books.google.co.uk - It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies) rattling along the house-tops and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Paul_Clifford.html?id=Oos62p8oJekC&q=poor&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePaul Clifford[