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Take the goods the gods send you and don't fuss! And suddenly he remembered with extreme vividness that night on the stoep at High Constantia, and thought with dismay: 'I could have plunged in over head and ears then; and now I can't! That's life all over! Poor Leila! Me miserum, too, perhaps who knows! When Leila opened her door to Edward Pierson, her eyes were smiling, and her lips were soft.
To his familiars he is like a plague, whom they dare scarce come nigh for fear of infection; he is a monument ruined by those which raised him, he spends the day with a hei mihi! væ miserum! and the night with a nullis est medicabilis herbis. In 1626 year of the death of Francis Bacon appeared "Cures for the Itch; Characters, Epigrams, Epitaphs by H. P." with the motto "Scalpat qui Tangitur."
The position, indeed, conceded to him in the book-hunting field through the influence of these becoming decorations has communicated to him something of the uneasiness of Juvenal's "Miserum est aliorum incubere famæ, Ne collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis."
"This is comme il faut," said I, looking round at the well filled table, and the sparkling spirits immersed in the ice-pails, "a genuine friendly dinner. It is very rarely that I dare entrust myself to such extempore hospitality miserum est aliena vivere quadra; a friendly dinner, a family meal, are things from which I fly with undisguised aversion.
'Oh! oh! grumbled he to himself, 'that cursed Congrio hath invited a whole legion of cooks to assist him. They won't serve for nothing, and this is another item in the total of my day's expenses. By Bacchus! thrice lucky shall I be if the slaves do not help themselves to some of the drinking vessels: ready, alas, are their hands, capacious are their tunics. Me miserum!
"And what man doesn't swear whenever he gets the chance?" cried Madame. "Why did I ever marry? Heu miserum me." "My angel, be calm. I assure you " "Very well then, declare yourself, Jupiter, this minute, or I'll declare yourself for you!" "But, my love, think of Sir Tiglath! I dare not declare myself. He will be here at any moment, and he has sworn to kill me, if I'm not an American syndicate!"
"Pray excuse; look to-night without fail; Heaven's sake cease writing; grandmother and whole square amazement, confusion; shall go mad if continues. Vivian." "Very well, but insist on full letter; confidence in oath much shaken; wires most shifty; gross neglect of crab, grandmother and scorpion. Sagittarius." "Homo miserum sed magnum est veritatus et praevalebetur. Madame Sagittarius."
Then Gulo pushed forward with his bloody face, and exclaimed, in haste and pitifully, "See our blood, lord! We fought! See our blood! See our blood!" But he had not finished when Vinicius seized a bronze lamp, and with one blow shattered the skull of the slave; then, seizing his own head with both hands, he drove his fingers into his hair, repeating hoarsely, "Me miserum! me miserum!"
—Nec si miserum Fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam, mendacemque improba finget. I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.
Well, the roof leaked, and presto! when I rose I found my watch swimming in water your watch-paper all soaked and torn that is to say, my fingers tore it; and a dozen minuets I had bought for you shared the same fate, not to mention my jemmy-worked garters! My ill luck was complete me miserum!" "Was it at college?" "Oh no," said Sir Asinus; "you know I am temporarily absent from the Alma Mater."
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