Unconscious duplicity: Bartleby, the scrivener.
High-spirited revolt: Cock-a-doodle-doo.
An hourglass run out: The Encantadas.
Some sly enchanter's show: The two temples.
Making sport of earnest: Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs.
The talismanic secret: The happy failure and The fiddler.
Grand irregular thunder: The lightning-rod man.
Travelers in Lapland: The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.
Cynic solitaire: The bell-tower.
A dark similitude: Benito Cereno.
The higher mathematics: I and my chimney.
Wedded warmth and chill: Jimmy Rose.
One spot of radiance: The piazza.
Mystery as mystery: The apple-tree table.
