. American lands and letters. spiritedfriend Ticknor to cheer and guide him. Ticknoris brought back by the undertakers ;* Hawthornefollows — alone, trying to be strong and more he journeys — now with his old friendPresident Pierce—his voice shaking when he bidsthem adieu at his Concord home. The friends go northward ; and on the 18th ofMay, 1864 (ten days after the great Battle of theWilderness), reach the Pemigewassett Inn, in thepretty valley through which a New Hampshirecountry road trends toward the Franconia Moun- * Mr. Ticknor died a few days after setting out upon thejourne
. American lands and letters. spiritedfriend Ticknor to cheer and guide him. Ticknoris brought back by the undertakers ;* Hawthornefollows — alone, trying to be strong and more he journeys — now with his old friendPresident Pierce—his voice shaking when he bidsthem adieu at his Concord home. The friends go northward ; and on the 18th ofMay, 1864 (ten days after the great Battle of theWilderness), reach the Pemigewassett Inn, in thepretty valley through which a New Hampshirecountry road trends toward the Franconia Moun- * Mr. Ticknor died a few days after setting out upon thejourney, in Philadelphia (April, 1864). HAWTHORNES DEATH. 267 tains. They had adjoining rooms; so, twice orthrice in the niglit Pierce ste^JS to the bedside ofhis companion, who seems sleeping quietly — veryquietly. No change ever came more quietly ; nogroans, no sighs, no conscious pain even — onlythe gates opened — for this, our great romancer,and our greatest master of English prose — and hepassed through by ILuvihuines Grave at Sleepy Hollow, Concord. CHAPTER V. WE lingered long in our last chapter — butwho shall venture to say unduly—overthe career of that master who put a Scarlet Let-ter ineffaceably upon the history of the traced him from his childish home in thequaint Salem house (still standing) to the wildsof Sebago Lake, where a maternal uncle gavehim the run of great woods; and thence to thenear college of Bowdoin, where the suave , of the Biographical Dictionary, presided,and two brothers Abbott found the Way to doGood; where also Bridge and General Pierce,in their young days, befriended Hawthorne, andwhere the Rev. George Cheever learned to slashwith sharp rhetoric at unbelievers, slave-mongersand Distillery folk. Again we followed the Master to Salem, and to the gauging of barrels on Boston wharves; then268 HA WTHORNE. 269 that pretty episode of Brook Farm came, where aCountess Ossoli flashed into view, and that pret-tier episo
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