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ILLUSTRATIONS
Page

"In a physical ecstasy he spoke out that which
clamored on his lips" [Page 44] Frontispiece

"'Were I that woman, I should have wanted to
love him'" [Page 85] 72

"'You sent for me, Lady Varia?'" [Page 152] 176

"Half a dozen young beauties had taken possession,--girls
of the haughtiest blood in Britain" [Page 240] 254

"The sight burst upon him in all its hideousness--where
had been the stately mansion of his lord" [Page 344] 364

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CHARACTERS

EUDEMIUS, a Roman lord living in Britain

VARIA, his daughter

LIVINIUS, a Roman citizen, a boyhood friend of Eudemius

MARIUS, his son, of the Roman legions in Gaul

MARCUS SILENUS POMPONIUS, Count of the Saxon Shore }
AURELIUS MENOTUS, duumvir of Anderida } Guests of
FELIX, his son } Eudemius
CAIUS JULIUS VALENS, a Roman citizen }

JULIA }
NIGIDIA } Roman girls, daughters of the
PAULA } guests of Eudemius
GRATIA }

NERISSA, nurse to Varia

HITO, master of the household of Eudemius

CHLORIS, of all nations, living upon Thorney

SADA, a Saxon } inmates of her house
EUNICE, a Greek }

ELDRIS, a Briton, a convert to Christianity

WARDO, a Saxon, a slave in the house of Eudemius

VALERIUS, a Roman, a soldier of fortune

TOBIAS, a Hebrew, a worker in ivory

RATHUMUS, a British peasant, bound to the soil

SUSANNA, a Hebrew woman, his wife

NICANOR, a story-teller, their son

WULF, the Red, a Saxon free-lance

CEAWLIN, a Saxon chieftain

FATHER AMBROSE, of the Christian church

NICODEMUS, the One-Eyed, a British freedman

MYLEIA, his wife

MARCUS, a slave in the house of Eudemius

BALBUS, a convict

JUNCINA, a fish-wife on Thorney

SOSIA, her daughter

A flower-girl, a Saxon singer, slaves, trades-folk, soldiers of the
military police; guards and overseers of the mines, and miners;
Roman nobles and patrician women; Saxon men-at-arms, and men of the
outland nations

Scene: Britain in the last days of Roman power
Time: between A.D. 410 and 446

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