She struggled free for an instant—turned, looked down, and saw him. Through the rain of flakes the rapture of a deathless passion was revealed to him.
The next moment she was fallen prostrate. A whirring silvery wing swooped upon her. She seemed to break in half, like a woman of snow.
THE END.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
The 1899 Dodd, Mead & Co. edition was consulted for many of the following corrections.
Alterations to the text:
Add TOC.
A few punctuation corrections: missing commas/periods, quotation mark pairing, etc.
Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. unnamable/unnameable, seaport/sea-port, meadow-path/meadow path, etc.) have been preserved.
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