While on a train, one character in this novel annoys a passenger by constantly mentioning a dead man with a “blood-stain on his shirt-bosom.” This novel ends as an old man faintly hears the harpsichord of a long-dead girl who threw posy seeds on her roof. Before being executed, a man in this novel looks at his enemy and shouts, “God will give him blood to drink!” Near the end of this novel, a long-lost land deed for territory in Maine is discovered behind the (*) portrait of a Colonel. In this novel, the daguerreotypist Holgrave reveals that he is descended from Matthew Maule, who was hanged for witchcraft. In this novel, the girl Phoebe visits her relatives Clifford and Hepzibah, who live in the title structure. For 10 points, the Pyncheon family lives in the title structure of what novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne? ■END■
ANSWER: The House of the Seven Gables
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