Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 9: what you’re looking at

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PS 280% S542 4 GEOFFREY’S VICTORY. CHAPTER I. A STRANGE ADVENTURE, © Tt was a beautiful winter night. The sky was brillians with millions of beautiful stars that glowed and scintil lated as if conscious that their light had never before penetrated an atmosphere so rareficd and pure. The earth was covered with a glaring coat of ice above newly fallen. snow. 7 Trees and shrubs bent low and gracefully beneath the weight of icy jewels which adorned every twig and ‘branch. | Every roof and spire, chimney and turret, gleamed like frosted silver beneath the star-lit heavens, while the over- hanging eaves below were fringed with myriads of glis- tening points that seemed like pendulous diamonds, catch- ing and refracting every ray of light from the glittering vault above and the gas-lit streets beneath. But it was a night, too, of intense cold. Never within the remembrance of its oldest inhabitant had the mercury fallen so low in the city of Boston, as on this nineteentn of January, 185—. So severe was the weather that nearly every street was deserted at an early hour of the evening; scarcely a pedestrian was to be seen at nine o’clock, and the bril- liantly lighted thoroughfares had alonely and desolate appearance without their accustomed flow of life and humanity. The luckless policemen, who alone paraded Comicbookssco im