Not a soul anywhereonly the moonlight in great broad flashes of lightonce or twice a woman hurried by keeping in the shadow.

The scenery, too, must have been striking; the dreary forest, its darkness just relieved by the half-seen 'glistering' forms; the heavy drug-like splendour of the enchanted palace and the cold moonlight outside; the bright, fresh sunshine, lastly, dew-washed, of the early morning; there were here a series of pictures the contrasts of which must have added to their individual effect.

At first he saw a sea of faces: the mill-men,women he had known, drunken and bloated,Janeys timid and pitiful,poor old Debs: then they floated together like a mist, and faded away, leaving only the clear, pearly moonlight.