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If you choose a worse climate, you may come to London; but if you choose a better and a warmer, you may go to Nice en Provence, where Sir William Stanhope is gone to pass his winter, who, I am sure, will be extremely glad of your company there. I go to the Bath next Saturday. 'Utinam de frustra'. God bless you! BATH, September 19, 1767.
How often when with you did the words rise to my lips: Talis cum sis, utinam noster esses! I knew well enough that in voto you belonged already to the one true Church, but I could not but feel some anxiety in reflecting that in a matter of such paramount importance those who don't move forward must needs after a certain time go backward.
I had agreed to meet Esper Indiman at the Utinam and dine there. The weather had turned cold again, for it was the end of our changeable March, and the fireplace in the common room of the club was heaped high with hickory logs, a cheerful sight, were it not for that odious motto, "Non Possumus," graven over the mantel-shelf where it must inevitably meet every eye.
Quite an elaborate theory, you observe; but the difficulty was to fit it to the individual. Looking back on the problem, I accuse myself of being rather slow-witted. Right under my eyes and yet only an accident opened them. "Well, you recall the night at the Utinam when we met Mr. Chivers and I accepted his very liberal proposition to become an adjuster of averages.
He took from the pocket of his overcoat a rather bulky package and handed it to young Mr. Sydenham. "They'll explain themselves," he said, smiling. The coach rolled away. "The missing letters from V. S.," said Indiman, in answer to my look of inquiry. "An average of two a day, and all addressed to him at the Utinam. Well, what was the poor girl to do?
"Pardon me," he began, with the sweetest suavity. "I was afraid for the moment that we had got into the wrong place. This is the " a delicately suggestive pause. "The Utinam Club," supplied the other. "Exactly," said Indiman, in a most relieved tone. "It IS the Utinam, Thorp," he continued, turning to me.
Magnus, I venture to infer that the Utinam Club is the child of your own brain. Permit me, sir, to congratulate you a glorious inception and carried out to perfection." Dr. Magnus smiled frostily. "I thank you, Mr. Indiman," he said, staring hard at him. "In a civilization so complex as ours the Utinam undoubtedly fills a want.
Otherwise and it is generally otherwise with these meddlers there will have to be a new adjustment of averages what a felicitous phrase! and this, as usual, I will take upon myself. One way or the other, and, personally, I don't care a straw which it is." The name signed to this curious epistle was David Magnus. "Our Dr. Magnus of the Utinam," explained Indiman, but I hardly heard him.
UTINAM ... ESSET: esset here gives a greater appearance of modesty than would been expressed by sit: 'would it were, as it certainly is not'. A. 267; G. 253; H. 483, 2. COGNOMINE: Cato bore the title sapiens, even in his lifetime; see Introd. Cognomen is used in good Latin to denote both the family name and the acquired by-name; in late Latin this latter is denoted by agnomen.
And also my qualification for membership in the Utinam Club," he added, grimly. "Ah, yes the discovery of the Pole. A unique and delightful idea in clubdom eh, Thorp? To succeed " "No, sir; to FAIL," interrupted Mr. Hoyt, rudely. "What the devil do you suppose I am doing in this galley? You must be a very new member of the Utinam Club." "To tell the truth, Mr.
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