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Our true country is bounded on the north and the south, on the east and west, by Justice, and when she oversteps that invisible boundary-line by so much as a hair's breadth, she ceases to be our mother, and chooses rather to be looked upon quasi noverca.
Harry was very glad when a gentleman dressed in black, on horseback, with a mounted servant behind him, came to fetch him away from Ealing. The noverca, or unjust stepmother, who had neglected him for her own two children, gave him supper enough the night before he went away, and plenty in the morning. She did not beat him once, and told the children to keep their hands off him.
Similarly, the richest pages of Byron's work from the date of The Curse of Minerva to that of the "Isles of Greece" are brightened by lights and adorned by allusions due to his training, imperfect as it was, on the slopes of Harrow, and the associations fostered during his truant years by the sluggish stream of his "Injusta noverca."
Being asked his opinion about the death of Gracchus, and replying that the act was a righteous one, the people raised a shout of defiance, Taceant, inquit, quibus Italia noverca non mater est, quos ego sub corona vendidi "Be silent, you to whom Italy is a stepdame not a mother, whom I myself have sold at the hammer of the auctioneer."
Before another month was out, his father, as we have already said, had married again, and whether the new wife had proved the proverbial injusta noverca or not, his home must have been sufficiently altered by the double, if we may not say triple, calamity, to account for his leaving the dull monotony of his native village for the more stirring career of a soldier.
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