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Thus were adjusted, so far as depended on the executive, all those external difficulties with which the United States had long struggled; most of which had originated before the establishment of the existing government, and some of which portended calamities that no common share of prudence could have averted.
To involve yourself with him can bring you nothing but trouble. Promise me you will take no further heed of this unhappy business." She turned to him as she spoke the last words, and there seemed less trouble in her face than in his. For at his heart there was a sickening fear and suspicion of what the words portended. "I can't promise that," he objected.
He looked around to see that observation was indeed at a distance. The agitated Bruce, accidentally raising his head, beheld a man in a minstrel's garb, much to tall to be his senachie, approaching him with a caution which he thought portended treachery. He sprung to his feet, and caught his sword from the table; but, in that moment, Wallace threw off his cowl.
He sprang to his feet with an exclamation and looked at the spot he had occupied. Moisture! A seepage! Water! His eyes grew big with horror. Even as he looked with dilating pupils he could see the earth darken with the spreading moisture. He had sunk too many wells not to know what it portended. Not only his days but his hours perhaps were numbered.
Parties began to form the Catholics for Mary Queen of Scots, and the Protestants for the family of Jane Grey. Every thing portended a dreadful contest. Elizabeth, however, recovered; but the country had been so much alarmed at their narrow escape, that Parliament ventured once more to address the queen on the subject of her marriage.
"Are you soldiers?" she said. And her scared look portended war. "My master is a traveller looking for the wars," said Morano. "Are the wars near?" "Oh, no, not near," said the woman; "not near." And something in the anxious way she said "not near" pleased Morano also. "We shall find those wars, master," he said. And then they both questioned her. It seemed the wars were but twenty miles away.
Her figure swayed; he too stood uncertainly; the lights seemed to tremble. The man suddenly straightened; then turned. "And now," his voice sounded harsh, tense; he stepped toward the balcony. His words, the abrupt action what it portended, aroused her. "No; no!" The exclamation broke from her involuntarily; she seemed to waken as from something unreal that had momentarily held her.
"His right hand!" cried Ike, appalled. The blacksmith would never lift a hammer again. And there the forge stood, silent and smokeless. What this portended, Ike realized as he sat with them around the fire. Their sterile fields in Poor Valley had only served to eke out their subsistence. This year the corn-crop had failed, and the wheat was hardly better.
He was in truth one of the most anxious and unhappy. He well knew that the difficulties of his task were only beginning. Already that dawn which had lately been so bright was overcast; and many signs portended a dark and stormy day.
The sachems would not hear a word from either. As Robert understood it, they felt that the Maple Dance might not be celebrated again for years. These old men, warriors and statesmen both, saw the huge black clouds rolling up and they knew they portended a storm, tremendous beyond any that North America had known.
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