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Updated: June 29, 2025
Why you did, I'm sure I don't know; but for my part I take a respectful leave, noble lady, until I hear that this mouse of the Palatine has ceased to amuse you with its pretty pranks. May I never be saved if she is fit company for women who respect themselves. 'Why such hurry, O chaste Galla! exclaimed Muscula. 'Is your husband at home for once?
Whilst yet at some distance, Basil had heard a feminine voice rising to shrillness, and as he approached the group he found a discussion going on which threatened to become more than vivacious. The shrill speaker he had met here before, who she was, he knew not, save that she bore the name of Muscula. 'You you you! this lady was exclaiming contemptuously. 'You say this, and you say that!
Standing behind her the little Anglian slave Laetus gently fanned her with a peacock's tail, or sprinkled her with perfume from a vial; the air was heavy with Sabaean odours. 'Ah, here is lord Basil! pursued Muscula with a mischievous glance at Vivian. 'He has lived at Constantinople lately not thirty or forty years ago.
Only an accident prevented me from being alone at your hour. Forgive me. We will go apart from these base-tongued creatures. But almost in the same moment sounded another voice, that of Muscula, who had sprung after them. 'Sweet lord Basil, she murmured at his ear, 'a moment's patience, for I have that to say which is worth your hearing. Heliodora stepped aside.
More than a year had gone by since her vain attempt, on Marcian's suggestion, to enslave the avaricious Thracian, and, since then, the hapless Muscula had had more than one successor. Roman gossip, always busy with the fair Greek, told many a strange story to account for her rigour towards the master of Rome, who was well known to have made advances to her.
Not to-night, it said, should he know who she was; she could speak a name which would make his heart beat; but he should not hear it until he had abandoned the unworthy woman whose arts had won him. 'What woman? asked Sagaris in astonishment. And the answer was whispered, 'Muscula. Now Muscula's name and position were well known to the Syrian.
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