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Updated: June 25, 2025

But it was the general belief that Esther could cause the governors of the overthrown dynasty, with the beautiful ladies who had once adorned their festivals, the Indian chiefs who had come up to the province-house to hold council or swear allegiance, the grim provincial warriors, the severe clergymen in short, all the pageantry of gone days, all the figures that ever swept across the broad-plate of glass in former times, she could cause the whole to reappear and people the inner world of the mirror with shadows of old life.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales