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"We humbly wait your commands," said Vergilius, kissing his hand. "Now tell me, handsome son of Varro, have you found no pretty girl to your liking? Know you not, boy, 'tis time you married?" He held the hand of the young knight and spoke kindly, his cunning eyes aglow, and smiled upon him, showing his teeth, set well apart. "Such an one I have found, good sire.
Maidens, white robed, were singing in distant vineyards; people were singing in the streets; trained devotees were whirling and dancing and chanting psalms in the court of the Temple, while priest and Levite followed, blowing, with all their power of lung, upon the sacred horns. In the midst of this outbreak a stranger approached Vergilius at the well, saying, "What seek you?"
Julia retired presently, and returned soon with her pet dwarf Cenopas. She stood him on a large, round table, and the guests greeted him with loud laughter as he looked down. He had a hard, unlovely face, that little dwarf. He suggested to Vergilius unwelcome thoughts of a new sort of Cupid deformed, evil, and hideous typifying the degenerate passions of Rome.
Only two or three, perhaps, could have betrayed other members of the order." "Fool! were they not sure of Vergilius, the commander of the cohorts?" said Herod. "But the plot is uncovered, and now, great sir, I implore you, try the remedy of Caesar." Herod ceased muttering and turned with a look of inquiry. "Forgive them," Vergilius added. The king answered with curses.
"Oh, son of Varro! why do you not come?" said the girl, impatiently. "I love him so I could die for him I could die for him! Perhaps he loves me not and I shall never see him again." She hurried to the outer court, whispering anxiously: "Come, son of Varro. Oh, come quickly, son of Varro!" When Vergilius arrived Arria was waiting for him there in the court of the palace.
Vergilius had taken a palace and filled it with treasures, for, possibly, he had thought, some day she would see all. Now its noble statues were sent away a kind of sacrifice to the God of the Jews. But there was one he could not part with a copy of the lovely Venus of Alcamenes which his mother had sent to him.
Her eyes were playful, as if they would try the heart of her lover. "And when I saw you," said Vergilius, "I I knew you were the betrothed of the assessor." "And why?" she besought, with a smile. "Because I heard him say in Rome that, of all the daughters of Judea, you were most beautiful." Her eyes looked full upon his and he saw in them a glint of that fire which had begun to burn within her.
Some asked for mercy as they fell, but all perished by the hand of him they had sought to serve. Held for the battle of the pit, the young Roman whom Vergilius had recognized in the council chamber advanced to meet Herod's son. He had won his freedom in the arena and lost it in the conspiracy of the prince. He was a tall, lithe, splendid figure of a man.
"Find my young Appius at once and bring him to me," said the emperor, as he went on reading his letters. Appius, quickly found, came with all haste to the great father of Rome. "I have news for you," said the latter, quietly, with a glance at his young friend. He continued to read his letters. "News!" said Appius. "'Tis of Vergilius the apt and youthful Vergilius.
By-and-by Rome will need you." Gently, forcefully this teacher of statesmen had given the young knight his first lesson. It was nearing its end now. The litter had stopped hard by the gate of the Lady Lucia. "I wonder how you knew my destination," said Vergilius. "You credit me with small discernment. Learn to know things that are not told you it is the beginning of wisdom."
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