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'I do hope there's nothing wrong, said Camilla, with the apprehensiveness which reiterated experience of ill-tidings begets in even the calmest nature. 'It can't be my having broken my leg again, said her brother, with a not very successful attempt at a joke; 'it was horrid, but I wouldn't mind breaking the other any day if it would save father's getting worse.
"You say well, little heart; but great is the glory to be revealed; so let us have courage." "Dear uncle, have you heard any ill-tidings of late?" asked Agnes. "I noticed this morning you were cast down, and to-night you look so tired and sad." "Yes, dear child, heavy tidings have indeed come.
The bearer of ill-tidings is always soon betrayed, and Agatha's was not a face to disguise anything. Elizabeth's head dropped back on the pillow. "I perceive. He is an old man. He has gone home before me. My dear father!" The perfect composure with which she said this astonished Agatha.
"Hunt out this bearer of ill-tidings," roared Dingaan, "hunt him out, and send orders that his own cattle be taken to fill up the holes in my blanket." Now some attendants sprang on the luckless Movo and began to beat him with their sticks.
Oh!" and she clutched at her wildly beating heart. "The Ramona a thousand pardons that I am the bearer of ill-tidings the Ramona was shipwrecked!" said Senor Ramo. "We picked up some of the sailors from it! Ah, deeply do I regret to have to tell you such news!" "Cora, what's the matter? Has this man ?"
He sat perfectly quiet, and had never spoken a syllable. When Sir Herbert, who was the first to recover from the shock of these ill-tidings, called him by his name, Mr. Halifax looked quickly up.
Yet the spirit in me cannot lie and I know well, and bid all here make record of my words, that to-night I stand in the presence of him who ere two moons have passed will be crowned Pharaoh." "Truly you were ever a bearer of ill-tidings, Ki, but if so, what of it?"
From all points of the compass, his enemies, held in check so long, are floating on: the confluence of disasters and ill-tidings, at this time, very great. From Jung-Bunzlau, close by, his Brother's accounts are bad; and grow ever worse, as will be seen!
While the Squire was taking his breakfast in the great hall, he was continually interrupted by some bearer of ill-tidings from some part or other of his domains; he appeared to me like the commander of a besieged city, after some grand assault, receiving at his headquarters reports, of damages sustained in the various quarters of the place.
"I am very sorry," returned the young broker, in a tone of earnest sympathy. "Shall I be presuming if I inquire the nature of your ill-tidings?" She smiled up at him gratefully. "Oh, no, and you are very kind. It it is only a business trouble," she said, a vivid flush dyeing her fair cheek; "but being a woman, perhaps I cannot meet it with quite the fortitude of a man."
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