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While he still gazed upon her in silence, he heard her speaking to him in low, melancholy, imploring accents, which fell upon his ear, after the voices of terror and desperation that had risen around him throughout the night, like tones never addressed to it before. 'Numerian, my father, is sinking under the famine, she began; 'if no help is given to him, he may die even before sunrise!
'Not there! not there! she gasped faintly as Numerian endeavoured to lead her up the ascent. 'She will see us as we enter the doors! through the streets! Oh, father, if you would save me! we may lose her in the streets! the guards, the people are there! Back! back! Numerian trembled as he marked the terror in her looks and gestures; but it was vain to question or oppose her.
With the widest diversity of pursuit and difference of design, there was still a strange and mysterious analogy between the temporary positions of Ulpius and Numerian. One was prepared to be a martyr for the temple; the other to be a martyr for the Church.
He had advanced to the side of the pile, half-way towards the doorway of the temple, when Numerian, who had watched with searching eyes the abrupt change in his demeanour, forgetting the dissimulation which might still be all-important, abandoned himself to his first impulse, and hurriedly pressing forward with Antonina, attempted to pass the Pagan and escape.
Once, when the lamp that lit the room was fading out as the dawn appeared, Numerian had risen and looked close on his daughter's face he thought at that moment that her features moved; but he saw that the flickering of the dying light on them had deceived him; the same stillness was over her.
Numerian still remained prostrate, spirit-broken; he slowly clasped his hands together on the floor, and his voice was now to be heard, still supplicating in low and stifled accents, as if in unceasing prayer lay his last hope of preserving his own reason. 'God! Thou art the God of Mercy; be merciful to him! he murmured. 'Thou acceptest of repentance; grant repentance to him!
Every one felt the necessity of shunning a man whose bold and daily exposures of the abuses of the Church placed in incessant peril his liberty, and even his life. Among the bystanders who surrounded Numerian, there were nevertheless two who did not remain content with carelessly avoiding any communication with the intrepid and suspected reformer.
Diocletian was successively promoted to the government of Mæsia, the honors of the consulship, and the important command of the guards of the palace. He distinguished his abilities in the Persian war; and after the death of Numerian, the slave, by the confession and judgment of his rivals, was declared the most worthy of the Imperial throne.
'She is saved, pursued the physician, leisurely quitting the side of the couch and smiling on Vetranio; 'be careful of her for days and days to come. 'Saved! saved! echoed the child joyfully, setting the dove free in the room, and running to Numerian to climb on his knees. The father glanced down when the clear young voice sounded in his ear.
What are the fortunes of affections of man or woman, at such an hour as this? cried the Pagan, as he stood by Numerian, with features horribly animated by the emotions of fierce delight and triumph that were raging within him at the prospect he beheld. 'Dotard, look from this window! Listen to those voices!
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