Darkness And Dawn Or Scenes in the Days of Nero An Historic Tale
Darkness And Dawn Or Scenes in the Days of Nero An Historic Tale
Farrar Frederic William
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Onesimus, who had nothing to do that day, was present at the trial. He heard the old man plead pathetically against the son who had been the pride of his life and home; he heard the youth, with all the calm of innocence, deny the charge. There was no evidence against him but the word of his step-mother and her confidential slave. This man stood up with a front of brass, and declared that the youth had been actuated by jealousy of his brother, and had poisoned him. There was nothing to rebut thi...s evidence, and every juryman was prepared to drop into the brazen urn the fatal ticket marked with the letter C, for condemno, which would have handed over the offender to be first scourged until his bones were laid bare, and then to be sewed up in a sack with a cock, a dog, and a viper, and to be flung into the sea. The heart of Onesimus bled for the youth. With his instinctive power of reading character, he felt con- vinced of his innocence. But while with palpitating heart he awaited the voting, an aged physician arose, WANDERINGS OF AN OUTCAST.
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