Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

So saying, the lawyer, exhibited the date and signature of the note, which irrefragably proved either that th ...

news. The selectmen, by advice of the lawyer, spoke of prosecuting him for a misdemeanor in circulating unfounded re ...

testimony, ought to be equivalent. Making cautious inquiries along the road, the pedler further learned that ...

Dominicus shivered. "Mr. Higginbotham has come back from the other world by way of the Kimballton turnpi ...

blindly obeying the call of fate, like the heroes of old romance, appeared in the person of Dominicus Pike ...

is sympathy between us. If I pride myself on anything, it is because I have a smile that children lo ...

partialities give a peculiar magic. How delightful to let the fancy revel on the dainties of a confecti ...

noiseless music; they have halted on the shelf of this window after their weary march from Liliput. ...

Oh, sage puss, make room for me beside you, and we will be a pair of philosophers. Here we ...

horseback there. Mercy on us! What a noisy world we quiet people live in! Did Annie ever read the crie ...

as we go forget not to thank Heaven, my Annie, that after wandering a little way into the world you ...

WAKEFIELD. In some old magazine or newspaper I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man —let us c ...

would keep his heart at rest wherever it might be placed. He was intellectual, but not actively so; his ...

blessed spirit wears a quiet and crafty smile. Yet for its sake, when all others have given him up for dead, ...

therefore, lies nearest the bottom of the affair. But how is he to attain his ends? Not, certainly, by keeping cl ...

difficult as the step that placed him in his unparalleled position. Furthermore, he is rendered obstinat ...

bearing in his whole aspect the handwriting of no common fate for such as have the skill to read it. He ...

conscious of it, but deem himself the same man as ever; glimpses of the truth, indeed, would come, but only ...

one another and to a whole, that by stepping aside for a moment a man exposes himself to a fearful risk ...

Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor! Walk up, walk up, gentlemen! Walk up, walk up! Here i ...