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"George Larkins has been here," said Aubrey. "And I have finished 'Vipera et lima', Ethel, but Margaret makes such false quantities!" "What is your name, youngster?" said Dr. Spencer, laying his hand on Aubrey's head. "Aubrey Spencer May," was the answer. "Hey day! where did you steal my name?" exclaimed Dr. Spencer, while Aubrey stood abashed at so mysterious an accusation.

Nevertheless, as he nameth them viperas, so he calleth the male echis. and the female echidna, concluding in the end that echis is the same serpent which his countrymen to this day call ein atter, as I have also noted before out of a Saxon dictionary. It is testified also by other in other words, and to the like sense, that "Echis id est vipera sola ex serpentibus non ova sed animalia parit."

The word viper is interesting; coming directly from the Romans, who wrote it vipera. This in turn is a contraction of the feminine form of the adjective vivipera, in reference to the habit of these snakes of bringing forth their young alive.

She sang Rosina's song in the Barbiere di Siviglia as she had never sung it in her life, and for the first time the words pleased her. ... una vipera saro! What 'nice English girl' ever told herself or any one else that she would be a 'viper'? Two days later Margaret was somewhat surprised by an informal invitation to dine at the Turkish Embassy.