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Title: Pictures from English literature
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Waller, John Francis, 1810-1894 Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903 Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918 Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896 Barnes, Robert, 1840-1895 Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882 Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896 Faed, John, 1819-1902 Fildes, Luke, Sir, 1844-1927 Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897 Green, Charles, 1840-1898 Lawson, Francis Wilfred, 1842-1935 Small, William, 1843-1929 Stone, Marcus, 1840-1921 Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909 Cobb, Thomas, fl.1863-1878 Wentworth, Frederick, fl. 1865-1894 Pannemaker, Stéphane, 1847-1930 Sulman, T., fl. 1855-1900 Dalziel Brothers Belle Sauvage Works (printer)
Subjects: English literature Authors, English Gift books
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Arbaces to disclose the hiddenabominations of his life, and the juggling mummeries of the priests of Isis.Arbaces, believing that he is unseen, slays the priest, and Glaucus just thenapproaches in his madness, and bends over the dead body. Arbaces springsforward, arrests him, alarms the populace, and denounces him as the murderer.He is seized, tried, condemned, and given the chance of his life in a fightwith a lion in the Amphitheatre. Nydias horror, remorse, and agony arepowerfully told. She seeks Arbaces, tells him all, and implores him to restorethe health and save the life of Glaucus. He reassures her with promises, butdetains her in custody, having also obtained possession of lone, under thepretext that her reason was unsettled. Nydia contrives to escape from herchamber, and is a witness to a scene between Arbaces and Calenus, in whichshe learns that the latter had witnessed the murder of Apaecides, and nowthreatens the disclosure, unless Arbaces will give him some of his hidden
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Pompeii—-Nydia. 137 treasures. The Egyptian assents, leads him to a vault, and when Calenus has entered he locks him in. The poor girl is re-captured, hut she bribes aSlave to hear a letter to Salhist, the friend of Glaucus, disclosing all. An admirable description of the gladiatorial games precedes the terrible encounterwhich is about to take place between the lion and (ilaucus, whose temporaryinsanity has passed away. At this moment Salhist rushes forward withCalenus, who proclaims the real murderer. The populace shout, Arbaces to the lion! Glaucus is released, and a cry of joy—a female voice, a childsvoice—rings through the heart of the assembly ; it is the voice of the blind Nydia. In vain Arbaces addresses the people, when in hrs despair he beholdsright above, through the velaria, the awful fiery vapour issuing from Vesuvius,to which he appeals as the visible intervention of the gods to attest hisinnocence. A magnificent description of the scene of horror ensues. Wecannot give

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