The Gauls may remain in our house, and do you take Polykarp severely to task, but in the first instance as his friend.

Or would it not be better if you left it to me?
He was so happy in thinking of the competition of his lions, and in having to work for the great building in the capital, and now it is all over.

I wish you had already broken that to him; but love stories are women's affairs, and you know how good the boy is to me.

A mother's word sometimes has more effect than a father's blow, and it is in life as it is in war; the light forces of archers go first into the field, and the heavily armed division stays in the background to support them; then, if the enemy will not yield, it comes forward and decides the battle.

First let me speak to the lad.