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'For my part, replied Fausta, 'I must think that they who have sowed and reaped, have been equal benefactors. The essential truths are instinctive and universal. As for the philosophers, they have, with few exceptions, been occupied as much about mere frivolities as any Palmyrene lady at her toilet. Still, I do not deny that the contemplative race is a useful one in its way.
But to sit as it were chained here, the witness of such disaster, is too much for mere mortal force. Could I but have mingled in that fight! Ah, how cruel the slaughter of those flying troops! Why do they not turn, and at least die with their faces toward the enemy? Let us now go and seek Calpurnius and Gracchus. 'We cannot yet, Fausta, for the streets are thronged with this flying multitude.
And even Julia, that being who seems too ethereal for earth, and as if by some strange chance she were misplaced, being here, even Julia has been trained in the same school, and, as I shall show you, can join in the chase, and draw the bow, with scarcely less of skill and vigor with no less courage than either her mother or Fausta.
A high wall at length separated us from those whom we sought. But reaching a gate, we passed through and entered upon a lawn covered as it seemed with children, slaves, and the various inmates of the palace. Here, mingled among the motley company, we at once perceived the Queen, and Longinus and Fausta, together with many of those whom we had sat with at the banquet.
There was nothing to pay at either place, and the children were taught well and taken good care of. The convent of the Doratei is in the Via dei Malcontenti, and that of the Frate Scalopi in the Piazza Santa Croce. Marc Antonio and Fausta and Flavia and Teresa used to set off at seven every morning, winter and summer, and La Mamma walked with them, carrying me in her arms.
I took it from her and placed it upon her head, saying, as I did it, 'The gods shield you from danger, dear Fausta, and when you have either triumphed or suffered defeat, return you again to this happy roof! Now for my services allow me this reward' and for the first time since she was a girl I kissed her forehead. She was now a beautiful vision to behold as ever lighted upon the earth.
The eyes of Zenobia filled at the generous enthusiasm of her faithful counsellor and, for Fausta, it was only a look and sign of the Queen that held her to her seat. Longinus then, as seemed to be his place, entered at length into the merits of the question.
'Beautiful! exclaimed both Gracchus and Fausta. 'He has indeed dealt honestly with you. Nothing can be more exact than these resemblances, and the workmanship is worthy the hand of Demetrius the Greek. 'Provincials, said I, 'ever know the capital and its fashions better than citizens.
Seek not, Fausta, as I perceive you are about to do, to turn me from my purpose. It will be it ought to be in vain. I can consent no longer to live thus in the very heart of life, while this cloud of uncertainty hangs over the fate of one so near to me. Though I should depute the service of his rescue to a thousand others, my own inactivity is insupportable, and reproaches me like a crime.
He may have chosen this retreat on account of his extreme age, which permits him no longer to engage in the affairs of an active life. 'I trust for the sake of Christianity it is so, added Fausta; 'for I cannot conceive of a true religion inculcating, or even permitting inactivity.
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