Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Stories: A minister covers his face in a black veil and swears to keep it on forever. A young farmboy travels to the big city, its dark streets lit by moonlight and the red lights of torches. Young Goodman Brown takes a walk through the woods. A man goes in search of “the unpardonable sin.”
“There was the black veil swathed round Mr. Hooper's forehead, and concealing every feature above his placid mouth, on which, at times, they could perceive the glimmering of a melancholy smile. But that piece of crape, to their imagination, seemed to hang down before his heart, the symbol of a fearful secret between him and them.”
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