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Pollux will be the first among his fellow-artists, and it has been my privilege to discover this new star the eighth artist whose merit I have detected while he was still unknown. Your future brother-in-law too, Teuker, will turn out well. I am having a stone cut by him with a portrait of Antinous. Once more farewell; I must go to the Council.
I saw something of him through his Antinoüs period, the time of rich chesnut locks, parted not by a visible white line, but by a shadowed furrow from which they fell in massive ripples to right and left.
When, shortly before midnight, Hadrian rose from the table to go up to the watch-tower on the northern side of the palace, Antinous begged to be allowed to carry his instruments for him, and the Emperor, stroking his hair, said kindly: "You are my dear and faithful companion. Youth has a right to go astray now and then so long as it does not entirely forget the path in which it ought to tread."
"Because she was faithful to our belief, and so hoped for the mercy of the Saviour. Now she is a blessed angel." "Are you sure of that?" "As sure as I live in hope of meeting the martyr who rests here, again in Heaven!" "Mary." "Leave go of my hand!" "Will you do me a service, Mary?" "Willingly, Antinous but pray do not touch me."
"Antinous, one of the suitors, is speaking: 'We could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.
Hadrian let him speak, and answered kindly: "I sleep in the morning. If you are tired, go to bed now." But Antinous remained, gazing, like his master, at the stars. He knew very few of the brilliant bodies by their names, but some of them were very dear to him, particularly the Pleiades which his father had pointed out to him and which reminded him of his home.
Still he had not been inattentive, and what he heard must have had some effect in his mind; for long after Antinous had ended his narrative, he said in a low voice and as if speaking to the bust, which was already assuming definite form: "It is a wonderful thing!" and again a little later; "There was always something grand in that unhappy creature."
"You know, of course, her father " "A gang of thieves!" snarled Hadrian. "Do you know what has become of the girl?" "Yes my lord," said Antinous trembling with alarm. "I will have her taken by the lictors," asserted the infuriated sovereign. "No," said the lad positively. "No, you positively must not do that." "No ? we shall see!"
Now he hoped to find himself somewhat nearer to the fulfilment of his wishes. It is true Antinous was still a dreamer; but in their wanderings and hunting excursions through Egypt he had proved himself gallant and prompt, intelligent, and, after their departure from Thebes, even bold and lively at times.
His person was tall and slightly built; his hair light; and his eyes blue, and as beautiful as those of a girl. In the tones of his voice, there was something indescribably gentle and winning; and he spoke the German language, with the soft, musical accent of his native province of Curland. In his manners, if he had not `Antinous' easy sway, he had at least an easy sway of his own.
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