Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

even the space since she began to decay must have exceeded the ordinary term of human existence. In ...

hood that shrouded her gray locks and beckoned her companion to draw near. "Kneel down," she said, "a ...

humiliation triumphing over her agony and fear. "Yea, and we have yet more to hear," replied the old woman, "w ...

"There is one other voice I would fain listen to again," replied the lady, faintly. "Then lay ...

A SKETCH OF TRANSITORY LIFE. Methinks, for a person whose instinct bids him rather to pore over the cu ...

merely affording the toll-gatherer a glimpse at the sleepy passengers, who now bestir their torpid limbs and snuf ...

country preacher going to labor at a protracted meeting. The next object passing townward is a butcher' ...

faces of the travellers. Their garments are thickly bestrewn with dust; their whiskers and h ...

summer soldiers marching from village to village on a festival campaign, attended by the "brass b ...

uneven, overgrown with bushes and clumps of young saplings and traversed only by cattle-paths. The track wh ...

My description can give no idea how suddenly the fountain was thus tenanted and how soon it was left des ...

before. How could I ever reach her? ...

While I gazed a sudden shower came pattering down upon the leaves. In a moment the air was f ...

came from the hearth. As the good clergyman's scanty stipend compelled him to use all sorts of economy, the f ...

firelight, perhaps to flicker with the blaze and be gone. Yet her cheek was rosy and lifelike, and her fe ...

Let us illustrate the subject by an imaginary example. A venerable gentleman —one Mr. Smith—who had long be ...

as he glanced downward at the kneeling girl. She was almost prostrate at his feet, evidently sinking under a ...

Neither I nor any other ever murdered him. Was he not alive within five years, and did he not, in token ...

Why should we follow Fancy through the whole series of those awful pictures? Painted by an artist of w ...

resolve, either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. Let us hope, therefore, that a ...