...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...ciated with the Pennsylva- nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...f phrase, which, if it do not show a bewilderment of mind in these erudite physicians, certainly causes it in the unlearned peruser of their opinions.... ... 20 The House of the Seven Gables now congeals in newspapers,—tradition is responsible for all contrary averments. In Colonel Pyncheon’s funeral ser- ... ...tle more to think of her mother and her native place—unless for such moral medicines as the above, we should soon have beheld our poor Phoebe grow thi... ...ess as he had been,—continu- ally changing his whereabout, and, therefore, responsible neither to public opinion nor to individuals,—putting off one e... ...n your mouth, Judge Pyncheon! After this comes something more important. A committee of his political party has besought him for a hundred or two of d... ...s no trifling stake of his own in the same great game. He will do what the committee asks; nay, he will be liberal beyond their expectations; they sha... ...h the bargain in his favor? Will he see his family physician, and obtain a medicine that shall preserve him, to be an honor and blessing to his race, ...

...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden h...