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The three or four years immediately succeeding that of Brion's first visit to London were ominous years for England -- a fact which she did not fail to appreciate.
‘There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. '