Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I doubt whether it be so close at hand," answered the Old Year, gravely smiling. "You will soon grow ...

sister detained her a while longer by inquiring the contents of the huge bandbox which she was so painfull ...

else, I need not trouble you with a longer catalogue." "And must I also pick up such worthless ...

The clock in the tall steeple of Dr. Emerson's church struck twelve; there was a response from Dr. Flint's, ...

There is snow in yonder cold gray sky of the morning, and through the partially-frosted wi ...

paper with the certainty that thoughts and fancies will gleam forth upon it like stars at twilight ...

when none could answer. Turn we again to the fireside and sit musing there, lending our ears to the wind ...

grieve when, after some seven months of storm and bitter frost, Spring, in the guise of a flower-crowned ...

THE SEVEN VAGABONDS. Rambling on foot in the spring of my life and the summer of the year, I came one aft ...

Perhaps the movable scene of this narrative is still peregrinating New England, and may enable the rea ...

driving his huge vehicle sometimes through the sands of Cape Cod and sometimes over the rou ...

immediately at his own price; and then for the first time the thought struck me that I had spoken face to f ...

resolution, "it shall be as a travelling bookseller." Though it was still mid-afternoon, the air had now grown dar ...

The girl had nearly as fair a complexion as our own beauties, and a brighter one than most of them; the ...

into my guide's face. "'Where are you going, my pretty maid?'" inquired I, in the words of an old song. "Ah!" ...

very fair and legible hand and signed by several distinguished gentlemen whom I had never heard of, statin ...

conjecture if the beggar were to meet me in the street today and repeat word for word the page which ...

for human weakness and ridiculous infirmity, and the talent of petty fraud. Thus to this old man there ...

feather of some wild bird, and a frock of blue cotton girded tight about him; on his breast, like o ...

mankind in this weary old age of the world either enduring a sluggish existence amid the smoke and dust ...