“It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The Marble Faun

Volume I, Chapter XXI.
The Marble Faun (1860)

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