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Excerpt from Gretchen's Gift: Or, a Noble Sacrifice; An Original Tale
Next, its stout old walls sheltered the British soldiers; its long, low-roofed rooms rang to uproarious mirth and echoed their toasts of confusion to the rebels. It was during this time that the grand old forest-trees which had shaded it in summer, and shook so fiercely over it in winter, were hewn down wherever they obstructed the View, or, in fact, when it suited the ca price of its quondam owners.
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