province-house

William Howe was to pass over the threshold of the province-house and embark, with no such triumphal ceremonies as he once promised himself, on board the British fleet.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

The person whom he had now encountered was the physician, Dr. Clarke, the duties of whose sad profession had led him to the province-house, where he was an infrequent guest in more prosperous times.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Smiling bitterly at himself and her, he took the heavy key of the province-house, and, delivering it into the old lady's hands, drew his clonk around him for departure.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

And Esther Dudley fancied that as soon as the wide door should be flung open all the pomp and splendor of bygone times would pace majestically into the province-house and the gilded tapestry of the past would be brightened by the sunshine of the present.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

At one of the entertainments given at the province-house during the latter part of the siege of Boston there passed a scene which has never yet been satisfactorily explained.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"And did you really see him at the province-house?"

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Some of the most distinguished guests of the province-house -- even those whom the haughty Lady Eleanore

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

In one of the apartments of the province-house there was long preserved an ancient picture the frame of which was as black as ebony, and the canvas itself so dark with age, damp and smoke that not a touch of the painter's art could be discerned.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

-- Well, then, Mistress Dudley, since you will needs tarry, I give the province-house in charge to you.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

At different periods of the evening the liveried servants of the province-house passed among the guests bearing huge trays of refreshments and French and Spanish wines.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834