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Cheer up, my lass, and sing us a stave or two, as we go; for I’ll pledge a cyathus of unmixed, that, if you choose, you can warble notes as sweet as the manna gum.” Callista was silent, but she was perfectly collected, and ready to avail herself of any opportunity to better her condition.
"It's true," he ventured, "I have cared a good deal for Cornelia; and I've thrown over that little Greek Clyte and all the others for her; but then, to make a girl your sweetheart and to make her your wife are two very different things. Vina Opimia is best; but because one drinks a cyathus of that, why should he forego a good nil of Thasian or Cæcuban?
'May this cup be my last! said the young Sallust, as the table, cleared of its first stimulants, was now loaded with the substantial part of the entertainment, and the ministering slave poured forth to him a brimming cyathus 'May this cup be my last, but it is the best wine I have drunk at Pompeii! 'Bring hither the amphora, said Glaucus, 'and read its date and its character.
At last, says the Pope, the blessed man, only think how 'cute it was ov him! "Eversor, id est cyathus," says his Riv'rence, "nam apud nos tumbleri seu eversores, dicti sunt ab evertendo ceremoniam inter amicos; non, ut Temperantiæ Societatis frigidis fautoribus placet, ab evertendis ipsis potatoribus."
There is something odd, mystical, and shall we say affected, about both the Brownings, which mars their general effect the wine is good, but the shape of the cyathus is deliberately queer. Samuel Brown is devoted to other pursuits. Marston's very elegant, refined, and accomplished mind, lacks, perhaps, enough of the manly, the forceful, and the profound.