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  Speaker 1: Book four, chapter seven of Last Days of Pompeii. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Last Days of Pompeii by Edward G.
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  Speaker 1: Bulwer Lytton Book four, chapter seven, in which the reader
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  Speaker 1: learns the condition of glaucus friendship, tested enmity, softened love
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  Speaker 1: the same because the one loving is blind. The night
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  Speaker 1: was somewhat advanced, and the gay lounging places of the
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  Speaker 1: Pompeiians were still crowded. You might observe in the countenances
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  Speaker 1: of the various idlers a more earnest expression than usual.
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  Speaker 1: They talked in large knots and groups, as if they
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  Speaker 1: sought by numbers to divide the half painful, half pleasurable
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  Speaker 1: anxiety which belonged to the subject on which they conversed.
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  Speaker 1: It was a subject of life and death. A young
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  Speaker 1: man passed briskly by the graceful portico of the Temple
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  Speaker 1: of Fortune. So briskly, indeed, that he came with no
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  Speaker 1: slight force full against the rotund and comely form of
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  Speaker 1: that respectable citizen diomed who was retiring homeward to his
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  Speaker 1: suburban villa Halloa, groaned the merchant, recovering with some difficulty
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  Speaker 1: his equilibrium. Have you no eyes or do you think
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  Speaker 1: I have no feeling? By Jupiter? You have well nigh
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  Speaker 1: driven out the divine particle. Another such shock and my
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  Speaker 1: soul will be in hades ah diamed? Is it you
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  Speaker 1: forgive my inadvertence? I was absorbed in thinking of the
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  Speaker 1: reverses of life. Our poor friend Glaucus. Eh, who could
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  Speaker 1: have guessed it well? But tell me, Clodius, is he
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  Speaker 1: really to be tried by the Senate? Yes, they say
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  Speaker 1: the crime is of so extraordinary a nature that the
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  Speaker 1: Senate itself must adjudge it, and so the lictors are
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  Speaker 1: to induct him. Formerly has he been accused publicly? Then?
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  Speaker 1: To be sure, where have you been not to hear that? Why?
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  Speaker 1: I have only just returned from Napolis, whither I went
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  Speaker 1: on business the very morning after his crime so shocking,
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  Speaker 1: and at my house the same night that it happened.
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  Speaker 1: There is no doubt of his guilt, said Clodius, shrugging
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  Speaker 1: his shoulders. And as these crimes take precedence of all
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  Speaker 1: little undignified peccadillos, they will hasten to finish the sentence
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  Speaker 1: previous to the games. The games good gods, replied Diamed,
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  Speaker 1: with a slight shudder. Can they adjudge him to the beasts,
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  Speaker 1: so young, so rich? True, But then he is a Greek.
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  Speaker 1: Had he been a Roman, it would have been a
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  Speaker 1: thousand pities. These foreigners can be borne with in their prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: but in adversity we must not forget that they are
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  Speaker 1: in reality slaves. However, we of the upper classes are
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  Speaker 1: always tender hearted, and he would certainly get off tolerably
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  Speaker 1: well if he were left to us. For between ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: what is a paltry priest of isis what isis herself.
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  Speaker 1: But the common people are superstitious. They clamor for the
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  Speaker 1: blood of the sacrilegious one. It is dangerous not to
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  Speaker 1: give way to public opinion. And the blasphemer, the Christian
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  Speaker 1: or Nazarene, or whatever else he be called, Oh, poor dog,
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  Speaker 1: If he will sacrifice to Cybelli or Isis, he will
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  Speaker 1: be pardoned. If not, the tiger has him, at least
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  Speaker 1: so I suppose, But the trial will decide. We talk
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  Speaker 1: while the urns still empty, and the Greek may yet
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  Speaker 1: escape the deadly theta of his own alphabet. But enough
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  Speaker 1: of this gloomy subject. How is the fair Julia Well?
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  Speaker 1: I fancy commend me to her? But hark the door
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  Speaker 1: yonder on its hinges. It is the house of the
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  Speaker 1: prador who comes forth by Pollox. It is the Egyptian.
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  Speaker 1: What can he want with our official friend? Some conference
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  Speaker 1: touching the murder? Doubtless, replied Diamed. But what was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the inducement to the crime. Glaucus was to
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  Speaker 1: have married the priest's sister. Yes, some say Apasides refused
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  Speaker 1: the alliance. It might have been a sudden quarrel. Glaucus
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  Speaker 1: was evidently drunk, nay so much so as to have
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  Speaker 1: been quite insensible when taken up, And I hear is
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  Speaker 1: still delirious, whether with wine, terror, remorse, the furies or
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  Speaker 1: the bacchanals, I cannot say. Poor fellow, he has good counsel,
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  Speaker 1: the best, Caius Polio, an eloquent fellow. Enough, Polio has
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  Speaker 1: been hiring all the poor gentlemen and well born spendthrifts
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  Speaker 1: of Pompeii to dress shabbily and sneak about swearing their
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  Speaker 1: friendship to Glaucus. Who would not have spoken to them
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  Speaker 1: to be made emperor. I will do him justice. He
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  Speaker 1: was a gentleman in his choice acquaintance and trying to
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  Speaker 1: melt the stony citizens into pity. But it will not
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  Speaker 1: do Isis is mightily popular just at this moment, and
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  Speaker 1: by the bye, I have some merchandise at Alexandria. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: isis ought to be protected. True, So farewell, old gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: We shall meet soon. If not, we must have a
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  Speaker 1: friendly bed at the Amphitheater. All my calculations are confounded
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  Speaker 1: by this cursed misfortune of Glaucus. He had bet on
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  Speaker 1: Leiden the gladiator. I must make up my tablets somewhere. Balii,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the less active Diamed to regain his villa, Clodius
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  Speaker 1: strode on, humming a Greek air and perfuming the night
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  Speaker 1: with the Odorus that steamed from his snowy garments and
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  Speaker 1: flowing locks. If thought he Glaucus feed the lion, Julia
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  Speaker 1: will no longer have a person to love better than me.
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  Speaker 1: She will certainly dote on me, and so I suppose
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  Speaker 1: I must marry. By the gods, the twelve lines begin
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  Speaker 1: to fail. Men look suspiciously at my hand when it
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  Speaker 1: rattles the dice that infernal Salust insinuates cheating. And if
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  Speaker 1: it be discovered that the ivory is clogged, why farewell
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  Speaker 1: to the merry supper and the perfumed billet. Clodius is
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  Speaker 1: undone better marry then, while I may renounce gaming and
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  Speaker 1: push my fortune, or rather the gentle Julias at the
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  Speaker 1: imperial court, thus muttering the schemes of his ambition. If
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  Speaker 1: by that high name the projects of Clodius may be
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  Speaker 1: called the gamester found himself suddenly accosted. He turned and
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  Speaker 1: beheld the dark brow of Arbassees. Hail noble Clodius, pardon
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  Speaker 1: my interruption, and inform me, I pray you, which is
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  Speaker 1: the house of Salust? It is but a few yards,
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  Speaker 1: hence why is ours? But what does Salus entertain tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I know? Not, answered the Egyptian, nor am I perhaps
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  Speaker 1: one of those he would seek as a boon companion.
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  Speaker 1: But thou knowest that his house holds the person of Glaucus,
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  Speaker 1: the murderer. Ay, he good hearted epicure believes in the
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  Speaker 1: Greek's innocence. You remind me that he has become his surety.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore, till the trial is responsible for his appearance.
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  Speaker 1: While Sallus's house is better than a prison, especially that
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  Speaker 1: wretched hole in the forum. But for what can you seek, Glaucus, Why,
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  Speaker 1: noble Clodius, if we could save him from execution, it
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  Speaker 1: would be well. The condemnation of the rich is a
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  Speaker 1: blow upon society itself. I should like to confer with him,
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  Speaker 1: for I hear he has recovered his senses and ascertain
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  Speaker 1: the motives of his crime. They may be so extenuating
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  Speaker 1: as to plead in his defense. You are benevolent, Arbasees.
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  Speaker 1: Benevolence is the duty of one who aspires to wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: replied the Egyptian modestly. Which way lies Sallust's mansion? I
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  Speaker 1: will show you, said Clodius, if you will suffer me
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  Speaker 1: to accompany you a few steps. But pray what has
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  Speaker 1: become of the poor girl who was to have wed
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  Speaker 1: the Athenian? The sister of the murdered priest alas well
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  Speaker 1: nigh insane. Sometimes she utters imprecations on the murderer, then
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  Speaker 1: suddenly stops short, then cries, but why curse O, my
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  Speaker 1: brother Glaucus was not thy murderer? Never will I believe it?
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  Speaker 1: Then she begins again and again stops short and mutters
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  Speaker 1: awfully to herself. Yet if it were indeed he unfortunate Ione.
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  Speaker 1: But it is well for her that those solemn cares
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  Speaker 1: to the dead, which religion enjoins, have hitherto greatly absorbed
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  Speaker 1: her attention from Glaucus and herself. And in the dimness
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  Speaker 1: of her senses she scarcely seems aware that Glaupus is apprehended.
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  Speaker 1: And on the eve of trial, when the funeral writes
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  Speaker 1: due to Apasides are performed, her apprehension will return. And
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  Speaker 1: then I fear me much that her friends will be
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  Speaker 1: revolted by seeing her run to succor and aid the
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  Speaker 1: murderer of her brother. Such scandal should be prevented, I
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  Speaker 1: trust I have taken precautions to that effect. I am
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  Speaker 1: her lawful guardian, and have just succeeded in obtaining permission
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  Speaker 1: to escort her after the funeral of Apasides to my
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  Speaker 1: own house. There, Please the gods, she will be secure.
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  Speaker 1: You have done well, Sejahbarsas, and now yonder is the
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  Speaker 1: house of Salust. The gods keep you. Yet hark you Arbassees.
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  Speaker 1: Why so gloomy and unsocial men say you can be gay?
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  Speaker 1: Why not let me initiate you into the pleasures of Pompeii.
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  Speaker 1: I flatter myself. No one knows them better. I thank you,
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  Speaker 1: noble Clodius. Under your auspices, I might venture, I think
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  Speaker 1: to wear the fiala, But at my age I should
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  Speaker 1: be an awkward pupil. Oh, never fear, I have made
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  Speaker 1: converts of fellows of seventy The rich too, are never old.
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  Speaker 1: You flatter me. At some future time, I will remind
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  Speaker 1: you of your promise. You may command Marcus Clodius at
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  Speaker 1: all times. And so valet Now said the Egyptian soliloquising,
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  Speaker 1: I am not wantonly a man of blood. I would
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  Speaker 1: willingly save this Greek if by confessing the crime, he
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  Speaker 1: will lose himself for ever to ione and forever free
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  Speaker 1: me from the chance of discovery. And I can save
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  Speaker 1: him by persuading Julia to own the filter, which will
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  Speaker 1: beheld his excuse. But if he do not confess the crime,
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  Speaker 1: why Julia must be shamed from the confession, and he
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  Speaker 1: must die. Die lest he prove my rival with the living,
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  Speaker 1: die that he may be my proxy with the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Will he confess? Can he not be persuaded that in
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  Speaker 1: his delirium, he struck the blow to me, it would
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  Speaker 1: give far greater safety than even his death him. We
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  Speaker 1: must hazard the experiment. Sweeping along the narrow street, Arbassees
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  Speaker 1: now approached the House of Salust, when he beheld a
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  Speaker 1: dark form, wrapped in a cloak and stretched at length
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  Speaker 1: across the threshold of the door. So still lay the figure,
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  Speaker 1: and so dim was its outline that any other than
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  Speaker 1: ar Basses might have felt a superstitious fear lest he
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  Speaker 1: beheld one of those grim lamours, who, above all other
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  Speaker 1: spots haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.
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  Speaker 1: But not for our basses were such dreams rise, said he,
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  Speaker 1: touching the figure with his foot. Thou obstructest the way?
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  Speaker 1: Ha who art thou? Cried the form in a sharp tone,
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  Speaker 1: And as she raised herself from the ground, the starlight
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  Speaker 1: fell full on the pale faced and fixed but sightless
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  Speaker 1: eyes of Nidia the Thessalian. Who art thou? I know
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  Speaker 1: the burden of thy voice? Blind girl? What dost thou
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  Speaker 1: hear at this late hour? Fie is this seeming thy sex?
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  Speaker 1: Or years? Home? Girl? I know thee said Nadia in
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  Speaker 1: a low voice. Thou art Arbasees the Egyptian. Then, as
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  Speaker 1: if inspired by some sudden impulse, she flung herself at
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  Speaker 1: his feet, and, clasping his knees, exclaimed in a wild
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  Speaker 1: and passionate tone, O, dread and potent man, save him,
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  Speaker 1: Save him. He is not guilty. It is I. He
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  Speaker 1: lies within, ill, dying, and I I am the hateful cause.
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  Speaker 1: And they will not admit me to him. They spurn
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  Speaker 1: the blind girl from the hall. Oh heal him. Thou
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  Speaker 1: knowest some herb, some spell, some counter chi, For it
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  Speaker 1: is a potion that hath wrought this frenzy, hush child.
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  Speaker 1: I know all thou forgettest that I accompanied Julia to
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  Speaker 1: the saga's home. Doubtless her hand administered the draft, but
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  Speaker 1: her reputation demands thy silence. Reproach not thyself what must
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  Speaker 1: be must Meanwhile, I seek the criminal. He may yet
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  Speaker 1: be saved away. Thus saying, Arbaces extricated himself from the
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  Speaker 1: clasp of the despairing Thessalian and knocked loudly at the door.
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  Speaker 1: In a few moments, the heavy bars were heard suddenly
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  Speaker 1: to yield, and the porter, half opening the door, demanded
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  Speaker 1: who was there? Arbase's important business to salust relative to Glaucus.
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  Speaker 1: I come from the praetor the porter, half yawning, half groaning,
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  Speaker 1: admitted the tall form of the Egyptian. Nidia sprang forward.
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  Speaker 1: How is he? She cried? Tell me, tell me, ho,
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  Speaker 1: mad girl? Is it thou still for shame? Why they
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  Speaker 1: say he is sensible? The gods be praised, and you
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  Speaker 1: will not admit me? Ah, I beseech thee. Admit thee. No,
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  Speaker 1: a pretty salute. I should prepare for these shoulders were
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  Speaker 1: I to admit such things as thou go home. The
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  Speaker 1: door closed, and Nidia, with a deep sigh, laid herself
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  Speaker 1: down once more on the cold stones, and wrapping her
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  Speaker 1: cloak around her face, resumed her weary vigil. Meanwhile, Arbases
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  Speaker 1: had already gained the triclinium, where Salust, with his favorite freedman,
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  Speaker 1: sat late at supper. What ur basses and at this
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  Speaker 1: hour except this cup? Nay, gentle Saluste, it is on business,
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  Speaker 1: not pleasure that I venture to disturb thee. How doth
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  Speaker 1: thy charge? They say in the town, that he has
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  Speaker 1: recovered so alas and truly replied the good natured but
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  Speaker 1: thoughtless Salust, wiping the tear from his eyes. But so
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  Speaker 1: shattered are his nerves and frame, that I scarcely recognized
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  Speaker 1: the brilliant and gay carouser I was wont to know.
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  Speaker 1: Yet strange to say he cannot account for the cause
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  Speaker 1: of the sudden frenzy that seized him. He retains but
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  Speaker 1: a dim consciousness of what hath passed, and despite thy witness,
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  Speaker 1: wise Egyptian solemnly upholds his innocence of the death of Apasides. Salust,
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  Speaker 1: said Arbasees gravely. There is much in thy friend's case
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  Speaker 1: that merits a peculiar indulgence, And could we learn from
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  Speaker 1: his lips the confession and the cause of his crime,
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  Speaker 1: much might be yet hoped from the mercy of the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: For the Senate, thou knowest hath the power either to
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  Speaker 1: mitigate or to sharpen the law. Therefore it is that
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  Speaker 1: I have conferred with the highest authority in the city
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  Speaker 1: and obtained his permission to hold a private conference this
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  Speaker 1: night with the Athenian. Tomorrow, thou knowest the trial comes
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  Speaker 1: on well, said Salust. Thou wilt be worthy of thy
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  Speaker 1: Eastern name and fame if thou canst learn aught from him.
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  Speaker 1: But thou mayest try, poor Glaucus and he had such
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  Speaker 1: an excellent appetite, he eats nothing now. The benevolent Epicure
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  Speaker 1: was moved sensibly at this thought. He sighed and ordered
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  Speaker 1: his slaves to refill his cup. Knight Wains, said the Egyptian,
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  Speaker 1: suffer me to see thy ward. Now Salust nodded assent,
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  Speaker 1: and led the way to a small chamber, guarded without
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  Speaker 1: by two dozing slaves. The door opened at the request
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  Speaker 1: of Arbasees. Salus withdrew. The Egyptian was alone with Glaucus,
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  Speaker 1: one of those tall and graceful candelabra coming to that day,
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  Speaker 1: supporting a single lamp burned beside the narrow bed. Its
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  Speaker 1: rays fell palely over the face of the Athenian, and
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  Speaker 1: our basses was moved to see how sensibly that countenance
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  Speaker 1: had changed. The rich color was gone, the cheek was sunk,
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  Speaker 1: the lips were convulsed and pallid Fearce had been the
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  Speaker 1: struggle between reason and madness, life and death. The youth
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  Speaker 1: the strength of Glaucus had conquered. But the freshness of
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  Speaker 1: blood and soul, the life of life, its glory, and
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  Speaker 1: its zest, were gone forever. The Egyptian seated himself quietly,
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  Speaker 1: beside the bed, Glaucus still lay, mute and unconscious of
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  Speaker 1: his presence. At length, after a considerable pause, Arbassees thus
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  Speaker 1: spoke Glaucus, we have been enemies. I come to thee
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  Speaker 1: alone and in the dead of night, thy friend, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: thy savior. As the steed starts from the path of
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  Speaker 1: the tiger, Glaucus sprang up, breathless, alarmed, panting at the
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  Speaker 1: abrupt voice, then apparition of his foe. Their eyes met,
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  Speaker 1: and neither, for some moments had power to withdraw his gaze.
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  Speaker 1: The flush went and came over the face of the Athenian,
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  Speaker 1: and the bronzed cheek of the Egyptian grew a shade
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  Speaker 1: more pale. At length, with an inward groan, Glaucus turned away,
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  Speaker 1: drew his hand across his brow, sunk back, and muttered,
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  Speaker 1: am I still dreaming? No, Glaucus, thou art awake by
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  Speaker 1: this right hand in my father's head. Thou seest one
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  Speaker 1: who may save thy life. Hark. I know what thou
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  Speaker 1: hast done, but I know also its excuse of which
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  Speaker 1: thou thyself art ignorant. Thou hast committed murder. It is true,
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  Speaker 1: a sacrilegious murder. Frow not start, not these eyes saw it.
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  Speaker 1: But I can save THEE. I can prove how thou
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  Speaker 1: wert bereaved of sense and made not a free thinking
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  Speaker 1: and free acting man. But in order to say THEE,
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  Speaker 1: thou must confess thy crime. Sign But this paper acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: thy hand in the death of Apacides, And thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: avoid the fatal urn. What words are these? Murder and Apasides?
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  Speaker 1: Did I not see him stretched on the ground, bleeding
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  Speaker 1: in a corpse? And wouldst thou persuade me that I
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  Speaker 1: did the deed? Man, Thou liest away, be not rash, glaucus,
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  Speaker 1: be not hasty. The deed is proved. Come Come, Thou
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  Speaker 1: mayst well be excused for not recalling the act of
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  Speaker 1: thy delirium, and which thy sober senses would have shunned
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  Speaker 1: even to contemplate. But let me try to refresh thy
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  Speaker 1: exhausted and weary memory. Thou knowest thou wert walking with
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  Speaker 1: the priest disputing about his sister. Thou knowest he was
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  Speaker 1: intolerant and half a Nazarene, and he sought to convert thee,
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  Speaker 1: and ye had hot words, and he calumniated thy mode
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  Speaker 1: of life, and swore he would not marry Ione to
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  Speaker 1: thee and then in thy wrath, in thy frenzy, thou
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  Speaker 1: didst strike the sudden blow? Come come, you can recollect this.
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  Speaker 1: Read this papyrus. It runs to that effect. Sign it,
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  Speaker 1: and thou art saved. Barbarian, Give me the written lie
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  Speaker 1: that I may tear it. I the murderer of Ione's brother.
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  Speaker 1: I confess to have injured one hair of the head
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  Speaker 1: of him she loved. Let me rather perish a thousand times, beware,
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  Speaker 1: said Arbaces in a low and hissing tone. There is
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  Speaker 1: but one choice, thy confession in thy signature, or the
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  Speaker 1: amphitheater and the lion's maw. As the Egyptian fixed his
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  Speaker 1: eyes upon the sufferer, he hailed with joy the signs
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  Speaker 1: of evident emotion that seized the latter. At these words,
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  Speaker 1: a slight shudder passed over the Athenian's frame. His lip
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  Speaker 1: fell an expression of sudden fear and wonder betrayed itself
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  Speaker 1: in his brow and eye. Great Gods, he said, in
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  Speaker 1: a low voice, what reverses this? It seems but a
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  Speaker 1: little day since life laughed out from amidst roses, Ione, mine, youth, health, love,
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  Speaker 1: lavishing on me their treasures and now pain, madness, shame, death,
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  Speaker 1: And for what what have I done? Oh am I mad?
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  Speaker 1: Still sign and be saved, said the soft, sweet voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Egyptian tempter, never cried Glaucus in the reaction
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  Speaker 1: of rage. Thou knowest me not, Thou knowest not the
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  Speaker 1: haughty soul of an Athenian. The sudden face of death
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  Speaker 1: might appall me for a moment, but the fear is
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  Speaker 1: over dishonor appalls forever. Who will debase his name to
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  Speaker 1: save his life, Who exchange clear thoughts for sullen days,
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  Speaker 1: who will belie himself to shame, stand blackened in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of love? If to earn a few years of
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  Speaker 1: polluted life, there be so base a coward dream, not
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  Speaker 1: dull barbarian of Egypt, to find him in one who
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  Speaker 1: has trod the same sod as harmodious and breathest the
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  Speaker 1: same air as Socrates. Go, Leave me to live without
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  Speaker 1: self reproach, or to perish without fear. Bethink thee well,
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  Speaker 1: the lion's fangs, the hoots of the brutal mob, the
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  Speaker 1: vulgar gaze on thy dying agony and mutilated limbs, Thy name, degraded,
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  Speaker 1: thy corpse, unburied. The shame thou wouldst avoid clinging to
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  Speaker 1: thee for aye, and ever thou ravest thou art the madman.
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  Speaker 1: Shame is not in the loss of another man's esteem.
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  Speaker 1: It is in the loss of our own. Wilt thou go.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes loathe the sight of thee hating. Ever, I
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  Speaker 1: despise thee. Now I go, said Arbases, dung and exasperated,
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  Speaker 1: but not without some pitying admiration of his victim. I go.
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  Speaker 1: We meet twice again, once at the trial, once at
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  Speaker 1: the death farewell. The Egyptian rose, slowly, gathered his robes
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  Speaker 1: about him, and left the chamber. He sought Sallus for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, whose eyes began to reel with the vigils
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  Speaker 1: of the coup. He is still unconscious, or still obstinate.
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  Speaker 1: There is no hope for him. Say not so, replied Sallus,
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  Speaker 1: who felt but little resentment against the Athenian's accuser, for
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  Speaker 1: he possessed no great austerity of virtue, and was rather
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  Speaker 1: moved by his friend's reverses than persuaded of his innocence.
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  Speaker 1: Say not so, my Egyptian. So good a drinker shall
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  Speaker 1: be saved, if possible Bacchus against Isis. We shall see,
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  Speaker 1: said the Egyptian. Suddenly the bolts were again withdrawn, the
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  Speaker 1: door unclosed in the open street, and poor Nidia once
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  Speaker 1: more started from her long watch. Wilt thou save him,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, clasping her hands. Child, follow me home. I
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  Speaker 1: would speak to thee It is for his sake, I
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  Speaker 1: ask it, and thou wilt save him. No answer came
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  Speaker 1: forth to the thirsting ear of the blind girl. Arbases
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  Speaker 1: had already proceeded far up the street. She hesitated a moment,
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  Speaker 1: and then followed his steps in silence. I must secure
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  Speaker 1: this girl, said he, musingly, lest she give evidence of
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  Speaker 1: the filter. As to the vain Julia. She will not
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  Speaker 1: betray herself. End of Book four, Chapter seven,