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Several instruments combined to make it, but the voice of a flute was dominant among them. Light, sweet, delicate, it came to her in the night like a personality full of odd magic, full of small and subtle surprises, intricate, gay, and sad. "Said Hitani!" she said. "He's delicious! Take me to him, Amor." She knew at once that he was the flute-player.
And since it is agreed between us that, no more than others, can we avoid certain necessities of nature.... -Alas, alas, human infirmity! Omnia vincit amor, et nos cadamus amori. Then.... Then, we choose our company; for instance, that pretty girl there. And Ridoux leant his head out of the door. They had just reached Vic, where they changed horses.
He was so powerful that he could break an iron bar in two pieces with his hands. When he was twenty years old the Ancient One took him up on the battlements, and giving him a strong glass told him to look down upon the capital city on the plain and see what was being done there. "I see many people gathered in crowds," Amor said, when he had looked for a few moments.
"Panchita," screamed Justo, in extreme wrath, "tu es loco, you are mad sit down, por amor de Dios seas decente be decent." She continued gamboling about, "loven soy y virgin I am young and a virgin y tu Viejo diablo que queres tu, and you, old devil, what do you want, eh?
To die for such absurdities when life is so beautiful and the heretic might have enjoyed it so richly with any of the plump-breasted, big-hipped blonde women, friends of the cardinals, who witnessed his torture! Unhappy apostle! Jaime ironically pitied the simplicity of the martyr. He looked at life through different eyes. Viva el amor! Love was the only thing worth while in life.
The other, sitting just in front of her, took up the volume and rustled its leaves. "How far have you got? This pencil mark? 'Amor ch'a null' amato amar perdona." She read the line in an undertone, slowly towards the close. Miriam's face showed a sudden and curious emotion. Glancing at the book, she said abruptly: "No; that's an old mark a difficulty I had. I'm long past that."
I stopped in the street, and listened to the Dominie in continuation "But, fair maiden, omnia vincit amor here am I, Dominie Dobbs, who have long passed the grand climacteric, and can already muster three score years who have authority over seventy boys, being Magister Princeps et Dux of Brentford Grammar School who have affectioned only the sciences, and communed only with the classics who have ever turned a deaf ear to the allurements of thy sex, and ever hardened my heart to thy fascination here am I, even I, Dominie Dobbs, suing at the feet of a maiden who had barely ripened into womanhood, who knoweth not to read or write, and whose father earns his bread by manual labour.
And then they flashed out at her as if sprung suddenly to light on the white paper. There, in the beloved handwriting, sure and indelible, she read it, and across the desert of her heart, voiceless but insistent, there swept the hunger-cry of a man's soul: OMNIA VINCIT AMOR.
Or is it not rather true that, although this is an advantage naturally belonging to friendship, yet its original cause is quite other, prior in time, more noble in character, and springing more directly from our nature itself? The Latin word for friendship amicitia is derived from that for love amor; and love is certainly the prime mover in contracting mutual affection.
After the ill-fated voyage he returned into durance vile, and when at last the time came for the axe which had so long hung over him, to fall, his words showed that at least in adversity he had learned, like the great Arian chieftain Clovis, to burn what he had adored, and to adore what he had burned. His device, Ubi dolor ibi amor is significant of the change that suffering had wrought in him.
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