I feel as if something must happen!'
'A thunderstorm,' said Captain Harewood in a reproving voice, as he
plied the fan, with heat-drops on his brow; 'a thunderstorm, which
will prove the best doctor. Take care, you will miss the train.'
Clement stooped to kiss the unconscious face, as though he had never
prized his little brother before, and as some association of the
touch of the lips awoke the murmur, 'Mamma, Mamma!' he sped away with
eyes full of tears.
Before he could have reached the station, the storm was coming--great
rounded masses of cloud, with silver-foamed edges and red lurid
caverns, began to climb slowly up the sky, distant grumbles of
thunder came gradually nearer, a few fitful gusts of wind came like
sirocco, adding to the stifling heat, and were followed by exceeding
stillness, broken by the first few big drops of rain, the visible
flashes, and the nearer peals of thunder, till a sudden glare and
boom overhead startled Lance into a frightened bewildered state, that
so occupied Wilmet that she hardly heard the roaring, pattering hail-
drops on the roofs and pavements; but when a sweet fresh wind blew
away the hail, the weary head was more at rest, the slumber more
tranquil, the breathing freer and softer than it had been since that
Wednesday.
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