It always makes me uncomfortable.

Yet I can't think what it can be." She made many suggestions, but to no purpose, and he went to bed dissatisfied.

He awoke once or twice in the night--a very rare thing with him; possibly, so close was their kinship, his father's disturbed spirit in some obscure and mysterious fashion was striving to warn him, or prepare him for calamitous tidings.

In the early morning he slept soundly, and awoke rather later than was his wont; and, even as he awoke, the square case which Lord Crosland had carried sprang into his mind, and he knew it to be a case of pistols.

In a flash everything was clear to him; his father was going to fight Count Sigismond, and had sent him to Nice to be out of the way.
He sprang out of bed, and dashed for his watch; it was two minutes past seven.