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It chanced that the family motto was Festina Lente; this also was appropriate; had he not all his life made haste slowly?
Mr. Grandcourt called that day at Offendene, but nobody was at home. "Festina lente celerity should be contempered with cunctation."
The motto of Buller's Army was festina lente and its track towards Ladysmith was in zigzag. On the following day Hlangwhane was occupied by the British troops, and before noon on February 20, all the Boers had withdrawn to the left bank of the Tugela, and Buller was favourably placed for the advance by way of the Klip River on Bulwana.
"Yes, sir," answered Rodney gratefully, "thanks to you." "How do you think you will like it?" "Very much, sir. It is so much better than going around the street with nothing to do." "I hope you will try to give satisfaction to my friend, Mr. Goodnow." "I shall try to do so, sir." "You mustn't expect to rise to be head salesman in a year. Festina lente, as the Latin poet has it."
You shall tell us all about how we ought to do it, and give us some really good mottoes!... I remember helping with branches of the National Service League before the war, and they had such a nice motto 'The path of duty is the way to safety. ... That would be a good Union motto, don't you think? Or 'Festina lente' for we mustn't be impatient, must we?
Every trot is a jog, and so, for that matter, is every canter. A dog-trot takes its name from the even motion of the smaller quadruped, when it is seized with no particular mania, and is yet disposed to go stubbornly forward. It is in more classical dialect, the festina lente motion. It is regularly forward, and therefore fast it never puts the animal out of breath, and is therefore slow.
"Long may it be so, sir!" said the traveller; "but permit me to ask, in your own learned phrase, QUID HOC AD IPHYCLI BOVES? what has all this to do with the shoeing of my poor nag?" "FESTINA LENTE," said the man of learning, "we will presently came to that point.
"My dear, you are working too hard. It is foolish to begin with such impetuosity. A fire that burns so fiercely will soon exhaust itself. Festina lente. We must hasten slowly, if we want to make solid progress. Why, my poor child, your fore-head is burning. You will read yourself into a fever." "I think I am in a fever already," said Vixen. Miss Skipwith was unusually kind.
Prendergast, "and I can only say that I did so to the best of my poor judgment." "It was a difficult crisis in which to act," said Mr. Die, assenting. "But why is all this brought up now?" asked Herbert. "Festina lente," said Mr. Die; "lente, lente, lente; always lente. The more haste we make in trying to understand each other, with the less speed shall we arrive at that object." "What is it, Mr.
Prince Galitzin ah, yes! I knew him pretty well, bon vivaint, extremely fond of a pretty face. Um! I began to see light. Here is where the Countess might come in. By her photograph, an extremely beautiful woman; but photographs often flatter and do not give an indication as to personality. Festina lente. I could see.
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