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...due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are de- serving of serious blame. No court-martial is deemed nece... ...O VICE-PRESIDENT HAMLIN. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE DUTIES OF THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN PREPARING FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE. Be... ...EPARING FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemb... ...ongress, and of every subsequent Congress, the clerk of the next preceding House of Representatives shall make a roll of the Representatives elect, an... ...fered him by insincere time-servers to drive him from the house of his own building. He is young yet. He has abundant talents— quite enough to occup... ... I substitute the following: That, all provost-marshals and other military officers do pre- vent all disturbance and violence at or about the polls, w... ..., the seventh, Meade drove the enemy from Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, capturing eight battle-flags, four guns, and over 1800 prison- ers, w... ...United States under the super- vision and upon the responsibility of naval officers of such gov- ernments and in conformity to such regulations as may... ...friendly call some days ago, and in this he had had a fair opportunity af- forded to be ready with a set speech; but he had not prepared one, being to...

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...t her out. She was a brilliant dark beauty, who became quickly a motherly, house- wifely, common-place person—I should think there had been a poet’s l... ...onged to a military family. His father had been a distinguished Peninsular officer, and his brother, older by many years, held a command in Canada. Ma... ... aunts, Mrs. Annesley and Miss Ferrars, and had found a kind home in their house in Mayfair, until Maurice had been ordained to the family liv- ing of... ...eat deal of happy silence. Down the hill, and a little way on level ground—houses on one side, something like hedge or shrubbery on the other—a stop—a... ...r had gone. Albinia, who had regarded protection at a dentist’s one of the offices of the head of a family, though dismayed at the task, told Gilbert ... ... hear- ing her troubles, was surprised at the forlorn rickety state of the building, the broken pavement, damp walls, and door that would not shut, be... ...Kendal was accused. As granddaughter of a Baron, daugh- ter of one General Officer and sister of another, and presented at Court, the Bayford ladies w... ...cenery, a question arose upon the date of the native sovereign to whom the buildings were ascribed. Mr. Kendal could not recollect; but Sophia, lookin... ..., and desired to know what profession he really preferred. He spoke of Ox- ford and the Bar, and so I suppose it must be. I do not won- der that he wi...

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...ey as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is... ... planet or even in any solar system—and given, too, in the swell room of the house, with the busts of Cerretani sena tors and other grandees of this ... ...s feathers, and other old fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood wooden boxes con taining moss rose plants and terra cotta p... ...ith a paling fence dividing the proper ties in the middle. He hired a small office down in the town and hung out a tin sign with these words on it: D... ...en she was promoted and become head chambermaid. She was a favorite with the officers, and exceedingly proud of their joking and friendly way with her... ... I 39 per and homeless. Also disabled bodily, at least for the present. The officers were full of sympathy for her in her trouble, and made up a litt... ... down, en you’ll find me. I’s a roostin’ in de ha’nted house ‘ca’se I can’t ‘ford to roos’ nowher’s else.” She started toward the door, but stopped an... ...he windows continued, and still the pitiless drenching assailed it until the building was empty; then the fireboys mounted to the hall and flooded it ...

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...l into a journal of the Sports. He used to read one sent him by a sporting officer of his name, and talk en- viously of public schools, printed whatev... ...zzling. Here lay a clear field; for he had the right to speak of a cavalry officer: his father died of wounds in the service, and Matey naturally inte... ...ame as disabling sails in old naval engagements. That was the part for the officer; we are speaking of the General. For that matter, he had as keen an... ...mmander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters might be on their way, curryer than the preceding, his... ...ler for the wine you prefer.” She had not anticipated the enrolment in her household of a man so young and good-looking. These were qualifica- tions f... ...her a good-looking young man; she had only a general idea that tutors in a house, and even visiting tutors, should smell of dust and wear a snuffy ap-... ...shall not forget her counsels. I can now make my purchase of the house and buildings, and buy out my partner at the end of a year. My boys are jumping... ... was informed that it was exactly the amount of time the captain could af- ford to wait. Weyburn had seen the Steignton phaeton and coachman in the ea... ...school-house faced the master’s dwelling house, and these, with a block of building, formed a three-sided enclo- sure, like barracks! Forth from the s...

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...the effect that he would never quit her side when she left the roof of her house. “Y ou see, Beppo,” she remonstrated, “I am among friends.” Beppo gav... ...before a man of us will be ready,—or more than one,” he added softly. “The house is sure to be packed for a first night; and the Polizia have a suspic... ...erning a young Italian ballet girl who had been carried off by an Austrian officer, under the pretext of her complicity in one of the antecedent consp... ...thing to her. “Yes, signo- rina, it is true; I am a spy on you. I know the houses you visit. I know you eat too much chocolate for your voice. I know ... ... people to come up the mountain, and you know them; and one is an Austrian officer, and he is an Englishman by birth, and he is coming to meet some En... ...fists up, against all English persons. The Englishman who is an Aus- trian officer is quartered at Verona, and the Signor AntonioPerirles said that th... ...s to me that the Austrians are not going to be surprised by us, and it af- fords me exquisite comfort. Fellows prepared are never more than prepared f... ...nterview between them took place at Oliosi. There, also, she met Georgiana Ford, the half-sister of Merthyr Powys, who told her that Merthyr and Augus... ... hear.” “None at all. But they are so stiff! so frigid! I know one, a Miss Ford, now in Italy, who would not let me have a male friend, and a characte...

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... So the towns did not want fortifications to keep out the enemy, and their houses spread out beyond the old walls; and the country houses had windows ... ...re of Elmwood Church looked up, and, on the other, the woods round Elmwood House, and these ran out as it were, lengthening and narrow- ing into a woo... ...le thinking that Patience would have been turned into a grave, busy little housewife, instead of a merry, playful child. Toby looked up too, and began... ... from these parts, so none meddled with him, or gave notice to the Queen’s officers, and our folk at the farm sold his baskets at the town, and brough... ...e of grief and horror. And then there was a great confusion. The two young officers were vehemently angry at sight of the fire, and shouted fierce ord... ...e enough to hold more. They had been allowed to keep their weapons, so the officers had their swords, and the men carried their musquets. Most of them... ...wards?” “Not they. Depend on it some of our folks have told them of Colham ford. Heaven be with them, brave lads.” “Most like Sir George is there, I d... ...te-them Derry say what he will. Elmwood! let’s see—that was the troop that forded higher up, and came on Fisher’s corps. This way, dame. If your son b... ...she groaned out, “Poor soul.” And thus they worked their sad way up to the buildings about the water mill. There was a shed through the chinks of whic...

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... high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam- ined ... ...roken loose from her husband for good, and she entered the room absolutely houseless!’ She was not the less ‘astonishingly brilliant.’ Her observa- ti... ...- quiry to his aide, Captain Sir Lukin Dunstane, a good model of a cavalry officer, though somewhat a giant, equally happy with his chief in passing t... ...he native isle. He looked upon one that came whirling up to him on a young officer’s arm and swept off into the crowd of tops, for a considerable whil... ...ld me a word of yourself. What has been done with the old Crossways?’ ‘The house, you know, is mine. And it’s all I have: ten acres and the house, fur... ... a prospect of higher dividends to increase it; three hundred odd from his office, and no immediate prospects of an increase there; no one died there,... ...said the hog-worshipper; ‘that may be the house, I reckon.’ A dark mass of building, with the moon behind it, shining in spires through a mound of fir... ...ured. But those last words of Percy’s renewed her pride in him by suddenly building a firm faith in herself. Noblest of lovers! she thought, and brood... ...pponent, tricksy and surprising now and then, amusing too; unlikely to af- ford him serious reflections. The recent endeavours of his journal to whip ...

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...ll him, that I never saw, or tasted, a glass of unlawful aqua vitae in the house of my Landlord; nay, that, on the contrary, we needed not such device... ...s uniformly inexorable in obliging them to re- tain, for the credit of the house. As to mine own part, I may well say, that he never refused me that m... ...yed in a task, for which he seemed so totally unfit, as that of erecting a house. The cot- tage which he built was extremely small, but the walls, as ... ...—either labour or begone!” “This is a fine reward we have, Earnscliff, for building a tabernacle for the devil, and prejudicing our ain souls into the... ...ural. In one day he often seemed to have done the work of two men, and his building soon assumed the appearance of the walls of a hut, which, though v... ...e matter in hand. When winter had passed away, and his garden began to af- ford him herbs and vegetables, he confined himself almost entirely to those... ...able walls the smoke continued to rise. The turf-stack, the barn-yard, the offices stocked with cattle, all the wealth of an upland cultivator of the ... ...e Falcon. T he tower, before which the party now stood, was a small square building, of the most gloomy aspect. The walls were of great thickness, and...

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...ood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for more than h...

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... let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and house- hold use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem... ...iled from their native heaven.— O! if yet worse mishap and woe My master’s house must undergo, Or aught but weal to Ellen fair Brood in these accents ... ..., and high Her father’s soul glanced from her eye, ‘My debts to Roderick’s house I know: All that a mother could bestow T o Lady Margaret’s care I owe... ... and ward, Till past Clan- Alpine’s outmost guard, As far as Coilantogle’s ford; From thence thy warrant is thy sword.’ ‘I take thy courtesy, by heave... ...rom mine array. Thou art my guest;—I pledged my word As far as Coilantogle ford: Nor would I call a clansman’s brand For aid against one valiant hand,... ...ess I stand, Armed like thyself with single brand; For this is Coilantogle ford, And thou must keep thee with thy sword.’ XIII. The Saxon paused: ‘I n... ...t? For the dues of his cure are the placket and pot; And ’tis right of his office poor laymen to lurch Who infringe the domains of our good Mother Chu... ...nse of Loch Katrine.” 281. Churchman. In its old sense of one holding high office in the church. Cf. Shakespeare, 2 Hen. VI. i. 3. 72, where Cardinal ... ...tains, to a late pe- riod, retained in their service the bard, as a family officer, admits of very easy proof. The author of the Letters from the Nort...

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...after when Prothero discovered ex- actly the same phenomenon in the School House boothole and talked of cats and cattle, that White’s confidence in th... ...re motionless, his helpless prey. I knew that were he at large in the same building with me I should be too terror- stricken to escape him. At the foo... ... within ear- shot—and then far away and bringing back memories of terraced houses and ripe walled gardens, was the scream of peacocks. And some invisi... ...ampton, and then he became head and later on sole proprietor of Martindale House, a high-class prepara- tory school at Seagate. He was extremely succe... ...that was more attractive. They were prepared, it seemed, if they came into office, to pull the legislature of the British Isles to pieces in obedience... ...d men each protruding a gun barrel. “Sometimes they will wait for you at a ford or a broken bridge,” he said. “In the mountains they rob for arms. The... ...e six men! “Grip the savage by the throat. “The weak savage in the foreign office, the weak savage at the party headquarters, feud and indolence and f... ...y from London to Russia, and stacked up against his return in the porter’s office at the Cosmopolis Bazaar or pursued him down through the jarring dis... ...ack children, and yet all the time they seemed to be in a wilderness. They forded rivers, they had at times to force themselves through thickets, once...

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... AND GUDRUN BRANGWEN sat one morning in the win- dow-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of bri... ... to go over Gudrun’s nerves. As she went upstairs, Ursula was aware of the house, of her home round about her. And she loathed it, the sordid, too- fa... ... down the main road of Beldover, a wide street, part shops, part dwelling- houses, utterly formless and sordid, without poverty. Gudrun, new from her ... ...f mine-owner of the district, Thomas Crich, was getting married to a naval officer. ‘Let us go back,’ said Gudrun, swerving away. ‘There are all those... ...low stone wall under the laurel bushes, to rest. Behind her, the large red building of the school rose up peacefully, the windows all open for the hol... ...ally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd. He looked a typical naval officer, manly, and up to his duty. Birkin came with Hermione. She had a ra... ...d a good deal at the house. She had turned away from London, away from Ox- ford, towards the silence of the country. Her father was mostly absent, abr... ... you give me an expensive rug? I can manage perfectly well with my old Ox- ford T urkish.’ ‘But may I give it to you? Do let me.’ ‘How much did it cos... ... retirement. Gerald rushed into the reform of the firm, beginning with the office. It was needful to economise severely, to make pos- sible the great ...

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...hus it was with the village of Lynwood, where, among the cottages and farm-houses oc- cupying a fertile valley in Somersetshire, arose the ancient Kee... ...an end to the sport. CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 THE HOUSE of Lynwood had long been famed for loyalty, which had often cost them... ...ast time he would leave her. “I will but bestow Eustace in some honourable household, where he may be trained in knightly lore—that of Chandos, percha... ...y foot?” growled Leonard. “What business had your foot there? Was not your office, as I told you, to stand ready to hand me whatever I might call for?... ...ang to the ground. “You,” said he, “speed round the bushes, meet me at the ford they are making for.” This was directed to Gaston, and ere the last wo... ...e to fit me for the leadership of a band of routiers, and unfit me for the office of an Esquire, which I do, as you say, understand indifferently well... ...o John Ingram, he followed among the other Knights who thronged the little building. The service at an end, he received more than one kind greeting fr... ...rvice, while the trusty Englishman, John Ingram, performed the more menial offices. Time sped away at the court of Bordeaux; the gallant Du Guesclin w... ...the walls, and descending the last little rising ground, the lofty mass of building rose huge and black before him. He wound his bugle and rode toward...

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...incidents have now been for more than two centuries and a half familiar as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the old familiar nam... ...e supposition that it has anything to do with the author of “Don Quixote.” Ford, 10 Don Quixote – Part I as all know who have taken him for a compani... ... took as a surname the name of the castle on the bank of the Tagus, in the building of which, according to a family tradition, his great-grandfather h... ...by the King, he took Cervantes with him as his camarero (chamberlain), the office he himself held in the Pope’s household. The post would no doubt hav... ...im as his camarero (chamberlain), the office he himself held in the Pope’s household. The post would no doubt have led to advancement at the Papal Cou... ...ey, however, demanded more than double the sum offered, and as his term of office had expired and he was about to sail for Constantinople, taking all ... ...t free. Before long he discovered that Blanco de Paz, who claimed to be an officer of the Inquisition, was now concocting on false evidence a charge o... ... Ormsby’s 1922 ed. victim of a street brawl, who had been carried into the house in which he lived. In these he himself is described as a man who wrot... ...ter suspi- cions; and he would have been now well pleased if the proof af- forded by Lothario’s coming were dispensed with, as he feared some sudden m...

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...t them. As mere daughters of a merchant, they were compelled to make their house not simply attractive, but enticing; and, seeing that they liked musi... ...uld escape from a city circle. Having no mother, they ruled their father’s house and him, and were at least commanders of what- soever forces they cou... ... you! it is to you!” he cried, stretching his finger at Wilfrid. The young officer, having apparently waited till he had finished with his knife and f... ... “That’s our discipline, my boy. Must set an example: do our duty. All the house goes to worship in the country.” “Why, in ze country?” queried Mr. Pe... ...be patronized. “The man cannot maintain himself on the income that sort of office brings him,” Lady Gosstre observed. “Oh, no,” said Adela. “I fancy h... ...ending him flying into a hedge. Peter, being reprimanded by his commanding officer, acknowledged a hot desire to try his mettle, and the latter respon... ...s flogged—forty lashes. We pay for him a sossand pound a lash. You can af- ford zat? It is a luxury like anozer. It is not for me.” “How long are we t... ... it, calmly blushing, and that he was in communication with Miss Georgiana Ford, Mr. Powys’s half-sister; about whom Adela was curious, un- til the Ca... ...sion to speak with her alone. 216 Sandra Belloni CHAPTER XXVIII GEORGIANA FORD would have had little claim among the fair saints to be accepted by th...

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...d, and we will have thee home in the morning.’ ‘I never lay in a hogward’s house,’ she said primly. ‘Belike, but there be worse spots to be harboured ... ...d me in a convent at Y ork while he was abroad, but the Mother thought her house would be safer if I were away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Mar... ...lt thou take me back to Greystone?’ ‘Father will fix that,’ interposed the housewife; ‘meanwhile, ye had best eat your porridge. Here is Father, in go... ...had always given him. There was consultation that evening between Lord Ox- ford and Sir Giles Musgrave. It was better, they agreed, to let young Cliff... ...come his sta- tion, when he recovered it; and a martinet old squire of Ox- ford proved himself nearly as hard a master as ever Simon Bunce had been. O... ...ories to endeavour to hear further tidings of the Prioress. It was a grand building in fine pointed architecture, for the Clares, though once poor, in... ...ng anything more. The Archbishop was exceedingly busy with the work of his office and the defence of London in case of Edward’s threat- ened return; b...

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...tened the toils of French composition. In the exigencies of village school building in those days gone by, before in every place “It there behoved him... ...hen left to bear the whole burthen of the man- agement of the children and household, felt it was her duty to give up her own prospects of happiness, ... ...hree girls who were now left to assist each other in the management of the household, and who looked forward to their new offices with the various sen... ...er in the management of the household, and who looked forward to their new offices with the various sensations of 9 Yo n g e pleasure, anxiety, self-... ...ow orchard and farm-yard, and was called the Old Court, while the dwelling-house, built by Sir Maurice after the Restoration, was named the New Court.... ...ard, planted on the ramparts and moat of the Old Court; then came the farm buildings, and beyond them a field, sloping upwards to an extensive wood ca... ...rother that we lost?’ ‘I remember Captain Mohun’s being called away to Ox- ford by his illness,’ said Alethea. ‘Ah, yes! William was the only one of u... ...y for it. ‘Well, Phyl, I will tell you a true history that I heard from an officer who had served in the Peninsular War—the war in Spain, you know.’ ‘... ... placed, not only themselves, but the whole town, and the army. An English officer chanced to discover them, and what do you think he did?’ ‘Told all ...

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...request, by reason of my calling, and I fared sumptuously, even as a great officer of state surrounded by slaves, lounging upon clouds of silk stuffs,... ...myriads of our kind; and enter thou to him gaily, as to perform a friendly office, one meriting thanks and gratu- lations, saying, ‘’I will preserve t... ...is fair; this is well! I am he that was appointed to do thy work, O man in office! What says the poet?— “The destined hand doth strike the fated ... ...through the streets and lanes of the city, and the porter pointed out this house and that house wanting an occupant, and Almeryl fixed on one in an op... ...f the wife of Boolp, the broker, into darkness. ’Tis of Boolp ye hire this house, and had ye a hundred houses in this city ye might have had them from... ...morning he left Bhanavar early under a pretext, and sallied forth from the house of their abode alone. Since their union in that city they had not bee... ...men. Now, they had passed the cultivated fields, and were halt- ing by the ford of a river bordering the Desert, when lo! a warrior on the yonside, ri... ...ded a horse to be saddled for her, and mounted it, and plunged through the ford singly; so they followed her, and all day she rode forward on horsebac... ... KHIPIL, THE BUILDER THEY RELATE that Shahpesh, the Persian, commanded the building of a palace, and Khipil was his builder. The work lingered from th...

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...ep. _20 Thou in the grave shalt rest—yet till the phantoms flee Which that house and heath and garden made dear to thee erewhile, Thy remembrance, and... ... _80 Rooted in stones, a broad and pointed shade,— 15. 15. 15. 15. 15. He housed himself. There is a point of strand Near Vado’s tower and town; and ... ...r oppressors wear, And for your own take the inclement air; Who build warm houses … _5 And are like gods w... ...odleian Library, and published by Mr. C.D. Locock, “Examination” etc., Ox- ford, Clarendon Press, 1903. Here placed conjecturally amongst the composit... ... to the hills above the Baths. A fire was kept up to guide them across the ford; and the forms of the men and the animals showed in dark relief agains... ... R.N., undertook to build the boat at Genoa, where he was also occupied in building the “Bolivar” for Lord Byron. Ours was to be an open boat, on a mo... ...vourable, they employed themselves with alterations in the rigging, and by building a boat of canvas and reeds, as light as possible, to have on board... ...and a half. The “Bolivar” was in port; and, the regulations of the Health- office not permitting them to go on shore after sunset, they borrowed cushi...

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...ted Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning,...

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...lotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e CHANTRY HOUSE by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I... ...was a barrister, and held 4 Chantry House an appointment in the Admiralty Office, which employed him for many hours of the day at Somerset House. My ... ...iral had carefully chosen ship and captain; there were an excellent set of officers, a good tone among the midshipmen, and Clarence, who was only twel... ...ferring to it in public. As to his terrors, he took it for granted that an officer of H.M.S. Calypso, had left them behind, and in fact, he naturally ... ...d to Sir Harry Power, from whom, through two heiresses, it had come to the Fordyces, the last of whom, by name Margaret, had died childless, leaving t... ...he northern side. He informed us that the place we had passed was Hillside—Fordyce property,—but this was Earlscombe, our own. It was a great stony bi... ...l arms on the top of the first table, and over the other our own, with the Fordyce in a scutcheon of pretence; for, as an inscription recorded, they h...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the S...

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