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From outside came the voices of pretorians, who, after watching their turn out, were playing under the wall at scriptoe duodecim. "O Marcus," said Lygia, "Christ Himself called to the Father, 'Remove this bitter cup from Me'; still He drank it. Christ Himself died on the cross, and thousands are perishing for His sake. Why, then, should He spare me alone? Who am I, Marcus?
Another would have told thee that he had drunk ten cantars of the best wine with Ursus before he wormed the secret out of him; another would have told thee that he had lost a thousand sestertia to him in scriptoe duodecim, or that he had bought the intelligence for two thousand; I know that thou wouldst repay me doubly, but in spite of that, once in my life I mean, as always in my life I shall be honest, for I think, as the magnanimous Petronius says, that thy bounty exceeds all my hopes and expectations."
Beyond the wall the pretorians playing scriptoe duodecim raised a louder dispute; but Vinicius and Lygia forgot the prison, the guards, the world, and, feeling within them the souls of angels, they began to pray. FOR three days, or rather three nights, nothing disturbed their peace.
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