Line 42-50: “And, allow that, many, many years ago, in his early and reckless youth, he had committed some one wrong act…let it overshadow the fair aspect of a lifetime” Line 22-25: “…his efforts in the furtherance of the temperance-cause’ his confining himself, since the last attack of the gout, to five diurnal glasses of old Sherry wine…” Line 18-21: “…the severity with which he had frowned upon, and finally cast off, an expensive and dissipated son, delaying forgiveness until within the final quarter of an hour the young man’s life…” Line 7-36: “The purity of his judicial character, while on the bench the faithfulness of his public service in subsequent capacities…” Line 4: “…there was enoughsplendid rubbishin his life to cover up and paralyze a more active and subtle conscience than the Judge was troubled with” Judge Pyncheon projects a good identity of himself to the public, and inadvertently loses his own true identity. “We might say that there was enough of splendid rubbish in his life to cover up and paralyze a more active and subtle conscience than the Judge was ever troubled with” The House of Seven Gables By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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