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Pagina 22
... young inheritors of earth's hoarded wealth ! And here , too , are huge packages of banknotes , those talismanic slips of paper which once had the efficacy to build up enchanted palaces like exhalations , and work all kinds of perilous ...
... young inheritors of earth's hoarded wealth ! And here , too , are huge packages of banknotes , those talismanic slips of paper which once had the efficacy to build up enchanted palaces like exhalations , and work all kinds of perilous ...
Pagina 32
... , and whom now , after an interval of five years , he was to find the victim either of a diseased fancy or a horrible . physical misfortune . " A snake in his bosom ! " repeated the young sculptor to himself . " It must be he . 32.
... , and whom now , after an interval of five years , he was to find the victim either of a diseased fancy or a horrible . physical misfortune . " A snake in his bosom ! " repeated the young sculptor to himself . " It must be he . 32.
Pagina 34
... young man had undergone this odious and fearful change during the no more than five brief years of Herkimer's abode at Florence . The possibility of such a transformation being granted , it was as easy to conceive it effected in a ...
... young man had undergone this odious and fearful change during the no more than five brief years of Herkimer's abode at Florence . The possibility of such a transformation being granted , it was as easy to conceive it effected in a ...
Pagina 42
... young man to vex people with a lighter satire , yet still char- acterized by somewhat of snake - like virulence . One day he encountered an ambitious states- man , and gravely inquired after the welfare of his boa constrictor ; for of ...
... young man to vex people with a lighter satire , yet still char- acterized by somewhat of snake - like virulence . One day he encountered an ambitious states- man , and gravely inquired after the welfare of his boa constrictor ; for of ...
Pagina 44
... young girl by the hand , and gazing sadly into her eyes , warned her that she cherished a serpent of the deadliest kind within her gentle breast ; and the world found the truth of those ominous words , when , a few months afterwards ...
... young girl by the hand , and gazing sadly into her eyes , warned her that she cherished a serpent of the deadliest kind within her gentle breast ; and the world found the truth of those ominous words , when , a few months afterwards ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Annie answered apple artist banquet beautiful behold beneath blaze bonfire bosom breast butterfly cold countenance cried dead boy death deep delicate Dorcas Drowne Drowne's earth earthly evil exclaimed face fancy father feel felt figure finger fire flame flung forest gazing Gervayse Hastings glance gleam gloom gnaws guests hand head heap heart Heaven Herkimer human Hunnewell idea imagination Intel lady leaves light look Lord Byron Malvin man's married couple ment mind miserable moral Mount Washington mountain mystery NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nature ness never observed OLD MANSE once Owen Warland perhaps person Peter Hovenden Phidias poet poor replied Reuben Robert Danforth secret seemed serpent shadow snake soul spirit stood strange street sunshine thing thought threw tion tree tremulous truth ture virtuoso voice volume wandering watchmaker White Mountains whole wrought young youth