"It might be, wait-it might be the clasp of her girdle in here.

Feel, it is certainly something hard." Publius carefully felt the packet that the Corinthian held out to him, with his fingers, and then said with a smile: "I can guess what you have there, and if I am right I shall be much pleased.

Irene, I believe, has returned you the gold bracelet on a little wooden tablet." "Nonsense!" answered Lysias.

"The ornament was prettily wrought and of some value, and every girl is fond of ornaments." "Your Corinthian friends are, at any rate.

But look what the wrapper contains." "Do you open it," said the Corinthian.
Publius first untied a thread, then unfolded a small piece of white linen, and came at last to an object wrapped in a bit of flimsy, cheap papyrus.