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I shall never forget how we laughed when I told Vetranio what I had seen. He took up his writing materials, and made the satire immediately. The next day all Rome heard of it. My uncle was speechless with rage! I believe he suspected me; but he gave up converting the Arian lady, and 'I ask you again Is Vetranio rich? 'Half Sicily is his.
She seized Vetranio's cheeks between her rosy little fingers, kissed him as enthusiastically as a child kisses a new toy, and darted gaily off to prepare for her departure. 'Vetranio would be better employed, sneered the Cynic, 'in inventing new salves for future wounds than new sauces for future nightingales!
The door had been opened without his perceiving it, and an old man was advancing with slow and trembling steps towards his silken couch. It was the bereaved and broken-hearted Numerian. 'Where is she? Is she found? asked the father, gazing anxiously round the room, as if he had expected to see his daughter there. 'My slaves still search for her, said Vetranio, mournfully. 'Ah, woe woe woe!
The worthy citizens of Ravenna assembled in the square before the palace to behold the senator's departure, had entirely exhausted such innocent materials for amusement as consisted in staring at the guards, catching the clouds of gnats that hovered about their ears, and quarrelling with each other; and were now reduced to a state of very noisy and unanimous impatience, when their discontent was suddenly and most effectually appeased by the appearance of the travelling equipage with Vetranio and Camilla outside the palace gates.
I confess it, Vetranio, such consequences as these are beyond all imagination! 'You laugh, Julia, returned the senator, a little piqued; 'but hear me to the end, and you will find that I have not yet resigned myself to defeat. For the few days that I have remained here, Antonina's image has incessantly troubled my thoughts.
The widely rumoured determination of Vetranio and his associates to destroy themselves by fire, in the frenzy of a last debauch disbelieved or disregarded while the more imminent perils of the city were under consideration became a source of some apprehension and anxiety to the acting members of the Roman council, now that their minds were freed from part of the responsibility which had weighed on them, by their resolution to treat for peace.
There was something pervading the air of the whole apartment that conveyed a sense of the solemn, unworldly stillness which we attach to the abstract idea of religion. Of the two men cautiously talking together, one was the patrician, Vetranio; the other, a celebrated physician of Rome.
'If an old man, calling himself Numerian, should desire to see me, said Vetranio, 'admit him instantly. 'She had quitted the room but a short time when I attempted to reclaim her, pursued the senator, speaking to himself; 'and yet when I gained the open air, she was nowhere to be seen!
One after another, at short intervals, they fell back senseless on their couches; and one after another, as they succumbed, the three lamps burning nearest to them were extinguished. The same speedy termination to the debauch seemed to be in reserve for the rest of their companions, with the exception of Vetranio and the two patricians who reclined at his right hand and his left.
'She is saved, pursued the physician, leisurely quitting the side of the couch and smiling on Vetranio; 'be careful of her for days and days to come. 'Saved! saved! echoed the child joyfully, setting the dove free in the room, and running to Numerian to climb on his knees. The father glanced down when the clear young voice sounded in his ear.
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