You have been with us then long enough to know that the Republic never forgets a servitor, nor forgives an affront." "'Tis an ancient state, and one whose influence still reaches far and near." "Have a care of the step.

These marbles are treacherous to an uncertain foot." "Mine is too practised in the descent to be unsteady.

I hope I do not now descend these stairs for the last time ?" The minister of the council affected not to understand the question, but he answered as if replying only to the previous observation.
"'Tis truly a venerable state," he said, "but a little tottering with its years.

All who love liberty, father, must mourn to see so glorious a sway on the decline.

_Sic transit gloria mundi!_ You bare-footed Carmelites do well to mortify the flesh in youth, by which you escape the pains of a decreasing power.