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Book III: Lena Lingard: Chapters I–IV

“Optima dies . . . prima fugit”  A Latin phrase meaning “the best days are the first to flee.” The quotation is from Virgil’s Georgics, which opens with this statement: “In the lives of mortals, the best days are the first to flee.”

noblesse oblige  the inferred obligation of people of high rank or social position to behave nobly or kindly toward others.

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