The Down Easters Volume 1
by John Neal
2021-01-04 15:21:56
The Down Easters Volume 1
by John Neal
2021-01-04 15:21:56
I had seen her in my youth, I knew her when the war of 1812 broke out, and I knew her at the close of that war, when it began to be considered a very proper thing for people to go to church twice a day--rain or shine--provided they were not able to k...
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I had seen her in my youth, I knew her when the war of 1812 broke out, and I knew her at the close of that war, when it began to be considered a very proper thing for people to go to church twice a day--rain or shine--provided they were not able to keep a carriage. I knew her at a period when fire and earth-quake had made it rather fashionable to pray--and when very respectable and very genteel people, were known to pray--and when the most beautiful women of New-York were to be seen at church, though Broadway, the Battery, and both rivers were open at the time; and she appeared to me to grow younger and younger every year.
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