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ELECTIVE AFFINITIES.
A Novel.
TBISIUTD) lAOXTU OEUXAS W fIOItHE.
PART 11.
CHAPTER I.
There often happens to us in common
life what, in an epic poem, we are accus
tomed to praise as a stroke of art In the
poet; namely, that when the chief figures
go off the scene, conceal themselves or
retire into inactivity, some other or oth
ers, who hitherto we have scarcely ob
served, come forward and fill their places.
And these patting out all their force, at
once fix oar attention and sympathy on
themselves, and earn our praise and ad*
miration. -
Thus, alter the Captain and Edward
were gone, the Architect, of whom we
have spoken, appeared every day of a
more important person. The
and executing*©! a, number of undertak
ings depended -entirely upon him, and he
proved himself thoroughly understanding
and business-like in the sty Win which he
went to work; while in a number of oth
er ways he was able also to make himself
of assistance to the ladies, and -find
amusement for their weary hours. His
outward air and appearance were of the
kind which win confidence and awake af
fecticyi. A youth in the full sense of the
word, well formed, tall perhaps a little
too stout; modest without being timid,
and easy without being obtrusive, there
was no work and no trouble which he
was not delighted to take upon himself;
and as he could keep accounts with great
facility, the whole economy of the house
hold soon was no secret to him, and eve
rywhere his salutary influence made it
self felt. Any stranger who came he was
commonly set to entertain, and he was
skillful either at declining-unexpected vis
its, or al least so far preparing the ladles
for them as to spare them any disagreea
bleness. S;.
Among oibhre; he had one day no little
tronble with a yonng lawyer, who had
been sent by a neighboring nobleman to
speak about a matter which, although of
no particular moment, yet touched Char
lotte to the quick.- We have to mention
this Incident, because it gave occasion
for a number ot things which bfherwise
might perhaps have remained long un
touched.
We remember certain alterations Char
lotte bad made Jn the churchyard. The
entire body of the monuments had been
removed from their places, and had been
ranged along the walls of the church,
leaning against the string-course. The
remaining space had been leveled, except
a broad walk which led up toHhe church,
and past it to ; the opposite gate; and it
had all been sown with various hinds of
trefoil, which bad shot np and flowered
most beautifully.
The new graves were to follow one af
ter another in order from the
end, bat the spot on each occasion was to
be carefully smoothed over and sown
again. No one could deny that on Sun
days and holidays, when the people went
to church, the change had given it a most
cheerful and pleasant appearance. At the
same time the clergyman, a» old man and
clinging to old customs, who at first bad
not been especially pleased with the ali
teration, had become thoroughly delights
ed with it', all the more because when he
sat out like Philemon with fyis Baucis
under the old linden trees at his back
door, instead of the humps and mounds
he bad a beautiful clean lawn to look ou|l
upon; and--.which, moreover, Charlotte
having secured the use of the spot to the
parsonage, was no little convenience to
his household..
Nbtwithstanding, however, many mem
bers of the congregation hail been dis
pleased that the means of marking the
spots where their f >refathers rested had
been removed, and all memorials of them
thereby obliterated. H >wever well pre
served the monuments might be, they
could only show who had been burled,
but not where be hid been buried, and
the where, as many maintained, was eve-
rything
Of this opinion was a family in the
neighborhood, who for many yeans had
btfen in possession of a considerable vault
for a general resting place of themselves
and their delations, and in consequence
had settled a small annual sum for the
use of the church. And now this young
lawyer had been sent to cancel this settle
ment, and to stfhw that his client did not
intend to pay it any more, because the
condition under which it had been hith
erto made had not been observed by the
other parly, and no regard had been paid
to objection and remonstrance. Char
lotte, who had been the originator of the
alteration berseK, chose to speak to
the yoimg man who, In a "decid
ed thopgh not a violent manner, laid
down the grounds on which bis client pro
ceeded, and gave occasion ia what he
said for much serious reflection.
“You see,” he said; after a slight intro
duction, in which he sought to justify his
peremptoriness; “you see, it is right for
the lowest as well as for the highest to
mark the spot which hoi is those who are
dearest to hi a. The poorest peasant
who buries a chill, finds it s .me consola
tion to plant a light wooden cross upon
the grave, an 1 hang a gailand upon it. to
keep alive the memorial, at least as long
as the sorro.v remains ; although such m
mark, like the mourning, vi.l pass away
with ti ue.' Thrge better off ch»nge the
cross wf wood >nto iron, and fix it down
_ and guard it in various wav s; and here
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we have endurance fdr many years. But
because this' too will sink at last and be
come invisible, those who aw able to bear
the expense see nothing fitter than to
raise a stone which shall prpmise to en-
dure for generations, and which can be
restored and be made fresh again by pos-
terity. YeV thlS'stone U uat-whlch at
tragus; if 'Is that which !*--contained
beneath it. which is entrusua, wherejit
statfds, to the earth, tt.is notvthe memo
rial so much of which 'we speak, as of
the person himself; not of .what once was,
but of what. Is._ Far far more
closely, can T embrace some dear depart
ed one in the mound: whiob-risea over his
bed, than inamonumental writing which
only tells ns that once he was. In itself,
indeed, it is but little; but around it, as
around a central mark, the wife, the hus*
band, the kinsman, the friend, after their
departure, shall gather in again; and the
living shall have the tight to keep far off
all strangers, and evil-wishers from the
side of the dear one who is sleeping
there. f
“And, therefore, I hold it quite fair and
fitting that my principal shall withdraw
his grant to you. It is, indeed, -■ but too
reasonable that be should do it, for the
members of his family are ijnored in a
way for which no compensation could be
even proposed. They are depiived of
the sad sweet feelings of laying offerings j
on the remains of their dead, and of. the
one comforts in their sorrow- of one day
lying down at their side. 1 *
“The matter is not of that importance,”
Charlotte answered, “that we should dis
quiet ourselves about it with the vexa
tion of a law-suit. I regret so little what
T have dune, that I will indemnify
the cbnrch for what it loses through you.
Only I must confess candidly to yon your
arguments have not convinced me ; the
pure feeling of an universal equality at
last, after death, seems to me more com
posing than this hard determined persist
ance in onr personalities and in the con
ditions [and circumstance ■of our Uvea.
What do yon say to il ?” she added, turn
ing to the Architect.
“It is not for me,” he replied, “either
to argue or attempt to judge in such a
case. Let me venture, however, to say
what my own art and my own habits of
thinking suggest to me. Since we are no
longer so happy as to be able to press to
our breasts the in-nrned remains of those
we have loved, since we are neither
wealthy enough, nor of cheeifnl heart
enongbt to preserve them nndecayed in
large elaborate sarcophagi; since, indeed,
we cannot even find phee any more for
ourselves and oars in the churches, and
are banished ont into the open air, we all,
I thing, /ought to approve the method
wfalicb you, my gracious lady, have Intro
duced. If the of a common
congregation are laid out side by side,
they are resting by the side of, and among
their kindred ; and, if the earth be once
to receive us all, 1 can find nothing more
□atdral nr desirable than that the mounds
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which, if they are thrown up, are snre to
sink slowly in again together, shonl-I be
smoothed off at once, and the covering,
which all bear alike, will press lighter
upon each other.”
“And is it all, is it all to pass away ”
said Ottilie, “without one of re-'
membrance, without anything to call back
the past ?”
“By no means,continued the Archi
ted; “it is not from remembrance, it is
from place that men should be set free.
The architect, the sculptor, are highly in
terested that men should look to their
art—to their hand, for a continuance of
their being; and therefore, I should wish
to see well designed, well-executed mon
uments; not sown up and dovyn by them
selves at random, but erected all in a sin
gle spot, where they can promise them
s» Ives endurance. Inasmuch as even the
good and the great are contented to sur
render the privilege of resting, in person
in the churches, ice may, at least, erect
there or in some fair hall near the bury
mg-place, either monnfnents or monu
mental writings. A thousand forms might
be sucgested for them, and a thousand or
ments with which they might be decora
ted:”
“If the artists are so rich,” replied ;
Chari nte, "then l&U me Inw it is that i
they are never able to escape from little j
obelisks, dwarf pillars, and urns tor ashes. |
Instead of your thousand forms of which .
you boast, I have never seen anything but j
a thousand repetitions.” 1
“It is very generally so with us,” re- j
loaned the Architect, "but it is not uni- 1
versa!; and very likely the right taste !
and the proper application 6f it may be i
a peculiar art. In this case especially we ;
have this great difficulty, that the monu- j
meat must be cheerful and yet comment |
orate a solemn subject; while its matter)
is melancholy, it must not itself: be mel- i
ancholy. As regards designs for monu-1
ments of all kinds, I have collected num- )
bcrs of them, and will take some oppor- i
tunity of showing them to you; but at all
times the fairest memorial of a man re
mains some likeness of himself. This, bet
ter than/Snything else, will give a notion j
of what he was; it is the best text for
many or for few notes, only it ought to
be made when he is at his best age. and
that it generally neglected; no one thinks
of preserving forms while they are alive,
and if it is done ot all, it is dr ne careless
ly and incompletely ; and then comes
death; a cast is taken swiftly off the face;
this mask is set upon a block of stone,
and that is called a bust. How seldom is
is the artist ia a position to pat any real
life into such things as these!’’
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