Keraunus started up and cried out, beside himself.
"By great Serapis.

I can bear this no longer.

What are you whimpering about ?" The girl plucked up courage and going up to the indignant man she said, though more than once interrupted by tears.
"You must go father--indeed you must.

I spoke to the foreman, and he told me coolly and decidedly that the architect was placed here in Caesar's name, and that if you do not obey him you will at once be superseded in your office.

And if that were to happen, if that--O father, father, only think of blind Helios and poor Berenice! Arsinoe and I could earn our bread, but the little ones--the little ones." With these words the girl fell on her knees lifting her hands in entreaty to her obstinate parent.