19 Aug DEFINITION WRITING In this discussion assignment, we will be practicin
DEFINITION WRITING
In this discussion assignment, we will be practicing definition writing. Please read the following story about fate in the life of young David Swan. The prompt is at the end of the story.
DAVID SWAN Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Swan, at the age of twenty, was journeying on foot from his native New Hampshire to the city of Boston, where his uncle, a small dealer in groceries, was to take him behind the counter. David was born of respectable parents and had received an ordinary school education. After journeying on foot from sunrise till nearly noon of a summer’s day, his weariness and the increasing heat forced him to sit down in the first convenient shade and await the coming up of the stage-coach. He flung himself down under a tree, pillowing his head upon some shirts and a pair of trousers which were tied up in a striped cotton handkerchief. The sunbeams could not reach him; a spring murmured drowsily beside him; the branches of the tree waved dreamily across the blue sky overhead; and a deep sleep fell upon David Swan.
While he lay sound asleep in the shade, other people were wide awake, and passed to and fro, afoot, on horseback, and in all sorts of vehicles, along the sunny road by his bedchamber. Some looked neither to the right hand nor the left, and knew not that he was there; some merely glanced that way; some laughed to see how soundly he slept. A middle-aged widow, when nobody else was near, vowed that the young fellow looked charming in his sleep.
He had slept only a few moments when a brown carriage, drawn by a handsome pair of horses, bowled easily along, and was brought to a standstill nearly in front of David’s resting-place, as one of the wheels had slid off. The damage was slight, and occasioned merely a momentary alarm to an elderly merchant and his wife, who were returning to Boston in the carriage. While the coachman and a servant were replacing the wheel, the lady and gentleman sheltered themselves beneath the maple-trees, and there espied the bubbling fountain, and David Swan asleep beside it. The merchant trod as lightly as the gout would allow; and his spouse took good heed not to rustle her silk gown, lest David should start up all of a sudden.
“How soundly he sleeps!” whispered the old gentleman. “Such sleep as that would be worth more to me than half my income; for it would suppose health and an untroubled mind.”
“And youth, besides,” said the lady.
The longer they looked the more did this elderly couple feel interested in the unknown youth. Perceiving that a stray sunbeam glimmered down upon his face, the lady contrived to twist a branch aside, so as to intercept it. And having done this little act of kindness, she began to feel like a mother to him.
“Providence seems to have laid him here,” whispered she to her husband, “and to have brought us hither to find him, after our disappointment in our cousin’s son. I can see a likeness to our departed Henry. Shall we waken him?”
“To what purpose?” said the merchant, hesitating. “We know nothing of the youth’s character.”
“That open face!” replied his wife, in the same hushed voice, yet earnestly. “This innocent sleep!”
While these whispers were passing, the sleeper’s heart did not throb nor his features betray the least token of interest. Yet Fortune was bending over him, just ready to let fall a burden of gold.
The old merchant had lost his only son, and had no heir to his wealth except a distant relative, with whose conduct he was dissatisfied. In such cases, people sometimes do stranger things than to act like a magician, and awaken a young man to splendor who fell asleep in poverty.
“Shall we not waken him?” repeated the lady persuasively.
“The coach is ready, sir,” said the servant, behind.
The old couple started, reddened, and hurried away, mutually wondering that they should ever have dreamed of doing anything so very ridiculous. The merchant threw himself back in the carriage, and occupied his mind with the plan of a magnificent asylum for unfortunate men of business. Meanwhile, David Swan enjoyed his nap.
The carriage could not have gone above a mile or two, when a pretty young girl came along with a tripping pace, which showed precisely how her little heart was dancing. She turned aside into the shelter of the maple-trees, and there found a young man asleep by the spring! Blushing as red as any rose that she should have intruded into a gentleman’s bedchamber, and for such a purpose, too, she was about to make her escape on tiptoe. But there was peril near the sleeper. A monster of a bee had been wandering overhead–buzz, buzz, buzz–now among the leaves, now flashing through the strips of sunshine, and now lost in the dark shade, till finally he appeared to be settling on the eyelid of David Swan. The sting of a bee is sometimes deadly. As free hearted as she was innocent, the girl attacked the intruder with her handkerchief, brushed him soundly, and drove him from beneath the mapleshade. How sweet a picture! This good deed accomplished, with quickened breath, and a deeper blush, she stole a glance at the youthful stranger for whom she had been battling with a dragon in the air.
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