The House of the Seven Gables

The Old Pyncheon Family

The Little Shop-Window

The First Customer

A Day Behind the Counter

May and November

Maule’s Well

The Guest

The Pyncheon of To-day

Clifford and Phœbe

The Pyncheon Garden

Phœbe, after getting well acquainted with the old hen, was sometimes permitted to take the chicken in her hand, which was quite capable of grasping its cubic inch or two of body. While she curiously examined its hereditary marks,—the peculiar speckle of its plumage, the funny tuft on its head, and a knob on each of its legs,—the little biped, as she insisted, kept giving her a sagacious wink. The daguerreotypist once whispered her that these marks betokened the oddities of the Pyncheon family, and that the chicken itself was a symbol of the life of the old house, embodying its interpretation, likewise, although an unintelligible one, as such clews generally are. It was a feathered riddle; a mystery hatched out of an egg, and just as mysterious as if the egg had been addle!

The Arched Window

The Daguerreotypist

Alice Pyncheon

Phœbe’s Good-Bye

The Scowl and Smile

Clifford’s Chamber

The Flight of Two Owls

Governor Pyncheon

Alice’s Posies

The Flower of Eden

The Departure