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The fourth time, before he had time to lose his courage, he grasped the knocker and made a faint sound with it. There were the rolling meadows, the stately elms, all yellow and brown now; the glowing maples, the garden-beds bright with asters, and the hollyhocks, rising tall against the parlor windows; only in place of the cheerful pinks and reds of the nodding stalks, with their gay rosettes of bloom, was a crape scarf holding the blinds together, and another on the sitting-room side, and another on the brass knocker of the brown-painted door. Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large. |
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