Passages from the English Notebooks

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Passages from the English Notebooks is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1419240277 (ISBN 10) and 9781419240270 (ISBN 13).

In front of our hotel, on the lawn between us and the lake, there are two trees, which we have hitherto taken to be yews; but on examining them more closely, I find that they are pine-trees, and quite dead and dry, although they have the aspect of dark rich life. But this is caused by the verdure of two great ivy-vines, which have twisted round them like gigantic snakes, and, clambering up and throttling the life out of them, have put out branches, and made crowns of thick green leaves, so that, at a little distance, it is quite impossible not to take them for genuine trees.