Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

a quivering lip. "It has stood too long on a traitor's shoulders." "You must make haste to chop ...

seat lay a bundle neatly done up in brown paper, the direction of which I had the idle curiosity to ...

II. EDWARD RANDOLPH'S PORTRAIT. The old legendary guest of the Province House abode in my remembrance from m ...

Passing through the narrow arch, I crossed the courtyard, the confined precincts of which were ...

Hutchinson had received intelligence of the arrival of a British fleet bringing three regiments from Halifa ...

and at the same time the best-accredited, accounts stated it to be an original and authentic portrait ...

"I am sorry, Alice, to destroy your faith in the legends of which you are so fond," remarked he, "but my a ...

policy or principles could not entirely subdue. He knew, indeed, that Alice, in spite of her foreign education ...

old puritanical founders whose sombre strength had stamped so deep an impress upon the New England ...

"Yes," said the British major, who was impatiently expecting the lieutenant- governor's orders. "The demagogues of ...

beholder, but the lieutenant-governor's voice had a tone of horror. "By Heaven!" said he, in a low inward ...

"Girl," cried he, laughing bitterly, as he turned to Alice, "have you brought hither your painter's art, ...

of Edward Randolph. Did his broken spirit feel at that dread hour the tremendous burden of a people's c ...

mark of respect and gratitude, as he handsomely observed, was far less than the ingenious tale-teller, and ...

democrat now upon the stage. In another paper of this series I may perhaps give the reader a closer glimpse ...

escort of gentlemen on horseback. The ponderous equipage, with its four black horses, attracted much notice ...

hair all in disorder rushed from the throng and prostrated himself beside the coach, thus offering his pers ...

"Never!" cried Captain Langford, indignantly—"neither in life nor when they lay her with her ancestors." Not ...

an expression of weariness or scorn tempered with such feminine grace that her auditors scarcely ...

feeling than she ordinarily permitted herself to express. "They tell me that I have done you harm." "Hea ...