No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.
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And something born of the snowy desolation, born of the midnight and the silent grandeur, born of the great listening hollows of the night, something that lay 'twixt terror and wonder, dropped from the vast wintry spaces down into his heartand called himAlgernon Blackwood
Fingers of snow brushed the surface of his heart. The power and quiet majesty of the winter's night appalled him.
Algernon Blackwood
It was October, and the air was cool and sharp, woodsmoke and damp moss exquisitely mingled in it with the subtle odours of the pines.
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It used to puzzle him that, after dark, someone would look in round the edge of the bedroom door, and withdraw again too rapidly for him to see the face.
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And yet this house in the square, that seemed precisely similar to its fifty ugly neighbours, was as a matter of fact entirely differenthorribly different.
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