Last night they were our visitors, and your name came in among the Household Gods to make us as agreeable as might be.

We were considering your expectations about Mr.Hawthorne.

'All right,' says Mr.Story, '_except the rare half hours_' (of eloquence).

He represents Mr.Hawthorne as not silent only by shyness, but by nature and inaptitude.

He is a man, it seems, who talks wholly and exclusively with the pen, and who does not open out socially with his most intimate friends any more than with strangers.