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Main StreetMain Street - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") A respectable-looking individual makes his bow and addresses the public. In my daily walks along the principal street of my native town, it has often occurred to me, that, if its growth from...
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A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") The other day, having a leisure hour at my disposal, I stepped into a new museum, to which my notice was casually drawn by a small and unobtrusive sign: TO BE SEEN HERE, A VIRTUOSOS...
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Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") It was now the middle of September. We had come since sunrise from Bartlett, passing up through the valley of the Saco, which extends between mountainous walls, sometimes with a steep ascent, but often as...
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Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") From infancy I was under the guardianship of a village parson, who made me the subject of daily prayer and the sufferer of innumerable stripes, using no distinction, as to these marks of...
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P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") My unfortunate friend P. has lost the thread of his life by the interposition of long intervals of partially disordered reason. The past and present are jumbled together in his mind in a manner often productive...
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The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Grave figure, with a pair of mysterious spectacles on his nose and a pen behind his ear, was seated at a desk in the corner of a metropolitan office. The apartment was fitted up with...
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The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") It has happened to me, on various occasions, to find myself in a certain edifice which would appear to have some of the characteristics of a public exchange. Its interior is a spacious hall,...
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The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") I have here attempted, said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-house,I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides past me,...
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The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") We who are born into the worlds artificial system can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpolation of the perverted...
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Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Than the gentleman above named, there is nobody, in the whole circle of my acquaintance, whom I have more attentively studied, yet of whom I have less real knowledge, beneath the surface which it pleases...
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Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Balmy Springweeks later than we expected and months later than we longed for hercomes at last to revive the moss on the roof and walls of our old mansion. She peeps brightly into my...
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Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") It is a great revolution in social and domestic life, and no less so in the life of a secluded student, this almost universal exchange of the open fireplace for the cheerless and ungenial stove. On...
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The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of...
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Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales")Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales") It must be a spirit much unlike my own, which can keep itself in health and vigor without sometimes stealing from the sultry sunshine of the world, to plunge into the cool bath of solitude. At...
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The Threefold Destiny (From "Twice Told Tales")The Threefold Destiny (From "Twice Told Tales") I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents, in which the spirit and mechanism of the fairy legend should be combined...
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Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales") There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces which...
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The Lily's Quest (From "Twice Told Tales")The Lily's Quest (From "Twice Told Tales") Two lovers, once upon a time, had planned a little summer-house, in the form of an antique temple, which it was their purpose to consecrate to all manner of refined and innocent enjoyments. There they would hold...
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Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales") Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,call it which you will,is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one, which is...
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Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales") Passing a summer, several years since, at Edgartown, on the island of Marthas Vineyard, I became acquainted with a certain carver of tombstones, who had travelled and voyaged thither from the interior of Massachusetts, in search...
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The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales")The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales") The moonbeams came through two deep and narrow windows, and showed a spacious chamber, richly furnished in an antique fashion. From one lattice, the shadow of the diamond panes was thrown upon the floor; the ghostly...
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