In this story, an old professor who has had too much to drink says that the title character "is already qualified to fill a professor's chair," though he declines to share "other absurd rumors." The title character of this story has a voice as "rich as a tropical sunset," which causes the protagonist to "think of deep hues of purple or crimson, and of perfumes heavily delectable." This story's narrator watches a drop of dew that falls and kills a lizard near a shrub bearing a "profusion of purple blossoms." Eventually, Professor Baglioni convinces Giovanni to give the title Padua resident a cup of medicine to counteract her father's experimentation, but it kills her. For 10 points, name this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Beatrice, who becomes as poisonous as the plants she tends.
In this story, an old professor who has had too much to drink says that the title character "is already qualified to fill a professor's chair," though he declines to share "other absurd rumors." The title character of this story has a voice as "rich as a tropical sunset," which causes the protagonist to "think of deep hues of purple or crimson, and of perfumes heavily delectable." This story's narrator watches a drop of dew that falls and kills a lizard near a shrub bearing a "profusion of purple blossoms." Eventually, Professor Baglioni convinces Giovanni to give the title Padua resident a cup of medicine to counteract her father's experimentation, but it kills her. For 10 points, name this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Beatrice, who becomes as poisonous as the plants she tends.