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You are my very own; you belong to me only, and not to yourself; and I desire, I command you to yield to my first request. Go with my mother, or stay here, if you will, with the dead. Wherever your father may be, it is not, cannot be, the right place for you my betrothed bride. I can guess where be is. Oh! Gorgo, be warned. "The fate of the old gods is sealed.
Gorgo had met him with a doubtful and embarrassed air; but when she learnt of the blow that had fallen on him and his parents, she clung to him caressingly and tried to comfort him. The others sympathized deeply with his sorrow; but soon it was Dada's turn to weep, for Eusebius brought the news of her foster-parent's death in the fight at the Serapeum, and of Orpheus being severely wounded.
Gorgo knew all the lofty ideals which lay at the foundation of the worship of this goddess; but it was not to them that she had turned for help, but to the image in whose mystical strength she trusted. And what had already been done to Isis and her temple might soon be done to Serapis and to his house.
A singular effort of fancy showed her herself, as she had then been, and Gorgo whom she saw not with her bodily eyes, though the girl was standing in front of her two young creatures side by side. The two were but one in her vision; the same anguish that embittered one life now threatened the other.
Listen to me, my fine gentleman, and mind what I say: In the house of a free Alexandrian citizen no one has any right to give his orders be he Caesar, Consul or Comes; he has only to observe the laws of good manners." Then turning to Gorgo she shook her head with pathetic emphasis; "This, my love, is the consequence of too much familiar condescension. Come, an end of this!
An unpleasant misunderstanding had embittered his parting from Gorgo; old Damia, as she held his hand had volunteered a promise that she and her granddaughter would from time to time slay a beast in sacrifice on his behalf. Perhaps she had had no spiteful meaning in this, but he had regarded it as an insult, and had turned away angry and hurt.
"Without any obstruction. I found them all assembled. Brave lads. They are all for us and the gods. There are plenty of weapons. "If the gods only stand by us to-day and tomorrow," replied Porphyrius doubtfully. "For ever, if only the country people do their duty!" cried the other. "But who is this stranger?" "The chief of the singers who were here yesterday," replied Gorgo.
"You hateful, brown serpent! Did Gorgo teach you such things as this? It is horrible, disgraceful, sickening!" So base a proposal was the last thing she would ever have expected from Marcus of all men in the world, Marcus, whom she had imagined so good and pure!
In the course of her conversation with Karnis the old lady enquired particularly as to the antecedent history of Agne, for if there had been a stain on her character, or if she were by birth a slave, Gorgo could not of course be seen with her in public, and in that case Karnis would have to teach the lament of Isis to some freeborn singer.
The peasants, with merry chatter and banter, carried water and wood and all that had been brought in the carts into the larger cabin. Presently smoke rose from the chimney and then the dairymaids, the shepherd boy, and the men squatted upon a flat rock and ate their supper. Gorgo, the eagle, was certain that he should find Clement Larsson among those who were off for the forest.
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