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Updated: June 20, 2025
Among that high order of drinkers who can imbibe to the point of perfect enjoyment, and stop short scientifically before the point of perfect oblivion, Vetranio occupied an exalted rank. The wine he had swallowed during the night had disordered his memory and slightly troubled his self-possession, but had not deprived him of his understanding.
I have seen parents less anxious for their children, lovers for their mistresses, than you for this girl. 'My destiny is with her, interrupted Vetranio, looking round superstitiously to the frail form on the couch.
It will free the prisoned imagination of youth, and freshen the fading recollections on the memory of age! Vetranio paused. The Cynic was struck dumb with indignation. A solitary zealot for the Church, who happened to be by, frowned at the analysation. The ladies tittered at the personification. The gastronomists chuckled at the nightingale sauce; but for the first few minutes no one spoke.
These three men alone comprehended the peril that threatened them, and, maddened with drink, defied, in their ferocious desperation, the death that was in store for them. 'Hark! they approach, the rabble revolted from our rule, cried Vetranio scornfully, 'to take the lives that we despise and the treasures that we have resigned!
At the back of the Flaminian extremity of the Pincian Hill, and immediately overlooking the city wall, stood, at the period of which we write, a small but elegantly built house, surrounded by a little garden of its own, and protected at the back by the lofty groves and outbuildings of the palace of Vetranio the senator.
Oh, how I wronged her! how I wronged her! 'Remain here, and repose yourself in one of the sleeping apartments, until my slaves return in the morning. You will then hear without delay of the result of their search to-night, said Vetranio, in kindly and compassionate tones.
'And yet you persist in declaring that you doubt her recovery! exclaimed Vetranio, in low, mournful tones. 'I do, pursued the physician. 'She must have been exhausted in mind and body when she received the blow I have watched her carefully; I know it! There is nothing of the natural health and strength of youth to oppose the effects of the wound.
His defence of the Temple of Serapis, his conspiracy at Alexandria, his intrigue with Vetranio, were the efforts of a man; but this projected destruction of the priests, the churches, and the treasures of a whole city, through the agency of a mighty army, moved by the unaided machinations of a single individual, would be the dazzling achievement of a god! The hours loitered slowly onward.
The old man scarcely waited for the conclusion of this speech before he ran up to the chariot, where he was immediately confronted by two heads one that of Vetranio the senator, the other that of a glossy black kitten adorned with a collar of rubies, and half enveloped in its master's ample robes.
Our situation grows more and more perilous. I have great hopes in our store of provisions; but 'Cast your hopes to the court at Ravenna, and your beasts' provender to the howling mob! cried Vetranio with sudden energy. 'It is now too late to yield; if the next few days bring us no assistance, the city will be a human shambles!
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