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Young Goodman Brown

It was all as lonely as could be ; ande there is this peculiartity in such a solitude , that the traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead ; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude .