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Go back to your room and write out your 'pensum, for you will again be forbidden breakfast, if it is not ready." Henrik did not listen to him, but worked away for all the world as if he was not being addressed. Meanwhile Márton was cutting a large piece of dough into bits of exactly equal size, out of which the "Vienna" rolls were to be formed.
"My daughter Michal," said he at last, with a sly assumption of gravity, "we did not finish our pensum to-day. And the rule is: 'Nulla dies sine linea! What does that mean?" "One should never let a day pass without doing one's allotted task," answered Michal. "Then bring hither your exercise-book." The damsel dutifully obeyed.
He did not enlighten me on the subject; instead he turned with a severe confessorial face to Henrik: "No ergo! Quid ergo? Quid seis? Habes pensum? Nebulo!" Henrik tried whether he could move the skin of his head like Master Márton did, when he spoke of Mr. Fromm's Latin.
My grandmother spoke of him in pitiful tones, whereas Father Fromm assumed a look of inexorable severity, when he gave information on this subject; and as he spoke I gathered frequently the words "prosodia," "pensum" "labor" "vocabularium" and many other terms common to dog-Latin: among which words like "secunda" "tertia" "carcer" served as a sufficiently trustworthy compass to direct me to the following conclusion: My friend Henrik might not put in an appearance to-day at supper, because he did not know his lessons, and was to remain imprisoned in the house until he could improve his standing by learning to repeat, in the language of a people long since dead, the names of a host of eatables.
We have already said that the fault of Farnham's conversation with women was the soldier's fault of direct and indiscriminate compliment. But this was too much in Euphrasia's manner for her to object to it. She laughed and said, "You deserve a pensum of fifty lines for such a misquotation.
Principio quidem illud apud plerosque milites Hispanos, pessimo sane exemplo, in more positum fuit, vti ab oculatis et fide dignis testibus perscriptum est, vt seruos suos grauissime punirent, si mercedem diurnam aut non attulissent, aut pensum in auro argentoue effodiendo non absoluissent, aut si quid leuioris denique delicti perpetrassent.
"Meus filius magnus asinus." That was a fine acknowledgment from a father. "Nescit pensum nunquam scit." Then he discontinued to speak of the young student, and pantomimically described something, from which I gathered that "meus filius," on this occasion was condemned to starve, until he had learnt his lessons, and was confined to his room. This was no pleasant idea to me.
This is the oldest and most universal name for the Breviary and its recitation. Other names were, Opus Dei; Agenda; Pensum servitutis; Horae; Horae Canonicae. Which books were employed in olden times in reciting the Office?
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