When I paid my bill I heard Mr.Hawthorne say to Miss S., the teacher, who took all the business cares, 'Don't let Miss Mitchell pay for one-sixth of my brandy.' "So if we ordered tea for five, and six partook of it, he called the waiter and said, 'Six have partaken of the tea, although there was no tea added; to the amount.' "I told Mr.Hawthorne that a friend of mine, Miss W., desired very much to see him, as she admired him very much.

He said, 'Don't let her see me, let her keep her little lamp burning.' "He was a sad man; I could never tell why.

I never could get at anything of his religious views.
"He was wonderfully blest in his family.

Mrs.Hawthorne almost worshipped him.

She was of a very serious and religious turn of mind.
"I dined with them the day that Una was sixteen years old.