 ... 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
 | 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1982 - 1546 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...upon his first visit to town. He was clad in a coarse grey coat, well worn, but in excellent repair; his under garments were durably constructed of leather,... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pages
...introduced into the plot with an ambiguous construction of subjectivity that the story will thematize: "While he stood on the landing place, searching in...took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure" (MK, 68). The second "he" could be either Robin or the ferryman, who seem to create each other as Robin... | |
 | Michael Dunne - 2001 - 236 pages
...start in the world. 1 Robin certainly resembles Brother Jonathan in the narrator's initial description: "He was a youth of barely eighteen years, evidently...now, as it should seem, upon his first visit to town" (209). Like Jonathan also, Robin is amazed by all the new sights, and so he walks around town "with... | |
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