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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Snow-Image, by Nathaniel Hawthorne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Snow-Image A Childish Miracle Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Illustrator: Marcus Waterman Release Date: October 31, 2009 [EBook #30376] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SNOW-IMAGE *** Produced by David Edwards, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: THE SNOW-IMAGE BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE] [Illustration: THE SNOW-IMAGE New York: James G. Gregory.] THE SNOW-IMAGE: A CHILDISH MIRACLE. BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. With Illustrations by Marcus Waterman. NEW YORK: JAMES G. GREGORY, 540, BROADWAY. M DCCC LXIV. C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER & PRINTER, NEW YORK. [Illustration: {Violet and Peony put the finishing touches to the snow girl}] The Snow-Image: A CHILDISH MIRACLE. One afternoon of a cold winter's day, when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness, after a long storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she was of a tender and modest disposition, and was thought to be very beautiful, her parents, and other people who were familiar with her, used to call Violet. But her brother was known by the style and title of Peony, on account of the ruddiness of his broad and round little phiz, which made everybody think of sunshine and great scarlet flowers. The father of these two children, a certain Mr. Lindsey, it is important to say, was an excellent, but exceedingly matter-of-fact sort of man, a dealer in hardware, and was sturdily accustomed to take what is called the common-sense view of all matters that came under his consideration. With a heart about as tender as other people's, he had a head as hard and impenetrable, and therefore, perhaps, as empty, as one of th
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