Simple Gifts

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great Frost was historians tell us most

of the other does ever visited these

islands birds frozen me there and she

likes turns to the ground at Norwich a

young country woman started to cross the

road in her usual robust health

I was seen by the onlookers to terms

visibility powder blown in a puff of

dust over the roofs as the icy blast

trust her at the street corner mortality

among sheep and cattle was enormous

corpses pros who could not be drawn from

the sheets

feels full of shepherds club and teams

of horses and little bird scaring boys

all trucks start and the acts of the

moment one with his hand to his nose

another was a bottle to his lips

a third the stone raised the throat the.

Raven who'd said as if stuffed upon the

head within a yard of him the severity

of the frost was so extraordinary but

the kind of petrifaction sometimes

ensued and it was commonly supposed thus

a great increase of rocks in some parts

of Derbyshire was due no eruption for

there was none but it's a solidification

unfortunate Wayfarers

who had been literally turned to stone

where this toy but while the country

people suffered the extremity of one and

the trade of the country was such a

standstill

London enjoy the carnival of the utmost

brilliant

the new king sees the opportunity that

his coronation had given him dick

Sarajevo was the citizens by directing

the Thames River which was frozen to a

depth 20 feet or more six or seven miles

on either side be swept decorated and

given all the semblance for power call

pleasure ground with arbors mazes alleys

drinking booze etc earth is expense

reeled off from the public only by a

silken rope the pleasure ground became

at once the center of the most brilliant

society

nothing could exceed the brilliance and

gaiety of the scene by day and it was at

night at the carnival are such canarians

moon and stars blaze the hard fixity of

diamonds into the fine music of the

flute in the trumpet

Orlando it is true was none of those who

tread light share the Koran tone the LA.

Volta he was clumsy and a little

absent-minded he had indeed just bought

his feet together about 6:00 in the

evening of the 7th of January at the

finish of some such good drill or minuet

when he beheld coming from the muscovite

embassy a figure

rich with a boys or woman's for the

loose tunic and trousers of the Russian

fashion served the disguise for sex fill

him with the highest curiosity the

person whatever the name or set the

bottom it'll hide fear if slenderly

fashion and rest entirely an oyster

colored velvet trimmed with some

unfamiliar greenish colored fur these

details are obscured by the

extraordinary seductiveness which issued

from the whole person images metaphors

are the most extreme and extravagant

grind and twisted in his mind

a fella a pineapple an olive tree an

emerald and a fox in the snow or in the

space of three seconds he does not know

whether he had heard her tasted her seen

her or all three together finally the

unknown skated came to a standstill she

was not a hands breadth away she was

okay we'll Avante to move past a

distilled she are a victim pokemon plays

in without he replied speaking French

for the perfect accent

strangest name he found was princess

barouche Castella slavka Dyckman etosha.

Ileana romanovitch and she'd come in the

train of the muscovite

ambassador who was her uncle perhaps Oh.

Babs her father to attend the coronation

nothing however she seems um voluptuous

something she did the green flame seeing

the Sun imprisoned in a hill was only

outwards within was a wandering flame it

came it went

the play was ancient all had grown dark

but it was such a night as this that

they had waited for it was on such a

night as this that they had planned to

fly at midnight they would meet at an

inn near Blackfriars horses waited there

everything was in readiness for their

flights Sunday he was struck in the face

by a blood soft yet hinted on the side

of his feet so strong with expectation

was he discussing put his hand to

stalled the blower's repeated a dozen

times on forehead and cheeks

the dry Frost has lasted so long it took

him a military Eliza these were

raindrops falling the blow for the blows

of the rain but first they fell snow

deliberately one by one but two hundred

six drops became sixty then 600 then ran

themselves together musta ditched out of

water.

It was as if the hardened consolidated

sky for itself forty-one profuse pumping

in the space of five minutes Orlando

acceptable skin

some blind is too

she was passed easily with some driven

him to take the river bank in the

direction of the sea when the dawn broke

which is did unusual suddenness sky

turning a pale yellow the rain almost

teasing found himself on the banks of

the Thames off walking our sights most

extraordinary nature met his eyes is and

astounded all and who do nothing

sometime was your pudding miss forces as

it held itself past him

last seeming to recollect himself he

kept Spurs to his horse and galloped

hard along the riverbank in the

direction of the sea rounding a bend of

the river came opposite that breach

where not two days ago the ships of the

ambassador's have seen a movable frozen

easterly he made count of them all the

French the Spanish the Austrian the Turk

all still floated but the Russian ship

is nowhere to be seen

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