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OVERHEARD THE NIGHT OF MARCH 21, 1850.(Short Story)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20000601
Author:SCOTT, JOANNA

You need not dread being overheard, however loudly you may speak. Your voice--or, at least, your meaning--will reach only those who are privileged to hear and understand it, and what sense is there in caring one fig about the helter-skelter judgments of those who cannot understand you.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne in a letter to L. W. Mansfield, Salem, March 19, 1850

A MISTY MARCH NIGHT IN SALEM, and Nathaniel Hawthorne is lying awake next to his wife, feeling her fever travel like the vibration of sound through the bed linen. Soon--though not soon enough--he will move his ...

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