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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 *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +** This file should be named haw6510.txt or haw6510.zip ** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw6511.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw6510a.txt + +This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net] + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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