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Updated: June 12, 2025
Nino shuddered involuntarily at the hideous sophistry. For Nino is a good boy, and believes very much in heaven, as well as in a couple of other places. Benoni's quick brown eyes saw the movement, and understood it, for he laughed longer yet, and louder. "Why do you laugh like that? I see nothing to laugh at. It is very bitter and bad to hear all this that you say. I would rather hear your music.
During the time of Benoni's visit the count had not yet been successful in throwing the pair together, for Hedwig's dislike for the baron made her exert her tact to the utmost in avoiding his society. It so happened that Hedwig, rising early, and breathing the sweet, cool air from the window of her chamber, had seen Nino ride by on his mule, when he arrived in the morning.
Suddenly they heard a footstep, and Miriam looked up to see before her a Roman officer, clad in a cloak that showed signs of sea-travel, and, guiding him, one of Benoni's servants. The officer, a rough but kindly looking man of middle age, bowed to her, asking in Greek if he spoke to the lady Miriam, the granddaughter of Benoni the Jew, she who had been brought up among the Essenes.
"I have just seen Benoni; I saw him also on the night you left me, madam," he looked severely at Hedwig, "and I am reluctantly forced to confess that he is not sane, according to the ordinary standard of the mind." We had all known from the paper of the suspicion that rested on Benoni's sanity, yet somehow there was a little murmur in the room when the old count so clearly stated his opinion.
Temistocle listened at the top, heard distinctly the shutting and locking of the lower door, and a moment afterwards Benoni's voice, swearing in every language at once, came echoing up. "They have escaped," said Temistocle to himself. "If I am not mistaken, I had better do the same." With that he locked the upper door, put the key in his pocket, and departed on tiptoe.
Is he wounded?" she gasped out, pressing her hand to his side. "Ha! That touches you almost as closely as Benoni's insult," he said, savagely. "I am glad of it. I repent me, and wish that I had killed him. We met on the road, and he had the impertinence to ask me for your hand, I am sick of these daily proposals of marriage; and then I inquired if he meant to insult me."
"But if it will please you to produce it, with the interest, I think," he added drily, "it may be even safer in my strongbox." Marcus laughed pleasantly. "Produce it?" he said. "What jest is this? Why, I come to borrow more to defray my costs to Rome." Benoni's mouth shut like a trap. "Nay," said Marcus, holding up his hand, "don't begin. I know it all. The times are full of trouble and danger.
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