The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-08
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Il H E S I B Y l. S -.
Il CLASSIC, CHRISTIAN NOVEL,
MILES GERALD KEON,
Author of Harding the Money Spinner" etc.
From the Catholic World.
Il CLASSIC, CHRISTIAN NOVEL,
From the Catholic World.
(Continued.)
CHAPTER X.
Author of " Harding the Money Spinner" etc

Meanwhile, in the large room within, break
fast had been prepared for the wanderers on
| table drawn opposite to and near the oper
| folding doors of the arbor where they were
conversing, and the landlady now summoned
them to partake of that repast.
After breakfast, OF which Crispiua herself
waited on them, Agatha asked where Benigna
was.
The landlady smiled, and stated that a
friend of her daughters had called, aud was
doubtless OBTAINING her, but she would go at
once and bring the girl.
"On no account" interposed Aglais; "Be-
nigna, dare say, will unfold to my daughter
all about it by and by. Unless you have some
pressing business to take you Immediately
away, will you kindly inform us of the news,
if there be any, and let Us sit in the arbor
while you tell us ?"
Accordingly they went into the bower on the
landing overlooking the garden, and Crispna
told them the news.
In the first place, she told them that tho
emperors expected visit to Formie was de-
was now thought he would not arrive for two
or three days more, whereas he was to have
entered Formie that very morning. Crispina
not come for a week yet.
In the second place, Queen BereDice with
her son, Herod Agrippa, and her daughter
Herodias, who were to have occupied those
very apartments, had arrived at the inn, but
had now gone forward.
"Mother," said Agatha, "those must have
been the persons who, an hour ago, looked into
the arbor below this one, when that pale wo-
fa1k 10, o1I Al,
younger Herodias."
"The same" continued the landlady. "Find-
ing that they cannot be accommodated in my
house, young Herod has proposed to proceed
with all their train to Formip, where-royal
though they be-they will be nobody's guests
and as there is not a place of public entertain
ment in that town, and the weather is delight
full, be says they will pitch two or three tents,
and one splendid pavilion of silk, on tho verge
Of the green space outside of Formp, where
the games are to be held"
"Only fancy" cried Agatha, clapping her
little hands.
Thirdly, Crispina told them, with fifty Cos
iping details, that the entertainments to be |
given in honor of the emperor and the opulent
might Mamurra, from whom tho town took |
is name, would be stupendous. FormS, we
nay mention, was frequently called MdmHrTd- |
UNI or urbs mamuTrana, from the colonel or
,hiliarch Mamurra. This gentleman had de- |
'oted his boy hood and youth to the cause of
julius Caesar, and afterward of Augustus in
be civil wars; had gained considerable mill
airy reputation, and, above all, had amassed
normous wealth.
He bad long since returned to bis native
'orm'R -, where he had built a suPurb palace
f marble, good enough for an emperor. In
hat palace the emperor was now to be his
uest. He and Agrippa Vipsanius, the founder
f the Pantheon, had long before been among
hose by whom, in compliance with the often
nnounced wish of Augustus, not peculiarly
ddressed to them, but generally to all his
Wealthy countrymen, Augustus had expended
ncalculable sumo in adjoining Rome with
'ublic edifces, for which costly materials, and
he science and taste of the best architects,
lad alike been employed. As Augustus him
elf said, (for himself They had found it of
'riclS, and were leaving it Of marble"
have read verses by CatuIIus upon this
iSsfrtt a7Se,r1ti y aid Aslair.