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Updated: May 18, 2025
Just then the tempest which had lulled a little, came on again in fury, accompanied by a hurricane of wind and deluge of rain, through which the lightning blazed incessantly. The thunderclaps too were so loud and constant that the sound of them, which shook the earth, made it impossible for Richard and Rachel to hear each other speak. So they were silent perforce.
But Pietro and Violante, being young, outwent her mother and the rest by a great way, urged belike, no less by love than by fear of the weather, and they being already so far in advance that they were hardly to be seen, it chanced that, of a sudden, after many thunderclaps, a very heavy and thick shower of hail began to fall, wherefrom the lady and her company fled into the house of a husbandman.
The times were too menacing, the city too conversant with alarm bells, sudden shattering bugle notes, thunderclaps of cannon, men and women too close companions of great and stern presences, for the exhibition of much care for the minuter social embroidery.
"That will be one on them on them on them, them, them," sang the musician, Schaunard, fitting the words to a new air he had been composing a terrible air, noisy as a gamut of thunderclaps, and the accompaniment to which was a terror to every piano in the neighborhood.
"The daughter of an old comrade zounds! of a friend of thirty years' standing to be left in such a plight! Never, a thousand thunderclaps! never! Poor child! a heart of gold, and as pretty as an angel! This horrible Paris would devour her at a single mouthful! It would be a crime an abomination! It sha'n't be! the old veterans are here, firm as rocks!"
Among others, Prince Louis of Prussia was grandmaster of one of these societies. The attempted murder by Stops, to which we have already referred, was one of the thunderclaps of the storm; but its morrow brought the peace of Vienna, and the degradation of Austria was the death-blow of the old Germanic organisation.
"The wrath of God" what poetry there is in that simple popular conception! Bowling rapidly down an incline, the britchka cannoned violently against a wooden bridge at the bottom. I dared not stir and expected destruction every moment. Crack! A trace had given way, and, in spite of the ceaseless, deafening thunderclaps, we had to pull up on the bridge.
Jack has the far finer mind, Burly the far more honest; Jack gives us the animated poetry, Burly the romantic prose, of similar themes; the one glances high like a meteor and makes a light in darkness; the other, with many changing hues of fire, burns at the sea-level, like a conflagration; but both have the same humour and artistic interests, the same unquenched ardour in pursuit, the same gusts of talk and thunderclaps of contradiction.
Not a complaint had been uttered. They had joked all day and there is an especial relish to jokes that are made between the thunderclaps but they were worn out, not only by the terrors of that day, but by the accumulated loss of sleep and lack of food. A further advance was impossible. The Germans had checked the onrush by the weight of their artillery. The victory of the Marne was over.
Hear, did I say? they shall feel them, they shall feel them burst from their wounded spirit as thunderclaps do from the clouds. Heaven!
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