The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Eternal City, by Hall Caine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Eternal City Author: Hall Caine Release Date: November 7, 2006 [EBook #19732] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ETERNAL CITY *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "WHAT YOU SAID SHALL BE SACRED." "WHAT YOU SAID SHALL BE SACRED." The ETERNAL CITY By HALL CAINE Author of "The Christian," etc "He looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God." GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: New York COPYRIGHT, 1901, 1902 BY HALL CAINE Popular Edition Published October, 1902 Table of Contents PROLOGUE PART ONE—THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE PART TWO—THE REPUBLIC OF MAN PART THREE—ROMA PART FOUR—DAVID ROSSI PART FIVE—THE PRIME MINISTER PART SIX—THE ROMAN OF ROME PART SEVEN—THE POPE PART EIGHT—THE KING PART NINE—THE PEOPLE 40 71 121 168 237 298 375 414 PREFACE TO THIS EDITION Has a novelist a right to alter his novel after its publication, to condense it, to add to it, to modify or to heighten its situations, and otherwise so to change it that to all outward appearance it is practically a new book? I leave this point in literary ethics to the consideration of those whose business it is to discuss such questions, and content myself with telling the reader the history of the present story About ten years ago I went to Russia with some idea (afterwards abandoned) of writing a book that should deal with the racial struggle which culminated in the eviction of the Jews from the holy cities of that country, and the scenes of tyrannical administration which I witnessed there made a painful and lasting impression on my mind The sights of the day often followed me through the night, and after a more than usually terrible revelation of official cruelty, I had a dream of a Jewish woman who was induced to denounce her husband to the Russian police under a promise that they would spare his life, which they said he had forfeited as the leader of a revolutionary movement The husband came to know who his betrayer had been, and he cursed his wife as his worst enemy She pleaded on her knees that fear for his safety had been the only motive for her conduct, and he cursed her again His cause was lost, his hopes were dead, his people were in despair, because the one being whom heaven had given him for his support had delivered him up to his enemies out of the weakness of her womanly love I awoke in the morning with a vivid memory of this new version of the old story of Samson and Delilah, and on my return to England I wrote the draft of a play with the incident of husband and wife as the central situation How from this germ came the novel which was published last year under the title of "The Eternal City" would be a long story to tell, a story of many personal experiences, of reading, of travel, of meetings in various countries with statesmen, priests, diplomats, police authorities, labour leaders, nihilists and anarchists, and of the consequent growth of my own political and religious convictions; but it will not be difficult to see where and in what way time and thought had little by little overlaid the humanities of the early sketch with many extra interests That these interests were of the essence, clothing, and not crushing the human motive, I trust I may continue to believe, and certainly I have no reason to be dissatisfied with the reception of my book at the hands of that wide circle of general readers who care less for a contribution to a great social propaganda than for a simple tale of love But when the time came to return to my first draft of a play, the tale of love was the only thing to consider, and being now on the point of producing the drama in England, America, and elsewhere, and requested to prepare an edition of my story for the use of the audiences at the theatre, I have thought myself justified in eliminating the politics and religion from my book, leaving nothing but the human interests with which alone the drama is allowed to deal This has not been an easy thing to do, and now that it is done I am by no means sure that I may not have alienated the friends whom the abstract problems won for me without conciliating the readers who called for the story only But not to turn my back on the work of three laborious years, or to discredit that part of it which expressed, however imperfectly, my sympathy with the struggles of the poor, and my participation in the social problems with which the world is now astir, I have obtained the promise of my publisher that the original version of "The Eternal City" shall be kept in print as long as the public calls for it In this form of my book, the aim has been to rely solely on the humanities and to go back to the simple story of the woman who denounced her husband in order to save his life That was the theme of the draft which was the original basis of my novel, it is the central incident of the drama which is about to be produced in New York, and the present abbreviated version of the story is intended to follow the lines of the play in all essential particulars down to the end of the last chapter but one H C ISLE OF MAN, Sept 1902 THE ETERNAL CITY PROLOGUE I He was hardly fit to figure in the great review of life A boy of ten or twelve, in tattered clothes, with an accordion in a case swung over one shoulder like a sack, and under the other arm a wooden cage containing a grey squirrel It was a December night in London, and the Southern lad had nothing to shelter his little body from the Northern cold but his short velveteen jacket, red waistcoat, and knickerbockers He was going home after a long day in Chelsea, and, conscious of something fantastic in his appearance, and of doubtful legality in his calling, he was dipping into side streets in order to escape the laughter of the London boys and the attentions of policemen Coming to the Italian quarter in Soho, he stopped at the door of a shop to see the time It was eight o'clock There was an hour to wait before he would be allowed to go indoors The shop was a baker's, and the window was full of cakes and confectionery From an iron grid on the pavement there came the warm breath of the oven underground, the red glow of the fire, and the scythe-like swish of the long shovels The boy blocked the squirrel under his armpit, dived into his pocket, and brought out some copper coins and counted them There was ninepence Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare He knew that perfectly before he began to count, but his appetite had tempted him to try again if his arithmetic was not at fault The air grew warmer, and it began to snow At first it was a fine sprinkle that made a snow-mist, and adhered wherever it fell The traffic speedily became less, and things looked big in the thick air The boy was wandering aimlessly through the streets, waiting for nine o'clock When he thought the hour was near, he realised that he had lost his way He screwed up his eyes to see if he knew the houses and shops and signs, but everything seemed strange The snow snowed on, and now it fell in large, corkscrew flakes The boy brushed them from his face, but at the next moment they blinded him again The few persons still in the streets loomed up on him out of the darkness, and passed in a moment like gigantic shadows He tried to ask his way, but nobody would stand long enough to listen One man who was putting up his shutters shouted some answer that was lost in the drumlike rumble of all voices in the falling snow The boy came up to a big porch with four pillars, and stepped in to rest and reflect The long tunnels of smoking lights which had receded down the streets were not to be seen from there, and so he knew that he was in a square It would be Soho Square, but whether he was on the south or east of it he could not tell, and consequently he was at a loss to know which way to turn A great silence had fallen over everything, and only the sobbing nostrils of the cab-horses seemed to be audible in the hollow air He was very cold The snow had got into his shoes, and through the rents in his cross-gartered stockings His red waistcoat wanted buttons, and he could feel that his shirt was wet He tried to shake the snow off by stamping, but it clung to his velveteens His numbed fingers could scarcely hold the cage, which was also full of snow By the light coming from a fanlight over the door in the porch he looked at his squirrel The little thing was trembling pitifully in its icy bed, and he took it out and breathed on it to warm it, and then put it in his bosom The sound of a child's voice laughing and singing came to him from within the house, muffled by the walls and the door Across the white vapour cast outward from the fanlight he could see nothing but the crystal snowflakes falling wearily He grew dizzy, and sat down by one of the pillars After a while a shiver passed along his spine, and then he became warm and felt sleepy A church clock struck nine, and he started up with a guilty feeling, but his limbs were stiff and he sank back again, blew two or three breaths on to the squirrel inside his waistcoat, and fell into a doze As he dropped off into unconsciousness he seemed to see the big, cheerless house, almost destitute of furniture, where he lived with thirty or forty other boys They trooped in with their organs and accordions, counted out their coppers to a man with a clipped moustache, who was blowing whiffs of smoke from a long, black cigar, with a straw through it, and then sat down on forms to eat their plates of macaroni and cheese The man was not in good temper to-night, and he was shouting at some who were coming in late and at others who were sharing their supper with the squirrels that nestled in their bosoms, or the monkeys, in red jacket and fez, that perched upon their shoulders The boy was perfectly unconscious by this time, and the child within the house was singing away as if her little breast was a cage of song-birds As the church clock struck nine a class of Italian lads in an upper room in Old Compton Street was breaking up for the night, and the teacher, looking out of the window, said: "While we have been telling the story of the great road to our country a snowstorm has come, and we shall have enough to do to find our road home." The lads laughed by way of answer, and cried: "Good-night, doctor." "Good-night, boys, and God bless you," said the teacher He was an elderly man, with a noble forehead and a long beard His face, a sad one, was lighted up by a feeble smile; his voice was soft, and his manner gentle When the boys were gone he swung over his shoulders a black cloak with a red lining, and followed them into the street He had not gone far into the snowy haze before he began to realise that his playful warning had not been amiss "Well, well," he thought, "only a few steps, and yet so difficult to find." He found the right turnings at last, and coming to the porch of his house in Soho Square, he almost trod on a little black and white object lying huddled at the base of one of the pillars "A boy," he thought, "sleeping out on a night like this! Come, come," he said severely, "this is wrong," and he shook the little fellow to waken him The boy did not answer, but he began to mutter in a sleepy monotone, "Don't hit me, sir It was snow I'll not come home late again Ninepence, sir, and Jinny is so cold." The man paused a moment, then turned to the door rang the bell sharply II Half-an-hour later the little musician was lying on a couch in the doctor's surgery, a cheerful room with a fire and a soft lamp under a shade He was still unconscious, but his damp clothes had been taken off and he was wrapped in blankets The doctor sat at the boy's head and moistened his lips with brandy, while a good woman, with the face of a saint, knelt at the end of the couch and rubbed his little feet and legs After a little while there was a perceptible quivering of the eyelids and twitching of the mouth "He is coming to, mother," said the doctor "At last," said his wife The boy moaned and opened his eyes, the big helpless eyes of childhood, black as a sloe, and with long black lashes He looked at the fire, the lamp, the carpet, the blankets, the figures at either end of the couch, and with a smothered cry he raised himself as though thinking to escape "Carino!" said the doctor, smoothing the boy's curly hair "Lie still a little longer." The voice was like a caress, and the boy sank back But presently he raised himself again, and gazed around the room as if looking for something The good mother understood him perfectly, and from a chair on which his clothes were lying she picked up his little grey squirrel It was frozen stiff with the cold and now quite dead, but he grasped it tightly and kissed it passionately, while big teardrops rolled on to his cheeks "Carino!" said the doctor again, taking the dead squirrel away, and after a while the boy lay quiet and was comforted "Italiano—si?" "Si, Signore." "From which province?" "Campagna Romana, Signore." "Where does he say he comes from, doctor?" "From the country district outside Rome And now you are living at Maccari's in Greek Street—isn't that so?" "Yes, sir." "How long have you been in England—one year, two years?" "Two years and a half, sir." "And what is your name, my son?" "David Leone." Illustrated with scenes from the play A glowing story, rapid in action, bright in dialogue with a fine courageous hero and a beautiful English heroine THE GIRL IN WAITING By Archibald Eyre Illustrated with scenes from the play A droll little comedy of misunderstandings, told with a light touch, a venturesome spirit and an eye for human oddities THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL By Baroness Orczy Illustrated with scenes from the play A realistic story of the days of the French Revolution, abounding in dramatic incident, with a young English soldier of fortune, daring, mysterious as the hero GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK A FEW OF GROSSET & DUNLAP'S Great Books at Little Prices BRUVVER JIM'S BABY By Philip Verrill Mighels An uproariously funny story of a tiny mining settlement in the West, which is shaken to the very roots by the sudden possession of a baby, found on the plains by one of its residents The town is as disreputable a spot as the gold fever was ever responsible for, and the coming of that baby causes the upheaval of every rooted tradition of the place Its christening, the problems of its toys and its illness supersede in the minds of the miners all thought of earthy treasure THE FURNACE OF GOLD By Philip Verrill Mighels, author of "Bruvver Jim's Baby." Illustrations by J N Marchand An accurate and informing portrayal of scenes, types, and conditions of the mining districts in modern Nevada The book is an out-door story, clean, exciting, exemplifying nobility and courage of character, and bravery, and heroism in the sort of men and women we all admire and wish to know THE MESSAGE By Louis Tracy Illustrations by Joseph C Chase A breezy tale of how a bit of old parchment, concealed in a figurehead from a sunken vessel, comes into the possession of a pretty girl and an army man during regatta week in the Isle of Wight This is the message and it enfolds a mystery, the development of which the reader will follow with breathless interest THE SCARLET EMPIRE By David M Parry Illustrations by Hermann C Wall A young socialist, weary of life, plunges into the sea and awakes in the lost island of Atlantis, known as the Scarlet Empire, where a social democracy is in full operation, granting every man a living but limiting food, conversation, education and marriage The hero passes through an enthralling love affair and other adventures but finally returns to his own New York world THE THIRD DEGREE By Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow Illustrations by Clarence Rowe A novel which exposes the abuses in this country of the police system The son of an aristocratic New York family marries a woman socially beneath him, but of strong, womanly qualities that, later on, save the man from the tragic consequences of a dissipated life The wife believes in his innocence and her wit and good sense help her to win against the tremendous odds imposed by law THE THIRTEENTH DISTRICT By Brand Whitlock A realistic western story of love and politics and a searching study of their influence on character The author shows with extraordinary vitality of treatment the tricks, the heat, the passion, the tumult of the political arena, the triumph and strength of love GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK A FEW OF GROSSET & DUNLAP'S Great Books at Little Prices THE MUSIC MASTER By Charles Klein Illustrated by John Rae This marvelously vivid narrative turns upon the search of a German musician in New York for his little daughter Mr Klein has well portrayed his pathetic struggle with poverty, his varied experiences in endeavoring to meet the demands of a public not trained to an appreciation of the classic, and his final great hour when, in the rapidly shifting events of a big city, his little daughter, now a beautiful young woman, is brought to his very door A superb bit of fiction, palpitating with the life of the great metropolis The play in which David Warfield scored his highest success DR LAVENDAR'S PEOPLE By Margaret Deland Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock Mrs Deland won so many friends through Old Chester Tales that this volume needs no introduction beyond its title The lovable doctor is more ripened in this later book, and the simple comedies and tragedies of the old village are told with dramatic charm OLD CHESTER TALES By Margaret Deland Illustrated by Howard Pyle Stories portraying with delightful humor and pathos a quaint people in a sleepy old town Dr Lavendar, a very human and lovable "preacher," is the connecting link between these dramatic stories from life HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE By E P Roe With frontispiece The hero is a farmer—a man with honest, sincere views of life Bereft of his wife, his home is cared for by a succession of domestics of varying degrees of inefficiency until, from a most unpromising source, comes a young woman who not only becomes his wife but commands his respect and eventually wins his love A bright and delicate romance, revealing on both sides a love that surmounts all difficulties and survives the censure of friends as well as the bitterness of enemies THE YOKE By Elizabeth Miller Against the historical background of the days when the children of Israel were delivered from the bondage of Egypt, the author has sketched a romance of compelling charm A biblical novel as great as any since "Ben Hur." SAUL OF TARSUS By Elizabeth Miller Illustrated by André Castaigne The scenes of this story are laid in Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome and Damascus The Apostle Paul, the Martyr Stephen, Herod Agrippa and the Emperors Tiberius and Caligula are among the mighty figures that move through the pages Wonderful descriptions, and a love story of the purest and noblest type mark this most remarkable religious romance GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK A FEW OF GROSSET & DUNLAP'S Great Books at Little Prices HAPPY HAWKINS By Robert Alexander Wason Illustrated by Howard Giles A ranch and cowboy novel Happy Hawkins tells his own story with such a fine capacity for knowing how to it and with so much humor that the reader's interest is held in surprise, then admiration and at last in positive affection COMRADES By Thomas Dixon, Jr Illustrated by C D Williams The locale of this story is in California, where a few socialists establish a little community The author leads the little band along the path of disillusionment, and gives some brilliant flashes of light on one side of an important question TONO-BUNGAY By Herbert George Wells The hero of this novel is a young man who, through hard work, earns a scholarship and goes to London Written with a frankness verging on Rousseau's, Mr Wells still uses rare discrimination and the border line of propriety is never crossed An entertaining book with both a story and a moral, and without a dull page—Mr Wells's most notable achievement A HUSBAND BY PROXY By Jack Steele A young criminologist, but recently arrived in New York city, is drawn into a mystery, partly through financial need and partly through his interest in a beautiful woman, who seems at times the simplest child and again a perfect mistress of intrigue A baffling detective story LIKE ANOTHER HELEN By George Horton Illustrated by C M Relyea Mr Horton's powerful romance stands in a new field and brings an almost unknown world in reality before the reader—the world of conflict between Greek and Turk on the Island of Crete The "Helen" of the story is a Greek, beautiful, desolate, defiant—pure as snow There is a certain new force about the story, a kind of master-craftsmanship and mental dominance that holds the reader THE MASTER OF APPLEBY By Francis Lynde Illustrated by T de Thulstrup A novel tale concerning itself in part with the great struggle in the two Carolinas, but chiefly with the adventures therein of two gentlemen who loved one and the same lady A strong, masculine and persuasive story A MODERN MADONNA By Caroline Abbot Stanley A story of American life, founded on facts as they existed some years ago in the District of Columbia The theme is the maternal love and splendid courage of a woman GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK THE NOVELS OF GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON GRAUSTARK A story of love behind a throne, telling how a young American met a lovely girl and followed her to a new and strange country A thrilling, dashing narrative BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK Beverly is a bewitching American girl who has gone to that stirring little principality—Graustark—to visit her friend the princess, and there has a romantic affair of her own BREWSTER'S MILLIONS A young man is required to spend one million dollars in one year in order to inherit seven How he does it forms the basis of a lively story CASTLE CRANEYCROW The story revolves round the abduction of a young American woman, her imprisonment in an old castle and the adventures created through her rescue COWARDICE COURT An amusing social feud in the Adirondacks in which an English girl is tempted into being a traitor by a romantic young American, forms the plot THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON CROW The story centers about the adopted daughter of the town marshal in a western village Her parentage is shrouded in mystery, and the story concerns the secret that deviously works to the surface THE MAN FROM BRODNEY'S The hero meets a princess in a far-away island among fanatically hostile Musselmen Romantic love making amid amusing situations and exciting adventures NEDRA A young couple elope from Chicago to go to London traveling as brother and sister They are shipwrecked and a strange mix-up occurs on account of it THE SHERRODS The scene is the Middle West and centers around a man who leads a double life A most enthralling novel TRUXTON KING A handsome good natured young fellow ranges on the earth looking for romantic adventures and is finally enmeshed in most complicated intrigues in Graustark GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK LOUIS TRACY'S CAPTIVATING AND EXHILARATING ROMANCES THE STOWAWAY GIRL Illustrated by Nesbitt Benson The story of a shipwreck, a lovely girl who shipped stowaway fashion, a rascally captain, a fascinating young officer and thrilling adventure enroute to South America THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS A story of love and the salt sea—of a helpless ship whirled into the hands of cannibal Fuegians—of desperate fighting and a tender romance A story of extraordinary freshness THE MESSAGE Illustrated by Joseph Cummings Chase A bit of parchment many, many years old, telling of a priceless ruby secreted in ruins far in the interior of Africa is the "message" found in the figurehead of an old vessel A mystery develops which the reader will follow with breathless interest THE PILLAR OF LIGHT The pillar thus designated was a lighthouse, and the author tells with exciting detail the terrible dilemma of its cutoff inhabitants and introduces the charming comedy of a man eloping with his own wife THE RED YEAR: A Story of the Indian Mutiny The never-to-be-forgotten events of 1857 form the background of this story The hero who begins as lieutenant and ends as Major Malcolm, has as stirring a military career as the most jaded novel reader could wish A powerful book THE WHEEL O'FORTUNE With illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg The story deals with the finding of a papyrus containing the particulars of the hiding of some of the treasures of the Queen of Sheba The glamour of mystery added to the romance of the lovers, gives the novel an interest that makes it impossible to leave until the end is reached THE WINGS OF THE MORNING A sort of Robinson Crusoe redivivus, with modern settings and a very pretty love story added The hero and heroine are the only survivors of a wreck, and have adventures on their desert island such as never could have happened except in a story GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK Transcriber's Notes Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards The Table of Contents was added by the transcriber All illustrations in the text bear the credit line: "By courtesy of Liebler & Co; from photographs by Byron." Typographical errors corrected in original: p 139 "Fod" replaced with "God": "For God's sake let us bury it!" p 146 "use" repaced with "us": "what is best for both of us." p 377 "donwpour" replaced with "downpour": "downpour of rain" p 409 "sittting-room" replaced with "sitting-room" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Eternal City, by Hall Caine *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ETERNAL CITY *** ***** This file should be named 19732-h.htm or 19732-h.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/7/3/19732/ Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one the old editions will be renamed Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying 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