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Quo Vadis

CHAPTER VI
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I asked Caesar for two things, which he promised me,--first, to take Lygia from the house of Aulus, and second to give her to thee.

Hast thou not a knife there under the folds of thy toga?
Perhaps thou wilt stab me! But I advise thee to wait a couple of days, for thou wouldst be taken to prison, and meanwhile Lygia would be wearied in thy house." Silence followed.

Vinicius looked for some time with astonished eyes on Petronius; then he said,--"Pardon me; I love her, and love is disturbing my faculties." "Look at me, Marcus.

The day before yesterday I spoke to Caesar as follows: 'My sister's son, Vinicius, has so fallen in love with a lean little girl who is being reared with the Auluses that his house is turned into a steambath from sighs.

Neither thou, O Caesar, nor I--we who know, each of us, what true beauty is--would give a thousand sesterces for her; but that lad has ever been as dull as a tripod, and now he has lost all the wit that was in him.'" "Petronius!" "If thou understand not that I said this to insure Lygia's safety, I am ready to believe that I told the truth.


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