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Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864· 2 chapters· 5,498 words

From infancy I was under the guardianship of a village parson, who made me the subject of daily prayer and the sufferer of innumerable stripes, using no distinction, as to these marks of paternal love, between myself and his own three boys. The result, it must be owned, has be...

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From infancy I was under the guardianship of a village parson, who made me the subject of daily prayer and the sufferer of innumerable stripes, using no distinction, as to these...

2. Chapter 2

About the first of September my fellow-traveller and myself arrived at a country town, where a small company of actors, on their return from a summer’s campaign in the British P...