Legends of the Province house. The haunted mind. The village uncle. The ambitious guest. The sister years. Snow-flakes. The seven vagabonds. The white old maid. Peter Goldthwaite's treasure. Chippings with a chisel. The Shaker bridal. Night sketches. Endicott and the red cross. The lily's guest. Footprints on the sea-shore. Edward Fane's rosebud. The threefold destinyJames R. Osgood and Company, 1876 - Children's stories |
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Adam Forrester amid arms beach behold beneath Book of Chronicles Brown Castle William chamber cloak corpse cried dark dead death dismal door dream dwelling earth earthly Edward Randolph Endicott England Esther Dudley eyes face faded faith fancy feel figure fire funeral gazing gentleman girl glance gleam gloom gold Governor grave gray guests hand happy HAUNTED MIND head heart Heaven Jervase Helwyse John Brown John Endicott Lady Eleanore laughing Lieutenant-Governor looked looking-glass lovers mansion mantle marble merry mind mortal mystery never night Old Maid onward pale passed perhaps Peter Gold Peter Goldthwaite picture Province House Puritan Ralph Cranfield round scene seemed shadow showman Sir William smile soul spirit spot staircase steps stood strange street sunshine Tabitha Thomas Waite Toothaker town trainband TWICE-TOLD TALES venerable village visage voice wagon wave whispered whole wild wind window woman yonder young youth دو وو
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Page 219 - ... breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress.
Page 59 - Helwyse," said the voice— and as it spoke the figure contorted itself, struggling to hide its blasted face— "look not now on the woman you once loved! The curse of Heaven hath stricken me, because I would not call man my brother, nor woman sister. I wrapped myself in PRIDE as in a MANTLE, and scorned the sympathies of nature; and therefore has nature made this wretched body the medium of a dreadful sympathy. You are avenged— they are all avenged— Nature is avenged— for I am Eleanore Rochcliffe!
Page 25 - A pretty chambermaid, no doubt. In truth, it is desperately hard work, when we attempt to throw the spell of hoar antiquity over localities with which the living world, and the day that is passing over us, have aught to do. Yet, as I glanced at the stately staircase down which the procession of the old governors had descended, and as I emerged through the venerable portal whence their figures had preceded me, it gladdened me to be conscious of a thrill of awe. Then, diving through the narrow archway,...
Page 101 - ... mountain brood. He was of a proud, yet gentle spirit — haughty and reserved among the rich and great; but ever ready to stoop his head to the lowly cottage door, and be like a brother or a son at the poor man's fireside. In the household of the Notch he found warmth and simplicity of feeling, the pervading intelligence of New England, and a poetry of native growth...
Page 151 - ... which the people called her shroud. She took no place among the kindred or the friends, but stood at the door to hear the funeral prayer, and walked in the rear of the procession, as one whose earthly charge it was to haunt the house of mourning, and be the shadow of affliction, and see that the dead were duly buried. So long had this been her custom, that the inhabitants of the town deemed her a part of every funeral, as much as the coffin pall, or the very corpse itself, and augured ill of...
Page 78 - Yesterday has already vanished among the shadows of the past; to-morrow has not yet emerged from the future. You have found an intermediate space where the business of life does not intrude; where the passing moment lingers, and becomes truly the present; a spot where Father Time, when he thinks nobody is watching him, sits down by the wayside to take breath.
Page 108 - Within, the fire was yet smouldering on the hearth, and the chairs in a circle round it, as if the inhabitants had but gone forth to view the devastation of the slide, and would shortly return to thank Heaven for their miraculous escape. All had left separate tokens by which those who had known the family were made to shed a tear for each. Who has not heard their name ? The story has been told far and wide, and will forever be a legend of these mountains. Poets have sung their fate. There were circumstances...
Page 219 - There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework...
Page 268 - Would all who cherish such wild wishes but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot.
Page 22 - With a dark flush of wrath upon his brow, they saw the General draw his sword and advance to meet the figure in the cloak before the latter had stepped one pace upon the floor. " Villain, unmuffle yourself !