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The Blithedale Romance (Hardcover)
Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R646
Discovery Miles 6 460
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The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to
my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of
the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance
met me in an obscure part of the street. "Mr. Coverdale," said he
softly, "can I speak with you a moment?" As I have casually alluded
to the Veiled Lady, it may not be amiss to mention, for the benefit
of such of my readers as are unacquainted with her now forgotten
celebrity, that she was a phenomenon in the mesmeric line; one of
the earliest that had indicated the birth of a new science, or the
revival of an old humbug. Since those times her sisterhood have
grown too numerous to attract much individual notice; nor, in fact,
has any one of them come before the public under such skilfully
contrived circumstances of stage effect as those which at once
mystified and illuminated the remarkable performances of the lady
in question. Nowadays, in the management of his "subject,"
"clairvoyant," or "medium," the exhibitor affects the simplicity
and openness of scientific experiment;
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