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He drew off two, which he placed on his friend's platter, despite all dissuasive gesticulations, and deposited the rest upon his own. The young banqueters gazed upon the spectacle in wrath too full for words. "Monstrum, horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum."
The actual hand that struck this blow was that of Zain-ul-Abidin, brother of Mirza Shaffi, who, no doubt, was not unwilling to have an opportunity of punishing the supposed author of his uncle's murder; but there were not wanting those who, on the well-known maxim, cui bono, attributed the instigation to Sindhia.
"Of the people their lives their work their misery!" "I assure you many are very happy," I replied. "You take a morbid view. Misery is not the rule. I am sure the majority are happy." "What difference does that make?" the girl said with a sigh. "What is the end of it all the meaning of it all? Their happiness! Cui Bono?" We walked on in silence, while I turned over in my mind what she had said.
We are also taught, that promotions atchiued by ambition are not permanent, and are so farre from procuring fame and renowne to the obteiners, that they turne them in the end to shame, infamie and reproch, after losse of life and effusion of bloud. Erigit & miserum facilè extinguítque superbum Iuppiter altifremus, cui celsum regia cœlum. Beckets death.
La prima inscrizion ch'agli occhi occorre, Con lungo honor Lucrezia Borgia noma, La cui bellezza ed onest
Whether the secular optimist be successful or unsuccessful in realising his paltry span of terrestrial paradise, whether the pæans he sings about it are prophetic dithyrambs or misleading myths, no Christian man need fear for his own immortality. That is well assured. In some form he will surely be raised from the dead. In some shape he will live again. But, Cui bono?"
Then why call the attention of others to the circumstances that they are guilty of the same weakness, if such it be? Again I ask, cui bono? "Me refrunce, mum!" I look up, bewildered, from an essay to which I have just set the caption "Who is my Neighbor?" "Me carackter, mum! Me stiffticket! You'll not be sending me away without one, peticklerly as 'twas meself as give warnin'?"
He had said to himself, "Cui bono?" He had the sensitive nature's dislike of mingling intimately in the affairs of others, and moreover he felt instinctively that if he tried to play a true friend's part to Nigel, he might lose Nigel as a friend.
"Why don't you go out more? Why don't you get old Lister to make you up a tonic?" She smiled a little, but there was slight uneasiness behind her smile. Her eyes had the remote look of one who watches the far horizon. "My dear Eustace," she said, "cui bono?" He stooped suddenly over her. "It is because you won't make the effort," he said, speaking with grim emphasis.
"My Lord, are you well assured of your peril?" suggested Constance. "This your castle is strong and good, and your serving-men and retainers many, and the townsmen leal " She stopped, tacitly answered by her husband's sorrowful smile, which so plainly replied, "Cui bono?"
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