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While these long and weary days are passing away, Gracchus, Fausta, Calpurnius and myself are often at the palace of Zenobia. The Queen is gracious, as she ever is, but laboring under an anxiety and an inward sorrow, that imprint themselves deeply upon her countenance, and reveal themselves in a greater reserve of manner.
Yet, Fausta, your jewels, valued by you as gifts, and other things precious for the same or a like reason, may easily be secreted, nor yet be missed by the licensed robbers. See to this, my child; but except this there is now naught to do concerning such affairs, but to sit still and observe the general wreck. But there are other and weightier matters to be decided upon, and that at once.
Saltus then asked Wilde why Dorian Gray was cut by his friends. Wilde turned it over. "I fancy they saw him eating fish with his knife." "A Transient Guest and other Episodes" contains three short tales besides the title story: "The Grand Duke's Riches," an account of an ingenious robbery at the Brevoort, "A Maid of Athens," and "Fausta," a story of love, revenge, and death in Cuba.
By Fausta, the daughter of Maximian, he had three daughters, and three sons known by the kindred names of Constantine, Constantius, and Constans. The unambitious brothers of the great Constantine, Julius Constantius, Dalmatius, and Hannibalianus, were permitted to enjoy the most honorable rank, and the most affluent fortune, that could be consistent with a private station.
Hers toward me has never been other than the free, unrestrained affection of a sister. But you have not seen the Princess? 'I have not. 'That will complete the explanation. The Queen rejects me; but I do not despair. But to return to Fausta.
'I am not, said I, 'quite an emperor yet, but notwithstanding, I am glad to be in Palmyra more glad to be at the house of Gracchus and glad most of all to see Gracchus himself at home, and well' the noble Roman as I shall call him at that moment issuing from a door of the palace, and descending at a quick pace the steps, to assist Fausta from her horse.
But to preserve life, agreeable as I have found it, by any sacrifice 'O, that were dying twice! said Fausta; 'I know it. 'Be thankful then that I shall die but once, and so dry your tears. Of nothing am I more clear, than that if the loss of my head will bring security to the city and the people, I can offer it to the executioner with scarce a single regret. But let us leave this.
However, Maximian was accepted as the true Emperor by the Senate, and made his son Maxentius, Cæsar, while he allied himself with Constantine, to whom he gave his daughter Fausta in marriage.
You can imagine, Fausta, better than I can describe them, my sensations, when I saw our beloved friend her whom I had seen treated never otherwise than as a sovereign Queen, and with all the imposing pomp of the Persian ceremonial now on foot, and exposed to the rude gaze of the Roman populace toiling beneath the rays of a hot sun, and the weight of jewels, such as both for richness and beauty, were never before seen in Rome and of chains of gold, which, first passing around her neck and arms, were then borne up by attendant slaves.
He has not left it to chance or special Revelation. So, too, the determinations of the mind concerning virtue and vice, right and wrong, being for the most part so accordant throughout the whole race these also I hold to be instinctive. 'I can think of nothing, said Fausta, 'to urge against your argument. It adds some strength, I cannot but confess, to what belief I had before.
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