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Updated: May 19, 2025
Arbaces planted his foot on the breast of his fallen foe.
So long as craft can master force, so long as religion has a cave from which oracles can dupe mankind, the wise hold an empire over earth. Even from your vices Arbaces distills his pleasures pleasures unprofaned by vulgar eyes pleasures vast, wealthy, inexhaustible, of which your enervate minds, in their unimaginative sensuality, cannot conceive or dream!
A new actor now appeared; he was clothed from head to foot in a dark robe his face was concealed he knelt at the feet of the shadowy Ione he clasped her hand he pointed to the throne, as if to invite her to ascend it. The Neapolitan's heart beat violently. 'Shall the shadow disclose itself? whispered a voice beside her the voice of Arbaces. 'Ah, yes! answered Ione, softly.
'On the contrary, it does but conduct to the upper rooms, answered Arbaces, carelessly: 'it is to the right that we steer to our bourn.
'Yet, said Arbaces, with a smile, perceiving his shudder, 'it is these rude abodes that furnish the luxuries of the halls above. They are like the laborers of the world we despise their ruggedness, yet they feed the very pride that disdains them. 'And whither goes yon dim gallery to the left asked Calenus; 'in this depth of gloom it seems without limit, as if winding into Hades.
Tremble! even now I prepare the hour in which thou and thy false gods shall be unveiled. Thy lewd and Circean life shall be dragged to day thy mumming oracles disclosed the fane of the idol Isis shall be a byword and a scorn the name of Arbaces a mark for the hisses of execration! Tremble! The flush on the Egyptian's brow was succeeded by a livid paleness.
'The flamen be obeyed, said the centurion. 'How is the murderer? 'Insensible or asleep. 'Were his crimes less, I could pity him. On! Arbaces, as he turned, met the eye of that priest of Isis it was Calenus; and something there was in that glance, so significant and sinister, that the Egyptian muttered to himself: 'Could he have witnessed the deed?
So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed. But not for Arbaces were such dreams. 'Rise! said he, touching the figure with his foot; 'thou obstructest the way!
The blind girl, when vainly endeavouring to escape from the toils of the Egyptian, overheard, in his garden, the conversation of Arbaces and Calenus; and she heard the cries of Calenus from behind the door of the chamber in which he was imprisoned.
I feel the god rush to my lips! To the lion to the lion with Arbaces! His exhausted frame could support no longer the ferocious malice of the priest; he sank on the ground in strong convulsions the foam gathered to his mouth he was as a man, indeed, whom a supernatural power had entered! The people saw and shuddered. 'It is a god that inspires the holy man! To the lion with the Egyptian!
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