The moon shone with hard brilliance on the ground, which was powdered with a light fall of snow.

As the young people walked briskly through the village, their footsteps rang on the frosty earth and they scrunched the snow in their quick tread.

The Warrior Inn was still open, as it was not late, and lights shone from the windows of the various cottages.

When the two, following the road through the marshes, emerged from the village, they saw the great mass of the Fort bulking blackly against the clear sky, the glittering stream of the Thames, and the marshes outlined in delicate white.

The fairy world of snow and moonlight appealed to Archie's artistic sense, and Lucy approving of the same, they did not hurry to arrive at their destination.
But shortly they saw the squarely fenced acre of ground near the embankment, wherein Mrs.Jasher's humble abode was placed.