{"first_publish_date": "1906", "title": "The spirit of the pines", "covers": [5701656], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Meeting of the Ways\r\n\r\n\"You surely cannot refuse a traveler shelter from so pitiless a storm!\"\r\n\r\n\"You surely cannot intrude when I tell you that I wish to be alone!\"\r\n\r\n\"I regret forcing myself upon your unwilling hospitality, but the water is rising rapidly, and I am in danger of drowning.\"\r\n\r\nOutside in the rain and darkness stood the man, his coat-collar buttoned tightly about his throat, his hat pulled over his eyes. Inside, framed by the low doorway, the slender black-robed figure of the girl was silhouetted against the light.\r\nThe situation would be tragic if it were not so humersou,\" the man resumed. Then he broke off, shaken by a violent attack of coughing."}, "key": "/works/OL2729926W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL399770A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Meeting of the Ways\r\n\r\n\"You surely cannot refuse a traveler shelter from so pitiless a storm!\"\r\n\r\n\"You surely cannot intrude when I tell you that I wish to be alone!\"\r\n\r\n\"I regret forcing myself upon your unwilling hospitality, but the water is rising rapidly, and I am in danger of drowning.\"\r\n\r\nOutside in the rain and darkness stood the man, his coat-collar buttoned tightly about his throat, his hat pulled over his eyes. Inside, framed by the low doorway, the slender black-robed figure of the girl was silhouetted against the light.\r\nThe situation would be tragic if it were not so humersou,\" the man resumed. Then he broke off, shaken by a violent attack of coughing."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Man-woman relationships", "Fiction", "Social life and customs"], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:18:38.513955"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-07T04:36:18.949534"}}