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"Still we practise indulgence when we have no alternative, and the criminal requires us to make allowance for him in this thing or the other." Verus made his wife a bow and pressed his lips on her arm, then he asked. "And where is dame Julia?" "She is saving the sheep from the wolf," replied Balbilla. "Which means ?"
No sooner were the two ladies alone, than Balbilla rose and looked inquisitively round and about the sculptor's enclosed work-room; but her companion said: "A very polite young man, this Pollux, but rather too much at his ease, and too enthusiastic."
"For all in all a darling of the gods who to-day can climb the rocks with a firm step and to-morrow lies dreaming in the sunshine among flowers for all in all a nature that has no equal and which lacks nothing, nothing whatever that constitutes a true woman excepting " "I know what I lack," cried Balbilla. "A strong man on whom I can depend, whose warnings I can respect.
Verus laughed, and the Empress, who never was strongly moved to laughter, gave a short sharp giggle, but Balbilla said eagerly: "Do you think that I could not acquire it and do so? To-morrow morning I will begin to practise myself in the old Aeolian forms." "Let it alone," said Domitia Lucilla; "your simplest songs are always the prettiest."
"Most happy Verus!" "What am I to understand by those words, charming Balbilla?" "The poor architect is able to please by being a good guide, while to you belongs the whole heart of Lucilla, your sweet wife." "And she has the whole of mine so far as it is not full of Balbilla. Good-night, saucy Muse; sleep well."
"Probably of the complaisant model who ventures into Lochias at night?" "No; a lady of rank will sit to me." "An Alexandrian?" "Oh, no. A beauty in the train of the Empress." "What is her name? I know all the Roman ladies." "Balbilla." "Balbilla? There are many of that name. What is she like, the lady you mean?" asked Hadrian, with a cunning glance of amusement.
While he was still speaking he had plunged his powerful hands into the yielding clay, and kneading and pinching like a practised modeller, wiping off and pressing on, he formed a woman's face with a towering structure of curls, which resembled Balbilla, but which reproduced every conspicuous peculiarity with such whimsical exaggeration that Pollux could not contain his delight.
"Only silly nonsense." "You have never found the right one; but I I see the meaning of the oracle." "You?" "Ay, I! The stern Balbilla will at last descend from the lofty Olympus of her high-anti-mightiness and no longer disdain that immutable foundation-rock, the adoration of her faithful Verus." "That foundation that rock!" laughed the girl.
Verus helped me greatly and indeed with so much boldness and judgment that I owe very much to him. Caesar himself kept his favorite within the palace, for the poor fellow burned both his hands." "Oh!" cried Balbilla with eager regret. "How did that happen?"
"Yes, yes," cried Balbilla, much mollified, for she felt assured that the man who stood before her, as unflinching as if he were cast in bronze, and with an earnest frown, was speaking the truth, and that he must have some right to speak to her with such unwonted decision.
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