by John Breckenridge Ellis
CHAPTER I
THE TOUCH OF A CHILD
"I have given my word of honor--my sacred oath--not to betray what I
have discovered here."
At these words from the prison...
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
INTRODUCTION
THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills
in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that
Hawth...
William Shakespeare
1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose
might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender
heir might bear his...