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At these words the band scattered right and left, the Decurio with the fainting girl, whom he lifted into the carriage and confided to some faithful retainers cf the family, pointing out the road across the hills.
I have been practising a good deal of late," he added modestly; "for, though perhaps you know it not, I have been elected decurio; and, as first chosen, leader of a troop, and am to take the field with the next reinforcements that go out to Pontus to our great Pompey." "The next reinforcements," replied Catiline with a meditative air: "ha! that may be some time distant."
"We have brought two enemies' heads," said the latter, with a dark look at the Decurio; "pay us their worth!" and taking two heads from his pouch he laid them on Numa's mat. The Wallachians watched their leader's countenance with sharp, suspicious glances. Numa recognized the two heads by the light of the moon.
A district inhabited by a colony of Saxons. The Decurio watched the lovers until they were out of sight; and called to them, even when they could hear him no longer: "Do not go towards Hungary." He then entered his house. The prayer-book lay open as the young girl had left it; the page was still damp with her tears.
The Decurio remained alone with the young man; and hastily lifting him, still senseless, from the ground, he mounted his horse, and placing him before him ere the savage horde had returned, he had galloped some distance along the road from whence the youth had come, covering him with his mantle as he passed the bridge, to conceal him from several of the gang who stood there, and exclaiming, "Follow me to the Topanfalvo."
"I'll tell you what, Decurio," he said, springing up, "we are only two left, don't let us make food of each other; let us come to an understanding on this matter." "If you are tired of waiting, I can press the match lower." "This is no jest, Numa; you are risking your own life. How can you wish to send us both to hell for the sake of a pale girl?
The fact of your being a decurio in our town shows that you have an income of a hundred thousand sesterces, and so, that we may have the pleasure of enjoying your society not only as a decurio, but as a Roman knight, I offer you 300,000 numm., to make up the equestrian qualification.
"You are a chivalrous man, Decurio!" "I am what you are; I know your character, and the same feeling inspires us both. You love your nation, as I do mine. Your nation is great and cultivated; mine is despised and neglected, and my love is more bitterly devoted. Your love for your country makes you happy; mine deprives me of peace.
The Decurio stooped down, and taking a small quantity between his fingers, threw it into the Wallachian's pipe, which immediately exploded, causing him to stagger backwards, and the next instant he stood with a blackened visage, sans beard and moustache, amidst the jeers and laughter of his comrades. This only exasperated him the more.
"I would not advise you; for if the Decurio hears of it, he will make halves of you; but you may go around to the window if you like only let me get out of the way first, that the Decurio may not find me here."
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