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De mortuis, you know; much more so when one speaks of a father. I think, by the bye, Alec ought to write something about him for publication; don't you? I was going to say, Piers, that, if I remember rightly, I am in your debt for a small sum, which you very generously lent me. Ah, that book! It grows and grows; I can't get it into final form.
"She will die," said Blundell, "if this goes on;" and he neither mentioned any name, nor did John Crewys require him to do so. The doctor's words came hurrying out incoherently from the depths of his anxiety and earnestness. "She will die if this goes on. There were few hopes and little enough pleasure in her life before; but what is left to her now? De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
"I am surprised " she began, and then the Senator politely but firmly interfered. "Ladies," he said, "'De mortuis nisi bonum, which is to say it isn't customary to slang corpses, especially, as you may say, in their presence.
They excite our curiosity, and perhaps our envy. They may rise very high indeed, but they must always be unpleasantly conscious of a serious reservation in our attitude towards them. And if they could read their obituary notices they would assuredly discern therein a certain chilliness, however kindly we acted up to our great national motto of De mortuis nil nist bunkum.
Not so: the dying woman could not speak; but with a convulsive effort, she moved one of her hands, touched the left shoulder, and expired. De mortuis nil nisi bonum is an excellent maxim; but in concluding this sketch, there can be no harm in at least regretting the imperfection of human nature.
"And, De mortuis you know the rest of the quotation, Dale," said Mr Frewen, "and if you cannot say nothing but good of the dead, my lad, don't say anything at all."
Seeing what service they render to the managers the deadheads are perhaps entitled to the protection of the phrase "de mortuis." The foregoing article brought several letters, amongst them one that deserves a little consideration.
Whether you think with me, I know not; but the famous "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" always appeared to me to savour more of female weakness than of manly reason. He that has too much feeling to speak ill of the dead, who, if they cannot defend themselves, are at least ignorant of his abuse, will not hesitate by the most wanton calumny to destroy the quiet, the reputation, the fortune of the living.
And thus he sets forth the results of his four days' deliberation: "'De mortuis nil nisi bonum. I declare I have considered the wisdom and foundation of it over and over again as dispassionately and charitably as a good Christian can, and, after all, I can find nothing in it, or make more of it than a nonsensical lullaby of some nurse, put into Latin by some pedant, to be chanted by some hypocrite to the end of the world for the consolation of departing lechers.
"Very well, then," Dick resumed; "that being the case, the next question is: Where am I to go, and what am I to do, in order to earn enough money to maintain myself and my mother in the meantime, and eventually to restore her to that position of security of which she was robbed by that rascal Cuthbertson?" "De mortuis nil nisi bonum!" reproved Humphreys gravely.
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