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Next, comes a loud-tongued salesman, who out-brays Lablache, but confines his singing to "Che vuole, che vuole!" and oranges and lemons are his commodity. From an itinerant green-grocer, who passes with his panniered donkey, suddenly bursts forth, "Cimaroli, cimaroli!" The last cry we hear is that of "Tutti vivi, tutti vivi!" from the asparagaro, who is bringing frogs and wild asparagus into Rome.
On our right was a conspicuous landmark, Zululu ke Sombe, a tall rock bearing the semblance of an elephant from the north-east, visible from the Congo's right bank and commanding a view of all the hills. Banza Vivi, our first destination, perching high on the farther side of the blue depression, bore due north.
At Prime, and at the small Hours, Terce, Sext, None, only one antiphon is said. It is said in full at the end of the last Psalm in each Hour. The Capitulum, the little Responsory, Christe, Fili Dei vivi ... is then said. In this responsory the versicle Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris is sometimes changed, e.g., in paschal time it is, Qui surrexisti a mortuis.
But it is impossible to dower these fancies with even such life as in healthier, happier ruins phantasy may lend to imagination's figments. This theatre is like a maniac's skull, empty of all but unrealities and mockeries of things that are. The ghosts we raise here could never have been living men and women: questi sciaurati non fur mai vivi.
The letter is numbered 82 in the edition of Don Vicente, and 23 in the fourth volume of the edition of Doblado. 1 St. Peter iv. 13: "Communicantes Christi passionibus, gaudete." See section 4, above. The monastery of Paterna, of the unreformed Carmelites. St. Matt. xvi. 16: "Tu es Christus, Filius Dei vivi." Gen. i. 26: "Ad imaginem et similitudinem Nostram." Fra Jerome Gratian.
Nor is his moral earnestness inferior. The end of life is indeed nominally pleasure, "dux vitae dia voluptas;" but really it is a pure heart, "At bene non poterat sine puro pectore vivi." He who first showed the way to this was the true deity. The contemplation of eternal law will produce, not as the strict Epicureans say, indifference, but resignation.
After an hour of sulky talk we set out towards the upper part of Banza Vivi, passing a small but pretty hill plain, with manioc- fields, gum-trees, and the bombax very symmetrical. We saw no animals: here and there appeared the trail of a hyaena, the only larger carnivor that now haunts the mountains.
The aneroid now showed 860 feet of absolute altitude, and about sixty-five feet above the landing-place of Banza Nokki; the distance along the stream is fourteen miles, and thus the fall will be about five feet per mile below the Borongwa ya Vivi. We could see from a level the "smaller rapids of Vivi" bursting through their black gate with angry foam, flashing white from side to side.
I thus make the distance of the Yellala from the mouth between 116 and 117 miles and the total fall 390 feet, of which about one half occurs in the sixty-four miles between Boma and the Yellala: of this figure again 100 feet belong to the section of five miles between the Vivi and the Great Rapids. The Zambeze, according to Dr.
"Of town of our dear old London that I suppose I shall never see again," and his mouth hardened. "Do you remember Pall Mall, the Park, the Devonshire and Vivi?" I nodded, and pulled at my cheap cigar. Vivi! Did I remember her? Why, I had often driven the Honourable Victoria Violet Finlay, the girl for she was only eighteen who had once flirted with me when I was in her father's service.
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