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THE SNOW-IMAGE: A CHILDISH MIRACLE One afteron of a cold winter's day, when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness, after a long storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen sw. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she was of a tender and modest disposition, and was thought to be very beautiful, her parents, and other people who were familiar with her, used to call Violet. But her brother was kwn by the style and title of Peony, on account of the ruddiness of his broad and round little phiz, which made everybody think of sunshine and great scarlet flowers. The father of these two children, a certain Mr. Lindsey, it is important to say, was an excellent but exceedingly matter-of-fact sort of man, a dealer in hardware, and was sturdily accustomed to take what is called the common-sense view of all matters that came under his consideration. With a heart about as tender as other people's, he had a head as hard and impenetrable, and therefore, perhaps, as empty, as one of the iron pots which it was a part of his business to sell. The mother's character, on the other hand, had a strain of poetry in it, a trait of unworldly beauty, --a delicate and dewy flower, as it were, that had survived out of her imaginative youth, and still kept itself alive amid the [...].Product Identifiers
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-101539415740
ISBN-139781539415749
eBay Product ID (ePID)232253637
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AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback
LanguageEnglish
TopicAnthologies
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Content NoteBlack & White Illustrations
Date of Publication09/10/2016
Country of PublicationUnited States