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Can you indeed tame your Christian with kindness?" Emilius Flaccus wiped the sweat from his brow. "He is yours, great Caesar. Do with him as you will." "Let him be at the gladiators' entrance of the circus an hour before the games begin," said the Emperor. "Now, Emilius, the night has been a merry one. My Ligurian galley waits by the river quay.
"Dearest Lady Eustace," he said suddenly, "may I be allowed to renew the petition which I was once bold enough to make to you in London?" "Petition!" exclaimed Lizzie. "Ah yes; I can well understand that your indifference should enable you to forget it. Lady Eustace, I did venture to tell you that I loved you." "Mr. Emilius, so many men have told me that." "I can well believe it.
Varro wished to march against the enemy without delay, while Emilius was adverse to risking an engagement in a country which, being level and open, was favourable to the action of Hannibal's superior cavalry. On the following day Varro, whose turn it was to command, marched towards the hostile camp.
"Emilius for thirty-three years" her voice broke as she quivered under her loaded anguish "for thirty-three years you've shouted me down. You haven't let me call my soul my own. Yet it is my own " "There, please please," Mamma said, "don't let us have any more of it," just as Aunt Lavvy was beginning to get a word in edgeways. "Mamma, that isn't fair, you must let her speak." "Yes.
"I am not in a humour for it now," said Emilius: "besides the time and place do not seem to me exactly suited to such an employment." "And why not?" answered Roderick. "Time and place are made for us, not we for time and place. Is not good poetry just as good at one hour as at another? Is not it right to read it? and can that which is right ever become wrong? Or would you rather dance?
And since he was very gracious, and made himself very useful in certain ceremonies that were performed in the city during the festivals of the Carnival, he was constantly employed by the Magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici in many similar works, and in particular for the masquerade that represented the Triumph of Paulus Emilius, which was held in honour of the victory that he gained over certain foreign nations.
In our own country Emilius was translated as soon as it appeared, and must have been widely read, for a second version of the translation was called for in a very short time. So far as a cursory survey gives one a right to speak, its influence here in the field of education is not very perceptible. That subject did not yet, nor for some time to come, excite much active thought in England.
Preceded and followed by thousands, with colours flying, trumpets sounding, and endless huzzas, flags and handkerchiefs waving from every window, and every balcony filled with dames and maidens bedecked with his colours, Coningsby was borne through enthusiastic Darlford like Paulus Emilius returning from Macedon.
He afterwards wrote to me at Motiers, and whether he wished to flatter me, or that his head was turned with Emilius, he informed me he was about to quit the service to live independently, and had begun to learn the trade of a carpenter.
Oh, what I have suffered about that unhappy marriage, and the cruel, cruel way in which Mrs. Carbuncle urged it on. Mr. Emilius, you can't conceive the scenes which have been acted in this house during the last month. It has been dreadful. I wouldn't go through such a time again for anything that could be offered to me.
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