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His gentle nature endeared him to Horace, as his graceful poetry drew forth his commendation. The short artificial elegy of Callimachus and Philetas had, as we have seen, found an imitator in Catullus. But that poet, when he addressed to Lesbia the language of true passion, wrote for the most part in lyric verse.
"Oh, yes every time " she drawled, nonchalant. "Here, let's write it down," said Lilly. He found a blue pencil and printed in large letters on the old creamy marble of the mantel-piece panel: LOVE IS LIFE. Julia suddenly rose and flung her arms asunder wildly. "Oh, I hate love. I hate it," she protested. Jim watched her sardonically. "Look at her!" he said. "Look at Lesbia who hates love."
Maulevrier, the restless, was off to Argyleshire for the grouse shooting as soon as he had deposited Lady Lesbia comfortably at Fellside. 'I should only be in your way if I stopped, he said, 'for you and Molly have hardly got over the honeymoon stage yet, though you put on the airs of Darby and Joan. I shall be back in a week or ten days.
'No: women cling to beaten tracks. 'We obey our masters, answered Lesbia, meekly. 'Ah, I forgot. You are to have a master and soon. I heard as much before I saw you to-night. Lesbia half rose, as if to leave this cool retreat above the rippling tide. 'Yes, it is all settled, she said; 'and now I think I must go back. Lady Kirkbank will be wondering what has become of me.
She considers that I shall be most fortunate if a doctor or a lawyer condescend to like me well enough to make me an offer. He might make me the offer without liking me, for the sake of hearing himself and his wife announced as Mr. and Lady Mary Snooks at dinner parties. That would be too horrid! But I daresay such things have happened. 'Don't talk nonsense, Mary, said Lesbia, loftily.
There are not more than four families in the whole place whom we can visit, and when we want a little gaiety we have to drive into Pinkerton. 'I think it would be good for Lesbia's health, Mrs. Fullerton. 'Well, well, a little peevishly, 'we must talk to Dr. Pratt about it. But how is Lesbia to settle well if I bury her in that poky little village?
'Then you had no dear grandmother whom you loved, said Lesbia, 'or you would have liked old people for her sake. 'No, my love, I had no grandparents. I had a father, and he was all-sufficient anything beyond him in the ancestral line would have been a burden laid upon me greater than I could bear, as the poet says. Dinner was announced, and Mary came shyly out of her corner, blushing deeply.
Trust me, dearest, in the crisis of a woman's life there is one only counsellor she should listen to, and that counsellor is her own heart. If you love me as I dare to hope you do trust in me, hold by me, and leave the rest to Heaven. I know that I can make your life happy. 'You frighten me by your impetuosity, said Lesbia. 'Surely you forget how short a time we have known each other. 'An age.
I had half a mind to get you to attire yourself in Roman fashion, but I thought that you would not consent. However, we shall surprise them sufficiently as it is." Lesbia was seated with her two daughters on couches placed under the shade of some trees. Two or three slave girls stood behind them with fans. A dalmatian bore hound lay on the ground in front of them.
He went away, his spirits dashed by that awful thought of death, and Lord and Lady Hartfield had the house to themselves, since Lesbia hardly counted. She seldom left her own rooms, except to sit with her grandmother for an hour.
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