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'That near side one Moran's horse, pigeon-toes; me know 'em, says Warrigal. 'Off side one Daly's roan horse, new shoes on. You see 'um hair, rub himself longa tree. 'What the blazes were they doing hereabouts? says Starlight. 'This begins to look complicated. Whatever the row was, Daly and he were in it. There's no one rich enough to rob hereabouts, is there? I don't like the look of it.
There below me was Veii; beyond, in the Wall of the Apennines, only just escaped from clouds, was Tibur that dignified the ravine at the edge of their rising; that crest to the right was Tusculum, and far to the south, but clear, on a mountain answering my own, was the mother of the City, Alba Longa. The Tiber, a dense, brown fog rolling over and concealing it, was the god of the wide plain.
"Drive, you scoundrel; don't talk." Away we went again, clattering, jolting, rattling, till the teeth of us were fairly loosened in their steps. Sharp to the right it was, past the Longa, and on by the tram-lines alongside the old walls; then an S-turn; and then a sweep round to the left; always with the tram-lines beside our tires.
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS were it not a sin to call the divine science of the law by the inferior name of art. So my lamp did burn, dear Darsie, the next morning, though the owner took the risk of a domiciliary visitation, and lay snug in bed, trusting its glimmer might, without further inquiry, be received as sufficient evidence of his vigilance.
The boy said that the "debil-debil" had arms like the lawyer vine long and set with spurs and dwelt in the heart of the mountains, in the thickest jungle. He sit down little bit. Altogether black fella make 'um big fella fire. He no more sleep. He look out all time. Bi'mby, longa morning he altogether yan.
This one blood drop longa white leaf. Here he picked up a dried gum leaf, which had on the upper side a dark red spot, slightly irregular. We had it all now. We came to a place where two horses had been tied to a tree. They had been stamping and pawing, as if they had been there a goodish while and had time to get pretty sick of it.
Madame breathed an almost sensuous sigh which caused her husband to glance tenderly towards her. "I know, my love, I know," he said. "It may come some day." "O festum dies! Longa intervallam!" she murmured, shaking her bonnet with the manner of a martyr to duty. Mr. Sagittarius was greatly moved. "She's a saint," he whispered aside to the Prophet, as if imparting some necessary information.
During the evening two stocky little French girls came in and sang "Eet's a longa, longa wye to Teeperaree" in English for the "seek Capitan." The Canadian division was in rest during those early April days when the cold, long-drawn out spring became almost imperceptibly warmer and the buds were beginning to swell on the trees and bushes.
How are you going to get along yourself, if you let him have so much?" She did not answer at once. Then she said, hopelessly, "I've a great mind to go home with him. I don't believe there's any use waiting here any longa." The vice-consul could not say anything to this. She added, "Yes, I believe I will go home. We we'e talking about it, the other day, and he is willing to let me go with him."
However, the white sow was found in the right place with all her little pigs, and on the spot was founded the city of Alba Longa, where Æneas and Lavinia reigned until he died, and his descendants, through his two sons, Ascanius or Iulus, and Æneas Silvius, reigned after him for fifteen generations.
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