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"And in the mean time?" suggested the man who seemed but a shadow of someone standing apart and far away from the affairs of daily life. "In the mean time one must play one's part," returned D'Arragon, with his almost inaudible laugh, "whatever it may be." There was no foreboding in his voice; no second meaning in the words. He was open and simple and practical, like the life he led.
For some time she had foreboded trouble. The foreboding grew upon her till its dark shadow cast a gloom upon all her feelings; it thrilled her at times with fear. She would start at the veriest trifles, as if affrighted.
If the earl should resort to violence, I can appeal to the king for protection." "If you have any regard for me, fly," cried Nizza Macascree. "I am lost if I remain here till to-morrow." "For your sake I will go, then," returned Amabel. "But I have a foreboding that I am running into the teeth of danger." "Oh! say not so," rejoined Mrs. Buscot. "I am persuaded it is for the best.
He had been contrasting these hideous slaveries of taboo-ridden England, past or present, with the rational freedom of his own dear country, whither he hoped so soon with good luck to take her, when suddenly Frida raised her eager eyes from the ground, and saw somebody or something coming across the moor from eastward in their direction. All at once, a vague foreboding of evil possessed her.
His heart beat violently, though he was unable to explain his excitement. It was more than a foreboding: he felt as if he had heard a piece of terribly bad news and the real nature of it had slipped his memory. He did not go home for luncheon; he ate in the café at the Carthusian Gate. Then he took a long walk out over the fields and meadows.
She was neither perplexed nor embarrassed, for she had the calmness of a fixed purpose. She went swiftly to him, took his hand, led him to a chair, then sat down beside him. He looked at her wonderingly and listened sadly as she asked, "Hobart, will you be patient with me again?" "Yes," he replied after a moment, yet he sighed deeply in foreboding.
Thoughts of possible perils filled his mind with foreboding, but he didn't wish Paolo to think he was turning the white feather, so he swallowed hard and forced himself to say: "I guess it will be all right." "All right! I should say it would be," was the hearty response; "and just remember, my boy, if you expect your bird to have a stout heart you must keep up your own courage."
As they went, they bent their splendid necks to see the meaning of the strange hand upon the reins, the slender weight in the chariot. They turned their wild eyes upon Phaethon, to his secret foreboding, and neighed one to another. This was no master charioteer, but a mere lad, a feather riding the wind. It was holiday for the horses of the Sun, and away they went.
Rigg Featherstone there was more discontent with immediate visible consequences than speculation as to the effect which his presence might have in the future. No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. And here I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevating a low subject.
And she was to send me her box key, and I was to secrete her letters for her. Important indeed, those letters must be, that she should go to such lengths to get them. Well, I had constituted myself her knight errant in that particular, and I would fulfil the trust. Beneath the thrilling excitement of the night's occurrence, I felt a dull, sad foreboding.
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