White Motley A Novel
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To be sure, the house is not new at all, for it was built at the very moment when the great Harry put his hands into the coders of the monasteries and called upon high Heaven to witness the justice of his robberies. They faced it with wonderful tiles some years ago, and stamped the Tudor rose all over it but the people who first called it new have been dead these four hundred years, and it is only the local antiquar who can tell you just where the monastery (which preceded it) was built.
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