shafton's

Updated: June 2, 2025

Oddly enough, my success was generally in proportion to the difference between the conception and accomplishment. I provided two or more commencements and catastrophes to many of the tales, a happy expedient, suggested by the double sets of sleeves and trimmings which diversified the suits in Sir Piercy Shafton's wardrobe.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")