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  "They went in a gate on top of the hill. It nearly took my breath away when I looked up. Up there in the biggest grove, I had ever seen was a huge house with round white pillars about a thousand feet high and the yard was so full of rose-bushes and box-bushes and lilacs that you couldn't have seen the house if it hadn't been as big as the Capitol at Washington."            (a) Who went in a gate on top of the hill? (b) Who is the speaker here? (c) Why was he so stunned?

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                  (a) Colonel Allyn and his daughter Jessie went in a gate on top of the hill. (b) John A Pescud speaks these lines. (c) He was stunned to see the mansion of the Colonel. He had never seen such a huge house. It was as big as the Capitol at Washington.