... circumstances that had caused much temporary inflammation of the popular mind. It was near nine o'clock of a moonlight evening, when a boat crossed the ferry with a single passenger, who had obtained his conveyance at that unusual hour by the promise... The Snow Image and Other Twice-told Tales - Page 192by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 446 pages
...conveyance at that unusual hour by the promise of an extra fare. While he stood on the landing-place, searching in either pocket for the means of fulfilling...ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, and the newly-risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a youth of barely... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1875 - 640 pages
...by the promise of an extra fare. While he stood on the land ' ing place, searching in either pocke-. for the means of fulfilling his agreement, the ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, and the newly-risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a ^outh of barely... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 656 pages
...conveyance at that unusual houl by the promise of an extra fare. While he stood on the landing-place, searching in either pocket for the means of fulfilling his agreement, the ferryman lifted ^ V a lantern, by the aid of which, and the newly risen \ X moon, he took a very accurate survey of... | |
| Ralph Olmsted Williams - 1890 - 212 pages
...sound almost identical with this. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, " The Marble Faun," vol. ii., c. ii., p. 28. He was a youth of barely eighteen years, evidently...now, as it should seem, upon his first visit to town. — Id., " My Kinsman, Major Molineux " (Twice Told Tales). It should seem that these arguments admit... | |
| Ralph Olmsted Williams - 1890 - 204 pages
...sound almost identical with this.—Nathaniel Hawthorne, " The Marble Faun," vol. ii., c. ii., p. 28. He was a youth of barely eighteen years, evidently...and now, as it should seem, upon his first visit to town.—Id., " My Kinsman, Major Molineux " (Twice Told Tales). It should seem that these arguments... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1894 - 514 pages
...conveyance at that unusual hour by the promise of an extra fare. While he stood on the landingplace searching in either pocket for the means of fulfilling...ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which and the newly-risen moon he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a youth of barely... | |
| Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 256 pages
...the Revolution, were favoured with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. The inferior members 170 of the court party, in times of high political excitement,...ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, and the newly-risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a youth of barely... | |
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