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She is utterly spoiled by the flattery to which she has been accustomed from her earliest years, and thinks that all the world is made to bend before her." "Ah!" answered Paul, a little discomfited. "I hope it is not Mademoiselle Flavia's portrait that you have been sketching?" "Not exactly," answered the doctor, with a laugh. "But I must warn you that even she has certain whims and fancies.
At any rate, I'm not believing that he will inform against me." As quickly as it had come, the colour fled from Flavia's face, and left it cold and hard. She looked at the priest as she had never looked at a priest of her Church before. "You must take your own course then," she said.
Then a mighty clap of thunder shook the very foundations of Dea Flavia's palace. Caligula uttered a wild shriek of terror, and, calling loudly for his slaves, he fled incontinently from the room. "As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool."
That hideous noise the scrunching of a human bone was drowned in tumultuous applause as the miserable wretch with the maimed and bleeding leg, but with that almighty instinct for life at any cost, toiled mangled and bleeding up that ladder less crimson than the trail which he left in his wake. Dea Flavia's head fell forward on the cushion. But she fought against the swoon.
He is rich enough without Flavia's share, but I always thought he would kill somebody one of these days, ever since I met him at Aquila." "Without any reason, why should he have done it?" "My dear child, when one has no reason to give, it is very hard to say why a thing occurs. He looks like the man."
Lesbia and Fulvia will be green with envy." Julia made no reply, but sat examining the face of Malchus with as much composure as if he had been a statue. He had bowed on entering, as he would have done in the presence of Carthaginian ladies, and now stood composedly awaiting Flavia's orders. "Ask him, Julia, if it is true that he is a cousin of Hannibal and the captain of his guard.
Taurus Antinor had not made a sign whilst Caius Nepos thus briefly put before him the main outline of the daring project, and Hortensius Martius, who was watching him closely, could not detect the slightest change in the earnest face even when Dea Flavia's name was spoken.
Men's minds are so formed that while they blame a woman for duplicity, they complain far more if she acts openly and allows her feelings to be seen " He paused, for the door-bell rang. Flavia's heart gave a bound of intense joy.
But Flavia's behaviour was in the eyes of Romans a very serious objection to her as a wife for any of their sons, for in their view moral worth was necessarily accompanied by outward gravity and decorum, and a light manner could only be the visible sign of a giddy heart. "If only he does not find out what she is like!" exclaimed the princess at last.
How could any one think she could do such a thing!" Corona was not prepared for Flavia's manner, and it grated disagreeably on her sensibilities. But she said nothing, only returning her salutation with becoming cordiality before sitting down between the two sisters. Faustina looked on coldly, disgusted with such indifference.
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