Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...wander thro' the snow...
...father and daughter. You may think it was wholly the latter; but I can assure you that Mr. Carlin was an extraordinary man. His personal appearance everywhere attracted attention. He was tall and well formed, a young man in physique and bearing; but his hair and beard were almost snow-white, and he was nearly blind, wearing goggles to protect what little eyesight he had left. Had it not been for these peculiarities, which in nowise corresponded with the rest of his face, he would have been a remarkably handsome man. His daughter Bertha did not at all resemble...
...sees two lives that might make one, gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold lips to shriek the needed warning. Alas! how vain such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop and see what was the cause of it? Well might it be, indeed, could you but understand its meaning, for it is the wail of the letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence...
...cold it was, and how bright the moon shone on the snow, as we left the village together! He smiled and joked, and the moonlight sparkled on the silver plates of his dagger-sheath, and the crisp diamonds crackled under our feet as we walked along. Now the village lights were sunk in the distance, and the black shadows of the Ardennes stretched out ghostly arms to meet us, to receive us in their gloomy embrace. Did he not remember the blow, did he not remember Madelon? He shivered as a long howl rang like music in my ears...
Like piled-up drifts of fleecy snow...