One does not lose it at night as one falls asleep, nor does one recover it in the morning, when dreams are disturbed by a little stir of life in the undergrowth and one opens one’s eyes to see above one the bronze of the dawn. It possesses one, does this noise of the torrent, ...
A torrent11 of water coming down from the mountain ran between them and the goal. Again he lifted her in his arms, this time without protest on her part, and bore her across. The rain, broken into a mist by the wind, filled their mouths, nostrils12, and eyes. They could scarcely ...