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Heaven knows, whatever my faults, I have sacrificed what I loved better than all things study and pleasure to her cause. In her wars I served even my enemy Marlborough, in order to serve her; her peace I effected, and I suffer for it. Be it so, I am "'Fidens animi atque in utrumque paratus. "Once more I embrace you; farewell."

Ne se mulier extra virtutum cogitationes extraque bellorum casus putet, ipsis incipientis matrimonii auspiciis admonetur, venire se laborum periculorumque sociam, idem in pace, idem in proelio passuram ausuramque: hoc juncti boves, hoc paratus equus, hoc data arma denuntiant; sic vivendum, sic pereundum: accipere se, quae liberis inviolata ac digna reddat, quae nurus accipiant rursus, quae ad nepotes referantur.

"Never mind," said Erskine, laughingly, "we will revenge your death, my boy." "Besides, consider the nunquam non paratus, Johnstone," slily remarked Lieutenant Leslie. "What, again, Leslie?" energetically responded the young Scotsman. "Yet think not I hesitate, for I did but jest: make fast a rope round my loins, and I think I will answer for the result."

I will learn them all to thee some day, but for the moment take this Latin which I got by heart: "Abite a me in ignem etemum qui paratus est diabolo at angelis ejus." Englished it means: "Depart from me into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels," but hath at least double that power in Latin.

In utrumque paratus, the article was mysterious, suggestive, amusing, well-informed, that in the 'Evening Pulpit' was a matter of course, and, above all things, ironical. Next to its omniscience its irony was the strongest weapon belonging to the 'Evening Pulpit. There was a little praise given, no doubt in irony, to the duchesses who served Mr Melmotte.