Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

CHAP. XI.

Note 1. Author’s note.—“Compare it with Spenser’s Cave of Despair. Put instruments of suicide there.”

Note 2. Author’s note.—“Once, in looking at the mansion, Redclyffe is struck by the appearance of a marble inserted into the wall, and kept clear of lichens.”

Note 3. Author’s note.—“Describe, in rich poetry, all shapes of deadly things.”