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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 237

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see on that side of the tower a crack which tance. We simply stood back and watched it grew larger as we watched it. We stood there as we would have watched a play, to see what in a doorway, quite spellbound, watching the was going to happen next. The crack widened crack grow higher and higher,… … J»ll we afterward learned was made whenthe tower crashed down, although atthe time we were not conscious of asound. There before us, instead of thebeautiful Campanile, was a heap ofruins,—brick, marble, and bronze,—and, all around, a crowd of terrifiedpeople looking ghastly beneath the NO. 4. THE…

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