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Updated: June 29, 2025
The carpenter, a Christian to whom Paulina had given this little house for his family to live in, asked Antinous what he wanted. "Is dame Hannah at home?" stammered the Bithynian. "She no longer lives here." "And her adopted daughter, Selene?" "She is gone with her into Upper Egypt. Have you any message for her?" "No," said the lad, quite confounded. "When did they go?"
If my Apelles pleases him, he will give ten talents for that alone, and if he buys it for only the half or even the tenth of that sum, I will make you enjoy yourself for once, Selene."
They had been thus occupied for some time when Selene at last raised her head and was about to take up her brush again. She looked round for it and perceived her companion, whom she had not even thanked for her helpfulness, busily at work in Arsinoe's seat.
We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of night. The princess Selene, in moonblue robes, a silver crescent on her head, descends from a Sedan chair, borne by two giants. Successor to my famous brother!
"I want Selene to come," whimpered the child. "Pray, pray, do not leave me alone again." "Your old father will stay with you my pet," said Keraunus tenderly, for it cut him to the soul to see this child suffer. "You none of you know what this boy is to us all." "He will soon go to sleep," Arsinoe asserted. "Do let us go, or it will be too late."
"Take it," said Antinous, looking anxiously at the ground, for it had now just occurred to him how highly the Emperor had valued this little bottle, and that he might possibly ask him some time what had become of it. Selene shrugged her shoulders, and drawing her veil round her head, she exclaimed, with a glance of annoyance at her sister: "It is high time!"
When breakfast was over the slave took the children out, and Arsinoe had begun to curl her father's hair, when Keraunus put on his most dignified attitude and said ponderously. "My child." The girl dropped the heated tongs and calmly asked. "Well" fully prepared to hear one of the wonderful propositions which Selene was wont to oppose. "Listen to me attentively."
Keraunus took his daughter's hard-won wages as contemptuously as though he was quite accustomed to gold, and thought nothing of more wretched silver; but Arsinoe began to cry at the sight of the drachmae, for she knew it was for the sake of that money that Selene had left her home, and could divine what frightful pain she must have suffered on the way.
"It was best so for her and for us," said Eumedes, after gazing long at Ledscha's touchingly beautiful, still, dead face. Then he ordered her to be buried at once and shouted to the guards: "Everything must be over on this strip of land early to-morrow morning! Let all who bear arms begin at once. Selene will light the men brightly enough for the work."
Hannah also knew that Selene was acquainted with Antinous, that it was he who had formerly rescued her from the big dog and afterward saved her from the water; but that Selene, who was now recovering, did not know who her preserver had been on this second occasion was clear from all that she said.
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