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9625''Cross that melted rock?'' 9625 What is it?
9625Where are the others?
9625Who can steer without sun or stars?
9625Will it never stop?
9625And had she sent her treasure here to escape when the volcano burst forth?
9625And then what?
9625Ariston called to him,"Which way to the gate?"
9625But what of the people themselves?
9625But where to dig?"
9625Can you find the goat''s horns among his curls?
9625Can you see that the doors are very high with a grating at the top to let in light and air?
9625Did some rich lady of the city have this farm for her country place?
9625Did they all escape?
9625Do you know of any such place, Ariston?"
9625Do you see how the tiled roof slants downward from four sides to a rectangular opening in the highest part of the house?
9625Does n''t he look as if he loved to dance, snapping his fingers to keep time?
9625FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS Do you like to dig for hidden treasure?
9625Had some thief stolen them and hidden here, only to be caught by the volcano?
9625Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery?
9625How beautiful could they have been?
9625How did they come here in this farmhouse?
9625How did they look?
9625Or had Poseidon carried him?
9625Or was every one else in some safe place?
9625Was all the rest of the world dead?
9625Were customers buying the night''s dessert when Vesuvius frightened them away?
9625Were they real men and women?
9625What do you say, my friend?
9625What has happened to us?"
9625What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived-- black or white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer?
9625What was below?
9625Where was the city gate?
9625Whose house was this?
9625Will you be our guide in Athens?"
9625Would he never get out?
9625Would n''t it be fun if they had such exciting pictures as this?
1565Of what country?
1565Think you,he cried,"that the Invisible is like your statues of gold and marble?
1565''AND you have the courage then, Julia, to seek the Witch of Vesuvius this evening; in company, too, with that fearful man?''
1565''Ah, what delicacy hast thou in store for us now, my Glaucus?''
1565''Ah,''he muttered, as he glared from one to the other,''what Fury hath sent ye hither?''
1565''An dabis?''
1565''An even ten sestertia on Eumolpus, then?''
1565''And Ione?''
1565''And Stratonice, the brave old lass, where is she?''
1565''And has,''asked she aloud,''has she often visited him before?''
1565''And hast thou no fear, then, of thy rivals?
1565''And how can I assist you?''
1565''And how do you fight?''
1565''And how find you the flowers in your viridarium?--are they thriving?''
1565''And how have you spent the lustrum?
1565''And how is it sealed?''
1565''And how?''
1565''And if,''resumed Lydon--''if thy Deity( methinks thou wilt own but one?)
1565''And is he here?''
1565''And my slanderer was the Egyptian?''
1565''And pray,''said one of the party,''what has become of the poor girl whom Glaucus was to have married?
1565''And that one person?''
1565''And the blasphemer-- the Christian, or Nazarene, or whatever else he be called?''
1565''And the draught would be equally efficacious, whoever administers it?''
1565''And thou believest that, according to the purity and courage with which he thus acts, shall be his portion of bliss beyond the grave?''
1565''And thou hast entered his house since thou knewest so well that private entrance?''
1565''And thou hast escaped the contagion from which thou hast saved Ione?''
1565''And thou wilt give full evidence of what thou knowest?''
1565''And thou wilt save him?''
1565''And thou wilt serve me?''
1565''And what connection hath thy love, witch, with my commands?''
1565''And what do ye here?''
1565''And what hast thou imagined Glaucus to resemble?''
1565''And what is there in the loss or gain of those dull pieces of metal that should change our spirit, my Clodius?
1565''And what likeness hast thou ascribed to Ione?''
1565''And what wilt thou teach me, O singular and fearful man?
1565''And what,''said the voice of Arbaces,''are these galleries, that strangely and fitfully illumined, stretch on either hand into the abyss of gloom?''
1565''And wherefore wert thou hid behind the chapel at that hour?''
1565''And wherefore, said the voice of Arbaces,''yon wandering lights, that so wildly break the darkness; but only break, not reveal?''
1565''And who dare insult the rich daughter of Diomed?''
1565''And why for ever?''
1565''And why hast thou hitherto concealed from me this secret?
1565''And why is it to me thou art thus unconfidential?''
1565''And why the wretched?''
1565''And why, Nydia,''asked Ione, evasively,''Wouldst thou be the bearer of my letter?''
1565''And why?''
1565''And why?''
1565''And will he thank the messenger who gives to him thy letter?''
1565''And you are well?
1565''And you will speak to Pansa about the place of designator at the amphitheatre, noble Clodius?
1565''And, being unblest with fortune, wouldst thou allure some wealthy suitor?''
1565''Arbaces, at this hour!--scarce recovered too, methinks!--Whither and for what can he leave the city?''
1565''Are they in truth so delicious?''
1565''Are ye married?''
1565''Are you come to sacrifice to Fortune?''
1565''Art thou sure?''
1565''Art thou, then, soberly and honestly in love?
1565''As thou hast learned!--Can wisdom attain so far?''
1565''Averting gods,''she exclaimed;''and have I been so long forgetful of him?
1565''Ay, so he is called; but what matters the name?
1565''Ay-- does she not sing prettily?
1565''Be quiet, wife,''said he, in a tone half- sullen, half- timid;''you want new girdles and fine clothes, do you?
1565''Besides,''added Calenus,''if the storm does come, and if it does overwhelm the accursed ships, have we not prophesied it?
1565''Blind flower- girl, whither goest thou?
1565''But I do n''t see Burbo; where is Burbo?
1565''But how camest thou, Nydia,''whispered Ione,''to surmise so faithfully the danger I was exposed to?
1565''But surely a net and a spear are poor arms against a shield and sword?''
1565''But tell me, is it true that you admire the Neapolitan Ione?''
1565''But tell me,''said Tetraides,''where is that pretty young slave of yours-- the blind girl, with bright eyes?
1565''But what harm is there in seeing Ione?''
1565''But what of the trial?''
1565''But what,''asked Nydia,''can induce the beautiful and wealthy Julia to ask that question of her servant?
1565''But which way go you now?''
1565''But who is yon handsome gladiator, nearly naked-- is it not quite improper?
1565''But who shall tell the terrors of the night?''
1565''But whom have we here?
1565''But you will not play any trick with the water, eh?''
1565''But you, my Mentor, do you find it so easy to control yourself?
1565''But, hark ye, Stratonice,''said Lydon;''how didst thou come by so gentle and delicate a slave?
1565''But,''answered the Nazarene,''ask thy reason, can that religion be sound which outrages all morality?
1565''By the way,''said Sallust,''have you seen the new ode by Spuraena, in honour of our Egyptian Isis?
1565''Calenus, priest of Isis, thou accusest Arbaces of the murder of Apaecides?''
1565''Can I not visit him?''
1565''Can admiration to one woman make me unworthy the friendship of another?
1565''Can we not see her?''
1565''Can you ask?''
1565''Can you doubt it?''
1565''Canst thou ask, O wise Arbaces?
1565''Could that mountain have any connection with the last night''s earthquake?
1565''Did I laugh?''
1565''Did I not tell thee that thou shouldst be my sister and friend?
1565''Did you learn these pretty gallantries at Rome?''
1565''Did you say she was Athenian?''
1565''Do I believe in an evil demon?''
1565''Do you think, fair Ione, that it is only at Pompeii that I have learned to value you?''
1565''Do you wish Fulvius to sing?''
1565''Does not beauty constrain our admiration?''
1565''Dost thou claim the body of a priest of Isis as one of the Nazarene or Christian sect?''
1565''Dost thou fear?''
1565''Dost thou feel that, for his sake, thou couldst renounce pride, brave dishonour, and incur death?
1565''Dost thou not fear thy companion?''
1565''Dost thou not imagine, according to thy belief, that the evil- doer is punished hereafter, and the good rewarded?''
1565''Dost thou not remember my voice?''
1565''Dost thou recognize the Romans, my Clodius; are they among the celebrated, or are they merely ordinary?''
1565''Dost thou remember the words, my sister?''
1565''Dost thou think, then, that he who is truly good should sacrifice every selfish interest in his zeal for virtue?''
1565''Egyptian,''said the praetor, frowning,''thou didst, then, dare to imprison a priest of the gods-- and wherefore?''
1565''Exactly like this water in appearance?''
1565''For what purpose, then, thy herbs and thy potions, vain Saga?''
1565''For what?''
1565''Glaucus, I am a slave; what business have I with grief or joy?''
1565''Glaucus, wilt thou take my poor flowers?
1565''Had the earthquake but a few nights since no warning?''
1565''Has he forgotten,''she added, in a half- whisper,''his friends of the last year?''
1565''Has it not a voice?
1565''Hast thou dwelt here long?''
1565''Hast thou ever heard much,''asked she,''of this new sect of the Nazarenes, of which my brother spoke?''
1565''Hast thou heard the news, old Medon?''
1565''Hast thou seen the lion?
1565''Hast thou told living ear what thou didst witness?''
1565''He has been accused publicly, then?''
1565''He is too wealthy to divine for money?''
1565''Hem!--say they that she is tall?''
1565''Ho, my child, wait you for me?''
1565''Ho-- what art thou?''
1565''How can I judge?''
1565''How do you find the ladies of Pompeii generally?''
1565''How is he?''
1565''How is that possible?
1565''How is the murderer?''
1565''How is this?
1565''How is this?
1565''How mean you, Sallust?''
1565''How much?
1565''How much?
1565''How now?
1565''How shall I thank thee, fair Nydia?''
1565''I have not seen her this morning,''answered Nydia,''but...''''But what?
1565''I heard that thou wert purchased by the beautiful Greek Glaucus; is that true, pretty slave?''
1565''I trust,''said Sosia, tremulously,''that there is nothing very frightful in the operation?
1565''I will seek him this very day,''resumed Julia;''nay, why not this very hour?''
1565''If this be true, what-- what can be done to save her?
1565''If thou knowest me, canst thou not recall my features?''
1565''If( he reasoned) I have the genius to impose laws, have I not the right to command my own creations?
1565''If, O Nazarene, thou disbelievest in Cybele, which of our gods dost thou own?''
1565''In what legion have you served?''
1565''In what?''
1565''Ione,''said he, as he pressed her hand,''should you hear my name blackened and maligned, will you credit the aspersion?''
1565''Ione?''
1565''Is Nature ordinarily so unattractive?''
1565''Is he a citizen or a slave?''
1565''Is he thy son?''
1565''Is he, too, an impostor?
1565''Is it an Athenian virtue, Glaucus,''said the merchant''s daughter,''to shun those whom we once sought?''
1565''Is it he?
1565''Is it indeed so?
1565''Is it so?''
1565''Is it thy zeal that has brought thee to this?
1565''Is she as handsome as they say?''
1565''Is she young?''
1565''Is the effect instantaneous?''
1565''Is there no hope, then?''
1565''Is this Clodius?
1565''Is thy mistress Julia within?''
1565''It was from that feeling that you chose your summer retreat at Pompeii?''
1565''Kind son, what is there in this scrip to tempt the robber?
1565''Knowest thou, then, blind Thessalian, of any love- charms?''
1565''Knowest thou,''said she,''if Ione has any relative, any intimate friend at Pompeii?''
1565''Letter!--which letter?''
1565''Lodges she near this?''
1565''Magic!--who doubts it?''
1565''Man,''said Nydia, rising,''wilt thou become free?
1565''May I enter?''
1565''May I visit thee afterwards to learn the result?''
1565''May Julia rank among the number of his friends?''
1565''Methinks I know thy voice?
1565''Methought when we entered,''said Clodius,''there was another man present?''
1565''My child,''said Ione, a little more reservedly than before,''thou speakest warmly-- Glaucus, then, is amiable in thine eyes?''
1565''My good fellow,''said he to his companion, it was a most awful judgment-- heigho!--it is not bad that kid, eh?
1565''My son,''said the Egyptian,''what has chanced that you desire to shun me?''
1565''Nay, would you have me relate to you all the comments of the insolent coxcombs with which the story has circled through the town?
1565''Never fear, we''ll fill the purse, my Hector,''said Clodius:''let me see-- you fight against Niger?
1565''No matter, no matter-- he has been kind to me: thou knowest not, then, what they will do?
1565''No, no; tell me, dear Sosia, what is the hour?''
1565''No: is it handsome?''
1565''Oh?
1565''On whom then?''
1565''Or me, who have conquered in fifteen fights?''
1565''Or me?''
1565''Or of Sappho?''
1565''Pardon me, noble sponsor mine,''said Lydon, in a low voice to Glaucus:''but how much think you the victor will gain?''
1565''Pardon me-- your name?''
1565''Perhaps he would let me kill a slave for my reservoir?''
1565''Poor fellow!--he has good counsel?''
1565''Sallust,''said the magistrate,''where found you Calenus?''
1565''Say you so?''
1565''Sayest thou so?
1565''Seest thou no one?''
1565''Shall I guess the object?--Is it not Diomed''s daughter?
1565''Shall I speak then to thee only of Isis?''
1565''Shall the shadow disclose itself?''
1565''Shall we within to your chamber, Arbaces?''
1565''Shall yon blind girl sing to thee of the days of childhood?
1565''She is not yours yet, then?''
1565''Since thou leftst me so abruptly,''said Olinthus,''hast thou been happy?
1565''So Glaucus denies his crime to the last?''
1565''So she is a sort of client of yours, this child?''
1565''Some conference touching the murder, doubtless,''replied Diomed;''but what was supposed to be the inducement to the crime?
1565''Some little lore have I indeed, treasured up,''replied Arbaces:''but in what can such serious and sterile secrets benefit the ear of beauty?''
1565''Sosia, how much dost thou require to make up the purchase of thy freedom?''
1565''Speak, prisoner, what sayest thou to the charge?''
1565''Sphinx, no!--why sphinx?''
1565''Sure, pretty one: but what is that to thee or to us?''
1565''Talking of that, Diomed gives a grand feast next week,''said Sallust:''are you invited, Glaucus?''
1565''Tell me, Clodius,''said the Greek at last,''hast thou ever been in love?''
1565''Tell me,''said Glaucus, abruptly,''did I not hear thy name coupled with that of Apaecides in my trial?
1565''Tell me,''said she, suddenly, and after a long pause,''are ye brother and sister?''
1565''The gods be praised!--and you will not admit me?
1565''Then I may stay over the night, and return to- morrow?''
1565''Then, then, I am to go with you-- with you?
1565''There-- thou canst not see?''
1565''They accuse the Athenian of murder: canst thou disprove the accusation?''
1565''They tell me that Glaucus is here,''said she;''may I come in?''
1565''Thine?''
1565''Thinkest thou so?
1565''Thinkest thou that the gods above us or below hear the impotent ravings of dotage?
1565''This is kind, Apaecides,''said Ione, joyfully;''and how eagerly have I wished to see thee!--what thanks do I not owe thee?
1565''This young profligate, this Glaucus, how didst thou know him?
1565''Thou art grateful, and deservedly so; why should I blush to say that Glaucus is worthy of thy gratitude?
1565''Thou art late abroad; has the goddess revealed herself to thee in visions?''
1565''Thou art provided as for a journey, father,''said he:''wilt thou leave us yet?''
1565''Thou comest to me for advice in unhappy love,''said he;''well, turn that face on the ungrateful one: what other love- charm can I give thee?''
1565''Thou didst behold the deed?''
1565''Thou hast looked, they tell me, on the face of Christ?''
1565''Thou knowest the banquets of the dead, stranger-- it pleases thee, perhaps, to share them-- would it please thee to have thy sister a partaker?
1565''Thou wert to tell me,''said Glaucus,''why for so many days thy door was closed to me?''
1565''Thou wilt go to Ione,''answered Glaucus, in a tone that said,''What more canst thou desire?''
1565''Thou, then, hast shared his lessons?''
1565''To a magistrate?
1565''To be sure; where have you been not to hear that?''
1565''To happiness or to woe?''
1565''To the house of Arbaces-- of the Egyptian?
1565''To what dost thou bear me?''
1565''To whom?''
1565''To- morrow eve, then, order thy litter-- thou hast one at thy command?''
1565''To- morrow?
1565''Was I young once, think ye?''
1565''Well, Clodius, shall I take compassion on you, and accept your own terms with these Romans?''
1565''Well, Nazarene,''replied the priest, and his face grew paler;''what wouldst thou?''
1565''Well, Sosia, and art thou prepared?
1565''Well, but tell me, Clodius, is he really to be tried by the senate?''
1565''Well, man, what is your weapon?''
1565''Well, then, Calenus, what wouldst thou have me pay thee?''
1565''Well-- ten to eight?''
1565''What Pompeian has not heard of Arbaces?''
1565''What art thou?''
1565''What avails thy liberty now, blind girl?''
1565''What campaign have you served?''
1565''What can be worse policy,''said Clodius, sententiously,''than to interfere with the manly amusements of the people?''
1565''What can he want with me?
1565''What could have been his inducement?''
1565''What could have been the cause?''
1565''What dost thou want, or whom Knowest thou not that the priests do not live in the temple?''
1565''What hast thou to say?''
1565''What if the sublime faith of the Nazarene be true?
1565''What is that to thee?''
1565''What is the design?''
1565''What is this?''
1565''What is your name, fair girl?''
1565''What mean you, Arbaces?''
1565''What means this raving?''
1565''What news from Rome?''
1565''What now?''
1565''What say you, Glaucus?''
1565''What story could he tell against me, vain Lydon?''
1565''What think you of this new sect, which I am told has even a few proselytes in Pompeii, these followers of the Hebrew God-- Christus?''
1565''What words are these?--Murder and Apaecides!--Did I not see him stretched on the ground bleeding and a corpse?
1565''What, Arbaces?
1565''What, parted in front, with the knot behind?
1565''What, you will not extinguish it?''
1565''When is our next wild- beast fight?''
1565''Where is my daughter Julia?''
1565''Where is thy master?
1565''Which way lies Sallust''s mansion?''
1565''Whither wouldst thou lead me, Arbaces?''
1565''Who accuses him?''
1565''Who are ye?''
1565''Who art thou, whence comest thou, pale maiden?''
1565''Who art thou?
1565''Who art thou?
1565''Who calls?''
1565''Who calls?''
1565''Who could be otherwise?''
1565''Who is there?''
1565''Who is yon cynic?''
1565''Who is, when the object of them is so fair?''
1565''Who sent to previse thee of it, my mistress?''
1565''Who''s there?''
1565''Who( it said) is my companion in this awful hour?
1565''Who,''said the Nazarene,''calls upon the son of God?''
1565''Whom shall we get for him to eat?''
1565''Why do I ever bet but at the dice?''
1565''Why dost thou drink that unmixed water, Nydia?
1565''Why dost thou laugh, old crone?''
1565''Why not take one of the new sect of Nazarenes?''
1565''Why not?''
1565''Why so?''
1565''Why this delay?
1565''Why, Nydia?''
1565''Why, Nydia?''
1565''Why, thou seest, my slave Staphyla-- thou rememberest Staphyla, Niger?''
1565''Will you not be avenged on your ill- fortune of yesterday?
1565''Will you read the letter, Sallust?''
1565''Will you that I should sing of love?''
1565''Wilt thou never have done?''
1565''Wilt thou not wait the morrow?''
1565''Wilt thou prove my knowledge, Ione, and behold the representation of thine own fate?
1565''Wilt thou save him?''
1565''Wilt thou summon Davus?
1565''Wilt thou take me to her?''
1565''With whom wouldst thou confer?
1565''Would you, indeed?''
1565''Yes, wise Arbaces-- I trust my visit is not unseasonable?''
1565''Yes; and placed some beautiful nuts and apples on a little table close by?''
1565''Yet how canst thou contrive it?
1565''Yet more, fair maiden; wilt thou confide to me the name of thy lover?
1565''Yet,''he added, musingly to himself,''why confide more than is necessary, even in the blind-- Julia, canst thou trust thyself alone with me?
1565''You are early abroad?''
1565''You are sure it will be as much?''
1565''You have but lately returned?''
1565''You have written to Glaucus?''
1565''You often hint that he plays unfairly-- think you so really?''
1565''You will see, my friend,''said he, with a wave of his hand,''that I am a little classical here-- a little Cecropian-- eh?
1565''Your cook is, of course, from Sicily?''
1565''Your country?''
1565A voice from within returned,''Peace with whom?''
1565A weak voice answered--''Who calls on me?
1565About evermore we bear thee; For who from the heart can tear thee?
1565Against whom shall I contend?
1565Ah, I need not ask-- for who that sees the earth, which they tell me is so beautiful, can be ill?''
1565Am I a man to think of--(hiccup)--pleasure, when-- when-- my friend is going to be eat up?''
1565Am I happy, ask you?
1565Am I not the oracle of the amphitheatre and its heroes?
1565Am I to believe with this man, that none whom for so many centuries my fathers worshipped have a being or a name?
1565Am I to break down, as something blasphemous and profane, the very altars which I have deemed most sacred?
1565Am I too bold?
1565And Arbaces felt the voice leave his lips, without an impulse of his own; and the voice asked:''Who art thou, and what is thy task?''
1565And am I now to be lectured by a boy?''
1565And doth Glaucus visit her much?''
1565And for such a trifle wilt thou refuse liberty?''
1565And for what?
1565And had she doubted his faith, and had she believed another?
1565And hast thou left the garden- gate gently open?''
1565And have I not received the rod from the editor''s own hand as a sign of victory, and as a grace to retirement on my laurels?
1565And having tarried so long, why revealest thou now that knowledge?''
1565And is not even thy bitterest tone sweeter to me than the music of the most artful lute?
1565And now, what form steals yonder through the boughs?
1565And tell me if there ever, even in the ages most favorable to glory, could be a triumph more exalted and elating than the conquest of one noble heart?
1565And the gate is open now, so that the demon may pass through it?''
1565And this Egyptian, was he a priest himself?
1565And thou lovest him who loves not thee?''
1565And thy name, stranger?''
1565And where a tyrant sterner?
1565Arbaces felt himself tremble as he asked again,''Wherefore am I here?''
1565Arbaces is not one to be credulously trusted: can it be that he hath wronged me to thee?
1565Arbaces shall be obeyed-- and his ward, Ione?''
1565Arbaces was the accuser of Glaucus; Arbaces had imprisoned her here; was not that a proof that her liberty might be serviceable to Glaucus?
1565Arbaces-- thine?
1565Are such things to be borne?
1565Are they blue?
1565Are they not all represented to you as the blackest of criminals?
1565Are they not love- charms enough to dispense with magic?''
1565Are we thus torn asunder?
1565Are you hurt?
1565Are your faces then the same?
1565Art thou happy?''
1565Art thou not the priest Apaecides?''
1565Art thou well advised of this?''
1565At length, with an inward groan, Glaucus turned away, drew his hand across his brow, sunk back, and muttered:''Am I still dreaming?''
1565Athenian Glaucus, it is thou?''
1565But I desire to confer with you relative to him and to other matters: you can admit me into one of your less sacred apartments?''
1565But does Sallust entertain to- night?''
1565But for the method of my vengeance?
1565But for what can you seek Glaucus?''
1565But say, shall Julia be indeed your friend?''
1565But speak out-- what shall be the sum?''
1565But tell me, Arbaces, hast thou seen my brother of late?
1565But think you, young man, that if they had not deceived their kind they could have served them?
1565But what are the doubtful virtues of the Athenian, to the bright, the undisputed, the active, the unceasing, the devoted holiness of Christ?
1565But what desirest thou to learn?''
1565But what fear of that?
1565But what hath the fate of the Athenian to do with thine?''
1565But what matter?
1565But what merit in courage, when that atheistical hound, Olinthus, manifested the same?''
1565But what words can paint the intolerable woe, the sinking of the whole heart, which was now visible on the features of the Thessalian?
1565But who is Ione?''
1565But why, my child, wert thou so suddenly angry?
1565But, pray what has become of the poor girl who was to have we d the Athenian-- the sister of the murdered priest?''
1565But, woman,''he added, lifting himself upon his arm, and gazing curiously on her face,''tell me, I pray thee, wherefore thou wishest to live?
1565By- the- by, your son is a gladiator, a handsome man and a strong, can you not persuade him to fight the tiger?
1565Calenus-- seekest thou me?''
1565Can I make to him the same confidences that he would repose in me-- of banquets and garlands-- of Parthian steeds, and the chances of the dice?
1565Can he be Pompeian, and despise wealth, even if blind to beauty?''
1565Can thy gods, whosoever they be, look with wrath on a conflict with such as these, and in such a cause?
1565Can we not get him amongst us, and teach him the charms of dice?
1565Can you conceal, can you even regulate, your love for Ione?''
1565Canst thou confound me with them?
1565Canst thou forgive thy friend, Ione?''
1565Canst thou not recognize something kindred to thine own energy-- thine own courage-- in this high and self- dependent soul?
1565Canst thou save the Athenian Glaucus from the charge against his life?''
1565Come hither!--place your hand on his heart!--sure it beats yet?''
1565Could I hear thy groans, could I witness thy mysterious horrors, thy constant anguish, and remain inactive?
1565Could it distress thee if she were away from thy side?
1565Couldst thou feel when she was present?
1565Dark haired?''
1565Daughter of Etruria, whither wendest thou?''
1565Did I hear aright?
1565Did it not say to us all,"Prepare for death; the end of all things is at hand?"''
1565Did not Ariadne dote upon Bacchus?''
1565Did not the stars foretell the only crisis of imminent peril to which I was subjected?--Is not that peril past?''
1565Did thy parents love, or didst thou?
1565Did thy slow blood circulate more gladly when thou didst creep to the side of thy wedded one?
1565Did you not hear the trumpets and the trampling feet?''
1565Didst thou know aught of the Egyptian?''
1565Didst thou not complain to me that thou wert compelled to offices that were not odious to thee as a slave, but guilty as a Nazarene?
1565Didst thou not feel the earth quake, Nydia, where thou wert seated last night?
1565Didst thou not tell me this?
1565Do I offend thee?
1565Do I overrate thy skill?
1565Do I say that on the tablet which my tongue has hesitated to breathe?
1565Do they her beauty keep?
1565Do thy fellow- slaves tell thee she is handsome?
1565Do you imagine that they have eyes to see, or ears to hear, or hands to help ye?
1565Do you sup with Glaucus to- night?''
1565Does any rich patron give away alms or viands to- night?''
1565Does he find her handsome?''
1565Does the veil of Vesta hide the vices of the prostitute?''
1565Does this man, so plain and simple in life, in garb, in mien-- does he too, like Arbaces, make austerity the robe of the sensualist?
1565Dost thou believe me guilty?''
1565Dost thou hear them drag yon heavy body through the passage?
1565Dost thou interest thyself for him?
1565Dost thou remember how we went into the fields by Baiae, hand in hand together, to pluck the flowers of spring?
1565Dost thou see the likeness-- or is it only to my fancy?''
1565Eh?''
1565Endymion, sleepest thou so soundly?
1565Enjoy while ye may the present-- who can read the future?
1565Enough!--Is the morning fair?''
1565FATE WRITES HER PROPHECY IN RED LETTERS, BUT WHO SHALL READ THEM?
1565Fair Julia, look in the mirror; saw you ever anything so lovely as yourself?''
1565Fie!--is this seeming thy sex or years?
1565Five-- six-- sixty years?
1565For where a mien more gently sweet?
1565For where is the charm expelling Thy thought from its sacred dwelling?
1565Forget not this hour,--what are the pleasures and the pomps of life?
1565Give it no name-- earth has no name for it-- it is not of earth-- why debase it with earthly epithets and earthly associations?''
1565Greek?''
1565Had not the great Dorian Apollo expiated a mystic sin by descending to the grave?
1565Had they confined their researches to Nature-- what of knowledge might we not already have achieved?
1565Happy should I be to receive his friendship; but what can I give him in return?
1565Has he not convinced thee of the wisdom of deluding the people and enjoying ourselves?
1565Has it begun-- the amphitheatre?
1565Has she not money, and youth, and loveliness?
1565Hast thou ever heard the name of Ione?''
1565Hast thou laid flowers at the feet of the dead?
1565Hast thou seen him often?''
1565Hast thou that feeling which the poets describe-- a feeling that makes us neglect our suppers, forswear the theatre, and write elegies?
1565Hast thou the bowl of pure water?''
1565Hath she been uttering foul magic to the moon, or culling( as her pauses betoken) foul herbs from the venomous marsh?
1565Have I seemed to shun him?
1565Have not events already proved it?
1565Have not the Romans sworn never to obey a king?
1565Have they detected thy noble purpose, and by death prevented their own shame?''
1565Have they slandered me to thee, Ione?
1565Have they smiled on thee?
1565Have you ever seen my wine- cellars, by- the- by?''
1565He paused a moment:''Why,''he muttered,''should I hesitate?
1565He who had defied the grave for another-- what was the grave to him?
1565He, too, was reprieved from the tiger by the hand of the gods; should he be left to a no less fatal death in the neighboring cell?
1565Hear you that, Medon?
1565Her heart beat: was it to be her proud destiny to preserve her idolized-- her adored?
1565His friends-- the sister of his youth-- could he expect justice, though he might receive compassion, from them?
1565His heart!--who, in our happier age, can even imagine its struggles-- its commotion?
1565His vows of austerity and celibacy echoed in his ear; his thirst after holiness-- had it been quenched at so unhallowed a stream?
1565How can I swear by Cybele then?''
1565How could he escape?
1565How heard you this base slander?''
1565How is the fair Julia?''
1565How then came this evil?
1565I am but a child, I am blind-- is not that punishment enough?''
1565I could not divine the cause?''
1565I have a pretty trade, else how could I live in these hard times?
1565I have known him only within this last week or so: but why these questions?''
1565I have the Egyptian''s life in my power-- what will he value it at?''
1565I have thee-- eh?''
1565I may have erred-- but who amongst ye will not acknowledge the equity of self- preservation?
1565I say, art thou ill or in pain?
1565I spoke to her, though with a faltering voice--"Art thou not, too, Athenian?"
1565I thought thou saidst a visitor?''
1565IV How its love can the Wind reveal?
1565If I thus fulfilled my object with Apaecides, what was my design for Ione?
1565In counting the girls that we kiss, eh?
1565In the very hour when my mind could devise no clue to the goal of vengeance, have ye sent this fair fool for my guide?''
1565In this dilemma, what was to be done?
1565In this state all wisdom consists necessarily in the solution of two questions:"What are we to believe?
1565In wonder and sudden hope, Glaucus arose--''Nydia still?
1565Ione here?''
1565Ione''s hair is dark, mine light; Ione''s eyes are-- what color, Ione?
1565Ione, deign to see me; thou art gentle to strangers, wilt thou be less merciful to those of thine own land?
1565Ione,''he continued rapidly,''dost thou not see that we are born for each other?
1565Is Ione ill?
1565Is he not handsome, Clodius?''
1565Is he so base a villain?
1565Is it for a dream that thou wouldst wrong the innocent, and hazard thy sole chance of saving thy lover''s life?''
1565Is it not so?''
1565Is it the injustice of men that hath taught thee to deny the providence of the gods?''
1565Is it the voice of the Shades?
1565Is not Burbo my kinsman Pansa''s client?
1565Is not thy knowledge the very gossip theme of Pompeii?''
1565Is that fair?
1565Is that like a gentleman and a gladiator?
1565Is this a thing to worship?''
1565It was true that the request was remarkably silly; but what was that to him?
1565It was you who taught me to disdain adulation: will you unteach your pupil?''
1565May I speak then as a friend, without reserve and without offence?''
1565May I withdraw?''
1565Mighty Hermes, have I ministered to thee cunningly?''
1565My brother''s blood is unavenged: who slew him?
1565Nay, I will atone the insult-- I ask thy sister in marriage-- start not-- consider-- what is the alliance of yon holiday Greek compared to mine?
1565Next, supposing that be true, shall I possess myself of that snug taberna among the Myropolia, which I have long had in my eye?
1565Niger, how will you fight?''
1565No aperture?
1565No vain chiromancer, no juggler of the market- place, but some more potent and mighty magician of India or of Egypt?''
1565No-- it is a dead man?''
1565None of my people have gone to the spectacle?''
1565Now, which way could they wend?
1565Nydia sighed, and after a short pause, without answering the remark, said:''But do I weave too many roses in my wreath, Glaucus?
1565Nydia, I have no sister-- wilt thou be one to me?''
1565O Nemesis, can I even sell, for the life of Glaucus, thy solemn trust?
1565Of what peril?''
1565Oh, I am mad still?''
1565Oh, are they black?
1565Oh, can these men love, my Clodius?
1565Oh, is it in truth come to this?
1565Oh, what can Rome give me equal to what I possess at Athens?
1565Or loves not the sun?
1565Or the cups that we empty at dinner?
1565Our morality?
1565Our religion?
1565Pretty one, thou dost not grieve now?''
1565Seest thou these bracelets and this chain?
1565Shall I be enabled to purchase my freedom next year?
1565Shall justice be delayed now, that it may be frustrated hereafter?
1565Shall the blood of Apaecides yet cry for vengeance?
1565Shall the lion be cheated of his lawful prey?
1565Shall the mirror live for ever, and the form itself be broken as the potter''s clay?
1565Shall we be less free than your ancestors?
1565Shall we within?''
1565She is rich, my friend; why dost thou not proffer thy suit to her?''
1565Sometimes she utters imprecations on the murderer-- then suddenly stops short-- then cries,"But why curse?
1565Speak I frankly and as a friend?''
1565Still more, have I not the right to control-- to evade-- to scorn-- the fabrications of yet meaner intellects than my own?''
1565Tell me then, first, art thou unmarried, as thy dress betokens?''
1565Tell me, then, who is the fortunate virgin?''
1565The Neapolitan trembled; she thought of Glaucus, and sighed as well as trembled: were their destinies to be united?
1565The Thessalian kissed the hand of Ione, and then said, with some embarrassment:''One favor, fair Ione-- may I dare to ask it?''
1565The dream lied not, then?
1565Then she begins again, and again stops short, and mutters awfully to herself,"Yet if it were indeed he?"''
1565There is no pannier under thine arm; hast thou sold all thy flowers?''
1565There, Servilius, does it not become her?''
1565Think you that He needeth sacrifice from you: He who made heaven and earth?"
1565Thinkest thou her chaste eyes are ripe for such scenes?
1565Thou comprehendest, Nydia; thou art yet a child-- have I said more than thou canst understand?''
1565Thou knowest the long range of subterranean cellars beneath the basement-- that shelter, what shower can penetrate?''
1565Thou wouldst not have the bracelet yestermorn-- wilt thou take the bottle?''
1565To what question is it to vouchsafe a reply?''
1565Two years and a half-- three-- four?
1565Unfeeling wretch!--do you not see my sorrows?
1565WHITHER?
1565WILL SHE ESCAPE AND SAVE THE ATHENIAN?
1565Was it a sin to love her countryman?
1565Was there no spot in which she could hide?
1565We met first at the shrine of Pallas; shall we not meet before a softer and a more ancient altar?
1565Weepest thou still, fond fool?
1565Well, then, have not forgotten our conversation of to- day?''
1565Were I to embrace thy creed, and cast down my father''s gods, should I not be bribed by thy promise of heaven, or awed by thy threats of hell?
1565Wert thou capable of affection?
1565What ails my poor child?''
1565What are the meaner deities but imitators of his vices?
1565What are those gods, even according to yourselves?
1565What can the great Arbaces want with so poor a thing as I am?''
1565What chance hath he to claim them?
1565What could he do?
1565What does she do?
1565What has Glaucus insinuated?
1565What has the moon said to thee?
1565What hast thou to reveal?''
1565What have I done?
1565What if God be a monarch-- One-- Invisible-- Alone?
1565What if these numerous, countless deities, whose altars fill the earth, be but evil demons, seeking to wean us from the true creed?
1565What is it thou wouldst meditate?
1565What is it you would say?''
1565What is that letter yonder on the table?''
1565What is the morality my religion teaches?
1565What is to be done?
1565What marvel that the earth heaved so fearfully last night, anxious to reject the atheist from her bosom?--An atheist, do I say?
1565What more can he desire?''
1565What need had they of words to say they loved?
1565What need to shrink, When the lambs alone can see us?
1565What new dishes have you discovered?''
1565What say you, Lepidus?''
1565What say you, Lydon?''
1565What say you?''
1565What slave was ever destitute of cunning?
1565What sweets dost thou discover in existence?''
1565What their actions, what their attributes?
1565What was the travail of his own Alcmena''s son, whose altars now smoked with the incense of countless cities, but a toil for the human race?
1565What would become of merchants, or jewellers either, if such notions were in fashion?''
1565What, Nydia, dost thou not like the bauble?
1565What, is this the largest?
1565What, then, with such destinies beyond the peril, shall I succumb to the peril?
1565What, what can she say to thank thee, now thou art come at last?''
1565When do they suffer?''
1565When will Christ descend to protect his own?''
1565Where are all these good folks thronging?''
1565Where is the murderer?
1565Wherefore should I dread?''
1565Whither fliest thou?''
1565Whither should they fly?
1565Who are these?''
1565Who cares now-- who sees now-- whether thou art a priest or not?
1565Who comes forth?
1565Who could deny it?
1565Who could sever the father from the son?''
1565Who could think of the babe in such an hour, but she who bore it?
1565Who else will know they are in my possession?''
1565Who hath so fair a plea Our welcome Guest to be, As thou, whose solemn hall At last shall feast us all In the dim and dismal coast?
1565Who in that hour spared one thought to his neighbor?
1565Who shall disturb the brave, Or one leaf on their holy grave?
1565Who will debase his name to save his life?
1565Who will take the odds?''
1565Why did he not proclaim my guilt when I proclaimed that of Glaucus?
1565Why do n''t they give him to the lion?''
1565Why hast thou waited till the eve of the Athenian''s condemnation before thou hast ventured to tell me that Arbaces is a murderer?
1565Why not take refuge in my villa?
1565Why should I suspect him?
1565Why should the slavery that destroys you be considered the only method to preserve us?
1565Why that term?''
1565Why thinkest thou so highly of yon dark Egyptian?
1565Why, it was merrily done; when the old hag set her serpent at me, and Hecate stood by laughing from ear to ear-- what could I do?
1565Why, my Apaecides, has not the Egyptian convinced thee of the necessity of our dwelling together in unity?
1565Will he confess?--can he not be persuaded that in his delirium he struck the blow?
1565Will he ever vouchsafe to be my friend?''
1565Will you sell her to me?''
1565Wilt thou not do for me this kindness?''
1565Wilt thou then come and behold thy doom, so that thou mayest enjoy it beforehand?''
1565Woman, how camest thou here, and wherefore?''
1565Would it please thee that Arbaces was her host?''
1565Yet how, when thou obtainest it, canst thou administer to him this potion?''
1565Yet if I could succeed-- if I could rescue and set him free-- wouldst thou be mine-- my bride?''
1565Yet this Ione is handsome, eh?''
1565Yet, hark you, Arbaces-- why so gloomy and unsocial?
1565Yet, who will dare to touch a hair of his head?''
1565You are sure I shall not see the demon?
1565You are sure of that?''
1565You are to we d Ione; is it not so?''
1565again, Lydon?
1565and What are we to reject?"
1565and how have you slept on your good fortune?''
1565and how is thy fair mistress?--recovered, I trust, from the effects of the storm?''
1565and not constantly with you?
1565and was it not the fear that it occasioned thee that made thee weep?''
1565and what then shall I say?
1565and what want you with him?''
1565and wherefore am I caged here?
1565and why?''
1565and wouldst thou persuade me that I did the deed?
1565answered Nydia, simply:''dost thou?''
1565answered the slave,''art thou silly enough to ask the question?
1565are its rites commenced?''
1565are there gods?
1565art thou offended?''
1565avails to thee now the discovery?
1565can we believe it?
1565canst thou tell me of Glaucus?''
1565continued the Christian, raising his voice:''can you believe in images of wood and stone?
1565cried Arbaces, passionately;''why these mysterious words?--why dost thou couple my name with the thought of thy brother''s death?''
1565cried Calenus, almost weeping with joy,''canst thou thus forgive my injurious doubts of thy justice, thy generosity?''
1565cried Calenus, turning round to the people,''shall Isis be thus contemned?
1565cried Glaucus:''are ye blind, then, even in the dark?
1565cried Lydon,''art thou turned sphinx?''
1565cried the bystanders, with one accord;''is it even credible?''
1565cried the girl, wringing her hands;''and why am I thus imprisoned?
1565cried the poor orphan, falling upon the couch;''thou whom the worm on thy path feared not-- what enemy couldst thou provoke?
1565cried the widow Fulvia to the wife of Pansa, as they leaned down from their lofty bench,''do you see that gigantic gladiator?
1565cried the young priest, striking his breast passionately,''from what regions shall my eyes open to the true Olympus, where thy gods really dwell?
1565dark form, why risest thou like a cloud between me and mine?
1565didst thou dream I should come to this?''
1565do all that are beautiful resemble each other?
1565do you not hear the widow Fulvia clapping her hands?
1565do you not know me?
1565do you think he would prefer any of you to Niger?''
1565does the water bubble?
1565doth she, too, as the credulous imagine-- doth she, too, learn the lore of the great stars?
1565exclaimed Glaucus as he read the letter of Ione,''whitest robed messenger that ever passed between earth and heaven-- how, how shall I thank thee?''
1565exclaimed the goldsmith, in horror;''are there any of these wretches in Pompeii?''
1565gay as ever?''
1565girl, and how durst thou?
1565groaned Clodius to himself;--or why can not one cog a gladiator?''
1565groaned the merchant, recovering with some difficulty his equilibrium;''have you no eyes?
1565growled Niger, savagely:''many an honest gladiator has been compelled to a like combat by the emperor-- why not a wealthy murderer by the law?''
1565has thy heart found contentment under these priestly robes?
1565hast thou looked at his teeth and fangs, and wilt thou call that a chance?
1565hast thou, still yearning for the voice of God, heard it whisper comfort to thee from the oracles of Isis?
1565have I not fought twenty years in the ring, and never lowered my arms once?
1565have ye seen him?''
1565have you seen the new house of Fulvius, the dear poet?''
1565he asked of his nearest neighbor, a young artificer;''what now?
1565he cried, in new alarm;''what spectre-- what dread larva, calls upon the lost Calenus?''
1565he cried, placing his hands before his eyes, as to shut out the grisly vision,''do I dream still?--Am I with the dead?''
1565he said, in a low voice,''what reverse is this?
1565he whom they call the Atheist?
1565his name?''
1565how are you?
1565how can they quarrel so?
1565how canst thou prove That bright love of thine?
1565how could it be otherwise; who could be unkind to Glaucus?''
1565how shall I while the hours till then?''
1565how should I?
1565how will ye meet the last day?''
1565is it indeed thou?''
1565is it not already destined to all things bright and fair?
1565is it only to be among men that freedom and virtue are to be deemed united?
1565is it you?
1565is that you-- is that Glaucus?''
1565it is in our lives!--sinners we all have been; who now can accuse us of a crime?
1565might he not be won by the bribe of freedom itself?
1565muttered the disdainful,''Arbaces are ye less homicides than I am?
1565no cavity?
1565not more?
1565of what color is the draught?''
1565or am I to think with Arbaces-- what?''
1565or do you think I have no feeling?
1565or rather, in what do you suppose he has offended?''
1565or thinkest thou that we are dying of silence here, and only to be preserved, like the infant Jupiter, by a hullabaloo?''
1565or, if thou wilt speak, what hast thou heard of the state of Glaucus?''
1565pardon my interruption; and inform me, I pray you, which is the house of Sallust?''
1565repeated Ione, rising:''thine!--thy bride?
1565replied Julia, timidly;''dost thou really think there is anything to dread?
1565returned Sallust, in rather a melancholy tone,''what do we know more than this-- life is short-- beyond the grave all is dark?
1565returned the hag, quickly;''and am I old, and hideous, and deathly now?
1565said Arbaces,''can unrequited love be the lot of so fair a form, whose modelled proportions are visible even beneath the folds of thy graceful robe?
1565said Burbo, rising reluctantly,''What turmoil is all this about a slave?
1565said Fulvia, as the merchant''s daughter joined them;''have you seen the tiger yet?''
1565said Lepidus:''and with whom?''
1565said Olinthus, with bitter fervor; and art thou sad and weary, and wilt thou turn from the very springs that refresh and heal?''
1565said Pansa;''do you not know that Clodius is employed at the house of Diomed in blowing hard at the torch?
1565said she, speaking quick and low;''art thou indeed Apaecides?''
1565said the grave praetor--''who is there?''
1565said the merchants:''what can be less equivocal than her prediction?''
1565said the slave in attendance, opening the door; art thou bit by a scorpion?
1565said the slave, half aloud,''is it for things like this thou art to be butchered?
1565saw you that?
1565shall woman feel thus for man, and man feel less devotion to his God?''
1565she said, shrinking back;''it is only within the last two days that dull, deep light hath been visible-- what can it portend?''
1565shouted Arbaces, rising to his fullest height;''dare not tell me that-- dare not mock me-- it is impossible!--Whom hast thou seen-- whom known?
1565shrieks?
1565speak low-- bend near-- give me thy hand; knowest thou Arbaces?
1565that love can defy custom, and be eternal?
1565that thy soul was torn by a perpetual struggle?
1565they can look upon his face-- who will be cruel to the Athenian!--Yet was not Love itself cruel to him?''
1565they have borne her off-- we will save her-- where is my stilus?
1565think you the gods place their bliss-- eh?-- In playing the spy on a sinner?
1565thinkest thou Arbaces will brook a rival such as this puny Greek?
1565thou cheerest me: and wherefore?''
1565thou lookest pale-- thou hast kept late revels?
1565thou mayest be overheard, and if other ears than mine had drunk those sounds-- why...''''Dost thou threaten?--what if the whole city had heard me?''
1565thy hand is cold-- hark yet!--hast thou taken the awful vow?''
1565to make up the deficiency in the course of this year?
1565to the house of the Eastern stranger?''
1565torn from me in the first month of our nuptials,''shall I not see thee yet, and ere many days be past?
1565was he interested in recruits to the sacred band?
1565was she not nearly rich enough to purchase it?
1565we know each other-- what are the gods to us?''
1565what are oaths to men like us?''
1565what can I do for thee?''
1565what danger threatens me?''
1565what dost thou here at this late hour?
1565what fool is this?
1565what hast thou been doing with my slave, brute?''
1565what have we done not to attend to this before?
1565what is this but a mockery of the holiest part of man''s nature, which is faith?
1565what is this?''
1565what mean you?
1565what mean you?''
1565what message can he send?''
1565what news?''
1565what of her?''
1565what wickedness dost thou utter?''
1565when Nepimus is untried?
1565when shall our toil be o''er?
1565when shall we rest with thee?
1565where?''
1565whither, can we direct ourselves through the gloom?
1565whither?
1565who can tell the tale in this hour?
1565who could have guessed it?''
1565who could have supposed he was so dexterous or so lucky?''
1565who exchange clear thoughts for sullen days?
1565who is here?''
1565who should shed his blood but one of those who feared his witness?
1565who the murderer?''
1565who will belie himself to shame, and stand blackened in the eyes of love?
1565whom hast thou here?
1565why did he permit it-- nay, why invent, why perpetuate it?
1565why had he left his far and sunny clime-- the olive- groves of his native hills-- the music of immemorial streams?
1565why so rough?--tell me-- ugh-- ugh!--are the baths at Rome really so magnificent?''
1565why will she not admit me?
1565wilt thou send me from thee?''
1565wouldst thou rob thy father?''
1565ye gods, yet Glaucus loves her?''
1565yet stay-- thou hast not spent all the moneys I gave thee for the marketing?''