"Never shall have Julia!" he repeated to himself, "he must have spoken that concerning Arvina. I wonder who he is. I never saw him before. I must know—I must[pg 74] know, forthwith! For he shall have her, by heaven and Him, who dwells in it! he shall have her!"
And, turning a lingering and languid look toward Paullus, the slight boy darted away in pursuit of Aulus.
A moment afterward Arvina, his conference with Sanga ended, and ignorant of all that by-play, took the road leading to the Campus, eager to overtake his friend Aristius.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE LATIN VILLA.
I come, O Agamemnon's daughter fair,
To this thy sylvan lair.
Electra.