He expected that the Senora's prediction would be verified.

And the personal enmity which the priesthood felt to him induced a depressing sense of personal disaster.
Nothing in the house or the city seemed inclined to settle.

It took a few days to draw up the articles of capitulation and clear the town of General Cos and the Mexican troops.

And he had no faith in their agreement to "retire from Texas, and never again carry arms against the Americans." He knew that they did not consider it any sin to make "a mental reservation" against a heretic.

He was quite sure that if Cos met reinforcements, he would have to be fought over again immediately.
And amid these public cares and considerations, he had serious private ones.