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The old man was discoursing eagerly to the prefect; but as soon as he saw Arsinoe he broke off his harangue, clapped his hands and was quite excited with the pleasure of seeing once more the fair Roxana for whom he had once visited in vain all the gold-workers' shops in the city. "But I am tired," cried Plutarch, with quite youthful vivacity, "I am quite tired of keeping the ornaments for you.
"People have seen," he said, pathetically, "that we need not shrink from doing as much as other citizens do, but to dress a Roxana as befits a bride would cost millions, and I am very willing to confess to my friends that I have not millions.
The little girl is very like one of my workwomen; very like but I see now that there is a certain something which the other lacks. I have done her an injustice and remain her debtor. Permit, me, noble lady to add the ornaments to the dress you provide for our Roxana. I may be lucky enough to find something pretty for her. A sweet child!
This was a most important work in its bearing on the subsequent history of antiquity, and more remotely on the history of all subsequent times. The child of Roxana, Alexander the Younger, was born after his father's death. The empire naturally fell to his principal generals, of whom Perdiccas, having command of the great army of Asia, had the chief power.
Herod had also to wife Cleopatra of Jerusalem, and by her he had his sons Herod and Philip; which last was also brought up at Rome. Pallas also was one of his wives, which bare him his son Phasaelus. And besides these, he had for his wives Phedra and Elpis, by whom he had his daughters Roxana and Salome.
"Nay, madam, say not so," cried Vane, warmly; "surely, this was the lofty courtesy of two great minds not to be overbalanced by strife, defeat, or victory." "What were their names, sir?" "Statira was the great Mrs. Oldfield. Roxana you will see here to-night." This caused a sensation.
Then he added pleasantly: "This lovely creature must I should think, delight your fine sense of beauty; or are you afraid that she may seem better suited to the part of Roxana than your own charming daughter? Only listen to the men up there! Let us see what is going on." These words referred to a loud discussion which had arisen close by the couches of the prefect and Verus, the praetor.
"Plutarch, and the prefect's wife had undertaken that." "A mere beggar." "How well the family jewels would have suited our daughters!" "Do we want to show Caesar nothing but a few silly pretty faces? and not something of our wealth and taste?" "Supposing Hadrian asks who this Roxana is, and had to be told that a collection had to be made to get her a proper costume."
The parson and his companion never appeared after the ceremony was over; and as for the other witness, they endeavoured to persuade her that the Sultana Roxana might have supposed, in some part or other of a play, that she was really married.
A forger in those coarse days would have made Mary write in some Semiramis or Roxana vein, utterly alien to the tenderness, the delicacy, the pitiful confusion of mind, the conscious weakness, the imploring and most feminine trust which makes the letters, to those who as I do believe in them, more pathetic than any fictitious sorrows which poets could invent.
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