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"I saw the fellow," answered Melanthius, "a little while ago. Eumæus brought him hither, but who he is I know not." "Ah! thou rogue," said Antinous to the swineherd, "we know thy ways! Why didst thou bring this caitiff to the town? Are there not beggars enough here already to mar our pleasure when we sit down to meat?
Palpitating and a little uncertain, he entered the studio where, scarcely a year ago, Reginald Clarke had bidden him welcome. Nothing had changed there since then; only in Ernest's mind the room had assumed an aspect of evil. The Antinous was there and the Faun and the Christ-head. But their juxtaposition to-day partook of the nature of the blasphemous.
His face wore the expression of cruel displeasure one finds on the marble busts of Roman emperors. Dechartre was on the staircase. The Prince went toward him with a languid smile. He was no longer Nero, but Antinous. "I invited Monsieur Dechartre to come to the Albertinelli palace," said Miss Bell. "I knew it would please you. He wished to see your gallery."
"I have already told you," cried Pollux, "that it is not I, but the illustrious Roman you know as well as I do, who he is who is answerable for the silver quiver and the torn chiton." And he began to tell him how Antinous had commanded him, in the name of his master, to find masks and disguises for them both.
"I beg you not to add insult to the injury, we have suffered by your fault. A father whose daughter has been knocked down and hurt " "Then, Argus actually bit her?" cried Antinous, horrified. "No," Keraunus replied. "But as she fell her head and foot have been injured, and she is suffering much pain."
Antinous felt much disgusted by the hideous appearance, the coarse manners, and shrill voices of these persons, and when he rose as the cynics' diatribe seemed especially directed against him they scoffed at him as he went, mocking at his costume and his oiled and perfumed hair. The Bithynian made no reply to this abuse. It was odious to him, but he thought it might perhaps have amused Caesar.
"That it certainly cannot be," replied Antinous, clasping his forehead in his hand. "Only listen! Hadrian has known for several days past that some great misfortune threatens him. I heard it from his own lips. If you know him at all you must know that he gazes at the stars not merely to rejoice in future happiness, but also to fortify himself against the disasters which threaten him or the state.
The emperor's escort must have been an extraordinary sight as it steered up the stream on a fleet of dahabiehs. The emperor was accompanied by students of the museum, interpreters, priests, and astrologers. Amongst his followers were Verus and the beautiful Antinous. The Empress Sabina also accompanied him; she had the poetess Julia Balbilla amongst her court ladies.
The chancellor has sent her out a list of statues, which are to be so exactly imitated in plaster as to leave the difference of materials only. The statues are, the Apollo Belvidere, Venus de Medicis, Laocoon and his children, Antinous, and some others. The patriotic citizens of New-York are now subscribing to the importation of a set here for the good of the public.
In all her prayers she included the name of the handsome heathen and a soft tenderness in which a gentle pity was often infused, a grief for his unredeemed soul, was inseparable from all her thoughts of him. Hannah was informed by her of each of the young man's visits, and as often as Mary mentioned Antinous the deaconess seemed anxious and desired her to threaten to call the gate-keeper to him.
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