You are reckless--reckless!" "It was that which made me attractive," the woman broke in, "to Nero, to Vitellius and to you." "Reckless and useless!" Aquila went on decisively.

"Hear me, now; I trifle no longer.

Sometime to-night thou'lt leave us and journey to Emmaus and inform Julian what has wrecked his plans, and send him with despatch to Zorah.

This thou wilt do, by all the Furies, or when I do catch thee as I shall, since there is no other fool in Judea who will undertake to feed thee, I shall leave the print of my displeasure on thee from thy head to thy heel! Mark me!" The woman laughed aloud, with such peculiar insolence and amusement that one of the servants heard her and turned his head that way.
"Pah! What a timid villain thou art," the woman said, when the servant looked away again.

"How much better it would have been had Julian fixed upon _me_ as his confederate!" "Not for Julian! You plot against him even now.