Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

CHAP. VI.

Note 1. Author’s note.—“He had a sort of horror of violence, and of the strangeness that it should be done to him; this affected him more than the blow.”

Note 2. Author’s note.—“Jokes occasionally about the schoolmaster’s thinness and lightness,—how he might suspend himself from the spider’s web and swing, etc.”

Note 3. Author’s note.—“The Doctor and the Schoolmaster should have much talk about England.”

Note 4. Author’s note.—“The children were at play in the churchyard.”

Note 5. Author’s note.—“He mentions that he was probably buried in the churchyard there.”