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"'My God! says the landlord 'there's something up there! "Something there was; and terrible to look upon when they brought it to light. The creature's struggles had ground the sut into its face, and its nails were black below the quick. "Were those words the last of its death-throe, or an echo from beyond? Ah! we may question; but they were heard by two men. "Dignum went free.

"I speak of nigh a century and a half ago. I speak of the time o' the Seven Years' War and of Exciseman Jones, that, twenty year after he were buried, took his revenge on the cliff side of the man that done him to death." "And who was that?" "They called him Dark Dignum, sir a great feat smuggler, and as wicked as he was bold," "Is your story about him?"

Still no cry, nor any appeal for mercy; no, not from the time he lit the fire till a horrible rattle come down, which was the last twitches of somethin' that choked and died on the sooty gratin' above. "When all was quiet, Dignum he knocks with his foot on the floor and sits hisself down before the hearth, with a face like a pillow for innocence.

Exciseman Jones had his eye on him; and that was bad for Exciseman Jones. "Now one murk December night Exciseman Jones staggered home with a bloody long slice down his scalp, and the red drip from it spotting the cobble-stones. "'Summut fell on him from a winder, said Dark Dignum, a little later, as he were drinkin' hisself hoarse in the Black Boy.

T., as usual, avoids the technical way of expressing the relation. Ad verbum, contubernium, cf. note, His. 1, 43. Others make aestimaret==dignum aestimaret, and contubernio abl. of price. Cf. Doed. and Dr. Licenter segniter, sc. agens. Licenter refers to voluptates, segniter to commeatus. Commeatus==furloughs, absence from duty.

"Dignum would have enjoyed the sound of a cry; but he never got it. He listened with the grin fixed on his face; and of a sudden he heard a scrambling struggle, like as a dog with the colic jumping at a wall; and presently, as the sticks blazed and the smoke rose denser, a thick coughin', as of a consumptive man under bed-clothes.

We remember a line of Horace never yet properly translated, viz: 'Nec scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello. The true translation of which, as we assure the unlearned reader, is 'Nor must you pursue with the horrid knout of Christopher that man who merits only a switching. Very true.

It is inevitable that when such a one speaks, his tones, his accent, the melodies of his rhythm, the inner harmonies of his linked thoughts, the grace of his allusive touch, should escape the common ear. To follow Milton one should at least have tasted the same training through which he put himself. "Te quoque dignum finge deo." The many cannot see it, and complain that the poet is too learned.

One has risen from the dead, and in the Valley of Achor stands wide the Door of Hope the Sacrament of Death. Scio Domine, et vere scio . . . quia non sum dignus accedere ad tantum mysterium propter nimia peccata mea et infinitas negligentias meas. Sed scio . . . quia tu potes me facere dignum.

"Indeed?" said I sympathetically. "If my services can be of use " "No, no," he interrupted, paused, and seemed to consider. "At least, not yet." "It seems, then, that I am doubly inopportune," I said, "for I have been following you to ask a small favour not for myself, but for a certain Major Dignum, at the Grand Pump Hotel; nothing more than the attesting of a signature a mere matter of form."