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Updated: June 26, 2025
For it stood on the very summit of a high hill, whereon the trees were few and windbeaten; while the carriage drives and the paths that climbed the hill were all of them a coaly black.
She could not recall having ever been more luxuriously housed, or having ever had so strange a sense of being out alone, under the night, in a windbeaten plain. She sat down by the fire and thought. A knock on the door made her lift her head, and she saw her daughter on the threshold.
Twenty paces from Peter God's cabin he stopped, and stared, and rubbed his eyes and rubbed them again as though not quite sure his vision was not playing him a trick. A cry broke from his lips then. Over Peter God's door there was nailed a slender sapling, and at the end of that sapling there floated a tattered, windbeaten red rag. It was the signal.
Dying folk cling to his hand as if the presence of his bulk and vigour gives them more courage to face the change; and that kindly, windbeaten face has been the last earthly impression which many a sufferer has carried into the unknown. When Dr.
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