It was all as lonely as could be.
That with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.
The second traveler was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown.
I have been well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans.
They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from connecticut and rhode island, besides several of the Indian powwows, who after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us.
My faith is gone .there is no good on earth, and sin is but a name. come devil, for thee is this world given to.
Leaving him in the heart of the dark wilderness, still rushing onwards with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil. The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds- creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians,while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler laughing him to scorn.
"there", resumed the sable form,"are all whom ye have reverenced from youth. Ye deemed them holierthan yourselves and shrank from your own sin, contrasting it with their lives of righteousness and prayerful aspirations heavenward.
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again my children to the communion of your race.
Bartleby the Scrivener by German Melville.
Summary: In the beginning of the story, the main guy(boss) starts off by introducing his employees, Turkey, Nippers, and Gingernut. One day Bartleby happens to walk into the office and he gets hired as a copyist. He's good at his job, its just that he never speaks or leaves the office because he lives there. His boss just don't know about it. Well one day his boss asked him to help him out with one of the copies/paper and Bartleby said he preferred not to. Well the boss didn't know what to do about that, yet he didn't fire him.