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But I'll be the rarissima avis, to whom the abandoned nest will always be the prime object of his life's consideration." "Pretty," said Miss Winwood. "It's true." "I'm sure of it," she said pleasantly. "Besides, if you didn't leave the nest and make a name for yourself, you wouldn't be able to carry on our work. My brother and I, you see, are of the older generation you of the younger."
Chambers's medicines, or perhaps to a consciousness that my present attempt is actually, and will be considered by others, more a trial of strength than either of my preceding ones. Thank you for the books, and especially for the editio rarissima, which I should as soon have thought of your trusting to me as of your admitting me to stand with gloves on within a yard of Baxter.
Perhaps the most interesting geographical playing cards which have survived this common fate, though they are the ultima rarissima of such cards, is the pack designed and engraved by H. Winstanley, "at Littlebury, in Essex," as we read on the Ace of Hearts. They appear to have been intended to afford instruction in geography and ethnology.
But on reaching his destination he was met in the anteroom by a male servant "an article of luxury in Paris, a rarissima avis in the house of an artist," observes Lenz who informed him that Chopin was not in town. The visitor, however, was not to be put off in this way, and insisted that the card should be taken in to Chopin. Fortune favours the brave.
When two such as thee and I meet, with affections such as we ought to have towards each other, thou shouldst rejoice to see my peaceable demeanour, and I should be glad to see thy strength and ability to protect me in it. T. No. 269. Aevo rarissima nostro Simplicitas. OVID, Ars Am. lib. i. ver. 241. And brings our old simplicity again.
[Footnote 9: Ad idem genus morbi altera species rarissima ab auctoribus prætervisa referenda videtur, quam non aptius nominari posse putem qu
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