getting within sight of Barvas, whea. 
a surprising change came over the dark and thutider- 
ous aftemoon. The hurrying niasses of cloud in the 
west parted for a little space, and there was a suddea 
and fitful glimmer of a stormy blue sky. Then a 
Strange, soft, yellow, and vaporous light shot across to 
the Barvas hills, and touched up palely the great 
slopes, renderiog them distant, ethereal, and cloud-' 
like. Then a shaft or two of wild light flashed down 
upon the landscape beside them. The cattle shone. 
red in the brilliant green pastures. The grey rocka 
glowed in their selting of moss. The stream going by 
Barvas Inn was a streak of gold in its sandy bed. 
And then the sky above them broke into great billowa; 
of cloud  tempestuous and rounded masses of golden 
vapour that bumed with the wild glare of the sunseb 
The clear spaces in the sky widened, and from time' 
to time the wind sent ragged bits of yellow clou4| 
across the shining blue. All the world seemed to bei 
on ; and the very smoke of it  the majestic raassea 
of vapour that roUed by overhead  burned with a be- 
wildering glare. Then, as the wind still blew hard,' 
and kept veering round again to the north-west, the% 



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