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The Old Manse
Project Gutenberg EBook The Old Manse, by Nathaniel Hawthorne From "Mosses From An Old Manse" #48 in our series by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Title: The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Release Date: Nov, 2005 [EBook #9221] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 6, 2003]
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MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE OLD MANSE.
The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old