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But
the
aged
,
whose
recollections
dated
as
far
back
as
witch
times
,
shook
their
heads
,
and
hinted
that
our
forefathers
would
have
thought
it
a
pious
deed
to
burn
the
daughter
of
the
oak
with
fire
.
"
If
she
be
other
than
a
bubble
of
the
elements
,
"
exclaimed
Copley
,
"
I
must
look
upon
her
face
again
.
"
He
accordingly
entered
the
shop
;
and
there
,
in
her
usual
corner
,
stood
the
image
,
gazing
at
him
,
as
it
might
seem
,
with
the
very
same
expression
of
mirthful
mischief
that
had
been
the
farewell
look
of
the
apparition
when
,
but
a
moment
before
,
she
turned
her
face
towards
the
crowd
.
The
carver
stood
beside
his
creation
mending
the
beautiful
fan
,
which
by
some
accident
was
broken
in
her
hand
.
But
there
was
no
longer
any
motion
in
the
lifelike
image
,
nor
any
real
woman
in
the
workshop
,
nor
even
the
witchcraft
of
a
sunny
shadow
,
that
might
have
deluded
people
’
s
eyes
as
it
flitted
along
the
street
.
Captain
Hunnewell
,
too
,
had
vanished
.
His
hoarse
sea
-
breezy
tones
,
however
,
were
audible
on
the
other
side
of
a
door
that
opened
upon
the
water
.
"
Sit
down
in
the
stern
sheets
,
my
lady
,
"
said
the
gallant
captain
.
"
Come
,
bear
a
hand
,
you
lubbers
,
and
set
us
on
board
in
the
turning
of
a
minute
-
glass
.
"
And
then
was
heard
the
stroke
of
oars
.
"
Drowne
,
"
said
Copley
with
a
smile
of
intelligence
,
"
you
have
been
a
truly
fortunate
man
.
What
painter
or
statuary
ever
had
such
a
subject
!
No
wonder
that
she
inspired
a
genius
into
you
,
and
first
created
the
artist
who
afterwards
created
her
image
.
"
Drowne
looked
at
him
with
a
visage
that
bore
the
traces
of
tears
,
but
from
which
the
light
of
imagination
and
sensibility
,
so
recently
illuminating
it
,
had
departed
.
He
was
again
the
mechanical
carver
that
he
had
been
known
to
be
all
his
lifetime
.
"
I
hardly
understand
what
you
mean
,
Mr
.
Copley
,
"
said
he
,
putting
his
hand
to
his
brow
.
"
This
image
!
Can
it
have
been
my
work
?
Well
,
I
have
wrought
it
in
a
kind
of
dream
;
and
now
that
I
am
broad
awake
I
must
set
about
finishing
yonder
figure
of
Admiral
Vernon
.
"
And
forthwith
he
employed
himself
on
the
stolid
countenance
of
one
of
his
wooden
progeny
,
and
completed
it
in
his
own
mechanical
style
,
from
which
he
was
never
known
afterwards
to
deviate
.
