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Updated: May 10, 2025
"My Lord Duke," said he to Richard, in French, "Sir Eric has sent me to bring you tidings that the King of France has arrived to receive your homage." "The King!" exclaimed Osmond. "Ay!" proceeded the Norman, in his own tongue, "Louis himself, and with a train looking bent on mischief. I wish it may portend good to my Lord here. You see I am accompanied.
Three lutes indicate much good fortune, two lutes and one mast good fortune and moderate prosperity, one pair of arms and two lutes misfortune, followed by happiness, and so forth. Here, in November, begin the arms with weapons, and here they stand in threes and threes, and portend nothing but unqualified misfortune, never mitigated by a single lute. Do you see, boy?
The small girl sat watching him for a minute and then skipped in after him, and the cormorants ceased their diving and the seagulls their wheelings and mewings, and all gathered agitatedly on a rock at the farther side of the bay, and wondered what such shouts and laughter might portend.
My uncle coughed, the flute became shrill. I caught these fragments of their dialogue. "No, Monsieur!" "Yes, Monsieur!" "But the law?" "Is as I tell you." "But this is tyranny!" "Then our business is at an end." Apparently it was not, though; for the conversation gradually sank down the scale to a monotonous murmur. A second hour passed, and yet a third. What could this interminable visit portend?
Would he lose her, after all? What did the dark shadow around her portend? Did calamity lurk on that long upland trail through the sage? Why should his heart swell and throb with nameless fear? He listened to the silence and told himself that in the broad light of day he could dispel this leaden-weighted dread.
Woolper's meditations very often nowadays. But the strange sense of perplexity, the nameless fear, the vague horror, were not to be banished from her mind. A sense of some shapeless presence for ever at her side haunted her by day and night. What was it? What did its presence portend?
"What may this portend?" asked each man of his neighbor. All smiled as they put the question, yet with a certain trouble in their eyes, as if pestilence, or some other wide calamity, were prognosticated by the untimely intrusion among the living of one whose presence had always been associated with death and woe. What a comet is to the earth was that sad woman to the town.
These sights naturally disturbed us, and we fell to praying the Gods to avert any disaster they might portend. We had proceeded something less than fifty miles when we saw a great forest, thick with pines and cypresses. This we took for the mainland; but it was in fact deep sea, set with trees; they had no roots, but yet remained in their places, floating upright, as it were.
And then I left him to go and think, my pulses throbbing as I thought of the exciting turn my adventures were taking the event of the last hour my discovery, if such it could be called; and I longed for the time when I could put it to the proof. The time glided on, and I saw no more of Garcia; but, all the same, I could not help feeling that this calm might portend a storm.
Much perplexed how to account for this singular phenomenon, he stood gazing at the moving foliage, and wondering what it could portend. The movement seemed to be confined to the one place only, but as he gazed the motion suddenly ceased, and all was quiet as before.
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