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(Greek passage) / Anthologia Palatina: v. 72. / This, this is life, when pleasure drives out care. / Short is the span of time we each may share. / To-day, while love, wine, song, the hours adorn, / To-day we live: none know the coming morn.
Lord Curryfin's assiduities to Miss Gryll had discomposed Mr. Falconer more than he chose to confess to himself. Lord Curryfin, on entering the drawing-rooms, went up immediately to the young lady of the house; and Mr. Falconer, to the amazement of the reverend doctor, sat down in the outer drawing-room on a sofa by the side of Miss Ilex, with whom he entered into conversation.