sentences:  It later appeared in "The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales", a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields.The story exemplifies the darkest times of American development.In about 1732, Robin, a youth, arrives by ferry in Boston seeking his kinsman, Major Molineux, an official in the British Colonial government, who has promised him work.