Twice Told Tales. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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       Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Twice Told Tales

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664188816

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       THE GRAY CHAMPION.

       SUNDAY AT HOME.

       THE WEDDING-KNELL.

       THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL.

       THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT.

       THE GENTLE BOY.

       MR. HIGGINBOTHAM'S CATASTROPHE.

       LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE.

       WAKEFIELD.

       A RILL FROM THE TOWN-PUMP.

       THE GREAT CARBUNCLE. [4]

       THE PROPHETIC PICTURES. [5]

       DAVID SWAN.

       SIGHTS FROM A STEEPLE.

       THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS.

       THE TOLL-GATHERER'S DAY.

       THE VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN.

       FANCY'S SHOW-BOX.

       DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT.

       I. HOWE'S MASQUERADE.

       II. EDWARD RANDOLPH'S PORTRAIT.

       III. LADY ELEANORE'S MANTLE.

       IV. OLD ESTHER DUDLEY.

       THE HAUNTED MIND.

       THE VILLAGE UNCLE.

       THE AMBITIOUS GUEST.

       THE SISTER-YEARS.

       SNOWFLAKES.

       THE SEVEN VAGABONDS.

       THE WHITE OLD MAID.

       PETER GOLDTHWAITE'S TREASURE.

       CHIPPINGS WITH A CHISEL.

       THE SHAKER BRIDAL.

       NIGHT-SKETCHES,

       ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS.

       THE LILY'S QUEST.

       FOOTPRINTS ON THE SEASHORE.

       EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD.

       THE THREEFOLD DESTINY.

      Twice-Told Tales.

THE GRAY CHAMPION.

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      There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II., the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny—a governor and council holding office from the king and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people, immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated and the titles of all landed property declared void; the voice of complaint stifled by restrictions on the press; and finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother-country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector or popish monarch. Till these evil times, however, such allegiance had been merely nominal, and the colonists had ruled themselves, enjoying far more freedom than is even yet the privilege of the native subjects of Great Britain.

      At length a rumor reached our shores that the prince of Orange had ventured on an enterprise the success of which would be the triumph of civil and religious rights and the salvation of New England. It was but a doubtful whisper; it might be false or the attempt might fail, and in either case the man that stirred against King James would lose his head. Still, the intelligence produced a marked effect. The people smiled mysteriously in the streets and threw bold glances at their oppressors, while far and wide there was a subdued and silent agitation, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole land from its sluggish despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved to avert it by an