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He was so pained by the explanation, so saddened to learn that his devoted friend would be gone all day, that he descended absentmindedly to the flat directly below Barber's, where he walked in unceremoniously upon nine Italians of assorted sizes the Fossis, all swarmed about their breakfast in a smoke-filled room. With a hasty excuse, he darted out; then, his heart as lead, climbed home.
They ran like a flock of sheep. What leader could do anything with such troops? Oh, lack-a-day, lack-a-day! Shall we not advance? 'There is no reason to advance, your Majesty, now that the surprise has failed, said Saxon. 'I had sent for carts to bridge over the trench, according to the plan which is commended in the treatise, "De vallis et fossis," but they are useless now.
Cedet et ipse mari vector, nec nautica pinus mutabit merces the feeling here is the same as in his mere descriptions of daily weather, like the Omnia plenis rura natant fossis atque omnis navita ponto umida vela legit; not so much a vision of a golden age as Nature herself seen through a medium of strange gold.
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