You who did not envy me in my happiness will help me to bear misfortune.

Epicurus, who believes that the gods merely watch the destiny of men inactively from their blissful heights, is right.

Were it otherwise, how could the love and loyalty which cleave to the hapless, defeated woman, be repaid with anguish of heart and tears?
Yet continue to love her." Archibius, pale and silent, let the tablet fall.

It was long ere he gasped hoarsely: "I foresaw it; yet now that it is here--" His voice failed, and violent, tearless sobs shook his powerful frame.
Sinking on a couch he buried his face amid the cushions.
Iras gazed at the strong man and shook her head.

She, too, loved the Queen; the news had brought tears to her eyes also; but even while she wept, a host of plans coping with this disaster had darted through her restless brain.