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These, though darker than all others, had no prejudice against the fair skin of Carlos. Even over their benighted minds the future had cast some rays of its light. A sort of mysterious presentiment, apparently instinctive, existed among them, that their deliverers from the yoke of Spanish tyranny would yet come from the East from beyond the great plains!
The Cool Captain straightens a stray lock of his charger's mane, and answers, with his old provoking smile, "Don't fret yourself, George. I have a presentiment that we shall get rid of the 'fidgets' before we sleep. See that looks like business." It seemed as if a spirit of prophecy possessed him; for even while he was speaking, the aide-de-camp came down at speed.
And now, that an uncertainty has arisen as to what has befallen Naraguana and his people, her fears became redoubled and intensified. Standing in the trellissed verandah, her eyes fixed upon the departing forms of her husband and daughter, she has a heaviness at the heart, a presentiment of some impending danger, which seems so near and dreadful as to cause shivering throughout her frame.
Ministers, princes, kings, will pass away like mountain torrents; civil war, like a forest flame; but we we shall remain; I have a presentiment that we shall." "Yes," replied D'Artagnan, "let us still be musketeers, and let us retain as our battle-standard that famous napkin of the bastion St. Gervais, on which the great cardinal had three fleurs-de-lis embroidered." "Be it so," cried Aramis.
At our first encounter I am sure I had a nebulous presentiment that I would one day go to it in spite of my hesitation, in spite of all the efforts put forth to hold me back, and the emotion that overwhelmed me in the presence of the sea was not only one of fear, but I felt also an inexpressible sadness, and I seemed to feel the anguish of desolation, bereavement and exile.
It was curious that I could reason and follow out a network of suggestion as clearly as ever: so, at least, it seemed to me. It was calmness rather than dulness that was coming upon me. Was there any ground for the relief in the presentiment of death? Did a man near to death begin instinctively to withdraw himself from the meshes of matter and sense, even before the cold hand was laid upon his?
Will he have known me?" whispered Lucy, tremulously. "And if he does, love?" said Richard. "Oh! if he does, dearest I don't know, but I feel such a presentiment. You have not spoken of him to-night, Richard. Is he good?" "Good?" Richard clutched her hand for the innocent maiden phrase. "He's very fond of eating; that's all I know of Adrian." Her hand was at his lips when Tom returned.
But he thought there was a still higher and overruling cause for his having had the name of Erasmus conferred on him namely, the secret presentiment of his mother's mind that, in the babe to be christened, was a hidden genius, which should one day lead him to rival the fame of the great scholar of Amsterdam. The schoolmaster's surname led him as far into dissertation as his Christian appellative.
There is this morning a wild spirit afloat, people's minds have been excited by a sermon from one of the college fathers. The friends of the Intendant are gathered in force, they say, to clear the market of the Honnetes Gens. A disturbance is impending. That, master, is one reason. My other is a presentiment that some harm will befall you if you go to the market in the midst of such excitement."
She seemed to have a presentiment from the first, of her death; and, when she was told there was no hope of her recovery, she only grieved for those she left behind; and for me and my disappointment, my old friend said, chief of all. "I know he will be sorry," she said at the last. "But, tell him that I loved him and trusted him to the end.
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