
Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
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Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
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A Bell’s Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hearken to our neighbor with the iron tongue. While I sit musing over my sheet of foolscap, he emphatically tells the hour, in tones loud enough for all the town to hear, though doubtless intended only as a gentle hint to myself, that I may begin his biography before the evening shall be further wasted. Unquestionably, a personage in such an elevated position, and making so great a noise in the world, has a fair claim to the services of a bi

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