Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 97
go, I Ml wish I d staid ! She saw the moon laugh round and clearFrom smoky wreaths of cloud, and throw, In shapes like branching horns of deer,The sharp tree-shadows on the snow. Perhaps he is nt real at all — But— if he is — perhaps he 11 mind !:A sudden soot-flake chanced to fall — She fled, and… … The win-ter in whichthe eventsof this his-tory occurredopened verydisagreeably.The cold wasnot intense,nor the snowsdeep, but it was a sloppy, sleety, slippery Decem-ber in which one could expect neither good ice norgood sleighing. The probabilities of an unseasonable Christmaswere very much…
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