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"Then why did he not suffer it to content him?" cried Cleopatra wrathfully. "Fulvia's school," replied the Roman, "was probably the last where he would learn the moderation which as you know is so alien to his nature. His opinion of the quiet valleys and middle course you have just heard." "But I, what have I been to him?" urged the Queen.
Their power was soon made absolute by the massacre of those unfriendly to them in Italy, and by the victory at Philippi over the republicans under Brutus and Cassius. The Perusian war, excited by Fulvia, wife of Antony, seemed likely to lead to a contest between Augustus and his rival; but was ended by Fulvia's death, and the subsequent marriage of Antony with Octavia, sister of Augustus.
The tone of her letters was too uniformly cheerful not to suggest a lack of emotional variety; and he knew that Fulvia's nature, however much she fancied it under the rule of reason, was in reality fed by profound currents of feeling. Something of her old ardour reappeared when she wrote of the possibility of publishing her father's book.
The current was as swift as it was smooth, and he felt himself hurried forward to an end he could no longer escape. He took the pen which Trescorre handed him, and signed the constitution. The meeting over, he summoned Gamba. He felt the need of such encouragement as the hunchback alone could give. Fulvia's enthusiasms were too unreal, too abstract.
Odo proceeded to question him about the mule-tracks over Monte Baldo, and having bidden him saddle the horses in half an hour, crossed the courtyard and re-entered the inn. A grey light was already falling through the windows, and he mounted the stairs and knocked on the door which he thought must be Fulvia's. Her voice bade him enter and he found her seated fully dressed beside the window.
Fulvia's character. Fulvia's influence over Antony. The sudden return. Change in Antony's character. His generosity. Funeral ceremonies of Brutus. Antony's movements. Antony's summons to Cleopatra. The messenger Dellius. Cleopatra resolves to go to Antony. Her preparations. Cleopatra enters the Cydnus. Her splendid barge. A scene of enchantment. Antony's invitation refused.
"Then why did he not suffer it to content him?" cried Cleopatra wrathfully. "Fulvia's school," replied the Roman, "was probably the last where he would learn the moderation which as you know is so alien to his nature. His opinion of the quiet valleys and middle course you have just heard." "But I, what have I been to him?" urged the Queen.
With this Odo was forced to be content; and he passed the intervening time in devising the means of Fulvia's rescue. He was resolved to let no rashness or negligence hinder the attempt, and to prove, by the discretion of his course, that he was no longer the light fool who had once hazarded her safety.
Her old convictions repossessed her and she soared above human fears. So engrossed was he that he had been unaware of a growing murmur of sound which seemed to be forcing its way from without through the walls of the ancient building. As Fulvia's oration neared its end the murmur rose to a roar.
In Fulvia's case physical weariness perhaps had a share in the change; but whatever the cause, its effect was to make this stage of the journey strangely tedious to both. Their way lay through the country north of Vicenza, whence they hoped by dawn to gain Peschiera on the lake of Garda, and hire a chaise which should take them across the border.
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