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The remonstrances of his brother Charles, who was himself in the Army of the Potomac, and whose opinion had always the greatest weight with Henry, had much to do with delaying action; but he felt, of his own accord, that if he deserted his post in London, and found the Capuan comforts he expected in Virginia where he would have only bullets to wound him, he would never forgive himself for leaving his father and mother alone to be devoured by the wild beasts of the British amphitheatre.
"Oh, my father, you a Capuan and a man learned in the ways of women! It is pitiful this littleness of your knowledge. Come, tell me now, as to a pedagogue, what is it that leads a woman to all places, through all dangers?" "Surely, my child, it is love," said Calavius, vacantly.
Then to his own men, "Raise up the two that are hurt;" and to Marcia, "And you, lady; will it please you to return to your carriage?" But the Gauls, although evidently understanding the nature of his orders, showed no disposition to obey them. On the contrary, at a few words from their chief, they pushed closer yet, and some of them even began to jostle the soldiers of the Capuan guard.
Each great noble had his training establishment of gladiators, and was as vain of their prowess as of his race-horses. The schools of Capua were the most celebrated; and nothing so recommended a candidate for the consulship to the electors as the production of a few pairs of Capuan swords-men in the circus. But the horse knows by the hand on his rein whether he has a fool for his rider.
Will he, at least, like the traveller who, exhausted by fatigue and privation, reaches finally the promised land, repose in Capuan delights? Mother Mary of the Incarnation informs us on this point: "M. l'abbé de Fénelon," says she, "having wintered with the Iroquois, has paid us a visit.
Two of the new engines destroyed before Casilinum! Casilinum, forsooth! a paltry village, against which the Capuan children would hardly deign to march! It is Rome Rome Rome that calls and this great general, this conqueror, sits down before Nuceria, Acerrae, Nola, Casilinum.
There were those with me when this evil happened men of your Capuan Senate who knew this youth better than I, and who I am convinced suspected the truth; yet they spoke not " "Ah!" cried Calavius, "and you have their names writ down for me? We shall slay them!" Hannibal's face wore an expression strangely inscrutable as he answered:
"You shall have a talent of silver and such jewels as you choose," he said, rising. "I will go and give the orders." "Orders!" sneered the other; but to Marcia it seemed that the word and look covered suspicion at the ready acquiescence of the Capuan. "Then I will go with you and see that these orders are obeyed. Come; ah! " and he turned to Marcia; "and will you be here when I return?
Spartacus, with two hundred of his companions, burst out from the Capuan "stable," seized their arms, and made their way into the crater of Vesuvius, which was then, after the long sleep of the volcano, a dense jungle of wild vines. The slaves from the adjoining plantations deserted and joined them.
He was speaking of himself; a Capuan, than whom no one was of higher rank, being dragged in chains to the camp of an ally who had sworn that no Carthaginian should have power over a citizen of Capua. At the mention of his rank, malice and envy lent to some of the cowed rabble courage to jeer once more.
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