Mimi quietly took a seat a little way apart, whence she could look on the progress of the coming storm and study its appearance throughout the whole visible circle of the neighbourhood.

She was in brighter and better spirits than she had been for many days past.

Lady Arabella tried to efface herself behind the now open door.
Without, the clouds grew thicker and blacker as the storm-centre came closer.

As yet the forces, from whose linking the lightning springs, were held apart, and the silence of nature proclaimed the calm before the storm.

Caswall felt the effect of the gathering electric force.