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+Title: An Old Woman's Tale
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Posting Date: December 23, 2010 [EBook #9251]
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+                 THE DOLIVER ROMANCE AND OTHER PIECES
+
+                         TALES AND SKETCHES
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+                       By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+                         AN OLD WOMAN'S TALE
+
+
+
+In the house where I was born, there used to be an old woman crouching
+all day long over the kitchen fire, with her elbows on her knees and her
+feet in the ashes.  Once in a while she took a turn at the spit, and she
+never lacked a coarse gray stocking in her lap, the foot about half
+finished; it tapered away with her own waning life, and she knit the
+toe-stitch on the day of her death.  She made it her serious business
+and sole amusement to tell me stories at any time from morning till
+night, in a mumbling, toothless voice, as I sat on a log of wood,
+grasping her check-apron in both my hands.  Her personal memory included
+the better part of a hundred years, and she had strangely jumbled her
+own experience and observation with those of many old people who died in
+her young days; so that she might have been taken for a contemporary of
+Queen Elizabeth, or of John Rogers in the Primer.  There are a thousand
+of her traditions lurking in the corners and by-places of my mind, some
+more marvellous than what is to follow, some less so, and a few not
+marvellous in the least, all of which I should like to repeat, if I were
+as happy as she in having a listener.  But I am humble enough to own,
+that I do not deserve a listener half so well as that old toothless
+woman, whose narratives possessed an excellence attributable neither to
+herself, nor to any single individual.  Her ground-plots, seldom within
+the widest scope of probability, were filled up with homely and natural
+incidents, the gradual accretions of a long course of years, and fiction
+hid its grotesque extravagance in this garb of truth, like the Devil (an
+appropriate simile, for the old woman supplies it) disguising himself,
+cloven-foot and all, in mortal attire.  These tales generally referred
+to her birthplace, a village in the valley of the Connecticut, the
+aspect of which she impressed with great vividness on my fancy.  The
+houses in that tract of country, long a wild and dangerous frontier,
+were rendered defensible by a strength of architecture that has
+preserved many of them till our own times, and I cannot describe the
+sort of pleasure with which, two summers since, I rode through the
+little town in question, while one object after another rose familiarly
+to my eye, like successive portions of a dream becoming realized.  Among
+other things equally probable, she was wont to assert that all the
+inhabitants of this village (at certain intervals, but whether of
+twenty-five or fifty years, or a whole century, remained a disputable
+point) were subject to a simultaneous slumber, continuing one hour's
+space.  When that mysterious time arrived, the parson snored over his
+half-written sermon, though it were Saturday night and no provision made
+for the morrow,--the mother's eyelids closed as she bent over her
+infant, and no childish cry awakened,--the watcher at the bed of mortal
+sickness slumbered upon the death-pillow, and the dying man anticipated
+his sleep of ages by one as deep and dreamless.  To speak emphatically,
+there was a soporific influence throughout the village, stronger than if
+every mother's son and daughter were reading a dull story;
+notwithstanding which the old woman professed to hold the substance of
+the ensuing account from one of those principally concerned in it.
+
+One moonlight summer evening, a young man and a girl sat down together
+in the open air.  They were distant relatives, sprung from a stock once
+wealthy, but of late years so poverty-stricken, that David had not a
+penny to pay the marriage fee, if Esther should consent to wed.  The
+seat they had chosen was in an open grove of elm and walnut trees, at a
+right angle of the road; a spring of diamond water just bubbled into the
+moonlight beside them, and then whimpered away through the bushes and
+long grass, in search of a neighboring millstream.  The nearest house
+(situate within twenty yards of them, and the residence of their
+great-grandfather in his lifetime) was a venerable old edifice, crowned
+with many high and narrow peaks, all overrun by innumerable creeping
+plants, which hung curling about the roof like a nice young wig on an
+elderly gentleman's head.  Opposite to this establishment was a tavern,
+with a well and horse-trough before it, and a low green bank running along
+the left side of the door.  Thence, the road went onward, curving scarce
+perceptibly, through the village, divided in the midst by a narrow
+lane of verdure, and bounded on each side by a grassy strip of twice its
+own breadth.  The houses had generally an odd look.  Here, the moonlight
+tried to get a glimpse of one, a rough old heap of ponderous timber,
+which, ashamed of its dilapidated aspect, was hiding behind a great
+thick tree; the lower story of the next had sunk almost under ground, as
+if the poor little house were a-weary of the world, and retiring into
+the seclusion of its own cellar; farther on stood one of the few recent
+structures, thrusting its painted face conspicuously into the street,
+with an evident idea that it was the fairest thing there.  About midway
+in the village was a grist-mill, partly concealed by the descent of the
+ground towards the stream which turned its wheel.  At the southern
+extremity, just so far distant that the window-paces dazzled into each
+other, rose the meeting-house, a dingy old barn-like building, with an
+enormously disproportioned steeple sticking up straight into heaven, as
+high as the Tower of Babel, and the cause of nearly as much confusion in
+its day.  This steeple, it must be understood, was an afterthought, and
+its addition to the main edifice, when the latter had already begun to
+decay, had excited a vehement quarrel, and almost a schism in the
+church, some fifty years before.  Here the road wound down a hill and
+was seen no more, the remotest object in view being the graveyard gate,
+beyond the meetinghouse.  The youthful pair sat hand in hand beneath the
+trees, and for several moments they had not spoken, because the breeze
+was hushed, the brook scarce tinkled, the leaves had ceased their
+rustling, and everything lay motionless and silent as if Nature were
+composing herself to slumber.
+
+"What a beautiful night it is, Esther!" remarked David, somewhat
+drowsily.
+
+"Very beautiful," answered the girl, in the same tone.
+
+"But how still!" continued David.
+
+"Ah, too still!"  said Esther, with a faint shudder, like a modest leaf
+when the wind kisses it.
+
+Perhaps they fell asleep together, and, united as their spirits were by
+close and tender sympathies, the same strange dream might have wrapped
+them in its shadowy arms.  But they conceived, at the time, that they
+still remained wakeful by the spring of bubbling water, looking down
+through the village, and all along the moonlighted road, and at the
+queer old houses, and at the trees which thrust their great twisted
+branches almost into the windows.  There was only a sort of mistiness
+over their minds like the smoky air of an early autumn night.  At
+length, without any vivid astonishment, they became conscious that a
+great many people were either entering the village or already in the
+street, but whether they came from the meeting-house, or from a little
+beyond it, or where the devil they came from, was more than could be
+determined.  Certainly, a crowd of people seemed to be there, men,
+women, and children, all of whom were yawning and rubbing their eyes,
+stretching their limbs, and staggering from side to side of the road, as
+if but partially awakened from a sound slumber.  Sometimes they stood
+stock-still, with their hands over their brows to shade their sight from
+the moonbeams.  As they drew near, most of their countenances appeared
+familiar to Esther and David, possessing the peculiar features of
+families in the village, and that general air and aspect by which a
+person would recognize his own townsmen in the remotest ends of the
+earth.  But though the whole multitude might have been taken, in the
+mass, for neighbors and acquaintances, there was not a single individual
+whose exact likeness they had ever before seen.  It was a noticeable
+circumstance, also, that the newest fashioned garment on the backs of
+these people might have been worn by the great-grandparents of the
+existing generation.  There was one figure behind all the rest, and not
+yet near enough to be perfectly distinguished.
+
+"Where on earth, David, do all these odd people come from?" said Esther,
+with a lazy inclination to laugh.
+
+"Nowhere on earth, Esther," replied David, unknowing why he said so.
+
+As they spoke, the strangers showed some symptoms of disquietude, and
+looked towards the fountain for an instant, but immediately appeared to
+assume their own trains of thought and previous purposes.  They now
+separated to different parts of the village, with a readiness that
+implied intimate local knowledge, and it may be worthy of remark, that,
+though they were evidently loquacious among themselves, neither their
+footsteps nor their voices reached the ears of the beholders.  Wherever
+there was a venerable old house, of fifty years' standing and upwards,
+surrounded by its elm or walnut trees, with its dark and weather-beaten
+barn, its well, its orchard and stone-walls, all ancient and all in good
+repair around it, there a little group of these people assembled.  Such
+parties were mostly composed of an aged man and woman, with the younger
+members of a family; their faces were full of joy, so deep that it
+assumed the shade of melancholy; they pointed to each other the minutest
+objects about the homesteads, things in their hearts, and were now
+comparing them with the originals.  But where hollow places by the
+wayside, grass-grown and uneven, with unsightly chimneys rising ruinous
+in the midst, gave indications of a fallen dwelling and of hearths long
+cold, there did a few of the strangers sit them down on the mouldering
+beams, and on the yellow moss that had overspread the door-stone.  The
+men folded their arms, sad and speechless; the women wrung their hands
+with a more vivid expression of grief; and the little children tottered
+to their knees, shrinking away from the open grave of domestic love.
+And wherever a recent edifice reared its white and flashy front on the
+foundation of an old one, there a gray-haired man might be seen to shake
+his staff in anger at it, while his aged dame and their offspring
+appeared to join in their maledictions, forming a fearful picture in the
+ghostly moon light.  While these scenes were passing, the one figure in
+the rear of all the rest was descending the hollow towards the mill, and
+the eyes of David and Esther were drawn thence to a pair with whom they
+could fully sympathize.  It was a youth in a sailor's dress and a pale
+slender maiden, who met each other with a sweet embrace in the middle of
+the street.
+
+"How long it must be since they parted," observed David.
+
+"Fifty years at least," said Esther.
+
+They continued to gaze with unwondering calmness and quiet interest, as
+the dream (if such it were) unrolled its quaint and motley semblance
+before them, and their notice was now attracted by several little knots
+of people apparently engaged in conversation.  Of these one of the
+earliest collected and most characteristic was near the tavern, the
+persons who composed it being seated on the low green bank along the
+left side of the door.  A conspicuous figure here was a fine corpulent
+old fellow in his shirt-sleeves and flame-colored breeches, and with a
+stained white apron over his paunch, beneath which he held his hands and
+wherewith at times be wiped his ruddy face.  The stately decrepitude of
+one of his companions, the scar of an Indian tomahawk on his crown, and
+especially his worn buff coat, were appropriate marks of a veteran
+belonging to an old Provincial garrison, now deaf to the roll-call.
+Another showed his rough face under a tarry hat and wore a pair of wide
+trousers, like an ancient mariner who bad tossed away his youth upon the
+sea, and was returned, hoary and weather-beaten, to his inland home.
+There was also a thin young man, carelessly dressed, who ever and anon
+cast a sad look towards the pale maiden above mentioned.  With these
+there sat a hunter, and one or two others, and they were soon joined by
+a miller, who came upward from the dusty mill, his coat as white as if
+besprinkled with powdered starlight.  All these (by the aid of jests,
+which might indeed be old, but had not been recently repeated) waxed
+very merry, and it was rather strange, that just as their sides shook
+with the heartiest laughter, they appeared greatly like a group of
+shadows flickering in the moonshine.  Four personages, very different
+from these, stood in front of the large house with its periwig of
+creeping plants.  One was a little elderly figure, distinguished by the
+gold on his three-cornered bat and sky-blue coat, and by the seal of
+arms annexed to his great gold watch-chain; his air and aspect befitted
+a Justice of Peace and County Major, and all earth's pride and pomposity
+were squeezed into this small gentleman of five feet high.  The next in
+importance was a grave person of sixty or seventy years, whose black
+suit and hand sufficiently indicated his character, and the polished
+baldness of whose head was worthy of a famous preacher in the village,
+half a century before, who had made wigs a subject of pulpit
+denunciation.  The two other figures, both clad in dark gray, showed the
+sobriety of Deacons; one was ridiculously tall and thin, like a man of
+ordinary bulk infinitely produced, as the mathematicians say; while the
+brevity and thickness of his colleague seemed a compression of the same
+man.  These four talked with great earnestness, and their gestures
+intimated that they had revived the ancient dispute about the meeting-house
+steeple.  The grave person in black spoke with composed solemnity,
+as if he were addressing a Synod; the short deacon grunted out
+occasional sentences, as brief as himself; his tall brother drew the
+long thread of his argument through the whole discussion, and (reasoning
+from analogy) his voice must indubitably have been small and squeaking.
+But the little old man in gold-lace was evidently scorched by his own
+red-hot eloquence; he bounced from one to another, shook his cane at the
+steeple, at the two deacons, and almost in the parson's face, stamping
+with his foot fiercely enough to break a hole through the very earth;
+though, indeed, it could not exactly be said that the green grass bent
+beneath him.  The figure, noticed as coming behind all the rest, had now
+surmounted the ascent from the mill, and proved to be an elderly lady
+with something in her hand.
+
+"Why does she walk so slow?" asked David.
+
+"Don't you see she is lame?" said Esther.
+
+This gentlewoman, whose infirmity had kept her so far in the rear of the
+crowd, now came hobbling on, glided unobserved by the polemic group, and
+paused on the left brink of the fountain, within a few feet of the two
+spectators.  She was a magnificent old dame, as ever mortal eye beheld.
+Her spangled shoes and gold-clocked stockings shone gloriously within the
+spacious circle of a red hoop-petticoat, which swelled to the very point
+of explosion, and was bedecked all over with embroidery a little
+tarnished.  Above the petticoat, and parting in front so as to display
+it to the best advantage, was a figured blue damask gown.  A wide and
+stiff ruff encircled her neck, a cap of the finest muslin, though rather
+dingy, covered her head; and her nose was bestridden by a pair of
+gold-bowed spectacles with enormous glasses.  But the old lady's face was
+pinched, sharp and sallow, wearing a niggardly and avaricious
+expression, and forming an odd contrast to the splendor of her attire,
+as did likewise the implement which she held in her hand.  It was a sort
+of iron shovel (by housewives termed a "slice"), such as is used in
+clearing the oven, and with this, selecting a spot between a walnut-tree
+and the fountain, the good dame made an earnest attempt to dig.  The
+tender sods, however, possessed a strange impenetrability.  They
+resisted her efforts like a quarry of living granite, and losing her
+breath, she cast down the shovel and seemed to bemoan herself most
+piteously, gnashing her teeth (what few she had) and wringing her thin
+yellow hands.  Then, apparently with new hope, she resumed her toil,
+which still had the same result,--a circumstance the less surprising to
+David and Esther, because at times they would catch the moonlight
+shining through the old woman, and dancing in the fountain beyond.  The
+little man in goldlace now happened to see her, and made his approach on
+tiptoe.
+
+"How hard this elderly lady works!" remarked David.
+
+"Go and help her, David," said Esther, compassionately.
+
+As their drowsy void spoke, both the old woman and the pompous little
+figure behind her lifted their eyes, and for a moment they regarded the
+youth and damsel with something like kindness and affection; which,
+however, were dim and uncertain, and passed away almost immediately.
+The old woman again betook herself to the shovel, but was startled by a
+hand suddenly laid upon her shoulder; she turned round in great
+trepidation, and beheld the dignitary in the blue coat; then followed an
+embrace of such closeness as would indicate no remoter connection than
+matrimony between these two decorous persons.  The gentleman next
+pointed to the shovel, appearing to inquire the purpose of his lady's
+occupation; while she as evidently parried his interrogatories,
+maintaining a demure and sanctified visage as every good woman ought, in
+similar cases.  Howbeit, she could not forbear looking askew, behind her
+spectacles, towards the spot of stubborn turf.  All the while, their
+figures had a strangeness in them, and it seemed as if some cunning
+jeweller had made their golden ornaments of the yellowest of the setting
+sunbeams, and that the blue of their garments was brought from the dark
+sky near the moon, and that the gentleman's silk waistcoat was the
+bright side of a fiery cloud, and the lady's scarlet petticoat a remnant
+of the blush of morning,--and that they both were two unrealities of
+colored air.  But now there was a sudden movement throughout the
+multitude.  The Squire drew forth a watch as large as the dial on the
+famous steeple, looked at the warning hands and got him gone, nor could
+his lady tarry; the party at the tavern door took to their heels, headed
+by the fat man in the flaming breeches; the tall deacon stalked away
+immediately, and the short deacon waddled after, making four steps to
+the yard; the mothers called their children about them and set forth,
+with a gentle and sad glance behind.  Like cloudy fantasies that hurry
+by a viewless impulse from the sky, they all were fled, and the wind
+rose up and followed them with a strange moaning down the lonely street.
+Now whither these people went, is more than may be told; only David and
+Esther seemed to see the shadowy splendor of the ancient dame, as she
+lingered in the moonshine at the graveyard gate, gazing backward to the
+fountain.
+
+"O Esther!  I have had such a dream!" cried David, starting up, and
+rubbing his eyes.
+
+"And I such another!" answered Esther, gaping till her pretty red lips
+formed a circle.
+
+"About an old woman with gold-bowed spectacles," continued David.
+
+"And a scarlet hoop-petticoat," added Esther.  They now stared in each
+other's eyes, with great astonishment and some little fear.  After a
+thoughtful moment or two, David drew a long breath and stood upright.
+
+"If I live till to-morrow morning," said he, "I'll see what may be
+buried between that tree and the spring of water."
+
+"And why not to-night, David?" asked Esther; for she was a sensible
+little girl, and bethought herself that the matter might as well be done
+in secrecy.
+
+David felt the propriety of the remark and looked round for the means of
+following her advice.  The moon shone brightly on something that rested
+against the side of the old house, and, on a nearer view, it proved to
+be an iron shovel, bearing a singular resemblance to that which they had
+seen in their dreams.  He used it with better success than the old
+woman, the soil giving way so freely to his efforts, that he had soon
+scooped a hole as large as the basin of the spring.  Suddenly, he poked
+his head down to the very bottom of this cavity.  "Oho!--what have we
+here?" cried David.
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