The house of the seven gables . pen to beacquainted, into the form of a legend, and mean to pub-Hsh it in a magazine. Do you write for the magazines ? inquired Phoebe. Is it possible you did not know it ? cried Holgrave. Well, such is literary fame! Yes, Miss Phcebe Pyn-cheon, among the multitude of my marvellous gifts, Ihave that of writing stories; and my name has figured,I can assure you, on the covers of Graham and Godey, 214 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. making as respectable an appearance, for aught I couldsee, as any of the canonized bead-roll with which it wasassociated. In the humoro
The house of the seven gables . pen to beacquainted, into the form of a legend, and mean to pub-Hsh it in a magazine. Do you write for the magazines ? inquired Phoebe. Is it possible you did not know it ? cried Holgrave. Well, such is literary fame! Yes, Miss Phcebe Pyn-cheon, among the multitude of my marvellous gifts, Ihave that of writing stories; and my name has figured,I can assure you, on the covers of Graham and Godey, 214 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. making as respectable an appearance, for aught I couldsee, as any of the canonized bead-roll with which it wasassociated. In the humorous line, 1 am thought to havea very pretty way with me; aud as for pathos, 1 am asprovocative of tears as an onion. But shall 1 read youmy story ? Yes, if it is not very long, said Phoebe, — and addedlaughingly, — nor very dull. As this latter point was one which the dagnerreotvpistcould not decide for himself, he Iorth^/ith produced hisroll of manuscript, and, while the late sunbeams gilded theseven g( bles, began to XIII. ALICE PYNCHEON.
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