Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. PHILADELPHIA: DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER, 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET. 1889. CONTENTS. PAGE THE GRAY CHA ...

LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE: THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS THE TOLL-GATHERER'S DAY THE VISION OF THE FOUNTAI ...

THE GRAY CHAMPION. There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wron ...

assembled in King street, which was destined to be the scene, nearly a century afterward, of another enc ...

Neither was this rumor wholly discredited; although the wiser class believed the governor's object somewhat ...

riding haughtily among the magistrates in his priestly vestments, the fitting representative of pre ...

and upward, were disturbed, deeming it strange that they should forget one of such evident authority whom t ...

thought that the dark old man was chief ruler there, and that the governor and council with soldiers at ...

all that rode so proudly with him were prisoners, and long ere it was known that James had abdicated Kin ...

the sunrise stealing down a steeple which stands opposite my chamber window. First the weathercock begins to ...

have fancied so. For my own part, whether I see it scattered down among tangled woods, or beaming broad ...

sometimes fancy that the old woman is the happier of the two. After these, others drop in singly and by t ...

rising congregation reaches my ears. They are standing up to pray. Could I bring my heart into unison ...

trance by the fervor of their devotion. There is a young man, a third-rate coxcomb, whose first ...

THE WEDDING-KNELL. There is a certain church, in the city of New York which I have always ...

fortune. A Southern gentleman considerably younger than herself succeeded to her hand and carried her to C ...

gentlemen and ladies composing the bridal-party came through the church door with the sudden and gladsome eff ...

same stalk with two dewy buds, such being the emblem of the widow between her fair young bridemaids. ...