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But in most cases the couple migrates to the husband's house after a few years, generally on the occasion of the building of a new house or on the death of his father, both of which events afford him the opportunity of becoming head of a room and thus taking rank as, and assuming the full responsibilities of, a PATER FAMILIAS.
Unmistakably he seemed the pater familias, the husband and the father, the man of social domestic ties. Men of cities retain youth longer than those of the country, a remark which Buffon has not failed to make and to account for. Neither did Egerton betray the air of the married man; for ineffable solitariness seemed stamped upon one whose private life had long been so stern a solitude.
Run away, my pretties, and don't eat more than one each, or mater familias will not approve." Then, as the little ones disappeared into the shadows of the region above, he added to the Prophet, "You've nearly been the death of Madame, sir." "I'm sure I'm very sorry," said the Prophet. "Sorrow is no salve, sir, no salve at all. Were it not for her books I fear we might have lost her."
Finally, in the great community of the state the king is priest, and with that exactness of parallelism of which the Roman was so fond, he like the pater familias leaves the worship of Vesta in the hands of his 'daughters, the Vestal virgins.
In the family, justice does not come in, the whole household being, in a sense, parts of the pater familias; and as you cannot be unjust to yourself, you cannot be unjust to your household. In the State, what is just is fixed partly by the nature of things, partly by law or convention.
The snapping of their mandibles could often be heard as they closed upon the fated insects. Most of the gnats thus captured were thrust into the mouths of the young birds, the parents dashing up to them and feeding them without alighting. As lavish a minstrel as the pewee pater familias is under most circumstances, that morning he was too busy to tune his wind harp.
He came out in a roundabout way, through Magellan's Straits by the main line and the West Coast Service of the O.S.N. Company. His precious consignment arrived just in time to convert the first feelings of consternation into a mood of hope and resolution. Publicly he was made much of by the familias principales. Privately Don Jose, still shaken and weak, embraced him with tears in his eyes.
The long ears of the little pitchers had caught the well-known word. "Why, that's pater familias," piped the little Capricornus. "And mater familiaris," added the little Corona. "You don't mean to say," cried Lady Enid to the Prophet, "that these are the children of Mr. Sagittarius?" The Prophet bent his head. "How very interesting!" said Lady Enid. "Everything is working out most beautifully.
SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF CHINA. The social constitution of China rests on the ancient traditions preserved in the canonical and classic books. The Chinese empire is founded on the patriarchal system, in which all authority over the family belongs to the pater familias. The emperor represents the great father of the nation, and is the supreme master of the state and the head of religion.
At one of the houses where the family still remained, a party reined up and made some inquiries of the pater familias, a hangdog looking specimen, with an old slouched hat covered to the crown with rusty crape, a mark of second-hand gentility in these parts.
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