hepzibah pyncheon
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Alice Pyncheon
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Colonel Pyncheon
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Matthew Maule
“Though an obscure man, was stubborn in the defense of what he considered his right.”...
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Hepzibah Pyncheon
A gaunt, sallow, rusty-jointed maiden, in a long-waisted silk gown, and with a strange horror of a turban on her head. Her visage is not even ugly. It is redeemed from insignificance only by the contraction of her eye-brows into a near-sighted scowl. But ...
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Holgrave The Daguerrotypist
"It was a pleasant sight to behold this young man, with so much faith in himself, and with so fair an appearance of admirable powers, so little harmed, too, by the many tests that had tried his metal.”more...
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Phoebe Pyncheon
“She was very pretty: as graceful as a bird: as pleasant about the house as a gleam of sunshine, — whatever she did, was done without conscious effort, and with frequent outbreaks of song. This natural tunefulness made Phoebe seem like a bird in a shadowy...
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Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon
Was characterized by an iron energy of purpose. A stern and relentless man, with the genuine character of an inquisitor....
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Ned Higgins
“Hepzibahs first customer. A square and sturdy little urchin with cheeks as red as an apple. The very emblem of old Father Time in respect of his all-devouring appetite for men and things.”...
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Thomas Maule
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Uncle Venner
“Commonly regarded as rather ‘deficient than otherwise, in his wits, he had virtually pleaded guilty to the charge, by scarcely aiming at such success as other men seek, and by taking only that humble and modest part in life which belongs to the deficient...