ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE NOTES OF RUPERT DE LA TOUCH (1825)
BY
W. CLARK RUSSELL. Author of "The Wreck of the rosBENGI"," "Overdueke)
CHAPTER X.
THE CAPTAIN'S GIFT, Eulalie kult at my side. She passed her army round my neck. She thou ht I was dying, and this fear working in her artless-nature made her behaviour as visible a trazeotipt of her feelings as though the workings of her most secret heart were laid bare. She put her lips close to my ear to speak to me, and you would have thought she kissed me.
In a very little while I remained my breath and then rallied promptly, stood up and taking Eulalie by the hand thanked her fotsaving my life for the second time.
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When did mother come to you?" sail Eulalie..
"But," I continued for now being used to This speech seemed to confuse him. He sat lost in thought for a few moments with his eyes these manifestations of his mulness I was less upon my hands which continued to clape awed and subdued by the thun at the begin Einlie; then with a gentle smile he rose and ning Sappose a chip should gave us a chan saying, as though he spoke to himself: "Who of leaving the island, would you object to pay. can fight with one's destiny? and is not leveing a visit to Europe with us and then retarne iing " destiny and still speaking, but in so lova voice that I could not catch fie' syllables, Ice stepped out of the room.
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Eulalie and I remained for about an hour alone. Again I told her, kissing her hand as I vowed, that I would not leave lur, that it would be impossible for me to leave her, that I loved her ns aerer could I have dreamt of loving a girl whom I had known for so short a time. Did she love me? Oh yes; and she told me this as a child would, looking me fall in the face with to change of colour, though her eyes were soft and deep with feeling,
It will take time," said I presently, after passage which my pen is unequal to. "to move him, to dotach him from this strange, touching hallucination which binds him to this island. But I believe it is to be done. We three must go, for you would not leave him
aloue,"
I will not leave her he cried again, motioning towards his wife's grave.
Woald you object to my taking Eulalie on visit?
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You would not retara," he answered. "I am reasoning, sir," says I, feeling a little pettisle at root, with this lolly gentleman's selfish insanity, as much on elinlf of Eulalie as of myself. She is a stranger to the great world, she knows nothing of men and women. their customs. fashions, and the like. Even supposing we were away for three years what she saw would be an education and a memory to her and help her to settle down more restfully ou her retar
You alk," anid he, as if there was a ship yonder and you awaited only my permission to go aboard with. Eublie."
At this, which was true, I smiled,
You have been here now some fifteen br said he, and by, erusses o sixtent crosses, signified days, and how many ships have ten vors," he goes on, pronouncing the
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Last night," he replied. What were hier words, father?" Her speech was not in words: spiritul is in meaning. It is her wish that you should be married to Rupert de la Touche,' answered Captain Scott.
I stepped in and sat down, and Eulalie came and stood beside me and passed her arm round my neck, and in this posture we debated our marriage. It was decided by Captain Scott, now that his wife had intimated her assent, that we should be married without delay,
But," says he, "I shall want the afternoon and evening to think over a form of ceremony to go through. I have no prayer book and the hooks in Lily's little collection are of no use to us. But if your marriage will be conducted precisely n though we stood on Scotch koil so as to make it as binding as if it took place in a church, the simpler the form the better, and I will think it over. And now tell Rupert, Lily when it shall be,"
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"Shall we say to-morrow, Lily " says Captain Scott.
This fired her cheek again with a deeper flush,
Oh no, oh no she cried. "Poor father! dear father: How could I leave him alone, how could I leave him at all! I love you. Rupert owo your proservation to lily. She has been and I love him. too, with all my huset. But passed in that time? I have been here over but shio was smiling, and thought her head was -aisting of a hundred interesting articles, packed
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I never should have thought of looking for You certainly yon here." says the Captain. hunting for you and calling your name all night."
I have," she said, koking at me with weariet bat melt ng and glowing eyes and happy sanile, whilst I continued to hold her by the hand in my passion of gratitudo and love.
Phi is the last place I should live thought of," says Captain Scott, who was drossed in a white cloth jacket and trousers and a wide straw hat and sandals. One of my Kunskas reported it as rastly dangerous."
"I came to admire the valley," sayu 'I. `I knelt down to look over and the soil gave way and I plunged fifty or sixty feat."
The Captain talked of the cars and, the giant idols, but somewhat idly. Ho seemed wearied.
have put down as a pretty languishing trick, but is her it was so deliciously, transparently sincere that you might as well call some sweet dower affouted and hollow brause it discharges another gush of perfume to some burden of dew or some little visit of breeze...
I was mach with Eulalie and helped her with delight and love in her indoor offices.
I had been in this island a little more than a
fortnight, who our afternoon, whilst Eulalie was in her sleeping bower, I walked into the garden and sat down in the shade to smoke pipe. During our wid-day repast I had observed that Captain Scott was upcomanonly side and I put my pipe away, for I guessed by his manner that something strange if at nu- expected was to happen.
you that my memory doth not carry more than three or four ships holt down in all these many months. And now, before Lily appears, before we give her news of what has passed, will you tell me that you are willing to marry my daughter and live with her in this island
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Be it so then, Rupert," says he under standing her silence. The shadows fall upou the inother's grave in the afternoon, and it isp.p. 1,300, $6.00. there I wish to write you, and therefore I will
ake you man and wife to-morrow.”
During the rest of the day he was very silent and studions.
Undoubtedly he had hunted for me throughout silent and abstracted: Ho seated himself at my wholly or account of my love for Eulalie. It gracious prize of beauty and simplicity which
the night with zeal. Though the island was little spot, 'twas easy for the hand of disaster to find a thousand secret places in it for conceal- ment of her dead.
Though my adventure was inglorious, and eventless, and attended with no other discovery than a cavo garnished with skulls and statues. accessible only at the peril of life, it wrought in another way it illed we with very grave and serious reflections about Eulalie. I often looked at her as we walked to the house. But it was not until I had soine leisure for meditation which followed our arrival that I asked myself how I was to become happy by honourable possession of this island princess.
Some of these thoughts were in my head when I was alone in the night on the ledge, erouch- ing and thinking of death, after Eulalie's voice kud died away but very jumbled as you may suppose, nor did I long dwell on them, for I honestly believed myself a dead man, to whom love and life were sounds as mocking as the accumulated grin of the skull-piled altar in the But when I got to the house and was alone for a little, whilst I refreshed myself. I fell extraordinarily pensive.
Soon we sat down to a plain meat. The Captain yawned often, and said he felt as tired
as if he had been on hore-back for a week.
And how must you feel" said the princess
to me.
I shall sleep everything off in a single
I suppose, sir, watch below." I answered says I, that in that cave there is nothing more than what I saw "
"What more would you expeel?" he asked.
Gold and silver vessels. Things of value used in barbaren worship," I answered.
"In à foutfi Bea Island!" he cried, "where a few bita of coloured glass are esteemed above the Regalia, and where a man would give all the gold in the earth for lucel cocked hat though he had nothing to wear with it! No, sir," says he, "you may rest assured that those idols are similar to things I have seen in other islands. You will find nothing in that care but
old bones and old stones."
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You'll not visit that are again. I hope," exclaimed Eulalie
I smiled to let her understand how distant was such an intention from my mind, and then we talked of the experiences of the night, and Eulalie told me that when she missed me her
first search was in the creek for the boat.
For the boat!" I cried. Did you think I had sailed away -
No, no, she answored impetuously, and then with a little smile and a downward coy, but somewhat pensive look, scarce veiling her dark eyes by the droop of her long eyelashes, she exclaimed:
was there.
"If ever I enter that hout," said I. speaking very earnestly and locking at Captain Scott, "I shall not be alone;" and then finding some courage in my heart I added partly in response to the darkening gaze Captain Scott swiftly If I can induce your father fastened on ure.
"I will do anything for her sake," I cried,
When I lay down that night I could not If it is your wish that we should go on, bying sloop for thinking. I found myself in a situa- tion that was truly extraordinary. I devotedly hire, I agres.
Well said and honestly said!" says he,loved the girl that was to be made my wife by extending his hand again in a cordial gostare.
This in substance was all that the passed her father, and was so happy that I could have danced and sang when I thought of thisi tween us. My compliance, however, was not
had come to my hands as though it had was rather a policy which formed a part of my been some rare and precious fruit that grows cut love. First he was a madman with whom there of reach and may be mot with oare in a life- was no reasoning: next he might any day time by the greatest traveller, and which in my change his mind, come to his senses, under this
casa bad dropped at my feet. head, and consent to leave the island. Then, though not advanced in years, and a strong win he might die. These were possibilities, and I had a right to found my resolutions apon them. Certainly he did not now need to make clear to in speaking with me, and his pronunciation of me that this island was fixed in a very desolato Princess. She was a choice and brilliant flower! scrne of ocean, and that if we lingered for a the word coloured his speech with a profounder
effigies I ll stumbled across in the cave had quality of solemnity than I had otherwise found ship we might have to wait as long as the in it.Obserring that, he passed. I said:
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My wife's spirit stood by my side last night, said he, speaking in a low voice as though he was in a house of worship and Fastening his eyes on the grave: she hath delivered her wishes they are in accord with ming, and it is for me now, Rupert, to impart tinn.".
Never before had he used my Christian nume
I carnently hope, sir. that her wishes cor- respond with mine."
discovered them.
But still my thoughts were troubled by the shadow of a coptimted residence in this island. This was the waly port I did not like. It spented hard to he kept to one spot of earth by the clutch of a corpse. I was proud of my Ísland
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fade sivay in these orain-bound solitudes, that was much too autiful to be allowed to wished to see her dressed in Europeau style. desired the happiness of travelling through When we had aude an end of our discourse, civilisod life with her, watching her at the They do." he replied, with an air of great which in truth he had broken off himself in theatre, whilst fine music was being played, in his odd way by abruptly walking into the art gallerios where noble pieces appeal to the benignity; for into the nature of this man, who
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Ever since to give the news to Eulalie, and guessed that which might fitly become a king. you asked me what was to happen to my she would not be angry if I disturbed her weighted by my promise to u madman, it is ne auall wonder that in the night before my daughter if I should die and leave her along
She lay asleep in her hammock, her wooden marriage I turned and heaved with these upon the island my mind has been so unsettled suruber by so sweet an interruption.
pillow was upon the grass and her head was thoughts and many more, which found my eyes that my nights hays been sadly broken. It was the haunting thought with me before you supported by her arm. She reposed upon her fastened upon the prospect out of doors when
window with the morning breese. spoke a conversed with my wife aguio back and her face looked upwards. I had the morning light caine in through the open But it was to be a ceremony of vast im- and again. but not until last night." says he never observed her in sleep before. She was and methought I had never seen muluess more more beautiful than any painting. She wa plain in his eyes than then, did she come to clothed in her Kanaka guro, and no artist could portance in the captain's eyes, He clothed him- mo, rensumunned, and bid me, for the peace have draped her with more matchless skill in self in his best, and discovered a noble, dignitied
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Johore you her hand as her lord, husband, and
grass. Eulalie was dreised as she usually went : mystical hand of sleep, lover until the great God of Heaven and Earth, had unconsciously boun contrived by the who brings you together, shall dissolve yon by
I stood looking down upon her with a lover's in the Kanaka costume I have described, but Palang
she had put sweet flowers in her hair and breast, death."
worshipping eyes, and whilst I gured some
leset resemblance to the aspect of a maiden who smiled.
stand. hafore the altar, yet never did the sur flowing robe of the South Sea Island girl, whose altar was her mother's grave, whose priest was tune upon a lovelier bride, whose attire was the
her father, whose bridegroof was a sailor and a , who, if he knew his heart, understood that in accepting this young girl's hand, he was imposing an obligation upon himself as sacred a though a church steeple towered above and, the music of the organ ann maced the approach of the bride.
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The emotions his speech aroused in mnie were happy fancy came into her slumber and sho and though she wore no veil and hore not the
so lang and conflicting that for a moment or two I male au reply. I then saht
"You are bestowing a great treasure upon the, sir: a greator I could not ask for, nor hope to find in this life, but," said I. if Eulalie and I to dwell here util you are likely to depart the courtship will be long and frosty, and I durst venture to say, sir, with great respect to yourself, that so prolonged and hollow an association between Eulalie and myself must be as distasteful to her as the more contempla
tion of it is cruel to me."
"What do you mean? I do not understand." he exclaimed very loftily, towering in his seat. "I offer you my daughtera Princess of the Blood Royal of England; as wife, and whilst you pronounce the gift a treasure above your aspira- Lions in one breath, you denounce it. in another as crnel!"
answered, but I wean nothing of the sert. My wish is that you should be my daughter's hushand."
"But who is to marry us?" said I.
My presence disturbéd kur akt mặt looked at. nguin. which was characteristical of her ex me, and the instant she knew me she smiled "What news do you think I have brought guisite sweetness of disposition. you, Eulalie ?" said T
No.
Is a ship in sight she exclaimed, looking at me eagerly and sitting up in her hammock,
I answered. I have brought you much greater news that the report of a ship being in sight, though that will be grand new some day. I hope, and soon."
"Oh, Rupert, what is it?"
Your father has given you to me and go are to be my wife.
Seeing she stared a little as though she questioned me, I said :
"I will prove the truth of my news by a token which you will understand, and I kissed
her.
Has my
It was about three o'clock when the ceremony took place. We quitted the honse and walked to the grave, and Captain Scott's first act was to clasp his child by the hand and kneel and say a prayer. Memory vividly preserves the pietura of that kneeling couple: hand in hand; the girl with dark eyes looking up adoring as to the grave as though he addressed her who rested there. When they had prayed, he she prayed, the father with his eyes rooted
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"Yon mistake me." I said. "I mean that un- less you allow me to take Eulalie away and marry
She coloured brightly, but I saw by the her you are obliging us to live in this island contracted in marriage without being husband and
dance of her oyes that her heart was in wife, which would be anfair, unreasonable, even "I thought I would go and see if the host cruel to us hoth, sir." and I flushed as I spoke tures. She could only look her joy; springing I stood,, and in silenes put her hand into mine. brought up to dato. They consist this year of this Work stands unrivalled. All the new words
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"Is it true, Rupert, is it true? father given me to you? When did my mother consent When did he speak to you?"
Thereupon I told her what had passed Lavl between her father and me, and how come straight from him to give the news.
Does it please you. Ealaliey I, hold which comes back to me in memory as I write. For though it was radiant with the light of her heart it was also something sad with the solemn gloom of the majestic trees in whose deep shadow we stood.
Oh, yes," she answered. "I knew that we to be mother would consent.
How are married?
He then placed himself beside the grave opposite to us. The shadow lay very cool here, though little air was in motion, and we could hat spacious sanctuary.
to make a trip in search of a ship for England though he kad said, speaking as, a King Weing her two hands and looking into her face. vell endure to expose ourselves bare-headed in
“I will marry you.” said he in his grunnest manner, dwelling upon the pronoun I with as mach pomp of behaviour and dignity of note as you will not consent to be left behind?"
The King is the head of She made no answer, but looked at him with will marry you. so tender and exquisite a face of pleading that the Church and the Defender of the Faith. I I was as moved by it as if she had wept. The hold that by virtue of his Divine Rights he can gaze he fastened upon me was so stendfast, yet exercise his priestly powers. But in this last I am something more than King: I am Father: without unkindness, that it rapidly grew ean-
und it is King and Father who will bind you two barrassing; for this man's naturo was like a weather-rock in a valley; the wind blew from and make you one, in union as inviolable as though the links had been forged upon the many points in a very short time.
altar of the church."
it
"If Eulalie is willing, said I, "depend upon it, sir. priest or no priest she'll find me as true a man to her as though the usual ceremony had consecrated our nuptials."
Harkea, Mr. de la Touche," says lie at last, in his grand style which he would put on as a robe of state when he talked of courts and him as King, "if a boat soyuge is going to bring me to mine own, to mine and my child's own, my confronting such hideous perils of the Ren as you are fresh, Trom, is to bring inningu vo mand of an army of fifty thousand men st whose head I may march to that throne on which I should be seated," bere he swelled his chest and Jooked mighty proudly at me, "why, sir, I might be willing to entertain your project, and break to exorcise in it the laws of any country we may
Your father will make us ono," anys I to the ceremony proposed by Captain Scott. troubled with fear that she might prove avers When he has joined us can nothing ever separate us?" she asked.
"If I questioned that says he, bat he
Nothing but death." I answered. broke aff quickly; there is more I wish to
She withdraw one hand, leaving the other say as to the validity of your marriage to my
"You will be mine, thon, to keep for over? daughter in this island. I am a Scotchman, mine, and looked at me, but a little coyly.
saya she, says he, expanding his chest with a proud sir,
Ay, as you'll be mine: We are alone in this island and we can choose
In a solemn voive
full of sweetness and emotion Captain Scott dressed me. He said that he was giving mo the jewel of his life; o entreated me, he xhorted me, to be kind and true to her, to be ever her friend, guardian, and champion, her consoler in sorrow.. her sure guiding band in all things. He spoke to this effect for a little, and I kept my eyes fastened upon bin with narrowly I followed his words and gather the impression they produced upon me. strenuous attention that he might observe how
He then addressed his daughter. Ho told her that I was to be her husband, and that she was over to be loyal and dutiful to me. tlunt she was to cleave to me only, for that by her. faith and by the faith of her mother she would become one with me when she was married. No one who heard him would suppose that he was a She fell 4-laughing with delight. Howevada. When he had made an end of his address he asked me in a mort solemn master my heart," he adds with a voice that ghook with seloot. As a Scotchama I turu to Scotland, the instincts of her maidenhood might set that if I rould take his daughter Eulalie to be my and her marriage laws suffice, being as applicable selves, they could not repel the overflow of he
wife, to which I answered with fervour" I will sudden emotion, by leaving half of it in the
Has though the heather was springing at our feelings.
"I must go and see father: come, Rupert Then looking at his daughter he asked her if foet. Do you know how they marry one way in Scotland ?!
she cries, and she pulled me swiftly throng she consented to accept Ruport de la Touche as her husband, and she answered, Yes, father," We caught sight of Captain Scott throud with a smile and blush, and put out her hand to the open sides of the house, sitting in the take mine: He next told me to put the wedding living-room at work upon some fishing tack ring on his daughter's band. This I did. And now motioning us to kneel, he likewise knelt Eulalie let go my hand and fled to him. Se finng her arms round his usek, and laying brand road a prayer of his own composition
was touching with the blessings it wished us. head upon his breast; sobbed,
and the faith it had in us, and more appealing yet because of the loneliness of the heart that
grave of the adored whose home is mine." rolled up his eyes to God with an expression of sublime devotion, und truly looked a most regal. noble, tonching figure. But," he went on, our leaving the island will avail me nothing. nor her," he added, nodding at his daughter. Where is my home? To what port would you have ine steer and would you subject Lily to the horrors of an open bout at sea-p” No, sir not I not very willingly
I answered that I did not.
"The proceeding," he said, is termed irregular, but it is nevertheless se binding is though the marriage had been performed by minister of religion after due proclamation of banns in the established church of the parial, I This form of marriage is based upon the mutual
consent of the man and woman, and the con
Can
assare you," erial I. voltemently. But ships don't call and ships don't pass." he, quite wildly and without sarcasm, surely If you are uneasy, Mr. le la Touche," anys
tract is not affected by the absence of witnessed parties is proof of the marriage and renders it for the consent being a secret between the
valid though irregular.”
you must know that you are at liberty to go."
If you are satisfied," I exclaimed, with my "No father he's not at liberty. He has promised not to leave me, shriek d Eulalie, fees-red with the jox and triumph of my heart, springing from her sent with that lightning and if Bulalie is willing, then I am the hop grace which made her movements marselicus in piest man on earth."
the trees.
I stood in one of the windows much tonehil
the pine the pair made, which indeed was
so strange having regard to their shipwreck aft
their having lived upon this island for ten y that I do not suppose the like of it is to be foull in the domestic annals of any country
"Well, Lily, my child," said he, speakig people. softly and sweetly, it is to be as you wish all Rupert a gentlemen and a man of honour, wil as your mother desires. You have found in
hath consented, that, should I be called away join her I shall be leaving behind me the ver This was handsomely said and meant, and "howed
delivered it.
t
Rising he stopped round to us and putting Lis hands on our heads blessed na both, kiased his daughter ugniu and again, took me by both hands and viewed me in silent congratulation and happy acceptance; and thus ended the little
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