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It was snowing. The flakes that fell were not large fluffy ones; they were small and compact, so that as the northwest wind drove them into Helen's face, she realized that she was being pelted with something more substantial than eiderdown.
The severity of the storm startled the girl. It spurred her to a fuller consciousness of her obligation to