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Page xvi
... Death to storm Quebec and make North America forever English , have been undergoing a sea change . They have come to fit our small towns and small and happy people . We cannot think of England when we say these words . We think of our ...
... Death to storm Quebec and make North America forever English , have been undergoing a sea change . They have come to fit our small towns and small and happy people . We cannot think of England when we say these words . We think of our ...
Page xvii
... Death is still seen in all its an- cient solemnity in an old American propped up in bed with his gaunt woodcutter's hands touching . Gravestones still heave at lovely angles , more slanting and ruinous for the fact of American frost ...
... Death is still seen in all its an- cient solemnity in an old American propped up in bed with his gaunt woodcutter's hands touching . Gravestones still heave at lovely angles , more slanting and ruinous for the fact of American frost ...
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