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Suddenly she was interrupted in her fond thoughts by a female voice. 'Blind flower-girl, whither goest thou? There is no pannier under thine arm; hast thou sold all thy flowers? The person thus accosting Nydia was a lady of a handsome but a bold and unmaidenly countenance: it was Julia, the daughter of Diomed.
"The blind girl Nydia," answered Sallust; "it is her hand that has raised Calenus from the grave, and delivered Glaucus from the lion." "Of this hereafter," said the prætor. "Calenus, priest of Isis, thou accusest Arbaces of the murder of Apæcides?" "I do!" "Thou didst behold the deed?" "Prætor with these eyes " "Enough at present the details must be reserved for more suiting time and place.
IT will be remembered that, at the command of Arbaces, Nydia followed the Egyptian to his home, and conversing there with her, he learned from the confession of her despair and remorse, that her hand, and not Julia's, had administered to Glaucus the fatal potion.
'Thy master was love-crossed, then try thy hand at a gayer air. Nay, girl, give the instrument to me. As Nydia obeyed, her hand touched his, and, with that slight touch, her breast heaved her cheek flushed. Ione and Glaucus, occupied with each other, perceived not those signs of strange and premature emotions, which preyed upon a heart that, nourished by imagination, dispensed with hope.
She, like us, is a stranger; her fathers' ashes lie under brighter skies: but, less happy than we, she is blind and a slave. Poor Nydia! I seek as much as possible to repair to her the cruelties of Nature and of Fate, in asking permission to place her with thee. She is gentle, quick, and docile. She is skilled in music and the song; and she is a very Chloris to the flowers.
It is now, Nydia, some days since I have been admitted to Ione; there is something mysterious in this exclusion.
'I must have yon bunch of violets, sweet Nydia, said Glaucus, pressing through the crowd, and dropping a handful of small coins into the basket; 'your voice is more charming than ever. The blind girl started forward as she heard the Athenian's voice; then as suddenly paused, while the blood rushed violently over neck, cheek, and temples.
Julia, warmed by wine, and the reaction of her spirits, was now all animation and delight; she laughed loud, and talked on a hundred matters nor was it till the night had advanced far towards morning that she summoned her slaves and undressed. When they were dismissed, she said to Nydia, 'I will not suffer this holy draught to quit my presence till the hour comes for its use.
'DEAREST Nydia! exclaimed Glaucus as he read the letter of Ione, 'whitest robed messenger that ever passed between earth and heaven how, how shall I thank thee? 'I am rewarded, said the poor Thessalian. 'To-morrow to-morrow! how shall I while the hours till then?
But now to the flowers! So saying, she made a slight reverence with her head, and passing into the viridarium, busied herself with watering the flowers. 'Poor Nydia, thought Glaucus, gazing on her; 'thine is a hard doom! Thou seest not the earth nor the sun nor the ocean nor the stars above all, thou canst not behold Ione.
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