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After all, what do you know of what I may possess?" "We have nothing, so I cannot know of it," cried the girl beside herself. "Indeed!" drawled Keraunus with an embarrassed smile. "And is that nothing which lies in the cup board there, and stands on the cornice shelf? For your sakes I will part with these the onyx fibula, the rings, the golden chaplet, and the girdle of course."
Gabinius now rose, glanced at the various objects lying on the table and said in a much shorter and more business-like tone than before: "For all these things I can give you wait a minute twenty-seventy-four hundred four hundred and fifty I can give you six hundred and fifty drachmae, not a sesterce more!" "You are joking," cried Keraunus. "Not a sesterce more," answered the other coldly.
Have you been beaten?" The negro shook his head and answered, whimpering: "Keraunus is going to sell me." "There are better masters than he." "But Sebek is old, Sebek is weak he can no longer lift and pull, and with hard work he will certainly die." "Has life been so easy and comfortable then at the steward's?" "Very little wine, very little meat, very much hunger," said the old man.
"I do not allude to any mortal being, and the reward we work for is not gold and possessions, but the happy consciousness of having mitigated the sufferings of a fellow-creature." Keraunus shrugged his shoulders, and after desiring Selene to ask the physician when she might be taken home, he went away.
A draught of air rushed through this hall, and in stormy weather switched the water all over the floor, now robbed of its mosaics, and covered, wherever the foot could tread, with a thin, dark green, damp and slippery coating of mossy plants and slime. It was here that Keraunus leaned breathless against the wall, and, wiping his brow, panted rather than said: "At last, this is the end!"
"Well, a very small portion of the old building is, strictly speaking, fit to use." "Of that, I regret to say, I have fully convinced myself," said the prefect emphatically, and turning to the steward, he went on in a tone less of stern reproof than of regret. "It seems to me, Keraunus, that it would have been your duty to inform me earlier of the ruinous condition of the building."
But Mastor paid no heed to these words spoken in a high pitch; he took the tailor's hand and led him out, whispering to him: "Come with me if you wish to escape an evil hour." The two men went off and Keraunus did not detain the artisan, for it occurred to his mind that his presence did him small credit.
He was the last survivor of all Alexander’s generals, and held all his empire except Egypt; but while taking possession of Macedonia he was murdered by a vile Egyptian Greek, whom he had befriended, named Ptolemy Keraunus. This man, in the confusion that followed, managed to make himself king of Macedon.
"With Christians! my child is with Christians!" shrieked Keraunus, beside himself. "At once Arsinoe, at once come with me; Selene shall not stay a moment longer among that accursed rabble. Eternal gods! besides all our other troubles this disgrace too!" "Nay, it is not so bad as that," said Doris soothingly. "There are very estimable folks even among the Christians.
There was no light in Arsinoe's room but that which could creep in through a narrow opening just below the ceiling; the slanting rays fell directly on the bed up to which Keraunus went. There lay his daughter n sound sleep; her pretty head rested on her uplifted right arm, her unbound brown hair flowed like a stream over her soft round shoulders and over the edge of the little bed.
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