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Although restrained, the noble contralto overpowered the noise of the torrents of rain and violent gusts of wind, which seemed to shake the old house to its foundation. "Cecily! Cecily!" repeated Jacques Ferrand, in a supplicating tone. The Creole suddenly stopped, turned her head quickly, and appeared to hear for the first time the voice of the notary, and approached the door.
Renton arose and lit the chandelier. It stood there, still and gray, in the flood of mellow light. The curtains were drawn, and the twilight without had deepened into darkness. The fire was now burning in despite of itself, fanned by the wintry gusts, which found their way down the chimney. Dr.
Everything animate and inanimate seemed to cry out as the blow passed. Another soon followed, and another intermittent gusts at present, but of such severity that not one came without making its mark. Birds were driven away like paper; the sea-lions whimpered, and crouched into corners, and huddled together, and held each other, whining.
It was winter that is, about the second week in November and great gusts were rattling at the windows, and wailing and thundering among our tall trees and ivied chimneys a very dark night, and a very cheerful fire blazing, a pleasant mixture of good round coal and spluttering dry wood, in a genuine old fireplace, in a sombre old room.
A week drifted by, and all the while the patient sank lower and lower. The night drew on that was to end all suspense. It was a wintry one. The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts.
"Thank God!" said Alessandro, at the plunging horses' heads. "The child is alive! Majella!" he called. "Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him. It was a marvellous rescue.
These are but gusts of doctrine; yet they prove that the spirit is not dead in the lull between its seasons of steady blowing. Who knows which of them may not gather force presently and carry the mind of the coming age steadily before it? Prevalent winds of doctrine must needs penetrate at last into the cloister.
The wind, whose first gusts had lulled him to sleep, had risen to a gale, and the rain, mixed with salt spray, beat fiercely against his window and on the roof. He listened, expecting to hear his father moving in the room below, but within the house there was no sound. He rose, vaguely anxious, and without waiting to dress went into the kitchen.
The wind catching the broad surface which the tent offered commenced to flap whatever loose ends of the canvas it could pick up, with a wild, nerve racking noise. The whole marquee swung and reeled to and fro, the sport of the boisterous gusts. The main poles creaked as they bent beneath the enormous strains to which they were being put.
Soon on the Official Bulletin Board at the corner of Lane's way appeared the first, telling that all of the teams had arrived in Solomon, practically together, and had left shortly in the bitter wind that blows in fierce gusts across the icy lagoons and sleet-swept beach.
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