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"This wine is very strong. It makes my head ache." "Phy!" retorted Agias. "Who complains of good liquor? I only told the host to set another lamp near us. Shall we play again?" "By Zeus!" exclaimed the delighted freedman. "Here I have cast four 'sixes' once more." And again he drained the beaker. "Vah!" sniffed Agias. "Luck will turn at last. Let us play for real stakes. More wine, mine host!
"Terrible!" shouted the messenger, drawing rein, "Cæsar is sweeping all before him! All Thermus's troops have deserted him at Iguvium. Attius Varus has evacuated Auximum, and his troops too have dispersed, or joined Cæsar. All the towns are declaring for the enemy. Vah! He will be here in a few days at most! I am the last of the relay with the news. I have hardly breathed from Eretum!"
So laughed Cornelia when all their stories were finished, likening their reunion to that of the son of Laërtes and the long-faithful Penelope. "How long were Penelope and Odysseus asunder?" quoth Drusus. "Twenty years." "Vah! We have not been sundered twenty months or one-third as many. How shall we make the time fly more rapidly?"
"Hei!" groaned Curio, with a lugubrious whisper, "to think of it, I have never a sesterce left that I can call my own, to stake on the struggle!" "At least," laughed Drusus, "I am a companion of your grief; already Lentulus and Ahenobarbus have been sharing my forfeited estate." But the proconsul looked serious and sad. "Vah, my friends!
'Vah! vah! said Lydon, impatiently; 'I am in no humor to converse with thee! 'Why, truly, returned the slave, 'you must have serious thoughts enough to occupy your mind: to-morrow is, I think, your first essay in the arena. Well, I am sure you will die bravely! 'May thy words fall on thine own head! said Lydon, superstitiously, for he by no means liked the blessing of Sosia. 'Die!
"Vah!" he cried, with a senseless burst of laughter. However, the movement of the bass was accelerated, and, in proportion as it described a wider angle, Quasimodo's eye opened also more and more widely, phosphoric and flaming. At length the grand peal began; the whole tower trembled; woodwork, leads, cut stones, all groaned at once, from the piles of the foundation to the trefoils of its summit.
For when she encased herself in cold silence, and stalked home with lifted head and unseeing eyes, often a little throng of Mexican children would walk behind her, imitating her stately gait and calling mockingly, "Ea! ea! See the madamisela! See the princess! She is sister to the king that one! Vah! vah! vah!" And mingling their voices they would sing, "Infanta!
And the 'Roman People' orators declaim about are only a mob! Vah! We need an end to this game of fauns and satyrs!" "Come," said Drusus, "we are not at such a direful strait yet. There is one man at least whom I am convinced is not altogether a knave; and I have determined to throw in my lot with him. Do you guess, Mamercus?" "Cæsar?" Drusus nodded. Mamercus broke out into a shout of approval.
He plays in the gutter, and straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the giant.
But ere the other could reply the figure in the corner had sprung up, and flung itself at the lady's feet. "Save me! save me! By all that you hold dear, save my life! I have loved you. I thought once that you loved me. Plead for me! Pray for me! Anything that I may but live!" "Vah, wretch!" cried the consular; and he spurned Ahenobarbus with his foot.
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