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On quitting the temple the crowd of worshippers, all in holiday garb, were to pass in front of the Prefect's residence, and if only they could effect this great march through the city in the right frame of mind, it might confidently be expected that every one who was not avowedly Jew or Christian, would join the procession.
Its settlement demands the promptest haste, and I am therefore unfortunately obliged to quit you immediately." Sabina returned the prefect's parting salutations with icy coldness and immediately desired to be conducted to her private rooms to dress herself for supper.
And, when Perenna continued to wriggle, he went on, in a threatening tone: "You'll have only yourself to blame, mind!... I'm going to count three: one, two " "But what's it all about?" bellowed Don Luis. "Prefect's orders, received just now." "What orders?" "To take you to the lockup if the Florence girl escaped us again." "Have you a warrant?" "I have." "And what next?" "What next?
"And will they allow it here?" "I should suppose so." "Then answer me truly. Did you come here for Julia's sake, or did you come " "Well?" "Or did you expect to find the fair Roxana with the prefect's wife?" "Roxana?" asked Verus, with a cunning smile. "Roxana!
"I have already lodged a complaint," replied the man, "but I was told in answer to my report that there were no means to apply to the purpose." "I know nothing of these things," cried Titianus. "When did you forward your petition to the prefect's office?" "Under your predecessor, Haterius Nepos." "Indeed," said the prefect with a drawl. "So long ago.
Out of my sight, villain, and let me hear not another word about the picture, and the robbery in the dark, or I will send the prefect's lictors after you and have you thrown into irons, you rascally thief!"
He held my wrists in his little hands and his body writhed like a feather over the fire. Then he moved no more. I threw the body in the ditch, and some weeds on top of it. I returned home, and dined well. What a little thing it was! In the evening I was very gay, light, rejuvenated; I passed the evening at the Prefect's. They found me witty. But I have not seen blood! I am tranquil. 31st August.
Mastor went sadly away and Hadrian returned to his work-room, and there called out to his secretary Phlegon: "Write that a new gate-keeper is to be found for this palace. Euphorion, the old one, is to have his pay continued to him, and half a talent is to be paid to him at the prefect's office.
Lictors with their fasces over their shoulders were clearing the broad roadway, which led from the prefect's on the Bruchiom to the Paneum, with their staves and paying no heed to the mocking and witty speeches addressed to them by the mob wherever they appeared.
Olympius had weapons ready in abundance, and the youths rapidly collected round the standards he had prepared, and rushed into the square before the Prefect's house to drive away the monks and to insist that Cynegius should return forthwith to Rome with the Emperor's edict.
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