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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...foes, for the rest of my smooth existence. In the very hour when my mind could devise no clue to the goal of vengeance, have ye sent this fair fool for my guide!" He paused in deep thought. "Yes," said he again, but in a calmer voice; "I could not myself have given to her the poison that shall be indeed a philter!--his death might be thus tracked to my door. But the witch--ay, there is the fit, the natural agent of my designs! " He summoned one of his slaves, bade him hasten to track the steps ofJulia, and acquaint himself with her name and condition. This done, he stepped forth into the portico. The skies were serene and clear; but he, deeply read in the signs of their various change, beheld in one mass of cloud, far on the horizon, which the wind began slowly to agitate, that a storm was brooding above.. "It is like my vengeance," said he, as he gazed; "the sky is clear, but the cloud moves on." CHAPTER IX. A storm in the south.--The witch's cavern. IT was when the heats of noon died gradually away from the earth, that Glaucus and Ione went forth to enjoy the cooled and grateful air. At that time, various carriages were in use among the Romans; the one most used by the richer citizens, when they required no companion in their excursions, was the biga, already described in the early portion of this work; that appropriated to the matrons, was termed carpentum, which had commonly two wheels; the ancients used also a sort of litter, a vast sedan chair, more commodiously arranged than the modern, inasmuch as the occupant thereof could lie down at ease, instead of being ' For public festivals and games they used one more luxurious and costly, called pilentum, with four wheels. perpendicularly and stifily jostl...

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