portsoaken

Updated: June 22, 2025

"No," said Septimius, abruptly, for indeed he had half a suspicion that this queer Doctor Portsoaken was not altogether sincere, that, in short, he was making game of him. "You have been misinformed. I know nothing whatever that is worth knowing." "Oho!" said the doctor, with a long puff of smoke out of his pipe.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life