Presently, all its fury seemed collected over the Abbey.

The red flashes hissed, and the peals of thunder rolled overhead.

But other terrors were added to Alizon's natural dread of the elemental warfare.

Again she fancied the two monkish figures, which had before excited her alarm, moved, and even shook their arms menacingly at her.

At first she attributed this wild idea to her overwrought imagination, and strove to convince herself of its fallacy by keeping her eyes steadily fixed upon them.