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"The yacht is in our hands; Demetri and Spiro are our men; there will be no ship here for two months." The fellow paused, smiling at me. I took the liberty of ending his period for him. "And there is," I said, returning the smile, "as we know by now, a particularly sudden and fatal form of fever in the island." "Certainly; you may chance to find that out," said he. "But is there no antidote?"
As I spoke, Constantine put a whistle to his lips and blew loudly. The blast was followed by the appearance of five more fellows. In three of them I recognized old acquaintances Vlacho, Demetri, and Spiro. These three all carried guns; and the whole eight came forward again, till they were within a hundred yards of us.
After a moment she read it out. "'Dum spiro spero. N.W. Just as I thought!" "Do you know what it means?" asked Nick. She shook her head vigorously. "And I don't want to know." "Oh, that's a pity," he said. "Pray let me enlighten your ignorance. It means, 'While I breathe I hope' a very proper sentiment which does the young man infinite credit."
Moreover, I caught Spiro, the more truculent-looking of the pair, scowling at me more than once when he did not know I had my eye on him.
The stout man looked at Denny and me; then he looked at Demetri and Spiro, who stood near us, smiling their usual grim smile. And he answered my question by another, a rather abrupt one: "What do you want, sir?" And he slightly lifted his tasselled cap and replaced it on his head. "I want to know the way to the inn," I answered. "You have come to visit Neopalia?" he asked.
But of this power of looking on the bright side of things the credit must be given to his nature and not to his piety, for Foy could not be sad for long. Dum spiro, spero would have been his motto had he known Latin, and he did not mean to grow sorrowful over the prospect of being burnt, for instance until he found himself fast to the stake.
Herbert mentions that Dum spiro spero was a favourite motto with Charles, inscribed by him on many books. Of course there were continued negotiations between Charles and the Parliament. Anything done in this way, however, during the four months of the stay at Holmby, hardly deserves notice.
She frowned, "Only a Latin motto." "Tell me!" he said persuasively. She continued to frown. "It was 'Dum spiro spero." "Great Scott!" he said. "Do you think I should have been as presumptuous as that? I should have just said, 'With Noel's love, and you wouldn't have had the heart to fling it back again." She smiled, not very willingly. "I can't understand it at all." "I can," he said boldly.
One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob. What? Do you see any green in the white of my eye? Course it was a bloody barney. What? Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too.
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