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"Perhaps your prognostications of evil may have come true," I said, laughing, not at all thinking that such was the case. "I trust not," answered Alick, in a grave tone. "I shall never forgive myself if any misfortune has happened during my absence from the fort.
'Do you know, he said, suddenly looking at her with dark, self-important, prophetic eyes, 'your fate and mine, they will run together, till and he broke off in a little grimace. 'Till when? she asked, blanched, her lips going white. She was terribly susceptible to these evil prognostications, but he only shook his head. 'I don't know, he said, 'I don't know.
"So she did, did she! Never heard on it," Liza broke in. Not noticing the interruption, Mrs. Garth continued: "And now, who knows but she may come down lower yet who knows but she may?" Still failing to gain a response to her gloomy prognostications, Mrs. Garth replied to her own inquiry. "None on us knows, I reckon! And what a down-come it wad be for her, poor creatur!"
Never has any man entered upon the Chief Magistracy of a country under such appalling predictions of ruin and woe! never has any one been so pursued with direful prognostications! never has any one been so beset and impeded by a powerful combination of political and moneyed confederates! never has any one in any country where the administration of justice has risen above the knife or the bowstring, been so lawlessly and shamelessly tried and condemned by rivals and enemies, without hearing, without defence, without the forms of law and justice!
He had a Latin text, and first he turned to the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, and, reading it critically, he seemed to see that all these passages of prediction he had taken on trust as prognostications of a Redeemer might prophesy quite other and more intelligible things. And long past midnight he read among the Prophets, with flushed cheek and sparkling eye, as one drunk with new wine.
Nor did they speak without reason; fever was preparing a victim for the sacrifice at Rahway, and Louis Bachelor was fed with its poison till he grew haggard and weak. One night he was sending his weather prognostications to Brisbane, when a stranger entered from the shore. The old man did not at first look up, and the other leisurely studied him as the sounder clicked its message.
Nor was it many ages ere these prognostications of declension were fully verified.
In the track of their discoveries, Eudoxus, Euctemon, Callippus, Meto, Philippus, Hipparchus, Aratus, and others discovered the risings and settings of the constellations, as well as weather prognostications from astronomy through the study of the calendars, and this study they set forth and left to posterity.
In spite of the doctor's prognostications, the little fellow had begun to mend, and he looked his best, nearly hidden in hood and mantle, and embellished by his mother's happy face, as she held him in her arms, rejoicing in the welcome bestowed on the first grandson. Violet had never been so comfortable with Lord Martindale.
That a great constituent body should be so forgetful of the past and so much out of humour with the present as to take this base and hardhearted pettifogger for a patriot was an omen which might well justify the most gloomy prognostications.
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