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"A coronet with five points, and beneath, Cedit amor rebus 'Love yields to circumstance. It's the motto of the Earls of Severn. That watch belonged to the last lord, and was given to my mother's husband, a medical man, for his use till I came of age, when it was to be given to me. It was all the fortune that ever I inherited.
D. Lucretiam Borgiarm III. Alphonsi Estensis Sponsam celeber MDII. One epigram is as follows: Tyndaridem jactant Heroica secula cujus Armavit varies forma superba Duces, Haec collata tibi, merito Luoretia cedit, Nam tuus omne Helenes lumen obumbrat honor: Illa neces populis, diuturnaque bella paravit: Tu bona tranquillae pacis opima refers.
And before she knew what the young man was intending, a heavy gold watch was in her hand. "It is an unusually good one for a man like me to possess." he quietly said. "That watch has a history. Press the spring and open the back." She did so. "What do you see?" "A crest and a motto." "A coronet with five points, and beneath, Cedit amor rebus "Love yields to circumstance."
"Cedit amor rebus; res age tutus eris," is a very wise saying, and Meadows, by his own observation and instinct, sought the best antidote for love. But the Latins had another true saying, that "nobody is wise at all hours." After his day of toil and success he used to be guilty of a sad inconsistency.
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