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"'The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His reproofThe thunder of His poho can understand?'" replied Effie Challoner reverently

"That's it!" he replied "I opine that Job was pretty correct in his ideas--don't you, reverend sir?" turning to Father Paul

The priest nodded, and held up his finger warningly

"That lady--Mrs Everard--is going to sing or play, I think," he observed "Shall we not keep silence?"

I looked towards A very prettily, but I had thought she was rendered too nervous by the storht but sit quiet in her chair However, there she was at the piano, and in another h the roo, "Good-bye!" We listened, but none of us moved from the open here we still inhaled what air there was, and watched the lowering sky

"Hush! a voice from the far-away, 'Listen and learn,' it see Amy with pathetic sweetness Zara suddenlyus as we stood clustered together, and stepped out through the Frenchinto the outside balcony, her head uncovered to the night

"You will catch cold!" Mrs Challoner and I both called to her si back at us; and folding her arhtly on the stone balustrade, leaned there and looked up at the clouds

"The link must break, and the laood-bye!"

A one, and on this occasion sounded withand the invisible presence of the storm, an utter silence possessed us--not one of us cared to move

Heliobas once stepped to his sister's side in the open balcony, and said so cold; but it was a very brief whisper, and he alst us Zara looked very lovely out there; the light colistened softly on the sheen of her satin dress and its ornaments of pearls; and the electric stone on her boso Her beautiful face, turned upwards to the angry sky, was half in light and half in shade; a sht with a look of interest and expectancy Another sudden glare, and the clouds were again broken asunder; but this tih a naked sword had been thrust through them and immediately withdrawn