The American general had chosen the next grandest for his own: another Classical Revival home from before the… — Harry Turtledove

The American general had chosen the next grandest for his own: another Classical Revival home from before the War of Secession. Sandbagged machine gun nests and a thicket of barbed wire around the place detracted from the air of quiet elegance the colonnaded entranceway tried to project.

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