Word: lorburn
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...attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house, the Lorburn family mansion, built in the early 19th Century style of "Hudson River Bracketed." Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three...
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