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The Padre was sunk in age; he was even bewitched himself; but the eyes of his flock were now awake to their own danger; and some day ay, and before long the smoke of that house should go up to heaven. He left me filled with horror and fear. Which way to turn I knew not; whether first to warn the Padre, or to carry my ill-news direct to the threatened inhabitants of the residencia.
Still he held his men well together in the glens of Kerry, during the months of Summer, but the ill-news from Spain in September threw a gloom over those mountains deeper than was ever cast by equinoctial storm.
'Spare me a morsel, Ardan son of Gorla, asked a raven, fluttering down towards him. 'Seek food elsewhere, O bearer of ill-news, answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'it is but little I have for myself. And he stretched himself out for a few moments, then rose to his feet again.
"Oui-gia!" and shook an angry fist at him. But the discoverer of the body was already away along the road to Vauroque, covering the ground like a little incarnation of ill-news. The exertion of running cleared away the choking, if it took his breath. He shouted as he drew near the houses. "Ah, bah!" growled one of the diners inside. "What's to do now, then?"
She was finally allowed to sit in the east room, where she lay in wait for all who entered, hoping to make them efficacious in her behalf, all the while uttering her weary heart in a woman's touching cries: but at last, certain of disappointment, she drove again to the jail and lay in her mother's cell, with the heavy face of one who brings ill-news.
In their dissimilar persons, eyes, faces, there was expressed a common trouble, doubt, and commiseration. This expression seemed to go out to meet us sadly, like a bearer of ill-news. And, as if at the sight of a downcast messenger, I experienced the clear presentiment of some fatal intelligence.
Perhaps, on some blessed, far-off day, you may be able to say so, and I to believe it, but not now! not now!" With feet as heavy and slowly-dragging as those of some unwieldy old person, with drooped figure, and stained and swollen face, I enter the school-room an hour later to tell my ill-news.
Things had been going very badly with us in the Transvaal, and the telegrams both at Port Said and at Suez supplemented the previous ill-news. At the latter place we heard of the catastrophe at Magersfontein, of poor Wauchope's death, and of the disaster to the Highland Light Infantry.
"My heart leaped into my throat, an' fur a min nit I hadna a word, fur I saw summat wui up, though I couldna tell what it wur. But at last my voice come back. "'Good evenin', Mester, I says to him; 'I hope yo' ha'not broughten ill-news? What ails thee, dear lass?
They know that now she is come she will call the Town Council, fine them, pursue them for rent, cite them to the High Court of Barga, imprison them if they cannot pay. They know her, and they curse her. The ill-news of her arrival runs from lip to lip.
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