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Excerpt from A Lazy Man's Work: A Novel
Elen bell opened the door of the waiting-room at the Cross Road Station, and found a lady and gentleman seated there. She had stood a few moments on the platform watching the train she had left, as it labored with difficulty through the fast-deepening snow. The December darkness had closed in hours ago, and it might be near midnight before she reached her destina tion, if indeed she were able to reach it at all while the storm was at its fury. For the wind that swept in from the roaring sea tossed about the snow in emulation of the waves it had left, piled it in deep drifts across the track, and rushed over the plain, hurling its white burden hither and thither, and making the great veil of flakes' from sky to earth quiver and whirl as it fell. Under these circumstances it was a relief to the young lady to find that she was not to be alone while waiting for the branch train. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
