somewhere it shone.  It was not permanent, and perhaps the gloom was never more profound, nor the agony more intense, than it was for long after my Ilfracombe visit.  But the light broadened, and gradually the darkness was mitigated.  I have never been thoroughly restored.  Often, with no warning, I am plunged in the Valley of the Shadow, and no outlet seems possible; but I contrive to traverse it, or to wait in calmness for access of strength.