It is needless to add that Frank King eagerly welcomed her proposal, and in due course the two carriages drove away from the big, bare hostelry to enter the unknown mountain-world.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
A wonder of snow outside the windows-the large dark flakes slowly, noiselessly passing the panes; snow on the open space fronting the great, gaunt hostelry; snow on the small spire of the church; and snow on the far reaches of the hills, retreating up there into the gray mists, where every pine-tree was a sharp black thing on the broad expanse of white.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
Phineas checked him with one hand and waved the other towards a hostelry on the other side of the street.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke