Teks asli (Inggris)

The Christmas Banquet by Nathaniel Hawthorne FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART.” “I have here attempted,” said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-house,—“I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides past me, occasionally, in my walk through life. My former sad experience, as you know, has gifted me with some degree of insight into the gloomy mysteries of the human heart, through which I have w