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"Say rather," retorted the cardinal, with a smile, "Porcos ante Margaritam, swine before the pearl." The whole little court in cassocks went into ecstacies over this play upon words. The cardinal felt a little relieved; he was quits with Coppenole, he also had had his jest applauded.
"I wish Horace had known you." "Would it have been nice?" "He might have written an ode Ad Margaritam instead of Ad Lalagem." "Then I might have been able to read it," she said. "In school I couldn't read the other one. But you mustn't think that I did not read a great deal of Latin. The professor used to say that I read my Latin b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l-l-y, but that I didn't get much English out of it.
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