32/38 I gymnasticized them in my regiment. 'The English authorities are adverse to it, but it 's against nature--on the supposition that all Englishmen might enrol untrained in Caesar's pet legion. Virgil shows knowledge of men when he says of the row-boat straining in emulation, 'Possunt quia posse videntur.'' He talked on rapidly; he wondered that he did not hear Lady Charlotte exclaim at what she must be seeing. From the nearest avenue a lady had issued. She stood gazing at the house, erect--a gallant figure of a woman--one hand holding her parasol, the other at her hip. |