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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. But alas! suffer me to be as sceptical as Stevenson in "Virginibus Puerisque." In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a "grand passion" than of a grand opera. "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart."
Smith that it would be interesting to revive the Cornhill and show that there was still life and force in the magazine which had published some of Thackeray's best essays, and his later novels the magazine in which had appeared novels like Romola, with Leighton's illustrations, and in which Louis Stevenson had given to the world those first and most delightful of his essays, afterwards collected in Virginibus Puerisque.
"Yes; I've a list of em." "Your countrymen, my friends" with a malicious little bow "the Friends of Freedom." The Parson leaned out, black as night. "Friends of Freedom be d -d!" he thundered "bloody traitors!" The other raised a shocked hand. "Holy Padre! Reverend Father! Virginibus puerisque, if you please." The Parson turned to find Kit at his elbow. "I'm only a deacon," he grumbled.
His patron's lucubrations have taken the turn of many other memoirs, and have ceased to address themselves virginibus puerisque. On the whole, he declares they are a very odd mixture a medley of gold and tinsel, of bad taste and good sense. I can readily understand it. The old man bores me, puzzles me, and amuses me. He was in waiting to receive me.
But he overcame her objections, as he had done before, and the thought that the money would be needed to maintain her husband in the same comfort as he enjoyed during the last few years weighed down her scruples; besides which, though she had a general idea that the book was not virginibus purisque, she had no knowledge of its real character.
"It should then," she responded gayly. "How in the world is a clergyman to get on with the women of his congregation if he can't compliment? Why, the salvation or the damnation of most women is determined by compliments." The visitors stood speechless. Mrs. Wilson broke into a gleeful laugh. "Come," cried she; "now I have shocked you! Pardon me; I should have remembered virginibus puerisque!
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