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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses From
+An Old Manse"), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Title: The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Posting Date: December 8, 2010 [EBook #9229]
+Release Date: November, 2005
+First Posted: September 6, 2003
+Last Updated: February 6, 2007
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                     THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICE
+
+
+
+Grave figure, with a pair of mysterious spectacles on his nose and a
+pen behind his ear, was seated at a desk in the corner of a
+metropolitan office.  The apartment was fitted up with a counter,
+and furnished with an oaken cabinet and a Chair or two, in simple
+and business-like style.  Around the walls were stuck advertisements
+of articles lost, or articles wanted, or articles to be disposed of;
+in one or another of which classes were comprehended nearly all the
+Conveniences, or otherwise, that the imagination of man has
+contrived.  The interior of the room was thrown into shadow, partly
+by the tall edifices that rose on the opposite side of the street,
+and partly by the immense show-bills of blue and crimson paper that
+were expanded over each of the three windows. Undisturbed by the
+tramp of feet, the rattle of wheels, the hump of voices, the shout
+of the city crier, the scream of the newsboys, and other tokens of
+the multitudinous life that surged along in front of the office, the
+figure at the desk pored diligently over a folio volume, of ledger-like
+size and aspect, He looked like the spirit of a record--the
+soul of his own great volume made visible in mortal shape.
+
+But scarcely an instant elapsed without the appearance at the door
+of some individual from the busy population whose vicinity was
+manifested by so much buzz, and clatter, and outcry.  Now, it was a
+thriving mechanic in quest of a tenement that should come within his
+moderate means of rent; now, a ruddy Irish girl from the banks of
+Killarney, wandering from kitchen to kitchen of our land, while her
+heart still hung in the peat-smoke of her native cottage; now, a
+single gentleman looking out for economical board; and now--for this
+establishment offered an epitome of worldly pursuits--it was a faded
+beauty inquiring for her lost bloom; or Peter Schlemihl, for his
+lost shadow; or an author of ten years' standing, for his vanished
+reputation; or a moody man, for yesterday's sunshine.
+
+At the next lifting of the latch there entered a person with his hat
+awry upon his head, his clothes perversely ill-suited to his form,
+his eyes staring in directions opposite to their intelligence, and a
+certain odd unsuitableness pervading his whole figure.  Wherever he
+might chance to be, whether in palace or cottage, church or market,
+on land or sea, or even at his own fireside, he must have worn the
+characteristic expression of a man out of his right place.
+
+"This," inquired he, putting his question in the form of an
+assertion,--"this is the Central Intelligence Office?"
+
+"Even so," answered the figure at the desk, turning another leaf of
+his volume; he then looked the applicant in the face and said
+briefly, "Your business?"
+
+"I want," said the latter, with tremulous earnestness, "a place!"
+
+"A place! and of what nature?" asked the Intelligencer.  "There are
+many vacant, or soon to be so, some of which will probably suit,
+since they range from that of a footman up to a seat at the
+council-board, or in the cabinet, or a throne, or a presidential
+chair."
+
+The stranger stood pondering before the desk with an unquiet,
+dissatisfied air,--a dull, vague pain of heart, expressed by a
+slight contortion of the brow,--an earnestness of glance, that asked
+and expected, yet continually wavered, as if distrusting. In short,
+he evidently wanted, not in a physical or intellectual sense, but
+with an urgent moral necessity that is the hardest of all things to
+satisfy, since it knows not its own object.
+
+"Ah, you mistake me!"  said he at length, with a gesture of nervous
+impatience. "Either of the places you mention, indeed, might answer
+my purpose; or, more probably, none of them.  I want my place! my
+own place! my true place in the world! my proper sphere! my thing to
+do, which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus
+awry, and which I have vainly sought all my lifetime!  Whether it be
+a footman's duty or a king's is of little consequence, so it be
+naturally mine.  Can you help me here?"
+
+"I will enter your application," answered the Intelligencer, at the
+same time writing a few lines in his volume.  "But to undertake such
+a business, I tell you frankly, is quite apart from the ground
+covered by my official duties.  Ask for something specific, and it
+may doubtless be negotiated for you, on your compliance with the
+conditions.  But were I to go further, I should have the whole
+population of the city upon my shoulders; since far the greater
+proportion of them are, more or less, in your predicament."
+
+The applicant sank into a fit of despondency, and passed out of the
+door without again lifting his eyes; and, if he died of the
+disappointment, he was probably buried in the wrong tomb, inasmuch
+as the fatality of such people never deserts them, and, whether
+alive or dead, they are invariably out of place.
+
+Almost immediately another foot was heard on the threshold.  A youth
+entered hastily, and threw a glance around the office to ascertain
+whether the man of intelligence was alone.  He then approached close
+to the desk, blushed like a maiden, and seemed at a loss how to
+broach his business.
+
+"You come upon an affair of the heart," said the official personage,
+looking into him through his mysterious spectacles. "State it in as
+few words as may be."
+
+"You are right," replied the youth.  "I have a heart to dispose of."
+
+"You seek an exchange?" said the Intelligencer.  "Foolish youth, why
+not be contented with your own?"
+
+"Because," exclaimed the young man, losing his embarrassment in a
+passionate glow,--"because my heart burns me with an intolerable
+fire; it tortures me all day long with yearnings for I know not
+what, and feverish throbbings, and the pangs of a vague sorrow; and
+it awakens me in the night-time with a quake, when there is nothing
+to be feared.  I cannot endure it any longer.  It were wiser to
+throw away such a heart, even if it brings me nothing in return."
+
+"O, very well," said the man of office, making an entry in his
+volume.  "Your affair will be easily transacted.  This species of
+brokerage makes no inconsiderable part of my business; and there is
+always a large assortment of the article to select from. Here, if I
+mistake not, comes a pretty fair sample."
+
+Even as he spoke the door was gently and slowly thrust ajar,
+affording a glimpse of the slender figure of a young girl, who, as
+she timidly entered, seemed to bring the light and cheerfulness of
+the outer atmosphere into the somewhat gloomy apartment.  We know
+not her errand there, nor can we reveal whether the young man gave
+up his heart into her custody.  If so, the arrangement was neither
+better nor worse than in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, where
+the parallel sensibilities of a similar age, importunate affections,
+and the easy satisfaction of characters not deeply conscious of
+themselves, supply the place of any profounder sympathy.
+
+Not always, however, was the agency of the passions and affections
+an office of so little trouble.  It happened, rarely, indeed, in
+proportion to the cases that came under an ordinary rule, but still
+it did happen, that a heart was occasionally brought hither of such
+exquisite material, so delicately attempered, and so curiously
+wrought, that no other heart could be found to match it.  It might
+almost be considered a misfortune, in a worldly point of view, to be
+the possessor of such a diamond of the purest water; since in any
+reasonable probability it could only be exchanged for an ordinary
+pebble, or a bit of cunningly manufactured glass, or, at least, for
+a jewel of native richness, but ill-set, or with some fatal flaw, or
+an earthy vein running through its central lustre.  To choose
+another figure, it is sad that hearts which have their wellspring in
+the infinite, and contain inexhaustible sympathies, should ever be
+doomed to pour themselves into shallow vessels, and thus lavish
+their rich affections on the ground.  Strange that the finer and
+deeper nature, whether in man or woman, while possessed of every
+other delicate instinct, should so often lack that most invaluable
+one of preserving itself front contamination with what is of a baser
+kind!  Sometimes, it is true, the spiritual fountain is kept pure by
+a wisdom within itself, and sparkles into the light of heaven
+without a stain from the earthy strata through which it had gushed
+upward.  And sometimes, even here on earth, the pure mingles with
+the pure, and the inexhaustible is recompensed with the infinite.
+But these miracles, though he should claim the credit of them, are
+far beyond the scope of such a superficial agent in human affairs as
+the figure in the mysterious spectacles.
+
+Again the door was opened, admitting the bustle of the city with a
+fresher reverberation into the Intelligence Office.  Now entered a
+man of woe-begone and downcast look; it was such an aspect as if he
+had lost the very soul out of his body, and had traversed all the
+world over, searching in the dust of the highways, and along the
+shady footpaths, and beneath the leaves of the forest, and among the
+sands of the sea-shore, in hopes to recover it again.  He had bent
+an anxious glance along the pavement of the street as he came
+hitherward; he looked also in the angle of the doorstep, and upon
+the floor of the room; and, finally, coming up to the Man of
+Intelligence, he gazed through the inscrutable spectacles which the
+latter wore, as if the lost treasure might be hidden within his
+eyes.
+
+"I have lost--" he began; and then he paused.
+
+"Yes," said the Intelligencer, "I see that you have lost,--but
+what?"
+
+"I have lost a precious jewel!" replied the unfortunate person, "the
+like of which is not to be found among any prince's treasures.
+While I possessed it, the contemplation of it was my sole and
+sufficient happiness.  No price should have purchased it of me; but
+it has fallen from my bosom where I wore it in my careless
+wanderings about the city."
+
+After causing the stranger to describe the marks of his lost jewel,
+the Intelligencer opened a drawer of the oaken cabinet which has
+been mentioned as forming a part of the furniture of the room.  Here
+were deposited whatever articles had been picked up in the streets,
+until the right owners should claim them.  It was a strange and
+heterogeneous collection.  Not the least remarkable part of it was a
+great number of wedding-rings, each one of which had been riveted
+upon the finger with holy vows, and all the mystic potency that the
+most solemn rites could attain, but had, nevertheless, proved too
+slippery for the wearer's vigilance.  The gold of some was worn
+thin, betokening the attrition of years of wedlock; others,
+glittering from the jeweller's shop, must have been lost within the
+honeymoon.  There were ivory tablets, the leaves scribbled over with
+sentiments that had been the deepest truths of the writer's earlier
+years, but which were now quite obliterated from his memory.  So
+scrupulously were articles preserved in this depository, that not
+even withered flowers were rejected; white roses, and blush-roses,
+and moss-roses, fit emblems of virgin purity and shamefacedness,
+which bad been lost or flung away, and trampled into the pollution
+of the streets; locks of hair,--the golden and the glossy dark,--the
+long tresses of woman and the crisp curls of man, signified that
+lovers were now and then so heedless of the faith intrusted to them
+as to drop its symbol from the treasure-place of the bosom.  Many of
+these things were imbued with perfumes, and perhaps a sweet scent
+had departed from the lives of their former possessors ever since
+they had so wilfully or negligently lost them.  Here were gold
+pencil-cases, little ruby hearts with golden arrows through them,
+bosom-pins, pieces of coin, and small articles of every description,
+comprising nearly all that have been lost since a long time ago.
+Most of them, doubtless, had a history and a meaning, if there were
+time to search it out and room to tell it.  Whoever has missed
+anything valuable, whether out of his heart, mind, or pocket, would
+do well to make inquiry at the Central Intelligence Office.
+
+And in the corner of one of the drawers of the oaken cabinet, after
+considerable research, was found a great pearl, looking like the
+soul of celestial purity, congealed and polished.
+
+"There is my jewel! my very pearl!" cried the stranger, almost
+beside himself with rapture.  "It is mine!  Give it me this moment!
+or I shall perish!"
+
+"I perceive," said the Man of Intelligence, examining it more
+closely, "that this is the Pearl of Great Price!"
+
+"The very same," answered the stranger.  "Judge, then, of my misery
+at losing it out of my bosom!  Restore it to me!  I must not live
+without it an instant to longer."
+
+"Pardon me," rejoined the Intelligencer, calmly, "you ask what is
+beyond my duty.  This pearl, as you well know, is held upon a
+peculiar tenure; and having once let it escape from your keeping,
+you have no greater claim to it--nay, not so great--as any other
+person.  I cannot give it back."
+
+Nor could the entreaties of the miserable man--who saw before his
+eyes the jewel of his life without the power to reclaim it--soften
+the heart of this stern being, impassive to human sympathy, though
+exercising such an apparent influence over human fortunes.  Finally
+the loser of the inestimable pearl clutched his hands among his
+hair, and ran madly forth into the world, which was affrighted at
+his desperate looks.  There passed him on the doorstep a fashionable
+young gentleman, whose business was to inquire for a damask rosebud,
+the gift of his lady-love, which he had lost out of his buttonhole
+within a hour after receiving it. So various were the errands of
+those who visited this Central Office, where all human wishes seemed
+to be made known, and, so far as destiny would allow, negotiated to
+their fulfilment.
+
+The next that entered was a man beyond the middle age, bearing the
+look of one who knew the world and his own course in it.  He had
+just alighted from a handsome private carriage, which had orders to
+wait in the street while its owner transacted his business.  This
+person came up to the desk with a quick, determined step, and looked
+the Intelligencer in the face with a resolute eye; though, at the
+same time, some secret trouble gleamed from it in red and dusky
+light.
+
+"I have an estate to dispose of," said he, with a brevity that
+seemed characteristic.
+
+"Describe it," said the Intelligencer.
+
+The applicant proceeded to give the boundaries of his property, its
+nature, comprising tillage, pasture, woodland, and pleasure-grounds,
+in ample circuit; together with a mansion-house, in the construction
+of which it had been his object to realize a castle in the air,
+hardening its shadowy walls into granite, and rendering its
+visionary splendor perceptible to the awakened eye. Judging from his
+description, it was beautiful enough to vanish like a dream, yet
+substantial enough to endure for centuries.  He spoke, too, of the
+gorgeous furniture, the refinements of upholstery, and all the
+luxurious artifices that combined to render this a residence where
+life might flow onward in a stream of golden days, undisturbed by
+the ruggedness which fate loves to fling into it.
+
+"I am a man of strong will," said he, in conclusion; "and at my
+first setting out in life, as a poor, unfriended youth, I resolved
+to make myself the possessor of such a mansion and estate as this,
+together with the abundant revenue necessary to uphold it.  I have
+succeeded to the extent of my utmost wish. And this is the estate
+which I have now concluded to dispose of."
+
+"And your terms?" asked the Intelligencer, after taking down the
+particulars with which the stranger had supplied him.
+
+"Easy, abundantly easy!" answered the successful man, smiling, but
+with a stern and almost frightful contraction of the brow, as if to
+quell an inward pang.  "I have been engaged in various sorts of
+business,--a distiller, a trader to Africa, an East India merchant,
+a speculator in the stocks,--and, in the course of these affairs,
+have contracted an encumbrance of a certain nature.  The purchaser
+of the estate shall merely be required to assume this burden to
+himself."
+
+"I understand you," said the Man of Intelligence, putting his pen
+behind his ear.  "I fear that no bargain can be negotiated on these
+conditions.  Very probably the next possessor may acquire the estate
+with a similar encumbrance, but it will be of his own contracting,
+and will not lighten your burden in the least."
+
+"And am I to live on," fiercely exclaimed the stranger, "with the
+dirt of these accursed acres and the granite of this infernal
+mansion crushing down my soul?  How, if I should turn the edifice
+into an almshouse or a hospital, or tear it down and build a
+church?"
+
+"You can at least make the experiment," said the Intelligencer; "but
+the whole matter is one which you must settle for yourself."
+
+The man of deplorable success withdrew, and got into his coach,
+which rattled off lightly over the wooden pavements, though laden
+with the weight of much land, a stately house, and ponderous heaps
+of gold, all compressed into an evil conscience.
+
+There now appeared many applicants for places; among the most
+noteworthy of whom was a small, smoke-dried figure, who gave himself
+out to be one of the bad spirits that had waited upon Dr. Faustus in
+his laboratory.  He pretended to show a certificate of character,
+which, he averred, had been given him by that famous necromancer,
+and countersigned by several masters whom he had subsequently
+served.
+
+"I am afraid, my good friend," observed the Intelligencer, "that
+your chance of getting a service is but poor.  Nowadays, men act the
+evil spirit for themselves and their neighbors, and play the part
+more effectually than ninety-nine out of a hundred of your
+fraternity."
+
+But, just as the poor fiend was assuming a vaporous consistency,
+being about to vanish through the floor in sad disappointment and
+chagrin, the editor of a political newspaper chanced to enter the
+office in quest of a scribbler of party paragraphs.  The former
+servant of Dr. Faustus, with some misgivings as to his sufficiency
+of venom, was allowed to try his hand in this capacity.  Next
+appeared, likewise seeking a service, the mysterious man in Red, who
+had aided Bonaparte in his ascent to imperial power.  He was
+examined as to his qualifications by an aspiring politician, but
+finally rejected, as lacking familiarity with the cunning tactics of
+the present day.
+
+People continued to succeed each other with as much briskness as if
+everybody turned aside, out of the roar and tumult of the city, to
+record here some want, or superfluity, or desire.  Some had goods or
+possessions, of which they wished to negotiate the sale.  A China
+merchant had lost his health by a long residence in that wasting
+climate.  He very liberally offered his disease, and his wealth
+along with it, to any physician who would rid him of both together.
+A soldier offered his wreath of laurels for as good a leg as that
+which it had cost him on the battle-field. One poor weary wretch
+desired nothing but to be accommodated with any creditable method of
+laying down his life; for misfortune and pecuniary troubles had so
+subdued his spirits that he could no longer conceive the possibility
+of happiness, nor had the heart to try for it.  Nevertheless,
+happening to, overhear some conversation in the Intelligence Office
+respecting wealth to be rapidly accumulated by a certain mode of
+speculation, he resolved to live out this one other experiment of
+better fortune.  Many persons desired to exchange their youthful
+vices for others better suited to the gravity of advancing age; a
+few, we are glad to say, made earnest, efforts to exchange vice for
+virtue, and, hard as the bargain was, succeeded in effecting it.
+But it was remarkable that what all were the least willing to give
+up, even on the most advantageous terms, were the habits, the
+oddities, the characteristic traits, the little ridiculous
+indulgences, somewhere between faults and follies, of which nobody
+but themselves could understand the fascination.
+
+The great folio, in which the Man of Intelligence recorded all these
+freaks of idle hearts, and aspirations of deep hearts, and desperate
+longings of miserable hearts, and evil prayers of perverted hearts,
+would be curious reading were it possible to obtain it for
+publication.  Human character in its individual developments-human
+nature in the mass--may best be studied in its wishes; and this was
+the record of them all.  There was an endless diversity of mode and
+circumstance, yet withal such a similarity in the real groundwork,
+that any one page of the volume-whether written in the days before
+the Flood, or the yesterday that is just gone by, or to be written
+on the morrow that is close at hand, or a thousand ages hence--might
+serve as a specimen of the whole.  Not but that there were wild
+sallies of fantasy that could scarcely occur to more than one man's
+brain, whether reasonable or lunatic.  The strangest wishes--yet
+most incident to men who had gone deep into scientific pursuits, and
+attained a high intellectual stage, though not the loftiest--were,
+to contend with Nature, and wrest from her some secret, or some
+power, which she had seen fit to withhold from mortal grasp.  She
+loves to delude her aspiring students, and mock them with mysteries
+that seem but just beyond their utmost reach.  To concoct new
+minerals, to produce new forms of vegetable life, to create an
+insect, if nothing higher in the living scale, is a sort of wish
+that has often revelled in the breast of a man of science.  An
+astronomer, who lived far more among the distant worlds of space
+than in this lower sphere, recorded a wish to behold the opposite
+side of the moon, which, unless the system of the firmament be
+reversed, she can never turn towards the earth.  On the same page of
+the volume was written the wish of a little child to have the stars
+for playthings.
+
+The most ordinary wish, that was written down with wearisome
+recurrence, was, of course, for wealth, wealth, wealth, in sums from
+a few shillings up to unreckonable thousands.  But in reality this
+often-repeated expression covered as many different desires.  Wealth
+is the golden essence of the outward world, embodying almost
+everything that exists beyond the limits of the soul; and therefore
+it is the natural yearning for the life in the midst of which we
+find ourselves, and of which gold is the condition of enjoyment,
+that men abridge into this general wish. Here and there, it is true,
+the volume testified to some heart so perverted as to desire gold
+for its own sake.  Many wished for power; a strange desire indeed,
+since it is but another form of slavery.  Old people wished for the
+delights of youth; a fop for a fashionable coat; an idle reader, for
+a new novel; a versifier, for a rhyme to some stubborn word; a
+painter, for Titian's secret of coloring; a prince, for a cottage; a
+republican, for a kingdom and a palace; a libertine, for his
+neighbor's wife; a man of palate, for green peas; and a poor man,
+for a crust of bread. The ambitious desires of public men, elsewhere
+so craftily concealed, were here expressed openly and boldly, side
+by side with the unselfish wishes of the philanthropist for the
+welfare of the race, so beautiful, so comforting, in contrast with
+the egotism that continually weighed self against the world.  Into
+the darker secrets of the Book of Wishes we will not penetrate.
+
+It would be an instructive employment for a student of mankind,
+perusing this volume carefully and comparing its records with men's
+perfected designs, as expressed in their deeds and daily life, to
+ascertain how far the one accorded with the other. Undoubtedly, in
+most cases, the correspondence would be found remote.  The holy and
+generous wish, that rises like incense from a pure heart towards
+heaven, often lavishes its sweet perfume on the blast of evil times.
+The foul, selfish, murderous wish, that steams forth from a
+corrupted heart, often passes into the spiritual atmosphere without
+being concreted into an earthly deed.  Yet this volume is probably
+truer, as a representation of the human heart, than is the living
+drama of action as it evolves around us.  There is more of good and
+more of evil in it; more redeeming points of the bad and more errors
+of the virtuous; higher upsoarings, and baser degradation of the
+soul; in short, a more perplexing amalgamation of vice and virtue
+than we witness in the outward world.  Decency and external
+conscience often produce a far fairer outside than is warranted by
+the stains within.  And be it owned, oil the other hand, that a man
+seldom repeats to his nearest friend, any more than he realizes in
+act, the purest wishes, which, at some blessed time or other, have
+arisen from the depths of his nature and witnessed for him in this
+volume.  Yet there is enough on every leaf to make the good man
+shudder for his own wild and idle wishes, as well as for the sinner,
+whose whole life is the incarnation of a wicked desire.
+
+But again the door is opened, and we hear the tumultuous stir of the
+world,--a deep and awful sound, expressing in another form some
+portion of what is written in the volume that lies before the Man of
+Intelligence.  A grandfatherly personage tottered hastily into the
+office, with such an earnestness in his infirm alacrity that his
+white hair floated backward as he hurried up to the desk, while his
+dim eyes caught a momentary lustre from his vehemence of purpose.
+This venerable figure explained that he was in search of To-morrow.
+
+"I have spent all my life in pursuit of it," added the sage old
+gentleman, "being assured that To-morrow has some vast benefit or
+other in store for me.  But I am now getting a little in years, and
+must make haste; for, unless I overtake To-morrow soon, I begin to
+be afraid it will finally escape me."
+
+"This fugitive To-morrow, my venerable friend," said the Man of
+Intelligence, "is a stray child of Time, and is flying from his
+father into the region of the infinite.  Continue your pursuit, and
+you will doubtless come up with him; but as to the earthly gifts
+which you expect, he has scattered them all among a throng of
+Yesterdays."
+
+Obliged to content himself with this enigmatical response, the
+grandsire hastened forth with a quick clatter of his staff upon the
+floor; and, as he disappeared, a little boy scampered through the
+door in chase of a butterfly which had got astray amid the barren
+sunshine of the city.  Had the old gentleman been shrewder, he might
+have detected To-morrow under the semblance of that gaudy insect.
+The golden butterfly glistened through the shadowy apartment, and
+brushed its wings against the Book of Wishes, and fluttered forth
+again with the child still in pursuit.
+
+A man now entered, in neglected attire, with the aspect of a
+thinker, but somewhat too rough-hewn and brawny for a scholar. His
+face was full of sturdy vigor, with some finer and keener attribute
+beneath.  Though harsh at first, it was tempered with the glow of a
+large, warm heart, which had force enough to heat his powerful
+intellect through and through.  He advanced to the Intelligencer and
+looked at him with a glance of such stern sincerity that perhaps few
+secrets were beyond its scope.
+
+"I seek for Truth," said he.
+
+"It is precisely the most rare pursuit that has ever come under my
+cognizance," replied the Intelligencer, as he made the new
+inscription in his volume.  "Most men seek to impose some cunning
+falsehood upon themselves for truth.  But I can lend no help to your
+researches.  You must achieve the miracle for yourself.  At some
+fortunate moment you may find Truth at your side, or perhaps she may
+be mistily discerned far in advance, or possibly behind you."
+
+"Not behind me," said the seeker; "for I have left nothing on my
+track without a thorough investigation.  She flits before me,
+passing now through a naked solitude, and now mingling with the
+throng of a popular assembly, and now writing with the pen of a
+French philosopher, and now standing at the altar of an old
+cathedral, in the guise of a Catholic priest, performing the high
+mass.  O weary search!  But I must not falter; and surely my
+heart-deep quest of Truth shall avail at last."
+
+He paused and fixed his eyes upon the Intelligencer with a depth of
+investigation that seemed to hold commerce with the inner nature of
+this being, wholly regardless of his external development.
+
+"And what are you?" said he.  "It will not satisfy me to point to
+this fantastic show of an Intelligence Office and this mockery of
+business.  Tell me what is beneath it, and what your real agency in
+life and your influence upon mankind."
+
+"Yours is a mind," answered the Man of Intelligence, "before which
+the forms and fantasies that conceal the inner idea from the
+multitude vanish at once and leave the naked reality beneath. Know,
+then, the secret.  My agency in worldly action, my connection with
+the press, and tumult, and intermingling, and development of human
+affairs, is merely delusive.  The desire of man's heart does for him
+whatever I seem to do.  I am no minister of action, but the
+Recording Spirit."
+
+What further secrets were then spoken remains a mystery, inasmuch as
+the roar of the city, the bustle of human business, the outcry of
+the jostling masses, the rush and tumult of man's life, in its noisy
+and brief career, arose so high that it drowned the words of these
+two talkers; and whether they stood talking in the moon, or in
+Vanity Fair, or in a city of this actual world, is more than I can
+say.
+
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                     THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICE
+
+
+
+Grave figure, with a pair of mysterious spectacles on his nose and a
+pen behind his ear, was seated at a desk in the corner of a
+metropolitan office.  The apartment was fitted up with a counter,
+and furnished with an oaken cabinet and a Chair or two, in simple
+and business-like style.  Around the walls were stuck advertisements
+of articles lost, or articles wanted, or articles to be disposed of;
+in one or another of which classes were comprehended nearly all the
+Conveniences, or otherwise, that the imagination of man has
+contrived.  The interior of the room was thrown into shadow, partly
+by the tall edifices that rose on the opposite side of the street,
+and partly by the immense show-bills of blue and crimson paper that
+were expanded over each of the three windows. Undisturbed by the
+tramp of feet, the rattle of wheels, the hump of voices, the shout
+of the city crier, the scream of the newsboys, and other tokens of
+the multitudinous life that surged along in front of the office, the
+figure at the desk pored diligently over a folio volume, of ledger-
+like size and aspect, He looked like the spirit of a record--the
+soul of his own great volume made visible in mortal shape.
+
+But scarcely an instant elapsed without the appearance at the door
+of some individual from the busy population whose vicinity was
+manifested by so much buzz, and clatter, and outcry.  Now, it was a
+thriving mechanic in quest of a tenement that should come within his
+moderate means of rent; now, a ruddy Irish girl from the banks of
+Killarney, wandering from kitchen to kitchen of our land, while her
+heart still hung in the peat-smoke of her native cottage; now, a
+single gentleman looking out for economical board; and now--for this
+establishment offered an epitome of worldly pursuits--it was a faded
+beauty inquiring for her lost bloom; or Peter Schlemihl, for his
+lost shadow; or an author of ten years' standing, for his vanished
+reputation; or a moody man, for yesterday's sunshine.
+
+At the next lifting of the latch there entered a person with his hat
+awry upon his head, his clothes perversely ill-suited to his form,
+his eyes staring in directions opposite to their intelligence, and a
+certain odd unsuitableness pervading his whole figure.  Wherever he
+might chance to be, whether in palace or cottage, church or market,
+on land or sea, or even at his own fireside, he must have worn the
+characteristic expression of a man out of his right place.
+
+"This," inquired he, putting his question in the form of an
+assertion,--"this is the Central Intelligence Office?"
+
+"Even so," answered the figure at the desk, turning another leaf of
+his volume; he then looked the applicant in the face and said
+briefly, "Your business?"
+
+"I want," said the latter, with tremulous earnestness, "a place!"
+
+"A place! and of what nature?" asked the Intelligencer.  "There are
+many vacant, or soon to be so, some of which will probably suit,
+since they range from that of a footman up to a seat at the council-
+board, or in the cabinet, or a throne, or a presidential chair."
+
+The stranger stood pondering before the desk with an unquiet,
+dissatisfied air,--a dull, vague pain of heart, expressed by a
+slight contortion of the brow,--an earnestness of glance, that asked
+and expected, yet continually wavered, as if distrusting. In short,
+he evidently wanted, not in a physical or intellectual sense, but
+with an urgent moral necessity that is the hardest of all things to
+satisfy, since it knows not its own object.
+
+"Ah, you mistake me!"  said he at length, with a gesture of nervous
+impatience. " Either of the places you mention, indeed, might answer
+my purpose; or, more probably, none of them.  I want my place! my
+own place! my true place in the world! my proper sphere! my thing to
+do, which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus
+awry, and which I have vainly sought all my lifetime!  Whether it be
+a footman's duty or a king's is of little consequence, so it be
+naturally mine.  Can you help me here?"
+
+"I will enter your application," answered the Intelligencer, at the
+same time writing a few lines in his volume.  "But to undertake such
+a business, I tell you frankly, is quite apart from the ground
+covered by my official duties.  Ask for something specific, and it
+may doubtless be negotiated for you, on your compliance with the
+conditions.  But were I to go further, I should have the whole
+population of the city upon my shoulders; since far the greater
+proportion of them are, more or less, in your predicament."
+
+The applicant sank into a fit of despondency, and passed out of the
+door without again lifting his eyes; and, if he died of the
+disappointment, he was probably buried in the wrong tomb, inasmuch
+as the fatality of such people never deserts them, and, whether
+alive or dead, they are invariably out of place.
+
+Almost immediately another foot was heard on the threshold.  A youth
+entered hastily, and threw a glance around the office to ascertain
+whether the man of intelligence was alone.  He then approached close
+to the desk, blushed like a maiden, and seemed at a loss how to
+broach his business.
+
+"You come upon an affair of the heart," said the official personage,
+looking into him through his mysterious spectacles. "State it in as
+few words as may be."
+
+"You are right," replied the youth.  "I have a heart to dispose of."
+
+"You seek an exchange?" said the Intelligencer.  "Foolish youth, why
+not be contented with your own?"
+
+"Because," exclaimed the young man, losing his embarrassment in a
+passionate glow,--"because my heart burns me with an intolerable
+fire; it tortures me all day long with yearnings for I know not
+what, and feverish throbbings, and the pangs of a vague sorrow; and
+it awakens me in the night-time with a quake, when there is nothing
+to be feared.  I cannot endure it any longer.  It were wiser to
+throw away such a heart, even if it brings me nothing in return."
+
+"O, very well," said the man of office, making an entry in his
+volume.  "Your affair will be easily transacted.  This species of
+brokerage makes no inconsiderable part of my business; and there is
+always a large assortment of the article to select from. Here, if I
+mistake not, comes a pretty fair sample."
+
+Even as he spoke the door was gently and slowly thrust ajar,
+affording a glimpse of the slender figure of a young girl, who, as
+she timidly entered, seemed to bring the light and cheerfulness of
+the outer atmosphere into the somewhat gloomy apartment.  We know
+not her errand there, nor can we reveal whether the young man gave
+up his heart into her custody.  If so, the arrangement was neither
+better nor worse than in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, where
+the parallel sensibilities of a similar age, importunate affections,
+and the easy satisfaction of characters not deeply conscious of
+themselves, supply the place of any profounder sympathy.
+
+Not always, however, was the agency of the passions and affections
+an office of so little trouble.  It happened, rarely, indeed, in
+proportion to the cases that came under an ordinary rule, but still
+it did happen, that a heart was occasionally brought hither of such
+exquisite material, so delicately attempered, and so curiously
+wrought, that no other heart could be found to match it.  It might
+almost be considered a misfortune, in a worldly point of view, to be
+the possessor of such a diamond of the purest water; since in any
+reasonable probability it could only be exchanged for an ordinary
+pebble, or a bit of cunningly manufactured glass, or, at least, for
+a jewel of native richness, but ill-set, or with some fatal flaw, or
+an earthy vein running through its central lustre.  To choose
+another figure, it is sad that hearts which have their wellspring in
+the infinite, and contain inexhaustible sympathies, should ever be
+doomed to pour themselves into shallow vessels, and thus lavish
+their rich affections on the ground.  Strange that the finer and
+deeper nature, whether in man or woman, while possessed of every
+other delicate instinct, should so often lack that most invaluable
+one of preserving itself front contamination with what is of a baser
+kind!  Sometimes, it is true, the spiritual fountain is kept pure by
+a wisdom within itself, and sparkles into the light of heaven
+without a stain from the earthy strata through which it had gushed
+upward.  And sometimes, even here on earth, the pure mingles with
+the pure, and the inexhaustible is recompensed with the infinite.
+But these miracles, though he should claim the credit of them, are
+far beyond the scope of such a superficial agent in human affairs as
+the figure in the mysterious spectacles.
+
+Again the door was opened, admitting the bustle of the city with a
+fresher reverberation into the Intelligence Office.  Now entered a
+man of woe-begone and downcast look; it was such an aspect as if he
+had lost the very soul out of his body, and had traversed all the
+world over, searching in the dust of the highways, and along the
+shady footpaths, and beneath the leaves of the forest, and among the
+sands of the sea-shore, in hopes to recover it again.  He had bent
+an anxious glance along the pavement of the street as he came
+hitherward; he looked also in the angle of the doorstep, and upon
+the floor of the room; and, finally, coming up to the Man of
+Intelligence, he gazed through the inscrutable spectacles which the
+latter wore, as if the lost treasure might be hidden within his
+eyes.
+
+"I have lost--" he began; and then he paused.
+
+"Yes," said the Intelligencer, "I see that you have lost,--but
+what?"
+
+"I have lost a precious jewel!" replied the unfortunate person, "the
+like of which is not to be found among any prince's treasures.
+While I possessed it, the contemplation of it was my sole and
+sufficient happiness.  No price should have purchased it of me; but
+it has fallen from my bosom where I wore it in my careless
+wanderings about the city."
+
+After causing the stranger to describe the marks of his lost jewel,
+the Intelligencer opened a drawer of the oaken cabinet which has
+been mentioned as forming a part of the furniture of the room.  Here
+were deposited whatever articles had been picked up in the streets,
+until the right owners should claim them.  It was a strange and
+heterogeneous collection.  Not the least remarkable part of it was a
+great number of wedding-rings, each one of which had been riveted
+upon the finger with holy vows, and all the mystic potency that the
+most solemn rites could attain, but had, nevertheless, proved too
+slippery for the wearer's vigilance.  The gold of some was worn
+thin, betokening the attrition of years of wedlock; others,
+glittering from the jeweller's shop, must have been lost within the
+honeymoon.  There were ivory tablets, the leaves scribbled over with
+sentiments that had been the deepest truths of the writer's earlier
+years, but which were now quite obliterated from his memory.  So
+scrupulously were articles preserved in this depository, that not
+even withered flowers were rejected; white roses, and blush-roses,
+and moss-roses, fit emblems of virgin purity and shamefacedness,
+which bad been lost or flung away, and trampled into the pollution
+of the streets; locks of hair,--the golden and the glossy dark,--the
+long tresses of woman and the crisp curls of man, signified that
+lovers were now and then so heedless of the faith intrusted to them
+as to drop its symbol from the treasure-place of the bosom.  Many of
+these things were imbued with perfumes, and perhaps a sweet scent
+had departed from the lives of their former possessors ever since
+they had so wilfully or negligently lost them.  Here were gold
+pencil-cases, little ruby hearts with golden arrows through them,
+bosom-pins, pieces of coin, and small articles of every description,
+comprising nearly all that have been lost since a long time ago.
+Most of them, doubtless, had a history and a meaning, if there were
+time to search it out and room to tell it.  Whoever has missed
+anything valuable, whether out of his heart, mind, or pocket, would
+do well to make inquiry at the Central Intelligence Office.
+
+And in the corner of one of the drawers of the oaken cabinet, after
+considerable research, was found a great pearl, looking like the
+soul of celestial purity, congealed and polished.
+
+"There is my jewel! my very pearl!" cried the stranger, almost
+beside himself with rapture.  "It is mine!  Give it me this moment!
+or I shall perish!"
+
+"I perceive," said the Man of Intelligence, examining it more
+closely, "that this is the Pearl of Great Price!"
+
+"The very same," answered the stranger.  "Judge, then, of my misery
+at losing it out of my bosom!  Restore it to me!  I must not live
+without it an instant to longer."
+
+"Pardon me," rejoined the Intelligencer, calmly, "you ask what is
+beyond my duty.  This pearl, as you well know, is held upon a
+peculiar tenure; and having once let it escape from your keeping,
+you have no greater claim to it--nay, not so great--as any other
+person.  I cannot give it back."
+
+Nor could the entreaties of the miserable man--who saw before his
+eyes the jewel of his life without the power to reclaim it--soften
+the heart of this stern being, impassive to human sympathy, though
+exercising such an apparent influence over human fortunes.  Finally
+the loser of the inestimable pearl clutched his hands among his
+hair, and ran madly forth into the world, which was affrighted at
+his desperate looks.  There passed him on the doorstep a fashionable
+young gentleman, whose business was to inquire for a damask rosebud,
+the gift of his lady-love, which he had lost out of his buttonhole
+within a hour after receiving it. So various were the errands of
+those who visited this Central Office, where all human wishes seemed
+to be made known, and, so far as destiny would allow, negotiated to
+their fulfilment.
+
+The next that entered was a man beyond the middle age, bearing the
+look of one who knew the world and his own course in it.  He had
+just alighted from a handsome private carriage, which had orders to
+wait in the street while its owner transacted his business.  This
+person came up to the desk with a quick, determined step, and looked
+the Intelligencer in the face with a resolute eye; though, at the
+same time, some secret trouble gleamed from it in red and dusky
+light.
+
+"I have an estate to dispose of," said he, with a brevity that
+seemed characteristic.
+
+"Describe it," said the Intelligencer.
+
+The applicant proceeded to give the boundaries of his property, its
+nature, comprising tillage, pasture, woodland, and pleasure-grounds,
+in ample circuit; together with a mansion-house, in the construction
+of which it had been his object to realize a castle in the air,
+hardening its shadowy walls into granite, and rendering its
+visionary splendor perceptible to the awakened eye. Judging from his
+description, it was beautiful enough to vanish like a dream, yet
+substantial enough to endure for centuries.  He spoke, too, of the
+gorgeous furniture, the refinements of upholstery, and all the
+luxurious artifices that combined to render this a residence where
+life might flow onward in a stream of golden days, undisturbed by
+the ruggedness which fate loves to fling into it.
+
+"I am a man of strong will," said he, in conclusion; "and at my
+first setting out in life, as a poor, unfriended youth, I resolved
+to make myself the possessor of such a mansion and estate as this,
+together with the abundant revenue necessary to uphold it.  I have
+succeeded to the extent of my utmost wish. And this is the estate
+which I have now concluded to dispose of."
+
+"And your terms?" asked the Intelligencer, after taking down the
+particulars with which the stranger had supplied him.
+
+"Easy, abundantly easy!" answered the successful man, smiling, but
+with a stern and almost frightful contraction of the brow, as if to
+quell an inward pang.  "I have been engaged in various sorts of
+business,--a distiller, a trader to Africa, an East India merchant,
+a speculator in the stocks,--and, in the course of these affairs,
+have contracted an encumbrance of a certain nature.  The purchaser
+of the estate shall merely be required to assume this burden to
+himself."
+
+"I understand you," said the Man of Intelligence, putting his pen
+behind his ear.  "I fear that no bargain can be negotiated on these
+conditions.  Very probably the next possessor may acquire the estate
+with a similar encumbrance, but it will be of his own contracting,
+and will not lighten your burden in the least."
+
+"And am I to live on," fiercely exclaimed the stranger, "with the
+dirt of these accursed acres and the granite of this infernal
+mansion crushing down my soul?  How, if I should turn the edifice
+into an almshouse or a hospital, or tear it down and build a
+church?"
+
+"You can at least make the experiment," said the Intelligencer; "but
+the whole matter is one which you must settle for yourself."
+
+The man of deplorable success withdrew, and got into his coach,
+which rattled off lightly over the wooden pavements, though laden
+with the weight of much land, a stately house, and ponderous heaps
+of gold, all compressed into an evil conscience.
+
+There now appeared many applicants for places; among the most
+noteworthy of whom was a small, smoke-dried figure, who gave himself
+out to be one of the bad spirits that had waited upon Dr. Faustus in
+his laboratory.  He pretended to show a certificate of character,
+which, he averred, had been given him by that famous necromancer,
+and countersigned by several masters whom he had subsequently
+served.
+
+"I am afraid, my good friend," observed the Intelligencer, "that
+your chance of getting a service is but poor.  Nowadays, men act the
+evil spirit for themselves and their neighbors, and play the part
+more effectually than ninety-nine out of a hundred of your
+fraternity."
+
+But, just as the poor fiend was assuming a vaporous consistency,
+being about to vanish through the floor in sad disappointment and
+chagrin, the editor of a political newspaper chanced to enter the
+office in quest of a scribbler of party paragraphs.  The former
+servant of Dr. Faustus, with some misgivings as to his sufficiency
+of venom, was allowed to try his hand in this capacity.  Next
+appeared, likewise seeking a service, the mysterious man in Red, who
+had aided Bonaparte in his ascent to imperial power.  He was
+examined as to his qualifications by an aspiring politician, but
+finally rejected, as lacking familiarity with the cunning tactics of
+the present day.
+
+People continued to succeed each other with as much briskness as if
+everybody turned aside, out of the roar and tumult of the city, to
+record here some want, or superfluity, or desire.  Some had goods or
+possessions, of which they wished to negotiate the sale.  A China
+merchant had lost his health by a long residence in that wasting
+climate.  He very liberally offered his disease, and his wealth
+along with it, to any physician who would rid him of both together.
+A soldier offered his wreath of laurels for as good a leg as that
+which it had cost him on the battle-field. One poor weary wretch
+desired nothing but to be accommodated with any creditable method of
+laying down his life; for misfortune and pecuniary troubles had so
+subdued his spirits that he could no longer conceive the possibility
+of happiness, nor had the heart to try for it.  Nevertheless,
+happening to, overhear some conversation in the Intelligence Office
+respecting wealth to be rapidly accumulated by a certain mode of
+speculation, he resolved to live out this one other experiment of
+better fortune.  Many persons desired to exchange their youthful
+vices for others better suited to the gravity of advancing age; a
+few, we are glad to say, made earnest, efforts to exchange vice for
+virtue, and, hard as the bargain was, succeeded in effecting it.
+But it was remarkable that what all were the least willing to give
+up, even on the most advantageous terms, were the habits, the
+oddities, the characteristic traits, the little ridiculous
+indulgences, somewhere between faults and follies, of which nobody
+but themselves could understand the fascination.
+
+The great folio, in which the Man of Intelligence recorded all these
+freaks of idle hearts, and aspirations of deep hearts, and desperate
+longings of miserable hearts, and evil prayers of perverted hearts,
+would be curious reading were it possible to obtain it for
+publication.  Human character in its individual developments-human
+nature in the mass--may best be studied in its wishes; and this was
+the record of them all.  There was an endless diversity of mode and
+circumstance, yet withal such a similarity in the real groundwork,
+that any one page of the volume-whether written in the days before
+the Flood, or the yesterday that is just gone by, or to be written
+on the morrow that is close at hand, or a thousand ages hence--might
+serve as a specimen of the whole.  Not but that there were wild
+sallies of fantasy that could scarcely occur to more than one man's
+brain, whether reasonable or lunatic.  The strangest wishes--yet
+most incident to men who had gone deep into scientific pursuits, and
+attained a high intellectual stage, though not the loftiest--were,
+to contend with Nature, and wrest from her some secret, or some
+power, which she had seen fit to withhold from mortal grasp.  She
+loves to delude her aspiring students, and mock them with mysteries
+that seem but just beyond their utmost reach.  To concoct new
+minerals, to produce new forms of vegetable life, to create an
+insect, if nothing higher in the living scale, is a sort of wish
+that has often revelled in the breast of a man of science.  An
+astronomer, who lived far more among the distant worlds of space
+than in this lower sphere, recorded a wish to behold the opposite
+side of the moon, which, unless the system of the firmament be
+reversed, she can never turn towards the earth.  On the same page of
+the volume was written the wish of a little child to have the stars
+for playthings.
+
+The most ordinary wish, that was written down with wearisome
+recurrence, was, of course, for wealth, wealth, wealth, in sums from
+a few shillings up to unreckonable thousands.  But in reality this
+often-repeated expression covered as many different desires.  Wealth
+is the golden essence of the outward world, embodying almost
+everything that exists beyond the limits of the soul; and therefore
+it is the natural yearning for the life in the midst of which we
+find ourselves, and of which gold is the condition of enjoyment,
+that men abridge into this general wish. Here and there, it is true,
+the volume testified to some heart so perverted as to desire gold
+for its own sake.  Many wished for power; a strange desire indeed,
+since it is but another form of slavery.  Old people wished for the
+delights of youth; a fop for a fashionable coat; an idle reader, for
+a new novel; a versifier, for a rhyme to some stubborn word; a
+painter, for Titian's secret of coloring; a prince, for a cottage; a
+republican, for a kingdom and a palace; a libertine, for his
+neighbor's wife; a man of palate, for green peas; and a poor man,
+for a crust of bread. The ambitious desires of public men, elsewhere
+so craftily concealed, were here expressed openly and boldly, side
+by side with the unselfish wishes of the philanthropist for the
+welfare of the race, so beautiful, so comforting, in contrast with
+the egotism that continually weighed self against the world.  Into
+the darker secrets of the Book of Wishes we will not penetrate.
+
+It would be an instructive employment for a student of mankind,
+perusing this volume carefully and comparing its records with men's
+perfected designs, as expressed in their deeds and daily life, to
+ascertain how far the one accorded with the other. Undoubtedly, in
+most cases, the correspondence would be found remote.  The holy and
+generous wish, that rises like incense from a pure heart towards
+heaven, often lavishes its sweet perfume on the blast of evil times.
+The foul, selfish, murderous wish, that steams forth from a
+corrupted heart, often passes into the spiritual atmosphere without
+being concreted into an earthly deed.  Yet this volume is probably
+truer, as a representation of the human heart, than is the living
+drama of action as it evolves around us.  There is more of good and
+more of evil in it; more redeeming points of the bad and more errors
+of the virtuous; higher upsoarings, and baser degradation of the
+soul; in short, a more perplexing amalgamation of vice and virtue
+than we witness in the outward world.  Decency and external
+conscience often produce a far fairer outside than is warranted by
+the stains within.  And be it owned, oil the other hand, that a man
+seldom repeats to his nearest friend, any more than he realizes in
+act, the purest wishes, which, at some blessed time or other, have
+arisen from the depths of his nature and witnessed for him in this
+volume.  Yet there is enough on every leaf to make the good man
+shudder for his own wild and idle wishes, as well as for the sinner,
+whose whole life is the incarnation of a wicked desire.
+
+But again the door is opened, and we hear the tumultuous stir of the
+world,--a deep and awful sound, expressing in another form some
+portion of what is written in the volume that lies before the Man of
+Intelligence.  A grandfatherly personage tottered hastily into the
+office, with such an earnestness in his infirm alacrity that his
+white hair floated backward as he hurried up to the desk, while his
+dim eyes caught a momentary lustre from his vehemence of purpose.
+This venerable figure explained that he was in search of To-morrow.
+
+"I have spent all my life in pursuit of it," added the sage old
+gentleman, "being assured that To-morrow has some vast benefit or
+other in store for me.  But I am now getting a little in years, and
+must make haste; for, unless I overtake To-morrow soon, I begin to
+be afraid it will finally escape me."
+
+"This fugitive To-morrow, my venerable friend," said the Man of
+Intelligence, "is a stray child of Time, and is flying from his
+father into the region of the infinite.  Continue your pursuit, and
+you will doubtless come up with him; but as to the earthly gifts
+which you expect, he has scattered them all among a throng of
+Yesterdays."
+
+Obliged to content himself with this enigmatical response, the
+grandsire hastened forth with a quick clatter of his staff upon the
+floor; and, as he disappeared, a little boy scampered through the
+door in chase of a butterfly which had got astray amid the barren
+sunshine of the city.  Had the old gentleman been shrewder, he might
+have detected To-morrow under the semblance of that gaudy insect.
+The golden butterfly glistened through the shadowy apartment, and
+brushed its wings against the Book of Wishes, and fluttered forth
+again with the child still in pursuit.
+
+A man now entered, in neglected attire, with the aspect of a
+thinker, but somewhat too rough-hewn and brawny for a scholar. His
+face was full of sturdy vigor, with some finer and keener attribute
+beneath.  Though harsh at first, it was tempered with the glow of a
+large, warm heart, which had force enough to heat his powerful
+intellect through and through.  He advanced to the Intelligencer and
+looked at him with a glance of such stern sincerity that perhaps few
+secrets were beyond its scope.
+
+"I seek for Truth," said he.
+
+"It is precisely the most rare pursuit that has ever come under my
+cognizance," replied the Intelligencer, as he made the new
+inscription in his volume.  "Most men seek to impose some cunning
+falsehood upon themselves for truth.  But I can lend no help to your
+researches.  You must achieve the miracle for yourself.  At some
+fortunate moment you may find Truth at your side, or perhaps she may
+be mistily discerned far in advance, or possibly behind you."
+
+"Not behind me," said the seeker; "for I have left nothing on my
+track without a thorough investigation.  She flits before me,
+passing now through a naked solitude, and now mingling with the
+throng of a popular assembly, and now writing with the pen of a
+French philosopher, and now standing at the altar of an old
+cathedral, in the guise of a Catholic priest, performing the high
+mass.  O weary search!  But I must not falter; and surely my heart-
+deep quest of Truth shall avail at last."
+
+He paused and fixed his eyes upon the Intelligencer with a depth of
+investigation that seemed to hold commerce with the inner nature of
+this being, wholly regardless of his external development.
+
+"And what are you?" said he.  "It will not satisfy me to point to
+this fantastic show of an Intelligence Office and this mockery of
+business.  Tell me what is beneath it, and what your real agency in
+life and your influence upon mankind."
+
+"Yours is a mind," answered the Man of Intelligence, "before which
+the forms and fantasies that conceal the inner idea from the
+multitude vanish at once and leave the naked reality beneath. Know,
+then, the secret.  My agency in worldly action, my connection with
+the press, and tumult, and intermingling, and development of human
+affairs, is merely delusive.  The desire of man's heart does for him
+whatever I seem to do.  I am no minister of action, but the
+Recording Spirit."
+
+What further secrets were then spoken remains a mystery, inasmuch as
+the roar of the city, the bustle of human business, the outcry of
+the jostling masses, the rush and tumult of man's life, in its noisy
+and brief career, arose so high that it drowned the words of these
+two talkers; and whether they stood talking in the moon, or in
+Vanity Fair, or in a city of this actual world, is more than I can
+say.
+
+
+
+
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