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You won't mind, will you, Mr. Morrison!" She nodded brightly to the old gentleman, to the girl who had slipped into her place, to the other man, and was off. The man she had left looked after her, as she trod with her long, light step beside the young man, and murmured, "Et vera incessu patuit dea." Molly moved a plate on the table with some vehemence.
She looked like a woman with a will of her own; her head was high, her step was firm; it was of just such a walk as hers that Virgil wrote his "vera incessu patuit dea," and she made the young man in the section by himself think of that very passage as he glanced at her from under his heavy, bushy eyebrows.
Heic est sepulcrum haud pulcrum pulcrai feminae, Nomen parentes nominarunt Claudiam, Suom mareitum corde dilexit sovo, Gnatos duos creavit, horunc alterum In terra linquit, alium sub terra locat; Sermone lepido, tum autem incessu commodo, Domum servavit, lanam fecit. Dixi. Abei. Inscr.
'Et vera incessu patuit dea! he said, speaking in the tone between jest and earnest which he had used before. "And all the goddess in her step appears." Which means that you have the prettiest walk in the world, my dear but whither are you taking me? She went steadily on, not deigning an answer. 'But my charmer, let us parley, he remonstrated, striving to maintain a light tone.
I like to think of an hour as the singular of Houri which the Mohammedans call nymphs of paradise, because they were, or are, beautiful-eyed. My Hour then becomes a goddess walking through my life, and, as the poet says, et vera incessu patuit dea.
You feel that the whole of him was better than any random specimens, tho of his best, seem to prove. Incessu patet, he has by times the large stride of the elder race, tho it sinks too often into the slouch of a man who has seen better days. His grand air may, in part, spring from a habit of easy superiority to his competitors; but must also, in part, be ascribed to an innate dignity of character.
"What! their upholsterer?" cried Phellion, "that distinguished woman, of whom one may truly say, 'Incessu patuit dea'; which in French we very inadequately render by the expression, 'bearing of a queen'?" "Excuse me," said Minard.
He'll write it." "But how does he know?" "Know it's the real thing? Oh, I'm sure when you see it you do know. Vera incessu patuit dea!" "It's you, Miss Erme, who are a dear for bringing me such news!" I went all lengths in my high spirits. "But fancy finding our goddess in the temple of Vishnu!
She was a tall, handsome woman, with a sublime gait. "Vera incessu patuit Dea." She had heard, if not the words, then some translation of the words, and had taken them to heart, and borne them with her as her secret motto. To be every inch an aristocrat, in look as in thought, was the object of her life. That such was her highest duty was quite fixed in her mind.
She was not like Blanche; for Blanche had a bright complexion, and a fine neck, and a noble bust, et vera incessu patuit Dea a true goddess, that is, as far as the eye went. She had a grand idea, moreover, of an apple-pie, and had not reigned eighteen months at Creamclotted Hall before she knew all the mysteries of pigs and milk, and most of those appertaining to cider and green cheese.
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