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Thus metamorphosing himself face to face with the corpse, he contrived to achieve some likeness to his Sosia. And to complete a change almost as marvelous as that related in the Arabian tale, where a dervish has acquired the power, old as he is, of entering into a young body, by a magic spell, the convict, who spoke Spanish, learned as much Latin as an Andalusian priest need know.
Ho, ho! for the merry, merry show, With a forest of faces in every row! Lo! the swordsmen, bold as the son of Alcmaena, Sweep, side by side, o'er the hushed arena. Talk while you may, you will hold your breath When they meet in the grasp of the glowing death! Tramp! tramp! how gaily they go! Ho! ho! for the merry, merry show! 'A jolly girl! said Sosia.
Had he seen it had been Sosia who addressed him, it would have been "honest Sosia!" and, "worthy man!" I warrant. Nevertheless, the trinkets have been won easily that's some comfort! and, O goddess Feronia! I shall be a freedman soon! and then I should like to see who'll call me pimp! unless, indeed, he pay me pretty handsomely for it!
'No, said Sosia, sturdily, 'a slave once disobeyed Arbaces, and he was never more heard of. 'But the law gives a master no power over the life of a slave. 'The law is very obliging, but more polite than efficient. I know that Arbaces always gets the law on his side. Besides, if I am once dead, what law can bring me to life again! Nydia wrung her hands.
'Name not the little witch! interrupted Sosia, impatiently; 'she will be my ruin! And he forthwith imparted to Callias the history of the Air Demon, and the escape of the Thessalian. 'Hang thyself, then, unhappy Sosia! I am just charged from Arbaces with a message to thee; on no account art thou to suffer her, even for a moment, from that chamber! 'Me miserum! exclaimed the slave.
He scarcely noted the humble offerings of indifferent fruit, and still more indifferent wine, which the pious Sosia had deemed good enough for the invisible stranger they were intended to allure. 'Some tribute, thought he, 'to the garden god. By my father's head! if his deityship were never better served, he would do well to give up the godly profession.
It is hard to be ill-treated, and yet not pitied. 'Sosia, how much dost thou require to make up the purchase of thy freedom? 'How much? Why, about two thousand sesterces. 'The gods be praised! not more? Seest thou these bracelets and this chain? They are well worth double that sum. I will give them thee if... 'Tempt me not: I cannot release thee. Arbaces is a severe and awful master.
And accordingly, as he has proposed in his original arrangement, he proceeds to relate, first the life of his son "For when, O Sosia, he became a man, He was allow'd more liberty" Then comes his own design "And now I take great care" After that, what he wishes Sosia to do; that he put last in his original arrangement he now mentions last "And now the part is yours" ...
She kept her senses whenever, beneath the whirl of intolerable thought, they reeled and tottered; nay, she took food and wine that she might sustain her strength that she might be prepared! She revolved scheme after scheme of escape, and was forced to dismiss all. Yet Sosia was her only hope, the only instrument with which she could tamper.
Who knows but I might feed the fishes of the Sarnus Alas! all the sesterces in the world would not buy me back into life. Better a live dog than a dead lion. 'Sosia, thy freedom! Think well! If thou wilt let me out only for one little hour! let me out at midnight I will return ere to-morrow's dawn; nay, thou canst go with me.
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