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With such a friend as Mirabel, he could not deem himself quite so unlucky as in the morning. If he were fortunate, and fortunate so unexpectedly, in this instance, he might be so in others. A vague presentiment that he had seen the worst of life came over him.
The fact is, I felt irresistibly impressed with a presentiment of some vast good fortune impending. I can scarcely say why. Perhaps, after all, it was rather a desire than an actual belief; but do you know that Jupiter's silly words, about the bug being of solid gold, had a remarkable effect upon my fancy? And then the series of accidents and coincidences these were so very extraordinary.
That year the presentiment of coming political convulsions found expression in reports of supernatural prodigies, while 'signs both on the earth and in the heavens portended war and bloodshed, the tramp of hostile armies, and the devastation of the peninsula. In a previous chapter the relations now existing between Rome and her dependents have been described.
Already the spray has wellnigh strangled me; I shiver all over; a horrible presentiment is uppermost in my mind that polypi, and sea-leeches, and shiny jelly-fish are fastening their suckers upon my legs; I jump, and kick, and plunge in an agony of apprehension, while those fair creatures on the rock imagine, no doubt, that I am disporting myself in sheer exuberance of joy.
"I hope this will happen soon. A presentiment tells me that some day I shall kill you in a victorious battle, Captain Rolls." "And one tells me that I shall get you hung, Robert Barthelemy." "I thank you for your kind intention. By the way, you have only one keg of biscuits and a cask of water that will not supply you until you reach London. May I offer you some of my store of provisions?"
Thereupon, each man referred to some fact, or some fantastic presentiment, or some instance of souls communicating with each other across space, or some case of secret influences produced by one being or another. And they asserted, they maintained that these things had actually occurred, while the skeptic went on repeating energetically: "Humbug! humbug! humbug!"
Hence, with the feeling of half contemptuous anger at himself for yielding to his presentiment, he packed up his kit again, bridled his horse, and rode on. The trail was indeed, as Jerry said, "no trail." It was rugged with broken rocks and cumbered with fallen trees, and as it proceeded became more indistinct.
She retired, the radiant smile still upon her face, and Sir Roger looked at his sister with concern for her tearful eyes. "Weeping, Teresa?" he said "What is the trouble?" "Nothing!" she answered quickly "Only a presentiment of evil! That funeral-ship has made me sad!" Sir Roger said nothing for the moment. He was too preoccupied with his own forebodings to give much heed to hers.
Even while sitting upon his horse, with these reflections running through his mind which they do, not as related, but with the rapidity of thought itself he feels a presentiment of that very thing. Nay, something more than a presentiment, something worse almost the certainty that his life is near its end!
She could not believe that she was going to marry Owen. She felt that it was not to be, and before the presentiment her her soul paused. She asked herself why she felt that it was not to be. There was no reason; but she felt quite clear on the point, and could not combat the clear conviction.
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