Overclouded

The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.

Being so far out of our reckoning was a very serious matter, but it was easily accounted for, from the fact that the sun had been obscured for two days, consequently no sights could be taken, and at night all the attempts to get lunar observations were frustrated by the overclouded state of the sky.