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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. + +"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 THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE MAN OF ADAMANT *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +**** This file should be named haw6710.txt or haw6710.zip **** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw6711.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw6710a.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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