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This people, as you well know, has been a free people from the earliest records of history, and they will sink under the ruins of their capital and their country, ere they will bend to a foreign power. 'That will they! that will they, indeed! cried Fausta; 'there is not a Palmyrene who, had he two lives, would not give one for liberty, and the other for his good Queen.
Urge me no more: it were as hopeful an endeavor to stem the current of the Euphrates, as to turn me from my purpose. I have reasoned with you because you are a brother, not because you are a Roman. 'And I, I replied, 'can still love you, because you are a brother, nor less because you are also a Palmyrene. I greet you as the head of our house, the elder heir of an illustrious name.
Fausta's little hand suddenly placed within mine, and the cheerful greeting of her voice, awoke me from my dreamy state. 'Your countenance shows that you have slept well, Lucius, said she; 'it is bright as the morning itself. Your dreams must have been favorable. Or else is it the wonder-working power of a Palmyrene air that has wrought so with you since the last evening?
Her companion, a Roman turned Palmyrene as I heard, was like one palsied when she was gone, till when, he had been the very Mars of the field. As it was, he was the true hero of the day. He brought to my mind Odenatus, 'Twas so he looked that day we entered Ctesiphon I could wish, and hope too, that he might share the throne of Zenobia, but that all the world knows what a man-hater she is.
Do you feel that without a struggle first for freedom and independence, you could sink down into a mean tributary of all-ingulfing Rome, and lose the name of Palmyrene? I see by the most expressive of all language, that you would rather die. Happy are you, my friends, that this is not your case; you are ready for the enemy; you shall not lose your name or your renown; and you shall not die.
Besides, I would that Rome should see with her own eyes who it is has held even battle with Roman legions so long, that they may judge me to have had a worthy antagonist. She must grace my triumph. 'I truly thank the gods, I said, 'that it is so resolved! Fortune has placed me, while in her dominions, near the Queen, and though a Roman, I have come to love and revere her even like a Palmyrene.
So, now we are well. Would that I had that flask of soft Palmyrene, which but now I sent 'Take no trouble for our sakes, I exclaimed, cordially saluting him; 'I am just now come from the table of Gracchus. I have matters of more moment to discuss than either meats or wines. 'But, noble master, hast thou ever brought to thy lips this same soft Palmyrene?
The buildings of marble the streets paved and clean frequent fountains of water throwing up their foaming jets, and shedding around a delicious coolness temples, and palaces of the nobles, or of wealthy Palmyrene merchants altogether present a more brilliant assemblage of objects than I suppose any other city can boast.
No sooner had the pageant arrived over against that part of the Portico where we stood, than one and another of Probus's hearers exclaimed: 'Ha! Paul! Paul of Antioch! Behold a Christian servant! And the whole throng turned away in confusion to watch the spectacle. 'An unhappy commentary upon the doctrine, said a Palmyrene to me, as he turned sneeringly away.
Yet, as fifty dollars would buy not only this, but that, and also the other, it presently became the representative of tens of fifties, hundreds of fifties, thousands of fifties, and so on, different fifties all, but all assuming shapes of beauty and value; finally, alternately clustering and separating, gathering as if in all sorts of beautiful heads, angel heads, winged children, then shooting off in a thousand different directions, leaving behind landscapes of exquisite sunsets, of Norwegian scenery, of processions of pines, of moonlight seen through arched bridges, of Palmyrene deserts, of pilgrims in the morning praying.
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