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DON MANUEL. A sudden dire presage Starts in my breast I shudder at the thought: If it be true! Oh, horror! Could she know That voice! Wert thou my tongue denies to utter The words of fearful import Beatrice! Say, wert thou present at the funeral rites Of my dead sire? BEATRICE. Alas! DON MANUEL. Thou wert! BEATRICE. Forgive me! DON MANUEL. Unhappy woman! BEATRICE. I was present!

Challoner, without a motion on his part or on the part of that gentleman to lighten an exit which had something in it of doom and dread presage. It is not difficult to understand Mr. Challoner's feelings or even those of Doris at the moment of Mr. Brotherson's departure. But why this change in Brotherson himself?

Perhaps it was Philip Leithcourt's intimate relation with the man who had so cleverly deceived me that incited my curiosity concerning him; perhaps it was that mysterious intuition, that curious presage of evil that sometimes comes to a man as warning of impending peril. Whatever the reason, I had become filled with grave apprehensions. The mystery grew deeper day by day, and was inexplicable.

When once Alexander had given way to fears of supernatural influence, his mind grew so disturbed and so easily alarmed, that if the least unusual or extraordinary thing happened, he thought it a prodigy or a presage, and his court was thronged with diviners and priests whose business was to sacrifice and purify and foretell the future.

Many looked upon this as an omen of some impending evil; but Fray Antonio Agapida, in that infallible spirit of divination which succeeds an event, plainly reads in it a presage that the empire of the Moors was about to be shaken to its centre. The king, therefore, divided his host into two bodies.

Do portents presage a combat? they are such as defy all power to conceive. Pindus mounts upon Olympus, and others of a more ordinary but still amazing character follow. Does a naval conflict take place? the horrors of all the elements combine to make it the most hideous that the mind can imagine.

The disguised sultan, who, while the vizier was speaking, felt every word impress him more and more with the conviction of his innocence, had much difficulty to support his assumed character; but not choosing his visit to the prison should be known at present, he restrained his feelings, and when the minister had finished took his leave, saying, he hoped his presage would be fulfilled.

"The Man of Destiny" believed in the destiny of man; he had faith in his star alone; and from the height of his greatness the new ruler, consecrated emperor and king by the Pope, beheld a presage of misfortune in a chance circumstance, insignificant to all but himself, in the experiment of which we are about to recount the history.

"Lo as some venturer, from his stars receiving Promise and presage of sublime emprise, Wears evermore the seal of his believing Deep in the dark of solitary eyes, Yea to the end, in palace or in prison, Fashions his fancies of the realm to be, Fallen from the height or from the deeps arisen, Ringed with the rocks and sundered of the sea;

And the dead leaves rustled in the paths as the wind swept them before it beneath the gloomy sky, and over the naked fields brooded a funereal silence, broken only by the cawing of the crows, presage of a bitter winter. A principal subject of conversation between them at this time was the hospital, which Henriette never left except to come and cheer Jean with her company.