Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

throats for her sake. And before proceeding farther I will merely hint that Dr. Heidegger and all his four ...

through the window between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains and fell directly across this vas ...

change began to be visible. The crushed and dried petals stirred and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson, as ...

pleasant perfume, the old people doubted not that it possessed cordial and comfortable propert ...

but we are still too old. Quick! give us more!" "Patience, patience!" quoth Dr. Heidegger, who sat, watching ...

Mr. Medbourne was involved in a calculation of dollars and cents with which was strangely intermingled a pr ...

of their years. The most singular effect of their gayety was an impulse to mock the infirmity and decrepitude ...

nor quite withheld her favors, the three rivals began to interchange threatening glances. Still keeping hol ...

transient than that of wine; the delirium which it created had effervesced away. Yes, they were old ag ...

HOWE'S MASQUERADE. One afternoon last summer, while walking along Washington street, my eye was attracted by a ...

piece set round with Dutch tiles of blue-figured china, representing scenes from Scripture, and, for aug ...

and other interior parts being greatly decayed, it is contemplated to gut the whole and build a new house ...

hide the distress and danger of the period and the desperate aspect of the siege under an ostentation of festiv ...

sombre influence, their gayety continued to blaze higher, like—an ominous comparison—the flickering brillia ...

of the musicians, who had hitherto enlivened the entertainment with gay and lightsome melodies. The man was drum ...

personages who were accustomed to the gaze of the multitude. It was the idea of the beholders that these f ...

embroidered star. While advancing to the door he bowed to the right hand and to the left in a very g ...

velvet; he had sense, shrewdness and humor in his face and a folio volume under his arm, but his aspec ...

Bernard and of the well-remembered Hutchinson, thereby confessing that the actors, whoever they might be, in ...

features, therefore, were completely hidden. But the British officers deemed that they had seen that mi ...