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He was so sure that he really was the King of Naples that when, on the eve of his departure from that city, while walking through the streets with his wife, some Italians called out to him: "Viva il re!" * he turned to his wife with a pensive smile and said: "Poor fellows, they don't know that I am leaving them tomorrow!" * "Long live the king."
'Viva chi c'ia e chi non c'ia quattrini! was his favourite cry. Once when a young poet read him a sonnet in his honour he stopped him at the line 'Thou art greater than all patricians, saying that he would not have that published: 'I respect the nobility, and never dream of being higher than they. I am a poor man of the people, and such I will always remain.
The question under discussion was whether the measure of vis viva is equal, as the Cartesians thought, to the product of the mass into the velocity, or, according to the Leibnitzians, to the product of the mass into the square of the velocity.
Fortescue paused, as if to reflect; and, though the observation was not very flattering hardly civil, indeed I was so anxious to hear this story that I took it in good part, and waited patiently for his decision. "To relate it viva voce" he went on, thoughtfully, "would be troublesome to both of us." "I am sure I should find it anything but troublesome." "Well, I should.
His sword made a half-circle of steel as it swept through the air. From where he sat he could be seen by all. "Brothers of the Legion, patriots all, let none become excited. I have killed with my own hand the traitor who shot our beloved leader. Gabriel Pasquale is dead, but our country lives. Viva Mexico!" The answer came from thousands of brown, upturned faces. "Viva Mexico! Viva Culvera!"
But the people still believed in him, though he turned the whole life of the city into a sort of religious carnival. Now, if Lorenzo had kept the people quiet with songs, Savonarola was equally successful with hymns. "Viva Cristo e la Vergine Maria, nostra regina," shouted the people, merchants, friars, women, and children dancing before the crucifix with olive boughs in their hands.
After an hour or two of viva voce exercises in the grammar of Priscian, preparatory lecture is over, and a reading man will hurry off to the "schools," a set of low-roofed buildings between St. Mary's and Brasenose.
When I came out, Hawes had his letter of the 28th in his pocket, it being suppressed and struck off the files. I had permission to go my own way and finish my case before any decision was given. I had, besides, general assurances of sympathy and aid, and permission to feel the pulse of the public in any way I pleased. Viva!
But it was not on Viva that the young lady's attention was riveted, but upon the figure by her side Mamzelle Paddy in all the glory of a French hat, wearing the very biggest hair-ribbon in her possession, in honour of the occasion. At sight of the profile the young lady started and cried, "It is! It must be!" Then she dodged backwards, saw the hat, and became filled with doubt. "No, it can't be!
The crowd saluted her with a festal roll, long and loud, of vivas; and this word viva of good augury but stop; let me not anticipate. From this sketch of Catalina's character, the reader is prepared to understand the decision of her present proceeding. She had no time to lose: the twilight favored her; but she must get under hiding before pursuit commenced.
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