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"And above the door of Madame de la Tour's cottage, where the families used to assemble, I placed this line: At secura quies, et nescia fallere vita. 'Here is a calm conscience, and a life ignorant of deceit. "But Virginia did not approve of my Latin; she said, that what I had placed at the foot of her weather flag was too long and too learned.
To say truth, he was in the wavering condition so finely described by Claudian: labefacta cadelat Religio, causaeque viam non sponte sequebar Alterius; vacua quae currere semina motu Affirmat; magnumque novas fer inane figures Fortuna, non arte, regi; quae numina sensu Ambiguo, vel nulla futat, vel nescia nostri.
But even in the happiest moments of his story the consummate art of the poet has prepared for the final catastrophe. Little words, like "misera," "infelix," "fati nescia," sound the first undertones of a woe to come, even amidst the joy of the first meeting or the glad tumult of the hunting-scene.
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