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Our Mr James will readily acknowledge that while there was a chance of rescuing our poor fellows we were bound to cross into Agpur. But when he hears they are dead, I have a foreboding I feel it in my bones that he will instantly order us back.
In Eske, or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or July's pride; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight or matin prime. All the members of the Wharton family laid their heads on their pillows that night, with a foreboding of some interruption to their ordinary quiet.
But the majority turned away not quite satisfied with an inward foreboding that all was not as well as it might be that critical eyes would see ground for criticism.
Having gathered what remained of it together, he flung on more fuel and set to work to chafe his extremities, restoring circulation. He was too chilled to think of attempting sleep again that night: so, when his limbs were sufficiently thawed out, he renewed his journey. The atmosphere was wonderfully clear, but there was in the air a sense of evil and foreboding.
"When you get this I shall be a corpse," wrote one of them, and one finds the same foreboding in many of these documents. Even the lucky ones who could get some cover from the incessant bombardment by English guns began to lose their nerves after a day or two.
When he reached the clearing through which Dale had come on the night he had visited the Nyland cabin, he looked furtively around, for the dire foreboding that had gripped him for hours had grown suddenly stronger. He halted his horse and sat motionless in the saddle, intently examining every object within view.
He did not answer, but slowly bent his head, as though in assent. An odd foreboding of danger shot through the young girl's heart. Little as the man said, he seemed desperate. It was possible that the girl he loved might be a Capriote, and that he might have met her and talked with her while the dinner was going on. He might have strangled her with those great hands of his.
I trust I shall again have the pleasure of relieving you from your bondage." Isabel's lips quivered as she replied, "I trust in God that you may, Mr Forster! but I feel more anxious now than I did on the former occasion. "I have a foreboding," interrupted Newton, "that this day's work is to make or mar me!
They feared success for him almost as much as failure. The world was before him now, with its treasures and pleasures, but with those inevitable disappointments and losses which old people know and fear; those sorrows of incapacity and lack of judgment which young hearts go out to meet without foreboding.
At last the veil of night was lifted a little, a wind ruffled the waves, and the swaying oaks repeated to the hills the message of coming splendors from the Orient. Evadne gladly saw that the stars were fewer and paler in the sky, and she walked forth again, brushing cold dews from the vines and the branches. A foreboding fear led her first to look at the altar where she had left her offering.
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