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to grant him an interview.
But Berenike had still to wash and bandage the wounds of her patient--
she therefore promised the soldier.html">soldier.html">soldier.html">soldier to be at his disposal in half an hour.
"Then it will be too late!" burst from the lips of the centurion.html">centurion; then
had known so long, that he meant to warn her, and there was but one from
soldier as to render him speechless for a while. But Caesar had
managed to stammer:
"No, lady, no! He will not have you killed assuredly not! On the
at this messenger of terror; but his brother laid his hand upon the
his tribune to speak out.
The soldier, ever accustomed to obey, and only too anxious that his
learned from the prefect. The brothers interrupted him from time to time
till Martialis stopped with a deep breath.
Then the lady gave a shrill laugh, and as the others looked at her in
that reprobate, if he but orders you to do so. I am only a woman, and
centurion to go and find out where her husband was.
Martialis obeyed at once, and no sooner was the door closed behind him
and then to the other with equal vehemence, she cried "Who is right now?
mighty Caesar, this is the most dastardly. He has written plainly enough
noble house. And you, Nemesianus--are you not also an Aurelius? You say
would at this moment be wandering through the city like a mad dog, biting
more, Nemesianus, that a soldier must obey his commander blindly?--And
Caesar tore your face was guided only by righteous indignation at an
murders by Caracalla of his own wife, and many other noble women, by his
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