urios simulant, et Bacchanalia vivunt. JUV.

Odi Persicos apparatus. HOR.

Indulge Genio: carpamus dulcia. PERS.

Roseton awoke. A silver clock upon the mantle, so constructed as to
represent Guido's 'Hours,' had just struck the hour of eight,
accompanying the signal with the festal _la ci darem_ of Don Giovanni.
This was Roseton's invariable hour of waking, no matter what might be
the season, or what might have been his time of retiring. Slightly
stirring upon the couch, the night drapery became relaxed, and from his
sleeve of Mechlin lace appeared a hand and wrist of unspeakable
delicacy, yet of iron strength. Another slight movement, and one saw the
upper portions of the form of the late slumberer; 'a graceful
composition in one of Nature's happiest moments.' It was indeed
difficult properly to estimate either the beauty of his proportions or
their amazing strength. The most celebrated sculptors of Europe had made
pilgrimages across the sea to refresh their perceptions by gazing upon a
figure which, even in the unclassic habiliments of modern dress, caused
the Apollo to resemble a plowboy; and the athletes of both hemispheres
had, singly, and in pairs, and even in triplets, measured their powers
vainly against his unaided arms. To keep ten fifty-sixes in the air for
an hour at a time was to him the merest trifle; but the _ennui_ of such
diversions had long since crept upon him, and only on occasions of the
extremest urgency did he exercise any other faculties than those of the
will. In compliance with an effort of the latter nature, his favorite
servant now entered the apartment. The Rev. Geo. Langford had but a
moment before been deeply engaged in solving the problem of the fourth
satellite of Jupiter, when a sharp, tingling sensation in the rear of
his brain convinced him that a master will desired his attendance. The
scholar, who thus rose to be the servant of Roseton,--a position that
even the President of a Western college might envy, such were its
dignities and emoluments,--stood for a moment at the foot of Roseton's
couch, and in silence received the silent orders of the day. No words
passed, but in an incredibly short space of time Roseton's commands had
flashed into the mind of his attendant, and the latter withdrew to
reduce them to writing for the benefit of the four masters of the four
departments of the House. They in turn methodized them for their
forty-eight deputies, and one hundred and ninety-two