Martin Johnson Heade paintings
Nancy O'Toole paintings
was a dark and stormy night. Monstrous clouds were flying across the sky, concealing the light of the stars. The moon would not rise before midnight.
Occasionally, by the light of a lightning flash gleaming along the horizon, the road could be seen stretching before them, white and solitary. Then when the flash became extinct, all relapsed into darkness.
Just as the little troop had passed Goskal, and were approaching the Post, a man sheltered under a tree stepped out from its trunk, with which he had been confounded in the darkness, and advanced into the middle of the road, with his finger on his lips.
Athos recognized Grimaud.
“What’s the matter?” cried Athos; “has she left Armentières?”
Grimaud nodded. At a movement made by D’Artagnan,
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