Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2

By Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2
Author:	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: April 16th. Since I last wrote, there has been an addition to our community of four gentlemen in sables, who promise to be among our most useful and respectable members. They arrived yesterday about noon. Mr. Ripley had proposed to them to join us, no longer ago than that very morning. I had some conversation with them in the afternoon, and was glad to hear them express much satisfaction with their new abode and all the arrangements. They do not appear to be very communicative, however, ?or perhaps it may be merely an external reserve, like my own, to shield their delicacy. Several of their prominent characteristics, as well as their black attire, lead me to believe that they are members of the clerical profession; but I have not yet ascertained from their own lips what has been the nature of their past lives. I trust to have much pleasure in their society, and, sooner or later, that we shall all of us derive great strength from our intercourse with them. I cannot too highly applaud the readiness with which these four gentlemen in black have thrown aside all the fopperies and flummeries which have their origin in a false state of society. When I last saw them, they looked as heroically regardless of the stains and soils incident to our profession as I did when I emerged from the gold?mine.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2, 1 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1 -- [EXTRACTS FROM HIS PRIVATE LETTERS.], 1 -- [EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.], 50 -- [PASSAGES FROM NOTE?BOOKS.], 53