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'Not waltzing? said Hazel, opening her brown eyes with an expression of mild dismay which was very nearly too much for Dr. Arthur. 'Waltzing? said Prudentia, mystified. 'I did not say anything about waltzing. Why shouldn't he waltz? I think he used. Why yes; he was a famous waltzer. Don't you waltz, Miss Kennedy? 'But I was always known to be out of my head, said Hazel.
'Yes, my dear! it's the first and only time; he was always supposed to be a very rich man. Well, Dane has taken his fortune and thrown it into those mills! 'I was afraid you were going to say the mill stream, said Wych Hazel, who was getting so nervous she didn't know what to do with herself; 'but the mills seem a safe place. 'I don't know but he's better done that of the two, said Prudentia.
It was not needful that you should hear anything about it; not now. I am sorry. Prudentia must have forgotten herself! Dr. Maryland looked seriously disturbed. 'You do not tell me! cried the girl. 'Dr. Maryland, is it true, what she says? 'I do not know what she has said, my dear. But you need not be troubled about it.
He knew Wych Hazel; he could guess at the bound of revulsion her spirit would make at several points in the narrative that had been told her. He knew Prudentia; he could fancy that the details lost nothing in the giving. But the steadiness, not of feeling, but of nerves and judgment, which was characteristic of him, kept his eyesight clear even now.
Agricola naturali prudentia, quamvis inter togatos, facile justeque agebat.
A locksmith’s apprentice who had lost some money through the Prudentia violently defamed the character of the bookseller. The mob gathered before the lighted shop window. Wachsmuth stood by the door, and demanded that the traitor be suspended from a lamp post before this day’s sun had set.
Your foreign destination leads to the greatest things, and your parliamentary situation will facilitate your progress. Consider, then, this pleasing prospect as attentively for yourself as I consider it for you. Labor on your part to realize it, as I will on mine to assist, and enable you to do it. 'Nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia'. Adieu, my dear child!
The best cordial I could take, would be to hear, from time to time, of your industry and diligence; for in that case I should consequently hear of your success. Remember your own motto, 'Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia'. Nothing is truer. Yours. BLACKHEATH, September 23, 1757
But what is the good of complaining?" Lessing's life, if it is a noble example, so far as it concerned himself alone, is also a warning when another is to be asked to share it. He too would have profited had he earlier learned and more constantly borne in mind the profound wisdom of that old saying, Si sit prudentia.
How bad it may be I can't tell. Hazel has heard all about what she shouldn't have heard! the terms of the will and the whole story. A flash of very disagreeable surprise crossed the young man's face. He was silent. 'It seems Prudentia told her, Dr. Maryland went on, uneasily. 'I don't understand how she could be so thoughtless; but so it is. Hazel was very much excited by what she heard.
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