The Marble Faun Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne has done few things more beautiful than the pic ture of the unequal complicity of guilt between his immature and dimly-puzzled hero, with his clinging, unquestioning, unexacting devotion, and the dark, powerful, more widely-seeing feminine nature of Miriam......the murder committed by Donatello under Miriam's eyes and the ecstatic wand... more »ering, afterward, of the guilty couple through the 'blood'-stained streeets of Rome.« less