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    The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")
    The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")
    The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")
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    The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Born in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his historical tales and novels about American colonial society. After publishing The Scarlet Letter in 1850, its status as an instant bestseller allowed him to earn a living as a novelist. Full of dark romanticism, psychological complexity, symbolism, and cautionary tales, his work is still popular today. He has earned a place in history as one of the most distinguished American writers of the nineteenth century.

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      The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Title: The Toll Gatherer's Day (From Twice Told Tales)

      Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Posting Date: November 27, 2010 [EBook #9206] Release Date: November, 2005 First Posted: August 23, 2003 Last Updated: February 5, 2007

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TOLL GATHERER'S DAY ***

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      TWICE TOLD TALES

      THE TOLL-GATHERER'S DAY

      A SKETCH OF TRANSITORY LIFE

      By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Methinks, for a person whose instinct bids him rather to pore over the current of life, than to plunge into its tumultuous waves, no undesirable retreat were a toll-house beside some thronged thoroughfare of the land. In youth, perhaps, it is good for the observer to run about the earth, to leave the track of his footsteps far and wide,—to mingle himself with the action of numberless vicissitudes,—and, finally, in some calm solitude, to feed a musing spirit on all that lie has seen and felt. But there are natures too indolent, or too sensitive, to endure the dust, the sunshine, or the rain, the turmoil of moral and physical elements, to which all the wayfarers of the world expose themselves. For such a mail, how pleasant a miracle, could life be made to roll its variegated length by the threshold

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