Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 406
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Excerpt from Mosses From an Old Manse, Vol. 1 of 2 We have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth Our feasts with portions of some delicate calf or lamb. It is one of the drawbacks upon our Eden that it contains no water fit either to drink or to bathe in and so on. The study, to which Mrs. Hawthorne refers, had, as the descriptive essay says, three win dows set with little, old-fashioned panes of glass, each with a crack across it. On the glass of one of the two western windows, which, in Haw thorne's phrase, looked, or rather peeped, be tween the willow branches down into the or chard, are several informal inscriptions, written there with a diamond. Among them are the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.