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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1881. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... But, father--father! neither the baker nor the butcher has had a coin paid him for the last two months, and you will squander seven hundred drachmae! Squander! cried Keraunus indignantly, but still in a tone of disgust rather than anger. I have already forbidden you to speak to me in that way. The richest of our noble youths will take part in the games; Arsinoe is handsome and perhaps one of them may choose her for his wife. And do you call it squandering, when a father does his utmost to find a suitable husband for his daughter. After all, what do you know of what I may possess? We have nothing, so I cannot know of it, cried the girl beside herself. Indeed! drawled Keraunus with an embarrassed smile. And is that nothing which lies in the cupboard there, and stands on the cornice shelf? For your sakes I will part with these--the onyx fibula, the rings, the golden chaplet, and the girdle of course. They are of mere silver-gilt! Selene interrupted, ruthlessly. All my grandfather''s real gold you parted with when my mother died. She had to be cremated and buried as was due to our rank, answered Keraunus; but I will not think now of those melancholy days. Nay, do think of them, father. Silence! All that belongs to my own adornment of course I cannot do without, for I must be prepared to meet Caesar in a dress befitting my rank; but the little bronze Eros there must be worth something, Plutarch''s ivory cup, which is beautifully carved, and above all, that picture; its former possessor was convinced that it had been painted by Apelles himself here in Alexandria. You shall know at once what these little things are worth, for, as the gods vouchsafed, on my way home I met, here in the palace, Gabinius of, Nicaea, the dealer in such objects. He promis...
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