For myself, I almost believed, that there was malice enough in the minx to give us our henbane broth.
But what said Samoa to all this?
Passing over the matter of the cookery, will it be credited, that living right among us as he did, he was yet blind to the premeditated though unachieved peccadilloes of his spouse?
Yet so it was.

And thus blind was Belisarius himself, concerning the intrigues of Antonina.
Witness that noble dame's affair with the youth Theodosius; when her deluded lord charged upon the scandal-mongers with the very horns she had bestowed upon him.
Upon one occasion, seized with a sudden desire to palliate Annatoo's thievings, Samoa proudly intimated, that the lady was the most virtuous of her sex.
But alas, poor Annatoo, why say more?
And bethinking me of the hard fate that so soon overtook thee, I almost repent what has already and too faithfully been portrayed..