After all we must endure life.

Still, the innumerable doors in these rooms will be the death of me if I am compelled to remain here long." Titianus glanced at the two doors of the room in which the Empress was sitting, and began to express his regrets at their bad condition, which had escaped his notice; but Sabina interrupted him, saying: "You men never do observe what hurts us women.

Our Verus is the only man who can feel and understand--who can divine it, as I might say.

There are five and thirty doors in my rooms! I had them counted-five and thirty! If they were not old and made of valuable wood I should really believe they had been made as a practical joke on me." "Some of them might be supplemented with curtains." "Oh! never mind--a few miseries, more or less in any life do not matter.
Are the Alexandrians ready at last with their preparations ?" "I am sure I hope so," said the prefect with a sigh.

"They are bent on giving all that is their best; but in the endeavor to outvie each other every one is at war with his neighbor, and I still feel the effects of the odious wrangling which I have had to listen to for hours, and that I have been obliged to check again and again with threats of 'I shall be down upon you.'" "Indeed," said the Empress with a pinched smile, as if she had heard some thing that pleased her.
"Tell me something about your meeting.