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'T is better to be friends than foes with some folk." "'Timeo Daneos et dona ferentes," quoted Winslow in the ear of Elder Brewster, who sat watching the sailor curiously, and now suddenly said, "And so thy shipmen are very ill too, Master Jones!" "Lo you, now! I said naught of it, and how well you knew. What dost mean, Elder?"
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes should have been the feeling of MM. Waddington and Ferry when Bismarck encouraged them to undertake that easiest but most expensive of conquests. The nineteenth century offers, perhaps, no more successful example of Macchiavellian statecraft.
With little ceremony I tossed back the crown, and slowly repeated those words used to warn the Trojans against accepting the Grecian horse: "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." "Egad," cried Mr. Carvel, slapping his knee, "the lad bath beaten you on your own ground, Grafton." And he laughed as my grandfather only could laugh, until the dishes rattled on the table.
The Grand Master if he be wise and content to give the law to France from the citadel of Rochelle." Biron stared at the speaker in astonishment at his frankness. "You are a bold man," he cried at last. "But timeo Danaos et dona ferentes," he continued bitterly. "You offer, sir, too much." "The offer is the King's." "And the conditions? The price?" "That you remain quiet, M. de Biron."
That she should make nothing of him at all was as incredible to him as that there should not be, somewhere in the world, Polchester town in Glebeshire county. There had been with him, I think, from the first a fear that "it was all too good to be true" Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
You talk of two hundred francs when you haven't put six sous' worth of color on a canvas. However, you are a good fellow, I'll say that. You are steady; and I've come to put a good bit of business in your way." "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes," said Fougeres. "Do you know Latin?" "No."
For you, I bring you an offer, Monsieur Spencer." "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes!" Spencer murmured. Monsieur Louis smiled. "My gift," he answered, "will not terrify you. You are a journalist. I offer to make the fortune of your paper. You shall be the first to announce an affair of the greatest international importance since the war between Russia and Japan was declared.
With little ceremony I tossed back the crown, and slowly repeated those words used to warn the Trojans against accepting the Grecian horse: "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." "Egad," cried Mr. Carvel, slapping his knee, "the lad bath beaten you on your own ground, Grafton." And he laughed as my grandfather only could laugh, until the dishes rattled on the table.
Come in here, there's a good fellow, I want to speak to you." "Why is he so infernally genial?" reflected Philip. "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes;" then aloud, "All right, father; but if it is all the same to you, I should like to get some dinner first." "Dinner! why, I have had none yet; I have been too busy. I shall not keep you long; we will dine together presently."
I went; but the line 'Timeo Danaos, &c., was ever forcing itself upon me as I walked musingly along to the house, which was a little distance out of town.
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