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diff --git a/old/haw7910.txt b/old/haw7910.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..deca17b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/haw7910.txt @@ -0,0 +1,648 @@ +Project Gutenberg EBook, Time's Portraiture, by Nathaniel Hawthorne +From "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches" +#79 in our series by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the +copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing +this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. + +This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project +Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the +header without written permission. + +Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the +eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is +important information about your specific rights and restrictions in +how the file may be used. 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On these occasions, most generous patrons, +you never fail to give us a taste of your bounty; but whether as a +reward for our verses, or to purchase a respite from further infliction +of them, is best known to your worshipful selves. Moreover, we, Time's +errand-boys as aforesaid, feel it incumbent upon us, on the first day of +every year, to present a sort of summary of our master's dealings with +the world, throughout the whole of the preceding twelvemonth. Now it +has so chanced by a misfortune heretofore unheard of, that I, your +present petitioner, have been altogether forgotten by the Muse. Instead +of being able (as I naturally expected) to measure my ideas into six- +foot lilies, and tack a rhyme at each of their tails, I find myself, +this blessed morning, the same simple proser that I was yesterday, and +shall probably be to-morrow. And to my further mortification, being a +humble-minded little sinner, I feel no wise capable of talking to your +worships with the customary wisdom of my brethren, and giving sage +opinions as to what Time has done right, and what he has done wrong, and +what of right or wrong he means to do hereafter. Such being my unhappy +predicament, it is with no small confusion of face, that I make bold to +present myself at your doors. Yet it were surely a pity that my non- +appearance should defeat your bountiful designs for the replenishing of +my pockets. Wherefore I have bethought me, that it might not displease +your worships to hear a few particulars about the person and habits of +Father Time, with whom, as being one of his errand-boys, I have more +acquaintance than most lads of my years. + +For a great many years past, there has been a woodcut on the cover of +the "Farmer's Almanac," pretending to be a portrait of Father Time. It +represents that respectable personage as almost in a state of nudity, +with a single lock of hair on his forehead, wings on his shoulders, and +accoutred with a scythe and an hour-glass. These two latter symbols +appear to betoken that the old fellow works in haying time, by the hour. +But, within my recollection, Time has never carried a scythe and an +hour-glass, nor worn a pair of wings, nor shown himself in the half- +naked condition that the almanac would make us believe. Nowadays, he is +the most fashionably dressed figure about town; and I take it to be his +natural disposition, old as he is, to adopt every fashion of the day and +of the hour. Just at the present period, you may meet him in a furred +surtout, with pantaloons strapped under his narrow-toed boots; on his +head, instead of a single forelock, he wears a smart auburn wig, with +bushy whiskers of the same hue, the whole surmounted by a German-lustre +hat. He has exchanged his hour-glass for a gold patent-lever watch, +which he carries in his vest-pocket; and as for his scythe, he has +either thrown it aside altogether, or converted its handle into a cane +not much stouter than a riding-switch. If you stare him full in the +face, you will perhaps detect a few wrinkles; but, on a hasty glance, +you might suppose him to be in the very heyday of life, as fresh as he +was in the garden of Eden. So much for the present aspect of Time; but +I by no means insure that the description shall suit him a month hence, +or even at this hour tomorrow. + +It is another very common mistake, to suppose that Time wanders among +old ruins, and sits on mouldering walls and moss-grown stones, +meditating about matters which everybody else has forgotten. Some +people, perhaps, would expect to find him at the burial-ground in Broad +Street, poring over the half-illegible inscriptions on the tombs of the +Higginsons, the Hathornes,--[Not "Hawthorne," as one of the present +representatives of the family has seen fit to transmogrify a good old +name.]--the Holyokes, the Brownes, the Olivers, the Pickmans, the +Pickerings, and other worthies, with whom he kept company of old. Some +would look for him on the ridge of Gallows Hill, where, in one of his +darkest moods, he and Cotton Mather hung the witches. But they need not +seek him there. Time is invariably the first to forget his own deeds, +his own history, and his own former associates. His place is in the +busiest bustle of the world. If you would meet Time face to face, you +have only to promenade in Essex Street, between the hours of twelve and +one; and there, among beaux and belles, you will see old Father Time, +apparently the gayest of the gay. He walks arm in arm with the young +men, talking about balls and theatres, and afternoon rides, and midnight +merry-makings; he recommends such and such a fashionable tailor, and +sneers at every garment of six months' antiquity; and, generally, before +parting, he invites his friends to drink champagne,--a wine in which +Time delights, on account of its rapid effervescence. And Time treads +lightly beside the fair girls, whispering to them (the old deceiver!) +that they are the sweetest angels he ever was acquainted with. He tells +them that they have nothing to do but dance and sing, and twine roses in +their hair, and gather a train of lovers, and that the world will always +be like an illuminated ball-room. And Time goes to the Commercial News- +Room, and visits the insurance-offices, and stands at the corner of +Essex and St. Peter's Streets, talking with the merchants. + +However, Time seldom has occasion to mention the gentleman's name, so +that it is no great matter how he spells or pronounces it about the +arrival of ships, the rise and fall of stocks, the price of cotton and +breadstuffs, the prospects of the whaling-business, and the cod-fishery, +and all other news of the day. And the young gentlemen, and the pretty +girls, and the merchants, and all others with whom he makes +acquaintance, are apt to think that there is nobody like Time, +and that Time is all in all. + +But Time is not near so good a fellow as they take him for. He is +continually on the watch for mischief, and often seizes a sly +opportunity to lay his cane over the shoulders of some middle-aged +gentleman; and lo and behold! the poor man's back is bent, his hair +turns gray, and his face looks like a shrivelled apple. This is what is +meant by being "time-stricken." It is the worst feature in Time's +character, that he always inflicts the greatest injuries on his oldest +friends. Yet, shamefully as he treats them, they evince no desire to +cut his acquaintance, and can seldom bear to think of a final +separation. + +Again, there is a very prevalent idea, that Time loves to sit by the +fireside, telling stories of the Puritans, the witch persecutors, and +the heroes of the old French war and the Revolution; and that he has no +memory for anything more recent than the days of the first President +Adams. This is another great mistake. Time is so eager to talk of +novelties, that he never fails to give circulation to the most +incredible rumors of the day, though at the hazard of being compelled to +eat his own words to-morrow. He shows numberless instances of this +propensity while the national elections are in progress. A month ago, +his mouth was full of the wonderful Whig victories; and to do him +justice, he really seems to have told the truth for once. Whether the +same story will hold good another year, we must leave Time himself to +show. He has a good deal to say, at the present juncture, concerning +the revolutionary movements in Canada; he blusters a little about the +northeastern boundary question; he expresses great impatience at the +sluggishness of our commanders in the Florida war; he gets considerably +excited whenever the subject of abolition is brought forward, and so +much the more, as he appears hardly to have made up his mind on one side +or the other. Whenever this happens to be the case,--as it often does, +--Time works himself into such a rage, that you would think he were +going to tear the universe to pieces; but I never yet knew him to +proceed, in good earnest, to such terrible extremities. During the last +six or seven months, he has been seized with intolerable sulkiness at +the slightest mention of the currency; for nothing vexes Time so much as +to be refused cash upon the nail. The above are the chief topics of +general interest which Time is just now in the habit of discussing. +For his more private gossip, he has rumors of new matches, of old ones +broken off, with now and then a whisper of good-natured scandal; +sometimes, too, he condescends to criticise a sermon, or a lyceum +lecture, or performance of the glee-club; and, to be brief, catch the +volatile essence of present talk and transitory opinions, and you will +have Time's gossip, word for word. I may as well add, that he expresses +great approbation of Mr. Russell's vocal abilities, and means to be +present from beginning to end of his next concert. It is not every +singer that could keep Time with his voice and instrument, for a whole +evening. Perhaps you will inquire, "What are Time's literary tastes?" +And here again there is a general mistake. It is conceived by many, +that Time spends his leisure hours at the Athenaeum, turning over the +musty leaves of those large worm-eaten folios, which nobody else has +disturbed since the death of the venerable Dr. Oliver. So far from this +being the case, Time's profoundest studies are the new novels from +Messrs. Ives and Jewett's Circulating Library. He skims over the +lighter articles in the periodicals of the day, glances at the +newspapers, and then throws them aside forever, all except "The Salem +Gazette," of which he preserves a file, for his amusement a century or +two hence. + +We will now consider Time as a man of business. In this capacity, our +citizens are in the habit of complaining, not wholly without reason, +that Time is sluggish and dull. You may see him occasionally at the end +of Derby Wharf, leaning against a post, or sitting on the breech of an +iron cannon, staring listlessly at an unrigged East Indiaman. Or, if +you look through the windows of the Union Marine Insurance Office, you +may get a glimpse of him there, nodding over a newspaper, among the old +weather-beaten sea-captains who recollect when Time was quite a +different sort of fellow. If you enter any of the dry-goods stores +along Essex Street, you will be likely to find him with his elbows on +the counter, bargaining for a yard of tape or a paper of pins. To catch +him in his idlest mood, you must visit the office of some young lawyer. +Still, however, Time does contrive to do a little business among us, and +should not be denied the credit of it. During the past season, he has +worked pretty diligently upon the railroad, and promises to start the +cars by the middle of next summer. Then we may fly from Essex Street to +State Street, and be back again before Time misses us. In conjunction +with our worthy mayor (with whose ancestor, the Lord Mayor of London, +Time was well acquainted more than two hundred years ago) he has laid +the corner-stone of a new city hall, the granite front of which is +already an ornament to Court Street. But besides these public affairs, +Time busies himself a good deal in private. Just at this season of the +year, he is engaged in collecting bills, and may be seen at almost any +hour peregrinating from street to street, and knocking at half the doors +in town, with a great bundle of these infernal documents. On such +errands he appears in the likeness of an undersized, portly old +gentleman, with gray hair, a bluff red face, and a loud tone of voice; +and many people mistake him for the penny-post. + +Never does a marriage take place, but Time is present among the wedding- +guests; for marriage is an affair in which Time takes more interest than +in almost any other. He generally gives away the bride, and leads the +bridegroom by the hand to the threshold of the bridal chamber. Although +Time pretends to be very merry on these occasions, yet, if you watch him +well, you may often detect a sigh. Whenever a babe is born into this +weary world, Time is in attendance, and receives the wailing infant in +his arms. And the poor babe shudders instinctively at his embrace, and +sets up a feeble cry. + +Then again, from the birth-chamber, he must hurry to the bedside of some +old acquaintance, whose business with Time is ended forever, though +their accounts remain to be settled at a future day. It is terrible, +sometimes, to perceive the lingering reluctance, the shivering agony, +with which the poor souls bid Time farewell, if they have gained no +other friend to supply the gray deceiver's place. How do they cling to +Time, and steal another and yet another glance at his familiar aspect! +But Time, the hard-hearted old fellow! goes through such scenes with +infinite composure, and dismisses his best friends from memory the +moment they are out of sight. Others, who have not been too intimate +with Time, as knowing him to be a dangerous character, and apt to ruin +his associates,--these take leave of him with joy, and pass away with a +look of triumph on their features. They know, that, in spite of all his +flattering promises, he could not make them happy, but that now they +shall be so, long after Time is dead and buried. + +For Time is not immortal. Time must die, and be buried in the deep +grave of eternity. And let him die. From the hour when he passed forth +through the gate of Eden, till this very moment, he has gone to and fro +about the earth, staining his hands with blood, committing crimes +innumerable, and bringing misery on himself and all mankind. Sometimes +he has been a pagan; sometimes a persecutor. Sometimes he has spent +centuries in darkness, where he could neither read nor write. These +were called the Dark Ages. There has hardly been a single year, when he +has not stirred up strife among the nations. Sometimes, as in France +less than fifty years ago, he has been seized with fits of frenzy, and +murdered thousands of innocent people at noonday. He pretends, indeed, +that he has grown wiser and better now. Trust him who will; for my +part, I rejoice that Time shall not live forever. He hath an appointed +office to perform. Let him do his task, and die. Fresh and young as he +would make himself appear, he is already hoary with age; and the very +garments that he wears about the town were put on thousands of years +ago, and have been patched and pieced to suit the present fashion. +There is nothing new in him nor about him. Were he to die while I am +speaking, we could not pronounce it an untimely death. Methinks, with +his heavy heart and weary brain, Time should himself be glad to die. + +Meanwhile, gentle patrons, as Time has brought round another New Year, +pray remember your poor petitioner. For so small a lad, you will agree +that I talk pretty passably well, and have fairly earned whatever spare +specie Time has left in your pockets. Be kind to me; and I have good +hope that Time will be kind to you. After all the hard things which I +have said about him, he is really,--that is, if you take him for neither +more nor less than he is worth, and use him as not abusing him,--Time is +really a very tolerable old fellow, and may be endured for a little +while that we are to keep him company. Be generous, kind patrons, to +Time's errand-boy. So may he bring to the merchant his ship safe from +the Indies; to the lawyer, a goodly number of new suits; to the doctor, +a crowd of patients with the dyspepsia and fat purses; to the farmer, a +golden crop and a ready market; to the mechanic, steady employment and +good wages; to the idle gentleman, some honest business; to the rich, +kind hearts and liberal hands; to the poor, warm firesides and food +enough, patient spirits, and the hope of better days; to our country, a +return of specie payments; and to you, sweet maid, the youth who stole +into your dream last night! And next New Year's Day (if I find nothing +better to do in the mean while) may Time again bring to your doors your +loving little friend, + THE CARRIER. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, TIME'S PORTRAITURE *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +**** This file should be named haw7910.txt or haw7910.zip **** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw7911.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw7910a.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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