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Updated: May 15, 2025
Once more he raised his eyes from the earth to the firmament over his head, and it seemed to him that he saw before his very eyes the proud form of Klea, enveloped in a mantle sown over with stars.
I indeed have dreamt that such a thing might come to pass, and I always knew, and have said to myself a thousand times that I now say to you my son: This girl here, this Klea is of a good sort, and worthy only of the noblest. I give her to you, my son Publius, and now join your hands before me here for I have always been like a father to her." That you have indeed," sobbed Klea.
In a narrow alley, which led to a second court and was lighted by lanterns, one of the body-guard known as Philobasilistes, a haughty young fellow in yellow riding-boots and a shirt of mail over his red tunic, came riding towards her on his tall horse, and noticing her he tried to squeeze her between his charger and the wall, and put out his hand to raise her veil; but Klea slipped aside, and put up her hands to protect herself from the horse's head which was almost touching her.
The sweet form of her sister rose before her mind; she recalled the hour when the girl still but a child had entrusted it to her, because she lost everything unless Klea took charge of it for her.
"And is he not pleased that Philo calls him 'father, and you 'mother, and me by my name, and that he learns to distinguish many things?" asked the girl. "Oh, yes of course," said the woman. "He says you are teaching him to speak just as if he were a starling, and we are very much obliged to you." "That is not what I want," interrupted Klea.
"Well?" asked Serapion eager and almost frightened, stretching out his neck to put his head near to the girl's, and opening his eyes so wide that the loose skin below them almost disappeared. "First he told me," replied Klea, "how meagrely the revenues of the temple are supplied "
Anger and rage prompted these quite unpremeditated words, and as Klea while he spoke them with quivering lips had attempted with the exertion of all her strength, which was by no means contemptible, to wrench her hands from his grasp, he forced her angry as he still was, but nevertheless with due regard for her womanliness forced her by a gentle and yet irresistible pressure on her arms to bend before him, and compelled her slowly to sink down on both knees.
"How should she?" retorted Klea. "One of her escort threw them to me; but drop the subject pray! Give me the water, please, my mouth is parched and I can hardly speak for thirst."
His heart throbbed high, and he felt as if the breeze that his heaving breast inhaled in deep breaths was as fresh and pure as the ether that floats over Elysium, and of a strange potency withal, as if too rare to breathe. Still he fancied he saw before him the image of Klea, but as he stretched out his hand towards the beautiful vision it vanished a sound of hoofs and wheels fell upon his ear.
"An ungainly woman opened the door, and said that Irene had been gone from thence for some long time, but that her elder sister was there, so I desired she might be fetched to speak with me. And what, if you please, was the answer I received? The goddess Klea I call her so as being sister to a Hebe had to nurse a sick child, and if I wanted to see her I might go in and find her.
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