I reeled with giddiness – flames passed before my eyes.I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power – wells that have had to be filled up because of persons throwing themselves...

Meanwhile the colonel followed the mad woman, and by a strange effect of the superexcitation of his senses, saw her in the darkness, through the mist, as plainly as in broad daylight; he heard her...

The weather appeared to have somewhat cleared up; the rain no longer fell, a fresh wind swept the streets, and the moon, now and then surrounded by dark clouds, now and then shining in full...