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Updated: June 3, 2025
What would not Nydia have given then for one hour's prerogative of sight, to have watched her hopes ripening to effect to have seen the first dawn of the imagined love to have worshipped with more than Persian adoration the rising of that sun which her credulous soul believed was to break upon her dreary night!
Julia stirred not, her breath regularly fanned the burning cheek of the blind girl. Nydia, then, opening the phial, poured its contents into the bottle, which easily contained them; and then refilling the former reservoir of the potion with that limpid water which Julia had assured her it so resembled, she once more placed the phial in its former place.
Nydia, as the reader will have seen, was born of gentle parents. They had done all to lighten her calamity, and her quick intellect seconded their exertions. Despite her blindness, she had therefore acquired in childhood, though imperfectly, the art to write with the sharp stilus upon waxen tablets, in which her exquisite sense of touch came to her aid.
I advise thee, Sosia, to delay no longer: seize her ere she quit the garden now! 'Ah! runaway! I have thee eh? said Sosia, seizing upon the unhappy Nydia. As a hare's last human cry in the fangs of the dogs as the sharp voice of terror uttered by a sleep-walker suddenly awakened broke the shriek of the blind girl, when she felt the abrupt gripe of her gaoler.
As, after her confession, the poor Nydia threw herself on her knees before him, and besought him to restore the health and save the life of Glaucus for in her youth and ignorance she imagined the dark magician all-powerful to effect both Arbaces, with unheeding ears, was noting only the new expediency of detaining Nydia a prisoner until the trial and fate of Glaucus were decided.
'Nay, Nydia, answered Glaucus, kindly, divining something of jealousy in her language, though he imagined it only the jealousy of a vain and susceptible child; 'I will not give thy pretty flowers to any one. Sit here and weave them into a garland; I will wear it this night: it is not the first those delicate fingers have woven for me. The poor girl delightedly sat down beside Glaucus.
Sold early into slavery, sentenced to a sordid taskmaster, exchanging her situation, only yet more to embitter her lot the kindlier feelings, naturally profuse in the breast of Nydia, were nipped and blighted.
As for Nydia, who was necessarily cut off by her blindness from much of the knowledge of active life, and who, a slave and a stranger, was naturally ignorant of the perils of the Roman law, she thought rather of the illness and delirium of her Athenian, than the crime of which she had vaguely heard him accused, or the chances of the impending trial.
'Give me my slave! shrieked the virago, placing her mighty grasp on the breast of the Greek. 'Not if all your sister Furies could help you, answered Glaucus. 'Fear not, sweet Nydia; an Athenian never forsook distress! 'Holla! said Burbo, rising reluctantly, 'What turmoil is all this about a slave?
'I know her well. Nydia drew back and shuddered. 'Thou hast been at my house, methinks! said he, approaching his voice to Nydia's ear; 'thou knowest the oath! Silence and secrecy, now as then, or beware! 'Yet, he added, musingly to himself, 'why confide more than is necessary, even in the blind Julia, canst thou trust thyself alone with me?
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