Almost frightful! For the very heaven blackens; battering rain-torrents dash, with thunder; almost drowning the organ's voice: and electric fire-flashes make the very flambeaux on the altar pale.

So that the most, as we are told, retired, when it was over, with hurried steps, 'in a state of meditation (recueillement),' and said little or nothing.
(Weber, Memoires concernant Marie-Antoinette (London, 1809), i.

22.) So it has lasted for the better half of a fortnight; the Dubarry gone almost a week.

Besenval says, all the world was getting impatient que cela finit; that poor Louis would have done with it.

It is now the 10th of May 1774.