Her head sunk upon his breast as she cried, "Charles, Charles, I did love you.

I do love you now." "Then let sorrow and misfortune shake their grisly locks in vain," he cried.

"Heart to heart--hand to hand with me, defy them." He lifted up his arms towards Heaven as he spoke, and at the moment came such a rattling peal of thunder, that the very earth seemed to shake upon its axis.
A half scream of terror burst from the lips of Flora, as she cried,-- "What was that ?" "Only thunder," said Charles, calmly.
"'Twas an awful sound." "A natural one." "But at such a moment, when you were defying Fate to injure us.

Oh! Charles, is it ominous ?" "Flora, can you really give way to such idle fancies ?" "The sun is obscured." "Ay, but it will shine all the brighter for its temporary eclipse.

The thunder-storm will clear the air of many noxious vapours; the forked lightning has its uses as well as its powers of mischief.