Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

of mind. It was a small rise of ground with a certain regularity of shape that had perhaps been best ...

On the preceding evening, after Adam Forrester had taken leave of his mistress, he looked back ...

Walter Gascoigne stalked drearily away, because his gloom, symbolic of all earthly sorrow, might no longer ...

—this noble beach, which extends a mile or more from that craggy promontory to yonder rampart of broke ...

tracks in the sand. When we have paced the length of the beach, it is pleasant and not unprofita ...

in an hour or two, and seek for this mighty record of a name. The sea will have swept over it, eve ...

albatross of the Ancient Mariner was beyond my ornithology to decide. It reposed so naturally ...

swell, while the crew—four gentlemen in roundabout jackets—are busy with their fishing-lines. But with an ...

can summon up a single shade and be myself her lover.—Yes, dreamer, but your lonely heart will be the colder ...

is a dismal place in some moods of the mind. Climb we, therefore, the precipice, and pause a moment on t ...

and—the blessing of a hungry man upon him!—one of them sends up a hospitable shout: "Halloo, Sir S ...

her wrinkled visage, and then permitting a ghostly dimness to mar the outlines of her venerable figure. And Nurse ...

greeting with mortality and could never lose the earthy taint. How many a greeting since! B ...

a burial-place—till he were borne to a darker and a narrower one. But Rose was with him in the tomb ...

But no; we have no right to ascribe such a wish to our friend Rose. She never failed in a wife's duty ...

more captivating charms than gayety and youthful grace; in his semblance Disease itself had won the R ...

her? Hark! an eager knocking st Nurse Toothaker's door. She starts from her drowsy reverie, sets ...

than could be infused into those fanciful productions. In the twilight of a summer eve a tall dark ...

kindred souls were destined to form a union here below which all eternity should only bind more ...

man's head, an antiquated little town full of old maids and aged elms and moss- grown dwellings. Few ...