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Browne's Folly

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

2019-09-30 04:16:06

Brief Extract: The proprietor, meanwhile, had adhered to the Royalist side and fled to England during the Revolution. The mansion was left under the care of Richard Derby (an ancestor of the present Derby family), who had a claim to the Browne proper ... Read more
Brief Extract: The proprietor, meanwhile, had adhered to the Royalist side and fled to England during the Revolution. The mansion was left under the care of Richard Derby (an ancestor of the present Derby family), who had a claim to the Browne property through his wife, but seems to have held the premises precisely as the refugee left them, for a long term of years, in the expectation of his eventual return. Less

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File size13.768 KB
Print pages30
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1512240955
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ance...

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