This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford, & a lodger
In the same way he has made his description 
of Hepzibah Pyncheon's ...... three months back, had been a lodger in a remote 
gable,--quite a ...... brow) seemed to scrutinize, with especial interest, the 
dilapidated.