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All the influence, Piso, which you can exert over Fausta will reach Zenobia. 'It seems presumptuous, princess, said I, 'to seek to draw the minds of two such beings as Zenobia and Fausta to our bent. Yet surely they are in the wrong. 'It is something, quickly added the princess, 'that Longinus is of our mind; but then again Zabdas and Gracchus are a host on the other part.
In this instance I was persuaded by Fausta and Gracchus to attend, as I should see both the Queen and her subjects under favorable circumstances to obtain new knowledge of their characters; and I am not sorry to have been there. The show could boast all the magnificence of Rome. Nothing could exceed the excitement and tumult of the city.
'See the power of woman, said Gracchus; 'were Antiochus here, he would look upon this as but another proof that the gods are abandoning Palmyra to the sway of women. 'It is, said Fausta, 'simply the power of gentleness. My Saracen operates through fear, and I through love. My hand laid softly upon his neck gains more a thousand fold than the lash laid hardly upon his back.
He was your true philosopher who thought life, made for living. These Palmyrenes seem of his school. 'Leave philosophy, good Milo, and come help me dress; that is the matter now in hand. Unclasp these trunks and find something that shall not deform me. So desirous was I, you perceive, to appear well in the eyes of the fair Fausta.
O, gentle doctrine of Christ! doctrine of love and of peace, when shall it be that I and all mankind shall know thy truth, and the world smile with a new happiness under thy life-giving reign! Fausta, as she has wandered with us through this wilderness of woe, has uttered scarce a word.
Palmyrenes, charming as they are, are not Romans. They are enervated by riches, and the luxurious sensual indulgences which they bring along by necessity in their train all their evil power being here increased by the voluptuous softness of the climate. I do not say that all are so. All Rome cannot furnish a woman more truly Roman than Fausta, nor a man more worthy that name than Gracchus.
The head of Odenatus is truer to life, methinks, than that of the Queen. 'And how can poor stone and gold set out the divine beauty and grace of Zenobia! cried Fausta. 'This is beautiful to you now, Lucius, but it will be so no longer when you shall have seen her. Would that she were here!
Fausta surrenders herself to her grief loss of country and of parent, at one and the same moment, is loss too great for her to bear with fortitude. Her spirit, so alive to affection and every generous sentiment, is almost broken by these sorrows and disappointments. I did not witness the parting between her and Gracchus, and happy am I that I did not.
But see! the crowd and the show are vanished. Let me hear of the earliest return of Isaac, and the gods prosper you! I am at the house of Gracchus, opposite the Temple of Justice. I found, on reaching the palace, Fausta and Gracchus, overjoyed at the safe and happy return of the Queen.
'O no I am not so craving as that of my own society: sometimes I am joined by my mother, and not seldom by my sweet Fausta here, said she, at the same time affectionately drawing Fausta's arm within her own, and clasping her hand; 'we do not agree, indeed, upon all the subjects which we discuss, but we still agree in our love.
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