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and then be recalled for my pains, I suppose." Like me, he had not too much faith in the auxiliaries; and of Roman soldiers we had but a scant handful.
Back again, I lodged in the palace, and to my great joy found Miriam there.

But little satisfaction was mine, for the talk ran long on the situation.

There was reason for this, for the city buzzed like the angry hornets' nest it was.