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Here they stopped only long enough to change their traveling dresses and dine. And then, leaving the three negroes in charge of the professor, they set out in a cab for Cameron Court. It was eight o'clock in the evening when they arrived and sent in their cards. The countess and Claudia were at tea in the little drawing room when the cards were brought in.
Claudia broke out with loud ejaculations to the effect that Drusus, she always knew, was a generous, affectionate fellow, and she loved him dearly. Cornelia, however, looked disturbed, and presently exclaimed: "It isn't right, Quintus, that I should come into your house with not a sesterce in my own name, as if you had married some low farmer's daughter." "Phy! pish!" replied Drusus.
She sent old Katie in, and then threw off her hat and mantle and sat down on the step of the door to watch for the doctor's approach, and also to be at hand to hear any tidings that might come from the room of the wounded boy. More than an hour Claudia remained on the watch without seeing anyone.
Instinct had already warned her that she was insulted and degraded by the presence of this strange woman in the house. Reason now confirmed instinct. And Claudia was entirely too self-willed and high-spirited to submit to either insult or degradation.
"My dearest Claudia, conventionalities must be observed though the heavens fall. You owe this to yourself, to society, and even to the dead for in his death he has atoned for much to you." "I will wear them then," said Claudia. And there the matter ended. Meanwhile, the news of Lord Vincent's death had got about among the servants. Katie and Sally also had heard of it.
See! and if he has not gone, tell him to go directly!" "Claudia!" "Oh, papa, I am nearly crazy! Go!" The judge stepped out into the hall and made the necessary inquiries. And Jim gave Ishmael's message. With this the judge returned to Claudia. "He is gone. And now, my dear, I wish to know why it is that you are here alone? I never in my life heard of such a thing. Where is Vincent?"
She had nursed Miss Claudia, and she was bound to nurse Miss Claudia's children, she said. Lady Vincent had decided to take her, and was rather glad to do it.
As the gentes were subdivisions of the three ancient tribes, the populus alone had gentes, so that to be a patrician and to have a gens were synonymous. With the growth of Rome new gentes or families were added which did not claim descent from the ancient tribes. The powerful gens of the Claudia came to Rome with Atta Claudius, their head, after the expulsion of the kings.
So she let him gaze into her soul, and told him how much she loved Antinous so long as he was absent. Then she laughed and confessed that she was perfectly indifferent to him as soon as they were together. When, after the Bithynian's death, she lost all self-control he simply let her alone, and begged Claudia to do the same.
To have helped him in sickness would have seemed a pleasant duty even to Claudia, who had contrived to overlook her mother's frail health. And others were serving him that weak mother; Pinsett, too; and perhaps a hired nurse. It was unbearable.
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