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slash newsletter. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne. That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study.

There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medborn, Colonel Killegrue and Mr. Gascoigne,

and a withered gentlewoman whose name was the widow Wichorley. They were all melancholy old creatures, who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greatest

misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medborn, in the vigor of his age,

had been a prosperous merchant, but had lost his

all by a frantic speculation, and was now a little better than a medicant.

Colonel Killegru had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit

of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout,

and diverse other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man

of evil fame, or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the

present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous.

As for the widow, Wicharly, tradition tells us that she was a great beauty in her day,

but for a long while past she had lived in deep seclusion on account of certain scandalous stories

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