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A celebrity in London for fifty years, she died, witty and vigorous to the last, in 1888. "You and I and Mr. Kinglake," she says to Lord Houghton, "are all that are left of the goodly band that used to come to St. John's Wood; Eliot Warburton, Motley, Adelaide, Count de Verg, Chorley, Sir Edwin Landseer, my husband."
He considered telling her his worries about Gunch, but "oh, gosh, it was too much work to go into the whole thing and explain about Verg and everything." He was relieved when he put Tanis on a trolley; he was cheerful in the familiar simplicities of his office. At four o'clock Vergil Gunch called on him. Babbitt was agitated, but Gunch began in a friendly way: "How's the boy?
Maybe it's an attack of spring fever, or staying up too late at Verg Gunch's, or maybe it's just the winter's work piling up, but I've felt kind of down in the mouth all day long.
"Say, folks, I wished I dared show you a book I borrowed from Doc Patten!" "Now, George! The idea!" Mrs. Babbitt warned him. "This book racy isn't the word! It's some kind of an anthropological report about about Customs, in the South Seas, and what it doesn't SAY! It's a book you can't buy. Verg, I'll lend it to you." "Me first!" insisted Eddie Swanson. "Sounds spicy!"
Especially did they mention the matter of the other guests. To the last Babbitt held out for giving Paul Riesling the benefit of being with the McKelveys. "Good old Charley would like Paul and Verg Gunch better than some highfalutin' Willy boy," he insisted, but Mrs.
But I certainly do feel out of sorts, this morning. Funny, got a pain down here on the left side but no, that wouldn't be appendicitis, would it? Last night, when I was driving over to Verg Gunch's, I felt a pain in my stomach, too. Right here it was kind of a sharp shooting pain. I Where'd that dime go to? Why don't you serve more prunes at breakfast?
See the well-known passages, Orat. 81 and De Or. 3, 155. VESTITA PAMPINIS: 'arrayed in the young foliage'. FRUCTU ... ASPECTU: ablatives of respect, like gustatu above. CAPITUM IUGATIO: 'the linking together of their tops'; i.e. the uniting of the tops of the stakes by cross-stakes. So the editors; but Conington on Verg.
Babbitt nodded his head at every fifth word in the roaring rhythm; and by the conclusion, in Gunch's renowned humorous vein, he was enchanted: "Still, at that, George, don't know's you can afford it. I've heard your business has been kind of under the eye of the gov'ment since you stole the tail of Eathorne Park and sold it!" "Oh, you're a great little josher, Verg.
CONSITIONES ... INSITIONES: 'planting ... grafting'. On the varieties of grafting and the skill required for it see Verg. Georg. 2, 73 seq. POSSUM: see n. on 24. IN HAC ... CONSUMPSIT: Cic. probably never, as later writers did, used consumere with a simple ablative. CURIUS: see n. on 15. A ME: = a mea villa; cf. n. on 3 apud quem.
PATIENTIA: 'endurance', 'persistence'; it is not equivalent to our 'patience'. PRAECLARE: sc. dicit; cf. n. on 3. FAMILIARIS: see Introd. Att. 2, 19, 2; Ovid, Fast. 2, 241; Verg. Aen. 6, 846; Suet. Tib. 21. CUNCTANDO: Cf. Polybius 3, 105, 8. On Fabius' military policy consult Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, Bk. III. ch. 5. REM: here = rem publicam.
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