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Release date: January 22, 2024
Original publication: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917
THE UNWELCOME MAN
THE UNWELCOME MAN
BY WALDO FRANK
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1917
Published, January, 1917
Printers B. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.
TO MY MOTHER AND FATHER
PART ONE THE UNWELCOME MAN
THE UNWELCOME MAN
It threatened a Christmas of wet winds and heavy moods. The air was sluggish. Winter had died to a tepid dampness. Snowdrifts were mire; and where had been clear skies was now a dull and lowering shroud. It was as if, at its last effort, the year had lost heart and purpose. There was a note of spiritual sagging in this turn from the exuberance of cold to a siege of muddy rivulets and stagnant vapors and grey trees. The brilliant storm that had swept the country white was now a scourge of swamp upon the land-side. And through the minor harmony of dripping leafage and fulsome roads and drench-stained houses came a fret of chill, too slight to retrieve the season from its languor, yet real enough to stultify the warmth.
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