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Clodius scarcely regretted it, for he was anxious that Glaucus should marry an heiress yet more richly endowed Julia, the daughter of the wealthy Diomed, whose gold the gamester imagined he could readily divert into his own coffers. Their conversation did not flow with its usual ease; and no sooner had Clodius left him than Glaucus bent his way to the house of Ione.
In a few minutes she must meet the Roman, and, involuntarily putting up her hand to smooth her hair, she was reminded that she still wore Glaucus' hat on her head and his cloak wrapped round her shoulders.
If thou show this to the bishop after the death of Glaucus, he will forgive thee the killing which thou hast done without wishing it." The laborer stretched out his hand involuntarily for the coin; but having the first murder too freshly in his memory just then, he experienced a feeling of terror.
Nothing less, indeed, than his desire to induce Glaucus to own the murder of Apaecides, as a policy evidently the best both for his own permanent safety and his successful suit with Ione, could ever have led him to contemplate the confession of Julia.
She felt it a reproach upon her character and her career, a punishment above all to her love; she felt, for the first time, how suddenly she had yielded to that love; she blushed with shame at a weakness, the extent of which she was startled to perceive: she imagined it was that weakness which had incurred the contempt of Glaucus; she endured the bitterest curse of noble natures humiliation!
Filled with love as with life itself, how could she resist the occasion of winning love in return! She leaned for support against the wall, and her face, before so flushed, was now white as snow, and with her delicate hands clasped convulsively together, her lips apart, her eyes on the ground, she waited the next words Glaucus should utter.
Unconscious of the sudden enemy he had left behind, and forgetting not only his taunts but his very existence, Glaucus passed through the gay streets, repeating to himself, in the wantonness of joy, the music of the soft air to which Ione had listened with such intentness; and now he entered the Street of Fortune, with its raised footpath its houses painted without, and the open doors admitting the view of the glowing frescoes within.
Remember, lord, that the greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people; what should I answer him were he to ask me why I calumniated Glaucus? Thy heart could not endure that." Vinicius went to a casket called "area," standing on a marble pedestal, and, taking out a purse, threw it to Chilo.
Both the antagonists were now locked in each other's grasp the hand of each seeking the throat of the other the face drawn back the fierce eyes flashing the muscles strained the veins swelled the lips apart the teeth set both were strong beyond the ordinary power of men, both animated by relentless wrath; they coiled, they wound, around each other; they rocked to and fro they swayed from end to end of their confined arena they uttered cries of ire and revenge they were now before the altar now at the base of the column where the struggle had commenced: they drew back for breath Arbaces leaning against the column Glaucus a few paces apart.
If ever I, though a Roman bred and born, come to be tried, pray Jupiter there may be either no beasts in the vivaria, or plenty of criminals in the gaol. 'And pray, said one of the party, 'what has become of the poor girl whom Glaucus was to have married? A widow without being a bride that is hard! 'Oh, returned Clodius, 'she is safe under the protection of her guardian, Arbaces.
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