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. . . although vapourish mists were being driven swiftly across the moon.

It would certainly be very dull to die before they have discovered
whether there is life in Mars,” Miss Allan added.

Poor creature! it would be kinder to kill it.” But nobody seemed disposed to rouse himself in order to kill the moth.

As the thunder showed no signs of withdrawing, but seemed massed right overhead, while the lightning aimed straight at the garden every time, an uneasy gloom replaced the first excitement.

The room grew suddenly several degrees darker, for the wind seemed to
be driving waves of darkness across the earth.

There must be some reason why such things happen, she thought to
herself, as she shut the door. Only at first it was not easy to understand what it was.

She turned her hands over and over in her lap and looked at them curiously; her old hands, that had done so much work for her. There did not seem to be much point in it all; one went on, of course one went on. . . .

Downstairs they could hear the thud of his feet on the floor, as he struggled to break free; and twice they heard him shout, . . .

It’s been wretched without you,” he said.

. . . once Helen came down to fetch something, but she stopped as she left the room to look at a letter addressed to her. She stood for a moment turning it over, and the extraordinary and mournful beauty of her attitude struck Terence in the way things struck him now—as something to be put away in his mind and to be thought about afterwards.