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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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The Sister Years (From "Twice Told Tales")The Sister Years (From "Twice Told Tales") Last night, between eleven and twelve oclock, when the Old Year was leaving her final foot prints on the borders of Times empire, she found herself in possession of a few spare moments, and sat downof all...
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The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales") Rambling on foot in the spring of my life and the summer of the year, I came one afternoon to a point which gave me the choice of three directions. Straight before me, the main road extended...
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The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales")The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") Come! another log upon the hearth. True, our little parlor is comfortable, especially here, where the old man sits in his old arm-chair; but on Thanksgiving night the blaze should dance high up the chimney, and send...
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Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales")Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales") There is snow in yonder cold gray sky of the morning!-and, through the partially frosted window-panes, I love to watch the gradual beginning of the storm. A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover...
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The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales")The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales") At fifteen, I became a resident in a country village, more than a hundred miles from home. The morning after my arrivala September morning, but warm and bright as any in JulyI rambled into a...
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The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself after starting from midnight slumber! By unclosing your eyes so suddenly, you seem to have surprised the personages of your dream...
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The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") Methinks, for a person whose instinct bids him rather to pore over the current of life, than to plunge into its tumultuous waves, no undesirable retreat were a toll-house beside some thronged thoroughfare of the land....
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Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales")Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales") What is Guilt? A stain upon the soul. And it is a point of vast interest, whether the soul may contract such stains, in all their depth and flagrancy, from deeds which may have been plotted and resolved...
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The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") [This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlaps History of the Arts of Design,a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think, to the artist.] But...
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Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales")Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") O! I have climbed high, and my reward is small. Here I stand, with wearied knees, earth, indeed, at a dizzy depth below, but heaven far, far beyond me still. O that I could soar up...
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A Rill from the Town PumpA Rill from the Town Pump (SCENE.--The corner of two principal streets.--[Essex and Washington Streets, Salem.]--The Town Pump talking through its nose.) NOON, by the North clock! Noon, by the east! High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my...
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Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales")Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales") The town crier has rung his bell, at a distant corner, and little Annie stands on her father's doorsteps, trying to hear what the man with the loud voice is talking about. Let me listen too. O,...
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Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales")Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales") Every Sabbath morning in the summer time I thrust back the curtain, to watch the sunrise stealing down a steeple, which stands opposite my chamber-window. First, the weathercock begins to flash; then, a fainter lustre gives the...
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