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Now and anon, however, after long conferences, some old patriarch, with a beard like those of saints by the Old Masters, detaches himself from the party and goes to risk the family duro.
At all events, this, I suspect, was the reasoning of Dr. Riccabocca, when one morning, after a long walk with Miss Hazeldean, he muttered to himself, "Duro con duro Non fete mai buon muro," which may bear the paraphrase, "Bricks without mortar would make a very bad wall." There was quite enough in Miss Jemima's disposition to make excellent mortar: the doctor took the bricks to himself.
'I don't understand, I said. Yet I could feel that Paolo, sitting silent, like a monolith also, in the chimney opening, he understood: Maria also understood. Il Duro looked again steadily into my eyes. 'Ho visto troppo, he repeated, and the words seemed engraved on stone. 'I've seen too much. 'But you can marry, I said, 'however much you have seen, if you have seen all the world.
His plan of campaign at Castro Duro corresponded to this political position of his: he had rehabilitated the Workmen's Club and paid its debts. The Club had been founded by the workmen of a thread factory, now shut. The number of members was very small and the labourers and employees of the railway and some weavers were its principal support.
They have had new belvederes built in, and have given over the apartments looking on the Square and the Calle del Cristo to the Courts and the school. Another great building, which astonishes every one that stops over at Castro Duro, by its size, is the Convent of la Merced. It has been half destroyed by a fire.
Once having received pictures into our minds, and possessing a clear eye in the mind to see them with, the going about to obtain more is not of very great consequence. This comforts one for prisoners suffering carcere duro, and for townspeople who cannot often get out of the streets; and for lame people like me, who see others tripping over commons and through fields where we cannot go.
LA ARMADA INVENCIBLE, Captain Fernandez Duro, 1884. THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, W. Cunningham, 1907. G. Goldingham, United Service Magazine, June, 1918. In the Dutch Wars of the 17th century the British navy may be said to have caught its stride in the march that made Britannia the unrivaled mistress of the seas.
Caesar said that he considered himself insulted by the Minister's words, whom, however, he admired as a financier; and a few months later he joined the Liberal party and was received with open arms by its famous chief. Caesar had money in abundance, and he decided to exert a decisive influence on Castro Duro. For a long while he had had various projects planned.
You remember what old Tully says in his oration, pro Archia poeta, concerning one of your confraternity quis nostrum tam anino agresti ac duro fuit ut ut I forget the Latin the meaning is, which of us was so rude and barbarous as to remain unmoved at the death of the great Roscius, whose advanced age was so far from preparing us for his death, that we rather hoped one so graceful, so excellent in his art, ought to be exempted from the common lot of mortality?
"Yes, why not?" "Then, not another word, we will say no more about it. When the time comes, you will write to me and say: 'Don Calixto, the moment has arrived for you to remember your promise: I want to be a Deputy." "Very good. I will do it, and you shall present me as candidate for Castro... Castro... what?" "Castro Duro." "You will see me there then." "All right. And now, another favour.
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