The Triumph of Night
by Edith Wharton
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons 1916
ISBN/ASIN: 1484143205
Number of pages: 37
Description:
It was clear that the sleigh from Weymore had not come; and the shivering young traveller from Boston, who had counted on jumping into it when he left the train at Northridge Junction, found himself standing alone on the open platform, exposed to the full assault of night-fall and winter.
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