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I had just resolved to leave a line fixing an appointment for the morrow, and so depart, when I heard Vivian's knock, a knock that had great character in it, haughty, impatient, irregular; not a neat, symmetrical, harmonious, unpretending knock, but a knock that seemed to set the whole house and street at defiance: it was a knock bullying a knock ostentatious a knock irritating and offensive impiger and iracundus.
The Pope, one would think, should have remembered that good deed of the good Lombard's whereof his epitaph sings, 'Deinceps tremuere feroces Usque Saraceni, quos dispulit impiger, ipsos Cum premerent Gallos, Karolo poscente juvari.
"Impiger, iracundus!" said the archbishop; "a very Achilles, to whom our English Agamemnon, if he cross him, is a baby. All this is sad truth; our parents spoilt him in his childhood, and glory in his youth, and wealth, power, success, in his manhood. Ay! if Warwick be chafed, it will be as the stir of the sea-serpent, which, according to the Icelanders, moves a world.
"For the rest," continued the giant indifferently, and as if he had not heard the interruption; "for the rest, he only resembles Achilles, in being impiger iracundus. Big men can quote Latin as well as little ones, Messire Mallet the beau clerc!"
Having benevolently intimated a boon to his faithful followers, which he probably judged would be far from unacceptable, the good Abbot, seeing all ready for his journey, bestowed his blessing on the assembled household gave his hand to be kissed by Dame Glendinning himself kissed the cheek of Mary Avenel, and even of the Miller's maiden, when they approached to render him the same homage commanded Halbert to rule his temper, and to be aiding and obedient in all things to the English Knight admonished Edward to be discipulus impiger atque strenuus then took a courteous farewell of Sir Piercie Shafton, advising him to lie close, for fear of the English borderers, who might be employed to kidnap him; and having discharged these various offices of courtesy, moved forth to the courtyard, followed by the whole establishment.
Tacitly he hoped the Baron would sanction his addresses to Rose, and give him a right to assist him in his exile; but he forbore to speak on this subject until his own fate should be decided. They then talked of Glennaquoich, for whom the Baron expressed great anxiety, although, he observed, he was 'the very Achilles of Horatius Flaccus, Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer.
The very heroes shew their authors: Achilles is hot, impatient, revengeful, Impiger, iracundus, inexorabidis, acer &c.; Æneas patient, considerate, careful of his people, and merciful to his enemies; ever submissive to the will of Heaven Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque seqitamur. I could please myself with enlarging on this subject, but am forc'd to defer it to a fitter time.
"Impiger, iracundus!" said the archbishop; "a very Achilles, to whom our English Agamemnon, if he cross him, is a baby. All this is sad truth; our parents spoilt him in his childhood, and glory in his youth, and wealth, power, success, in his manhood. Ay! if Warwick be chafed, it will be as the stir of the sea-serpent, which, according to the Icelanders, moves a world.
The tutor's nerves, never strong, were none the better for the rough treatment he had undergone, his long drive, and his longer fast. He had taken enough wine to obscure remoter terrors, but not the image of Mr. Dunborough impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer Dunborough doubly and trebly offended!
And though the fault was not mine, he would have sent me to prison if I had not had a letter for him." "Oh!" And returning with a manifest effort to the tone and manner of a few minutes before: "Impiger, Iracundus, Inexorabilis, acer Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis," he hummed. "I doubt if such manners will be appreciated in Geneva, young man," and furtively he wiped his brow.
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