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¡°THE WHITE OLD MAID¡± is another short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, also published in his collection ¡°Twice-Told Tales¡± in 1835.
Two girls come face to face next to the body of a young man. One girl is proud and majestic, while the other appears gentle and vulnerable. They have a conflict over the body.
The two girls promise to meet again in this room after a long time and leave. As time passes, rumors spread about an old spinster dressed in white. She is a bit crazy but has a gentle nature, and she lives like the shadow of death, never coming out into the sunlight and only following funerals.
One day, the townspeople are shocked when the spinster enters her abandoned mansion. After a while, a gorgeous carriage arrives, and the old lady gets off and enters the mansion. A bizarre scream is heard from inside the mansion, and an elderly priest enters the place and finds the old maid and her wife dead side by side. Her wife was laying her head on her spinster's lap, and there seemed to be some secret between them.
This is a gothic romance that contains themes of rivalry, jealousy, and regret.
Summary
The moonbeams came through two deep and narrow windows and showed a spacious chamber richly furnished in an antique fashion. From one lattice the shadow of the diamond panes was thrown upon the floor; the ghostly light through the other slept upon a bed, falling between the heavy silken curtains and illuminating the face of a young man. But how quietly the slumberer lay! how pale his features!
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