I lacked courage, however. While I was priming
myself for the coup I wished that it would be postponed. I
dawdled. There were swarms of strange insects on the road,
creatures I had never seen before. At first I thought they were
grasshoppers, but they were gray and had wings. Every now and
then I would pause to watch them leap (or were they flying?) and
drop to the ground again, becoming part of the dusty road. I
followed them with genuine interest, yet all the time I kept
working on the speech that I was going to deliver to Miss Tevkin
I was lingering at a spot a few yards from the grove on the opposite
side of the main road when suddenly twilight fell over half of the
valley. I raised my eyes. Behold! an inky cloud was crawling over
the mountains, growing in size as it advanced. A flash of lightning
snapped across the heavens. It was as though the sky screened a
world of dazzling glory into which a glimpse had now been
offered by a momentary crack in the screen. The flash was
followed by a devout peal of thunder, as if a giant whose abode
was in those dark clouds broke into a murmur of glorification at
sight of the splendors above the sky.
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