It was now fully night-fall, and a thick humid fog hung over the city, soon ending in a

settled and heavy rain.

On the night of the wedding, she contrived, upon I forget what specious pretence, to have
her sister occupy a couch sufficiently near that of the royal pair to admit of easy
conversation from bed to bed
and on the night of Wednesday, the fifteenth instant, I was summoned to his bedside.
On the night of the fourth day, the stables of the castle Berlifitzing were discovered to be
on fire
, and in the silence of the night, I whispered within the ears of the holy man the syllables
"It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fAllan, it was blood.
And I stood in the morass among the tall and the rain fell upon my head --and the lilies
sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.

Saturday, April the 6th.Every preparation likely to embarrass us having been made
overnight, we commenced the inflation this morning at daybreak; but owing to a thick fog
which encumbered the folds

Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye nowI feel ye in your strength

. As night came on, every breath of wind died away, an more entire calm it is impossible
to conceive. The flame of a candle burned upon the poop without the least perceptible
motion, and a long hair, held between the finger and thumb, hung without the possibility
of detecting a vibration
It was Sunday. The stores on Suleiman Basha closed their doors, and the bars
and cinemas were full of customers. With its locked stores and old-fashioned,
European-style buildings the street seemed dark and empty, as though it were
in a sad, romantic, European film. At the start of the day, Shazli, the old
doorman, moved his seat from next tothe elevator to the sidewalk in front of
the Yacoubian Building to watch the people going in and out on their day off



As a feather is wafted , and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night The day is done,
hrough the . I see the lights of the village Gleam t downward From an Eagle in his flight
rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist; A
feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As
the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day.
the whole surface in view was enveloped in the darkness of night. It was not, however,
until long after this time that the rays of the setting sun ceased to illumine the balloon;
**
But, as the darkness came on, the throng momently increased; and, by the time the lamps
were well lighted, two dense and continuous tides of population were rushing past the
door. At this particular period of the evening I had never before been in a similar
situation, and the tumultuous sea of human heads filled me, therefore, with a delicious
novelty of emotion. I gave up, at length, all care of things within the hotel, and became
absorbed in contemplation of the scene without.
At first my observations took an abstract and generalizing turn. I looked at the passengers
in masses, and thought of them in their aggregate relations. Soon, however, I descended
to details, and regarded with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, dress, air,
gait, visage, and expression of countenance.
***
The blackness of darkness which envelops the victim, the terrific oppression of lungs, the
stifling fumes from the damp earth, unite with the ghastly considerations that we are
beyond the remotest confines of hope, and that such is the allotted portion of the dead, to
carry into the human heart a degree of appalling awe and horror not to be toleratednever
to be conceived.
***
but from out the milky depths of the ocean a darkness now hovered above us A sullen
luminous glare arose, and stole up along the bulwarks of the boat. We were nearly
overwhelmed by the white ashy shower which settled upon us and upon the canoe, but
melted into the water as it fell
***
In feeling my way I had found many angles, and thus deduced an idea of great
irregularity; so potent is the effect of total darkness upon one arousing from lethargy or
sleep! The angles were simply those of a few slight depressions, or niches, at odd
intervals. The general shape of the prison was square.
***
. When the grim Darkness overspread the Earth, then, with every horror of thought, I
shookshook as the quivering plumes upon the hearse.
***
The darkness was total. I could not see the figure of him who had aroused me.
***
. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness,
***
darkness came then the
***
, I uplifted myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within the intense darkness of
the chamber, hearkened --I know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted me --
to certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long
intervals, I knew not whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror,
***
for darkness fell over an things
***
until the darkness, hiding her from our sight,
***
the blackness of darkness supervened; all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad
rushing descent as of the soul into Hades. Then silence, and stillness, night were the
universe.
The intensity of the darkness seemed to oppress and stifle me.
As I knew it would be miserable at home, and as the nights were dark and
the way was dreary, and almost any companionship on the road was better
than
none, I made no great resistance; consequently, we turned into
Pumblechook's
just as the street and the shops were lighting up.

It was the night afore the great
race, when I found him on the heath, in a booth that I know'd on. Him and
some
more was a sitting among the tables when I went in, and the landlord (which
had
a knowledge of me, and was a sporting one) called him out, and said, 'I think
this
is a man that might suit you,'meaning I was.

As the night was fast falling, and as the moon, being past the full, would not
rise early, we held a little council
His breathing became more difficult and painful as the night drew on,