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"What of them?" demanded Warrington, with a reminiscent shudder. "Certain of her women showed them to me." "Why?" "To further convince me, sahib, had that been necessary. Oh, but I was already quite convinced. Bravery is not my vade mecum!" "Confound the man! To convince you of what?" "That if I tell too much one of those snakes will shortlee be my bedmate. Ah!
Unde mecum saepius cogitans addubitare cogor quaenam sit potissimum causa, cur in vituperando sis quam, &c."
"His mind seems completely occupied by his business, you see, papa. That horrible pursuit of gain seems to require all his thoughts, and all his time. He is always reading commercial papers, the Money Market and On Change, and the Stockbrokers' Vade Mecum, and publications of that kind.
After these, and except an occasional note by an amateur microscopist who occasionally pauses from his "diatomaniacal" studies, and looks upon a mite simply as a "microscopic object," to be classed in his micrographic Vade Mecum with mounted specimens of sheep's wool, and the hairs of other quadrupeds, a distorted proboscis of a fly, and podura scales, we read but little of mites and their habits.
The compilation is not very skilfully done, so that we pass from the minutiæ of a priest's vade mecum in a highly developed hierarchical period to the civil statutes of a rude patriarchal society, whose very crimes are archaic.
I took special care not to forget the vade mecum which I always took with me, whenever I made these excursions for any number of days I mean paper and a pencil, with which I made notes, to aid my recollections, and enable me afterwards to write down in a journal the remarks I made during my travels. Every preparation being made, we one morning started from Jala-Jala.
"Tu quid ego, et populus mecum desideret, audi." HOR. ARS POET. ver. 153. "Now hear what ev'ry auditor expects."
"By the by, sir, without meaning you any disrespect, it is the landlords of Ireland who know least about the great mass of its inhabitants; and I might also add, about its history, its literature, the manners of the people, their customs, and their prejudices. The peasantry know this, and too often practise upon their ignorance. There is a landlord's Vade mecum sadly wanted in Ireland, Colonel."
Scogan, who had now seized on Jenny for his victim. "What are you reading?" "I don't know," said Denis truthfully. He looked at the title page; the book was called "The Stock Breeder's Vade Mecum." "I think you are so sensible to sit and read quietly," said Mary, fixing him with her china eyes. "I don't know why one dances. It's so boring." Denis made no reply; she exacerbated him.
It is equally evident why we never say cum nobis, but nobiscum; though we do not scruple to say cum illis; viz. because, in the former case, the union of the consonants m and n would produce a jarring sound: and we also say mecum and tecum, and not cum me and cum te, to correspond with nobiscum and vobiscum.
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