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| By Sir Walter Scott.
| CHAPTER I.
The storm had ceased its wintry roar, Hoarse dash the billows of the 8a;
i Bat who on Thule’s desert shore,
} Cries, Have I burnt my harp for thee? MACNIEL.
TuHat long, narrow, and irregular island, jusually called the Mainland of Zetland, because it is by far the largest of that Archi- pelago, terminates, as is well known to the mariners who navigate the stormy seas which surround the Thule of the ancients, in a cliff of immense height, entitled Samburgh- Head, | which presents its bare scalp and naked sides to the weight ofa tremendous surge, forming the extreme point of the isle to the southeast. This lofty promontory is constantly exposed to the current of a strong and furious tide, which, setting in betwixt the Orkney and Zetiand Islands, and running with force only iaferior to that ot the Pentland Firth, takes its name from the headland we have mention- ed, and is called the roost of Samburgh ; rovst being the phrase assigned in these isles. to currents of this description.
On the land side, the promontory is covered | with short grass, and slopes steeply down to 4 little isthmus, upon which the sea has rencroached in creeks, which, advancing from jeither side of the island, gradually work their | way forward,and seem as if in a short time they | would form a junction, and altogether insulate Samburgh-Head, when what is now a cape, will become a lonely mountain islet, severed from the Mainland, of which itis at present the terminating extremity. | Man, however, had in former days consider- ed this as a remote or unlikely event; for a | Norwegian chiet of other times, or, as other }accounts said, and as the name of Jarlshof ,seemed to imply, an ancient earl of the Orkneys, had selected this neck of land as the place for establishing a manscion-house. It has been long entirely deserted, and the vestiges van only be discerned with difficulty ; for the loose sand, borne on the tempestuous gales of those stormyjregions, has overblown, and almost buried the ruins of the buildings ; but in the end of the seventeenth century, a part of the Earl's mansion was gill entire and habitable. It was a rude building of rough stone, with nothing about it to gratify the eye, or to excite the imagination ; a large old- fashioned narrow house, with a very steep roof, covered with flags composed of gray sandstone, would perhaps convey the best idea of the place to a modern reader. The i'windows were few, very small in size, and distributed up and down the building with utter contempt of regularity. Against the main structure had rested, in former times, certain smaller compartments of the mansion- house, containing offices, or subordinate apartments, necessary for the Earl's retainers and menials. But these had become ruinous ; and the rafters had been taken down for fire- wood, or for other purposes; the walls had given way in many places; and, to complete the devastation, the sand had already drifted amongst the ruins, and filled up what had been once the chambers they contained, to the depth of two or three feet,
Amid this desolation, the inhabitants of Jareshof had contrived, by constant labor and attention, to keep in order afew roods cf land, which had been enclosed as a garden, and which, sheltered by the walls of the house itself, from the relentless sea blast, produced such vegetables as the climate could bring forth, or rather as the sea-gale would permit to grow ; for these islands experience even less of the rigor of cold than is encountered on the mainland of Scotland; but, unsheltered by a wall of some sort or other, itis scarce possible to raise even the most ‘ordinary culin- ary vegetables ; and asfor shrubs or trees, they are entirely out of the question, such is the force of the sweeping sea-blast.
At a short distance from the mansion, and near to the sea-beach, just where the creek forms a sort of imperfect harbor, in which lay three or four fishing boats, there were a few most wretched cottages for the inhabitants and tenants of the township of Jarlshof, who held the whole district of the landlord upon such terms as were in those days usually granted to persons of this description, and which, of course, were hard enough. The landlord himself resided upon an estate which he possessed in a more eligible situation, in a diilerent part of the island, and seldom visited his possessions at Srmburgh Head. He was an honest, plain Zetland gentleman, somewhat passionate, the necessary result of being sur- rounded by dependents; and somewhat over- convivial in his habits, the consequence, per- haps, of having too much time at his disposal; but frank-temPered and generous to his pec- ple, and kind and hospitable to strangers. He was descended also of an old and noble Norwegian family ; a circumstance which ren- dered him dearer to the lower orders, most of whom are of the same race ; while the lairds, or proprietors, are generally of Scottish ex- traction, who, at that early period, were still considered as strangers and intruders. Mag- nus Troil, who deduced his descent from the very Earl who was supposed to have founded Jarlshof, was peculiarly of this opinion.
The present inhabitants of Jarishof had ex- perienced, on several occasions, the kindness and good will of the proprietor of the terri- tory. When Mr. Mertoun—such was the name of the present inhabitant of the old man- sion—first arrived in Zetland, some years be- fore the story commences, he had been re- ceived at the house of Mr, Troil with that warm and cordial hospitality for which the islands are distinguished. No one asked him whence he came, where he was going, what was his purpose in visiting so remote a corner of the empire, or what was likely to be the term of his stay. He arrived a perfect stran- ger, yet was instantly overpowered by a suc- cession of invitations; and in each house which he visited he found a home as long as he chose to accept it, and lived as one
of the family; unnoticed and un- noticing, until he thought proper to remove to some other dwelling. This
apparent indifference to the rank, character and qualities of their guest, did not arise from apathy on the part of his kind hosts, for the Islanders had their full share of natural curio- sity; but their delicacy deemed it would be an infringement upon the laws of hospility, to ask questions which their guest might have found it difficult or unpleasing to an- swer; and instead of endeavoring, as is usual in other countries, to wring out of Mr. Mer- ton such communications as he might find it agreeable to withold, the considerate Zet-
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gathering up such scraps of intormation as could be collected in the course of conversa- tion.
But the rock inan Arabian desert is not more reluctant to afford water, than Mr. Basil Mertoun was niggard in imparting his con- dence, even incidentally; and certainly the politeness of the gentry of Thule was never put to a more severe test than when they felt that good breeding enjoined them to abstain from inquiring into the situation of so mysteri- ous a personage.
All that was actually’ known of him was easily summed up. Mr. Mertoun had come to Lerwick, then rising into some importance, but not yet acknowledged as the principal town of the Island, in a Dutch vessel, accompanied only by his son, a handsome boy of about fourteen years old. His own age might ex- ceed forty. The Dutch skipper introduced him to some of the very good friends with whom he used to barter gin and gingerbread for little Zetland bullocks, smoked geese, and stockings of Jamb’s wool; and although Mein- heer could only say that ‘‘ Meinheer Mertoun hab bay his bassage like one gentlemans, and hab given a Kreitzdollar beside the crew,” this introduction served to establish the Dutchman's passenger in a respectable circle of acquaintances, which gradually enlarged, a8 it appeared that the stranger was a man of considerable + cquirements.
This discovery was made almost per force; for Mertoun was as unwilling to speak upon general subjects as upon his own affairs. But he was sometimes led into discussions, which showed as it were in spite of himself, the scholar and the man of the world; and, at other times, as if in requital of the hospitality which he experienced, he seemed to compel himself, against his fixed nature, to enter int» the society of those around him, especialiy when it assumed the grave, melancholy, or satirical cast, which best suited the temper of his own mind. Upon such occasions, the Zetlanders were universally of opinion that he must have had an excellent education, neglec- tied only in one striking particular, namely, that Mertoun scarce knew the stem of a ship from the stern; and inthe management of a boat, acow could not be more ignorant. It seemed astonishing such gross ignorance of the most necessory art of life (in the Zetland Isles at least) should subsist along with his accomplishments in other respects; but so it was.
Unless called forth in the manner we have mentioned, the habits of Basil Mertoun were retired and gloomy. From loud mirth he in- stantly fled; and even the moderated cheerful- ness of of a friendly party, had the inver able effect of throwing him into deeper dejection than even his usual demeanor indicated.
Women are always particulary desirous of investigating mystery, and of alleviating melancholy, especially when these circum- stances «re united in a handsome man about the prime of life. It is possible, therefore, that amongst the fair-haired and blue-eyed daughters of Thule this mysterious and pen- sive stranger might have found some one to take upon herself the task of consolation, had he shown any willingners to accept such kind- ly offices; but, so farfrom doing, he seemed even to shun the presence of the sex, to which in our distresses, whether of mind or body, we generally apply for pity and comfort.
To these peculiarities Mr. Mertoun added another, which was particularily disagaeeable to his host and principal patron, Magnus Troil. This magnate of Zetland, descended by the father’s side, as we have already said, from an ancient Norwegian family by the marriage of its representative with a Danish lady, held the devout opinion that a cup of Geneva or Nantz was specific against all cares and afilictions whatever. These were reme- dies to which Mr. Mertoun never applied ; his drink was_water, and water alone, and no per- suasion cr entreaties could induce him to taste any stronger beverage than was afforded by the pure stream. Now this Magnus Troil could not tolerate; it was a defiance to the ancient northern laws of conviviality, which, for his own part, he had _ so rigidly observed, that although he was wont to assert that he had never in his life gone to bed drunk, (that is, in his own sense of the word,) it would have been impossible to prove that he had ever resigned himself to slumber in a state of actual and absolute sobriety. It may be therefore asked, What did this stranger bring into society to com- pensate the displeasure given by his austere and abstemious habits? He had, in the first place, that manner and self-importance which mark a person of some consequence; and although it was conjectured that he could not be rich, yet it was known by his expenditure that neither was he absolutely poor. He had, besides, some powers of conversation, when, as we have already hinted, he chose to exert them, and his misanthrophy or aversion to the business and intercourse of ordinary life, was often expressed in an antithetical manner, which often passed for wit, when better was not to be bad. Above all, Mr. Mertoun’s secret seemed impenetrable, and his presence had all the interest of a riddle, which men love to read over and over, because they can- not find the meaning of it.
Notwithstanding these recommendations, Mertoun differed in so many material points from his host, thatafter he had been for some time a guest at his principal residence, Mag- nus Troil was agreeably surprised, one even- ing after they had sat two jours in absolute silence, drinking brandy and water,—that is, Magnus drinking the alcohol, and Mertoun the element,—the guest »sked his host's per- mission to occupy, as his tenant, this deserted mansion of Jarlshof, at the extremity of the territory called Dunrossness, and situated just beneath Samburgh-Head. ‘‘I shall be hand- somely rid of him,” quoth Magnus to himself, ‘“‘and his kill-joy visage will never again stop the bottle in its round. His departure will ruin mein business, however, for his mere look was quite sufficient to sour a whole ocean of punch.”
Yet the kind-hearted Zetlander generously was disinterestedly remonstrated with Mr. Mertoun on the solitude and inconveniences to which he was about to subject himself. ‘“Lhere were scarcely,” he said, ‘‘even the most necessary articles of furniture in the old house—there was no society within many miles—for provisions, the principle article of food would be sour sillocks, and his only com- pany gulls and gannets.”
(To be continued.)
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