The Blithedale Romance Chapter 16 - Leave-Takings

In which the narrator prepares to depart from the Blithedale community, reflecting with a melancholy and unsettled heart on the altered relations and fading spirits among his companions, while bidding farewell to the curious sisters and confronting the stark realities of their shared endeavour. He takes leave amid a tumult of changing hopes and secret longings, finding a brief, homely solace in the quiet contentment of the swine, whose simple existence contrasts sharply with the troubled human souls around them.