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On the envelope was written in his good, clear handwriting: "The Hon. Blanche Farrow, Wyndfell Hall." But no premonition of its contents reached her still weary, excited brain.
I remarked that the worst of people having premonitions is that they carefully hide up their prophecies until after the event, and then no one believed in them. "This time no one shall have the least doubt as to the fact that I have had my premonition well in advance of the fact. It is now October. I have told everybody whom it concerns whom I know.
He halted, unquiet in the strangeness of it all, restless under its exotic beauty, conscious of the languor stealing over him the premonition of a physical relaxation that he had never before known that he instinctively mistrusted.
His first words, however, settled all questions as to his personality: He was the order clerk at Altman's. As he acknowledged this, I seemed to have some faint premonition of what was coming.
Incontinently, the little man ran back through the dining-room and down the private hall, abandoning every effort to avoid a noise. No need now for caution, if his premonition wasn't worthless if the vengeful spirit of Mrs. Inche had not stopped short of embroiling son with father, but had gone on to the end ominously shadowed forth by the appearance of the gunman in those rooms....
Had Caesar no premonition that in the last few hours this man had grown to be such another as himself? for in his unyielding mind the firm resolve had been strengthened to hesitate at nothing not even at the death of as many as might come between him and his high aim, the throne.
But I have a premonition you may smile if you wish that I'll find the clew I'm seeking at Etretat. The name has somehow struck an answering chord in me." The words, as I recall them now, seem more than a little foolish and self-assured; yet, in light of the result well, at any rate, my chief showed no disposition to smile, but sat for some moments in deep thought.
On her homeward way, the half of a young rabbit gripped between her jaws, Desdemona suddenly picked up a fresh trail close to the cave. In the same instant the half-rabbit fell from her parted jaws and her nose went to earth, while premonition of disaster smote at her heart and all the channeled lines of her forehead deepened. A few urgent bounds carried her to the mouth of the cave.
Jimmy Grayson must have had some premonition of what was to come, because he obeyed his first impulse, and glanced at Harley and Sylvia, who were standing together. He was confirmed in his thought when he saw the look of gloom and resolve upon the face of his friend. "I want to speak to you of Sylvia," said "King" Plummer, in tones of hurry, as if it cost him an effort. "It's about our marriage.
Hammond make his home here, if it pleases your ladyship to have him. So long as I am well and able to get about there can be no danger of anything awkward happening. Lady Maulevrier looked alarmed. 'But you have no expectation of falling ill, I hope, Steadman; you have no premonition of any malady? 'No, my lady, none except the malady of old age.
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