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Who could see anything but the ill-omened figure of Michael Vanstone, posted darkly on the verge of the present time and closing all the prospect that lay beyond him? ON the next morning but one, news was received from Mr. Pendril. The place of Michael Vanstone's residence on the Continent had been discovered.
I should obliterate my past self altogether; but men are so different, so audacious some men, at least and Stanley, ever since his ill-omened arrival at Redman's Farm, last autumn, has amazed and terrified me.
In a letter to La Salle, dated 14 April, and enclosing his commission, the king tells him that Beaujeu is to command the working of the ship, la manoeuvre, subject to his direction. Louis XIV. seems to have taken no little interest in the enterprise. While these ill-omened bickerings went on, the various members of the expedition were mustering at Rochelle.
Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred fostered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Poles after the ill-omened rising of 1863. This is a far cry back from the MS. of "Almayer's Folly," but the public record of these formative impressions is not the whim of an uneasy egotism.
Over the stile she strode, and I saw her head wagging, and heard her sing some of her ill-omened rhymes, as she capered solemnly, with many a grin and courtesy, among the graves and headstones, towards the ruin. Three years later I learned in a way she probably little expected, and then did not much care about what really occurred there.
It was, indeed, a strange captive, and the children looked at it in wondering and rather fearful curiosity. My wife, usually tender-hearted, wished the creature, so ill-omened in her eyes, to be killed at once, but I granted Merton's request that he might put it in a box and keep it alive for a while. "In the morning," I said, "we will read all about it, and can examine it more carefully."
In the confession which had so terribly solved the mystery of my life, the seeds of that curse, which had grown at last into MADNESS, might be discovered even in the first dawn of Aubrey's existence. The latent poison might be detected in the morbid fever of his young devotion, in his jealous cravings of affection, in the first flush of his ill-omened love, even before rivalship and wrath began.
The cowpunchers would scatter at the first sign of Barry, at the first shrill of his ill-omened whistling. They might ride for Elkhead and raise a posse from among the citizens, but it would take two days to do that and gather a number of effective fighters for the crisis, and in the meantime the chances were large that Barry would strike the ranch while the messenger was away.
What a pity that he should ever be silent!" "There is one peculiarity about his gloom, it never inspires one with distrust," said Ellinor; "if I had observed him in the same circumstances as that ill-omened traveller, I should have had no apprehension." "Ah! that traveller still runs in your head. If we were to meet him in this spot."
Lord Menteith picked it up, and returned it to the terrified Annot. "I take God to witness," said Allan, in a solemn tone, "that your hand, young lord, and not mine, has again delivered to her this ill-omened gift. It was the mourning ring worn by my mother in memorial of her murdered brother."
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