Excerpt from Riverston, Vol. 2 of 3 I proffered my services to convey the desired information to Mrs. Ramsay, and, as they were accepted, I took my walk after dinner to her house.
It had been, as I before mentioned, a sultry day. Thunder was in the atmosphere, and, though hitherto the sun had shone with even Oppressive brilliancy, there were clouds now towards evening rising sombre and threatening from the south.
Their progress was swift. As I sat with Mrs. Ramsay, half an hour had not passed ere the firma ment was hung with their dark pall from zenith to horizon; the glow of day gave place to an almost twilight, although lurid, gloom; for a few minutes, labouring with a distant, soundless wind, their heavy masses, pile on pile, rode on tumultuous and reeling, till on the sudden, staying, as it seemed, their course, one vivid flash swept the wide arch from north to south, and, answering it, thunder peal, and raving wind, and flooding ram let loose their simultaneous fury.
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