407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
The History of Literature
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A Little Girl Out in the Snow
When the great frost never ceased all this time, and whenever it was a more stormy night than usual, we heard the old Lord playing on the great organ. But wherever Miss Rosemont went, there I followed, for my love for her pretty, helpless orphan, was stronger than my fear for the grand and terrible sound. And so it happened that one afternoon, not long before Christmas day, we were playing together on the billiard table in the Great Hall. It grew dusk indoors, though it was still light in the open air, and I was thinking of taking her back into the nursery,. when all of a sudden she cried out, look, Hester, look, there's
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