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Updated: June 1, 2025
You are the bearer of ill-news in regard to him. Yes, I know it is so; tell me, Harry," and she looked imploringly up to him, "am I not right? my father has been attacked by Indians, and he has fallen. Oh! you do not deny it!"
There was the most desolate feeling in his heart, the most ghastly premonition that ill-news had come in this last hour. He drew forth the telegram and slowly, painfully unfolded it. No one could have told by his expression that he felt almost that he was reading his death warrant. It was from Grant & Ripley and evidently had been following him about town for two or three hours.
I am a messenger of peace; I bear good tidings to thee, not ill-news. Thou must away with me at once." "I cannot go; but see! my lamp is out. I must light it again. You see how indifferent I am," he apologetically exclaimed, "I even fall asleep over my prayers." "Ha! I perceive thou art over-weary; take my advice for the once, and do not rise so soon, nor pray so long."
A good fortune indeed can you not see? is that which has accompanied your life, that you should denounce mine! And now let me read to you the evidence of the public burdens which I have undertaken; and side by side with them, do you, Aeschines, read the speeches which you used to murder and 'Know that I am not fain ill-news to bring'; Such was I in my relation to the State.
The stranger on foot must have worn seven-league boots, to travel at such a rate. "Ill-news flies fast, they say," thought Dominicus Pike, "but this beats railroads. The fellow ought to be hired to go express with the President's message."
Last week there had come a letter from Harry Temple. It had startled her when it arrived. She feared it was some ill-news about David, coming as it did from New York and being written in a strange hand. It had been a plea for forgiveness, representing that the writer had experienced nothing but deep repentance and sorrow since the time he had seen her last.
Something tells me that things have gone wrong with my father." "Oh, I hope not," said Dr. Lawrence. "There is no word of ill-news here. The urgency may be quite on another score." "I should like to start at once, sir," said Jack. "I know my way about the Continent very well. I have spent two or three vacations in Italy." "Quite so, quite so," said Dr. Lawrence.
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.
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