Hawthorne's Works: Twice-told talesJ.R. Osgood, 1876 - American fiction |
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... heard , that whenever the de- scendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires , the old man appears again . When eighty years had passed , he walked once more in King Street . Five years later , in the twilight of an ...
... heard , that whenever the de- scendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires , the old man appears again . When eighty years had passed , he walked once more in King Street . Five years later , in the twilight of an ...
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... heard . The seats are slammed down , and the pew doors thrown back a multitude of feet are trampling along the unseen aisles and the congregation bursts suddenly through the portal . Foremost , scampers a rabble of boys , behind whom ...
... heard . The seats are slammed down , and the pew doors thrown back a multitude of feet are trampling along the unseen aisles and the congregation bursts suddenly through the portal . Foremost , scampers a rabble of boys , behind whom ...
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... heard , and the gentlemen and ladies , composing the bridal party , came through the church door , with the sudden and gladsome effect of a burst of sunshine . The whole group , except the principal figure , was made up of youth and ...
... heard , and the gentlemen and ladies , composing the bridal party , came through the church door , with the sudden and gladsome effect of a burst of sunshine . The whole group , except the principal figure , was made up of youth and ...
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... pageant , till it shone forth again as from a mist . This time the party wavered , stopped , and huddled closer together , while a slight scream was heard from some of the ladies , and a confused whispering among THE WEDDING KNELL . 39.
... pageant , till it shone forth again as from a mist . This time the party wavered , stopped , and huddled closer together , while a slight scream was heard from some of the ladies , and a confused whispering among THE WEDDING KNELL . 39.
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... heard at the door . The widow looked down the aisle , and clinched the arm of one of her bridemaids in her bony hand , with such uncon- scious violence , that the fair girl trembled . ' You frighten me , my dear madam ! ' cried she ...
... heard at the door . The widow looked down the aisle , and clinched the arm of one of her bridemaids in her bony hand , with such uncon- scious violence , that the fair girl trembled . ' You frighten me , my dear madam ! ' cried she ...
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amid appeared awful beauty behold beneath black veil bosom breath bright Carbuncle Castle William chamber cloak cried dark David Swan dead death Dominicus door dream earth Edward Randolph England Esther Dudley eyes face faded fancy feeling figure fire funeral gaze gentleman girl glance glass gleam gloom Governor grave gray guests hand happy HAUNTED MIND head heart Heaven Heidegger Hooper hour Ilbrahim John Endicott Kimballton Lady Eleanore laughing Lieutenant Governor light look mansion Maypole Medbourne merry Merry Mount mind mirth mortal mystery never night onward passed perhaps Peter Goldthwaite picture portrait Province House Puritan Quaker replied round scene seemed shadow Sir William smile snow soul spirit steps stood strange stranger street sunshine Tabitha Thomas Waite thou thought throw town TWICE-TOLD TALES venerable village visage voice Wakefield wandering whispered whole wild wind window withered woman yonder young youth
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Page 171 - I am the chief person of the municipality, and exhibit, moreover, an admirable pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, steady, upright, downright, and impartial discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my arms to rich and poor alike ; and at night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and keep people out of...
Page 274 - ... lived in deep seclusion, on account of certain scandalous stories, which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her. It is a circumstance worth mentioning, that each of these three old gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, were early lovers of the Widow Wycherly, and had once been on the point of cutting each other's throats for her sake. And, before proceeding further, I will merely hint, that Dr.
Page 65 - Dark old man!" exclaimed the affrighted minister, "with what horrible crime upon your soul are you now passing to the judgment?" Father Hooper's breath heaved; it rattled in his throat; but, with a mighty effort, grasping forward with his hands, he caught hold of life, and held it back till he should speak. He even raised himself in bed; and there he sat, shivering with the arms of death around him, while the black veil hung down, awful, at that last moment, in the gathered terrors of a lifetime.
Page 287 - Yes, friends, ye are old again," said Dr. Heidegger, " and lo ! the Water of Youth is all lavished on the ground. Well — I bemoan it not; for if the fountain gushed at my very doorstep, I would not stoop to bathe my lips in it — no, though its delirium were for years instead of moments. Such is the lesson ye have taught me I " But the doctor's four friends had taught no such lesson to themselves.
Page 178 - There are two or three honest friends of mine — and true friends, I know, they are — who, nevertheless, by their fiery pugnacity in my behalf, do put me in fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let this fault be amended. Is it decent, think you, to get tipsy with zeal...
Page 110 - they are calling you by name.' But the good man doubted whether they had really called him, and was unwilling to show himself too solicitous of gain, by inviting people to patronize his house. He therefore did not hurry to the door; and the lash being soon applied, the...
Page 235 - 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 158 - ... that the story must be true, and a conception of its hero's character. Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it. If the reader choose, let him do his own meditation; or if he prefer to ramble with me through the twenty years of Wakefield's vagary, I bid him welcome; trusting that there will be a pervading spirit and a moral, even should we fail to find them, ' done up neatly, and condensed into the final sentence.
Page 231 - The most desirable mode of existence might be that of a spiritualized Paul Pry, hovering invisible round man and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself.
Page 15 - Street, which was destined to be the scene, nearly a century afterwards, of another encounter between the troops of Britain, and a people struggling against her tyranny. Though more than sixty years had elapsed since the pilgrims came, this crowd of their descendants still showed the strong and sombre features of their character perhaps more strikingly in such a stern emergency than on happier occasions.