Marcian!' Marcian was watching and listening with a look of anxious thought.
Appealed to for his counsel, he spoke decidedly.
'Withdraw your men and go down.

Resistance is impossible.

Chorsoman must enter, but trust me to manage him.

I answer for your liberty.' Venantius led his men down to the inner court.

Basil, careless of everything but the thought that Veranilda was being borne far from him, he knew not whither, went to get horses ready, that he might pursue Petronilla as soon as the road was free.