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They were men of good sense, gaiety, and general information, so that the day passed very pleasantly over; and Colonel Mannering assisted, about eight o'clock at night, in discussing the landlord's bottle, which was, of course, a magnum.
The heads, which have been carried by old men, are then hung up over the principal hearth on the beam on which the old heads are hanging; they are suspended by means of a rattan, of which one end is knotted and the other passed upward through the FORAMEN MAGNUM and a hole cut in the top of the skull.
Since then Mercadante and F?s have been gathered to their fathers. Their genial guest is also gone. The industrious Mr. Thayer lives, with three volumes of the Life completed, and every American, either literary or musical, will wish him well on to the conclusion of his magnum opus. Mr. Mickley's plain personal habits remained almost unchanged by the many unforeseen exigencies of foreign travel.
Those who, like myself, have times without number contemplated the master's opus magnum in the Louvre, and have studied his art as represented in the provincial museums, will quit the Musee Ingres with mixed feelings. It must occur to many that, perhaps, after all, il gran riffiuto of opposite kind might have better served art and the artist's fame.
"You won't tell of us," growled Robin, between lips that he opened wide enough the next moment to admit one of three surviving plums. "If I tell her I left them about in the boys' way, she will arrive at the natural conclusion." "Do they call those things magnum bonum?" asked Janet, as the boys drifted away.
After being a Prof. at Harvard, 1819-35, he went in the latter year to Europe, where he spent some years collecting materials for his magnum opus, The History of Spanish Literature . He also wrote Lives of Lafayette and Prescott, the historian. His Letters and Journals were pub. in 1876, and are the most interesting of his writings.
"It's a first-rate magnum," he said. Mr. Pendyce filled his Rector's glass. "I forget if you knew Paramor. He was before your time. He was at Harrow with me." The Rector took a prolonged sip. "I shall be in the way," he said. "I'll take myself off'." The Squire put out his hand affectionately. "No, no, Barter, don't you go. It's all safe with you. I mean to act. I can't stand this uncertainty.
Sabin's incognito had been unavailing, for he had stayed at the hotel several times as he remembered with an odd little pang with Lucille, and the head-waiter, with a low bow, ushered them to their table. Mr. Skinner saw the preparations for their repast, the oysters, the cocktails in tall glasses, the magnum of champagne in ice, and chuckled.
Instantly, by a feat of dexterity, which was the admiration of all the company, and had been, annually, for some years past, the apoplectic butler, bringing his left hand from behind the small of his back, produced the bottle with the corkscrew already inserted; uncorked it at a jerk; and placed the magnum and the cork before his master with the dignity of conscious cleverness.
Seeing, however, that the laird stood in some hesitation still, he added definitively, "I don't stir a peg without it. Get me another bottle another MAGNUM, I mean, and I will go at once." Yet a moment the laird reflected.
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