If he walked out he took Rosa, then a child of six, with him.

He once came with her to my room, but he seemed tired from the ascent of the stairs.
I was on the fifth floor.
"I have been surprised to see that he made severe personal remarks in his journal, for in the three months that I knew him I never heard an unkind word; he was always courteous, gentle, and retiring.

Mrs.
Hawthorne said she took a wifely pride in his having no small vices.

Mr.
Hawthorne said to Miss S., 'I have yet to find the first fault in Mrs.
Hawthorne.' "One day Mrs.Hawthorne came to my room, held up an inkstand, and said, 'The new book will be begun to-night.' "This was 'The Marble Faun.' She said, 'Mr.Hawthorne writes after every one has gone to bed.

I never see the manuscript until it is what he calls _clothed_'....