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She kept still and silent, but she felt her inward tornado of emotion gaining strength. When Numisia spoke Bambilio let go Brinnaria's arm and stepped back a pace. "My daughter," he said, "you have been punished enough. Your punishment is accomplished. This is sufficient." Then Brinnaria spoke, in a voice tense, not with pain, but with fury: "You won't hit me again?"
"I suggest," said Lutorius, "the day after to-morrow, the eighteenth day before the Kalends of September, the twenty-third anniversary of Brinnaria's entrance into the order of Vestals, and, I regret to say, the second anniversary of her night expedition to Aricia." "That suits me," said Commodus. "And the hour?" Numisia queried. "Noon," said the Emperor.
"There," sighed Manlia, "I prayed hard." "So did I," Brinnaria murmured, "but I prayed the other way. He ought to have been killed already. Numisia has recognized him and he has been recognized by three or four nobles along the coping. The rumor is spreading from each of them and running through the audience."
You'll get the feeling for it in a half a dozen shows and be as keen on it as the rest of us. "But the Emperor is different. Perhaps it's because he is such a booky man and spends so much time in reading and study. But I think not. There never was anybody more of a bookworm than Numisia and she is as wild over the shows as any street-boy in Rome.
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