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His plan of salvation was +so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous sea, it could avail no sinner +but himself, who bestrode it triumphantly, and hurled anathemas against the +wretches whom he saw struggling with the billows of eternal death. In his view +of the matter, it was a most abominable crime—as, indeed, it is a great +folly—for men to trust to their own strength, or even to grapple to any +other fragment of the wreck, save this narrow plank, which, moreover, he took +special care to keep out of their reach. In other words, as his creed was like +no man’s else, and being well pleased that Providence had intrusted him +alone, of mortals, with the treasure of a true faith, Richard Digby determined +to seclude himself to the sole and constant enjoyment of his happy fortune. +</p> + +<p> +“And verily,” thought he, “I deem it a chief condition of +Heaven’s mercy to myself, that I hold no communion with those abominable +myriads which it hath cast off to perish. Peradventure, were I to tarry longer +in the tents of Kedar, the gracious boon would be revoked, and I also be +swallowed up in the deluge of wrath, or consumed in the storm of fire and +brimstone, or involved in whatever new kind of ruin is ordained for the +horrible perversity of this generation.” +</p> + +<p> +So Richard Digby took an axe, to hew space enough for a tabernacle in the +wilderness, and some few other necessaries, especially a sword and gun, to +smite and slay any intruder upon his hallowed seclusion; and plunged into the +dreariest depths of the forest. On its verge, however, he paused a moment, to +shake off the dust of his feet against the village where he had dwelt, and to +invoke a curse on the meeting-house, which he regarded as a temple of heathen +idolatry. He felt a curiosity, also, to see whether the fire and brimstone +would not rush down from Heaven at once, now that the one righteous man had +provided for his own safety. But, as the sunshine continued to fall peacefully +on the cottages and fields, and the husbandmen labored and children played, and +as there were many tokens of present happiness, and nothing ominous of a speedy +judgment, he turned away, somewhat disappointed. The farther he went, however, +and the lonelier he felt himself, and the thicker the trees stood along his +path, and the darker the shadow overhead, so much the more did Richard Digby +exult. He talked to himself, as he strode onward; he read his Bible to himself, +as he sat beneath the trees; and, as the gloom of the forest hid the blessed +sky, I had almost added, that, at morning, noon, and eventide, he prayed to +himself. So congenial was this mode of life to his disposition, that he often +laughed to himself, but was displeased when an echo tossed him back the long +loud roar. +</p> + +<p> +In this manner, he journeyed onward three days and two nights, and came, on the +third evening, to the mouth of a cave, which, at first sight, reminded him of +Elijah’s cave at Horeb, though perhaps it more resembled Abraham’s +sepulchral cave at Machpelah. It entered into the heart of a rocky hill. There +was so dense a veil of tangled foliage about it, that none but a sworn lover of +gloomy recesses would have discovered the low arch of its entrance, or have +dared to step within its vaulted chamber, where the burning eyes of a panther +might encounter him. If Nature meant this remote and dismal cavern for the use +of man, it could only be to bury in its gloom the victims of a pestilence, and +then to block up its mouth with stones, and avoid the spot forever after. There +was nothing bright nor cheerful near it, except a bubbling fountain, some +twenty paces off, at which Richard Digby hardly threw away a glance. But he +thrust his head into the cave, shivered, and congratulated himself. +</p> + +<p> +“The finger of Providence hath pointed my way!” cried he, aloud, +while the tomb-like den returned a strange echo, as if some one within were +mocking him. “Here my soul will be at peace; for the wicked will not find +me. Here I can read the Scriptures, and be no more provoked with lying +interpretations. Here I can offer up acceptable prayers, because my voice will +not be mingled with the sinful supplications of the multitude. Of a truth, the +only way to heaven leadeth through the narrow entrance of this cave,—and +I alone have found it!” +</p> + +<p> +In regard to this cave it was observable that the roof, so far as the imperfect +light permitted it to be seen, was hung with substances resembling opaque +icicles; for the damps of unknown centuries, dripping down continually, had +become as hard as adamant; and wherever that moisture fell, it seemed to +possess the power of converting what it bathed to stone. The fallen leaves and +sprigs of foliage, which the wind had swept into the cave, and the little +feathery shrubs, rooted near the threshold, were not wet with a natural dew, +but had been embalmed by this wondrous process. And here I am put in mind that +Richard Digby, before he withdrew himself from the world, was supposed by +skilful physicians to have contracted a disease for which no remedy was written +in their medical books. It was a deposition of calculous particles within his +heart, caused by an obstructed circulation of the blood; and, unless a miracle +should be wrought for him, there was danger that the malady might act on the +entire substance of the organ, and change his fleshy heart to stone. Many, +indeed, affirmed that the process was already near its consummation. Richard +Digby, however, could never be convinced that any such direful work was going +on within him; nor when he saw the sprigs of marble foliage, did his heart even +throb the quicker, at the similitude suggested by these once tender herbs. It +may be that this same insensibility was a symptom of the disease. +</p> + +<p> +Be that as it might, Richard Digby was well contented with his sepulchral cave. +So dearly did he love this congenial spot, that, instead of going a few paces +to the bubbling spring for water, he allayed his thirst with now and then a +drop of moisture from the roof, which, had it fallen anywhere but on his +tongue, would have been congealed into a pebble. For a man predisposed to +stoniness of the heart, this surely was unwholesome liquor. But there he dwelt, +for three days more eating herbs and roots, drinking his own destruction, +sleeping, as it were, in a tomb, and awaking to the solitude of death, yet +esteeming this horrible mode of life as hardly inferior to celestial bliss. +Perhaps superior; for, above the sky, there would be angels to disturb him. At +the close of the third day, he sat in the portal of his mansion, reading the +Bible aloud, because no other ear could profit by it, and reading it amiss, +because the rays of the setting sun did not penetrate the dismal depth of +shadow round about him, nor fall upon the sacred page. Suddenly, however, a +faint gleam of light was thrown over the volume, and, raising his eyes, Richard +Digby saw that a young woman stood before the mouth of the cave, and that the +sunbeams bathed her white garment, which thus seemed to possess a radiance of +its own. +</p> + +<p> +“Good evening, Richard,” said the girl; “I have come from +afar to find thee.” +</p> + +<p> +The slender grace and gentle loveliness of this young woman were at once +recognized by Richard Digby. Her name was Mary Goffe. She had been a convert to +his preaching of the word in England, before he yielded himself to that +exclusive bigotry which now enfolded him with such an iron grasp that no other +sentiment could reach his bosom. When he came a pilgrim to America, she had +remained in her father’s hall; but now, as it appeared, had crossed the +ocean after him, impelled by the same faith that led other exiles hither, and +perhaps by love almost as holy. What else but faith and love united could have +sustained so delicate a creature, wandering thus far into the forest, with her +golden hair dishevelled by the boughs, and her feet wounded by the thorns? Yet, +weary and faint though she must have been, and affrighted at the dreariness of +the cave, she looked on the lonely man with a mild and pitying expression, such +as might beam from an angel’s eyes, towards an afflicted mortal. But the +recluse, frowning sternly upon her, and keeping his finger between the leaves +of his half-closed Bible, motioned her away with his hand. +</p> + +<p> +“Off!” cried he. “I am sanctified, and thou art sinful. +Away!” +</p> + +<p> +“O Richard,” said she, earnestly, “I have come this weary way +because I heard that a grievous distemper had seized upon thy heart; and a +great Physician hath given me the skill to cure it. There is no other remedy +than this which I have brought thee. Turn me not away, therefore, nor refuse my +medicine; for then must this dismal cave be thy sepulchre.” +</p> + +<p> +“Away!” replied Richard Digby, still with a dark frown. “My +heart is in better condition than thine own. Leave me, earthly one; for the sun +is almost set; and when no light reaches the door of the cave, then is my +prayer-time.” +</p> + +<p> +Now, great as was her need, Mary Goffe did not plead with this stony-hearted +man for shelter and protection, nor ask anything whatever for her own sake. All +her zeal was for his welfare. +</p> + +<p> +“Come back with me!” she exclaimed, clasping her +hands,—“come back to thy fellow-men; for they need thee, Richard, +and thou hast tenfold need of them. Stay not in this evil den; for the air is +chill, and the damps are fatal; nor will any that perish within it ever find +the path to heaven. Hasten hence, I entreat thee, for thine own soul’s +sake; for either the roof will fall upon thy head, or some other speedy +destruction is at hand.” +</p> + +<p> +“Perverse woman!” answered Richard Digby, laughing aloud,—for +he was moved to bitter mirth by her foolish vehemence,—“I tell thee +that the path to heaven leadeth straight through this narrow portal where I +sit. And, moreover, the destruction thou speakest of is ordained, not for this +blessed cave, but for all other habitations of mankind, throughout the earth. +Get thee hence speedily, that thou mayst have thy share!” +</p> + +<p> +So saving, he opened his Bible again, and fixed his eyes intently on the page, +being resolved to withdraw his thoughts from this child of sin and wrath, and +to waste no more of his holy breath upon her. The shadow had now grown so deep, +where he was sitting, that he made continual mistakes in what he read, +converting all that was gracious and merciful to denunciations of vengeance and +unutterable woe on every created being but himself. Mary Goffe, meanwhile, was +leaning against a tree, beside the sepulchral cave, very sad, yet with +something heavenly and ethereal in her unselfish sorrow. The light from the +setting sun still glorified her form, and was reflected a little way within the +darksome den, discovering so terrible a gloom that the maiden shuddered for its +self-doomed inhabitant. Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened +thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark. A few +tears mingled with the draught, and perhaps gave it all its efficacy. She then +returned to the mouth of the cave, and knelt down at Richard Digby’s +feet. +</p> + +<p> +“Richard,” she said, with passionate fervor, yet a gentleness in +all her passion, “I pray thee, by thy hope of heaven, and as thou wouldst +not dwell in this tomb forever, drink of this hallowed water, be it but a +single drop! Then, make room for me by thy side, and let us read together one +page of that blessed volume; and, lastly, kneel down with me and pray! Do this, +and thy stony heart shall become softer than a babe’s, and all be +well.” +</p> + +<p> +But Richard Digby, in utter abhorrence of the proposal, cast the Bible at his +feet, and eyed her with such a fixed and evil frown, that he looked less like a +living man than a marble statue, wrought by some dark-imagined sculptor to +express the most repulsive mood that human features could assume. And, as his +look grew even devilish, so, with an equal change did Mary Goffe become more +sad, more mild, more pitiful, more like a sorrowing angel. But, the more +heavenly she was, the more hateful did she seem to Richard Digby, who at length +raised his hand, and smote down the cup of hallowed water upon the threshold of +the cave, thus rejecting the only medicine that could have cured his stony +heart. A sweet perfume lingered in the air for a moment, and then was gone. +</p> + +<p> +“Tempt me no more, accursed woman,” exclaimed he, still with his +marble frown, “lest I smite thee down also! What hast thou to do with my +Bible?—what with my prayers?—what with my heaven?” +</p> + +<p> +No sooner had he spoken these dreadful words, than Richard Digby’s heart +ceased to beat; while—so the legend says-the form of Mary Goffe melted +into the last sunbeams, and returned from the sepulchral cave to heaven. For +Mary Golfe had been buried in an English churchyard, months before; and either +it was her ghost that haunted the wild forest, or else a dream-like spirit, +typifying pure Religion. +</p> + +<p> +Above a century afterwards, when the trackless forest of Richard Digby’s +day had long been interspersed with settlements, the children of a neighboring +farmer were playing at the foot of a hill. The trees, on account of the rude +and broken surface of this acclivity, had never been felled, and were crowded +so densely together as to hide all but a few rocky prominences, wherever their +roots could grapple with the soil. A little boy and girl, to conceal themselves +from their playmates, had crept into the deepest shade, where not only the +darksome pines, but a thick veil of creeping plants suspended from an +overhanging rock, combined to make a twilight at noonday, and almost a midnight +at all other seasons. There the children hid themselves, and shouted, repeating +the cry at intervals, till the whole party of pursuers were drawn thither, and, +pulling aside the matted foliage, let in a doubtful glimpse of daylight. But +scarcely was this accomplished, when the little group uttered a simultaneous +shriek, and tumbled headlong down the hill, making the best of their way +homeward, without a second glance into the gloomy recess. Their father, unable +to comprehend what had so startled them, took his axe, and, by felling one or +two trees, and tearing away the creeping plants, laid the mystery open to the +day. He had discovered the entrance of a cave, closely resembling the mouth of +a sepulchre, within which sat the figure of a man, whose gesture and attitude +warned the father and children to stand back, while his visage wore a most +forbidding frown. This repulsive personage seemed to have been carved in the +same gray stone that formed the walls and portal of the cave. On minuter +inspection, indeed, such blemishes were observed, as made it doubtful whether +the figure were really a statue, chiselled by human art and somewhat worn and +defaced by the lapse of ages, or a freak of Nature, who might have chosen to +imitate, in stone, her usual handiwork of flesh. Perhaps it was the least +unreasonable idea, suggested by this strange spectacle, that the moisture of +the cave possessed a petrifying quality, which had thus awfully embalmed a +human corpse. +</p> + +<p> +There was something so frightful in the aspect of this Man of Adamant, that the +farmer, the moment that he recovered from the fascination of his first gaze, +began to heap stones into the mouth of the cavern. His wife, who had followed +him to the hill, assisted her husband’s efforts. The children, also, +approached as near as they durst, with their little hands full of pebbles, and +cast them on the pile. Earth was then thrown into the crevices, and the whole +fabric overlaid with sods. Thus all traces of the discovery were obliterated, +leaving only a marvellous legend, which grew wilder from one generation to +another, as the children told it to their grandchildren, and they to their +posterity, till few believed that there had ever been a cavern or a statue, +where now they saw but a grassy patch on the shadowy hillside. Yet, grown +people avoid the spot, nor do children play there. Friendship, and Love, and +Piety, all human and celestial sympathies, should keep aloof from that hidden +cave; for there still sits, and, unless an earthquake crumble down the roof +upon his head, shall sit forever, the shape of Richard Digby, in the attitude +of repelling the whole race of mortals,—not from heaven,—but from +the horrible loneliness of his dark, cold sepulchre! +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAN OF ADAMANT ***</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. 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