Twice-told Tales, Том 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 |
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Adam Colburn Adam Forrester amid arms beach behold beneath Brown cach carth carthly Castle William chamber cloak cried dark dead death discase door dream dwelling elder Endicott England Esther Dudley eyes face faded faith fancy Father Ephraim feelings figure fire gazing gentleman girl glance gleam gloom Governor grave gray guests hand happy HAUNTED MIND head heart hither John Brown John Endicott King Lady Eleanore Lieutenant-Governor looked looking-glass lovers mansion mantle marble Martha merry mind mortal mother mystery never night Old Maid onward passed perhaps Peter Gold Peter Goldthwaite picture Province House Puritan Ralph Cranfield Ralph rose replied risc round scene seemed shadow Shaker Sir William sister smile soul spirit spot Squire staircase steps stood strange street sunshine Tabitha thought Toothaker town trainband treasure TWICE-TOLD TWICE-TOLD TALES venerable village visage voice wave weary whispered whole wild woman young youth
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Сторінка 102 - I suppose," said her father, after a fit of musing, " there is something natural in what the young man says ; and if my mind had been turned that way, I might have felt just the same. It is strange, wife, how his talk has set my head running on things that
Сторінка 102 - it is our nature to desire a monument, be it slate, or marble, or a pillar of granite, or a glorious memory in the universal heart of man." " We 're in a strange way, to-night," said the wife, with tears in her eyes. " They say it 's a sign of something, when folks
Сторінка 106 - Old folks have their notions," said she, "as well as young ones. You've been wishing and planning; and letting your heads run on one thing and another, till you Ve set my mind a wandering too. Now what should an old woman wish for, when she
Сторінка 102 - around me. A slate gravestone would suit me as well as a marble one, — with just my name and age, and a verse of a hymn, and something to let people know that I lived an honest man and died a Christian." "There now!
Сторінка 50 - there be, and for your own earthly and heavenly welfare, I pray you to take one sip of this holy wine, and then to pass the goblet round among the guests. And this shall be a symbol that you have not sought to withdraw yourself from the
Сторінка 102 - When I think of your death, Esther, I think of mine, too. But I was wishing we had a good farm, in Bartlett, or Bethlehem, or Littleton, or some other township round the White Mountains; but not where they
Сторінка 108 - Woe, for the high-souled youth, •with his dream of earthly immortality ! His name and person utterly unknown; his history, his way of life, his plans, a mystery never to be solved ; his death and his
Сторінка 214 - wilderness it is ! The wolf and the bear meet us within halloo of our dwellings. The savage lieth in wait for us in the dismal shadow of the woods. The stubborn roots of the trees break our ploughshares, when we would till the earth. Our
Сторінка 206 - shadowy materials, as have busied me throughout the day. A dreamer may dwell so long among fantasies, that the things without him will seem as unreal as those within. When eve has fairly set in, therefore, I sally forth, tightly buttoning my shaggy
Сторінка 98 - the door, with a sound of wailing and lamentation, before it passed into the valley. For a moment, it saddened them, though there was nothing unusual in the tones. But the family were glad again,