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Read & copy
“I saw the cloud, though I did not foresee the storm.”
Meaning & context
Moll recognizes warning signs in the household’s changing treatment of her but admits she did not understand how serious the coming consequences would become.
Source details
Moll Flanders, Project Gutenberg #370. The fictional first-person narrator uses weather metaphor while recalling an early relationship crisis and the family’s growing hostility toward her.