Twice-told Tales, المجلد 2Ticknor and Fields, 1865 |
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amid barouche behold bell beneath bosom bright child cold countenance cried Daffydowndilly dark dead door dream dwelling earth Endicott England Ernest Ethan Brand eyes faith fancy father figure fire forest Gathergold gaze gentleman girl glance gleam gone grave gray hand happy head heard heart Heaven Indian John Endicott laugh light lime-burner looked lovers Main-street Major Molineux marble meeting-house ment merry mind mother Mount Defiance Naumkeag neighbors never night Oberon onward passed Peter Goldthwaite Phiz poet Puritan Ralph Cranfield replied Robin Roger Conant Roger Williams scene seemed shadow shout showman smile snow snow-image snow-sister soul spirit spot Stone Face stood strange stranger street sunshine Sylph Tabitha Temple thought Toil Toothaker town trainband trees turned TWICE-TOLD TALES Unpardonable Sin valley village Violet and Peony visage voice weary whole wife wild window woman wonder young youth
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الصفحة 204 - Something had been originally left out or had departed, and therefore the marvellously gifted statesman had always a weary gloom in the deep caverns of his eyes, as of a child that has outgrown its playthings, or a man of mighty faculties and little aims, whose life, with all its high performances, was vague and empty because no high purpose had endowed it with reality. Still Ernest's neighbor was thrusting his elbow into his side and pressing him for an answer. " Confess ! confess ! Is not he the...
الصفحة 192 - Gathergold was now so inured to wealth, that perhaps he could not have closed his eyes unless where the gleam of it was certain to find its way beneath his eyelids. In due time, the mansion was finished ; next came the upholsterers, with magnificent furniture ; then, a whole troop of black and white servants, the harbingers of Mr. Gathergold, who, in his own majestic person, was expected to arrive at sunset. Our friend Ernest, meanwhile, had been deeply stirred by the idea that the great man, the...
الصفحة 262 - ... through all the summers, since Ethan Brand's departure. Laughing boisterously, and mingling all their voices together in unceremonious talk, they now burst into the moonshine and narrow streaks of firelight that illuminated the open space before the lime-kiln. Bartram set the door ajar again, flooding the spot with light, that the whole company might get a fair view of Ethan Brand, and he of them.
الصفحة 267 - I shall show you, indeed, some very superb pictures!" So, placing his box in a proper position, he invited the young men and girls to look through the glass orifices of the machine, and proceeded to exhibit a series of the most outrageous scratchings and daubings, as specimens of the fine arts, that ever an itinerant showman had the face to impose upon his circle of spectators. The pictures were worn out, moreover, tattered, full of cracks and wrinkles, dingy with tobacco-smoke, and otherwise in...
الصفحة 198 - ... applause, and he now stood upon his feet to thank the company. Ernest saw him. There he was, over the shoulders of the crowd, from the two glittering epaulets and embroidered collar upward, beneath the arch of green boughs with intertwined laurel, and the banner drooping as if to shade his brow! And there, too, visible in the same glance, through the vista of the forest, appeared the Great Stone Face! And was there, indeed, such a resemblance as the crowd had testified? Alas, Ernest could not...
الصفحة 204 - said Ernest, bluntly, " I see little or no likeness." " Then so much the worse for the Great Stone Face ! " answered his neighbor ; and again he set up a shout for Old Stony Phiz. But Ernest turned* away, melancholy, and almost despondent ; for this was the saddest of his disappointments, to behold a man who might have fulfilled the prophecy, and had not willed to do so. Meantime, the cavalcade, the banners, the music, and the barouches, swept past him, with the vociferous crowd in the rear, leaving...
الصفحة 210 - Ernest examined the poet's features ; then turned towards the Great Stone Face ; then back, with an uncertain aspect, to his guest. But his countenance fell ; he shook his head, and sighed. " Wherefore are you sad ? " inquired the poet. " Because," replied Ernest, " all through life I have awaited the fulfilment of a prophecy ; and, when I read these poems, I hoped that it might be fulfilled in you.
الصفحة 193 - By the roadside there chanced to be an old beggar-woman and two little beggarchildren, stragglers from some far-off region, who, as the carriage rolled onward, held out their hands and lifted up their doleful voices, most piteously beseeching charity. A yellow claw — the very same that had clawed together so much wealth — poked itself out of the...
الصفحة 179 - And in one sense so she was, for all through life she had kept her heart full of childlike simplicity and faith, which was as pure and clear as crystal, -and, looking at all matters through this transparent medium, she sometimes saw truths so profound that other people laughed at them as nonsense and absurdity.
الصفحة 188 - So his mother told him a story that her own mother had told to her, when she herself was younger than little Ernest; a story, not of things that were past, but of what was yet to come; a story, nevertheless, so very old, that even the Indians, who formerly inhabited this valley, had heard it from their forefathers, to whom, as they affirmed, it had been murmured by the mountain streams, and whispered by the wind among the tree-tops.