English: Illustration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables from an edition published in 1875 by James R. Osgood and Company. This image depicts a scene in Chapter XI: "The Arched Window." Here, Clifford Pyncheon is overcome with a regressive, childlike need to blow bubbles. Within moments, his rival Judge Pyncheon passes outside and the two characters meet for the first time in the novel.