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Nil desperandum! "Enchante!" "Another enigma!" exclaimed Servadac; "and still no intelligible signature, and no address. No clearing up of the mystery!" "I have no doubt, in my own mind," said the count, "that it is one of a series. It seems to me probable that they are being sent broadcast upon the sea." "I wonder where the hare-brained savant that writes them can be living?" observed Servadac.
Pepperrell's strange army, ragged and war-worn after the long siege, entered the town by the south gate. They had fought as crusaders, for to many of them Catholic Louisbourg was a stronghold of Satan. Whitfield, the great English evangelist, then in New England, had given them a motto Nil desperandum Christo duce.
Chastellux was just then at the height of his reputation. He had published in 1772 a book which, although now almost forgotten, is still interesting as a link between the thought of the last century and that of a large school of thinkers to-day. The title is "Of Public Felicity, or considerations on the fate of men in the different Epochs of History," and the motto is Nil Desperandum.
Hannah was out of humor because her week's work was deranged, and prophesied that "ef the washin' and ironin' warn't done reg'lar, nothin' would go well anywheres". This hitch in the mainspring of the domestic machinery had a bad effect upon the whole concern, but Amy's motto was 'Nil desperandum', and having made up her mind what to do, she proceeded to do it in spite of all obstacles.
"Nil desperandum!" quoted Ralph; "or, as we Americans have it, 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try again!" "You just bet I will, fellows," said Bud firmly; "and now let's make the first trial spin." He had elevated the model so that it would start in the air without the necessity of leaving the ground. This was a minor matter, and only intended to hurry things along.
"'Desperandum'! I know not Latin; it amazes me," said Lempriere, waving a lofty hand. "She the Huguenottine was a-mazed also, and from the maze was played by Obligato." "How so! how so!" cried the Seigneur, catching at his meaning. "Did Leicester waylay and siege? 'Sblood, had I known this, I'd have broached him and swallowed him even on crutches."
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