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Also her wardrobe is, at present, limited. The evening dresses will barely suffice for a stay of a week, and it is not possible for me to construct a new one under ten days." Thereupon an opening of doors and voice from the anteroom announcing: "Dinner is served, my lady. Sir Richard is in the dining-room." And Helen swept forward, somewhat stormy and Cassandra-like in her dusky garments.
"I always felt there might be a clash over some colonial question a quarrel about black men. But a war between the white nations over a European question that Germany would force such a war no, that I never believed!" Nor did any of us except those few those very few persons, who Cassandra-like, saw the coming horror plainly, and spoke to a deaf country.
When others saw darkness he saw light; now, Cassandra-like, he saw darkness when others saw light; yet he did not doubt the ultimate triumph of the light, but he no longer thought that his eyes would see it, and he was glad to close them. Less sad, notwithstanding his physical martyrdom, were Garibaldi's last years.
And, as he listened, he began to understand far more deeply all sorts of things about Valerie; to see what vacancies she had had to put up with, to see what fullness she must have missed. And he began to understand what Imogen, Cassandra-like, had declared, that the unseasonable fragrance of devotions hovered about her widowed mother; to remember the ominous "Wait and see."
Last Sunday Miss Reed thrilled me for an hour with superstition and Cassandra-like prophecy. Don't things ever happen accidentally here, and without warning?" "I mean," returned the young lady with her usual practical directness, "that Tave Reed remembers a good many horrid things about the wah that she ought to forget, but don't.
The Sidhe, a tender, tutelary spirit, attached herself to heroes, accompanied them in battle, shrouded them with invisibility, dressed their wounds with more than mortal skill, and watched over them with more than mortal love; the Banshee, a sad, Cassandra-like spirit, shrieked her weird warning in advance of death, but with a prejudice eminently Milesian, watched only over those of pure blood, whether their fortunes abode in hovel or hall.
He had already notified the French court of the absolute necessity of the great points to be insisted upon in the treaty, and there he found more docility than in London or Newmarket. All summer he was occupied with this most important matter, uttering Cassandra-like warnings into ears wilfully deaf. The States had gone as far as possible in concession.
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