Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")
                                            
                            By Nathaniel Hawthorne
                            
                                12 Nov, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces which time has 
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                                                Brief Extract: There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces which time has snatched away. Some old people, especially women, so age-worn and woeful are they, seem never to have been young and gay. Less