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048 - Book 5 Chapter III · Last Days of Pompeii

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  Speaker 1: Book five, Chapter three of Last Days of Pompeii. As
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  Speaker 1: Bulver Lutton, Book five, Chapter three, Salust and Needia's letter Srice.
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  Speaker 1: Had Salust awakened from his morning sleep, and Thrice, recollecting
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  Speaker 1: that his friend was that day to perish, had he
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  Speaker 1: turned himself with a deep sigh once more to court oblivion.
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  Speaker 1: His sole object in life was to avoid pain, and
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  Speaker 1: where he could not avoid, at least to forget it
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  Speaker 1: at length, Enable any longer to steep his consciousness in slumber,
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  Speaker 1: he raised himself from his incumbent posture and discovered his
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  Speaker 1: favorite treatment. Sitting by his bedside. As usual for Sallust,
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  Speaker 1: who as I have said, had a gentleman like taste
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  Speaker 1: for the polite letters, was accustomed to be read to
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  Speaker 1: for an hour or so previous to his rising in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. No books to day, No more tibulus, no
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  Speaker 1: more pinder for me. Pinda alas Alas the very name
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  Speaker 1: recalls those games to which our arena is the savage successor?
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  Speaker 1: Has it begun? The amphitheater? Are its rights commenced? Long since? O, Sallust?
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  Speaker 1: Did you not hear the trumpets and the trampling feet? Aye? Ay,
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  Speaker 1: but the gods be thanked. I was drowsy and had
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  Speaker 1: only to turn round to fall asleep again. The gladiators
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  Speaker 1: must have been long in the ring. The wretchess, none
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  Speaker 1: of my people have gone to the spectacle, assuredly not.
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  Speaker 1: Your orders were too strict. That is well, would the
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  Speaker 1: day were over? What is that letter yonder on the table? That? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the letter brought to you last night when you were
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  Speaker 1: too too drunk to read it? I suppose no matter,
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  Speaker 1: it cannot be of much importance. Shall I open it
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  Speaker 1: for you? Sallust? Do anything to divert my thoughts? Poor Glaucus.
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  Speaker 1: The freedman opened the letter. What Greek said? He some
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  Speaker 1: lurened lady. I suppose he glanced over the letter, and
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  Speaker 1: for some moments the irregular lines traced by the blind
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  Speaker 1: girl's hand puzzled him. Suddenly, however, his countenance exhibited emotion
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  Speaker 1: and surprise. Good God's noble Cellust, what have we done
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  Speaker 1: not to attend to this before hear me read nidea
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  Speaker 1: the slave to Sallust, the friend of Glaucus. I am
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  Speaker 1: a prisoner in the house of Arbaces. Hasten to the prietor,
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  Speaker 1: procure my release, and we shall yet save Glaucus from
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  Speaker 1: the lion. There is another prisoner within these walls whose
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  Speaker 1: witness can exonerate the Athenian from the charge against him,
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  Speaker 1: One who saw the crime, who can prove the criminal
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  Speaker 1: in a villain hitherto unsuspected fly. Hasten quick quick, bring
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  Speaker 1: with you armed men, lest resistance be made, and a
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  Speaker 1: cunning and dexter smith. For the dungeon of my fellow
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  Speaker 1: prisoner is thick and strong. Oh, by thy right hand,
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  Speaker 1: and thy father's ashes lose not a moment, great Joe,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Sallus starting and this day, nay within this hour,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps he dies. What is to be done, I will
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  Speaker 1: instantly to the prietor. Nay, not so. The prietor, as
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  Speaker 1: well as Pansa, the editor himself is the creature of
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  Speaker 1: the mob, and the mob will not hear of delay.
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  Speaker 1: Thou will not be balked in the very moment of expectation. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: the publicity of the appeal would forewarn the cunning Egyptian.
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  Speaker 1: It is evident that he has some interest in these concealments. No, fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: thy slaves are in thy house. I see the meaning.
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  Speaker 1: Interrupted Zelus, arm the slaves instantly. The streets are empty.
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  Speaker 1: We will ourselves hasten to the house of Arbaques and
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  Speaker 1: release the prisoners quick quick, What ho tao was there?
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  Speaker 1: My gown and sandals, the patrus and the reed. I
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  Speaker 1: will write to the Prietor to beseech him to delay
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  Speaker 1: the sentence of Glaucus, for that within an hour we
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  Speaker 1: may yet prove him innocent. So so that is well,
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  Speaker 1: hasten with this Davus to the Praetor at the amphitheater.
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  Speaker 1: See it given to his own hand. Now, then, o
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  Speaker 1: ye gods whose providence Epicurus denied, beferend me, and I
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  Speaker 1: will call Epicurus a liar. End of Chapter three