Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

by their previous troubles into a gay despair; others were as madly gay in the flush of youth, like ...

A party of these grim Puritans, toiling through the difficult woods, each with a horseload of iron ar ...

Yes, with the setting sun the last day of mirth had passed from Merry Mount. The ring of gay masquers ...

"Valiant captain," quoth Peter Palfrey, the ancient of the band, "what order shall be taken with the pr ...

The youth in the peril of the moment, had dropped his gilded staff and thrown his arm about the Lady of the May, ...

"Crop it forthwith, and that in the true pumpkin-shell fashion," answered the captain. "Then bring them ...

eyes the most eligible, was the province of Massachusetts Bay. The fines, imprisonments and stripes li ...

On the evening of the autumn day that had witnessed the martyrdom of two men of the Quaker persuasion, a ...

in after-times was believed to drop poison with its dew—sat the one solitary mourner for innocent blood. It was ...

despair had taught him even so young. "My father was of the people whom all men hate; they have laid him ...

instruments in this persecution. In the awakened warmth of his feelings he resolved that at what ...

the little outcast home and be kind unto him. He acknowledged his resolution to feed and clothe him as i ...

dissatisfied religionists, and Pearson had hitherto found it difficult to provide for a wife and increasing ...

Pearson and his wife deemed it proper that he should appear with them at public worship. They had antic ...

Ilbrahim, seated by the side of his adopted mother and retaining fast hold of her hand, assumed a grave a ...

audience, now arose and with slow, stately and unwavering step ascended the pulpit stairs. The quaverings of ...

Cursed are they in the delight and pleasure of their hearts! Woe to them in their death-hour, whether it come ...

however, when an unexpected scene occurred. In that moment of her peril, when every eye frowned with dea ...

audible in the female section of the house, and every man who was a father drew his hand across his eyes. Tobias ...

forehead?" "I will not deceive you," answered Dorothy. "If your child become our child, we must breed hi ...