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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.
So Woodhouse bought it and presented it to a grateful South Kensington which said it would see the earth still flatter before it returned the treasure to purblind Huckley. Bishops by the benchful and most of the Royal Academy, not to mention 'Margaritas ante Porcos, wrote fervently to the papers.
"That bundle of bewildering fascination." "That," said I, "is an horrible infliction which only my cultivated sense of altruism enables me to tolerate." "Her name ought to be Margarita." "Why?" I asked. "Ante porcos," said he. Certainly Pasquale has a pretty wit and I admire it as I admire most of his brilliant qualities, but I fail to see the aptness of this last gibe.
Inter pullos et porcos latitabat: the song of the rural deity had found its way into the haunts of the humble creatures whom she protected. A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos.
"Percutite porcos boreales." "Vim inferre australibus asinis." "Sternite omnes Gallos." So they shouted imprecations in Latin and English, and eke in French, for there were many Gauls about. What chance of getting through the fighting, drunken, riotous mobs? Quarterstaves were rising and falling upon heads and shoulders.
He bent towards his neighbor, the Abbe of Saint Genevieve, and said to him in a low tone, "Fine ambassadors monsieur the archduke sends here, to announce to us Madame Marguerite!" "Your eminence," replied the abbe, "wastes your politeness on these Flemish swine. Margaritas ante porcos, pearls before swine."
She was smiling at the crowd, delighting in the effect which she knew how to produce with her sparkling eye and her white teeth and her rosy lips, and the Curé was intoxicated by that smile. Then he cast his eyes over the rough crowd, and ha was grieved at so much cost for such an audience: Margaritas ante porcos, he murmured, Margaritas ante porcos.