The religious doubts of a man who prefers to worship privately, as he watches the townsfolk entering the church on Sunday.
First published (as by "the author of The Gentle Boy") in The Token, 1837.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1837 |
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Twice-Told Tales | American Stationers Co. | Collection | 25 |
| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |2 | |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 32 |
| 1941 | The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Literary Classics | Omnibus | 313 | |
| 1970 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | Collection | 415 |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 414 |
| 1987 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 200 |
| 2001 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Modern Library | Collection | 11 |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 15 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |414 | |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 13 |
| June 2012 |
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Twice-Told Tales | ReadHowYouWant | Collection | 20 |