Twice-told Tales, Volumes 1-2Houghton, Mifflin; Cambridge, The Riverside Press, 1879 |
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Page 76
... Quakers , led , as they professed , by the inward movement of the spirit , made their appearance in New England . Their reputation , as holders of mystic and pernicious principles , having spread before them , the Puritans early ...
... Quakers , led , as they professed , by the inward movement of the spirit , made their appearance in New England . Their reputation , as holders of mystic and pernicious principles , having spread before them , the Puritans early ...
Page 77
... Quaker sect with the crown of martyrdom . An indelible stain of blood is upon the hands of all who consented to this ... Quakers , whose revengeful feelings were not less deep because they were inactive , remembered this man and his ...
... Quaker sect with the crown of martyrdom . An indelible stain of blood is upon the hands of all who consented to this ... Quakers , whose revengeful feelings were not less deep because they were inactive , remembered this man and his ...
Page 78
... Quaker persuasion , a Puritan settler was returning from the metropolis to the neighboring country town in which he resided . The air was cool , the sky clear , and the lingering twilight was made brighter by the rays of a young moon ...
... Quaker persuasion , a Puritan settler was returning from the metropolis to the neighboring country town in which he resided . The air was cool , the sky clear , and the lingering twilight was made brighter by the rays of a young moon ...
Page 79
... Quakers , whose bodies had been thrown together into one hasty grave , beneath the tree on which they suffered . He struggled , however , against the superstitious fears which belonged to the age , and compelled himself to pause and ...
... Quakers , whose bodies had been thrown together into one hasty grave , beneath the tree on which they suffered . He struggled , however , against the superstitious fears which belonged to the age , and compelled himself to pause and ...
Page 84
... Quakers , and they were accustomed to boast , that the inhabitants of the desert were more hospitable to them than civilized man . " Fear not , little boy , you shall not need a mother , and a kind one , " said Dorothy , when she had ...
... Quakers , and they were accustomed to boast , that the inhabitants of the desert were more hospitable to them than civilized man . " Fear not , little boy , you shall not need a mother , and a kind one , " said Dorothy , when she had ...
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Page 156 - Well, well, sir, — no harm done, I hope ! Go draw the cork, tip the decanter ; but, when your great toe shall set you a-roaring, it will be no affair of mine. If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout, it is all one to the Town Pump. This thirsty dog, with his red tongue lolling out, does not scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs, and laps eagerly out of the trough.
Page 155 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice — 'Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor!
Page 244 - Man must not disclaim his brotherhood, even with the guiltiest, since, though his hand be clean, his heart has surely been polluted by the flitting phantoms of iniquity.
Page 219 - There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress.
Page 18 - The whole scene was a picture of the condition of New England, and its moral, the deformity of any government that does not grow out of the nature of things and the character of the people.
Page 255 - Pray excuse me," answered the doctor quietly. "I am old and rheumatic, and my dancing days were over long ago. But either of these gay young gentlemen will be glad of so pretty a partner.
Page 49 - and I would not be alone with him for the world. I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself!" "Men sometimes are so,
Page 103 - No, no!" cried he, repelling the idea with reproachful kindness. "When I think of your death, Esther, I think of mine, too. But I was wishing we had a good farm in Bartlett, or Bethlehem, or Littleton, or some other township round the White Mountains; but not where they could tumble on our heads. I should want to stand well with my neighbors and be called Squire, and sent to General Court for a term or two; for a plain, honest man may do as much good there as a lawyer. And when I should be grown...
Page 250 - Dr. Heidegger had been filling the four champagne-glasses with the water of the Fountain of Youth. It was apparently impregnated with an effervescent gas, for little bubbles were continually ascending from the depths of the glasses and bursting in silvery spray at the surface. As the liquor diffused a pleasant perfume, the old people doubted not that it possessed cordial and comfortable properties; and, though utter sceptics as to its rejuvenescent power, they were inclined to swallow it at once....
Page 17 - Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst into the street. A double rank of soldiers made their appearance, occupying the whole breadth of the passage, with shouldered matchlocks, and matches burning, so as to present a row of fires in the dusk. Their steady march was like the progress of a machine, that would roll irresistibly over everything in its way. Next moving slowly, with a confused clatter of hoofs on the...