The House of the Seven Gables
Chapter IX: “Clifford and Phoebe”
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Phoebe begins to brighten up the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford.
Phoebe begins to brighten up the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford.
Love hath the wings of the butterfly,
Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long
Lady Muriel meets Sylvie and Bruno.
Mrs. Sowerby visits the garden. Everyone notices how much Colin looks like his mother. Mary and Colin embrace Mrs. Sowerby and wish that she were their mothers.
Sylvie plays the piano.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
"Slow de night ’s a–fallin’,"
A reflection on one who is gone.
The town rejoices in the fact that there is no hunting or fishing allowed. Brownie is elected to thank Farmer Green. Mr. Crow explains the true meaning of the sign. The town realizes their danger.
After the sudden death of Aunt March, Joe and the Professor inherit Plumfield. The novel closes as Mrs. March celebrates her sixtieth birthday surrounded by her daughters and extended family.
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy,
"When you and I were young, the days"
The narrator travels to New York City and describes ragtime music.
"Poor withered rose, she gave it me,"
THY various works, imperial queen, we see,
"The Anti-Slavery Movement." Extracts from a Lecture before Various Anti-Slavery Bodies, in the Winter of 1855.
Mr. Crow gives Brownie a run-down of the week’s events.
Alice's testimony angers the Queen, resulting in a harsh sentence before the verdict is read. Amidst the sudden chaos of Wonderland, Alice suddenly finds herself in more familiar surroundings.
The king, angered Polynesia's deception, pursues Doctor Dolittle as he rushes towards the Land of the Monkeys. Chee-Chee uses his knowledge of the island to ensure the Doctor's safety. Doctor Dolittle witnesses the famous "Bridge of Apes".
Following the conclusion of the croquet game, Alice is sent to visit the Mock Turtle.
A poem/nursery rhyme about the rewards of good behavior.
Phileas and Passepartout journey through India on an elephant. Sir Francis' explanation of the the suttee appalls both Passepartout and Phileas.
This is a greatly abridged children's version of Dickens' 1844 Christmas novella. An old fellow named Trotty thinks the church bells are talking to him when they chime each quarter hour. When he visits the church to see why they are saying things to him he has a dream in which the bells really do speak to him, and the dream changes Trotty’s life.
"Ah, Nora, my Nora, the light fades away,"