Twice-told Tales, Volume 1Fields, Osgood, 1871 |
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... stood still . A tremulous enthusiasm seized upon the multitude . That stately form , combining the leader and the saint , so gray , so dimly seen , in such an ancient garb , could only belong to some old champion of the righteous cause ...
... stood still . A tremulous enthusiasm seized upon the multitude . That stately form , combining the leader and the saint , so gray , so dimly seen , in such an ancient garb , could only belong to some old champion of the righteous cause ...
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... stood obscurely in an open space , where neither friend nor foe had thrust himself . What were his thoughts , he uttered no word which might discover . But whether the oppressor were overawed by the Gray Champion's look , or perceived ...
... stood obscurely in an open space , where neither friend nor foe had thrust himself . What were his thoughts , he uttered no word which might discover . But whether the oppressor were overawed by the Gray Champion's look , or perceived ...
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... stood , there was an empty space . But all agreed , that the hoary shape was gone . The men of that generation watched for his reappearance , in sunshine and in twilight , but never saw him more , nor knew when his funeral passed , nor ...
... stood , there was an empty space . But all agreed , that the hoary shape was gone . The men of that generation watched for his reappearance , in sunshine and in twilight , but never saw him more , nor knew when his funeral passed , nor ...
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... , communicated from those who stood nearest the windows , now spread through the church ; a hearse , with a train of several coaches , was creeping along i the street , conveying some dead man to the THE WEDDING KNELL . 41.
... , communicated from those who stood nearest the windows , now spread through the church ; a hearse , with a train of several coaches , was creeping along i the street , conveying some dead man to the THE WEDDING KNELL . 41.
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... stood motionless , but addressed the widow in accents that seemed to melt into the clang of the bell , which fell heavily on the air while he spoke . ' Come , my bride ! ' said those pale lips , the hearse is ready . The sexton stands ...
... stood motionless , but addressed the widow in accents that seemed to melt into the clang of the bell , which fell heavily on the air while he spoke . ' Come , my bride ! ' said those pale lips , the hearse is ready . The sexton stands ...
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Page 171 - Quaff, and away again, so as to keep yourselves in a nice cool sweat. You, my friend, will need another cupful, to wash the dust out of your throat, if it be as thick there as it is on your cowhide shoes. I see that you have trudged half a score of miles to-day ; and, like a wise man, have passed by the taverns, and stopped at the running brooks and well curbs.
Page 178 - ... its stains. One o'clock ! Nay, then, if the dinner-bell begins to speak, I may as well hold my peace. Here comes a pretty young girl of my acquaintance, with a large stone pitcher for me to fill. May she draw a husband, while drawing her water, as Rachel did of old. Hold out your vessel, my dear ! There it is, full to the brim ; so now run home, peeping at your sweet image in the pitcher, as ^you go ; and forget not, in a glass of my own liquor, to 'drink — " SUCCESS TO THE TOWN PUMP ! " THE...
Page 20 - Who can this old man be?" whispered the wondering crowd. Meanwhile, the venerable stranger, staff in hand, was pursuing his solitary walk along the centre of the street. As he drew near the advancing soldiers, and as the roll of their drum came full upon his ear, the old man raised himself to a loftier mien, while the decrepitude of age seemed to fall from his shoulders, leaving him in gray but unbroken dignity. Now he marched onward with a warrior's step, keeping time to the military music. Thus...
Page 21 - ... unexpected stand, rode hastily forward, as if they would have pressed their snorting and affrighted horses right against the hoary apparition. He, however, blenched not a step, but, glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros. One would have thought that the dark old man was chief ruler there, and that the governor and council with soldiers at their back, representing the whole power and authority of the Crown, had no alternative...
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 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 65 - When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin ; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!
Page 272 - 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. He must feel, that when he shall knock at the gate of Heaven, no semblance of an unspotted life can entitle him to entrance there. Penitence must kneel, and Mercy come from the footstool of the throne, or that golden gate will never open ! DR.
Page 63 - All through life that piece of crape had hung between him and the world : it had separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love, and kept him in that saddest of all prisons, his own heart ; and still it lay upon his face, as if to deepen the gloom of his darksome chamber, and shade him from the sunshine of eternity.
Page 59 - Then farewell!" said Elizabeth. She withdrew her arm from his grasp, and slowly departed, pausing at the door, to give one long shuddering gaze, that seemed almost to penetrate the mystery of the black veil. But, even, amid his grief, Mr. Hooper smiled to think that only a material emblem had separated him from happiness, though the horrors, which it shadowed forth, must be drawn darkly between the fondest of lovers.