dia, who was necessarily cut off by her blindness from much of
the knowledge of active life, and who, a slave and a stranger, was
naturally ignorant of the perils of the Roman law, she thought rather of
the illness and delirium of her Athenian, than the crime of which she
had vaguely heard him accused, or the chances of the impending trial.
Poor wretch that she was, whom none addressed, none cared for, what did
she know of the senate and the sentence--the hazard of the law--the
ferocity of the people--the arena and the lion's den? She was
accustomed only to associate with the thought of Glaucus everything that
was prosperous and lofty--she could not imagine that any peril, save
from the madness of her love, could menace that sacred head. He seemed
to her set apart for the blessings of life. She only had disturbed the
current of his felicity; she knew not, she dreamed not that the stream,
once so bright, was dashing on to darkness and to death. It was
therefore to restore the brain that she had marred, to save the life
that she had endangered that she implored the assistance of the great
Egyptian.

'Daughter,' said Arbaces, waking from his reverie, 'thou must rest here;
it is not meet for thee to wander along the streets, and be spurned from
the threshold by the rude feet of slaves. I have compassion on thy soft
crime--I will do all to remedy it. Wait here patiently for some days,
and Glaucus shall be restored.' So saying, and without waiting for her
reply, he hastened from the room, drew the bolt across the door, and
consigned the care and wants of his prisoner to the slave who had the
charge of that part of the mansion.

Alone, then, and musingly, he waited the morning light, and with it
repaired, as we have seen, to possess himself of the person of Ione.

His primary object, with respect to the unfortunate Neapolitan, was that
which he had really stated to Clodius, viz., to prevent her interesting
herself actively in the trial of Glaucus, and also to guard against her
accusing him (which she would, doubtless, have done) of his former act
of perfidy and violence towards her, his ward--denouncing his causes for
vengeance against Glaucus--unveiling the hypocrisy of his character--and
casting any doubt upon his veracity in the charge which he had made
against the Athenian. Not till he had encountered her that morning--not
till he had heard her loud denunciations--was he aware that he had also
another danger to ap