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Updated: May 13, 2025
Many of the predicates of things express only the relations of the things to us and to our feelings. Such predicates of course are human additions. Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and was a menace to Rome's freedom. He is also an American school-room pest, made into one by the reaction of our schoolboys on his writings. The added predicate is as true of him as the earlier ones.
Bessie rejoiced that none of her own people were near to see the patronising manner in which Arthurine introduced her to Mr. Foxholm, a heavily-bearded man, whose eyes she did not at all like, and who began by telling her that he felt as if he had crossed the Rubicon, and entering an Arcadia, had found a Parnassus.
"Oh, yes," said his companion with another happy little laugh of contentment with the world. "I'll take you on. What shall it be?" "Pennies if you like," said the young man nonchalantly. "Very well, and double for the Rubicon." "How do you mean?" said the young man, puzzled. "You will see," said the old man, and they began to play. The game was singularly absorbing.
Gaul had definite boundaries on the south the Rubicon marked the line but on the north it was without limit. Real-estate owners own as high in the air and as deep in the earth as they wish to go. Cæsar alone guessed the greatness of Gaul. Under pretense of protecting Rome from a threatened invasion he secured the strongest legions of Pompey and Crassus.
Will he do what it has been just now decreed that he shall do, lead his army back across the Rubicon, which is the frontier of Gaul, and yet at the same time not come nearer Rome than two hundred miles? will he obey this notice? will he allow himself to be confined by the river Rubicon and by the limit of two hundred miles? Antonius is not that sort of man.
On this side the slopes were all more open, nothing but rugged bowlders clinging on the bare surfaces. How enjoyable was this forcing our way along through these solitary wilderness places, so that I was really sorry when we finally dropped over a forested slope into the Rubicon Springs and McKinney's Road. A mile away we found the hotel, with Mr. and Mrs. Colwell.
And how nice the girls looked," she rattled on; "and what a lot of intelligent faces, and how they kindled up when the president talked about the children of Israel in the wilderness forty years, and Caesar crossing the Rubicon! And you, sir" she turned to the Englishman "I've heard, were against all this emancipation during the war."
A close rival of these is the climb from Rubicon Park up the stately range in its rear to visit the mountain hemlock, the graceful queen of the high mountain, and to gaze across the chasm at the twin crags beyond.
"The Rubicon," said the Tinker, "the Rubicon is a river as no Roman ever crossed without doo thought. 'The die, as Julius Caesar remarked when he crossed it, 'the die is cast! Friend Peregrine, you ha' sent away your lady aunt a-grieving, poor ma'm, and your fine gentlemen uncles likewise, and consequently what I asks is what now?"
While I was hesitating, and wondering what my next proceeding had better be, my eye was attracted by a letter lying on the hall-table. The letter was directed to Nugent; and the post-mark was Liverpool. I drew the inevitable conclusion. The German oculist was in England! He crosses the Rubicon
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