Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra; a tale of the Roman Empire in the days of the Emperor Aurelian . length Vabala-thus, thinking that Milo might be injured, called out toSapor, who thereupon released him, and he rising and 112 ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA. adjusting his dress, was heard to affirm, that it had neverhappened so while he was in the service of Gallienus. These things for the little Gallus. Satisfied, now, with the amusements of the evening andthe pleasures of the day, we parted from-one another, filledwith quite different sentiments from those which had pos-sessed us in the morning. Do membe
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra; a tale of the Roman Empire in the days of the Emperor Aurelian . length Vabala-thus, thinking that Milo might be injured, called out toSapor, who thereupon released him, and he rising and 112 ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA. adjusting his dress, was heard to affirm, that it had neverhappened so while he was in the service of Gallienus. These things for the little Gallus. Satisfied, now, with the amusements of the evening andthe pleasures of the day, we parted from-one another, filledwith quite different sentiments from those which had pos-sessed us in the morning. Do members of this great hu-man family ever meet each other in social converse, andfreely open their hearts, without a new and better strengthbeing given to the bonds which hold in their embrace thepeace and happiness of society? To love each other, Ithink we chiefly need but to know each other. Ignorancebegets suspicion, suspicion dislike or hatred, and so we liveas strangers and enemies, when knowledge would have ledto intimacy and friendship. Farewell! Monolith Column of the Grand THE MOUNTAIN PALACE. 113 LETTEE VI. THE MOUNTAIN PALACE. The Mountain Palace. — Zabdas the Egyptian Antiochus THE Syrian. — Throwing the Lance. — The Death of theSlave. — Slaves op Rome and Palmyra. — The Hunt. —The Tiger. — The Queen Saved. — A Herald from Rome.— The Embassy. MANY days have passed, my Curtius, since I last wrote,eacli bringing its own pleasures, and leaving its in-effaceable impressions upon the soul. But though all havebeen in many things delightful, none has equalled that dayand evening at the palace of the queen. I have now min-gled largely with the best society in Palmyra. The doorsof the noble and the rich have been opened to me with aliberal hospitality. As the friend of Gracchus and Fausta,— and now I may add, I believe, without presumption, — ofZenobia also, of Julia, and Longinus, I have been receivedwith attentions of which Aurelian himself migh
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