THE S W" A R M 



the sisTial for departure;, without waiting 

 for these reflections of ours to come to 

 an end. At the moment this signal is 

 given, it is as though one sudden mad 

 impulse had simultaneously tlung open 

 wide every single gate in the city ; and 

 the black throng issues, or rather pours 

 forth in a double, or treble, or quadruple 

 jet, as the number of exits may be ; in a 

 tense, direct, vibrating, uninterrupted 

 stream that at once dissolves and melts 

 into space, where the m}Tiad transparent, 

 furious wings weave a tissue throbbing 

 with sound. And this for some moments 

 will quiver right over the hive, with pro- 

 digious rustle of gossamer silks that 

 countless electrined hands might be cease- 

 lessly rending and stitching: it floats un- 

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