The Library of America • Story of the Week Reprinted from Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches

(The Library of America, 1982), pages 1103–22. First published in two parts in The International Magazine (February &

March 1852) and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse (1854).

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