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The truth is that after all, in the ethical sphere of the story, Hawthorne has given no more than his meditations, very much at random, upon sin as it appears in the world of nature, and the way in which his chosen characters react under its influence.
He made Greek philosophy the principal object of his meditations. He was raised to the highest honors and offices in the empire by Theodoric, but finally, through the artifices of enemies who envied his reputation, he lost the favor of his patron, was imprisoned, and at length beheaded.
Jack was far from philosophical as a rule, but it is a fact that meditations of this nature did engross him for a minute or two while he sat and waited for Frank, and heard the low voices talking in the lane outside.
"Christmas Eve!" he half growled, as if some perplexing ideas had been called into existence by the suggestion, and his pipe went out as he listlessly shoved some stray coals back into the fire with his foot. But his meditations, to judge from his countenance, were neither interesting nor profitable.
He must have crept about like a cat.... Do you feel as I do, Murch, about all this: that it is very, very strange and baffling?" "That's how it looks," agreed the inspector. "And now," said Trent, rising to his feet, "I'll leave you to your meditations, and take a look at the bedrooms. Perhaps the explanation of all this will suddenly burst upon you while I am poking about up there.
But the graciousness in the conception of the character of Sardanapalus, is not to be found only in these sentiments of his meditations, but in all and every situation in which the character is placed. When Salamenes bids him not sheath his sword 'Tis the sole sceptre left you now with safety, the king replies
In his new frame of mind unswervingly logical, utterly unemotional, and wholly unbound by tradition he had come to connect the African and Indian troubles, and to see in one the relief of the other. The first fruit of his meditations was a letter to The Times. In it he laid down a new theory of emigration.
He now stood before the two girls, silent, and evidently surprised; and it would scarce have been an unworthy subject for a picture that ivied porch that still spot Madeline's reclining and subdued form and downcast eyes the eager face of Ellinor, about to narrate the nature and cause of their intrusion and the pale Student himself, thus suddenly aroused from his solitary meditations, and converted into the protector of beauty.
'He was never heard to speak an ill word of any man living, says one who knew him well, and who himself spoke many ill words of others. Lord Pitsligo left a little book of 'Thoughts on Sacred Things, which reminds those who read it of the meditations of General Gordon. His character, as far as its virtues went, is copied in the Baron Bradwardine, in Sir Walter Scott's novel of 'Waverley.
But then no one ever liked doing what they must, and she had never had any real taste for music; or if she had had, it had vanished long since under the uninspiring goad of compulsion. All her morning depression came back while these bitter meditations racked her brain. Oh, if only if only her father had chosen a lady for his wife!
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