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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

"Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1"

Others are of a bright sunny yellow.
Mr. ------ was married to Miss ------ last Wednesday. Yesterday Mr.
Brazer, preaching on the comet, observed that not one, probably, of all
who heard him, would witness its reappearance. Mrs. ------ shed tears.
Poor soul! she would be contented to dwell in earthly love to all
eternity!
Some treasure or other thing to be buried, and a tree planted directly
over the spot, so as to embrace it with its roots.
A tree, tall and venerable, to be said by tradition to have been the
staff of some famous man, who happened to thrust it into the ground,
where it took root.
A fellow without money, having a hundred and seventy miles to go,
fastened a chain and padlock to his legs, and lay down to sleep in a
field. He was apprehended, and carried gratis to a jail in the town
whither he desired to go.
An old volume in a large library,--every one to be afraid to unclasp and
open it, because it was said to be a book of magic.
A ghost seen by moonlight; when the moon was out, it would shine and melt
through the airy substance of the ghost, as through a cloud.


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