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Octavia rippled out a laugh, and then became properly grave. "De mortuis nil, auntie not even the rest of it. The dear old colonel what a gold brick he was, after all! I paid for my bargain fairly I'm all here, am I not? items: eyes, fingers, toes, youth, old family, unquestionable position in society as called for in the contract no wild-cat stock here."
Here am I dining with a lady and I don't even know her name!" "I know I wouldn't put it to the note. Didn't that single initial arouse your suspicions? Her name? Her title if you please! I married Harry St. Craye. You remember how we used to laugh at him together." "That little I beg your pardon, Lady St. Craye." "Yes," she said, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum: of the dead nothing but the bones.
Yet censure is not heard beneath the tomb, any more than praise. "De mortuis nil nisi verum De vivis nil nisi bonum" would approach much nearer to good sense. After all, the few handfuls of remaining dust which once composed the body of the author of the "Night Thoughts" feel not much concern whether Young pass now for a man of sorrow or for "a fellow of infinite jest."
At Prime, and at the small Hours, Terce, Sext, None, only one antiphon is said. It is said in full at the end of the last Psalm in each Hour. The Capitulum, the little Responsory, Christe, Fili Dei vivi ... is then said. In this responsory the versicle Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris is sometimes changed, e.g., in paschal time it is, Qui surrexisti a mortuis.
But while it is true that this one had run up quite a heavy bill in cats and committed many other enormities, the line De mortuis nil nisi bonum was kept in view, and, if nothing could be said, it was judged better to say nothing.
"You cannot judge of this for me, Mr. Neckart," said Jane. "He has the right, especially when it concerns his money. What is it he wished me to do?" The captain stammered with embarrassment. "Tut! tut! Money has nothing to do with it. As for poor Will, Bruce, he had his good points. De mortuis you know. I knew him in his prime.
"'They was all sassy, just like you, says old Doc, 'but we lowered their temperature considerable. Yes, sir, I reckon we sent a good many of ye over to old mortuis nisi bonum. Look at Antietam and Bull Run and Seven Pines and around Nashville! There never was a battle where we didn't lick ye unless you was ten to our one. I knew you were a blame Yankee the minute I laid eyes on you.
"In that case," observed Lansing, "it might be best to shift the centre of gossip. De mortuis nil nisi bonum which is simple enough for anybody to comprehend." "That is rude, Mr. Lansing," flashed out Rosamund; and to his astonishment he saw the tears start to her eyes. "I beg your pardon," he said sulkily. "You do well to.
Right gladly did he join in the singing when hymnus or responsorium de tempore had been set by the Musicus to a Cantum Gregorianum, as we have said, and his young sons, Martinus and Paulus, had also after table to sing the responsoria de tempore, as at Christmas, Verbum caro factum est, In principio erat verbum; at Easter, Christus resurgens ex mortuis, Vita sanctorum, Victimæ paschali laudes, etc.
I prefer to think that it was good manners which forbade me to be disrespectful to her very face. It is bad manners to speak the truth to the living, but February is dead. De mortuis nil nisi veritas. The truth about poor February is that she is the worst month of the year. But let us be fair to her. She has never had a chance. We cannot say to her, "Look upon this picture and on this.
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