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Marlborough remained at Aix-la-Chapelle till the death of the queen. On August 1, 1714, the day George the First was proclaimed, the duke and duchess landed at Dover. Marlborough's reception was truly a contrast to his departure. Now the artillery thundered forth a welcome; while thousands of spectators hailed the return of the voluntary exile.
But, unheeding, the great battleships, each with its fifty cubic yards of stone, and the flats and gondolas, each with its tons of material, thundered away to the scene of the struggle. Every five minutes, night and day, from the moment of the completion of the trestles until the fill was above the danger point a car of rock was dumped into the break.
He next recited some of his Parisian suburban scenes, and then a series of sonnets, entitled "Love's Hopes," inspired by his dear Maria; and he astonished all these poets by the versatility and variety of his inspirations. At each new poem bravos were thundered out, and the young man's heart expanded with joy under this warm sunshine of success.
And as he did so a laugh, which made the ground shake, thundered behind the cliff. It did not sound like derision, but as if some one had sat in great fear and could not help laughing, when suddenly relieved of it. The terrible silence and oppressive heat were also at an end. Over the grass floated a cooling wind, and the pine-branches began their murmuring song.
Night and day, around the walls, the fusillade rattled, and the artillery thundered. Again M. Favoral had given up going to his office. What's the use? Sometimes, with a singular look, he would say to his wife and children, "This time it is indeed a liquidation. Paris is lost!"
The ponderous steed of the widower thundered after, making the forest reverberate with the heavy fall of his hoofs. Mr. Hawkins fell into a dainty amble, and away the whole party swept into the green shadows of the woods. Jemima looked right and she looked left. Should she ride on and leave her pa in the hands of that designing creature? Perish the thought, better anything than that!
But the Bavarians had been on their guard, and their commander, Colonel Baerenklau, divining the tactics of the Tyrolese, had ordered his two guns to be pointed against the ravine. Now the first shots thundered from their mouths, and volleys of musketry were discharged from all the squares at the same time, at the advancing column of the Tyrolese.
I have seen too much of storm and stress for that. On one awful night long ago, I waited for hours watching waves that reared and thundered as if they would charge headlong through the streets of the town. The white crests nickered like flame, and below the crests the dreadful inky bulge of each monster rolled on like doom like death.
"I reckon I'm going. You'll hear from me again. Next time the shoe will pinch the other foot." "It will be the foot that kicks you out of camp in that case," answered the Professor. "Hooray!" howled the fat boy. "Three cheers for Professor Zip-zip!" "Be silent!" thundered Professor Zepplin. "Yes, you had better look out or he will take it out of you after Mr. Darwood has gone," warned Tad.
A few years before the States-General had agreed to a National Synod, but with a condition that there should be revision of the Netherland Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism. Against this the orthodox infallibilists had protested and thundered, because it was an admission that the vile Arminian heresy might perhaps be declared correct.
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