But royalist opinions were now all-powerful at Cinq-Cygne.

The four young men and Laurence laughed at their prudent elder, who seemed to foresee a coming evil.

Possibly, prudence is less virtue than the exercise of some instinct, or _sense_ of the mind (if it is allowable to couple those two words).

A day will come, no doubt, when physiologists and philosophers will both admit that the senses are, in some way, the sheath or vehicle of a keen and penetrative active power which issues from the mind..