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Mosses from an old manse

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Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #512.

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Manse: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Mosses from an old manse; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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