Paul and Virginia . recompenseyou hereafter. Remember that we are only placed uponearth for the exercise of virtue. The excessive heat in the mean time raised vast massesof vapor from the ocean, which hung over the islandlike an immense parasol, and gathered round the summitsof the mountains. Long flakes of fire issued from timeto time from these mist-embosomed peaks. The mostawful thunder soon after re-echoed through the woods,the plains, and the valleys; the rains fell from the skiesin cataracts; foaming torrents rushed down the sidesof this mountain; the bottom of the valley became asea, an
Paul and Virginia . recompenseyou hereafter. Remember that we are only placed uponearth for the exercise of virtue. The excessive heat in the mean time raised vast massesof vapor from the ocean, which hung over the islandlike an immense parasol, and gathered round the summitsof the mountains. Long flakes of fire issued from timeto time from these mist-embosomed peaks. The mostawful thunder soon after re-echoed through the woods,the plains, and the valleys; the rains fell from the skiesin cataracts; foaming torrents rushed down the sidesof this mountain; the bottom of the valley became asea, and the elevated platform on which the cottages werebuilt a little island. The accumulated waters, havingno other outlet, rushed with violence through the narrowgorge which leads into the valley, tossing and roaring, 142 PAUL AND VIRGINIA. and bearing along with them a mingled wreck of soil, trees, and rocks. The trembling families meant! m eaddressed their pray-ers to God all to-gether in the cot-\ tage of Madame de. ^K- ^ &^/*vSfSp^-£^ M >-f ) i \ *2&^ *,*• ^ v-. • la Tour, the roof of which cracked fearfully from theforce of the winds. So incessant and vivid were the PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 143 lightnings that, although the doors and window-shutterswere securely fastened, every object without could be dis-tinctly seen through the joints in the wood-work. Paul,followed by Domingo, went with intrepidity from onecottage to another, notwithstanding the fury of the tem-pest ; here supporting a partition with a buttress, theredriving in a stake, and only returning to the family tocalm their fears by the expression of a hope that the stormwas passing away. Accordingly, in the evening the rainsceased, the trade-winds of the south-east pursued theirordinary course, the tempestuous clouds were driven awayto the northward, and the setting sun appeared in thehorizon. Virginias first wish was to visit the spot called herResting-place. Paul approached her with a timid air andoffered her
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