"I must have a nearer look." "Careful! You will wake her!" Julian's face showed a sneer at his companion's concern.
"I'll have a care not to wake the old Boeotian," he said.
He stepped between Laodice and her sleeping servant.

The mute with the stupor of slumber further to disable his dulled hearing, did not move.
"Young!" Philadelphus exclaimed in a whisper.

"And new to the life!" "Pfui!" Julian scoffed.

"Sleep makes even Venus look innocent!" "Then this is the most innocent wickedness I have seen in months!" "So you catalogue innocence as a charm! It's not here.

But if she had no beauty but that eyelash I'd be speared upon it!" Philadelphus turned toward the old servant plunged in the exhausted sleep of weary age.
"Thou grizzled nightmare!" he exclaimed vindictively.
He glanced again at the girl.