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That is what has brought us here to-night We want to desipere in loco." "So we do! Good for you!" exclaimed one and another. "I regret," Walter continued, "that all the professors have declined my urgent invitation to be present on this occasion. Professor Griggs" the professor of mathematics "said he would not break away from his regular diet of logarithms and radicals." Great laughter.
Leadbitter had quite done blushing and quoting to Harry 'desipere in loco, as he was assisted off with his dripping, shiny waterproof. After all no harm would have been done if Harry and Gillian being both off guard Valetta had not exclaimed most unreasonably in her disappointment 'I knew the fun would be spoilt the instant Dolores came in for it. 'Yes, Mr.
"Sir Arthur," said the Antiquary, "don't let us waste time which is precious; we shall have, I hope, many better seasons for jesting desipere in loco is the maxim of Horace. I more than suspect this has been brought on by the villany of Dousterswivel."
The Dutchman can talk upon politics extremely well, but his interest is largely academic and not personal; he is as a man who looks on and loves desipere in loco.
Then, oh then, Peppino pulled the string, and for quite a long time Georgie listened entranced to their melodious cooings. That served him out for his "trap" about the real pear introduced among the stone specimens. For in spite of the rarefied atmosphere of culture at Riseholme, Riseholme knew how to "desipere in loco," and its strenuous culture was often refreshed by these light refined touches.
But I did not smile just then. Dulce est desipere in loco. Wild as the story sounded, it was making me feel decidedly uncomfortable. A slight perspiration had broken out on my forehead. But I threw a strong note of assurance into my voice as I went on: 'Girl, this is a monstrous action on your part to listen er overhear at doors and repeat conversations of a most delicate nature to a third party.
The party were evidently disposed to be satisfied, and I acknowledge, I did not prove an exception to the learned individuals about me, either in my relish for the good things, or my appetite to enjoy them. Dulce est desipere in loco, says some one, by which I suppose is meant, that a rather slang company is occasionally good fun.
It is an art he learns early in life; a simple art, and one that greatly conduces to happiness. The ever alert, the conscientiously wakeful how many fine things they fail to see! Horace knew the wisdom of being genially unwise; of closing betimes an eye, or an ear; or both. Desipere in loco. . . . I remember watching an old man stubbornly digging a field by himself.
He bobbed to one man, and he winked to another, and he tossed his glass, and gave all the points of his song in a manner which did credit to his simplicity and his humour. You haughty Southerners little know how a jolly Scotch gentleman can desipere in loco, and how he chirrups over his honest cups. I do not say whether it was with the song or with Mr. Binnie that we were most amused.
If he give to study such hours as business spares, fates first claim his attention, and then philosophy or ethics: he cannot resign himself to lighter topics. When he reads in his Horace, "Dulce est desipere in loco," he grants the proposition, with the commentary that he, at least, has very rarely been "in loco."
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