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Updated: June 8, 2025
Speak words of comfort to this maiden; she also will ere long walk in the light, and will be grateful to those who rescued her from the path of destruction. Think not to escape us when we pass through the city; it were vain to cry aloud; not a man in Surrentum would raise his hand to release you, knowing, as all do, that we confine your body only to free your soul from the bonds of the Enemy.
'I cannot, replied Basil, 'for I dare not leave Veranilda without protection, after what you have told me. 'Why, then, Venantius must come hither. Whilst the friends were thus conversing a courier rode forth from Surrentum towards Neapolis. He bore a letter whereof the contents were these: 'To the holy and reverend deacon Leander, Petronilla's humble salutation.
'You speak of one Venantius and his followers he who just now, I am told, threatened to massacre the harmless citizens of Surrentum. 'I would rather say the most noble Venantius, a senator, but for whose presence this villa would have been sacked by a thievish rabble from below. 'Let me see him, said the Hun, his eyes like those of a boar at bay.
The Bishop of Surrentum, an elderly man and infirm, had for the past fortnight been unable to leave his house, but day by day he received news of what passed at the villa of Maximus, and held with the presbyter, Andreas, many colloquies on that weighty topic, the senator's testament.
'Our horses! she shall pay for this if my hands can get at her throat! Felix appeared, but not in answer to his master's summons; he came precipitately, followed by a swarm of frightened slaves, to announce another surprise. Before the villa stood a hostile multitude, folk of Surrentum, who demanded admittance, and, if denied, would enter by force.
The servants had fled; Basil dropped to his knees, crossed himself, prayed, the sweat standing upon his forehead. A footstep approached him; he rose, and saw the physician who had been with Maximus at Surrentum. 'Does she still live? he asked. 'If life it can be called. What do you here, lord Basil? 'Can she hear and speak? 'I understand you, replied the physician. 'But it is useless.
They exchanged a significant look, and Basil remarked that he would soon discover the deacon's movements since his leaving Surrentum. Marcian was even now on his way to visit Petronilla, and would come with news this evening. 'If I could know, he cried, 'whether she has been delivered to the Greeks, or is kept imprisoned by that Megaera!
Basil knitted his brows. 'Venustus? It is with Venustus that Marcian lodges. Yes, Marcian is here; I know not on what business. It would have been wiser, he added, 'to have said nothing, to have gone away as before. When shall you be ready? 'I am ready now. Why delay? What matter though we reach Surrentum by night? The moon rises early. 'What reply was given to the messenger from the citadel?
The Latins indeed maintained their ground in Latium proper, and the Greeks at Vesuvius; but between them and by their side the Etruscans held sway in Antium and in Surrentum.
Vesuvius was ten times as far; but the eye swept clear down the verdant coast toward Surrentum to the southward. At her feet was the sea, the Italian, Neapolitan sea, dancing, sparkling, dimpling from the first flush of morning to the last glint of the fading western clouds at eve.
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