There came into her soul an intuitive feeling that somehow his coming was fraught with danger.

When not peering around she would often catch his eyes bent on her with a baleful expression.
Leroy and his cousin immediately fell into a discussion on the condition of the country.

Lorraine was a rank Secessionist, ready to adopt the most extreme measures of the leaders of the movement, even to the reopening of the slave trade.

Leroy thought a dissolution of the Union would involve a fearful expenditure of blood and treasure for which, before the eyes of the world, there could be no justification.

The debate lasted late into the night, leaving both Lorraine and Leroy just as set in their opinions as they were before they began.