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+Title: Browne's Folly
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Posting Date: December 23, 2010 [EBook #9253]
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+                 THE DOLIVER ROMANCE AND OTHER PIECES
+
+                         TALES AND SKETCHES
+
+                       By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+                          "BROWNE'S FOLLY."
+
+
+
+The Wayside, August 28, 1860.
+
+MY DEAR COUSIN:--I should be very glad to write a story, as you request,
+for the benefit of the Essex Institute, or for any other purpose that
+might be deemed desirable by my native townspeople.  But it is now many
+years since the epoch of the "Twice-Told Tales," and the "Mosses from an
+Old Manse"; and my mind seems to have lost the plan and measure of those
+little narratives, in which it was once so unprofitably fertile.  I can
+write no story, therefore; but (rather than be entirely wanting to the
+occasion) I will endeavor to describe a spot near Salem, on which it was
+once my purpose to locate such a dreamy fiction as you now demand of me.
+
+It is no other than that conspicuous hill (I really know not whether it
+lies in Salem, Danvers, or Beverly) which used in my younger days to be
+known by the name of "Brown's Folly."  This eminence is a long ridge
+rising out of the level country around, like a whale's back out of a
+calm sea, with the head and tail beneath the surface.  Along its base
+ran a green and seldom-trodden lane, with which I was very familiar in
+my boyhood; and there was a little brook, which I remember to have
+dammed up till its overflow made a mimic ocean.  When I last looked for
+this tiny streamlet, which was still rippling freshly through my memory,
+I found it strangely shrunken; a mere ditch indeed, and almost a dry
+one.  But the green lane was still there, precisely as I remembered it;
+two wheel-tracks, and the beaten path of the horses' feet, and grassy
+strips between; the whole overshadowed by tall locust-trees, and the
+prevalent barberry-bushes, which are rooted so fondly into the
+recollections of every Essex man.
+
+From this lane there is a steep ascent up the side of the hill, the
+ridge of which affords two views of very wide extent and variety.  On
+one side is the ocean, and Salem and Beverly on its shores; on the other
+a rural scene, almost perfectly level, so that each man's metes and
+bounds can be traced out as on a map.  The beholder takes in at a glance
+the estates on which different families have long been situated, and the
+houses where they have dwelt, and cherished their various interests,
+intermarrying, agreeing together, or quarrelling, going to live,
+annexing little bits of real estate, acting out their petty parts in
+life, and sleeping quietly under the sod at last.  A man's individual
+affairs look not so very important, when we can climb high enough to get
+the idea of a complicated neighborhood.
+
+But what made the hill particularly interesting to me, were the traces
+of an old and long-vanished edifice, midway on the curving ridge, and at
+its highest point.  A pre-revolutionary magnate, the representative of a
+famous old Salem family, had here built himself a pleasure house, on a
+scale of magnificence, which, combined with its airy site and difficult
+approach, obtained for it and for the entire hill on which it stood, the
+traditionary title of "Browne's Folly."  Whether a folly or no, the
+house was certainly an unfortunate one.  While still in its glory, it
+was so tremendously shaken by the earthquake of 1755 that the owner
+dared no longer reside in it; and practically acknowledging that its
+ambitious site rendered it indeed a Folly, he proceeded to locate it
+on--humbler ground.  The great house actually took up its march along the
+declining ridge of the bill, and came safely to the bottom, where it
+stood till within the memory of men now alive.
+
+The proprietor, meanwhile, had adhered to the Royalist side, and fled to
+England during the Revolution.  The mansion was left under the care of
+Richard Derby (an ancestor of the present Derby family), who had a claim
+to the Browne property through his wife, but seems to have held the
+premises precisely as the refugee left them, for a long term of years,
+in the expectation of his eventual return.  The house remained, with all
+its furniture in its spacious rooms and chambers, ready for the exile's
+occupancy, as soon as he should reappear.  As time went on, however, it
+began to be neglected, and was accessible to whatever vagrant, or idle
+school-boy, or berrying party might choose to enter through its
+ill-secured windows.
+
+But there was one closet in the house, which everybody was afraid to
+enter, it being supposed that an evil spirit--perhaps a domestic Demon
+of the Browne family--was confined in it.  One day, three or four score
+years ago, some school-boys happened to be playing in the deserted
+chambers, and took it into their heads to develop the secrets of this
+mysterious closet.  With great difficulty and tremor they succeeded in
+forcing the door.  As it flew open, there was a vision of people in
+garments of antique magnificence,--gentlemen in curled wigs and
+tarnished gold-lace, and ladies in brocade and quaint head-dresses,
+rushing tumultuously forth and tumbling upon the floor.  The urchins
+took to their heels, in huge dismay, but crept back, after a while, and
+discovered that the apparition was composed of a mighty pile of family
+portraits.  I had the story, the better part of a hundred years
+afterwards, from the very school-boy who pried open the closet door.
+
+After standing many years at the foot of the hill, the house was again
+removed in three portions, and was fashioned into three separate
+dwellings, which, for aught I know, are yet extant in Danvers.
+
+The ancient site of this proud mansion may still be traced (or could
+have been ten years ago) upon the summit of the hill.  It consisted of
+two spacious wings, connected by an intermediate hall of entrance, which
+fronted lengthwise upon the ridge.  Two shallow and grass-grown cavities
+remain, of what were once the deep and richly stored cellars under the
+two wings; and between them is the outline of the connecting hall, about
+as deep as a plough furrow, and somewhat greener than the surrounding
+sod.  The two cellars are still deep enough to shelter a visitor from
+the fresh breezes that haunt the summit of the hill; and barberry-hushes
+clustering within them offer the harsh acidity of their fruits, instead
+of the rich wines which the colonial magnate was wont to store there for
+his guests.  There I have sometimes sat and tried to rebuild, in my
+imagination, the stately house, or to fancy what a splendid show it must
+have made even so far off as in the streets of Salem, when the old
+proprietor illuminated his many windows to celebrate the King's
+birthday.
+
+I have quite forgotten what story I once purposed writing about "Brown's
+Folly," and I freely offer the theme and site to any of my young
+townsmen, who may be addicted with the same tendency towards fanciful
+narratives which haunted me in my youth and long afterwards.
+
+Truly yours,
+
+NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
+
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