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HTML version by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + + THE SNOW-IMAGE + + AND + + OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES + + + + THE MAN OF ADAMANT + + By + + Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + +In the old times of religious gloom and intolerance lived Richard +Digby, the gloomiest and most intolerant of a stern brotherhood. 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. + +"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." + +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. + +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. + +"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!" + +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. + +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. + +"Good evening, Richard," said the girl; "I have come from afar to find +thee." + +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. + +"Off!" cried he. "I am sanctified, and thou art sinful. Away!" + +"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." + +"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." + +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. + +"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." + +"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!" + +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. + +"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." + +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. + +"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?" + +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. + +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. + +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! + + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Man of Adamant, by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAN OF ADAMANT *** + +***** This file should be named 9240.txt or 9240.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/4/9240/ + +Produced by David Widger. 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