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...ick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of th... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ry. It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. These instruments they were re... ...ft Baltimore till I reached Philadelphia. The pas- sage of the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace was at that time made by ferry-boat, on board of wh... ...ould decently do so, and went to another part of the boat. Once across the river, I encountered a new danger. Only a few days before, I had been at wo... ...erners re- 10 turning from the Northern watering-places; that the colored people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were hired men of my ... ...d, I was safe in New Bedford, a citizen of the grand old common- wealth of Massachusetts. Once initiated into my new life of freedom and assured by Mr... ... Mr. Johnson told me that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts that would prevent a colored man from being governor of the S... ...and without him failure, so in peace it will be found that the nation must fall or flourish with the negro. Fortunately, the Constitution of the Unite...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a du...

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... A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, in- different city, seen from the windows of a gloomy- looking inn, is at no time an object of enliv... ...al umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air is thickened by this frosty drizzle, the cal- endar... ... six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards... ...a couple of remark- ably small horses. When it reached a certain point the people in front of the grave-yard, of whom much the greater number were wom... ...er had given her. It was a bold, expressive sketch of a group of miserable people on the deck of a steamer, clinging together and clutching at each ot... ...ouse to tea. She had let the proposal that she should regularly dine there fall to the ground; she was in the enjoyment of whatever satisfaction was t... ...rs together, there were almost no houses; there were nothing but woods and rivers and lakes and hori- zons adorned with bright-looking mountains. It s... ... within sight. There was a wilderness of woods, and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a... ..., and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a wide, grassy margin, on the further side of w...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...the place, that he is not closely invested, and that he forages across the river. The other brings the firing up to 11 A.M. yesterday, being twenty-t... ...f establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, and under... ...recated the policy on the ground that it would cost the administration the fall elections. Nothing, however, was offered that I had not already fully ... ...well intended, but from what I hear I fear that, if persisted in, it would fall dead within its own entangling details. Go there and be the judge. A ... ...o telegraph the officer in military command at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, suspending the execution of Charles Carpenter, to be execute...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...e. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one t... ...er this nation is to ultimately become all slave or all free, and though I fall early in the contest, it is nothing if I shall have contributed, in th... ... come, and he fixes the place at Ossawatomie. This I believe is off of the river, and will require more time and labor to get to it. It will push me h... ...stitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans ... ...rritories south 51 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five of the Ohio River, Mr. Jefferson expressly provided for the prohibition of slavery. Jud...

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...d it was necessary to transport the bag gage of the troops by means of the rivers—a devious but practicable route. One brigade ascended the Mohawk unt... ...its source, was much filled with “flood wood,” 5 James Fenimore Cooper or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their ... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...of this book was drawn after the sister of the writer, who was killed by a fall from a horse now near half a century since. So ingenious is conjec- tu... ...gh the valleys until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...ere tempted by their representations to leave the farms of Connecticut and Massachusetts, to make a trial of fortune in the woods. During all this tim...

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...lver 4 The Blithedale Romance sheen, like the sunny side of a cloud; and, falling over the wearer from head to foot, was supposed to insulate her fro... ...omance sheen, like the sunny side of a cloud; and, falling over the wearer from head to foot, was supposed to insulate her from the material world, fr... ...pon the grate, lighted a cigar, and spent an hour in musings of every hue, from the brightest to the most som bre; being, in truth, not so very confi... ...dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken kerchief, between which and her gown ... ...and vigor, which she possessed in such overflow that a man might well have fallen in love with her for their sake only. In her quiet moods, she 12 Th... ...e had broken through many hindrances that are powerful enough to keep most people on the weary treadmill of the established system, even while they fe... ... like a lifeless copy of the world in marble. From the bank of the distant river, which was shimmering in the moonlight, came the black shadow of the ... ..., midway to Hollingsworth, she paused, looked round about her, towards the river, the road, the woods, and back towards us, appearing to listen, as if... ... Arcadians, besides being as practical as the hardest fisted husbandmen in Massachusetts. We did not, it is true, spend 64 The Blithedale Romance muc...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ... wife. You’d under- stand his clients. I’m going to be a lawyer. I admit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people ... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties... ...before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters a... ...ntended to get acquainted,” and the half dozen young men who were ready to fall in love with her. But it was Stewart Snyder whom she encouraged. He wa... ...ad seen it on a summer trip to Cape Cod. “Have you been clear to Cape Cod? Massachusetts? I knew you’d traveled, but I never realized you’d been that ...

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...he reasons she gave for its being obtainable on these terms—its remoteness from a station, its lack of electric light, hot-water pipes, and other vulg... ...inued to exult as the avowal of each disadvantage was suc- cessively wrung from her; but he had cut short his rhapsody to ask, with a sudden relapse t... ...bably not been of the most vivid order: for long periods, no doubt, it had fallen as noiselessly into the past as the quiet drizzle of autumn fell, ho... ... she had seen, as she glanced, a shadow of anxiety, of perplexity, rather, fall across his face; and, following his eyes, had beheld the figure of a m... ...you appear to—I mean about the cir- cumstances of Elwell’s death. And then people are talking of it now; the whole matter’s been raked up again. And I... ...ll, and most of the prominent names in the place are down on the list, and people began to wonder why—” Parvis broke off to fumble in an inner pocket.... ... obstinate presentments of pictures once beheld, indistinct impressions of rivers, tow- ers, and cupolas, gathered in the length of journeys half for-... ...t plain, aerial forms of mountains, and presently the silver crescent of a river in the valley, and a blue stencilling of trees along its curve—someth... ... estates,” he cried. “My father is a plain India merchant in the colony of Massachusetts—but if you—” “Oh, hush, I say! I don’t know what your long wo...

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...“UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had ham- mered the words of the teleg... ...m like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform ... ...obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts. It was as though all the people about him had taken his measure and known his plight; as though they... ...ndages of the shrieking unescapable Mrs. Murrett, into whose talons he had fallen in the course of his head-long pursuit of Lady Ulrica Crispin. Oh, t... ...ething else: the music, or the cook—when there was a good one—or the other people; generally ONE of the other people.” “I see.” She was amusing, and t... ...e train left Calais her head had dropped back into the corner, and she had fallen asleep. Sitting opposite, in the compartment from which he had con- ... ...th vague yearnings for enfranchisement, who lived in Paris as if it were a Massachusetts suburb, and dwelt hope- fully on the “higher side” of the Gal... ...ade no difficulty about satisfying it in Darrow’s com- pany. Regaining the river they walked on in the direction of Notre Dame, delayed now and again ... ...chitecture, every arch of the bridges, the very sweep of the strong bright river between them, while contributing to this effect, sent forth each a se...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...uishing. You might think her heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minu... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...unday restored and stamped it. By a sudden turn the whole upper-school had fallen to thinking of girls, and the meeting on the Sunday was a pros- pect... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ... a great plane standing to the right of the house, the sparkle of a little river running near; all the scenes she knew, all young and lively. She spra... ...a stile across the meadows, making a short cut by way of a bridge over the river to Busley and North T othill, on the high-road to Hocklebourne. The l... ..., a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all emulous to excel, none boasting. But, to myse...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...f the Lake, and since five in the afternoon a fine powder of snow had been falling. The coachmen on the boxes of the carriages that succeeded one anot... ..., that two blocks 8 The Pit distant from the theatre they were obliged to fall into line, advancing only at intervals, and from door to door of the c... ...iddle West—was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls. In Massachusetts, thirty years before this time, he had been a farmer, and the... ... silver skiff drawn by swans, to the gentle current of some smooth-flowing river that ran on forever and forever. But a discordant element developed. ... ...es in the streets. But occasionally, from far away in the direction of the river or the Lake Front, came the faint sounds of steamer and tug whistles....

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... up the Company for high wages is simply a crime, and of course the burden falls on you and me that have to pay a seven-cent fare! Fact, there’s remar... ...ver of Zenith. He thought of the outlying factory suburbs; of the Chaloosa River with its strangely eroded banks; of the orchard-dappled Tonawanda Hil... ...rk! “After twenty-four years of that kind of thing, you don’t expect me to fall down and foam at the mouth when you hint that this sweet, clean, respe... ...o, some day before I past out,” he sighed. From a rough wharf on the North River they stared at the stern of the Aquitania and her stacks and wireless... ...iversity, an old man and white-bearded, known to come from a distinguished Massachusetts family. “Why, gosh,” Babbitt marveled, “a swell like him in w...

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Excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... He drew aside the window curtain and suffered the light of natural day to fall into the room and rest upon her cheek. At the same time he heard a gro... ... least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.” “W... ...at he could distinguish the accents of towns 26 Mosses from an Old Manse people of his own, men and women, both pious and un godly, many of whom he... ...sadly into her face, and passed on with out a greeting. Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meetin... ...s, that a multitude of shining ones had assembled on the other side of the river, to welcome two poor pilgrims, who were just emerging from its depths... ...be off directly, and in three minutes you will be on the other side of the river. No doubt you will find coaches to carry you up to the city gates.” A... ... beginning to simmer over the blaze, was the perusal of the current year’s Massachusetts Almanac, which, with the exception of an old black letter Bib...

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...ew moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answ...

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...eded to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single g... ...resenting himself with rather a work a day aspect. Mrs. Luna glanced at him from head to foot, and gave a little smiling sigh, as if he had been a lo... ...gin life afresh. One didn’t even know what one had come back for. There were people who wanted one to spend the winter in Boston; but she couldn’t sta... ...ed from the doorway. ‘The amount of thought they give to their clothing, the people who are afraid of looking frivolous!’ Chapter 2 W hether much or ... ...rks,’ over a brackish expanse of anomalous character, which is too big for a river and too small for a bay. The view seemed to him very picturesque, t... ...she called his attention to this—it was for his benefit), of the dusky, empty river, spotted with points of light—at this period, I say, it was very ea... ... were good looking. She had, however, a moral resource that she could always fall back upon; it had already been a com fort to her, on occasions of a... ...g eyes, and ineffectually balanced in the rear by a cap which had the air of falling backward, and which Miss Birdseye suddenly felt for while she tal... ...ity of high walls and guarded gateways), constitutes the great university of Massachusetts. The yard, or college precinct, is traversed by a number of...

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...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ... our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, and hardly less... ...cation and fair talents for this work; but, one after an- other, they have fallen through, although, in several instances, anti-slavery friends contri... ...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...ark of reverence, “Old Master.” Thus early did clouds and shadows begin to fall upon my path. Once on the track—troubles never come singly—I was not l...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...m the land—and as I stood upon the beach and observed it dimpling the light swell that was coming in, I cast a stone over it. So orderly, so quiet, so... ...d sea, with other chafe and The Uncommercial Traveller 5 trouble, and for the moment nothing was so calmly and monotonously real under the sunlight a... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...on the whole, I should say, it was considered rather a distinction to have a complication of disorders, and to be in a worse way than the rest. From s... ... deaf, wonderfully preserved, and amazingly conversational. She had not long lost her husband, and had been in that place little more than a year. At ... ...erers, all the rigging in the docks was shrill in the wind, and every little steamer coming and going across the Mersey was sharp in its blow- ing off...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...ice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. In- landers all, th... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phan- tom of life; an... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ...th occurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man—a whaleman too—who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that th... ... Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...fice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand miles of them — leagues. Inlanders all, th... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and ... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ...ccurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man — a whaleman too — who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that th... ...equod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ...er money (or the greater part of it); and third, she lived at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mallet’s compassion was really wasted, because Cecilia was a... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ... immense number of words,” said Cecilia after a pause, “to say you want to fall in love! I ‘ve no doubt you have as good a genius for that as any one,... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...nnecticut. They flung them- selves on the grass and tossed stones into the river; they talked like old friends. Rowland lit a cigar, and Roderick refu... ...owland watched the shadows on Mount Holyoke, listened to the gurgle of the river, and sniffed the balsam of the pines. A gentle breeze had be- gun to ... ...es n’t argue nor in- sist. She sits with her eyes full of tears that never fall, and looks at me, when I displease her, as if I were a perfect monster...

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...e year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

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...er,” he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had re- moved from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupie... ...s disclosed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” h... ...fluential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passion- ate error that has ever charac... ... cuted, not merely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, breth- ren, and wives. Amid the diso... ...lood to drink!” After the reputed wizard’s death, his humble homestead had fallen an easy spoil into Colonel Pyncheon’s 13 Hawthorne grasp. When it w... ...f earth whence Matthew Maule, forty years before, had first swept away the fallen leaves. It was a curious, and, as some people thought, an ominous fa... ...en wilderness. Where the old land surveyor had put down woods, lakes, and rivers, they marked out the cleared spaces, and dotted the villages and tow... ...d it, not in its at- 139 Hawthorne oms, but in its aggregate,—as a mighty river of life, massive in its tide, and black with mystery, and, out of its... ...m table virtually governor of the glorious old State! Governor Pyncheon of Massachusetts! And is there no potent and exhilarating cordial in a cer- ta...