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With the anxiety natural to such an occasion, he glanced repeatedly round the hall, and of course became aware that many were absent. 'How is it that there are so many places empty? he said to his faithful Achates. 'Don't know, said Achates, shaking his head, steadfastly refusing to look round upon the hall.
And would that he your king, that Aeneas were here, storm-driven to this same haven! But I will send messengers along the coast, and bid them trace Libya to its limits, if haply he strays shipwrecked in forest or town. Stirred by these words brave Achates and lord Aeneas both ere now burned to break through the cloud.
Achates, hasting on his message, bent his way towards the ships. But in the Cytherean's breast new arts, new schemes revolve; if Cupid, changed in form and feature, may come in sweet Ascanius' room, and his gifts kindle the queen to madness and set her inmost sense aflame.
Still the heroic Phegeus held on, and, turning towards his foe, endeavored to reach him with his sword, but just then, coming against the chariot wheels, he was hurled to the ground, and in a moment Turnus, with one blow, struck off his head. Meanwhile, AEneas attended by Mnestheus, the faithful Achates, and the young Iulus, lay bleeding in his camp.
Nay, their eyes would scan all the story in order, were not Achates already returned from his errand, and with him the priestess of Phoebus and Trivia, Deïphobe daughter of Glaucus, who thus accosts the king: 'Other than this are the sights the time demands: now were it well to sacrifice seven unbroken bullocks of the herd, as many fitly chosen sheep of two years old. Thus speaks she to Aeneas; nor do they delay to do her sacred bidding; and the priestess calls the Teucrians into the lofty shrine.
He was subject to fits of weariness or caprice, and it was in one of these that he had suddenly left London in the height of the season, and had started for Norway on a yachting cruise with three chosen companions, one of whom, George Lorimer, once an Oxford fellow-student, was now his "chum" the Pythias to his Damon, the fidus Achates of his closest confidence.
His companion was his fidus Achates, M. Fernand Desmoulin, the painter, who had already acted as his bodyguard at the time of the great trial in Paris. Versailles was reached in due course, and the judicial proceedings began under circumstances which have been chronicled too often to need mention here.
First lay him in his resting-place and hide him in the tomb; lead thither black cattle; be this first thine expiation; so at last shalt thou behold the Stygian groves and the realm untrodden of the living. She spoke, and her lips shut to silence. By his side goes faithful Achates, and plants his footsteps in equal perplexity.
But vain, vain! hard is the Hanoverian heart in boy, as in man, and all your glowing periods were in vain vain as, your peroration told us, 'was the blood of gallant hearts shed on Culloden's field. Poor N., you had but one timorous supporter, even me, so early your fidus Achates but one against so many. Yet were you crestfallen?
In the rocks at one side of the lake there yawned a sombre cavern, which was believed in those days to be the entrance to the kingdom of Pluto the abode of the dead. Æneas was surveying the temple, an edifice of great splendor, adorned with pictures wrought in metal by the cunning hand of Dædalus, when Achates, whom he had sent before him to the Sibyl's cave, approached, conducting the priestess.
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