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Soon after the close of the war he married Miss Mary Farley, sister of General Hugh L. Farley, formerly Adjutant and Inspector General of South Carolina, and of Captain William Farley, one of the riders of General Stuart, and a famous character in John Estin Cook's historical romances. Colonel Todd was a good officer, gallant soldier, and loyal and kind to his men.

Plinthos estin as we say in Greek," said Kenrick. "Halloa! tea's over." "And you've been chattering so much that the new fellow's had none," said Henderson, as a bell rang and one of the monitors read a short Latin grace. The boys streamed out, and Kenrick helped his new friend to unpack his books and other treasures, and put them in his desk, for which they ordered a new lock.

They were irritated to this pitch of rude banter, by a report spread a few days before, that, upon some one's commending his person as still florid and vigorous, he replied, Eti moi menos empedoi estin. My strength, as yet, has suffered no decay.

But politics are studied, as Aristotle said, 'for the sake of action rather than of knowledge, and the student is bound, sooner or later, to ask himself what will be the effect of a change in his science upon that political world in which he lives and works. Ethics, Bk. I. ch. iii. . [Greek: epeidê telos [tês politikês] estìn ou gnêsis all

Pleasure seldom unveils her face and offers herself to us twice, and Venus is a dangerous goddess to offend. I said, "Wait, wait," and "to-morrow," but those ominous lines beat dully through my brain "to daurion tis oiden; os oun et eudi estin." When I reached my hotel, thought, intelligent thought, seemed collapsing, and my brain spinning round and round within my skull.