Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

profitable, than the meanest of theirs. My design, in short, was to imitate the story-tellers of whom Oriental ...

started up simultaneously to dance, the former enacting the double shuffle in a style which everybody must ha ...

vagabonds and myself rushed forward and surrounded him, crying out with united voices, "What news? ...

illuminating the face of a young man. But how quietly the slumberer lay! how pale his features! And how ...

forgive thee." "And what shall be the token?" asked the proud girl, as if her heart acknowledg ...

the Winding-Sheet came gliding like a ghost behind. Once, it is said, she affrighted a bridal-par ...

Such was the scene, and such the time, when a figure unlike any that have been described was observed ...

arms and could not grasp her robe." The wonder was increased when the Old Maid passed beneath the porch of t ...

But the gate of the graveyard should be thrown open." Twilight had overspread the town before the crowd began ...

held by the very image of old Cæsar. "But such a hideous grin," added he, "was never seen on the f ...

A shriek too fearfully distinct for doubt had been heard within the mansion, breaking forth suddenly and ...

around with sad and solemn benignity, laid aside his staff, bared his hoary locks, and was evidently on the p ...

assumed such a semblance of shifting expression that they trusted to hear the whole mystery explained ...

PETER GOLDTHWAITE'S TREASURE. "And so, Peter, you won't even consider of the business?" said ...

innumerable schemes which ought to have collected all the coin and paper currency of the count ...

others of a different pattern; and, lastly, though he lacked not a pair of gray pantaloons, they were ...

"Best leave the kitchen till the last, Mr. Peter," said she. "The sooner we have it all down, the better, ...

many troubles had this one consolation—that, should all other resources fail, he might build up his fortu ...

in the earth or sunken in the sea, Peter Goldthwaite had found it in this one treasure-place. Anon he had ...

the reality. When Peter, not knowing that there was a mirror there, caught the faint traces of his own ...