DARK
"Dark drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow coming nearer and nearer was spreading over men little by little, over things, over ideas; a shadow that came from indignation and systems. All that had been hurriedly stifled was stirring and fermenting. Sometimes the conscience of the honest man caught its breath, so great was the confusion in the air in which sophisms mingled with truths. Minds trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. The electric tension was so great that at certain moments any chance comer, though unknown, gave off light. Then the twilight obscurity would fall again. At intervals, deep and half-smothered mutterings enabled men to judge the amount of lightening in the cloud."
From Chapter IV, Cracks in the Foundation
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