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Toward this square of light, on the evening in question, a child's figure was struggling manfully through the blinding snow. The child was not any too warmly dressed to battle alone against such heavy odds: an old fur cap and a bright red scarf, over a short round-jacket; hands without mittens, that he kept in his pockets as well as he could. The boy made slow progress, being beaten back by sudden gusts of wind and snow; slowly gaining after each rebuff of this sort, he at last reached the store. His hands were by this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POSETT EPISODE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

This gentleman, on hearing my question, assumed a very judicial air, and for a time spake nothing. Not a spear of his untrimmed red hair, curled up at the extremities like a roof-gutter, trembled. Indeed, I grew impatient of his long delay, when suddenly I discovered that his lips had been moving, and he had in fact just come to the end of a sentence, expressing his opinion. I began to think that if silence was golden, speech must also be golden, since they were so nearly indistinguishable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CLOTHES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...red lips! - But her hands are cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE SHADOW OF DEATH." | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...Shone red, far-off, and faded, faint and pale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTUMN WALK BY THE SEA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

Kissing lightly red lips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »