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Brother Copas

CHAPTER XVIII
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You must let 'em penetrate: soak 'em into yourself, get 'em into your nature slowly, through the pores of the skin." "It sounds like sitting in a bath." "That's just it.

It's a baptism first and a bath afterwards; but the more it's a bath, the more you remember it's a baptism." "I guess you have that right, though I don't follow," Corona admitted.

"There's _something_ in Latin makes you proud.
Only yesterday I was gassing to three girls about knowing _amo, amas, amat_; and, next thing, you'll say, 'I'd like you to know Ovid,' and I'll say,' Mr.Ovid, I'm pleased to have met you'-- like what happens in the States when you shake hands with a professor.

All the same, I don't see what there is in _amo, amas, amat_ to make the gas." "Wait till you come to _cras amet qui nunquam amavit_." "Is that what you were translating ?" "Yes." "Then translate it for me, please." "You shall construe for yourself.

Cras means 'to-morrow.' _Amet_--" "That's the present subjunctive.


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