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In Apaecides the whole aspect betokened the fervor and passion of his temperament, and the intellectual portion of his nature seemed, by the wild fire of the eyes, the great breadth of the temples when compared with the height of the brow, the trembling restlessness of the lips, to be swayed and tyrannized over by the imaginative and ideal.
'Tush, slave, hold thy peace! or, if thou wilt speak, what hast thou heard of the state of Glaucus? 'Why, my master has gone to the Athenian's trial; Glaucus will smart for it! 'For what? 'The murder of the priest Apaecides. 'Ha! said Nydia, pressing her hands to her forehead; 'something of this I have indeed heard, but understand not. Yet, who will dare to touch a hair of his head?
As Olinthus stalked through the crowd, and gained one of the more private places of egress from the forum, he perceived gazing upon him a pale and earnest countenance, which he was not slow to recognize. Wrapped in a pallium that partially concealed his sacred robes, the young Apaecides surveyed the disciple of that new and mysterious creed, to which at one time he had been half a convert.
I will not think it yet, sophist! dark bewilderer that he is! O gods protect hush! are there gods? Yes, there is one goddess, at least, whose voice I can command; and that is Vengeance! Muttering these disconnected thoughts, Apaecides, followed by his silent and sightless companion, hastened through the most solitary paths to the house of the Egyptian.
'Wait an instant, said Apaecides, retiring into one of the cells that flank the temple, and reappearing in a few moments wrapped in a large cloak, which was then much worn by all classes, and which concealed his sacred dress. 'Now, he said, grinding his teeth, 'if Arbaces hath dared to but he dare not! he dare not! Why should I suspect him? Is he so base a villain?
The priest started; and his first instinct seemed to be that of flight. 'My son, said the Egyptian, 'what has chanced that you desire to shun me? Apaecides remained silent and sullen, looking down on the earth, as his lips quivered, and his breast heaved with emotion. 'Speak to me, my friend, continued the Egyptian. 'Speak. Something burdens thy spirit. What hast thou to reveal?
Apaecides approached him as by an instinct: he fell on his knees before him the old man laid his hand on the priest's head, and blessed him, but not aloud. As his lips moved, his eyes were upturned, and tears those tears that good men only shed in the hope of happiness to another flowed fast down his cheeks.
And with all the earnestness of a man believing ardently himself, and zealous to convert, the Nazarene poured forth to Apaecides the assurances of Scriptural promise. He spoke first of the sufferings and miracles of Christ he wept as he spoke: he turned next to the glories of the Saviour's Ascension to the clear predictions of Revelation.
Passing now once again into the cooler air, and so into the street, our gallants of that day concluded the ceremony of a Pompeian bath. THE evening darkened over the restless city as Apaecides took his way to the house of the Egyptian.
Nevertheless, as Glaucus came up to the dead body of Apaecides, from which the dark red stream flowed slowly over the grass, so strange and ghastly a spectacle could not fail to arrest him, benighted and erring as was his glimmering sense. He paused, placed his hand to his brow, as if to collect himself, and then saying: 'What ho! Endymion, sleepest thou so soundly? What has the moon said to thee?
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