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Greek tragedies are all very well in their way. They are vastly interesting in the inevitableness of their prearranged doom. Moi qui vous parle, I have read all of them; and I like them. I have even seen some of them acted.
Atque hic status, qui una voce omnium gemitur neque verbo cujusdam sublevatur." To Atticus, ii. 18. "In concionem ascendit et Pompeium privatus dictatorem appellavit. Propius nihil est factum quam ut occideretur." Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem, i. 2. To Athens, ii, 21. In this comparison Cicero betrays his naive conviction that Pompey was indebted to him and to his praises for his reputation.
It was but a second, and fully alive to all the tricks and maneuvers practiced by arrested criminals, he was on the qui vive. "Good morning, Mr. 'Cummings'. I trust you have had a good breakfast?" "Oh, fair." "You slept well?" "Tip-top." "I trust you will be able to amuse yourself during the day." "I won't amuse you, that's certain." "You have been doing that for some time." "That's all right.
Ce desir est bien puissant en France, et les aventures de l'extreme Orient, dans lesquelles on nous a lances si mal a propos, ne font que lui donner l'occasion de se manifester. Ces aventures ne font pas diversion a la crise si grave qui eprouve notre industrie et notre agriculture. Les causes de cette crise sont multiples.
Nec aliter fecit ac dixerat, filiamque speciosissimam cum fratre ephebo in cubiculo reliquit simulavitque se in templum ire ad vota nuncupanda. Eumolpus, qui tam frugi erat ut illi etiam ego puer viderer, non distulit puellam invitare ad pigiciaca sacra.
The great question was, with whom would Lord Airlie open the ball? Every girl was on the qui vive. The question was soon decided. When Beatrice Earle entered the room, Lord Airlie went straight to meet her and solicited her hand for the first dance. She did not know how much was meant by that one action.
There is never a sufficiently large number of reckless zealots in England to do much mischief, one of the greatest proofs of the inherent good sense of that people. Dr. Gall's saying, "Tout ce qui est ultra est bete," is worth his whole phrenological system.
The news that one of the prahus was about, up the river, set the ship's company on the qui vive once more. The master of the prahu, having been robbed of his cargo, had no farther aim, and was glad enough to offer his services as guide.
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I have taken the liberty of calling you one of my relations." And without waiting for the thanks of those whose lives he had saved, he went away to rejoin the officers. The gendarmes of Aunis, of whom our fugitives were claiming hospitality, had retired in good order after the defeat and the sauve qui peut of the chiefs.
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