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Updated: June 24, 2025
He'll be here pretty soon, though, don't you fret." "Oh, I ain't going to fret. I know he'll come. He said he would, and Uncle Cy always does what he says he will." About twelve Asaph made his appearance, a white statue. "Godfrey scissors!" he panted, shaking his snow-plastered cap over the coal hod. "Say, this is one of 'em, ain't it? Don't know's I ever see more of a one.
The train began to slow down and presently stopped at a small station. Mechanically the quartette gazed through the window at the few shivering platform loungers, and beyond them to the irregular, low-lying facade of snow-plastered buildings that comprised the dreary main street of the little town. Suddenly the children uttered a shrill yelp.
But now the shades of evening are falling on the town. The pale light of the street lamps changes to a vivid color, and the bustle of the street grows noisier. "Sledge to Vyborgskaya!" Iona hears. "Sledge!" Iona starts, and through his snow-plastered eyelashes sees an officer in a military overcoat with a hood over his head. "To Vyborgskaya," repeats the officer. "Are you asleep? To Vyborgskaya!"
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