twin-daughter

Updated: July 22, 2025

A comely woman, with a pretty rosebud of a daughter, came to select a gravestone for a twin-daughter, who had died a month before.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

A comely woman with a pretty rosebud of a daughter came to select a gravestone for a twin-daughter, who had died a month before. I was impressed with the different nature of their feelings for the dead.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales