From Kingdom to Colony. Devereux Mary

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      "You know, Dot, we are like to have serious trouble—perhaps a war with the mother country."

      "And all because of a parcel of old tea!" exclaimed Dorothy, with great scorn.

      Mary now turned her face in the direction the boat was going, and smiled faintly. "The tea is really what has brought matters to a head," she said. "But there is more in it than that alone, from what I've heard my father say. And there is much about it that we girls cannot rightly understand, or talk about very wisely. Only, I hope there will be no war. War is such a terrible thing," she added with a shudder, "and you know what Moll told us. I almost wish we had not gone to see her to-day."

      "I am not a bit sorry we went," said Dorothy, stoutly. "I am glad. What did she say—something about a big black cloud full of lightnings and muttering thunder, coming from across the sea, to spread over the land and darken it? Was n't that it?"

      "Yes, and much more. Do you think she was asleep as she talked to us, Dot? She looked so strangely, and yet her eyes were wide open all the time."