behold-not

Updated: June 4, 2025

Ting-a-ting-ting! goes the bell; the curtain rises; and we behold-not, indeed, the Main Street but the track of leaf-strewn forest-land over which its dusty pavement is hereafter to extend.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Main Street: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")