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But any g-g-girl has a right to aspire to be a Vestal, if she is made perfect and is under ten and has her f-f-father and m-m-mother noble and alive. You've got all that and you are offered what any g-g-girl would envy you and you throw it away! I've no patience with you." "You forget," Brinnaria argued, "that I'm in love with Almo and I'd have to give up Almo."
Also he says that, if anybody's finger touches the web of the sieve as it is being handed to you, you are to decline to accept it and to demand another." "I understand that already," said Brinnaria.
This privilege, like many others, marked the Vestals as being apart from and exalted above the rest of woman-kind. As soon as Brinnaria learned that she possessed this right she proceeded to exercise it. Though she felt lonesome when driving alone and enjoyed her outing far more when she had a companion, yet she drove alone day after day, merely because it was her prerogative.
At first Brinnaria had been notably more prone than Meffia to assume gawky or ungainly postures, and, as she was the bigger of the two, she was the more conspicuous. Before long she began to improve in her bearing, but Meffia did not. Brinnaria held herself erect, head up and shoulders back.
"Since you know so much you must know also that for many years each Emperor has designated some priest as Pontifex of Vesta to be his deputy and to stand in the closest relation of parental oversight towards the members of your consecrated order; I am that deputy." "I have no desire to confide in a deputy," Brinnaria told him, "or to consider the deputy as my real spiritual father.
"Well," said Brinnaria, the practical, "she ought to have been glad to go, and she stone blind for twenty years."
"You never pour twice in the same place," he commented. Rigid as a statue, the sieve in her hand as unmoving as if clamped in a vise, Brinnaria spoke: "If I take my eyes off the sieve," she rebuked him, "it will tilt in my hand and the water will run through. If you make me look round you'll destroy me. You are not fair." "I'm dumb," said Commodus again, apologetically.
"I promise you," said Brinnaria, "that the Palladium will never be stolen, lost, or come to any harm if I can prevent it, and I believe I can. I pledge you my word." "I feel better," said Commodus. "And I want to say," Brinnaria added, "that I have always felt a special interest in the Palladium.
Brinnaria was first taken out driving by Causidiena and Numisia, then by the others in succession. Driving with Meffia was no pleasure to her, but it was the etiquette of the order that each Vestal in turn should offer the courtesy of her carriage to a new member of the sisterhood.
Causidiena queried. "I'm going to bed," Brinnaria replied. "Please send Utta to me and tell her to bring the turpentine jug and the salt box." "My dear," Causidiena objected, "you'll never endure the pain!" "Yes, I shall," Brinnaria maintained. "I'll set my teeth and stand the smart. I don't mean to have a festered back.
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