Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.


Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts (ed. 1846)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one ...

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one ...

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one ...

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one ...