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+Title: The Sister Years (From "Twice Told Tales")
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Posting Date: December 2, 2010 [EBook #9211]
+Release Date: November, 2005
+First Posted: August 23, 2003
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+                        TWICE TOLD TALES
+
+                        THE SISTER YEARS
+
+                     By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+Last night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, when the Old Year was
+leaving her final foot prints on the borders of Time's empire, she
+found herself in possession of a few spare moments, and sat down--of
+all places in the world--on the steps of our new City Hall.  The
+wintry moonlight showed that she looked weary of body, and sad of
+heart, like many another wayfarer of earth.  Her garments, having been
+exposed to much foul weather, and rough usage, were in very ill
+condition; and as the hurry of her journey had never before allowed
+her to take an instant's rest, her shoes were so worn as to be
+scarcely worth the mending.  But, after trudging only a little
+distance farther, this poor Old Year was destined to enjoy a long,
+long sleep.  I forgot to mention, that when she seated herself on the
+steps, she deposited by her side a very capacious bandbox, in which,
+as is the custom among travellers of her sex, she carried a great deal
+of valuable property.  Besides this luggage, there was a folio book
+under her arm, very much resembling the annual volume of a newspaper.
+Placing this volume across her knees, and resting her elbows upon it,
+with her forehead in her hands, the weary, bedraggled, world-worn Old
+Year heaved a heavy sigh, and appeared to be taking no very pleasant
+retrospect of her past existence.
+
+While she thus awaited the midnight knell, that was to summon her to
+the innumerable sisterhood of departed Years, there came a young
+maiden treading lightsomely on tiptoe along the street, from the
+direction of the Railroad Depot.  She was evidently a stranger, and
+perhaps had come to town by the evening train of cars.  There was a
+smiling cheerfulness in this fair maiden's face, which bespoke her
+fully confident of a kind reception from the multitude of people, with
+whom she was soon to form acquaintance.  Her dress was rather too airy
+for the season, and was bedizened with fluttering ribbons and other
+vanities, which were likely soon to be rent away by the fierce storms,
+or to fade in the hot sunshine, amid which she was to pursue her
+changeful course.  But still she was a wonderfully pleasant looking
+figure, and had so much promise and such an indescribable hopefulness
+in her aspect, that hardly anybody could meet her without anticipating
+some very desirable thing--the consummation of some long-sought good--from
+her kind offices.  A few dismal characters there may be, here and
+there about the world, who have so often been trifled with by young
+maidens as promising as she, that they have now ceased to pin any
+faith upon the skirts of the New Year. But, for my own part, I have
+great faith in her; and should I live to see fifty more such, still,
+from each of those successive sisters, I shall reckon upon receiving
+something that will be worth living for.
+
+The New Year--for this young maiden was no less a personage--carried
+all her goods and chattels in a basket of no great size or weight,
+which hung upon her arm.  She greeted the disconsolate Old Year with
+great affection, and sat down beside her on the steps of the City
+Hall, waiting for the signal to begin her rambles through the world.
+The two were own sisters, being both granddaughters of Time; and
+though one looked so much older than the other, it was rather owing to
+hardships and trouble than to age, since there was but a twelvemonth's
+difference between them.
+
+"Well, my dear sister," said the New Year, after the first
+salutations, "you look almost tired to death.  What have you been
+about during your sojourn in this part of Infinite Space?"
+
+"O, I have it all recorded here in my Book of Chronicles," answered
+the Old Year, in a heavy tone.  "There is nothing that would amuse
+you; and you will soon get sufficient knowledge of such matters from
+your own personal experience.  It is but tiresome reading."
+
+Nevertheless, she turned over the leaves of the folio, and glanced at
+them by the light of the moon, feeling an irresistible spell of
+interest in her own biography, although its incidents were remembered
+without pleasure.  The volume, though she termed it her Book of
+Chronicles, seemed to be neither more nor less than the Salem Gazette
+for 1838; in the accuracy of which journal this sagacious Old Year
+had so much confidence, that she deemed it needless to record her
+history with her own pen.
+
+"What have you been doing in the political way?" asked the New Year.
+
+"Why, my course here in the United States," said the Old Year,--"though
+perhaps I ought to blush at the confession,--my political
+course, I must acknowledge, has been rather vacillatory, sometimes
+inclining towards the Whigs,--then causing the Administration party to
+shout for triumph,--and now again uplifting what seemed the almost
+prostrate banner of the Opposition; so that historians will hardly
+know what to make of me, in this respect.  But the Loco Focos--"
+
+"I do not like these party nicknames," interrupted her sister, who
+seemed remarkably touchy about some points.  "Perhaps we shall part in
+better humor, if we avoid any political discussion."
+
+"With all my heart," replied the Old Year, who had already been
+tormented half to death with squabbles of this kind.  "I care not if
+the navies of Whig or Tory, with their interminable brawls about Banks
+and the Sub-Treasury, Abolition, Texas, the Florida War, and a million
+of other topics,--which you will learn soon enough for your own
+comfort,--I care not, I say, if no whisper of these matters ever
+reaches my ears again.  Yet they have occupied so large a share of my
+attention, that I scarcely know what else to tell you.  There has
+indeed been a curious sort of war on the Canada border, where blood
+has streamed in the names of Liberty and Patriotism; but it must
+remain for some future, perhaps far distant Year, to tell whether or
+no those holy names have been rightfully invoked.  Nothing so much
+depresses me, in my view of mortal affairs, as to see high energies
+wasted, and human life and happiness thrown away, for ends that appear
+oftentimes unwise, and still oftener remain unaccomplished.  But the
+wisest people and the best keep a steadfast faith that the progress of
+Mankind is onward and upward, and that the toil and anguish of the
+path serve to wear away the imperfections of the Immortal Pilgrim, and
+will be felt no more, when they have done their office."
+
+"Perhaps," cried the hopeful New Year,--"perhaps I shall see that
+happy day!"
+
+"I doubt whether it be so close at hand," answered the Old Year,
+gravely smiling.  "You will soon grow weary of looking for that
+blessed consummation, and will turn for amusement (as has frequently
+been my own practice) to the affairs of some sober little city, like
+this of Salem.  Here we sit on the steps of the new City Hall, which
+has been completed under my administration; and it would make you
+laugh to see how the game of politics, of which the Capitol at
+Washington is the great chess-board, is here played in miniature.
+Burning Ambition finds its fuel here; here Patriotism speaks boldly in
+the people's behalf, and virtuous Economy demands retrenchment in the
+emoluments of a lamplighter; here the Aldermen range their senatorial
+dignity around the Mayor's chair of state, and the Common Council feel
+that they have liberty in charge.  In short, human weakness and
+strength, passion and policy, Man's tendencies, his aims and modes of
+pursuing them, his individual character, and his character in the
+mass, may be studied almost as well here as on the theatre of nations;
+and with this great advantage, that, be the lesson ever so disastrous,
+its Liliputian scope still makes the beholder smile."
+
+"Have you done much for the improvement of the City?" asked the New
+Year.  "Judging from what little I have seen, it appears to be ancient
+and timeworn."
+
+"I have opened the Railroad," said the elder Year, "and half a dozen
+times a day, you will hear the bell (which once summoned the Monks of
+a Spanish Convent to their devotions) announcing the arrival or
+departure of the cars.  Old Salem now wears a much livelier expression
+than when I first beheld her.  Strangers rumble down from Boston by
+hundreds at a time.  New faces throng in Essex Street.  Railroad-hacks
+and omnibuses rattle over the pavements.  There is a perceptible
+increase of oyster-shops, and other establishments for the
+accommodation of a transitory diurnal multitude.  But a more important
+change awaits the venerable town.  An immense accumulation of musty
+prejudices will be carried off by the free circulation of society.  A
+peculiarity of character, of which the inhabitants themselves are
+hardly sensible, will be rubbed down and worn away by the attrition of
+foreign substances.  Much of the result will be good; there will
+likewise be a few things not so good.  Whether for better or worse,
+there will be a probable diminution of the moral influence of wealth,
+and the sway of an aristocratic class, which, from an era far beyond
+my memory, has held firmer dominion here than in any other New England
+town."
+
+The Old Year having talked away nearly all of her little remaining
+breath, now closed her Book of Chronicles, and was about to take her
+departure.  But her sister detained her awhile longer, by inquiring
+the contents of the huge bandbox, which she was so painfully lugging
+along with her.
+
+"These are merely a few trifles," replied the Old Year, "which I have
+picked up in my rambles, and am going to deposit, in the receptacle of
+things past and forgotten.  We sisterhood of Years never carry
+anything really valuable out of the world with us. Here are patterns
+of most of the fashions which I brought into vogue, and which have
+already lived out their allotted term.  You will supply their place,
+with others equally ephemeral.  Here, put up in little China pots,
+like rouge, is a considerable lot of beautiful women's bloom, which
+the disconsolate fair ones owe me a bitter grudge for stealing.  I
+have likewise a quantity of men's dark hair, instead of which, I have
+left gray locks, or none at all.  The tears of widows and other
+afflicted mortals, who have received comfort during the last twelve
+months, are preserved in some dozens of essence-bottles, well corked
+and sealed.  I have several bundles of love-letters, eloquently
+breathing an eternity of burning passion, which grew cold and
+perished, almost before the ink was dry.  Moreover, here is an
+assortment of many thousand broken promises, and other broken ware,
+all very light and packed into little space.  The heaviest articles in
+my possession are a large parcel of disappointed hopes, which, a
+little while ago, were buoyant enough to have inflated Mr. Lauriat's
+balloon."
+
+"I have a fine lot of hopes here in my basket," remarked the New Year.
+"They are a sweet-smelling flower,--a species of rose."
+
+"They soon lose their perfume," replied the sombre Old Year. "What
+else have you brought to insure a welcome from the discontented race
+of mortals?"
+
+"Why, to say the truth, little or nothing else," said her sister, with
+a smile,--"save a few new Annuals and Almanacs, and some New Year's
+gifts for the children.  But I heartily wish well to poor mortals, and
+mean to do all I can for their improvement and happiness."
+
+"It is a good resolution," rejoined the Old Year; "and, by the way, I
+have a plentiful assortment of good resolutions, which have now grown
+so stale and musty, that I am ashamed to carry them any farther.  Only
+for fear that the City authorities would send Constable Mansfield,
+with a warrant after me, I should toss them into the street at once.
+Many other matters go to make up the contents of my bandbox; but the
+whole lot would not fetch a single bid, even at an auction of worn-out
+furniture; and as they are worth nothing either to you or anybody
+else, I need not trouble you with a longer catalogue."
+
+"And must I also pickup such worthless luggage in my travels?" asked
+the New Year.
+
+"Most certainly; and well, if you have no heavier load to bear,"
+replied the other.  "And now, my dear sister, I must bid you farewell,
+earnestly advising and exhorting you to expect no gratitude 'nor
+goodwill from this peevish, unreasonable, inconsiderate, ill-intending,
+and worse-behaving world.  However warmly its inhabitants may seen to
+welcome you, yet, do what you may, and lavish on them what means of
+happiness you please, they will still be complaining, still craving
+what it is not in your power to give, still looking forward to some
+other Year for the accomplishment of projects which ought never to
+have been formed, and which, if successful, would only provide new
+occasions of discontent.  If these ridiculous people ever see anything
+tolerable in you, it will be after you are gone forever."
+
+"But I," cried the fresh-hearted New Year,--"I shall try to leave men
+wiser than I find them.  I will offer them freely whatever good gifts
+Providence permits me to distribute, and will tell them to be thankful
+for what they have, and humbly hopeful for more; and surely, if they
+are not absolute fools, they will condescend to be happy, and will
+allow me to be a happy Year. For my happiness must depend on them."
+
+"Alas for you, then, my poor sister!" said the Old fear, sighing, as
+she uplifted her burden.  "We grand-children of Time are born to
+trouble.  Happiness, they say, dwells in the mansions of Eternity; but
+we can only lead mortals thither, step by step, with reluctant
+murmurings, and ourselves must perish on the threshold.  But hark! my
+task is done."
+
+The clock in the tall steeple of Dr. Emerson's church struck twelve;
+there was a response from Dr. Flint's, in the opposite quarter of the
+city; and while the strokes were yet dropping into the air, the Old
+Year either flitted or faded away; and not the wisdom and might of
+Angels, to say nothing of the remorseful yearnings of the millions who
+had used her ill, could have prevailed with that departed Year to
+return one step.  But she, in the company of Time and all her kindred,
+must hereafter hold a reckoning with Mankind.  So shall it be,
+likewise, with the maidenly New Year, who, as the clock ceased to
+strike, arose from the steps of the City Hall, and set out rather
+timorously on her earthly course.
+
+"A happy New Year!" cried a watchman, eying her figure very
+questionably, but without the least suspicion that he was addressing
+the New Year in person.
+
+"Thank you kindly!"  said the New Year; and she gave the watchman one
+of the roses of hope from her basket.  "May this flower keep a sweet
+smell, long after I have bidden you good by."
+
+Then she stepped on more briskly through the silent streets; and such
+as were awake at the moment, heard her footfall, and said, "The New
+Year is come!"  Wherever there was a knot of midnight roisterers, they
+quaffed her health.  She sighed, however, to perceive that the air was
+tainted--as the atmosphere of this world must continually be--with the
+dying breaths of mortals who had lingered just long enough for her to
+bury them.  But there were millions left alive, to rejoice at her
+coming; and so she pursued her way with confidence, strewing
+emblematic flowers on the doorstep of almost every dwelling, which
+some persons will gather up and wear in their bosoms, and others will
+trample under foot.  The Carrier Boy can only say further, that, early
+this morning, she filled his basket with New Year's Addresses,
+assuring him that the whole City, with our new Mayor, and the Aldermen
+and Common Council at its head, would make a general rush to secure
+copies.  Kind Patrons, will not you redeem the pledge of the NEW YEAR?
+
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