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The doorkeeper did not dare to stop Vinicius, who burst into the atrium like a storm, and, learning that the master of the house was in the library, he rushed into the library with the same impetus.
They found themselves now in the small atrium of Acte's apartments.
But she was loath to mention her fears to Lygia; meanwhile, as the day was clear and the sun looked into the atrium, she began to persuade her to take the rest needed after a night without sleep.
And they returned to the atrium, which they did not leave till evening.
Suddenly the curtain of the entrance moved without noise, and a tall, dark man, his face marked with small-pox, appeared like a spirit in the atrium.
In the atrium, which was closed above by a purple woollen cloth as protection from the night cold, it was as clear as in daylight.
Some of the lights were shaded by Alexandrian glass, or transparent stuffs from the Indus, of red, blue, yellow, or violet color, so that the whole atrium was filled with many colored rays.
Petronius and Chrysothemis were laughing; but he walked with quick step up and down the atrium.
Steps were heard suddenly in the entrance; the slaves rushed into the atrium in a crowd, and, halting quickly at the wall, raised their hands, and began to repeat with groaning,--"Aaaa!--aa!"Vinicius sprang toward them.
And he walked out of the atrium.
Throwing himself at last on a couch in the atrium, he began to think confusedly of how he was to find and seize Lygia.
And when he thought that all this which had become so fixed in his heart, which had become his blood and life, might be possessed by Nero, a pain seized him, which was purely physical, and so piercing that he wanted to beat his head against the wall of the atrium, until he should break it.
"Acte!" cried Vinicius, seizing her hand and drawing her to the middle of the atrium, "where is Lygia?""I wanted to ask thee touching that," answered she, looking him in the eyes with reproach.
Petronius, who had not even thought that the young man could love and desire to such a degree, when he saw the tears of despair said to himself, with a certain astonishment,--"O mighty Lady of Cyprus, thou alone art ruler of gods and men!"Chapter XIIWHEN they alighted in front of the arbiter's house, the chief of the atrium answered them that of slaves sent to the gates none had returned yet.
Eunice rose, trembling, with tears in her eyes, and went out; after a time she returned with the chief of the atrium, Tiresias, a Cretan.
Petronius and Vinicius passed into the atrium, where Chilo Chilonides was waiting.
Who can see through every house, from the atrium to the garden?
I shall make a nearer acquaintance with this stoic; meanwhile I must give command to perfume the atrium."
Hence he sat down in good spirits at the table to which, after a time, he was called by the chief of the atrium.
He went to the atrium, then, and began to examine with pleasure the form of the trainer, an ex-gladiator, who seemed to fill the whole place with his immensity.
Vinicius and Croton came to a narrow, corridor-like passage walled in on four sides, forming a kind of common atrium for the whole house, with a fountain in the middle whose stream fell into a stone basin fixed in the ground.
I should not have stopped her from believing in her Christ, and would myself have reared an altar to Him in the atrium.
On the road both were silent, and only in the atrium of Vinicius's house did Petronius ask,--"Dost thou know who that was?""Was it Rubria?"
He entered wretched and worn, with signs of hunger on his face and in rags; but the servants, who had the former command to admit him at all hours of the day or night, did not dare to detain him, so he went straight to the atrium, and standing before Vinicius said,--"May the gods give thee immortality, and share with thee dominion over the world."
The chief of the atrium vanished behind the curtain, but the revival could not have been easy, for Vinicius waited a long time and was growing impatient, when the slaves brought in Chilo, and disappeared at a signal.
Chilo was as pale as linen, and down his legs threads of blood were flowing to the mosaic pavement of the atrium.
But before he recovered from his astonishment the immense atrium was swarming with people.
With each moment the atrium was filled more and more; in corridors, called "fauces," voices were heard calling in various languages.
In the atrium of the villa young Nerva and Tullius Senecio were entertaining the Augusta with conversation.
The little atrium was empty, and dark with smoke.
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