The House of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Chapter 6 Page 17

yet, if you could only see the benign smile of the original! It is so much the More unfortunate, as he is a public character of some eminence, and the likeness was intended to be engraved.”

“Well, I don’t wish to see it any more,” observed Phoebe, turning away her eyes. “It is certainly very like the old portrait. But my cousin Hepzibah has another picture, — a miniature. If the original is still in the world, I think he might defy the sun to make him look stern and hard.”

“You have seen that picture, then!” exclaimed the artist, with an expression of much interest.

“I never did, but have a great curiosity to do so. And you judge favorably of the face?”

“There never was a sweeter one,”