sleet-lad

Updated: May 2, 2025

"It seems as if all the world, and God Himself, were against me," and giving way to a despairing apathy she followed the officer out of the store out into the glaring lamplight of the street, out into the wild March storm that swept her along toward prison. To her morbid mind the sleet-lad en gale seemed in league with all the other malign influences that were hurrying her on to shame and ruin.

Edward Payson Roe - Without a Home