Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution rolled that way and found them young. One summer morning, when the air was full of country sounds, of mowers in the meadow, black-birds by the brook, and the low of kine upon the hill-side, the old house wore its cheeriest aspect, and a certain humble history began.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 104 ● ISBN 9781910660256 ● 文件大小 0.9 MB ● 出版者 Sovereign ● 市 Montefranco ● 国家 IT ● 发布时间 2014 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 3578703 ● 复制保护 无