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"Announced by all the tru o'er the fields,

Seeht: the whited air

Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven"--Eht David searched and shouted, to find

only snow and silence

Through the darkness and the falling flakes he could not see more than

a foot ahead, and when he would stumble over a stone or the fallen

trunk of a tree, he would stoop down and search through the drifts with

his bare hands, thinking perhaps that she ain take up his fruitless search, while cold

fear gnawed at his heart

At home in the warm farm house, sat the Squire who had done his duty

The consciousness of having done it, however, did not fill hihteousness that is the reward of a good

conscience--on the contrary, he felt sination, but he felt, so him Once he had tried to take his wife's hand as she stood

with her face pressed to thetrying to see if she couldwith Anna, but she withdrew her hand

impatiently as she had never done in the thirty years of their er to be condoned

Furthermore, when the clock had struck eleven and then twelve, and yet