Kingsley, Florence Morse: The Needle's Eye. v1. 16 Dec 2015
 

Florence Morse Kingsley (July 14, 1859 – November 7, 1937) was an American authoress of popular and religious fiction.

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Erastus Winch emerged from his house into this mystery of cold and night, and stood for an instant, staring about him with the blank, unseeing eyes of one newly aroused from sleep. The wind hurled itself upon his heavy, stoop-shouldered figure, tearing savagely at his garments, which became on the instant all white and sparkling with the transfiguring snow crystals. He raised his smoky lantern that he might consult the black-avised thermometer, which rattled uneasily on its rusty nail beside the door. “Five below!” he ejaculated, scowling at the unoffending register of temperature. “Humph!”