The main female character watches a colorless liquid revitalize a plant with yellow spots.
After one character in this work faints upon entering her new apartment, she is comforted by an optical illusion in which "airy figures" dance around her. One character discovers a crystal globe containing a golden poison that has the power to apportion the life of any person in the world. In one incident from this story a character sneaks into a furnace room after her husband caught her crying while reading his folio. The main female character watches a colorless liquid revitalize a plant with yellow spots. At the end of this story the servant Aminadab laughs while a woman drinks a fatal elixir that makes a blot shaped like a hand on her cheek disappear. In this story in Mosses from an Old Manse Aylmer kills his wife Georgiana while trying to remove the titular blemish. For 10 points, name this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
After one character in this work faints upon entering her new apartment, she is comforted by an optical illusion in which "airy figures" dance around her.
"The Birthmark"