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Gower's father had walked up from Whitechapel, bearing news of it to the earl, she said. 'And the earl is much disturbed? was Livia's inquiry. 'He has driven down with my father, Gower said carelessly, ambiguously in the sound. Troubled enough to desire the show of a corresponding trouble, Henrietta read at their faces. 'May it not be down there a real danger?
Kissing her hand to Henrietta from the steps of the hotel, the girl's face improved. Livia's little squire, Sir Meeson Corby, ejaculated as they were driving down the main street, 'Fleetwood's tramp! There he goes. Now see, Miss Fakenham, the kind of object Lord Fleetwood picks up and calls friend! calls that object friend! . . But, what? He has been to a tailor and a barber! 'Stop the coachman.
I sent word back, "Nay, I will wait upon you;" however, both of us setting out to pay this visit, we met under Livia's portico. He acquainted me with the commission he had received from Regulus, and interceded for him as became so worthy a man in behalf of one so totally dissimilar, without greatly pressing the thing.
These are all entire and solid pillars, and made of such kinds of marble as are nowhere to be found but among antiquities, whether it be that the veins of it are undiscovered, or that they were quite exhausted upon the ancient buildings. Among these old pillars, I can not forbear reckoning a great part of an alabaster column, which was found in the ruins of Livia's portico.
"How old are you, dear?" she added, aloud. "Me? I guess you mean Aunt 'Livia, don't you? It's Aunt 'Livia's birthday I'm making it for, it's going to be a present. Once she gave me a present on my birthday." Once! the minister's wife remembered Rhoda's birthdays and the boys'. Taken altogether, such a host of little birthdays! But this little old, old visitor seemed to have had but one.
Gower's father had walked up from Whitechapel, bearing news of it to the earl, she said. 'And the earl is much disturbed? was Livia's inquiry. 'He has driven down with my father, Gower said carelessly, ambiguously in the sound. Troubled enough to desire the show of a corresponding trouble, Henrietta read at their faces. 'May it not be down there a real danger?
Henceforth the pain of her nip is mingled with the dream of her kiss; between the positive and the imagined of her we remain confused until the purse is an empty body on a gallows, honour too, perhaps. Captain Abrane was one of the Countess Livia's numerous courtiers on the border of the promenade under the lighted saloons.
The circumstance was just endurable, but Gower would play the secretary, and doggedly subjected him to hear a statement of the woeful plight of Countess Livia's affairs. Gower, commissioned to examine them, remarked: 'If we have all the figures! 'If we could stop the bleeding! Fleetwood replied. 'Come to the Opera to-night; I promised. I promised Abrane for to-morrow. There's no end to it.
"For this," they said, "he had been banished to the extremities of the Empire, for this the province of Syria was committed to Piso, and these the fruits of Livia's mysterious conferences with Plancina: truly had our fathers spoken concerning his father Drusus; that the possessors of rule beheld with an evil eye the popular spirit of their sons; nor for aught else were they sacrificed, but for their equal treatment of the Roman People, and studying to restore the popular state."
The scene evidently is at Livia's country palace at Prima Porta. The original of the status of Augustus, here shown, was found in the ruins of Livia's villa close to the flight of marble steps and its base. But at Rome Livia still remained. From that moment began the mortal duel between Livia and Julia.
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