William Dean Howells 
Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life) [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info present you this new edition. Monday afternoon the storm which had been beating up against the southeasterly wind nearly all day thickened, fold upon fold, in the northwest. The gale increased, and blackened the harbor and whitened the open sea beyond, where sail after sail appeared round the reef of Whaleback Light, and ran in a wild scamper for the safe anchorages within.