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1 Yes, without a drop o rain, thank God.
2 Then it is going to rain, and you had better go home.
3 To Clym's regret it began to rain and blow hard as the evening advanced.
4 The moon and stars were closed up by cloud and rain to the degree of extinction.
5 At the fourth attempt to encounter him it began to rain in torrents, and she turned back.
6 Here Wildeve waited, slightly sheltered from the driving rain by a high bank that had been cast up at this place.
7 Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened.
8 The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground.
9 When she got into the outer air she found that it had begun to rain, and as she stood pausing at the door it increased, threatening to come on heavily.
10 At length Thomasin reached a hollow and began to discern through the rain a faint blotted radiance, which presently assumed the oblong form of an open door.
11 The rain still continued, the candlelight falling upon the nearest drops and making glistening darts of them as they descended across the throng of invisible ones behind.
12 But no response was made to this statement save an imaginary one from the wind, which seemed to gnaw at the corners of the house, and the stroke of a few drops of rain upon the windows.
13 The scene without grew darker; mud-coloured clouds bellied downwards from the sky like vast hammocks slung across it, and with the increase of night a stormy wind arose; but as yet there was no rain.
14 On higher ground, where the wind was brisk and sustained, the rain flew in a level flight without sensible descent, so that it was beyond all power to imagine the remoteness of the point at which it left the bosoms of the clouds.
15 Between the drippings of the rain from her umbrella to her mantle, from her mantle to the heather, from the heather to the earth, very similar sounds could be heard coming from her lips; and the tearfulness of the outer scene was repeated upon her face.
16 The nook among the brambles where his van had been standing was as vacant as ever the next morning, and scarcely a sign remained to show that he had been there, excepting a few straws, and a little redness on the turf, which was washed away by the next storm of rain.
17 He had occupied his time in moving with his ponies and load to a new point in the heath, eastward to his previous station; and here he selected a nook with a careful eye to shelter from wind and rain, which seemed to mean that his stay there was to be a comparatively extended one.
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