Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1837
A short story from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1837 collection "Twice-Told Tales," in which the narrator ventures out into a rainy New England night and sketches the townspeople he encounters, including a retired sea captain and young lovers.
Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.
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