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Between the caution of the court and the prudence of the diplomates, the Polish exiles of distinction lived in Paris in the Biblical solitude of "super flumina Babylonis," or else they haunted a few salons which were the neutral ground of all opinions.

It was for me he wrote: 'Fortunate senex, hic inter flumina nota, Et fontes sacros frigus captabis opacum. And this as well: 'Fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Silvanumque senem!" "Nymphasque sorores!" finished Camors, smiling and moving his head slightly in the direction of Madame de Tecle and her daughter, who preceded them. "Quite to the point.

I recited the psalm "Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus," and then after a silent meditation I galloped after my belongings. After half an hour's riding through orchards and grass I came to a wide defile two or three miles long, winding like a serpent, and the sides full of caves. I climbed up to some to describe them to Richard.

Super flumina Babylonis sedimus!" "Yes, a banquet like that of the convicts," said Tadeo. "A banquet at which we all wear mourning and deliver funeral orations," added Sandoval. "A serenade with the Marseillaise and funeral marches," proposed Isagani.

Alone in that room, whither he had last come secretly, brought by Beauvouloir to kiss his dying mother, he fancied that she lived again; he spoke to her, he listened to her, he drank from that spring that never faileth, and from which have flowed so many songs like the "Super flumina Babylonis."

They are on the twelve constellations, a well-worn but apparently attractive subject: "Flumina verna cient obscuro lumine Pisces, Curriculumque Aries aequat noctisque dieque, Cornua quem comunt florum praenuntia Tauri, Aridaque aestatis Gemini primordia pandunt, Longaque iam minuit praeclarus lumina Cancer, Languiticusque Leo proflat ferus ore calores.

For my part I believe that not only now he Eligit contraria flumina flammis,

Science needs not the author's art she rejects its gracess he recoils with a shudder from its fancies. But Science requires in the mind of the discoverer a limpid calm. The lightnings that reveal Diespiter must flash in serene skies. No clouds store that thunder "Quo bruta tellus, et vaga flumina, Quo Styx, et invisi horrida Taenari Sedes, Atlanteusque finis Concutitur!"

The mound before which he knelt was strewn with the spoils of Mr. Meriton's conservatories, and on the weather-worn tablet at its head I read the inscription: IL CONTE SIVIANO DA MILANO. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus.

It was for me he wrote: 'Fortunate senex, hic inter flumina nota, Et fontes sacros frigus captabis opacum. "And this as well: 'Fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Silvanumque senem!" "Nymphasque sorores!" finished Camors, smiling and moving his head slightly in the direction of Madame de Tecle and her daughter, who preceded them. "Quite to the point.