"Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus." No doubting now can be of avail.

No moment is left for the display of conduct beyond this, which requires only decorum and a free use of the pulses to become in some degree glorious.

The wretch from the lowest dregs of the people can achieve it with a halter round his neck.

Cicero had that moment also to face; and when it came he was as brave as the best Englishman of them all.

But of those I have named no one had an Atticus to whom it had been the privilege of his life to open his very soul, in language so charming as to make it worth posterity's while to read it, to study it, to sift it, and to criticise it.