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"The devil they do, ma'am!" bolted out Richard, gruffly; and then, ashamed of his lapsus linguae, screwed up his lips firmly, and glared on the company with an eye of indignant fire. Mrs. M'Catchley observed him over her fan. Richard turned abruptly, and she withdrew her eyes modestly, and raised the fan. "She's a real beauty," said Richard, between his teeth. The fan fluttered.
Spring Rice and another friend he wrote the 'Etonian, which lasted from May 1875 to August 1876; and several of the little poems which he then wrote were collected afterwards in his 'Lapsus Calami. They are, of course, chiefly in the humorous vein, but they show sufficiently that Eton was to him very different from what it had been to his father.
"I I mean I've seen that Pickletown in Olga Oh, jicksy!. Do you know what I mean, Janice Day?" "Yes! Yes!" she cried. "You've seen Olga." "Then jump right in here and I'll drive you to her," said the boy, without running the risk of another lapsus linguae. Without waiting even for a hat, and throwing her broom back over the fence, Janice scrambled in.
Si vous me permettez d'ajouter un seul mot qui vous prouvera que je l'ai lu avec attention, je vous signalerai un lapsus calami qui vous a echappe. Le fondateur de notre branche d'Orleans, fils de Louis XIII, frere de Louis XIV, s'appelait Philippe et non Gaston.
Which shows how very careful you have to be, when you are a lady and gentleman. The former, in this case, remained unconscious of her lapsus linguae; saying, in fact: "I think we did that very well! I wonder whether he will go and see Gwen!" "I hope he will. Do you know, I couldn't help suspecting that he had something to say about Torrens's eyesight something good.
He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one. The last syllable was merely phonetic, and unrecognisable; but the G that looked like a C was fatal.
For example, the same thing is treated more than once; Jubar is twice illustrated by the same quotation, Canis is twice derived from canere; merces is differently explained in two places; Lympha is derived both from lapsus aquae, and from Nympha; valicinari from vesanus and versibus viendis.
One even finds some trace of it in Anatole France, surely a man who should know better. The true function of art is to criticise, embellish and edit nature particularly to edit it, and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.
Scotchman, "A lapsus linguae, that might have been made by the greatest orators, ancient or modern; by Cicero or Chatham, by Burke, or by 'the fluent Murray." Englishman, "Upon another occasion I have heard that an Irish orator was silenced with 'inextinguishable laughter' merely for saying, 'I am sorry to hear my honourable friend stand mute." Scotchman.
"You strought to see that Stout man, anyway " "Oh, dear, me, Gummy, there you go again!" gasped Janice, with laughter, while the boy's sister giggled desperately, too. "What's the matter now?" he demanded, in some surprise. "Another lapsus linguae I looked it up, and that is what they call it," said Janice. "Say! Why don't you talk so people can understand you?" Gummy demanded.
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