Crossword-Solution: ERAM 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Like Partridge, I may say, “NON SUM QUALIS ERAM.” At my time of day I can agree with Lord Ogilvie as to his rheumatism, and say, “There’s a twinge.” I hope, therefore, you will excuse me for leaving the chair.--The worthy Baronet then retired amidst long, loud, and rapturous cheering.

Bullet-head ‘never could be persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually a-svigging o’ that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in the X-treme.’ METZENGERSTEIN Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero.

Non sum qualis eram." Then, as if dismissing a light subject for a graver one, he sighed and added; "I suppose there is nothing that can be done for little Alice." He called the tall, strong girl "little Alice," and so she seemed to him.

This he must have perceived, for he suddenly said with a bright enough smile, “You are disappointed in me—_non sum qualis eram_.” I hardly knew what to reply, but managed to say: “Why, really, I don’t know: your Latin is about the same.” He brightened again.

The writer therein alludes to that short-lived bell of Madame de la Peltrie, melted in the memorable fire of the 31st December, 1650, which the pious lady used to toll, to call "the Neophytes to the waters of baptism, or the newly made Christians to Holy Mass." (_See page 113._) (_From "Trifles from my Diary."_) "_GENERAL WOLFE'S STATUE," CORNER PALACE STREET_ BY THE AUTHOR OF "MAPLE LEAVES." Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum, Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum Maluit esse Deum.