Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")
Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
12 Nov, 2019
Brief Extract: There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces which time has
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Brief Extract: There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces which time has snatched away. Some old people, especially women, so age-worn and woeful are they, seem never to have been young and gay. Less