It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing

and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The

night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in

the road: and the kennels were overflowing. There was a faint

glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but it rather aggrevated

than relieved the gloom of the scene: the sombre light only

serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without

shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops,