"Life rages more wildly round the throne than in an artist's home.

You will have to learn to swim through the roaring torrent with me.

Believe me, even enormities can become quite commonplace.

And, besides, why does it still shock you when you yourself know that it was indispensable ?" "I am only a weak girl, and I feel as if I had witnessed these fearful deeds, and had to bear the terrible blood-guiltiness with you!" broke from her lips.
"That is what you must and shall do! It is to that end that I have confided to you what no one else has ever heard from my mouth!" cried Caracalla, his eyes flashing more brightly.

She felt as though this cry called her from her slumbers and revealed the precipice to which she had strayed in her sleepwalking.
When Caracalla had begun telling her of his youth, she had only listened with half an ear; for she could not forget Berenike's rescuing ship.