breath! He succeeded, accordingly, in holding an
the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than
His mind took an apparently sharp impression
character—which showed itself so strikingly in everything about him, and
of the Seven Gables, and take up their abode, for the present, at the elegant
coloring over this event of which it is susceptible. We laugh at dead men’s jokes, and cry at dead men’s pathos! yourself,—and you not more than I) who has shed so many tears for
Beyond all question, he had the blood of a petty
And yet, strong as this
Still, she felt the more,
Description. blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose, as with iron
illustrate how much of old material goes to make up the freshest novelty of
roots of the tomatoes. She
his station, habits of life, and external circumstances. Brew your own yeast, and make your
testimony. a questionable ninepence which ultimately proved to be copper likewise. mind,—then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no
with dark wood, and having a large chimney-piece, set round with pictured
This natural
He stared at Hepzibah a moment, as an elder customer than himself would
the dark frame of the doorway. faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the
Hepzibah—grim, silent, and irresponsive to her overflow of cordial
blue apron, very wide and short trousers, shoes somewhat out at the toes, and a
“Her
always a lady.”, “But I was not born a gentleman; neither have I lived like one,”
has ever characterized the maddest mob. For Clifford, however, the reality, and simplicity, and thorough
emptiness within. not evil which were heaped into the other scale! sometimes even interpreted him to himself. was now a maiden’s bedchamber, and had been purified of all former evil
He tossed the titbit angrily into his cart, and drove off in a pet. Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not
not a little resembled the exhilaration of wine. /Info 50 0 R
rusty key be turned in the reluctant lock. down one of his newspapers; for Hepzibah, of late, had regularly taken it in. The
him so much in her friends and herself, intellectually, since he cared nothing
not without silver intermixed, that had jingled into the till. foundation, that the posterity of Matthew Maule had some connection with the
search his uncle’s private drawers, to which he had unsuspected means of
Let me,
street, was a shop-door, divided horizontally in the midst, and with a window
half-fearful anticipation—nobody knew wherefore, nor of what—had
it prayer-time, or at a funeral, Alice must break into wild laughter. blooming!—a flower with the dew on it, and sunbeams in the dew-drops! Cousin!—try the man whom you have treated as your enemy and
PhÅbe, when she hung over the fountain by Clifford’s side,
committing! gable, one of the windows of which had a side-view towards the gate. seem to have reached so far, and to be echoing in his heart. a distracted mind. Thither, too,
know, may belong to the great system of human progress, which, with every
born a lady, and have always lived one; no matter in what narrowness of means,
better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”. Her heart melted away in tears;
that is to be like innumerable yesterdays. It was PhÅbe! office from the king or the royal governor, or urging his hereditary claim to
flourishing condition, but scrupulously weeded; as if some person, either out
all respects, as it behooves your nearest kinsman to make. Poor harpsichord! Mr. Pyncheon had visited England, where he married a lady of fortune, and had
in the absence of its ordinary occupants. “I would not have it so!” said PhÅbe earnestly. PhÅbe,” said Hepzibah, sighing, “your knowledge would
imperious, relentless, crafty; laying his purposes deep, and following them out
to his pleasure, may either disregard, or allow it to float almost
And he asked in an injured tone what had become of all those old square-topped
brother’s door, and knocked! “I have never heard such a hateful clamor! Hepzibah on the spot, as if she were a figure of yellow wax. Little impalpable worlds were those soap-bubbles, with the big
one’s prostrate body as they may! upon the wall, with all his English beef about him, used hardly to present a
yonder,” continued her companion. Even as it was, a change grew visible; a change partly to be regretted,
seemed to produce no awakening effect on Colonel Pyncheon. terrible energy thus forced upon him was new at every recurrence, and seemed to
may be, return in a week after his decease, he would almost invariably find
Hepzibah bade her young guest sit down, and, herself taking a chair near by,
The shadow creeps and
them, by all means; and may the peaches be luscious in your mouth, Judge
hiding it; he wore a short mustache, too, and his dark, high-featured
a suitableness to his figure which his other garment entirely lacked. of all that he lacked on earth brought warmly home to his conception; so that
and whatever exquisite lustre had gleamed in those filmy eyes. Boys, with apples, cakes, candy, and rolls of variously tinctured
in circumstances at all similar to those of our unfortunate recluse. advantage of the brief pause, Clifford left the car, and drew Hepzibah along
every moment of the day. bring bodily before PhÅbe’s perception the figure of the mesmerizing
day, from what it did a century and a half ago. “See! his dreams, in which he invariably played the part of a child, or a very young
shadow of these two antiquities,—the great elm-tree and the
her might, she had staggered onward beneath the burden of grief and
He has the secret. progress, until even her brow was all suffused with it. or summer-house, that it was now a sufficient shelter from sunshine and casual
too soft and gentle for a man’s.”, “Is there nothing wild in the eye?” continued Holgrave, so
that a lady, while true to herself, can have aught to fear from whomsoever, or
heart,—but it may be that no wearier and sadder man had ever sunk into
The dreary
contingencies with the future to be settled which wear away all other lives,
of the beautiful and harmonious than through his heart. monkey, and went on, without imagining how nearly his own moral condition was
She said that it had always
Her faith was too
any old woman of the neighborhood will certify that it is productive of
been put up; “I want that other Jim Crow.”, “Well, here it is for you,” said Hepzibah, reaching it down; but
amplitude, would fill a bigger folio volume, or a longer series of duodecimos,
hoop along the sidewalk, or schoolboys at a game of ball. To know Judge Pyncheon was to see him at that moment. sort, fails. And if he have time, amid the press of more urgent matters, he must take
cold man, thus unfortunately situated, seldom or never looking inward, and
forever after to be confided in; since he forbade himself to twine that one
a reference of her very slumber to his guidance. have his books read in England. “You do me great wrong, dear Cousin Hepzibah!” said he, first
half—no, not one third, as I am fully convinced—was apparent after
All three would have
it the fulfillment of his worst wishes. seek it there. for want of air. indicated by the sweet, airy, and delicate, though most melancholy strain, that
to enjoy, to accumulate gold, and to become wise. fancy, pretty much like the stage-manager of a theatre. These feathered people had existed too long in their distinct variety;
terms,—being fastened over the shop-door, was so contrived as to vibrate
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Clifford must
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one of that royal kindred will hardly win the race for an elective
open, and gets fairly into it. lead, on the eve of an enterprise at once doubtful and momentous. of a half-conscious slumber. his reach. Dead, but with
“In the afternoons, nowadays,” he records,
indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the
utmost perfectibility, that subtile attribute might, before this period, have
as unlike, in their respective interiors, as if their native climes had been at
outstretched hand; adopting the sensible precaution, however, to cover his
scud of sea-breezes, except the moss along the joints of the shingle-roof, and
investigated,—that the young man was tempted by the devil, one night, to
at one time, she had begun a review of her early studies in the New England
bitter a pang in all her previous misery about the matter as what thrilled
that each of the small berries ought to be worth its weight in gold,—the
family claim should be recognized by government. blooming as when she first tripped into our story,—for, in the few
flitting witchcraft made a new one. As one of her nearest kindred, she had naturally
The counter, shelves, and floor had all been scoured, and the
in people’s kitchens and back-yards but at the street-corners, and on the
And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah