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Then it was that I wrote "Voces Fidelium," a series of dramatic monologues in verse; then that I indited the bulk of a covenanting novel like so many others, never finished. But he was driven to his bed at last without miraculous intervention; and the manner of his driving sets the last touch upon this eminently youthful business.

Youth is a blessed season after all; my stay at Wick was in the year of VOCES FIDELIUM and the rose-leaf room at Bailie Brown's; and already I did not care two straws for literary glory. Posthumous ambition perhaps requires an atmosphere of roses; and the more rugged excitant of Wick east winds had made another boy of me.

Utcunque igitur inter anhelitus sudoresque tritus, quod voluerat, accepit, rursusque in somnum decidi gaudio lassus. Interposita minus hora pungere me manu coepit et dicere: 'quare non facimus? tum ego totiens excitatus plane vehementer excandui et reddidi illi voces suas: 'aut dormi, aut ego iam patri dicam."

I complain, I confess, and am a little impatient in a very sharp fit, but I do not arrive to such a degree of despair as he who with: "Ejulatu, questu, gemitu, fremitibus Resonando, multum flebiles voces refert:" Verses of Attius, in his Phaloctetes, quoted by Cicero, De Finib., ii. 29; Tusc.

I involuntarily think of this good nurse when I hear all social evils explained by these common phrases: "It is the superabundance of products, the tyranny of capital, industrial plethora," and other idle stories of which we cannot even say: verba et voces prætereaque nihil: for they are also fatal mistakes. From what precedes, two things result 1st.

Forewarned he was alive to his danger, and knew, by signs not doubtful, where he was, when he approached its scene: "Et gemitum ingentem pelagi, pulsataque saxa, Audimus longe, fractasque ad litora voces; Exsultantque vada, atque aestu miscentur arenae. ... Nimirum haec ilia Charybdis!"

Could not he, Jobbles, get through 5,000 viva voces in every five hours that is, with due assistance? and would not 55,000 printed papers, containing 555,000 questions, be getting themselves answered at the same time, with more or less precision? So now Mr. Jobbles was about to try his huge plan by a small commencement.

Be this as it may, henceforth I drink no more wine for ever. The abuse of good liquor last evening led me into much guilty folly. When I remember that I very nearly " He gave a glance of terror at Marianna. "As to the wretched opera you took me to hear, I have thought it over, and it is, after all, music written on ordinary lines, a mountain of piled-up notes, verba et voces.

Flesh and blood could not endure the spectacle; to capture immortality was doubtless a noble enterprise, but not to capture it at such a cost of suffering; and out would go the candles, and off would I go to bed in the darkness, raging to think that the blow might fall on the morrow, and there was "Voces Fidelium" still incomplete.

"Nam vera; voces turn demum pectore ab imo Ejiciuntur; et eripitur persona, manet res." To death do I refer the assay of the fruit of all my studies: we shall then see whether my discourses came only from my mouth or from my heart. I have seen many by their death give a good or an ill repute to their whole life.