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Updated: May 10, 2025
A lawyer, though a man highly honored and received at the palace, was nevertheless, considered of medium rank. The mother of a Senator took a different position. And all this had been caused merely by a chance meeting with Adrian Soderus, when he had been charmed by Virgilia's lovely face.
Bright yellow and scarlet dahlias bloomed around him; plumy lavender and rose colored asters nodded cheerfully in the chill breeze of this first of November. The water in the fountain rippled as musically as in those happy days, now gone. That morning early, Aurelius had gone again to the Senator Adrian Soderus, to whom Virgilia had so cruelly been betrothed.
She must be married, or sent away to some lonely place. Perhaps marriage would be better. Then her husband would control her. The Senator Adrian Soderus has asked for her hand, but thou didst send him away. Recall him." "He is seventy years old and as ugly as night. While Virgilia is so young and sweet." "So stubborn and rebellious. He is old, but very rich.
When he sent her away, he was fully determined on a line of action. He drew the tablets to him, and wrote a note to the most honorable Senator Adrian Soderus, asking him to make an appointment. Calling Alexis, he ordered him to carry the message to the house of the Senator and bring him the answer. The Greek returned, promptly.
"Is it for a feast, Sahira?" asked Virgilia, looking at herself in the long metal mirror, and smiling at the reflection. Virgilia was human. "For a feast, your father said," replied the slave, leaving Virgilia in her splendor, sitting in the fast-darkening room, alone. The Senator Adrian Soderus, indeed, lost no time.
The Senator Adrian Soderus, who visited the lawyer and his wife frequently and in view of the coming marriage was permitted to see Virgilia, confirmed the news, entirely unaware of the fact that both his betrothed and her brother Martius belonged to the despised people. "They multiply like rats," he said, sipping from a silver goblet the sweet orange juice Sahira prepared.
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