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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

"Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1"


A story to show how we are all wronged and wrongers, and avenge one
another.
To personify winds of various characters.
A man living a wicked life, in one place, and simultaneously a virtuous
and religious one in another.
An ornament to be worn about the person of a lady,--as a jewelled heart.
After many years, it happens to be broken or unscrewed, and a poisonous
odor comes out.
Lieutenant F. W------ of the navy was an inveterate duellist and an
unerring shot. He had taken offence at Lieutenant F------, and
endeavored to draw him into a duel, following him to the Mediterranean
for that purpose, and harassing him intolerably. At last, both parties
being in Massachusetts, F------ determined to fight, and applied to
Lieutenant A------ to be his second. A------ examined into the merits of
the quarrel, and came to the conclusion that F------ had not given F.
W------ justifiable cause for driving him to a duel, and that he ought
not to be shot. He instructed F------ in the use of the pistol, and,
before the meeting, warned him, by all means, to get the first fire; for
that, if F.


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