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Surely you are welcome and who was the young man that rode with you? Did he know anything of your name and birth? I trust you were cautious? Marcia laughed. "Do not fear, father;" Calavius frowned slightly at the venerable title, and shook out his robe that the odours might permeate the air. "Do not fear but that I was as cunning as your Campanians. I told him I was a Roman wherefore not?
A moment later and Calavius had assisted her into a gorgeously caparisoned litter. She hardly noticed the rabble that thronged round the door as she passed out, and whom the slaves of her host seemed to keep back with difficulty. Still, she was conscious of nudgings, looks, and gestures that made her blush, though the words that accompanied them were unintelligible.
"Do you not see that I also wear mourning for this melancholy error?" "Never shall I rise or face you," cried Calavius, "until you give me your oath that I shall have your forgiveness before I die. Ah, the monster! the parricide! who would slay, at one stroke, both him who had brought him up to better deeds, and him who is indeed the father of his country. Ah, gods! the shame of it!
He rose and, gliding out to the row of pillars, looked up and down. Marcia regarded him with contempt and pity. "And yet," she said, "it is for this terror and distrust that you have betrayed Rome. Were there none of our soldiers and citizens in the town?" "Do not speak of it," whispered Calavius, growing even paler; "a most frightful misfortune!
There were those with me when this evil happened men of your Capuan Senate who knew this youth better than I, and who I am convinced suspected the truth; yet they spoke not " "Ah!" cried Calavius, "and you have their names writ down for me? We shall slay them!" Hannibal's face wore an expression strangely inscrutable as he answered:
They seemed like two who were awaiting death, and would not add to the measure of human misery, knowing, from their own, how great this was. "Let them enjoy a false freedom for a few days longer," said Calavius. "Soon we shall be gone, and then who knows? I have no heirs, and the state may not deal so kindly with them."
Then she heard new sounds echoing through the house: the rushing feet of slaves descending from their quarters, striving to gain their stations unobserved; the sharp tongue of Calavius now loosed from the bonds of terror, and rating them soundly for their unfaithfulness and cowardice; the patter of excuses and protestations.
Here was Pacuvius Calavius, who had triumphed by their aid over a senate more than half in sympathy with Rome; and now, recognizing his litter, they thronged around it, calling out familiar greetings, or even sheer vulgarities, pulling the curtains aside, kissing their hands to him, and, from time to time, compelling his bearers to pause while they slobbered drunken kisses upon his garments and person.
Give orders, lord, quickly only vow first that you forgive me." Hannibal's tones were low and deep with sorrow, and, by an imperceptible effort of what must have been prodigious strength, he raised the unwilling Calavius to his feet. "Listen, my father," he said. "Have they not told you how I knew not the young man?
"What is it," she went on again, glancing down that he might not see and read her eyes; "what is it that makes women love men? What, if not strength and courage? I am a Roman, my father; but Roman men are no longer fit mates for Roman women. Where but in the camp of Carthage shall I find one worthy of my beauty? It is there I seek my lover." Disappointment lowered on the face of Calavius.
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