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"He carried not only thee, but me, in his arms." "I intended to free him," answered Vinicius; "but do not mention him. Let us speak of Lygia. Rome is a sea-" "A sea is just the place where men fish for pearls. Of course we shall not find her to-day, or to-morrow, but we shall find her surely.
Vinicius read the tablet, and was silent; Acte seemed to read the thoughts on his gloomy face, for she said after a while, "No, Marcus. That has happened which Lygia herself wished." "It was known to thee that she wished to flee!" burst out Vinicius. "I knew that she would not become thy concubine." And she looked at him with her misty eyes almost sternly.
After a time he conceived a liking for Ursus, with whom he conversed entire days; for with him he could talk about Lygia. The giant, on his part, was inexhaustible in narrative, and while performing the most simple services for the sick man, he began to show him also some attachment.
In Rome it was the custom to recline at banquets, but at home Lygia occupied a place between Pomponia and little Aulus. Now Vinicius was reclining near her, youthful, immense, in love, burning; and she, feeling the heat that issued from him, felt both delight and shame. A kind of sweet weakness, a kind of faintness and forgetfulness seized her; it was as if drowsiness tortured her.
If they will not yield her to him, if they have no fear of his threats, he will go to Cæsar, accuse the old general of disobedience, and obtain a sentence of death against him; but before that, he will gain from them a confession of where Lygia is. If they give her, even willingly, he will be revenged. They received him, it is true, in their house and nursed him, but that is nothing!
He knew that Lygia and Linus had returned after the fire to the former house, which, like the greater part of the Trans-Tiber, had been saved; and that was an unfavorable circumstance, for otherwise it would have been difficult to find them among throngs of people.
It is true that he moderated himself quickly; but if Lygia had any illusions as to this, that what he had heard in Ostrianum might have acted on his unyielding nature, those illusions must vanish.
Lygia, casting herself on her knees, embraced Peter's feet, as if from despair, and, sheltering her tortured head in the fold of his mantle, remained thus in silence. "Peace to your souls!" said Peter. And seeing the child at his feet he asked what had happened.
I could not endure the society of the Augustians; and besides, the one solace in my sadness and disquiet is the thought that I am near Lygia, that through Glaucus the physician, who promised to visit me, or through Paul of Tarsus, I can learn something of her at times. No; I would not leave Rome, even were ye to offer me the government of Egypt.
Though his feeling for Lygia assumed at times the seeming of hatred, he felt a relief when he heard that the religion which she and Pomponia confessed was neither criminal nor repulsive.
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