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In Campania but a few towns still await his conquest. The Appian Way is open. Ere summer be past he will stand at the gates of Rome. 'Rome is not easily taken, let fall the listener, also speaking as though absently. 'It is more easily surrendered, was the reply. 'What! You suspect Bessas of treachery? 'We know him indolent and neglectful of duty.
Certain gossips pretended that there was no plot at all, but that Bessas, weary of his mistress, had chosen this way of getting rid of her. Be that as it might, Muscula was dead. For most of his knowledge of private things that happened on the Palatine and little that went on in the household of Bessas escaped him Marcian depended upon his servant Sagaris.
If you wed Veranilda how do you purpose to secure your safety? Not, I imagine, by prostrating yourself before Bessas. Where will you be safe from pursuit? Basil reflected, then asked boldly: 'Has not the King Totila welcomed and honourably entertained Romans who have embraced his cause? 'Come now, exclaimed the other, his sad visage lighting up, 'that is to speak like a man!
All she could do would be to endeavour to learn whether Veranilda remained in the charge of Petronilla's confederate, or had been given up to the Greeks. From conversation she had heard, Silvia inclined to this belief, that Bessas and his subordinates were still vainly seeking. The lover kissed her hands in ardent gratitude.
Through the heats of summer, with pestilence still lurking in her palaces and her dens, no fountain plashing where the sun blazed on Forum and on street, Rome waited. In June Bessas was joined by another of the Greek commanders, Joannes, famed for his ferocity, and nicknamed the Devourer.
Whatever the meaning of such unwonted severity, its effect upon the Romans was unfavourable to the Gothic cause. Just about this time there happened to arrive two captains, sent by Belisarius with a small troop for the reinforcement of Bessas. The addition to the strength of the garrison was inconsiderable, but it served to put the city in heart once more.
I speak only of Veranilda, against whom you can feel no enmity. Will you release her to me? It will only be anticipating by a few days her release to Bessas. Veranilda in his hands, trust me, he will care little what becomes of Aurelia. 'I listen to you, replied Petronilla, 'because I am curious to learn into what extravagances your ignoble passion drives you.
Leander signified the Church, and what hope was there that he could gain his end against such an opponent? more formidable than Bessas, more powerful, perhaps, than Justinian. Were Veranilda imprisoned in some monastery, he might abandon hope of beholding her again on this side of the grave.
Among the leaders of fashion and of pleasure for fashion and pleasure did not fail to revive in Rome soon after the horrors of the siege shone a lady named Heliodora, the Greek wife of a little-respected senator, who, favoured by Bessas, rose to the position of City Prefect.
When confirmation had put the thing beyond dispute, Bessas and his supporters made a standing joke of it; if any one fell sick their word was: 'Send for the learned Totila'; and when there was talk of a siege of Rome, they declared that their greatest fear, should the city fall, was of being dieted and physicked by the victor. Romans there were, however, who heard all this in another spirit.
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