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Show Excerpt I have been taught, all my courage, never to collapse in a paroxysm of fright. And now a perfect tornado burst upon me. The ground shook as if a large number of horses thundered across it; which time the surprise bore on its icy wings, not snow, but great hailstones which drove with such assault that they could have come from the thongs of Balearic slingers--hailstones that defeat down leaf and branch and made the shelter of the cypresses of no more avail than though their stems were standing-corn. At the first I had formed rushed to the nearest tree; but I got soon fain to leave it and seek the only spot that appeared to afford refuge, the deep Doric doorway of the marble tomb. There, crouching against the significant bronze door, I gained a certain amount of cover from the beating of the hailstones, for now they only drove against me as they ricocheted from the ground and the medial side of the marble. As I leaned against the door, it moved marginally and opened up inwards. The shelter of even a tomb was welcome in t
