Moreover, the south-west wind continues to feed the intervening arable flats with vapours brought directly from its sides.
The midnight hour for which there has been occasion to wait at length arrives, and I journey towards the stronghold in obedience to a request urged earlier in the day.

It concerns an appointment, which I rather regret my decision to keep now that night is come.

The route thither is hedgeless and treeless--I need not add deserted.

The moonlight is sufficient to disclose the pale riband-like surface of the way as it trails along between the expanses of darker fallow.

Though the road passes near the fortress it does not conduct directly to its fronts.