Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion

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Henty George Alfred. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion

CHAPTER I: A HOSTAGE

CHAPTER II: CITY AND FOREST

CHAPTER III: A WOLF HUNT

CHAPTER IV: AN INFURIATED PEOPLE

CHAPTER V: THE SACK OF CAMALODUNUM

CHAPTER VI: FIRST SUCCESSES

CHAPTER VII: DEFEAT OF THE BRITONS

CHAPTER VIII: THE GREAT SWAMPS

CHAPTER IX: THE STRUGGLE IN THE SWAMP

CHAPTER X: BETRAYED

CHAPTER XI: A PRISONER

CHAPTER XII: A SCHOOL FOR GLADIATORS

CHAPTER XIII: A CHRISTIAN

CHAPTER XIV: ROME IN FLAMES

CHAPTER XV: THE CHRISTIANS TO THE LIONS

CHAPTER XVI: IN NERO'S PALACE

CHAPTER XVII: BETROTHAL

CHAPTER XVIII: THE OUTBREAK

CHAPTER XIX: OUTLAWS

CHAPTER XX: MOUNTAIN WARFARE

CHAPTER XXI: OLD FRIENDS

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The house of Caius Muro had been built six years before on the model of one owned by him in the Tuscan hills. Passing through the hall or vestibule, with its mosaic pavement, on which was the word of welcome, "Salve!" Beric entered the atrium, the principal apartment in the house. From each side, at a height of some twenty feet from the ground, extended a roof, the fall being slightly to the centre, where there was an aperture of about eight feet square. Through this light and air made their way down to the apartment, the rainfall from the roofs and opening falling into a marble tank, called the impluvium, below the level of the floor, which was paved with squares of coloured marble. On either side of the atrium were the small sleeping chambers, the bed places being raised and covered with thick mats and rugs.

The walls of the bed chambers as well as of the atrium were painted in black, with figures and landscapes in colour. On the centre of the side facing the vestibule was the tablinum, the apartment of Caius Muro himself. This formed his sitting room and study. The floor was raised about a foot above that of the atrium, and it was partly open both on that side and on the other, looking into the peristylium, so that, while at work, he commanded a view of all that was going on in the atrium and in the courtyard. In the centre of this was a fountain surrounded by plants. From the courtyard opened the triclinium, or dining room, and also rooms used as storerooms, kitchen, and the sleeping places of the slaves.

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"Well, let us press on, Boduoc. I would not that anything should occur to prevent us starting with the rest in the morning."

"We are walking a good pace now," Boduoc said, "and shall gain but little by going faster. One cannot run for six hours; and besides it is as much as we can do to walk fast in the dark. Did we try to run we should like enough fall over a stump or root, and maybe not arrive there even though the wolves stopped us not."

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