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Updated: June 3, 2025
The toilet was now arranged according to the last mode of Rome. The fair Julia regarded herself with a last gaze of complacent vanity, and reclining again upon her seat, she bade the youngest of her slaves, in a listless tone, read to her the enamoured couplets of Tibullus. This lecture was still proceeding, when a female slave admitted Nydia into the presence of the lady of the place.
'Thinkest thou so? the bottle is set with gems of some value. Thou wouldst not have the bracelet yestermorn wilt thou take the bottle? 'It ought to be such perfumes as these that should remind one who cannot see of the generous Julia. If the bottle be not too costly... 'Oh! I have a thousand costlier ones: take it, child! Nydia bowed her gratitude, and placed the bottle in her vest.
For a time fortune favoured the Egyptian. Glaucus, his strong frame still under the influence of the poison, was sentenced to encounter a lion in the amphitheatre, with no weapon beyond the incriminating stylus. Nydia, in her terror, confessed to the Egyptian the exchange of the love philtre. She he imprisoned in his own house.
Still made sanguine by his very energy of mind, he threw himself on the chances of the future, and believed he should yet triumph over the woman that had so entangled his passions. As his attendants assisted to unrobe him for the night, the thought of Nydia flashed across him.
Darkness once more wrapped them as a veil; and Glaucus, his bold heart at last quelled and despairing, sank beneath the cover of an arch, and, clasping Ione to his heart a bride on that couch of ruin resigned himself to die. Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and Ione, had in vain endeavored to regain them.
Let us to the garden instantly she may yet be there! The good-natured Callias consented to assist the slave; and after vainly searching the chambers at hand, and the recesses of the peristyle, they entered the garden. It was about this time that Nydia had resolved to quit her hiding-place, and venture forth on her way.
May you sometimes remember Nydia! Alas! she is of no further use on earth." With these words she turned away. A sailor, half-dozing on the deck, heard a slight splash on the waters. Drowsily he looked up, and behind, as the vessel bounded merrily on, he fancied he saw something white above the waves; but it vanished in an instant. He turned round again and dreamed of his home and children.
'So you are returned! said she, in a low voice; and then repeated half to herself, 'Glaucus is returned! 'Yes, child, I have not been at Pompeii above a few days. My garden wants your care, as before; you will visit it, I trust, to-morrow. And mind, no garlands at my house shall be woven by any hands but those of the pretty Nydia.
But once again, though less happily than on the former occasion, Nydia was destined to be the means of thwarting the schemes of the Egyptian. The devotion of the blind flower-girl had deepened into love for her deliverer. She was jealous of Ione. Now, for Julia had taken her into confidence, and both believed in the love charm, she was confronted with another rival.
'And ever favored, my Nydia, be it by those who have the soul of poetry: it is the flower of love, of festival; it is also the flower we dedicate to silence and to death; it blooms on our brows in life, while life be worth the having; it is scattered above our sepulchre when we are no more.
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