Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
No, no, I will not live among the wild scenes of nature, the enemy of all that lives. I will seek the towns__ome, the capital of the world, the crown of man's achievements. Among its storied streets, hallowed ruins, and stupendous remains of human exertion, I shall not, as here, find every thing forgetful of man; trampling on his memory, defacing his works, proclaiming from hill to hill, and vale to vale,__y the torrents freed from the boundaries which he imposed__y the vegetation liberated from the laws which he enforced__y his habitation abandoned to mildew and weeds, that his power is lost, his race annihilated for ever.
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No, no, I will not live among the wild scenes of nature, the enemy of all that lives. I will seek the towns__ome, the capital of the world, the crown of man's achievements. Among its storied streets, hallowed ruins, and stupendous remains of human exertion, I shall not, as here, find every thing forgetful of man; trampling on his memory, defacing his works, proclaiming from hill to hill, and vale to vale,__y the torrents freed from the boundaries which he imposed__y the vegetation liberated from the laws which he enforced__y his habitation abandoned to mildew and weeds, that his power is lost, his race annihilated for ever.
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