“I protest I tremble for the consequences!” + +“Indeed, madam!” replied Vaughan, sneeringly, as he threw the light of +the lamp on Sylvia’s closed eyes and marble features. “Well, my +conscience is clear. I did but look into this delicate creature’s +heart; and with the pure fantasies that I found there, I made what +seemed a man,—and the delusive shadow has wiled her away to +Shadow-land, and vanished there! It is no new tale. Many a sweet maid +has shared the lot of poor Sylph Etherege!” + +“And now, Edgar Vaughan,” said Mrs. Grosvenor, as Sylvia’s heart began +faintly to throb again, “now try, in good earnest, to win back her love +from the phantom which you conjured up. If you succeed, she will be the +better, her whole life long, for the lesson we have given her.” + +Whether the result of the lesson corresponded with Mrs. Grosvenor’s +hopes, may be gathered from the closing scene of our story. It had been +made known to the fashionable world that Edgar Vaughan had returned +from France, and, under the assumed name of Edward Hamilton, had won +the affections of the lovely girl to whom he had been affianced in his +boyhood. The nuptials were to take place at an early date. One evening, +before the day of anticipated bliss arrived, Edgar Vaughan entered Mrs. +Grosvenor’s drawing-room, where he found that lady and Sylph Etherege. + +“Only that Sylvia makes no complaint,” remarked Mrs. Grosvenor, “I +should apprehend that the town air is ill-suited to her constitution. +She was always, indeed, a delicate creature; but now she is a mere +gossamer. Do but look at her! Did you ever imagine anything so +fragile?” + +Vaughan was already attentively observing his mistress, who sat in a +shadowy and moonlighted recess of the room, with her dreamy eyes fixed +steadfastly upon his own. The bough of a tree was waving before the +window, and sometimes enveloped her in the gloom of its shadow, into +which she seemed to vanish. + +“Yes,” he said, to Mrs. Grosvenor. “I can scarcely deem her of the +earth, earthy. No wonder that I call her Sylph! Methinks she will fade +into the moonlight, which falls upon her through the window. Or, in the +open air, she might flit away upon the breeze, like a wreath of mist!” + +Sylvia’s eyes grew yet brighter. She waved her hand to Edgar Vaughan, +with a gesture of ethereal triumph. + +“Farewell!” she said. “I will neither fade into the moonlight, nor flit +away upon the breeze. Yet you cannot keep me here!” + +There was something in Sylvia’s look and tones that startled Mrs. +Grosvenor with a terrible apprehension. But, as she was rushing towards +the girl, Vaughan held her back. + +“Stay!” cried he, with a strange smile of mockery and anguish. “Can our +sweet Sylph be going to heaven, to seek the original of the miniature?” + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SYLPH ETHEREGE *** + +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. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part +of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm +concept and trademark. 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