The Beaver radical. (Beaver, Pa.) 1868-1873, September 12, 1873, Image 2
2 ELECTIVE AFFINITIES. tbaxs&atbd raox in saaxax or qoxthx. PART 11. - chapter in. (Continued.) They bad finished with the arching of the ceiling. The walls they proposed to leave plain, to cover them over with a bright brown color. The delicate pillars and the quaintly-moulded orna ments were to be distinguished from them by a dark shade. Bat as in each things one thing ever leads on to another, they determined at least on having festoons of flowers and fro it, which should as it were uhite together heaven and earth. Here Ottilie was in her element The gardens provided the,most perfect patterns; and although the wreaths were as rich as they coola make them, it was all finished soon er than they had supposed possible. It was still looking rough and disorder* ly. The scaffolding poles bad been run together, the planks thrown on the top of the other; the uneven pavement was yet more disfigured by the particolored stains of the paint which had been spilt over it. The Architect begged that the ladies would give him a week to bimself, and and daring that time would not enter the chapel; at the end of it, one fine evening, he cam** to them, and begged them both to go and see it. He Hid not wish to ac company them, be said, and at once took bis leave. “Whatever surprise be may have de signed for ns,” said Charlotte, as soon as he was gone, “I cannot myself just now go down there. You can go by yourself, and tell me all about it. 3to doubt be has been doing something which we shall like, I enjoy it first in your descrip tion, and afterwards it will be the more charming in the reality Oltilie, who knew wtH that in many cases Charlotte took care to avoid every thing which cod Id produce emotion, and particularly disliked to be surprised, set off down the walk by herself, and looked round involuntarily for the Arch itect, who, however, was nowhere to be seen, and mast have concealed himself somewhere. She walked into the church, which she found open. This had been finished before; it had been cleaned up, and service had b6en performed it it. She went on to the chapel door.; its heavy mass, all overlaid with iron, yielded easi ly to her touch, and she found an unex pected sight in a familiar spot. A solemn beautiful light streamed in through the one tall window. It was fill cd with stained glass, gracefully pat to gether. The entire chapel bad thus re ceived a strange tone, and a peculiar ge nius was thrown over it. The beauty of the vaulted ceiling and the walls was set off by the elegance of the pavement, which was composed of peculiarly shaped tiles, fastened together with gypsum, and forming exquisite patterns ah they lay. This and the adored glass for the win dows the Architect bad prepared without their knowledge, and a short time was sufficient to b»ve it pat in its place. Seats had been provi led as well. Among the relics of the old church some finely carved chancefchairs had been dis covered, which now were standing abont at convenient places along the walls. The parts which she knew so well now meeting her as an unfamiliar whole, de* lighted Otlilie. She stood still, walked up and down, looked and looked again; at last she seated herself in one of the chairs, and it seemed, as she gazed up and down, as if she was, and yet was not —as if she felt and did not feel—as if all this wopld vanish Irom before her, and she would vanish from herself; and it was on ly when the sun left the window, on which before it had been shining full, that she awoke to possession of herself, and hastened hick to the castle She did not hid,e from herself the strange epoch at which this surprise had occurred to her. It was the evening of Ed ward’s birthday. Very differently she had hoped to keeph- How was not esfejylhing to be dressed out\fur this festival ?and now all the splendor of the autumn flow ers remained ungalhered. Those sunflow ers still turned their faces to the sky; those asters sull looked on with quiet, modest eye; and whatever of them all had been wound into wreathe had served'as patterns for the decorating a spot which, if it were not to remain a mere artist’s fancy, was only adapted as a general mau soleum. And then she had to remember the im pctuous eagerness with which Edward had kept her birth-day feast. She thought of the newly erected lodge, under the roof ot which they had promised them selves so much enj )ymerit. The fire works flashed and hissed again before her eyes and ears; the more lonely she was, the more keenly her imagination brought it all before her. But she fell heVself on ly the more alone. She no longer leant upon bis arm, and she had no hope ever any more to rest bersth upon it. FROM OTTILIE’s DIARY. ‘‘l&have been struck with an observa tion of the young architect. * “In the case of the creative artist, as in that of the artisan, it is clear that man is least permitted to appropriate to himself wbat'is most entirely hts own. His works forsake him as the birds forsake the nest in whic . they were batched. “The fate of the Architect is the strang est of al in this w .y. How often he ex- A Novel. pends his whole sohl, his whole heart and p&B£ion, to produce bu'ldlngs into which he himself may never enter. The balls of kings owe their magnificence to him; bat he has no enjoyment of them in their splendor. In the temple he draws a par lion line betweeiT^himself and the Holy of fioiies; he may never more eet bis foot upon the steps which he hid: laid down for the heart-thrilling ceremonial; as the goldsmith may only adore from afar off the monstranc4 whose enamel and. whom jewels he has himself set together. The builder surrenders to the rich m*n, wflh the key of hi 3 palace, all pleasure and all right there, and never shares with him in the enjoyment of it. And mast not Art in (bis way, step by step, draw off from the artist, when the work, like a child who is provided for, has no more to fall back upon its father? And what a power there mnst be in art itself, for Us own self-advancing, when it has been obliged to shape itself almost solely out of what was open to all, only out of what wasthe property of every one, and therefore also. of the artist!” “There is a conception among old ns* lions which is awful, and may almost seem terrible. They pictured their fore fathers to themselves sitting round on thrones, in enormous caverns, in silent con verse; when a new comer entered, if be were worthy enough, they rose up and inclined their heads to welcome him. Yesterday, as I was sitting in the chape 1 , and other carved chairs stood round like that in which I was, the thought of this came over me with a soft, pleasant feel* ing. Why cannot you stay sitting here ? I say to myself; stay here sitting meditat ing with yourself long, long, long, till at last your friends come, and yon rise np to them, and with a gentle inclination direct them to their places. The colored win dow panes convert the day into a sol emn twilight; and someone shmid set np for ns an ever-burning lamp, that the night might not be otter darkness.” "We may imagine ourselves in what what situation we pieaae, we always con ceive ourselves as seeing. ‘ I believe men only dream that they may not cease to see. Some day, perhaps, the inner light will come out from within us, and we shall not any more another. The year dies away, thr wind sweeps over the stubble, and there is nothing left to stir under itl touch. But the red berries on yonder, tall tree seem as if they wouli remind us of brighter things; and the stroke of the thrasher’s flail awaks the thought bow much of nourish* ment and life lies buried in the sickled ear.” CHAPTER IV. How strangely, after all this, with the sense so vividly impressed on her of mu tability and perisbableness, must Ottilie have been affected by the news which could not any longer be kept concealed from her, that Edward bad exposed him self to the uncertain chances of war! Un* happily, none of the observations which she bad occasion to.make upon it escaped her. But it well for us that man can on ly endure a certain degree of unhappi ness; what is beyond that, either annihi lates him, or passes by him, and leaves him apatbelic. There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one anoth er, and lose themselves in a dull indiffer ence. If it were not so how could we, bear to know of those who are most dear to us being in hourly peril, and yet go on as usual with our ordinary everyday life? It was therefore as if some good genius was caring for Ottilie, that, all at, once, this stillness, in which she seemed to be sinking fmm loneliness and want of oc cupation, was suddenly invaded by a wild army, which, while it gave her ex ternally abundance of employment, and so took her out of herself, at the same time awoke in her the consciousness of her own power. Cbatlntte’s daughter, Lnctana, had scarcely left the school and gone out into the great world; scarcely had she found herself at her aunt’s house in ibc midst of a large society, than her anxiety to please produced its effect in really pleas ing; and a young, very Wealthy man, soon experienced a passionate desire to make her his own. His Urge property gave him a tight to hive the best of eve rything for bis use, and nothing seemed to be wanting to him except a perfect wife, for whom, as for the rest of his good, f .rtune, be should be the envy of the world. This incident in her family had been for some time occupying Charlotte, -It had engaged all her attention, and taken up her whole correspondence, except so far as this was directed to the obtaining news of Edward; so that latterly Oftilie bad been left more than was usual to her self. She knew, indeed, of an intended visit from Lncima. She bad been mak ing various changes and arrangements in the boose in preparation for it; bnt she had no notion that it was so near. Let ters, she supposed, would first have to pass, seltipgfthe dime; and then a final fixing, svhen the storm broke suddenly ! over and over herself. 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