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Henry William Herbert. The Roman Traitor
The Roman Traitor
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE MEN
CHAPTER II. THE MEASURES
CHAPTER III. THE LOVERS
CHAPTER IV. THE CONSUL
CHAPTER V. THE CAMPUS
CHAPTER VI. THE FALSE LOVE
CHAPTER VII. THE OATH
CHAPTER VIII. THE TRUE LOVE
CHAPTER IX. THE AMBUSH
CHAPTER X. THE WANTON
CHAPTER XI. THE RELEASE
CHAPTER XII. THE FORGE
CHAPTER XIII. THE DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER XIV. THE WARNINGS
CHAPTER XV. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER XVI. THE SENATE
Footnotes
VOLUME 2
CHAPTER I. THE OLD PATRICIAN
CHAPTER II. THE CONSULAR COMITIA
CHAPTER III. THE PERIL
CHAPTER IV. THE CRISIS
CHAPTER V. THE ORATION
CHAPTER VI. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER VII. THE AMBASSADORS
CHAPTER VIII. THE LATIN VILLA
CHAPTER IX. THE MULVIAN BRIDGE
CHAPTER X. THE ARREST
CHAPTER XI. THE YOUNG PATRICIAN
CHAPTER XII. THE ROMAN FATHER
CHAPTER XIII. THE DOOM
CHAPTER XIV. THE TULLIANUM
CHAPTER XV. THE CAMP IN THE APPENNINES
CHAPTER XVI. THE WATCHTOWER OF USELLA
CHAPTER XVII. TIDINGS FROM ROME
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XIX. THE EVE OF BATTLE
CHAPTER XX. THE FIELD OF PISTORIA
CHAPTER XXI. THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XXII. A NIGHT OF HORROR
Footnotes
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Henry William Herbert
The Days of Cicero, Cato and Cataline: A True Tale of the Republic
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He snatched his poniard from his sheath, reared it on high with a well skilled and steady hand! Down it came, noiseless and unseen. For there was not a ray of light to flash along its polished blade. Down it came with almost the speed and force of the electric fluid. A deep, dull, heavy sound was heard, as it was plunged into the yielding flesh, and the hot gushing blood spirted forth in a quick jet into the very face and mouth of the fell murderer. A terrible convulsion, a fierce writhing spasm followed—so strong, so muscularly powerful, that the stern gripe of Cataline was shaken from the throat of his victim, and from his dagger's hilt!
In the last agony the murdered man cast off his slayer from his breast; started erect upon his feet! tore out, from the deep wound, the fatal weapon which had made it; hurled it far—far as his remaining strength permitted—into the rayless night; burst forth into a wild and yelling cry, half laughter and half imprecation; fell headlong to the earth—which was no more insensible than he, what time he struck it, to any sense of mortal pain or sorrow—and perished there alone, unpitied and unaided.
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