Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

himself to utter these few words, "here are the son and daughter to whom I would commit the trust of w ...

circumstances Martha Pierson would probably have consented to unite her fate with Adam Colburn's, and, ...

such was now to be performed. "Son Adam and daughter Martha," said the venerable Father Ephraim, fixin ...

But while speaking these few words Martha grew so pale that she looked fitter to be laid in her coffi ...

lead lives of purity and peace. Receive the weary ones who have known the vanity of earth; receive the ...

sunshine. Though my ceiling be not lofty, yet I can pile up the mountains of Central Asia beneath it till ...

waste must I stride onward. Beyond lies a certain Slough of Despond, a concoction of mud and liqui ...

away. The wet sidewalks gleam with a broad sheet of red light. The raindrops glitter as if the sky w ...

many. Faithful though over head and ears in trouble! Onward I go, deriving a sympathetic joy or sorrow ...

own quiet beds and awake to find themselves still jolting onward. Happier my lot, who will straightway ...

struggle, even beneath the giant strength of the king's right arm. Such was the aspect of the times when ...

cropped like those of puppy-dogs, others whose cheeks had been branded with the initials of their misdemeanor ...

was an elderly gentleman wearing a black cloak and band and a high-crowned hat beneath which was a velvet sku ...

suddenly noised abroad, lest the people be stirred up unto some outbreak, and thereby give the king and ...

me, friends, nor heed that accursed rhapsodist. As I was saying, we have sacrificed all t ...

his own spirit, and then turned suddenly to the standard-bearer, who stood close behind him. "Officer, lower y ...

with one another and the circle of their familiar friends; there they would give festivals of delicious ...

It was indeed a delightful spot of earth, though undistinguished by any very prominent beauties, being merely ...

"Well, there are lovelier spots than this," said Adam Forrester, soothingly —"spots which sorrow has not b ...

"Let us flee from this dreadful vale." "Come, then," said Adam Forrester as cheerily as he could ...