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A Friend of Caesar

CHAPTER II
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Ha! ha! Hellas, thou art avenged!" [29] A "fad" of this time.

Such tables often cost $20,000.
And gathering his mantle about him, he went down the several flights of very rickety stairs, and found himself in the buzzing street.
II The Romans hugged a fond belief that houses shut out from sunlight and air were extremely healthy.

If such were the fact, there should have been no sickness in a great part of the capital.

The street in which Pratinas found himself was so dark, that he was fain to wait till his eyes accommodated themselves to the change.

The street was no wider than an alley, yet packed with booths and hucksters,--sellers of boiled peas and hot sausage, and fifty other wares.


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