i went back to the inn if such a wind could rise i think it was rising the howl and roar the rattling of the doors and windows the in the chimneys the apparent rocking of the very house that sheltered me and the prodigious tumult of the sea were more fearful than in the morning but there was now a great darkness besides and that invested the storm with new terrors real and fanciful i could not eat i could not sit still i could not continue to anything something within me faintly answering to the storm without tossed up the depths of my memory and made a tumult in them yet in all the hurry of my thoughts wild running with the thundering sea � the storm and my uneasiness regarding ham were always in the fore ground my dinner went away almost and i tried to refresh myself with a glass or two of wine in vain i fell into a dull slumber before the e without losing my consciousness either of the uproar out of doors or of the place in which i was both became by a new and horror and when i awoke � or rather when i shook off the that bound me in my chair � my whole frame thrilled with and unintelligible fear i walked to and fro tried to read an old listened to the awful noises looked at faces scenes and figures in the fire at length v i i q of david the steady of the undisturbed clock on tlie wall tormented me to that degree that i resolved to go to bed it was re assuring on such a night to be told that some of the had agreed together to sit up until morning i went to bed exceedingly weary and heavy but on my lying down all such sensations vanished as if by magic and i was broad awake with every sense refined for hours i lay there listening to the wind and water now that i heard shrieks out at sea now that i distinctly heard the firing of signal guns and now the fall of houses in the town i got up several times and looked out but could see nothing except the reflection in the window panes of the faint candle i had left burning and of my own haggard face looking in at me from the black void at length my restlessness attained to such a pitch that i hurried on my clothes and went down stairs in the large kitchen where i dimly saw bacon and ropes of hanging from the beams the were clustered together in various attitudes about a table purposely moved away from the great chimney and brought near the door a pretty girl who had her ears stopped with her apron and her eyes upon the door screamed when i appeared supposing me to be a spirit but the others had more presence of mind and were glad of an addition to their company one man referring to the topic they had been discussing asked me whether i thought the souls of the who had gone down were out in the storm i remained there i dare say two hours once i opened the and looked into the empty street the sand the sea weed and the of foam were driving by and i was obliged to call for assistance before i could shut the gate again and make it fast against the wind there was a dark gloom in my solitary chamber when i at length returned to it but i was tired now and getting into bed again fell � off a tower and down a precipice � into the depths of sleep i have an impression that for a long time though i dreamed of being elsewhere and in a variety of scenes it was always blowing in my dream at length i lost that feeble hold upon reality and was engaged with two dear friends but who they were i don t know at the siege of some town in a roar of the thunder of the cannon was so loud and incessant that i could not hear something i much desired to hear until i made a great exertion and aw it was broad day � eight or nine o clock the storm raging in of the and some one knocking and calling at my door what is the matter i cried a wreck close by i sprung out of bed and asked what wreck a from spain or laden with fruit and wine make haste sir if you want to see her it s thought down on the beach she go to pieces every moment the excited voice went along the staircase and i in my clothes as quickly as i could and ran into the street numbers of people were there before me all running in one direction o o the personal and experience to the i ran the same way a good many and soon came facing the wild sea the wind might by this time have a little though not more sensibly than if the i had dreamed of had been diminished by the of half a dozen guns out of hundreds but the sea having upon it the additional agitation of the whole night was infinitely more terrific than when i had seen it last every appearance it had then presented bore the expression of being swelled and the height to which the rose and looking over one another bore one another down and rolled in in interminable hosts was most appalling in the difficulty of hearing anything but wind and waves and in the crowd and the unspeakable confusion and my first breathless efforts to stand against the weather i was so confused that i looked out to sea for the wreck and saw nothing but the foaming heads of the great waves a half 