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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

"Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1"


In an old house, a mysterious knocking might be beard on the wall, where
had formerly been a doorway, now bricked up.
It might be stated, as the closing circumstance of a tale, that the body
of one of the characters had been petrified, and still existed in that
state.
A young man to win the love of a girl, without any serious intentions,
and to find that in that love, which might have been the greatest
blessing of his life, he had conjured up a spirit of mischief which
pursued him throughout his whole career,--and this without any revengeful
purposes on the part of the deserted girl.
Two lovers, or other persons, on the most private business, to appoint a
meeting in what they supposed to be a place of the utmost solitude, and
to find it thronged with people.

October 17th.--Some of the oaks are now a deep brown red; others are
changed to a light green, which, at a little distance, especially in the
sunshine, looks like the green of early spring. In some trees, different
masses of the foliage show each of these hues. Some of the walnut-trees
have a yet more delicate green.


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