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The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (14); The Dolliver Romance. Sepimus Felton, or the Elixir of Life. Appendix: the Ancestral Footstep
The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Dolliver Romance Sepimus Felton or the Elixir of Life Appendix the Ancestral Footstep - 14 Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne Volume: 14 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SEPTIMIUS FELTON OR, THE ELIXIR OF LIFE IT was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground, -- beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay, -- so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hillside enjoying the warm day and one another. For they were all friends: two of them young men, and playmates from boyhood ; the third a girl, who, two or three years younger than themselves, had been the object of their boy love, their little rustic, childish gallantries, their budding affections; until, growing all towards manhood and womanhood, they had ceased to talk about such matters, perhaps thinking about them the more. These three young people were neighbors' children, dwelling in houses that stood by the side of the great Lexington road, along a ridgy hill that rose abruptly behind them, its brow covered with a wood, and which stretched, with one or two breaks and interruptions, into theheart of the village of Concord, the county town. It was in the side of this hill that, according to tradition, the first settlers of the village had burrowed in caverns which they had dug out for their shelter, like swallows and woodchucks. As its slope was towards the south, and its ridge and crowning woods defended them from the northern blasts and snowdrifts, it wa...« less