"A comet has met me," I said.

"These missiles are the meteoric stones of which it is composed." And now I noticed that as they rushed along collisions took place, and flashes of electricity darted from one to another.

A pale luminosity dimmed the stars.

I did not doubt that, as seen from the earth, the comet was already flinging the splendors of its train upon the bosom of the night.
While I was wondering at my immunity amid such a rain of death-threatening bolts, I became aware that their velocity was sensibly diminishing.

This fact I explained by supposing that I was drawn along with them.