The Down Easters V1

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I had seen her in my youth, I knew her when the war of 1812 broke out, and I knew her at the close of that war, when it began to be considered a very proper thing for people to go to church twice a day--rain or shine--provided they were not able to keep a carriage. I knew her at a period when fire and earth-quake had made it rather fashionable to pray--and when very respectable and very genteel people, were known to pray--and when the most beautiful women of New-York were to be seen at church, though Broadway, the Battery, and both rivers were open at the time, and she appeared to me to grow younger and younger every year.